So Seventeen supposedly sell 2M per album but can barely reach 4M listeners on Spotify and 1.2M likes on YouTube after 6 years but OP tried to make a point aespa has a big disconnect when they do better on both platforms in their first year? And Seventeen do buy ads, and once ads removed aespa still crush them in non-ads views with way more likes lol
chill this is not a shade throwing contest
Please how is a YouTube views or Spotify the only metric for success? Your only using this chance to drag Seventeen, and let me tell you 4M listeners is not a drag you think it is. A lot of their fanbase is from Japan, Korea, and China and that automatically takes China out of the picture since they do not use Spotify at all, nor is Korea very keen on Spotify either. Also not to mention, Kpop wasn’t as big as it is now, it recently got even bigger during the pandemic— the circumstances have a huge role to play here as well, not to mention Aespa is from big 3 as well, so already they had the hype to begin with even before their debut. I don’t think you should be comparing Aespa to svt when in general svt could crush aespa in other aspects. Let’s not play that game.
aespa's two main markets are Korea and China where Spotify is either respectively flopping or banned so that argument could be used for them too, and Japan uses Spotify ... I just used Seventeen as an example because of the selling well = high streams argument used by OP but I could have named Enhypen, Stray Kids, NCT,etc you name it that also have less listeners. Itzy's LOCO also gets less (ads free) views than Savage if you want to include girlgroups too and are in the 5M-something listeners on Spotify too when they had almost a two years lead to grow..
Just tired with people now not only cherry picking data but now even denying objective data to fit their narrative
buying ads can do so much. so sad
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