Posts by ForeverOnce2001

Quote from xviper2k

The average salary in Japan is $5,400,000 USD?

I'm moving to Japan immediately!

(It's actually $41,000 USD, 13 thousand less than America. Stay in school, kids)

What you are saying is comparing the two countries both in dollars. I was explaining just about currencies. Obviously I know that the average salary in Japan is a little less than in America when comparing dollar to dollar.

I don't know if you lack reading comprehension or what, but I very clearly was talking about the income in Japan in yen being about 100 times the numerical amount for those in the US when viewed in USD. The point was to show the higher number has nothing to do with value since what people make and the purchasing power is basically the same, despite yen having many more 0's.

Simple people may see 1,000 yen or 10,000 won and think it's so much money, when the purchasing power is basically the same value as $1 US. The numbers are meaningless to the value. If I tell *some* Americans that my salary is millions of yen, they may think I'm rich, but really my income is likely similar to theirs.

A salary of 41,000 dollars would be equivalent to about 5,000,000 yen (depending on the exchange rate at the time, just rounding to make things easier). A lot more 0's/numbers, but roughly the same purchasing power. The point was to show the numbers may look vastly different, but one isn't valued 100 times as much when you think about what a person makes and what it can buy.

Stay in school, kids.

For context:

BP 9 longest running songs on Gaon 100

Total: 417 weeks with 3 hitting #1. One of the 9 songs is a b-side

1. As If It's Your Last - 67 weeks
2. Lovesick Girls - 65 weeks
3. How You Like That - 63 weeks
4. DDU-DU DDU-DU - 51 weeks
5. Playing With the - 51 weeks
6. Forever Young - 37 weeks
7. Whistle - 33 weeks
8. Kill This Love - 26 weeks
9. Pink Venom - 24 weeks (still charting)

Twice's - 398 weeks, almost 20 weeks less, with 9 number one songs.

1. CHEER UP — 66
2. DTNA— 61
3. OOH-AHH — 49
4. TT — 44
5. YES or YES — 42
6. LIKEY — 39
7. Heart Shaker — 35
8. What is Love? — 32
9. KNOCK KNOCK — 30

The funny part is, if you count the weeks in the top 10 for each of these, BP's songs had about 20 more weeks in the top 10 despite only 3 hitting #1. Korea really listened hard for a week and realized the songs weren't very good and dropped them pretty fast I guess.

Blackpink's 9 biggest songs charted more weeks on melon and gaon than Twice's 9 biggest songs.

Twice has flopped since 2019, Korea hasn't loved them in ages. Moonlight Sunrise barely hit #200 on Gaon lol

Quote from worldlove27

idk where this narrative that NJs doesn't have good Apple Music came from... Hype Boy is still currently #54 on Apple Music Global, with only other kpop songs charting being Ditto, OMG (Ditto at #7 -- its the longest charting gg song in the top 10 of AM global-- and OMG at #13) and Antifragile by LSFM (#77).

Anti fragile actually has already charted longer on AM Global than any BP song has (BPs longest charting is HYLT) -- (so did after like btw, wadada and eleven also charted longer than PV for example).

all this is mainly thanks to all these songs stability on Japan AM who use AM a lot. Basically doing well on Japan AM kinda guarantees strength on Global AM and thats exactly what a ton of these 4th gen ggs have done (specifically IVE, LSFM, NJs and Wadada for Kep1er)

I was talking about Apple Music US. But I can see how that was unclear.

New Jeans US streams are strangely mostly Spotify with low streams elsewhere in the US. Blackpink has had 8 songs on billboard’s overall US streaming chart. Which is counting all streaming platforms. New Jeans has yet to enter one song, which shows most of their streams are mostly all on one or two platforms and heavily lacking on others. Otherwise they would chart on the overall streaming chart. This would carry over to global as well to some degree if you look at the underperformance of new jeans on the global 200.

By the way, How you like that peaked at #6 on Apple Music global and has lasted longer on the chart than any New Jeans song. 93 days is nothing to scoff at when it also peaked higher than any other song of those artists. Just saying.

I see nothing wrong or untrue.

