IU ruled Korean digitals from around the time of nagging, mid-2010.
But it seems Jang Kiha, her ex, finally gets the last laugh as Bibi kicks the 1,345 years old out frm the throne today, February 24, 2024.
There will be a lot of time to discuss the significance of this so for today I would rather talk about its general impact over KPop.
KPop's Senior Singer outlived SNSD, EXO, BTS and BlackPink and fought against aespa, IVE and Gidle.
However Jang Kiha knew how to defeat IU, since IU's later song styles were learned from Jang Kiha.
No one took the new song by Kim Hyungseo seriously but it has become the hit of 2024, on to the yearly #1, Grand Prize at Melon Awards (which Lee JIeun will probably NOT attend) and even possibly for the Grand Prize at the Golden Disk , held by JTBC, if she agrees to star in a JTBC show during the year. Since Bibi mostly played temptress roles, her arc of acting is much wider than Lee Jieun, who can only play a certain type of characters.
I am sure RM is monitoring all of this from wherever he is now, and if he has brains, which I think he has, he should be aware that now nothing is certain ,including BTS' comeback in 2025.
BTS' manay enemies will also be preparing for its return in the later half of 2025. And , given that someone barely known in Korea sank IU and send the latter to the abyss, they will probably find someone, born after 2005,
Global Chart Weeks Countdown Albums
This list's annual #1s are the most accurate since it excludes bullshit charts like Melon, and only include charts from western countries.
BTS would have been #1 in 2019 if Bang didn't feel like to debut txt on that year and promote BTS just once, but because Bang felt like debuting txt, Billie Eilish became the #1 artist in that year. She should be thanking txt for the rest of her life.
And in 2021 Olivia Rodrigo was declared the #1 singer.
In 2025 , or more likely 2026, there will be someone unknown. Not that unknown, but still unknown in terms of the world, showing up a sudden to bring BTS back to the abyss, in the same league with the former owner of Edam Entertainment.
