its already 2024 & almost the end of 4th generation but BLACKPINK is still dominating

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I think it is actually. Perhaps not for those who enjoy the permanent re-shuffle and short lived-carreers of people that aren't left with much at the end of it, but for it will inspire longevity in other acts, legitimize the field as something more than a puppy-mill and probably raise the quality of the output if the early contacts made can become more enduring legacies.

Congrats to the girlies, they made it.

I think kpop overall benefit if the fame and top positions are divided among more groups and not dominated by one or two groups for a very long time.

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Careful. Your insecurity is showing.

If it was going to happen, it would have with Pink Venom and Shut Down.

It didn't.

And the girls could feel that the time was perfect for prioritizing their solo careers; it was clearly a wise choice.

Again, it'd be like expecting Destiny's Child to outperform Beyonce. This is a tale as old as groups have been a thing in the music industry; it just hadn't really applied to K-Pop stars until now.

I know for a fact Lisa, for example, can be bigger as a solo pop star here than she ever would within the confines of BLACKPINK and K-Pop.

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I was talking about global scale, and yes Pink Venom/Shut Down reached higher peak on global scale, streaming wise, physical sales wise, touring wise, the only thing which slowed down was only youtube views but youtube views had been shrinking for every kpop group and the shrink was a lot less for BP.

now we just need another jisoo hit drama

Jisoo needs to release her movie/drama ASAP

100% true

Blackpink is the revolution

I don’t think any GG will ever be on their level. Because they had so few releases it may seem like some groups are at equal popularity or more but I think no GG will ever reach the global popularity that BP achieved.

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Time to make a "Is it safe to say that BP is still the reigning GG globally and domestically" thread

Betting 1k akorns that thread will have more than 10 pages is safe ig

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The queastion is, is it good for kpop? it's a bit worrisome if groups like Blackpink and BTS still is so big even if they are old groups and barrely active.

There's nothing wrong with older groups being succesful. It's certainly better than Kpop being a revolving door. Inactive groups? That's a different story. If people are only paying attention to a group that's not even active as a group, that's bad for Kpop, even more so when that group's members aren't actually making Kpop as solo artists, but are instead trying desperately to be crossover stars.

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There's nothing wrong with older groups being succesful. It's certainly better than Kpop being a revolving door. Inactive groups? That's a different story. If people are only paying attention to a group that's not even active as a group, that's bad for Kpop, even more so when that group's members aren't actually making Kpop as solo artists, but are instead trying desperately to be crossover stars.

Well I'm a fan of 2nd generations groups so I don't mind old groups, but it's more that I think it can be a problem if groups/Idols gets too big so they steal all the space and attention for many years. And Blackpink have not been that active with music at all last couple of years. It's 6-7 singles during the years 2018-2024 that is what normal groups make on two years and still they are one or maybe the must popular girlgroup. The idols being bigger than the music is not good.

But I don't claim is a big problem in this case, we still have other popular groups.