Posts by marchex

Quote from delicak

Not gonna lie it’s a little sus that he beat IU on the charts. His new song didn’t even chart in Melons top 100 yet he has the highest first week digital points ever on Gaon, eclipsing SOTY Celebrity and others like Rollin and Lilac.

Antidote charted in the Melon 24 Hit. It reached as high as #22 spot. It just didn't stay long there. The same with Bug and Flo, but it did chart. Antidote charted #1 in Genie for almost 2 weeks. As others explained, downloads, stream, plus bgm equals Digital points.

It's not like Kang Daniel's digital point has risen so suddenly. It has been steadily increasing with each released. Also, our physical albums sale were lesser this time, as the fandom put more focused on digital sales.

Congrats to all who won. And congrats to Kang Daniel for winning the award for the 3rd time, 1st as a Male CF Model 2018. Then as a Male Solo in 2020 and 2021. You've work hard.

Quote from nehdali

this culture of mass downloads doesnt sit too well with me. i know its how fans profess their love for their idols, but you can use album sales to achieve that (they probably earn more from this too). with all the chart reforms, digital performance is supposed to not only serve as a reflection of gp interest, but also for key performance indicators for artists and their companies. these profit-driven companies will think that their recipe for production style, musical direction etc. for this current 'successful' song' is going in the right direction, given the skewed digital performance, and try to recreate similar success, when in reality it wasn't even that popular among the masses. the bulk of income that idols get, aka CFs, also rely on such metrics to predict idol popularity, and volatile/ suspicious numbers will make them wary of signing a deal (their target audience isn't just kpop fans, but the general public). recent sajaegi scandals don't help either and its getting more difficult to prove if digitial numbers are fan-driven or bought. in the short run, yes you may celebrate the short-lived success of your ults, but it really just hurts them in the long run. i really don't want any idol to suffer this illusion of chart success that jeopardizes their career.

Thank you for your concern. Don't worry about sajaegi. Daniel has too many dedicated haters, that any sign of it would have them running and filing complaints. They had already. The fandom had been most careful with their receipts. And brand reputation, Kang Daniel had always been at the top or near the top. As a male soloist in S. Korea he had won Brand Customer Loyalty for the year 2020 and 2021. He won the Brand of the Year Award 2020.

In 2018 he won the same award as the Male CF Model. He had been inactive most of 2019. But he had scored still a number of large, high paying endorsements, that was his debut year.

He is more famous as ever as a celebrity with the general public, and sold out all the products he endorses, and his variety appearances had always reach the highest rating ranking in its time slot, don't let antis tell you otherwise. It's just his music recognition that lags behind in. But he had still won 46 out of 68 Awards he had been nominated in. Let me say it as fact, he has a very large Korean fanbase, and they are part of the gp.

He has also won the 2021 Korean First Brand Daesang Selected Brand.

If you wonder where his fans are, and why they aren't streaming. Well, it has been known since produce 101, that he has a lot of noona fans. Single ladies, working and able to spend money on their fave, just unable to stream.

This showed more clearly in his fan meeting in late 2019. The highest number of ticket buyers were in their 30s, followed by 40s, 20s, 50s, then the least 10s.

His variety guest appearance this month of April. Is in the top ten. As high as third place in top 10 tv ratings . Proving the gp loves him. Haters try to bring him down saying he had the worst tv rating and posting hate comments should shut up.

Congrats Kang Daniel and Danity!

The only more successful male idol solo singer than Kang Daniel at the moment is Baekhyun. And he's going to military.

2021 has been great as a Kang Daniel fan. He has been very active this year, joining varieties, releasing a very successful album. Winning 5 Music Award shows and has high chance to win more this week. His last 2 MVs has the highest views in his career so far. He has always been a monster physical seller, but now he has become a great digital seller too. 316k+ physical on its first week and topping Gaon Digital Chart this week. And it can be seen that he has continued to develop as an artist each comeback. He has been constantly trending in S.K this year too. His latest interview in Shorterview became viral. He has the great ability attract new fans. As the CEO of his company, where he didn't have to share profit from his company. He's getting all those money from the album sales, high paying endorsement deals (one of the highest in the industry, he's only second to Jimin in brand reputation ranking), being the cover of magazines, attending variety shows, all to himself. He's doing very well by any measurement of success. He's been doing western promotions, being interviewed by wester media a lot these days too.

There's been news early this year that he'll get to debut as a male, lead actor, on a Disney+ drama the middle of the year. There's been hints drop here and there.

You can catch a glimpse of Kang Daniel's charm and appeal, on Jessi's Showterview. Watch how Jessi's heart flutter and starts to act like a young girl in love in front of Daniel. It's a very cute and funny interview. It went viral in S. Korea too.

