Next level is one of the biggest songs in South Korea of 2021, despite the insane digitals they haven’t been able to win a single music show yet.
First the timing didn’t help them, SM don’t really care about who is dropping around their artists and they even put their own artists against each other plenty times, they were against the biggest contender you can have: BTS that not only have good digitals but also insane SNS score and ARMYs voting for them.
Second they didn’t have physical sales which would have gave them at least one win because Butter for example didn’t have a physical release at that time so that could have played a big advantage to their score.
I hope they get to win one since they are still getting nominated at Inkigayo and Music Bank but Next Level getting it first win with a digital bonsang will be more iconic.