Is 4th the generation with the biggest amount of popular korean groups on Japan?

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Also why every people need to remember that none of these 4th gen group had the impact of 3rd gen or 2nd gen

When it's not even OP question

OP is clearly talking in term of amount of kpop act doing well in japan not in term of success overall or impact 😔😔

T-ara had a contract of almost 5m with a japanese company, the highest at that time, and hold a fanmeeting with 3k people. If people forget that when talking about success in Japan imagine how many more groups that achieved similar feats are being ignored?

I think because of recency bias, it looks like 4th gen is doing better.

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I never said It's only based on album sales, let alone korean digipack albums which are mostly imported and not distributed by japanese companies, so less acessible. I validate multiple metrics as success, including the ones I'm not aware of, but you can always disagree If you want.

They do digipacks for Japanese albums as well.

What other metrics are you referring to? I mean so far among ggs it is Ive and Le Sserafim, both have Izone members as well as Japanese members. NJ, Itzy, Nmixx and Aespa don't seem to be getting particularly great attention.

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Cause I think that there was a lot of other popular groups in Japan during 2nd gen as well, we just don't remember them because top4 are titans in comparison. For example t-ara and shinee, imo they were on the same level as popular 4th gen groups, and I just remembered the first 2 that came to mind. That's why I feel 2nd gen was bigger, it was the definition of Hallyu

SS501 too, Kim Hyun Joong as solo even had gold certified albums in Japan. Jang Geun Seuk whom Koreans only know as an actor had a singer career primarily in Japan. Too many decent performers to even mention. There literally were group that were treating Japan as their primary market, like Supernova for example.

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SS501 too, Kim Hyun Joong as solo even had gold certified albums in Japan. Jang Geun Seuk whom Koreans only know as an actor had a singer career primarily in Japan. Too many decent performers to even mention. There literally were group that were treating Japan as their primary market, like Supernova for example.

Yes, even groups considered nugu had decent popularity there.

No one remembers Boyfriend but they sang the opening of Detective Conan and had a contract with Hello Kitty. In fact, I think no one remembers them bc Starship kind of gave up on them and they basically became a j-pop group with k-releases once in a while.