Is Blackpink's The album one of if not the biggest era for a gg of all times?

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They can hit higher peak in asia too because india has just started to get into them and s.e.a countries are still crazy over them. Overall peak, i really believe it will be easy for blackpink to surpass their previous records. The only country i just can't tell is korea. Can't tell about album sales either. The hiatus is too long for proper dedicated fans.

Their Asian streams this year will be absolutely insane

I'm expecting the 2nd album to pull something like 110M-130M first week streams from Asia alone(the album did like 55M-58M I think)

Their CB single will probably debut with close to or 1M streams in countries like Philippines/Indonesia/India/Brazil 👀

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Their Asian streams this year will be absolutely insane

I'm expecting the 2nd album to pull something like 110M-130M first week streams from Asia alone(the album did like 55M-58M I think)

Their CB single will probably debut with close to or 1M streams in countries like Philippines/Indonesia/India/Brazil 👀

How will they do that if they comeback with 4 songs like square up and kill this album. I don't think they will beat album era too if they release 4 songs

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I think it will highly depend on the amount of songs, if we get another 4 songs+ hylt remix will be very difficult

I actually have zero doubts we getting anything less than 1 pre release single & 2nd full album from BP

YG & teddy have proven they do Infact monitor & implement what's best for BP popularity whenever they release music again

Example : they changed the title track from PS to LSG to avoid the backlash BP got by releasing HYLT

They also added FY as a sub-title track due to its immediate popularity after the moving teasers were released

They won't release anything less than an 8 songs album for sure & the Collab this time will be better cause I'm sure they realised their mistakes from Ice cream (give jisoo lines lol & let Jennie rap)

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How will they do that if they comeback with 4 songs like square up and kill this album. I don't think they will beat album era too if they release 4 songs

That's cause BP will release a 2nd full album this summer 😄

It'll be 8-10 songs so yes they will beat the album era easily

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Quote from asongofroses

i don't think some fans realise that The Album was just the start

Blackpink has one more monster cb in their tank.

Exactly BP is nowhere near their peak 👀

YG albums are always boosted by having multiple lead singles. Their strategy is very solid. I’ve always wondered why that isn’t the default strategy for all of kpop…Now a days more and more kpop groups also have promoted b sides which equal title tracks so I guess it’s getting better.

No doubt they’re the biggest gg currently in the world.

As for their album being the biggest era of all time? I don’t think so. Sales aside, there were girl groups in the 90’s who sold alot and has had massive influence on how music progressed… and those times social media was not a thing and streaming didn’t exist.

I was really surprised by their Asia Spotify steaming numbers - even now only Taylor has beaten them. If BP can nearly match their 2020 Spotify numbers in 2021 with no releases, there's no doubt they will smash The Album's streaming records with their next album...if we ever get one. It's hard not to feel discouraged when it's February and we have yet to even get a season's greetings LMAO

Tbh, achievements aside, I miss how it felt to be a blink during The Album era. It was really a moment when the HYLT teasers dropped

nah having solo comeback for me in 2021 is good enough having another BP comeback in 2021 is oversaturation let them breathe

Quote from azhra-0110

You say sales aside and then immediately mention sales . I already mentioned that in the op, if we went strictly by album sales then not even bts are close to the biggest eras from tlc, destiny's child & spice girls. Album sales were at their peak.

It's difficult to compare but just like they were doing great in sales, bp are doing so in streaming which is the current dominant music consumption

Umm that’s why I mentioned influence….

Even if BP becomes the biggest streaming group of history it’ll still be difficult to compare because streaming is cheap and sometimes free compared to selling physical albums. It wasn’t too long ago when kpop stans thought 1 million views on an MV in a day was the biggest milestone any group could achieve.