I didn't expect yg to make the same mistake with treasure but they are doing it.

Now that you said it .. true, Treasure hiatus is being as long as BP and others YGE acts...

We really have no news about them?? But they keep updating us with others stuff...

This year was shit towards YGE acts tbh. Almost no one released music and it seems they will put all acts to release something in these last 5 months...

Full albums from YGE in 2021:

1. The First Step: Treasure Effect

2. Lucky Man

3. PAGE

4. Next Episode

Q1 was productive music release-wise but they threw away Q2 (unless you count iKON being on Kingdom). If we count TBL, Q3 seems to be on its way of being more prolific since AkMu and L0REN already released music, Somi's MV teaser is already out, and Kang Seungyoon also already had an OST track (it was Suhyun in Q1 with the OST track).

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Now that you said it .. true, Treasure hiatus is being as long as BP and others YGE acts...

We really have no news about them?? But they keep updating us with others stuff...

This year was shit towards YGE acts tbh. Almost no one released music and it seems they will put all acts to release something in these last 5 months...

iKon release two digital singles (one for Kingdom), Seungyoon and Bobby released solo albums, and AKMU just now released new music after 8 months.

Nothing new for BP or Treasure since January, and Winner is on hiatus.

In conclusion: It's a mixed bag. Although 2020 also sucked for YG in the first half, so maybe it'll spice up again this year.

Nah. They just had a comeback 6 months ago and a Japanese album with a Japanese MV 4 months ago. I don't recall any YG artist besides BIGBANG getting a completely original Japanese MV.

Also WINNER and iKON didn't release anything the year following their debuts...iKON had "WYD" but it wasn't promoted.

This was a result of WINNER and iKON immediately going on massive tours after their debuts. Due to the pandemic, it's not possible for TREASURE.

Also TREASURE has gotten almost a year and a half and 2 seasons of their reality show with 57 episodes.

WINNER got 1 season of a reality show when they debuted, and iKON got one in their 4th year after debut.

Yedam, Junkyu, Jeongwoo and Jihoon have been doing varieties.

Also there seems to be a constant stream of endorsements and ads TREASURE is doing. LINE/Truz, Manyo Cosmetics, Shopee. They were filming another one when Doyoung got COVID.

So there is a constant stream of content.

I'm a fan of all 3 groups. YG has definitely taken a more traditional idol approach with TREASURE than they did with WINNER and iKON. So I don't see them similar at all.

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Almost no one released music and it seems they will put all acts to release something in these last 5 months...

Anyone who's fans of YG artists would dispute that.

Music wise Rose, Seungyoon, Bobby, Sechs Kies and now AKMU have released music this year.

I quite enjoyed all of those releases.

It's true they didn't release anything Q2, but it looks like they were preparing for a flood of releases in Q3 starting with AKMU, which is quite a large project.

Promotion wise TREASURE, IKON, Rose, Mino have been all over varieties on TV and Seungyoon is shooting a drama as well as Jisoo wrapping up her movie.

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The biggest loser here is treasure because they will end up not attracting more fans

They're already in the top 10 most-subscribed boy groups on YouTube and the 3rd most-subscribed in the 4th gen less than a year after debut.

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Horrible second year in terms of music. and their gp popularity is already horrible.

As is 99.9% of boy groups and 100% of 4th gen boy groups have zero gp popularity.

But YG pretty much stated from the beginning that the K-charts are unimportant for TREASURE...since YGTB YG said TREASURE was going to be fandom focused.

All the financial reports that come out with experts are saying YG is focusing on fandom-driven activities...all labels are since that's where the money is. K-charts have become secondary.

then yg debuts the new gg to be in the same situation...

Don't blame it all on the company smh...

Treasure is a victim of this crisis facing by 4th gen bgs where gp tend not to care on 4th bgs at all.

It's not like YGE not doing anything for Treasure, as what the user have said above: 'there is a constant stream of content'

The solution I can see here is that YGE should focus more on promoting treasure on the GP rather than promoting them with contents only the fandom will like or look into, which I think is actually the problem.

