Babymonster own the highest 1st week debut by KPOP Group in Spotify

Dives are doing such a shit job at hyping Ive cause how tf did i not know they had the record for biggest spotify debut lmao

Everybody is trying to underplay them, but numbers are telling different language

All those things you mentioned don't matter because they are Blackpink's sister group. Similar reason as to why TXT is also on that list.

Also why isn't NewJeans there on the list? Weren't they doing well on Spotify since debut? 🤔

Aside the debut song, Fearless is a hit album as most of the bside on the album performed well for Le Sserafim.

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Also why isn't NewJeans there on the list? Weren't they doing well on Spotify since debut? 🤔

The unique case seems to be NJ, with their debut songs reaching high volume streams after a month of release because they gone viral everywhere

Week 1

Attention - 5.45M
Hype Boy - 4.78M

Week 4

Attention - 8.1M

Hype Boy - 7.7M

Week 4 might not even the biggest especially for Hype Boy.

wow i guess better bop is growing on so many people nowadays, cant believe that so called outdated song is able to do that

Funny story. Me, my niece and her friend heard Batter Up on the radio, and while I felt I’ve heard it before, my niece and her friend never heard of it yet. And we were racking our brains to figure out who is singing this song and why it’s so dated and kinda meh. I was quite confident its a new song from a Malaysian kpop wanna be group Dalla (because their songs have BP-like structure to it), but then when the chorus came, I was like.. oh its YG new GG! And my niece and her friend (both were into kpop before but not so much now) were shocked.. and then immediately we felt that its an ok song, very YG..

So my point is that once we know its from YG, our POV shifted and felt like the song is kinda a bop. That is how strong the YG label is. Crazy.

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Dives are doing such a shit job at hyping Ive cause how tf did i not know they had the record for biggest spotify debut lmao

We busy focusing on other important actual stuff like their upcoming world tour

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So my point is that once we know its from YG, our POV shifted and felt like the song is kinda a bop. That is how strong the YG label is. Crazy

This is actually quite a valid point.

Like only YG and JYPE can make songs like Batter Up and O.O and get away with it.

If it was a nugu group people will be "it's because they don't have good songs of course no one is going to check them out"

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Funny story. Me, my niece and her friend heard Batter Up on the radio, and while I felt I’ve heard it before, my niece and her friend never heard of it yet. And we were racking our brains to figure out who is singing this song and why it’s so dated and kinda meh. I was quite confident its a new song from a Malaysian kpop wanna be group Dalla (because their songs have BP-like structure to it), but then when the chorus came, I was like.. oh its YG new GG! And my niece and her friend (both were into kpop before but not so much now) were shocked.. and then immediately we felt that its an ok song, very YG..

So my point is that once we know its from YG, our POV shifted and felt like the song is kinda a bop. That is how strong the YG label is. Crazy.

maybe youre just slowly growing to it, which is not surprising, btw dalla is also good xixi

If they don't wake up, they'll end up as female treasure rather than BP sisters

Given the lackluster domestic performance for now, I take the Youtube/Spotify numbers as more an indication of how much BP's global fandom is checking for the new YG girl group. This might be a useful benchmark to measure their performance going forward - whether the rate of growth continues from here, or when compared to future releases.

Will also be interesting to see in the event Batter Up becomes a hit overseas, whether that will incentivize Korea to pay more attention to them. This happened for Fifty Fifty - Korea didn't appreciate Cupid as much initially, but when they charted on Billboard and made the news in Korea, Cupid started to climb the Melon chart.

But that's quite a tall order, and if I were YG, rather than taking the position, "Batter Up is a bop, Korea just doesn't get it," I'd rather err on the side of caution and take it as a message to figure out how to adjust and make improvements for the next release.

the more recent you debut, the bigger the advantage you get...in terms of streaming, albums sales etc.

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the more recent you debut, the bigger the advantage you get...in terms of streaming, albums sales etc.

let's see how the new gg from sm will perform since that's the next anticipated one. kinda doubt they'll beat bm in terms of streaming but album sales maybe