Disclaimer: If you don't care about charts and numbers, click out of this thread. This is just a harmless look at some chart metrics.
Getting to the topic, I've actually been wondering about this discrepancy for quite some time; I'd just decided to keep it to myself until now.
However, after the last few threads about different girl groups, let's talk about something I've not seen anyone else willing to discuss.
BLACKPINK came back with two extremely anticipated and hyped tracks, after a fairly long hiatus as a group back in 2022.
Here is what they did
In 2024, they're gone entirely.
Meanwhile:
In the context of the other top girl group songs released in 2022, what happened to BLACKPINK?
For example, Shut Down spent 49 weeks in the MelOn top 100.
Hype Boy spent 51 weeks in the MelOn Top 10.
At the end of 2024, Hype Boy still ranks at 23 on the year-end MelOn chart. Love Dive was at 60. After Like at 97.
And today, on the daily charts, Hype Boy and Ditto are still charting in the top 100, both songs over 2 years old, both charting at 55 and 43 respectively and still chasing after the record held by:
To put this in context, Pink Venom only lasted in the top 100 for 329 days.
2022 is the PERFECT data set for a standardized comparison between the girl groups, because they ALL released music within months of each other, which means it was an even playing field. I'm comparing songs released in 2022 to songs released in 2022.
So this goes back to my question: why did BP have such poor longevity compared to the current generation top girl groups? And why are Blinks convinced it will be any different if they return in 2025 as an even older group?