I knew that after their back-to-back releases we wouldn't have a comeback for 4, 5 or 6 months, plus the financial reports pointed to a comeback in September.

Now that Doyoung and Junghwan have Covid, they will have to recover like 3 weeks, so the comeback

it may be delayed until October (By the way, very happy that my other children have already come out of self-quarantine)

However the boys have been very active except for musical releases, so our fandom is relatively happy and satisfied :)

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I don't recall any YG artist besides BIGBANG getting a completely original Japanese MV.

2NE1

I remember because I prefer the Japanese MVs for both Lonely and Go Away.

Edit: And if I remember correctly...didn't Crush come out as a Japanese song first before being released as a b-side on the Korean full-length?

So the Korean MV was not the original in this case.

Treasure terrorising kpop with bi-weekly updates of their atrocious show in yt

Go cry somewhere else

YG milking Teumes since debut, but we can't milk them of music.

I don't feel any hiatus in my opinion, we're just thirsty for a comeback. It could have been August or September (after TMAP S2) but Doyoung and Junghwan got COVID. So now it would be September or October.

For now, stream BOY!

well hope for the best except the worst

aren't a few members sick because of covid though?

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iKon release two digital singles (one for Kingdom), Seungyoon and Bobby released solo albums, and AKMU just now released new music after 8 months.

Nothing new for BP or Treasure since January, and Winner is on hiatus.

In conclusion: It's a mixed bag. Although 2020 also sucked for YG in the first half, so maybe it'll spice up again this year.

Yes, but it's still little songs as they could be having a second cb by this time of the year, not the first cb.

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Anyone who's fans of YG artists would dispute that.

Music wise Rose, Seungyoon, Bobby, Sechs Kies and now AKMU have released music this year.

I quite enjoyed all of those releases.

It's true they didn't release anything Q2, but it looks like they were preparing for a flood of releases in Q3 starting with AKMU, which is quite a large project.

Promotion wise TREASURE, IKON, Rose, Mino have been all over varieties on TV and Seungyoon is shooting a drama as well as Jisoo wrapping up her movie.

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I already stated it in the other quote, but their releases are still little and by this time of the year they could be having a second cb, not their first cb.

And Rosé, Bobby, Seungyoon and SechSkies is little too as we could be having way more active artists having at least one cb, YGE have solo artists too inside the groups.

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I already stated it in the other quote, but their releases are still little and by this time of the year they could be having a second cb, not their first cb.

And Rosé, Bobby, Seungyoon and SechSkies is little too as we could be having way more active artists having at least one cb, YGE have solo artists too inside the groups.

Yeah. 1st Quarter was pretty packed with comebacks and debuts (I forgot to mention iKON's comeback) I will take an empty 2nd Quarter if that means quality comebacks the 2nd half of the year.

We're only 4 weeks into the 3rd Quarter and we have a multi-tiered comeback project from AKMU, a date for Somi and Lisa having just filmed her MV.

Of course everything else is speculation, but I think new music will be a part of BLACKPINK's project, TREASURE talked about their comeback on the last episode of TMAP, iKON recorded a song Donghyuk wrote. I also believe GD will make his long-awaited comeback, he's stated he's written music since getting discharged.

I believe the new girl group will not debut this year.

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Yeah. 1st Quarter was pretty packed with comebacks and debuts (I forgot to mention iKON's comeback) I will take an empty 2nd Quarter if that means quality comebacks the 2nd half of the year.

We're only 4 weeks into the 3rd Quarter and we have a multi-tiered comeback project from AKMU, a date for Somi and Lisa having just filmed her MV.

Of course everything else is speculation, but I think new music will be a part of BLACKPINK's project, TREASURE talked about their comeback on the last episode of TMAP, iKON recorded a song Donghyuk wrote. I also believe GD will make his long-awaited comeback, he's stated he's written music since getting discharged.

I believe the new girl group will not debut this year.

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I'm hoping BP does have a cb with at least a mini album, i don't want just a single.

And yes, i don't think the ngg will debut this year either.