I didn't post here because I don't think it's possible to do a proper top 10 comparing groups of different generations. I mentioned a while ago in the digital thread how I prefer to rank songs in tiers and not just a list because of this, for groups it would be the same.
However I'd like to give my opinion about a couple of things looking at people's answers.
No one even mention Fin.K.L. I assume this is mainly becaue no one here lived the 1st gen, not even me, not gonna blame people. However the truth is that looking at the numbers it seems they were quite close, with S.E.S having some better sales. Fin.K.L managed to win the SMA daesang unlike S.E.S for example, and well, they had Lee Hyori, basically the most important female idol of the generation and ever, she's still really relevant nowadays, released huge hits by herself the last one in 2020. I guess I can agree with S.E.S being the most important gg of the 1st gen mainly because it's what koreans say most frequently and their opinion is what matters the most, but I feel Fin.K.L should be right next to them if S.E.S is in the tops.
However, considering the only local impact and how their success didn't really mean anything for ggs at all (WG and SNSD revived it and entablished the dominance for real) I'm not even sure if I'd include any in a top 10.
Sistar is a solid 4th position in the 2nd gen. Not T-ara (because of the scandal sadly, they had the potential) not F(x) not Kara, not Miss A... it's Sistar. I could only accept Kara because of their big impact in Japan if you want to consider that but in Korea it was Sistar without any doubt, it's not just that they did better than the rest of groups, but the solos were also way more succesful during those years.
Actually, Ive and Aespa could disband tomorrow and they'd be in a similar spot than those other 2nd gen groups I mentioned and even MMM and RV probably too. Most of them released all their hits in a span of 3-4 years which is what we've just lived from both Ive and Aespa. They also have Wonyoung and Karina. There's this habit of considering the past times always better but you can count now the number of hits of those groups and they're not really far, and honestly none of them have 2 massive hits like Next Lever-Supernova or Love dive-I am (+ After like...). Obviously it's better to judge in the long run so it's fine they're not included yet, but they deserve the mention because they're already knocking to the top 10's door.
NJ is obviously already in, just not sure where I'd put them, but if we were by tiers they'd already be in the 2nd one, being the 1st one just SNSD, BP and Twice.
