Biggest idol group songs in Korea and Internationally since 2016

Quote from TheBotter

My opinion is TT is not the biggest international hit, but it was the only song to be a geniune overseas hit.

Those other songs nickle and dime in many coutries without being actually known or comparitively successful in any one country. While TT was a geniune hhuge hit in Japan that paved the way for a new era of Kpop there.

I think, based on the anecdotal evidence Ive seen and removing fan power/mass streaming I give the edge to Boombayah. I think BST got slightly left behind by BTS's other huge songs and that stiffled the long term out of fandom impact slightly.

Edit: to OP agree with everything else but I think internationally D4 takes 2018 by quite a bit honestly.

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Fake Love has more worldwide certifications than D4 and has more Spotify streams. Fake Love also charted in 25 countries besides Korea. D4 charted in 11.

worldlove27 said everything I wanted to say lol.

Ranked in my opinion:

1. Blood Sweat & Tears

2. Boombayah

3. FIRE

4. TT

5. Monster

6. Cheer Up

I'm not fimiliar with charts much but the hype cheer up had 😥

Quote from leavessick

“By the way this by release year not how it performed that year”

In 2017 any of the songs you mentioned is close to Spring day streams, downloads, ULs, chart longevity etc.

Rollin’ blew up in 2021 but it was release in 2017.

Ah I'm sorry about Rollin'!

But I just said those songs are TOP CONTENDERS, not "these songs WIN over Spring Day". I never denied your opinion?

Quote from vzal

TT is the longest charting Kpop song in the second biggest music market of the world. Was at one point the most viewed Kpop group MV. Has 110+ streams on Spotify despite being added years later. Imo, it is the biggest hit of 2016 internationally.

Also, I think D4 is the biggest song of 2018 internationally.

TT never hold the 'most viewed Kpop group MV' title. Before they manage to overtook Bigbang-Bang3x, BTS-DNA surpassed it first.

The people saying TT. Lmao. Outside of 2 countries that song made 0 noise.

Quote from MassiveKpopFan

Fake Love has more worldwide certifications than D4 and has more Spotify streams. Fake Love also charted in 25 countries besides Korea. D4 charted in 11.

That is true, but many countries have no official certifications (and YG never usually pays to have the audits to receive certifications in the countries where that needs to happen). D4 has the most youtube views of any kpop song besides Gangnam Style, currently with 0 danger of being passed by any other song, regardless of year. Youtube is the biggest platform in the world for music, which says a lot about the effect of that song worldwide.

It's not exactly black and white.

Quote from leavessick

By the way this by release year not how it performed that year.

In Korea: (no one can argue about this songs)

2016: Cheer Up by TWICE

2017: Spring Day by BTS

2018: Love Scenario by Ikon

2019: Boy with luv by BTS

2020: Dynamite by BTS

2021: Next Level by Aespa (so far)

Internationally:

2016: It’s hard to tell because there isn’t one leading everything like the other years.

2017: DNA by BTS

2018: Fake Love by BTS

2019: Boy with luv by BTS

2020: Dynamite

2021: Butter (so far)

Observations:

-Despite girlgroups always dominating digitals in South Korea, it has been 4 years since a girlgroup song took the #1 song overall for idol groups, so far it seems Next Level by the rookie girlgroup Aespa will do it.

-Rollin’ by Brave Girls was release in 2017 but it blew up in 2020 but still it’s not close to overtake Spring Day numbers.

-For 2018 some people argue about DDU-DU DDU-DU by BLACKPINK to be #1 since it had better consistency on charts but overall Love Scenario is still in the lead for South Korea, internationally despite having the most views for a MV release that year Fake Love appearance on official charts and more accolades give them the top spots.

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Rollin blew up 2020? You mean this year right? Its obviously the biggest idol group song this year