“Hype Boy” Becomes The BIGGEST Female Group Song EVER in South Korea, Surpassing “Love Dive” in Circle Chart Points

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Made our songs to viral and now any of her own

Au contraire, mon frere. She peaked in the top 30 on Melon Daily and Weekly with Knock Knock. Second highest for any 4th gen soloist on Melon afaik behind only fellow Izone alum Yena

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Thank you for everything, Melon's autoplay and Genie's Todays Top Hits

Quote from ISaidISaid

I know the digital points didn’t start till like 2018 (I think?)👀

You can definitely say it’s the most successful song since then.

Correct. Given that the Gaon/Circle digital points system only started in 2018, it can't be used as the sole determinant of "The BIGGEST Female Group Song EVER in South Korea".

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What about when it becomes the most streamed girl group song on MelOn ever?

No, we can't say that either, since streaming only became the dominant form of music consumption in the mid-2010s. It was basically nonexistent during the First Generation, and in its infancy for much of the Second Generation.

Before the mid-2010s, downloads were much more of a factor, peaking in the Second Generation and declining significantly since then, so we can't use downloads to determine the biggest song ever either.

And of course, albums sales collapsed during the Second Generation, but recovered dramatically with the rising popularity of K-pop globally, so that's not a reliable determinant either.

What I'm getting at is that there's no single metric that can be used to decide the greatest song of all-time. In addition to objective measures, there's also the cultural "impact" of a song, which is difficult to quantify. Thus, determining song greatness over the entire 30-year history of K-pop, with all that's changed over the time frame, inevitably becomes a very subjective process.

Melon itself actually came out with a list of the top 100 songs of all-time in K-pop, which you may be interested in seeing. I actually made a thread about it. What's clear is that many of the songs near the top of the ranking are generally not the ones that have been the most streamed.