Which is harder to debut? boygroup or girl group

  • I'm guessing it's easier to debut a girlgroup because it's easier to find high quality girl trainees much easily because being a kpop idol is obviously less popular choice for guys rather than for girls. I'm not sure.

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    Changed the title of the thread from “Which is harder to debut and promote? boygroup or girl group(let's say 5 members)” to “Which is harder to debut? boygroup or girl group”.
  • Thing is with boy groups you either make it big or you don't make it at all, there's no in between. They rely on their fandom size so much, so if your fandom isn't big, you're not making any money.


    With girl groups, they rely on the size of their fandom too but I think the general public is more open to songs by girl groups. Think of all the viral hits in the past few years, nearly all of them have been girl groups. Also middle tier groups have better charting than even top tier boy groups.


    I think that's why Produce started out with a girls season. It got the general public interested in the franchise so when they did the second season, they focused on fandom building.

  • would be interesting to see if there are any stats about how many girls and boys every year audience to become idols.

    But i guess you are right. it should be easier to recruit/scout girl group member since there should be much more girls than boys trying to go for that career.

    if we speak about economic situation its more risky to debute a girl group. even if the general public is more open to them and let them chart more easily. the most money is made from the fans due to concerts, merch, fanmeetings, etc. and boygroups have a big advantage there.

  • boy group i guess. just make a generic gg with songs that appeal to the general public.


    with boy groups, you need to build a strong fandom. you need something special to build a strong fandom. that's harder than being generic.

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