AUGUST BATTLE of the 4th Gen Boy groups! TXT vs Stray Kids vs The Boyz

Wut? Why is Txt coming back already, they literally JUST released Lovesong...

Why is BH not letting literally the BEST BG song since Zombie last year breathe ffs? Lovesong deserves more time to shine before being left behind.

I don’t know about charts but straykids gonna do good with their physical

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Fight or Escape is repackage album and it only 2 versions. So I don't think it will get high physical sales. I'm already happy if they can sell 400k. Meanwhile, The chaos chapter: Freeze is 780k in Gaon last month with 3 versions.

But I'm sure SKZ will surpassed it, aren't their fandom grow massively during Kingdom?

Idk much about The Boyz, but I hope they will be enter melon 24h chart on this comeback.

Looking forward to all the new music!! SKZ first 2021 COMEBACK following their Kingdom win, TXT first repackage after an amazing 2nd full album, I don't follow TBZ but I liked them on Kingdom and RTK so I'll be checking out their comeback.

Not looking forward to all the nonfans starting sh*t but this is AKP

I think SKZ and TBZ will do well and will break and set new records. The interesting thing with TXT is that your listeners are not decreasing and your sales are going up. Right now they are the cover of kpop Daebak and Anti Romantic is in position 1. So the repackage came at the right time.Screenshot_20210721_225702_com.spotify.music.jpg

I just hope TxT fans are smart like Stray Kids fans and do not add album sales of 2 different albums just to claim a record like other kpop fans like to do since this is a repackage album.

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I think SKZ and TBZ will do well and will break and set new records. The interesting thing with TXT is that your listeners are not decreasing and your sales are going up. Right now they are the cover of kpop Daebak and Anti Romantic is in position 1. So the repackage came at the right time.Screenshot_20210721_225702_com.spotify.music.jpg

Their spotify listeners are not decreasing is because Anti-Romantic went viral and already outstreamed Lovesong. Same thing happened to Enhypen because Fever went viral, + they just release japanese single. And instead of decreasing, both groups' monthly listeners are increasing. TXT will even get another boost from this repackage album. It's gonna be interseting.

Anti-Romantic and Fever standing next to each other in K-Pop Daebak Playlist as the iconic viral bsides of this year that dethrone their title tracks. Wbk Anti-Romantic - Fever are besties

I'll be checking all of them. TXT just cameback 2 months ago and did very well, they released such a bop album. And Lovesong was the best kpop song this year for me. So excited for the new songs.

For The Boyz and Stray Kids, it's been almost a year since their last comeback. I can see they'll rise a lot in every metric. The Boyz probably will enter 24Hits, and do well on domestic charts especially if their new song is a bright, refreshing summer song. And Stray Kids probably will get a high sales and do well on Youtube and Spotify. Hoping the best for them, and fortunately, these 3 4th gen groups didn't comeback at the same time, so they don't have to fight for music shows. The Boyz on August 9th, TXT on August 17th, and Stray Kids on August 23rd. I hope that The Boyz and Stray Kids can get a lot of win on music shows (as well as TXT), especially on Music Bank, since they have never won there before.

And other than competition, Interaction is what I'm looking for > <

I need Soobin and Sunwoo selca > <

excited for The Boyz

Fun fact:some of us even quite clueless what is repackage album because this is the first time TXT will have one

Please correct me, but Gaon and Hanteo will count Freeze and FoE separately, right? why we should merge two different albums as 1 sales? even if FoE charting in billboard, they will count separately with Freeze.

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I just hope TxT fans are smart like Stray Kids fans and do not add album sales of 2 different albums just to claim a record like other kpop fans like to do since this is a repackage album.

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Fun fact:some of us even quite clueless what is repackage album because this is the first time TXT will have one

Please correct me, but Gaon and Hanteo will count Freeze and FoE separately, right? why we should merge two different albums as 1 sales? even if FoE charting in billboard, they will count separately with Freeze.

GAON, Hanteo, Oricon, Billboard all of them count them separately.

Ikr it doesn't make sense to add album sales of two different albums with two different names but some kpop fans like to add the sales of the full album and the repackaged album because idk why. Stray Kids fans didn't do so though last year. They had an opportunity to claim the best selling album by "4th gen" group if they had added the sales of the full album and the repackaged album. But they didn't add them like other kpop fans. TxT fans will have an opportunity to claim that TxT are the first "4th gen" group to sell 1m with an album if they add album sales of Freeze and FoE like other kpop fans. I just hope you guys don't do that lol.

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GAON, Hanteo, Oricon, Billboard all of them count them separately.

