Definately not Dong Nhi. She is famous, but her music barely crosses 10 million views as far as I can remember. And I don't like her because of her management of Uni5, which is really amateurish.

My Tam's music I don't even consider as Vpop. More traditional ballad.

So it really stands between Min and perhaps Amee.

Bich Phuong, My Tam and Toc Tien have to be in the discussion with Min as the top females in VPOP with Amee being the newcomer and really the only one with heavy KPOP influence.

VPOP, Vietnamese popular music, is mainly ballads. You can't say that ballads is no longer VPOP just because we recently had K-style idol bands (and only very few of those.) VPOP is a fairly large and established business in Vietnam, especially in comparision our other entertainment forms like dramas and movies. In fact, it is VPOP that drives better production quality in film and television with shows like "Voice of Vietnam" and the movie quality MVs.

Without ballads, VPOP would be very small indeed with literally less than a handful of moderately known boybands and no active girl groups. But that is not reality. VPOP is thriving with ballads. You can see that in the more and more expensive MVs that are coming out these days (but not from the idol groups.)

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Bich Phuong, My Tam and Toc Tien have to be in the discussion with Min as the top females in VPOP with Amee being the newcomer and really the only one with heavy KPOP influence.

VPOP, Vietnamese popular music, is mainly ballads. You can't say that ballads is no longer VPOP just because we recently had K-style idol bands (and only very few of those.) VPOP is a fairly large and established business in Vietnam, especially in comparision our other entertainment forms like dramas and movies. In fact, it is VPOP that drives better production quality in film and television with shows like "Voice of Vietnam" and the movie quality MVs.

Without ballads, VPOP would be very small indeed with literally less than a handful of moderately known boybands and no active girl groups. But that is not reality. VPOP is thriving with ballads. You can see that in the more and more expensive MVs that are coming out these days (but not from the idol groups.)

I forgot about Bich Phuong. She is a stronger candidate than Toc Tien, who's music has been a mixed bag over the years.

Guess I have to be happy that Vpop has found their ''sound'' so to speak. But the public supports the music, so who am I to tell them what do do lol

However, I do think there is room for idol groups. I read SGO48 sold 8k albums in their last handshake event. Not big numbers compared to Kpop, Jpop and even Cpop for that matter. But for a country that is developing and do not buy cd's, that's good. Hope they are profitable in some way.

If upcoming groups will use influence Kpop, then I wished they do it properly. If you are going copy something, then at least put more effort on it and not be half-ass lazy. Not to compare, but just look at this Thai group. None Vpop groups are close to them. Forget about reaching the bar of Kpop and Cpop groups, try reach this group's level first.