Will the Ultimate Rival of Kpop become a rival to aespa?

Next Friday, aespa and the Ultimate Rival of KPop will collide at Music Bank. (There are no other notable comebacks this week)

(Enhypen is expected to win this week)

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IU has been a huge wall from 2011, when she frustrated a lot of singers.

The history of IU-SNSD rivalry is well documented by yours truly, who will talk about it again on Dec 09, 2021, the 10th anniversary of IU's decisive victory over SNSD.

From then, IU has been the final obstacle for any KPop acts to overcome.

Trouble Maker met IU a few times and IU beat it every single time.

As a result Hyuna refused to greet IU in another occasion - IU had defeated Hyuna once for all.

Exo and IU fought for 4 years, until IU defeated EXO by the end of 2017.

Twice and IU vied for supremacy in 2017 , but IU's Through the Night beat Twice's Knock Knock for the song of 2017.

Kang Daniel was very, very hot in 2017.

He rose higher and higher.

But, in the end, at the idol poll of 2017,

1. IU (14.5 percent)

2. Wanna One’s Kang Daniel (9 percent)

That was the final verdict.

Kang Daniel , whose name no one knew until 2017, rose to the top of the idol rankings,

but was defeated by the Senior Singer (she became the Senior Singer when she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Dec 2014)IU.

His stars began to fade since then.

IZOne met IU two times, when it debuted in Oct 2018 and when it, after a bunch of things, made a comeback in Feb 2020.

Both times, Lee Jieun managed to beat them quite easily without seeing them (Lee Jieun only met Kim Minju, who appears to be concentrating on acting now, in March 2021.)

Others who challenged Lee Jieun and was frustrated in the end are too many to list. Only Shinee, Big Bang, Laboum and BTS managed to overcome Lee Jieun, and the first three are not what it used to be when they beat IU.

aespa beat Itzy last week and became the top act of the new generation. However, if aespa is beaten by IU next Fri, IU becomes the chief rival for the 4th generation as well, doing what she did to SNSD, Exo, Kang Daniel and IZOne among many others.

Quote from killthisfenty

You’re so dramatic wow

Kpop is nothing without a drama

Quote from dummi

oh no here comes IU!!! oh no

That was why a lot of Kpop acts had to watch their behind for so long.

IU proved to be a threat which could attack them anywhere when she felt like it, making everyone watch their backs and frustrating Kpop's international rise

Quote from SooYoung

well maybe aespa have some chance

they are #2 in the chart just behind IU, so their digital point will be high

and in contrary of IU this time Aespa have points for their physicals sales

Two weeks would have elapsed so it is going to be quite iffy

Quote from bbgc

Ah ha.. was as avidly waiting for this post, as Strawberry Moon itself.

Don't worry, if aespa does not beat IU, try the "discount tteokbokki" strategy for Laboum and defeat the

"Rival Knievel of Kpop" :)

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I don't think SM will do that for aespa

Quote from frozenolaf

The way you wrote this in such a dramatic tone...

Again, KPop is nothing without its dramas.

Quote from SANUMI

the fact that IU has been dominating for multiple generations is insane I think aespa will be able to hold their own. plus they have been killing it with savage and next level. losing would not really impact either of them negatively

I hope so.

When IU beat EXO on Jan 04, 2014, no one took it seriously

4 years later IU was above EXO

I just hope what will happen on next Fri will not discourage aespa and the SM people behind it from its course.

Quote from SooYoung

well Aespa sales have been pretty stables even after Two weeks

yesterday they sold 8K album

and today 1.2K

Hope it holds steady for the next few days so aespa can finally humiliate the Senior Singer