For some reason kpop fans treat top groups like Seventeen and NCT as nugu in Korea
But whatever nugu group is automatically huge internationally if they cross a mere ~30 million streams on Spotify...
It's amusing to see how different the standards are
IMO, Melon chart positions should be compared to Spotify chart. Hence, if you chart #50 on Melon and #50 on Spotify then your popularity in Korea and internationally are on pair
But nobody can someone who can grab a #50 on Melon "huge" domestically, so why a #50 on Spotify make you huge internationally?