As one of the bravest users in this forum I have take facing the biggest lie ever told in kpop history that is newjeans career as something important to address, because the usual clowns of this forum are too afraid to do it and keep cowardly tip toeing about all these kind of topics. So I'm here to face another part of this huge lie, the fabrication of hybe of a massive success of newjeans on japan that in the end backfired and didn't worked at all.
Newjeans japan debut is a flop, I won't stop repeating this no matter the cries, that the debut single of the most promoted and privileged girl group on japan barely makes 60k sales, below their other 4th gen competitors by a huge gap even after being boosted by the 2 tokyo dome performances is a catastrophic failure, you can do all the mental gymnastics you want, it won't change reality.
So now we have a continuation of it with supernatural on billboard japan hot 100, due to the low physical sales it peaked at #7 on the chart for 1 week, in its 3 week is already at #15, barely being above their archenemy illit's magnetic that has been out for 3 months and is the one getting all the sweet hybe payola now.
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Right now, that is also a single and part of their japan debut is free falling off the chart at #79 it will be lucky if it stays for 3 weeks more on it. So that's the panorama, despite still being boosted by all the hybe spotify payola these 2 songs are underperforming to their korean songs that were heavily boosted by hybe fraudulent schemes in 2023.
So no matter how much privilege and promo hybe got them, how much brand deals they got them to be everywhere on japan, how much streams on spotify japan they gave them with their massive playlisting or how they sneak them into kohaku uta gassen without the merits and achievements to back them up, all that failed to make them succeed on japan and one of the last hope of 4th gen to get a top artists on the 2nd biggest market in the world like 1st gen did with boa, 2nd gen with tvxq, snsd and kara, and 3rd gen with twice and bts is gone.
And no matter how much you try to compensate with charting on dying irrelevant korean charts and making up fake achievements pretending this song is on japanese, it won't change that this debut flopped and failed on their main target, become a big hit on the japan market and make newjeans the next kpop artists to hit big there.