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Usually I would say IVE but Ziqo feat. Jennie is crazy. Not entirely clear if this will actually be released in April though, their respective companies seem to be making contradicting statements?

It's okay. The overall vocal range of the song is a bit weird (very high). I think Yuqi sounds amazing in her 'natural' range and this song does not take advantage of that.

IVE will dominate K-charts. It's hard to bet against them when even the "flop" era got a PAK.

SVT will dominate the music show wins and sales while still doing very well on the charts (top 10 again).

These are my 2 "winner" picks but it depends on how you place your goalposts

If it's purely global Spotify/YT then it could be someone else than these two doing the best

EDIT: Zico feat. Jennie is definitely one hell of a wild card, anything could happen with that, including #1 on charts. I don't think this one is completely confirmed for April though.

I opened Spotify for the first time in 3 months just to test this

I played one IVE b-side, the next song was Magnetic. All the ILLIT b-sides were also added to the queue

Woollim and FNC kind of failed horribly with their GGs Rocket Punch and Cherry Bullet

YG is probably in a league of its own when it comes to underperforming vs expectations

How do I vote for Hype Boy

The chorus is cursed.. just why

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I'm a staunchly committed Gaeul guy, but Yujin is a very close second

Is that your final answer?

I voted OTR but it's close, Magnetic is so damn catchy

I was so scared the chorus would be exactly like this.. and of course it was

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this sounds horrible

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but this sounds amazing

i just have no idea now

It's crazy that she's still improving so much. The stage presence has been 10/10 for quite a while but during the last 1.5 years or so her dancing and vocals have been constantly improving. I don't think we've seen the final form yet.

I think it's quite rare for an idol to improve so much in the 5th and 6th year, even if she started very young.

She's been going kinda crazy lately

I'm about halfway through, absolutely love this show.

Jang Da Ah really won me over, I went in thinking she was probably casted because of her sister but she was incredible on this show.

It's really good apart from the chorus and post chorus. The chorus is very catchy and I can see why they did it but personally I'm not a fan of having so much repetition in a chorus with very few vocal lines, at least in K-Pop. I guess it's still a bop for me.

I will actually cry if the chorus is something like "sheesh sheesh yeah got them all going sheesh sheesh sheesh sheesh sheesh"

Touring just can't be questioned. It's the only flawless metric.

Every other indicator has its downsides and concrete example cases of when a group had good (insert thing) without arguably being that popular, for example:

- Digitals: Fifty Fifty, Momoland, Brave Girls.. all at the very top of digitals and suddenly nowhere to be seen

- Album Sales: Many examples of groups suddenly selling 1M out of nowhere for the 'million seller' mediaplay, just for the sales to drop 50% on the next comeback because "Chinese fans are boycotting"

- Brand deals: ILLIT going to fashion week before debuting, just maybe an advertiser is not paying for that but it's company mediaplay for image building

- YT streams: recent examples of MVs with 75% ad views in the first week (JYP )

This thread feels like a setup

First 2 Rocket Punch albums are insanely good. Red Punch is probably a top 5 all time GG album for me. Sadly Woollim ran out of money to burn at some point and the quality has declined a lot. I can't really blame them since the group never really got popular.

They've done ok with Eunbi but I do give a huge part of that credit to Eunbi herself. Eunbis career kind of turned around with Glitch and she's revealed that it was completely her own concept. I would imagine she has the final say in the musical direction as well, considering she is a competent producer. However, if I need to pick which company handled their IZ*ONE soloist best then it's without a doubt Woollim.

But considering this is a company that released some of the absolute biggest K-Pop songs of all time (like The Chaser), they've fallen off hard from those glory days.