Kang Daniel's Gaon chart has had gradual improvement in the past year. Yellow album's lead single, Paranoia, really did very well attracting new fans back in February. A lot of Youtube reactors rave about it. It won 3 Music Show Awards.

It's a very good depiction of anxiety, depression panic acttacks, fears that Daniel experienced himself. Very cinematic, and oddly enough, it's a bop. Daniel did a great job acting, and performing the song.

Kang Daniel won a survival show. Produce 101 season 2 was a phenomenom in S.K. He was the It Boy of S. Korea, Wanna One even rivals BTS popularity there during it's ran. He was the most popular member by a high margin.

Survival show breeds dedicated fandoms. As evidenced by Enhypen. Well, Kang Daniel had the most dedicated fans. He was self-employed, he didn't get much screen time in the first few episode. It was when fancams came out that he went viral, in a massive way. He was cute and sexy, a talented dancer with loads of charisma, great stage presence, he had great body proportion, 60cm shoulders, like Jin, tall, and long legs like a model. He started working at 15 as a construction worker, waiter, etc. Lived in a small room, where students lived. Everyone knows how Koreans love hard workers. I heard his fancams got hundreds of million of views in Naver tv. Hard to believed, but he was even more popular than the show. So he won produced. He became the center of Wanna One.

His popularity skyrocketed even more when he joined a variety show. Where the general public went crazy over him. They like his personality and next door boy good looks. He became S. Korea's It Boy. Was and is still called Nation's Center, Nation's Idol, God Kang Daniel, Nieri, Nielmoyed, because he look like a Samoyed dog., and many more. He was number 1 in brand ranking reputation before Jimin. He has a lot of CFs, high paying ones, he's in a lot of magazine covers, he still has 5 CF endorsement to this day. He sold out products the way BTS does in SK. He was in variety everyday. His name is mentioned a few times a day in media even today. He trends multiple times in twitter. He was the measurement of success used by talk show host. Kids love him, noonas, mothers, grandparents love him. He was the Nations Boyfriend. Fan boying him became a family activity. He was the Olympic representative, he was the Busan ambassador. There was a Daniel Kang fever in the whole country.

Then Wanna One disbanded. The party ended. His company screwed him over, sold his contract rights to third parties without his consent, his company by the way owned CJ, owners of Mnet, those snakes. He had the courage to fight for his freedom, at 22 years of age. He sued, he won, which is a big deal, as he only came from a poor family originally, he only got GED, it was a story of good beating evil. Daniel vs Goliath. Mnet parent company got pissed and blacklisted him. Created fake news, gossips rumors that try to destroy him, antis joined them. But nothing stick. He has a very good, clean, likable, sweet personality. The gp loves him.

He wasn't able to go to variety anymore tho, he can't promote music. He decided to open his own company, to debut as a solo artist, in July 2019, fans supported him, they bought a then record breaking 500k+ albums for his support. They had a long wait for content from him, so they did all they can to show support. Then Dispatch, owned by CJ/Mnet, those disgusting peace of shit, exposed his relationship with Jihyo of Twice. One week after his debut. 😭

All Hell broke loose, antis had a field day, cyberbullying him. Some fans left, mostly teens. It got so bad that he suffered from depression and panic attacks. He had to take a hiatus from the industry. The fandom became over protective of him after that, because they almost lost him 2 times.

After he comeback. They showed full support. That's why he has won Music awards every comeback, since debut, 14/16? Music awards, since his solo debut. He sold 1 million+ albums in 1 year, after his debut. Near 2 Million album sold this April, not bad for a 24 years old, male, solo act, without big company backing. 😉

Kang Daniel and his fandom had gone through so much. Throughout it all they've been very loyal, hard working, dedicated and willing to spend money on their idol. They've learned what is the most important, supporting their Nieri. They don't join fan wars and mostly stay in their corner and only comes out to defend their faves.

I read other fandom are always surprised when Kang Daniel won awards while their group can't. It got ugly sometimes. Same thing as what's happening now. People wonder how Kang Daniel gets this achievements. Suspicious of his success. Post like this. 🙄

If you support your faves, and not an Army, work hard, you'll know Danity, because you'll always face Kang Daniel and Danity, when it came time for comeback and award shows. One thing of note is Danity skews older, in their 20s, and older. They have people who has money to spend, and they'll willingly spend money on Daniel. He's still very popular in SK and SEA. His Chinese bar bought a lot of albums for him and donated a lot to fundraising efforts held by Danity. He is not that popular internationally.

