A lot of people saying this group will not doing as well as Produce series because of how bad the rating is in Korea. And now with Iland gg announcement few days before, they're saying gp999 is going to overshadowed by this new gg because they don't even do that good compare to iland s1 rating
1. Gp999 and Produce rating
1. Produce 101
2. Produce 48
3. Gp999
Here, you can see the huge difference between the number in Korea. Girls planet never get 1.00% for their ratings is not as worst as idol school but it is close to them!
Iland and Gp999
Iland tv rating
They have quite low tv ratings, but it not really surprising because at that time mnet under fire over the rigged issues which make korean quite banned them.
But this is their viewers from the online platform, which is really huge compare to gp999 now. Which mean, it is not people not interested on them. Their live viewers always around 500k every episode. While gp only around 50k.
I think we as gp999 fans are underestimate on how well iland do for their viewers. They don't considered doing that bad compare to gp999 at tv ratings but still manage to pull big number on online platform.
We forget how many hybe stan that waiting for their first gg, gp999 fans always thought that iland doing worse than girls planet but manage to be successful at their debut but ironically, they are already doing really good from the start.
The iland announcement few days back is a bad move from mnet. At least, they can announce it after the gp999 end. The hype for this show might decrease as many people wait for the iland s2, which idk why mnet doing this.
Addition:
I'm not not hating on the girls or this show, my girls Yurina, Chaehyun and xiaoting is there too. However, this is not looking really good on their side. Korean kinda dislike the shows right now, I mean you know how they always want korean to dominate they top ranking.
It is just, next year full of new girl groups debuting. How well they can survive? I heard Sakura groups probably debuting this year as saku no ki already end. And everyone know how big sakura in japan and china. Chaewon and probably minju will join the groups which they're really popular in korea and japan too.
I just hope for the best and they will doing really good for their debut. If they cannot compete will all the ngg and when the groups like bp and twice still come strong, they will waste 2 and half year for nothing.