These Are The Top 5 Girl Groups & Boy Groups In 4th Gen

News with fake playlisting #1?

But the Aespa sells cheap albums and use YouTube ads to inflate views so I guess News can be #1

Seems right probably

nice.

For 4th gen :

Girls -

• (G)-IDLE
• IVE
• NEW JEANS
• AESPA
• LSF

Boys -

• STRAY KIDS
• TXT
• ATEEZ
• ENHYPEN
• TREASURE

In this exact order.

And I lined them up unbiasedly, also while looking at the group OVERALL and not just certain achievements.

Enhypen is in top 5 for bg

Your BG list is perfect.

I think the GG list should be changed though.

Ive (if their next comeback doesnt match Ditto/OMG, then they will be replaced by NJ )

New Jeans

Idle

Aespa (Next Level alone puts them up here, the biggest Kpop song since Dynamite)

Lesserafim

The next four in order would be:

Itzy

Stayc

NMIXX

Kepler

ITZY should be top 5. They sell more than GIDLE, have better YouTube views, and have similar digitals and spotify streams.

But you shouldn't remove GIDLE. LSF needs to prove themselves with one more comeback imo before they can get put up there. NewJeans is an exception because Hype boy, OMG, Ditto, and Attention are complete smashes.

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ITZY should be top 5. They sell more than GIDLE, have better YouTube views, and have similar digitals and spotify streams.

They have the most consistent music of all 4th gen groups, but i think LSRFM has stolen their thunder a bit when it comes to their rep as the best performing GG in Kpop, and both Fearless and Antifragile are showing amazing longevity. Fearless is still top 35 and AF is still top 5.

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ITZY should be top 5. They sell more than GIDLE, have better YouTube views, and have similar digitals and spotify streams.

But you shouldn't remove GIDLE. LSF needs to prove themselves with one more comeback imo before they can get put up there. NewJeans is an exception because Hype boy, OMG, Ditto, and Attention are complete smashes.

Fearless literally passed Dalla Dalla’s longevity on Melon. And with Antifragile out performing both of Itzy’s title tracks last year combined on streaming, lol. They already proved that they will be over Itzy unless a miracle happens. And Gidle have more hits than Itzy now and in streaming and digitals last year it wasn’t close lmao. Itzy are living off of legacy alone.

TXT is #1

Stream this masterpiece

Really complicated tbh but ATM :

NewJeans

IVE

Le Sserafim

(G)I-DLE

Aespa

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Yeah.

ENHYPEN, despite kpop stans not liking them etc, they have a huge international fan base.

They had 2-3 viral songs, and been doing touring in arenas.

They definitely in the Top 3 for 4th gen boy groups

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For sure, I thought I didn't see enhypen in the list but now I see, very loyal fandom as well despite their last comeback not smashing for everyone

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Fearless literally passed Dalla Dalla’s longevity on Melon. And with Antifragile out performing both of Itzy’s title tracks last year combined on streaming, lol. They already proved that they will be over Itzy unless a miracle happens. And Gidle have more hits than Itzy now and in streaming and digitals last year it wasn’t close lmao. Itzy are living off of legacy alone.

All of that is true, ITZY didn't have their best year in 2022. But I'll remind you that everyone thought GIDLE were out of the running for top 4th gen girl group after Oh my god and HWAA flopped in Korea, and Soojin was removed. And then Tomboy happened.

It's way too soon to write ITZY off because after LOCO flopped in Korea, everyone thought they were done but Sneakers went viral due to Chaeryeong. It takes way more than 1-2 mediocre performances (ie Cheshire) to write ITZY off.

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They have the most consistent music of all 4th gen groups, but i think LSRFM has stolen their thunder a bit when it comes to their rep as the best performing GG in Kpop, and both Fearless and Antifragile are showing amazing longevity. Fearless is still top 35 and AF is still top 5.

LSFM is a case of recency bias. They have 2 singles and both are huge hits, but that's all they have to their name as of now. If they can outsell ITZY by a decent margin and get another hit at FEARLESS-level or higher with their next album, then I'll concede ITZY not being top 5.

ITZY sold 2 million albums in one year, that's not something you can ignore at all just because they didn't have a smash hit last year.

for now i think it's:

1. New Jeans

2. Ive

3. Gidle

4. aespa

5. LSFM

at the year end i think it will be:

1. New Jeans >>

2. aespa

3. Ive / LSFM (battle for 3rd place)

5. Gidle/Baemon (battle for 5th place)

Ps: depending on the song quality Baemon could also battle Ive and LSFM for the 3rd place.

SK at the end of this year

1. BM

2. NJ

3. Aespa (SM will commit and promote them properly)

4. Ive (Nj ended them. BM will bury them)

Global at the end of this year

1. Gidle/LSF

simply because they are the only groups doing a global tour

BG list is hard to argue with

GG list: mainly concerned with SK

NJ

IVE

G-IDLE

LSRFM

aespa

pretending IVE are bigger than NJ right now requires an industrial amount of IVE bias atp

Lmaoo y'all just say whatever

In order to be #1, u need to be leading across all metrics

So there's really no definite #1 4th gen ATM, once they put out albums & hold a tour then it'll be clear

Or maybe it won't cause K-pop is just so much bigger now so more than 1 GG can Excell in any given metric only to be beaten by another with their next release/tour