How did Itzy go from selling 365k in 2021 to selling 1.1 million in 2022?

Quote from randkpopstan

those rookie groups with small fandoms selling millions like lesserafim, ive, aespa, gidle, itzy, nmixx and newjeans and nobody talks about it. twice and blackpink are the only girl groups you can believe their sales.

aespa literally had 1 whole year to build up their fanbase including having the national hit Next Level, before releasing a physical album Savage and it did 500k+, not million. They cracked million with their subsequent album

Ive and Lesserafim similarly did 400-500k for debut album. And they hit million with the next one. It is normal trajectory because these are new group with high growth potential.

You cant compare them to older groups which suddenly double/tripled their sales 3-4 years down their career when they dont have any recent big hit/another breakthrough. This exclude GIDLE obviously which hit big in later stage of their career.

Quote from randkpopstan

at first i just included ive, lesserafim, aespa and newjeans and had to edit it to include the other 3 but didn't modify the rookie part. But thats just worse, groups with 5 and 6 years of career still having tiny fandoms selling millions makes less sense.

Oh so you're just a garden variety moron.

I was hoping for more fun.

Quote from Disevidence

Oh so you're just a garden variety moron.

I was hoping for more fun.

What does that even mean?