What's the reason for Kpop groups recent underperformance on Spotify?

I thought you were told to stop importing Reddit Posts.

For Idle we'll have to judge with their real comeback. Heat was a special english EP that was not liked by fans and not really promoted either

People ignoring the biggest horse in the room

All these tracks that underperformed were generally not well liked.

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People ignoring the biggest horse in the room

All these tracks that underperformed were generally not well liked.

This reminds me of that post that blamed Hybe stans for neglecting other Hybe groups and focussing on streaming BTS solos

The difference is not huge tho

I think it is just that their previous releases were received better.

Someone already said but there was genuinely no hype for these cb, you just to look at their engagements on different platforms. Also IVE’s era was badly promoted so let’s not act they could do better than their previous cb with a mess rollout

i read somewhere that music consumption as a whole is very depressed at the moment

i blame it on kpop fatigue too

This year alone we already many bad viral / kpop hits - OMG, Queencard, Super Shy. Also have I Am, Unforgiven, Eve which did quite well on spotify too

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I thought you were told to stop importing Reddit Posts.

It's fine if it's not only linking a thread and add your opinion on the topic

Maybe people didn't like the songs? I certainly won't be streaming songs from my faves if i don't like them

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i read somewhere that music consumption as a whole is very depressed at the moment

this is correct. 5 million streams will get you #1 on Spotify right now which is very low.

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Not sure what's up with Spotify (or MelOn for that matter), but Youtube seems to be doing fine, as are physicals. At least for TXT

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(Temptation took nearly 2 months to reach those sales, while Freefall hasn't even taken 2 weeks)

Maybe what people actually have is audio streaming fatigue

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Last time I checked today morning they were still in Top100 so Melon is fine. I think somebody here already said, it’s not that TXT suddenly declining. SRR was just that beach. Lot of non fan loved the song while this album is generally more for the fandom. It’s a closing chapter for their lore and some of the songs are not for kpop fan’s taste. Plus let’s not talk about how a certain part of the fandom destroyed the Spotify streams because they wanna push for Hot 100 so they do 20x method and fuck up our filtering.

Cant even say told you so because all the “fan” who pushed that method suddenly got urgent studying to do and went MIA as soon as they seen the streams. Lmao

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this is correct. 5 million streams will get you #1 on Spotify right now which is very low.

i think you meant 6M but that still doesn’t make sense because this is a very recent development. Just the beginning of October two songs were battling for number 1 at 7-8M per streams

Spotify still has low market share in Japan and South Korean right?

not fact check

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Spotify still has low market share in Japan and South Korean right?

South Korea it's still nothing but international streamers using VPN, and whilst it's not big in Japan, it at least has a somewhat decent market share in Japan (15%?)