FIRST TIME this year, a K-Pop group other than BTS has claimed the highest daily stream count on SPOTIFY

Quote from Aeicy

i doubt they are gonna do 10 million during off time, but i think they might be able to maintain atleast 8 million a day for the next month.

I think it might be possible considering they did so well here’s

Quote from doesitneedsaying

But their sound did become more "gp friendly" so to speak. Just look at this forum. Non fans loved drama and this comeback. They obviously toned it down and stopped singing about kwangya nonsense. Imagine if we got wind sunlight water instead of drama; it would have flopped with international audience easily.

overwhelming majority of i fans does not understand korean at all so i dont see how does it matter what they sing about.. the whole kwangya lyrics hate was performative and made no sense

for ifans all you need is one catchy english line and all is good...like sunlight water and planting trees would probably be too cringey to pass but it's not like drama is some lyrical masterpiece

so stopping singing about kwangya might helped them in korea

but on the other hand, kwangya lyrics was one of the main reason why next level went viral and become such a huge hit so there's that

Congrats to Aespa!

I do find their newer stuff more gp friendly (or me friendly) but I have listened to the whole album and they did have their signature sound on it overall. I listen to their less futuristic and more melodic songs. To give my two cents about tuning in.

Of course, I am not a stan, but I am happy for them!