K-Pop reached its absolute apex and peaked in the 3rd generation

Agreed

hindsight is 20/20 my friend

we will never know whether the 4th or a future generation can do better than the third...

we can talk about peaks about groups that have disbanded or clear over but kpop as a whole isn't and thus one cannot discuss peaks

For BG’s yes. For GG’s no. I think this current era is much bigger than third Gen GG era. Their international and Korean popularity feels much more solid than 3rd gen. Sure there’s BP but I don’t feel there’s a huge gap with current top GG’s. Current GG’s feel extremely strong.

Conversely for BG’s for example korea completely forgot BG’s after 3rd Gen for the most part.

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I think this current era is much bigger than third Gen GG era. Their international and Korean popularity feels much more solid than 3rd gen. Sure there’s BP but I don’t feel there’s a huge gap with current top GG’s.

The genius who believe exo to be bigger than twice digitally on korea thinks 4th gen girl groups to be more solid than twice when almost all of them are having troubles to crack 50M of streams on spotify and youtube, all of them have failed tremendously on their japan adventures, declining on US billboard charts and some them already lost half of their sales not even 3 years into their careers... yeah I doesn't surprise me

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The genius who believe exo to be bigger than twice digitally on korea thinks 4th gen girl groups to be more solid than twice when almost all of them are having troubles to crack 50M of streams on spotify and youtube, all of them have failed tremendously on their japan adventures, declining on US billboard charts and some them already lost half of their sales not even 3 years into their careers... yeah I doesn't surprise me

What are you blabbering all the statements made here are wrong 😭

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I would shut you down but I want my thread to pop. Carry on trollkpopstan

How does one so confidently sprout nonsense😭😭😭😭😭😭

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almost all of them are having troubles to crack 50M of streams on spotify and youtube, all of them have failed tremendously on their japan adventures, declining on US billboard charts and some them already lost half of their sales not even 3 years into their careers... yeah I doesn't surprise me

kpop peaked on 2020-2021 thanks to ppl locked in homes watching youtube and having too much free time

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I would shut you down but I want my thread to pop. Carry on trollkpopstan

go on bro, don't be shy and prove me wrong lol

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What are you blabbering all the statements made here are wrong 😭

Ive latest comeback is having troubles to surpass 50M of streams on youtube and spotify, they are just 2 years old

Itzy, Ive all flopped in their japan debuts

Itzy and aespa who had top 10 albums on billboard 200 failed to enter the top 20 or top 30

Aespa latest comeback has almost 50% less sales than their previous album

But why should I expect an exol to know about billboard 200 charting when that's a foreign concept to exo and their fans

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Anyway now that the troll has embarrassed him(her)self, answer me do you think GG’s peaked in 3rd gen. I don’t feel so.

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Both songs will have no issue clearing 50 million mark. IVE don't buy ads. People seem to have forgotten how kpop views before ads and youtube inflation from fandom streaming farms started in 2017. We are back to how views are supposed to be.

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Itzy, Ive and aespa all flopped in their japan debuts

Aespa latest comeback has almost 50% less sales than their previous album

aespa never debut in Japan but they already sold out Tokyo Dome

Aespa's Drama sales will continue to go up after the fansign events this week and next. It will not be 50% lesser than MY World

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aespa never debut in Japan but they already sold out Tokyo Dome

Aespa's Drama sales will continue to go up after the fansign events this week and next. It will not be 50% lesser than MY World

Corrected, was taking their ost as their debut but let's give them time.