When is an idol group considered "not nugu" anymore?

This is a good question. It seems to me everyone has a different standard.

When they avoided to be a wonder hit wonder or at least when their charting stable.

Some people call SHINee nugu so there is no standard

if people talk about them, then they are not nugu

not a threat to your faves = nugu

threat to your faves = not nugu

Hmm that’s a hard one, because I think it changes depending on the group at least a couple songs with good digitals maybe?

where i live my faves are still nugus. but so are twice or blackpink. so they are not in bad companionship.^^

not big 3 - nugu

big 3 group - not nugu

I honestly don’t know. I’d have to be asked about specific groups. But I know so many groups that they’d probably have to be one I’d never heard of to be considered actually nugu to me lmao.

I’d probably consider groups like this nugu:

They deserve a revival like brave girls.

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But what about BGs who can't chart, even top tier 4th Gen BGs can't really chart consistently as others

Yeah that’s true. Maybe for boy groups it’s the album sales that determine it. And on top of the album sales at least one song with decent digitals

When you have any ONE of sales or international digital or Korean digitals.

Sales : 100k

International: at least 1mil ULs on Spotify

Korean charting : chart within Melon top 100

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not a threat to your faves = nugu

threat to your faves = not nugu

What if my faves are nugu

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What if my faves are nugu

nugus are not nugus and not nugus are nugus

Anyone who is popular outside of South Korea

When the threads manage to exceed 2 pages

Imo when they are recognized by gp and earn enough to live a luxurious life then they're not nugu anymore.