First i don't stan or hate Treasure i'm talking from an exterior point of view, this thread is only to discuss so if you might get trigger that people might say that your favs aren't doing so well etc.. please leave this thread
we are here to talk so if you are here to quote everybody who doesn't praise your favs and turn this into a mess i don't think you should stay
Let me start :
before Treasure debut everybody was saying how Treasure will be one of the group leading the new generation with TXT, SKZ since they were the only big company BG who debuted in 4th gen
they had a lot of predebut coming out from a survival show, they are from YG a company who always had successfull BG since their debut, they had yearsof build up with yedam being expose as futur member for years before debuting
and their show make a lot of people hype their members skills and visual.
People were talking about how popular they were already in Japan and how they will be in Korea once they debut
they had content on youtube and uploaded a dance video who was well received during predebut
for all these reasons Treasure was always listed as one of the biggest competitor of 4th gen
now flashforward to now
they released 4 title track already , with 3 single album and 1 full album
none of their songs did well in Melon and it's comprehensible considering that it's hard to chart in melon
but none of their song charted in Gaon digital neither, for example even if you watch the charting of other 4th gen BG they all had a song charting in Gaon digital, the boyz, Ateez, enhypen, TXT even a BG like AB6IX who doesn't seem to be as popular than them and came from a much smaller company had every song charted in the gaon digital chart
and when you watch their physicals sales on Gaon even with 4 physicals release, their sales didn't made a big jump
i honestly always thought that they were doing really really well in physicals because a lot of people were saying this and it's true they are doing great
but when you watch their sales they didn't grow a lot at every release, their best selling physicals sold 290K if we doesn't count the kinho version with it
in comparison a BG like The Boyz who don't have the chance to be from a big company is already selling 367K
Ateez is selling 467K
and when you compare with other top agency BG of 4th gen
TXT already sold 700K in preorder
and when you take the example of a BG who debuted later than treasure and had less physicals release like Enhypen who already sold 622K
they seems behind in term of physicals compare to all the others 4th gen
even when talking about buzz among Kpop fans , i see very few fans of treasure in the other kpop forum in US and France
I see a lot more people talking about other 4th gen BG , that they are fan or just casual listener
seems like a lot of Kpop fans don't really take attention o Treasure
and honestly it seems like there was more buzz and talk about treasure duing their predebut than now
even in the koreans community, i see never any hot post about treasure or treasure member now in theqoo or pann etc...
while i used to see a lot during their predebut about mashiro visual
After this exposure of treasure performance, what do you think explain Treasure underwhelming performance in every area compare to other 4th gen BG ?
and what do you think YG should do to improve Treasure overall performance to make them more popular