[So I fucked around and...] ranked the most dominant idol groups digitally.

I was going to make a crack about your definition of fucking around and doing deep stat work except I found myself fucking around and digging into data to answer questions while I was sitting in a waiting room for hours with nothing to do…so I get it now.

Interesting stuff, as usual..

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You've inspired me to take a closer look at the data.

According to my calculations, each Girl Group has scored on average 292.79 points, while the corresponding figure for Boy Groups is 289.57 points. We see that the average point count per group between Girl Groups and Boy Groups is essentially identical.

However, if we take a look at standard deviation, for Girl Groups we have σ_GG = 270.26. But for Boy Groups, σ_BG = 403.39, which is considerably higher. Thus, it appears that BTS and Big Bang are true outliers among Boy Groups.

Also, I will note that Girl Groups have captured 11126 (61.58%) of the possible 18068 points allocated, while Boy Groups have garnered 6660 points (36.86%), and Coed Groups 282 points (1.56%).

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At a glance on the ranking since 2010, it seems it is the soloists that dominate the chart, not GGs or BGs.

But this is a group thread, fine.

BTS kings!

sorry but i have to laid this out

Miss A and ITZY are typical example of debut huge and then cant never repeak (digitally). Their digital scores are weaker than expected.

aespa is even close to ITZY with lesser songs and years of charting

Red velvet has more points than SNSD?!

BTS, Bigbang, Twice - that’s what I thought too.

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Red velvet has more points than SNSD?!

Snsd missing points before Oh! Like genie, gee etc

Its kinda pointless to do this for 2nd gen though, since basically half of their discography is not counted, if Gaon existed earlier, I'm sure the ranking willl be very different not only for SNSD but for groups like Wonder Girls, TVXQ, Super Junior, Shinee and even BigBang

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If you look at this ranking in that way, it might seem pointless but the fact that 2NE1 and SNSD are as high as they are without some of their major hits like Gee, Genie, Fire, I Don't Care, etc. being counted is hella impressive. Wonder Girls would definitely be somewhere in the top 15 and BIGBANG would be much closer to BTS, possibly even passing them. Their 2007-08 run was legendary.

Well 2ne1 debuted 2009 so it makes much more sense for them to be there because gaon exist since 2010 right? I agree that Bigbang is certainly impressive, but without giving that context, its a kind of confusing ranking, since even among 2nd gen you'll have groups like Miss A who could appear to be more dominant than say Wonder Girls. Even MBLAQ is above super junior

NewJeans If they manage to stay stable on the charts for an year or two more I think they will surpass Twice.

Wasn't expecting Idle and Aespa to be around the same level. Idle have been around longer and have bigger hits.

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Its kinda pointless to do this for 2nd gen though, since basically half of their discography is not counted, if Gaon existed earlier, I'm sure the ranking willl be very different not only for SNSD but for groups like Wonder Girls, TVXQ, Super Junior, Shinee and even BigBang

Kinda this.

It's a nice attempt, but somewhat pointless for 2nd gen era groups that have like 3-5 years missing, many of whom were having their peak glory years and top hits in those excluded years.