Small companies that wants to debut a group should look at Secret Number.

Yeah and now they're on hiatus without a comeback the views didn't do anything to the group the only one who benefited for this is Dita as she was able to get some gigs in Indonesia but other than that the group is as nugu as any other group

Sales: 12k overall.

You are acting as if they reached 1B views they have no hits and their sales are tragic Dita hard carrying the group even Lea who is Japanese can’t save the group to have cute sales in Japan

But where are they now

Views are not that important. They don't have many sales. I think the group has a lot of potential though. They are funny and have good vocalists

Speaking from experience, many kpop fans here in Indonesia are absolutely willing to stream your song A LOT. But the thing is, most kpop fans that i know are a little unwilling to buy album. You see album price is very expensive here, at least by my standard.

Even with those numbers, they still can't make a comeback and are losing fans. They are getting overshadowed by Weeekly, StayC etc who don't have even half of these numbers but sell way more which generates revenue for the company. Even LIGHTSUM outsold them in less than a week. SEA fans don't mean anything unless you're super popular there like BLACKPINK or just a big 3 group.

Small companies in general just need to stop debuting groups if they don't have the funds to support them for at least 2 comebacks.

Those numbers are a good start, but what are their sales? Shows? Etc.

Besides, I think it's a very slippery slope to have kpop companies choosing people just in the hopes that their native country/region will support the group. That is not always going to be the case. We've seen these marketing stunts fizzle out pretty quickly. And where does it stop? Put lgbt members in? Black members? (again) And others.

Don't get me wrong, I would love to see all of them in kpop. But not when a person's identity is being used without any care and then easily discarded when it doesn't work out.

If a small company wants to debut a group they should be putting the work to make the best they can. And that goes on acquiring funds, production, taking care of their employees/idols. Because most often we see groups have basically no support and the company it's just waiting for lighting strike or something.

But recently there's turmoil in Indonesia because of certain Youtuber