Boy groups like Riize, Boynextdoor and ZB1 are all "flopping" with bright concepts. Are you surprised?

Riize will save boy groups

It has to happen

BND and Riize just debuted. BGs generally only have their breakthrough moments 2 to 3 years after the debut

I expected better from ZB1 on Spotify but alas it can't be helped, seems like Produce Planet series doesn't have big follow outside Asia. In Kores they definitely did well, 2 months charting the only 4th gen group who did better was TxT and they are a 4 year old group

Also this group charted on top 100

BGs are improving their charting compared to the 4th gen charting which were close to non-existent

im not surprised at anything anymore

seems like boygroups are just generally not welcome anywhere right now outside straight female fandoms

boy groups flop on K charts no matter what they' do they will flop

Honestly, I think 5th gen boy groups will breakout in Korea lol

Currently the ones gaining momentum are ZB1, RIIZE, BND and Plave. Their reception is better than many 4th gen bgs and these are just rookies.

BND debut single Spotify streams matches their sales and they didn't had any playlists there until But Sometimes era. SM bgs barely get great streams so not surprised with RIIZE.

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i remember recently there was a pretty boy added to genshin impact and the teaser was widely liked in every language released except for Korea where it was dislike bombed.

apparently widely done by guys who “hate” pretty boys? it kinda made me wonder if this thinking is what’s led to so much negativity towards bg’s by the Korean general public…

cant say i know any male korean genshin players so......

i mean gdragon wore the most feminine things ever and tons of korean men loved him

i was just saying the market for bgs is very small since kpop's global expansion

GGs attract straight men, straight women, gay women, even gay MEN

BGs almost entirely depend on straight women

its not fair

at all

i have a theory as to how it came to be this way but i dont see how its going to go away