Biggest national hit in third gen?

DDU-DU-DDU-DU was also a hit for some time

Cheer Up.

GROWL was the bomb

spring day

no other comes close

spring days

Love scenario

Cheer up

Du du du

Cheer Up baby

cheer up as it blow up twice career

ls did nothing for ikon, bts was already getting big when spring day come out and have bigger songs coming up (dynamite bwl ), dddd fall second to love scenario (but who got the lasting career, not ikon hehehe)

DDDD and HYLT

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MassiveKpopFan We need your stats again

I don't think is all about stats only sometimes streaming sometimes comes from fandoms it's the whole impact the songs had in Korea media and stuff

cheer up

or Spring Day

what about twice TT ?

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Spring Day is still charting and still loved. No 3rd gen song has its impact.

cheer up is probably the song with more impact though (I would include DDDD, HYLT, dynamite) but I agree about spring day being a song that is liked by koreans.

but I was talking in general we should take in consideration if the song is popular with the general public and have a big influence with Korean media like if people talk about song or played in popular tv shows etc not only charts is the only criteria.

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or Spring Day

Agreed

Here we go again

Probably spring day

Stop with all the nonsense. Its Spring day without a doubt.

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Stop with all the nonsense. Its Spring day without a doubt.

No Baby Shark

Spring Day. No other 3rd gen idol group hit has similar stats as SD and it was the 4th biggest hit on Melon decade chart (Cheer Up was #16 to compare). Jaesuk mentioned how he loves Spring Day and Seho mentioned how it was his favorite song when BTS appeared on YQOTB.

IU, Ji Chang Wook, and so many other celebrities have covered, played, or mentioned the song this past year despite being released 4+ years ago (appeared on 2019 Gallup 2 years after release). THAT is impact with the public.

EDIT: Dynamite seems to be coming for its neck to be honest (charting performance + GP impact).

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I don't think is all about stats only sometimes streaming sometimes comes from fandoms it's the whole impact the songs had in Korea media and stuff

If that is the criteria then it’s definitely Dynamite as the biggest hit lol

spring day & cheer up

Spring Day.

Dynamite is the only one that could possibly challenge it in the future. The rest of the hits stopped charting a long time ago (save BWL lol).

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I don't think is all about stats only sometimes streaming sometimes comes from fandoms it's the whole impact the songs had in Korea media and stuff

Oh hell no, you tried it though.

This graph is March of 2019 (over 2 years ago), and ranks the best-performing songs from Dec 20, 2009 to Mar 30, 2019.

Spring Day is 6th and is one of only 2 idol songs to make it to the top 13 listed here. And it was already above Love Scenario (7th).

To this day, it's STILL in the top 100 of Gaon Digital after more than 2 years, the only song of these 13 to do so.

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And it ended up on Gallup survey 2019, nearly 3 years after release.

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cheer up as it blow up twice career

ls did nothing for ikon, bts was already getting big when spring day come out and have bigger songs coming up (dynamite bwl ), dddd fall second to love scenario (but who got the lasting career, not ikon hehehe)

Any Ikon fan here? No? Love Scenario was everywhere when it’s came out. I’m sure they did win with it. Not as much of a hit then Spring Day but still.

Probably Spring Day as a National Hit. Impact is probably Dynamite due to it being big everywhere.

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This graph is March of 2019 (over 2 years ago), and ranks the best-performing songs from Dec 20, 2009 to Mar 30, 2019.

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IU

Ailee

Busker Busker

Melomance

Ed Sheeran

BTS

Interesting

Spring day for sure.

Then cheer up, it was used for presidential campaigns, gay rights parades and had every idol doing sana's shy shy shy for *years.

Spring day but I think cheer up had more impact, the whole country was like Twice fanbase, no matter where people went cheer up was played. It’s also regarded as one of the songs that opened 3rd generation to the Korean public just saying

as someone who witnessed all these songs coming out, I would say cheer up...

It was very huge.. charting is not the only thing which determines a national hit.. its the impact on the national population and media scene..

cheer up was everywhere, literally everywhere

twice did not even had a strong fandom so you know it was total gp recognition

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cheer up is probably the song with more impact though (I would include DDDD, HYLT, dynamite) but I agree about spring day being a song that is liked by koreans.

but I was talking in general we should take in consideration if the song is popular with the general public and have a big influence with Korean media like if people talk about song or played in popular tv shows etc not only charts is the only criteria.

by this metric fire must be bts’ biggest hit since it’s played ALL the time on variety shows, cooking shows, parties and is still being covered by idol groups...

SK: Spring day, love scenario, cheer up, DDDD, Dynamite, red flavor, Bboom bboom, Boy with luv, hylt

The hit that got away