Nah, YG is just stupid, they dumped all the money on Youtube promotion like they did for BP back in the day. But Youtube is dead now(when it comes to MV views), money would've been better used on Youtube music and Spotify.
Back in the day Spotify wasn't available in tons of countries including SK so it worked. Yge is just really outdated. They should just switched to making easy listening songs for Spotify.
It's just my opinion but I don't think bts is THAT relevant among new kpop fans but somehow they're still the biggest kpop group right now. I think it's MS effect and they'll be back to their usual hype when they make a comeback in 2025. The armys who no more Stan them would obviously tune in. We've seen the hype for TJB I think BTS hype will be a lot bigger if hybe manges it well.
Fromis is still profitable and self sustainable. They do tons of festivals as others have mentioned.
Lsf is profitable.
Gfriend was not profitable. They were an example of where a company pushed almost exclusively a single member of the group for too many years and that was the wrong member(s) to promote. That member has switched several companies since leaving gfriend and has no activities currently.
Gfriend was way more popular than fromis, the difference is pledis has svt, the current best selling bg and soumu had no other artist.
Display MoreThis is correct. ARMYs were pretty upset about it at the time since they had been wanting something like this for BTS for a while, and BH gave it to TXT instead.
The original url redirects to weverse now, but if you check the wayback machine you can see what it was before.
https://web.archive.org/web/20…txtuniverse.com/feed/main
After a short time they rebranded to weverse, and for the first few weeks TXT was still the only artist. Then BTS joined, and it went from there.
I remember that site but I wasn't sure.
Lessserafim is doing wonders for flopsoumu, why'd they disband them?
I bet they regret not releasing it on Friday.
Aespa released Drama this year which is anything but y2k, last year they released 2 singles, both with different concepts and genres.
Idle released three hits with different genres this year and ive did the same last year.
Lesserafim released a whole album consisting of different genres.
Kof which is a trendy rookie gg these days isn't doing y2k.
BM is releasing typical yg sound.
Nmixx is doing experimental sound.
You've so many options but you chose to rant about one gg doing y2k and making noise.
She looks AI generated.
They have enough company stans to make all their groups big.
I don't think they're as committed or loyal as sm stans. It's just bts is too big, people around me who had no idea about kpop or any other group other than bts suddenly got into svt and txt, cus they'd subscribed Hybe's yt channel and mvs would appear on their feed and notifications.
I don't think Yama is an ARMY, and I know very few ARMY who would call themselves or behave as company stans. Most of the time ARMY are quite suspicious of anyone benefitting from BTS
Yama who?
The way yall even convinced me they'd flop hard. 🙄
Hybe proved one thing with this gg, they don't need any well known creative director or fan favourite trainee to make a hit gg.
About Weverse, it is partially our fault. ARMY begged for years for a global interactive fanclub that could mirror DC gallery. When we got it, most were thankful it would be a BigHit only thing (ex. like the army bombs replacing the heart button from vlive) but then it wasn't in less than six months.
That's when this nightmare started and they started collecting labels like infinity stones. BTS really catapulted Bang PD's corporate greed x1000. And there is no end to this now with Scooter on board. He's been involved with Hybe since the white house visit. And every US based activity since he's been Hybe America CEO has been under the direct supervision of Scooter.
We are stuck with two money hungry capitalistic vultures and no amount of us complaining will get him removed or stop Bang PD from trying to be a big global player like Samsung for South Korea. Unless Scooter steals from the company or manipulates stocks or committed some type of fraud, he will not be removed now that he brokered this big UMG deal for Bang PD.
Isn't this weverse "a txt website turned into an app"? Correct me if I'm wrong.
They really need to stop spoiling the songs.
Belift really proved it this time, producers and good creative team can really bring the hype. I literally thought this was a nugu predebut group with zero hype but suddenly once the teaser was released everyone around me got hyped up about this group. BM has way different music, I'llit's strength is their music and creative team , while BM can be saved by their members. I was never a fan of either but so far illit sounds promising.
5th gen is a scam, it was started because new groups started to flop.
BP didnt have top brand deals in their rookie days? BP can spread the brands a lot and have a more global reach? That is impact in the fashion world.
Im not really questioning NJ endorsement? I just dont think they have as much impact as BP does which is not something crazy to say considering they are younger yet your getting so mad.
BP has big instagram/twitter reach for brands, a lot of attention on youtube for fashion brands. - This is impact.
I'm not mad, and why'd I be?I'm just amazed by the hypocrisy of the blinks.
Newjeans doesn't have IGs and brands still want them, that tells alot about their impact. Furthermore, didn't your fandom make brand deals "a metric of success"? So why are you all suddenly questioning these brands. Kpop is alot bigger than it was in 2016, western media wants kpop idols for the hype, award shows want idols, festivals also want them. These are just brands ofc they want clout.
