BlackPink fighting BTS would have made it even bigger than now? 9
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Yes (1) 11%
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No (8) 89%
Russia's most celebrated military figure is Alexander Suvorov.
Suvorov did many interesting things, like leading the Russian forces conquer Switzerland (unbelievable now but he actually did that) and fighting the Austrians in Italy.
However, Suvorov always missed Napoleon just by a hair, and died without meeting the French Emperor in battle. The Russians still argue to this day that if Suvorov lived longer(the reigning Czar at that time didn't like him which led to his earlier death) he, not Wellington, would have defeated Bonaparte but we will never know.
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A question which will never be answered is what would have occurred if BlackPink fought BTS in earnest during the latter's heyday.
At the height of BTS' power, BlackPink was also promoted around the world as the female counterpart of BTS, and excitement on it was very, very, very high.
Yet the hoped for battle between BTS and BlackPink never took place, to the chagrin of KPop Watchers around the world.
A BTS vs BlackPink battle would have caught the attention of every music listener on earth.
The Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman battle in 1974, long after Ali died and Foreman is now an old man, is talked about to this day. In fact, even though Foreman lost that fight, his fame endured for longer than any other boxer from that era because he was Ali's match.
But Mr. Yang , who distributes BTS' digitals in Japan thru YG Japan, decided to go lucrative rather than giving BlackPink the chance to shine really big on the face of earth. (At that time Yang was not running YG, in name, but we all know whoever was put on had to answer to him.)
I see that NewJeans distributes its digitals through YG Plus, a company answerable to Yang.
In a sense, like Bang himself being trapped by the allure of money from the K-O-R-E-A-N government, Yang was put into a bind by the ash which YG Plus was earning thru distributing BTS' digitals for virtually free, and chose not to make BlackPink fight BTS.
The Onus of fighting BTS fell to Lee Jieun, the owner of Edam Entertainment who didn't have any obligations to the government, the music distribution company, etc; at that time she owned Edam Entertainment outright, and being its sole singer, she could name her opponents and fight them whenever she felt like, a luxury she doesn't have now.
Lee Jieun's efforts finally weakened BTS' power decisively in K-O-R-E-A, and made it sent to the barracks. For her contribution of defeating BTS, the then-owner of Edam Entertainment was ranked higher than any BTS members in the Rolling Stone ranking of the greatest artists of all time, and for a domesticist with zero English songs sung originally (she covered a few English songs in the past), she became the #9 most awarded singer in the entire world in 2021 and arguably the most internationally famous domestic singer of all time (yes, I know it is an oxymoron.)
But, although it raised her esteem in K-O-R-E-A a lot, because she lacked any bases out of it, it did not really benefit her too much, something which was demonstrated when some French influencer wannabe brushed the former owner (by that time she was not the owner) of Edam Entertainment around.
She would not do that against BlackPink, especially against an internationally famous BlackPink.
In retrospect, because of YG's tendency to go after the immediate profit, the world missed the Fight of the Century, and BlackPink missed the chance to get the whole globe's attention. Instead the glory went to a domesticist for whom it had very little use of internationally.
