what are among the national hit songs by boy group ?
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g.o.d. (1st-gen Nation's Boy Group):
- Many of their other title tracks are #1 hits, but probably not national-level.
EDIT: Added links to english subbed M/Vs. The thing that made g.o.d.'s songs great weren't just the music, but also the lyrical content. Their songs struck at the heart of listeners everywhere, old and young.
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other than literally all BTS tittle track since 2017 & majority of BIGBANG tittle track ?
some that i can consider as national hits are
EXO-GROWL
Winner-REALLY REALLY
Wanna One-ENERGETIC
other ? also from 2nd gen boygroup ?
2PM-Heartbeat
2AM-Can't Let You Go Even If I Die (SOTY Daesang winner on GDA 2010)
'TVXQ-Hug & Mirotic', 'Beast-Fiction' and 'Infinite-The Chaser' were pretty big as well Ig, not sure if it's a national hit level or not tho.
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Nflying Rooftop?
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I think definitely SHINee's Ring Ding Dong
And maaaaaaybe UKISS's Man Man Ha Ni (?)
This thread made me realize that even though boy groups typically have the bigger fanbase, stronger fandom, better sales etc, there aren't too many songs by them that are as big of a hit as girl group songs. I can list maybe 20 girl group national hits off the bat, but boy groups...oof. It's difficult lol. Especially when we exclude Big Bang and people already commented the ones I can think of before me.
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other than literally all BTS tittle track since 2017
FIRE and Blood Sweat & Tears are both much bigger than ON and Life Goes On, but I get your point.
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Mr. Simple international hit
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my daily dose of national hit thread.
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g.o.d. (1st-gen Nation's Boy Group):
- Many of their other title tracks are #1 hits, but probably not national-level.
EDIT: Added links to english subbed M/Vs. The thing that made g.o.d.'s songs great weren't just the music, but also the lyrical content. Their songs struck at the heart of listeners everywhere, old and young.
Five national level hits is insane. H.O.T only has 1 but that's normal.
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Wait that was?
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Five national level hits is insane. H.O.T only has 1 but that's normal.
Yeah, g.o.d. were really THAT group. It also helped that they weren't a typical idol group, in the sense that they sang about struggles of everyday people, rather than just stuff which appealed to teenagers. Especially since Korea was going through a hard economic recovery period, their songs helped to cheer and encourage people on.
- "To Mother" is about a child regretting how they treated their mother growing up, and appreciating the sacrifices parents make.
- "One Candle" was about the importance of speaking up and lighting a candle in the darkness, so that others can join in your light and make the world better.
- "Love and Remember" was a song about letting go of someone you loved but keeping the memories - could be applied to breakups, funerals, or just separations.
- "Lies" was about breaking up with someone for their own good, so as to not hold them back, even if you still loved them. So having to lie that you didn't love them anymore.
- "Road" was a contemplation of life's journey, and the choices you have to make along the road to an uncertain future.
