Who is currently more popular in Korea Aespa or NewJeans?

Me

One group is on hiatus, so, the active one with a comeback soon is easily going to be more popular. how do you compare this?

I guess it’s by virtue of NJZ basically being inactive, it’s aespa. But imo NJZ will always be more popular than aespa when they go head to head.

I voted NewJeans because I feel like it.

if newjeans comes back the stats are gonna be insane

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Aespa winning so far!

Oh no

NJ

Day6

They literally haven't had any album comeback and their last album comeback was earlier than aespa

But they are still above aespa in KOREA. NJs well, we don't need to compare about that it's obvious

Day6 is the biggest 4th gen GG

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You mean the same stats that How sweet did when it went head to head with Supernova ?

or the same stat that supernatural did compare to whiplash ?

or should we look at the stats and see that neither right now, supernatural or Chewing gum are still charting on melon in comparison of Armaggedon ?

are you sick? i just mentioned a thought

in fact i picked aespa

bruh its just numbers it's not even your own achievements wtf is the point of getting so heated

just be happy for your group

AESPA.

More talented and they're also not annoying.

Karina

Aespa! I think the members individual and group popularity is at legendary stage!

It’s a shame with NJz they never got to explore their individual popularity and for a group it was short lived thanks to the drama

Would love to see how they rank when they comeback

NJ topped Gallup last year

aespa, even it does well this year, will find it hard to beat GDragon

aespa for me

aespa with an asterisk, like when Lebron won that ring in 2020

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aespa with an asterisk, like when Lebron won that ring in 2020

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You mean the same stats that How sweet did when it went head to head with Supernova ?

or the same stat that supernatural did compare to whiplash ?

or should we look at the stats and see that neither right now, supernatural or Chewing gum are still charting on melon in comparison of Armaggedon ?

Bunnies are often delusional

I know nothing about this subject, so i will flip a coin and.... is Newjeans.

Its the way people can only celebrate an empty house like congrats i guess?

I would have said new jeans before but given everything that has happened in the last year I’d say currently it’s aespa.

Not only are they extremely popular as a group in Korea but Karina is one of the biggest idols of her generation with a chart topping #1 hit herself before any official solo debut.

over the last year aespa have been experiencing peak after peak and they currently lead Circle Chart digital points amongst all groups in 2025 despite not having a comeback yet this year. Dirty Work will only widen that gap.

So I’d say currently right now? it’s aespa. But this doesn’t mean new jeans cant bounce back it really depends on the direction they take with their music (how sweet/supernatural not smashing and pulling the same numbers as their earlier releases)

and then of course how it goes with the HYBE lawsuit which could hinder them further so it’s all dependent on the outcome of that.

Either way both groups are VERY popular in Korea and no one else really comes close to them in 4th gen if we’re looking at current popularity.

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maybe i was trippin or was having hallucinations

but i'm pretty much sure that nj had a comeback and they didn't broke any of their own records

just sayin.....

There were in the middle of a mess, but it's ok, Aespa also didn't have great record numbers cb every time. It happens to every group.

Aespa, but as others said just bc njz isn't active anymore bc of the lawsuit.

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maybe i was trippin or was having hallucinations

but i'm pretty much sure that nj had a comeback and they didn't broke any of their own records

just sayin.....

SooYoung you keep sounding delusional everytime you say this. Aespa even now have never come close to new jeans peak. Having one comeback that was less well received amidst controversy than their previous comebacks will not change this fact.

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SooYoung you keep sounding delusional everytime you say this. Aespa even now have never come close to new jeans peak. Having one comeback that was less well received amidst controversy than their previous comebacks will not change this fact.

yeah, this.

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yeah, this.

It’s one thing to acknowledge NJZ is currently in a limbo and needs to excluded from conversations and whole other thing to pretend like as if they were not miles ahead of the competition pre law suite 😭

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It’s one thing to acknowledge NJZ is currently in a limbo and needs to excluded from conversations and whole other thing to pretend like as if they were not miles ahead of the competition pre law suite 😭

Njz still charted good despite everything, and it's not like 2022/23 weren't all about njz and ive in SK, more so njz.. imagine thinking we can simply exclude it to this convo.

aespa, but for the same reasons everyone else has said. Newjeans has been dealt and unlucky hand.

NewJeans

I don't know about now, but in 2023 and 2024, it was NJ if you look at:

- digital

- album sales

- goods sales

I hope nobody has forgotten that MHJ was an SM creation from the very beginning.

It's very interesting that the ultimate result of her "endeavors" at Hybe was to make SM's flagship GG, Aespa, the biggest girl group in Korea by sending her own Hybe GG into indefinite hiatus and sabotaging Hybe's other 4th and 5th gen groups.

Very interesting indeed.

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