Ikr it doesn't make sense to add album sales of two different albums with two different names but some kpop fans like to add the sales of the full album and the repackaged album because idk why. Stray Kids fans didn't do so though last year. They had an opportunity to claim the best selling album by "4th gen" group if they had added the sales of the full album and the repackaged album. But they didn't add them like other kpop fans.

Ah.... 'breaking record' always become one of the biggest problem in kpop

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Well. That depends. For Stray Kids, it was kinda a weird situation since their repackage outsold their full album (this basically never happens; like had probably happened three or four times in all of K-pop history) so the most news sites and fans count it as a seperate album.

Regardless of sales, I think it still should be counted as a separate album.

Wow.... that's cool tho. Repackage is basically a few new songs and the rest are old songs, right? That's why it's rare for it to outsell their full album.

I don't expect the best physical sales as it is a repack but we could be surprised.

TXT is my answer, always and forever

It's going to be interesting. Stray kids have grown so much after kingdom, that's also their first comeback that year so the hype, anticipation and excitement is high. Txt on the other hand will also do very well, it's just unpredictable how much they'll sell and how prepared moas are because their comeback was very recently and that's also a repackage album. No matter what, I'm happy we'll get to listen to some incredible songs that august

I like how they decided the moth between the three group, that give us a bit breathing room . Since this is a repackage I don’t think we gonna be higher then the others but I voted for them because hope never dies!oa certainly fired up. Started setting up goals pre orders nicely adding up.

Good luck for the other groups! Hope you guys gonna enjoy the comeback activities!

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I like how they decided the moth between the three group, that give us a bit breathing room . Since this is a repackage I don’t think we gonna be higher then the others but I voted for them because hope never dies!oa certainly fired up. Started setting up goals pre orders nicely adding up.

Good luck for the other groups! Hope you guys gonna enjoy the comeback activities!

I agree but comeback isn't just physical sales, we could rule the rest

What I know is that The Boyz are going to slay and finally people can stop sleeping or ignoring them conveniently as they please

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I agree but comeback isn't just physical sales, we could rule the rest

Oh, Moa is all fired up I’m sure of it!

I see the meetings going on so the comeback not gonna be mistreated!

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I agree but comeback isn't just physical sales, we could rule the rest

At least I just want their new song to chart higher and longer in Melon 24h this time

If stray kids don't win this with how much people on here are hyping this comeback I'll be disappointed lmao

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At least I just want their new song to chart higher and longer in Melon 24h this time

Road to longevity!!

I trust the new tt, yeonjun praised it a lot but 0x1 had such a lot of non fans and knetz praise, it should have lasted longer

I think that TxT has the potential to do the best with Stray Kids as the potential wild card.

txt literally are releasing a repack just two months after their comeback with two versions only. meanwhile stray kids have been on hiatus for nearly a year and so have the boyz.

hardly a fair battle so txt shouldn’t be involved. they’ve proved themselves this previous comeback by charting well on spotify and billboard

but anyway. physical sales are probably for stray kids and korean charting is for the boyz.

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Road to longevity!!

I trust the new tt, yeonjun praised it a lot but 0x1 had such a lot of non fans and knetz praise, it should have lasted longer

We just talk about melon, this old granny rise from her grave

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I just hope TxT fans are smart like Stray Kids fans and do not add album sales of 2 different albums just to claim a record like other kpop fans like to do since this is a repackage album.

I was screaming at them on twitter when it was announced, "DONT DO IT"

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Exactly. I think it only happened with Stray Kids since God’s Menu explosively increased their popularity so they had the fanbase to do so!

How many versions did the God's menu album have, and how many did the repackage have?

With how much demand Skz might have, i think they'll probably take the lead in sales, while i think TBZ might have the best melon charting, but either way i'm excited to see how each group does.

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How many versions did the God's menu album have, and how many did the repackage have?

Full had 3 standard and 1 limited, repack had 2 standard and 1 limited and it looks to be the same this year

Edit: typos

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GO LIVE had 3 versions + 1 limited edition

IN LIFE (repackage) 3 versions + 1 limited edition

Hello twin

Repack only had 2 standard i just checked

This will be Stray Kids' first Korean comeback since both Kingdom this year and Back Door, and 2020 was already huge for SKZ! The gap between God's Menu and Back Door's release dates wasn't that big and there was already a noticeable growth in sales from Go Live to In Life.

Now add that to the tons of new fans that discovered them through both God's Menu and Back Door after In Life's release + the Kingdom hype - no doubt this will be one of the biggest comebacks of the year.

expectations: skz and tbz should have better ranking in melon or flo since they were in RTK. they had more exposure to gp.

sales: this will be close and interesting

excited for new music releases. hope the 3 groups will release bangers.