Quote from chilean-stan1

I think they did hit the 20m around HYLT. They stayed during hiatus around 17m-18m, now they are staying around 22m

Their peak with the Album was 29,422,778 unique listeners.

This comeback their peak was 34.12 million unique listeners.

So the peak and the base listeners increased about 5 million each.

Source: Chart pages when searching twitter just now.

JYP for thinking Twice would have any impact with another English single.

I know it's a 2023 thing but that decision would have been made in 2022.

$3.3 million dollar apartment. Guess she plans to use it in the future after Twice disbands in several years.

Quote from JiminieKookie

What I learned over the years: Since the US-dollar is low you are only slightly higher than Euro, Canadian Dollar is almosr 1/4 more than US-Dollar, Australian Dollar is almost 1/2 more than US-Dollar and New Zealand Dollar is almost 2/3 more than US-Dollar while British pound is at the moment almost 1/4 less than US-Dollar

I think you have it backwords.

1 Canadian dollar only gets you 0.74618 US Dollars.
1 Australian dollar only gets you 0.69 US Dollars.
1 US dollar only gets you 0.83 British Pounds.

Quote from kirishiki

Yea it is hard to say how valuable some currencies are(without google). Euro, dollar and pound is easy because they are all pretty close each others, but Korea currency is like more than 1000x less valuable than dollar and Japanese currency is more than 100x less valuable than dollar. Even in a year some countries like Turkey Lira lost half of its value. Then we have some extreme cases like Venezuela and Zimbabwe

Value is a tricky word.

For example, 1 dollar is (rounded to make things easier) a bit more than 100 Japanese yen. Which makes it sound like the dollar is 100 times as valuable, but actually they are basically the same, one just has more 0's. The average salary in Japan is about 100 times what it is in USD in America. Same with Korea. 1,000 won is like a dollar, but average salary in Korea is close to 1000 times what it is in America numerically. It's just strange how it became like that.

New Jeans hasn't surpassed BP at all though lmao

Their streams are heavily spotify focused and aren't as balanced as other groups. BP has better Amazon Music, Apple Music, and Youtube streaming stats. You wouldn't see such stability on spotify if NewJeans fans didn't prioritize Spotify probably.

If a girl group with vocal skill sang ICSM I think it would have slain the charts

Quote from vzal

huh? When did I say it didn't happen? Can you read?

Felt implied but I guess I gave you too much credit.

Quote from vzal

What promotions? They just dropped the single and went on vacation.

Just because the single is flopping doesn't mean it didn't happen

I've never been more wet.

Quote from bangmenah

i mean if NewJeans with 1 full album and ~10 months of traction can meet BlackPinks 7 Years In Peak then i’ll buy stock in hybe

If New Jeans can do the impossible and reach Blackpink's peak streams or ML's at any point, we can discuss them being on BP's level. But otherwise it's just wishful thinking for Newjeaners.

BP was a catastrophe for kpop in that no other girl group can compete.

Quote from plasticrose

they aren't high enough for what bp's level is. ok?

Like i don't even care about them being more than other ggs. I'm comparing with other global artists above bp on spotify ranking and the edge they have against bp.

You just can't make comparisons between artists with new music vs artists without new music and expect the one without new music to be miles ahead. The act BP is still leading in MLs over other girl groups and artists with newer music is a sign of high passive streams in and of itself.

Of course if BP had more music and more comebacks it would increase their lead for sure, I'm not denying that.

Quote from plasticrose

u r not getting it. for bp's popularity level, other ggs should not be touching them even in their inactive period. that's why i said their passive streams aren't high. it's lack of songs. lack of albums. lack of comebacks. long hiatuses. everything.

I am getting it, you just aren't making a good point.

Their passive streams are high if you compare passive streams to other groups passive streams. For example, BP with 30 some songs has much more streams than Twice with 200+ songs under a much shorter hiatus.

Of course a group with recent releases will get close to BP when they are in an inactive period, but that's comparing apples to oranges and isn't at all impressive. New Jeans released new music recently and yet their daily streams are about to become less than BP's already. Considering their hype and playlisting, the fact they didn't even pass the MLs at their highest so far when BP is at their lowest in a while is not impressive.