Tldr. Kang Daniel has a very dedicated, domestic, loyal, hard working fanbase. They got the record in Gaon by mass downloading. They not only won in digital, they also top the download chart and top the bgm chart. Top Genie. Top youtube views this week. Those combined managed to break the record IU set. Army's and other fandom focuses on streaming.

Thank you for reading.

Ps. Karma is Danity. Produced 101 vote rigging scandal happened and produced groups got banned in music award shows and got blacklisted by broadcast companies.

Quote from chounim

i thought they were exaggerating until he started "hitting" those falsettos

Quote from Chaesoocrumbs

HELP KNETZ ARE SO GOOD AT DRAGGING. IM DYING AT THEIR COMMENTS and the sad part is that they’re right

That was at the end of the program. He was obviously not trying. He was obviously tired. No need to drag him. Others can get away goofing off end stages, but he had to stay perfect? This is how he sounds live.

Quote from huRRicane8

I understand that and congrats really, I think he always had good physical sales, but still weird for me for a song that didn't reach peaks on all charts, but he is no.1 on dl's so it explains

It's odd because, Danity leans older, people who has jobs and no time to stream, but has money to spend on physical and digital. It seems we lost a lot of teenage fans, when dispatched exposed Daniel and Jihyo dating. Fortunately/Unfortunately??? they've broken up. He might be able to attract new teenage fans in S.K.

Quote from huRRicane8

congrats but how? no hate, sorry if I sound annoying, but it's not charting on melon top100, bugs, vibe, how did he do it tho? IU was no.1 on all charts and she couldn't do it and how? is it possible/

He achieved quadruple Crowns on the weekly Gaon Charts. Getting #1 in 4 categories. Gaon #1 Album sales (Yellow), #1 Download (Antidote), #1 Digital (Antidote), #1 BGM (Antidote).

He charted and is still charting #1 in Genie. He charted in Melon 24 hours. He charted high for a while in bugs and is still in flo.

He was also number one last week in Hanteo Album sales. His first week, his Yellow album sold 316,000+.

It is definitely something to celebrate. Shows the power and growth of the fandom. This is also the first time this has happened in Kang Daniel's near two year career as a solo artist.

Congrats to Kang Daniel. To be able to beat IU's record is very impressive and shows how popular he is in S. Korea. It's nice to see his name and song among the leaders of kpop.

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Quote from silver25

oh okay. he's so strong that he can still perform. props to him

He is indeed very strong. And a hard worker. It's just the antis trying to pull him down. His latest album is his closure to that part of his life.

Yellow album is about his feeling of depression, he has sufferred in the hands on knetz antis in 2019. He took a two months hiatus in the industry to get the help and rest he needed. He has since successfully released award winning albums since then, CYAN, Magenta, and the most recent, last week, was Yellow. The three mini albums had three concepts, CYAN, for refreshing, hopeful. Magenta for cool, sexy, romantic. Yellow is the most personal one.

Paranoia did a great job telling and showing his mental state during that time.

Antidote is his search for help, for healing. The tw songs mvs are masterfully produced, and performed. Paranoia won 3 Music Award shows last february and performed very well. Meanwhile, Antidote had already won 2, and he has a high chance to win 3 more this week.

Quote from arin

He sounded fine.

People need to adjust their expectations. This guy is clearly not a vocalist. Its not his strong point. Adjust your expectation as such.

He was center, main dancer and rapper of Wanna One before the group disbanded. He started singing when he debut as a soloist almost 2 years ago. He was not trained by his company before that, he learned on his own. He studied bboying, contemporary dance and ballet. In his time as Wanna One, I assume he was too busy to take the time to really focus vocal then. He basically took S.Korea by storm 2017-2018 as Nations Center. He has however shown great improvement and growth since his first album. He was just really tired in that encore.

This is his first lead single in 2019.

This is Antidote, his latest title track.

Kang Daniel keeps winning. Those antis can stew in the soup of their jealousy.

Quote from silver25

why does he look so stiff and awkward?

He has anxiety.

He told in an interview that he gets nervous before he performs. His dance crew/friends, were there to make him feel comfortable.

This is his performance on the Show where he receives his first Music Award throphy for Antidote.

Quote from nana18

when I'm tired i can barley speak properly and God knows how hectic these idols schedule is, also he didn't sound that bad

He has been too busy with promotion too, he said to Jessi in their Shorterview that he had only slept 3 hours these days. He's an independent artist. The CEO of his own company. The fact that he manages to create such high quality music, music videos, and performances, attend variety shows, is very admirable. The youngest CEO in the industry at 24 years old. And one of the top soloist in the industry. Those antis are just full of envy of his popularity and success. He had sufferred from depression and panic attacks due to them. Now, they still won't leave the sweet guy alone.