So far the only kpop artists to enter the Billboard Hot 100 is BTS, BLACKPINK, TWICE, PSY, WONDER GIRLS, and now NEWJEANS.
NEWJEANS, 6 month old rookie group with 0 U.S promotion managed to chart at #96 on the 100 chart..supposedly just off of high streams alone. Whether they paying for playlisting, idk about all that and I don't care. Either way they managed to get on there.
And they about to hit 18 Million monthly listeners soon too.
The reason I bring them up is because now I'm seeing other kpop group fandoms, say they are aiming to get their faves on the Hot 100 now, even if it's at #100.
I don't care if the fandoms get mad at me for bringing up names, so whatever.
But so far I've seen TXT fans MOA mentioning how they hope and want TXT to enter the hot 100 chart for this recent comeback they about to have.
Stray Kids fandom STAYS has said for Stray Kids next comeback this year, their gonna aim to get a lot of sales, and chart Stray Kids Title track if they can on the Hot 100.
I seen a small handful of Le sserafim fans FEARNOTs say they hope for Le sserafim next comeback they enter. I assume after seeing NEWJEANS do it, they got hopeful.
Honestly I'm not surprised after NewJeans doing it, more fandoms got bold so to speak, when before apart from BTS and Blackpink, it seemed impossible..I mean its still hard, and nowadays there's gimmicks from kpop companies, like paying and shady deals.
But yeah that seems like the new goal for the top 4th gen groups now, is to at least chart once on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, even if its between #90-#100.