All of these song topics are not your typical "idol" kind of songs... but they're the songs that stood the test of time. I liked what the Wikipedia article said about g.o.d.'s legacy:
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"g.o.d is a group that is remembered as a "song" unlike any of the idol groups in Korea. Many idol groups that have appeared in the past twenty years since H.O.T and S.E.S. in the mid-90s are remembered for brilliant dances, fashion, superb concepts, sexiness, and cuteness. But g.o.d was different. Songs such as "One Candle", "To Mother", "Love and Remember", "Lies", and "An Ordinary Day" were loved by various generations... [...] g.o.d tried to differentiate themselves with a unique minimalist, warm sound." — 10Asia[126]
g.o.d was the first boy band to be dubbed "the nation's group" (Korean: 국민그룹; RR: Gukmin geurup), a sobriquet popularized by the media and cultural commentators due to their appeal to not only the teenage demographic, but across a much broader age demographic compared to their contemporaries.[151][152][12][13][62][66][153] In contrast to their contemporaries, who were primarily targeting a teenage audience, they were known as the boy band which "appealed to both teenagers and their parents"[13][31][141] and "rose beyond its status as an idol group to be loved by people of all ages."[154] Cultural commentators have noted that the subject matter of their debut song "To Mother" and other songs such as "One Candle" and "Road" further contributed to their broad popular appeal as the country was transitioning out of difficult times and was still recovering from the 1997 Asian financial crisis when the group debuted.[30][155] They are the first idol group to star in their own reality show, g.o.d's Baby Diaries, beginning a trend of idol singers and other entertainers participating in similar shows such as Hello Baby and The Return of Superman.[32][156]
g.o.d set a number of records in sales figures. They currently hold the record for the highest-selling album (not including a repackaged version) within a single month – their fourth album Chapter 4 (released in November 2001) sold 1,441,209 copies within a month of its release[157][158] – and was the only K-pop group to have the sales figures of an album surpass the 1.2 million mark within that time frame until BTS accomplished the same feat in 2017 with the album Love Yourself: Her.[159][160] They are the most recent K-pop group to sell over a million physical copies of a full album and the last group to do so prior to the establishment of digital music stores, having sold over 1.7 million copies of Chapter 4, before EXO reached the milestone in 2013.[161]
The enduring popularity and cross-generational appeal of their songs and their success has influenced many K-pop idol singers of the new generation, such as R&B quartet 2AM,[162] boy band B1A4,[163] girl group Twice[164] and chart-topping solo artist IU,[165] who have all cited g.o.d as industry "role models" and "inspirations".[166][167] Widely acknowledged within the Korean music industry as "legends of K-pop", g.o.d is the only guest to perform on You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook as exclusive guests and the first K-pop group to be the featured legend on Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend.[153] In 2013 the group was selected and featured in Legend 100 – Artists, a Mnet documentary series highlighting 100 legendary Korean artists (both solo artists and groups) active from 1933 to 2002 selected by a panel of fifty professors, music critics and other music professionals for their contributions and achievements.[13][168][169] According to a 2016 poll conducted by The Dong-a Ilbo in which thirty music industry experts and nearly 2000 citizens voted for the top 15 greatest male K-pop idol groups of the past twenty years, g.o.d was ranked third by the public and fifth by the panel of experts.[170][171] Of the inactive or disbanded first-generation groups, g.o.d was the first to make a comeback and still attain success in a highly saturated market in spite of a nearly decade-long hiatus,[34] which commentators have attributed to the overall increased interest in music and games popular during the 1980s and 1990s as well as the fact that the basis of their popularity had been centered on their vocal abilities and the lyrical content of their songs.[28][140][172][173][174]
In contrast to the industry norm for group and all members' individual contracts to be managed by a single company, g.o.d's contractual arrangement was considered groundbreaking for its time as the contracts of the group and each individual member were managed by two different companies. They were managed by and the trademark of their group name is still owned by EBM (now SidusHQ),[65] but individual contracts were managed separately: the individual contracts of the original four members (Park Joon-hyung, Yoon Kye-sang, Danny Ahn and Son Ho-young) were initially managed by SidusHQ while Kim Tae-woo was managed by Park Jin-young's label and agency JYP Entertainment. It would set a precedent in the K-pop industry as this arrangement allowed long-running group Shinhwa to continue group activities after leaving S.M. Entertainment and for g.o.d and fellow first-generation idol group Sechs Kies to recommence group activities after a number of years despite all members being managed by different companies and agencies.[19][175]
In popular culture
At the time of its release, "To Mother" (어머님께) was the most requested track on radio stations.[3] Other songs, such as "One Candle" (촛불하나),[176] "Love and Remember" (사랑해 그리고 기억해), "Lies" (거짓말)[177][178] and "Road" (길) are considered "indisputable K-pop classics recognized and enjoyed by Koreans of all ages"[15][126] and regularly covered on singing competitions and music variety shows.[179] "Sorrow" (애수), from the second album, was featured in the Pump It Up video game series. Their songs have been used as background music on various television dramas and variety shows, including tvN's Reply 1994,[180] KBS's Drama Special and The Return of Superman and many others.
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