Outside gidle and itzy that will celebrate their 6th and 5th anniversary next year the top girl groups of 4th gen are below 3 years old so at least for me is a little concerning watching all those girl groups already having very bad numbers in their most recent releases. I made a table comparing their recent comebacks with mamamoo numbers after their career ended in 2020, the usual numbers a gfriend comeback was pulling before disbanding or dreamcatcher that is a fairly known group but not really successful, so you can see for yourself what I'm talking about.
Is shocking to be honest, most of these groups were pulling 100M to 300M of streams on both platforms and all of sudden most of them are having trouble cracking 50M.
And there was a thread the other day talking about how we 3rd gen stans are coping and doing circles searching for touring numbers to justify our faves still being the top groups and to deal with the supposed 4th gen takeover, but is really like that? Outside some very good hits from the top girl groups of this generation I really don't see 4th dominance of kpop, none of the 4th gen girl group fandoms is even half as big as onces and blinks are today, even twice in their worst era with barely help from their company did x2 or x3 those numbers just with onces fandom power. Like I really wish to see the opinion of the "twice are flopping" "twice don't have hits after 2018" crowd about those numbers.
So what do you think, are those recent comebacks a sign to worry for those 4th gen fandoms or this is just one little fail for those groups and they will be pulling huge numbers next year? Maybe just the ultimate proof the top girl groups from 3rd gen have no comparison because no way in hell blackpink or twice will fail like this 2 or 3 years into their career.