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KIOF really, really deserved their first show win. I'm very happy.

Or Weeekly - Lights On and Dance Dance Dance. Also a very nice summer comeback.

Of course I also like KISS OF LIFE and (G)I-DLE.

...I am still waiting

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Is this Gothic or Dark Wave or similar cemetery music?

I actually heard similar stuff 25 years ago.

Before that I listened to Black Metal and after that I listened to Aggrotech and Industrial Hardcore.

Difficult, currently How Sweet and I love the dance performance.

I would compare that to IVE, who have a successful first world tour and two shows at the Tokyo Dome in the fall and an additional third during their Encore Tour.

They recently had a very convincing performance here in Germany in Berlin at the Mercedes Benz Arena and could have sold out one or two more arenas here in Germany.

Even if their comeback isn't quite as successful, people want to see IVE because of their hits like After Like, Love Dive and I Am.

NewJeans also have many big hits like OMG, Ditto and Super Shy. They also have their successful two-day Bunny Camp at the Tokyo Dome at exactly the right time and with that they have put an end to their difficult last few weeks in one fell swoop.

With that they have also ridiculed and trampled all those disgusting haters and influencers who want to incite other people against NewJeans, all that cowardly filth that poisons the global K-Pop community. Get rid of them, they should be banned from social media and forums.

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1. Aespa
2. Lesserafim
3. NewJeans
4. Ive
5. Gidle

I would also see these five as the current top 5 4th gen girl groups. But for me it is difficult to rank from 1 to 5.

At the beginning of 2023, ITZY were still in the top 5 ranking for me:

1. IVE

2. NewJeans

3. Aespa

4. ITZY

5. (G)-DLE

(G)I-DLE had their rapid rise in 2022 with Tomboy and Nxde. But LE SSERAFIM had their problematic start because of Kim Garam.

The loss of Lia is also a heavy blow for ITZY. That's why they are surpassed by the 5th gen girl groups ILLIT and BABYMONSTER and even by NMIXX.

I also think: Likewise by QWER regarding the Korean digital charts and streaming providers and KISS OF LIFE regarding the global Spotify streaming numbers. Both also have a very upward trend

I'm a little unhappy about the choice of Cheeky Icy Thang as the main song. Due to the interesting choreography, the song is very suitable for live shows.

For me, 1 Thing would have been a much better choice as the main song.

In addition, their new album has 14 songs, some of which are more convincing than Cheeky Icy Thang.

There are some groups that are unfortunately sorely missed, like f(x) and Gfriend.

But thanks to the fourth generation, K-Pop has become more diverse. Maybe there are too many releases, so that it sometimes seems overloaded.

We also have the 3rd generation Dreamcatcher, who have played a major role in the massive increase in popularity of harder rock music in K-Pop. And I like listening to rock and metal.

For me personally, the 4th generation also has the best boy groups like Stray Kids and ATEEZ.

Has anyone streamed LISA - ROCKSTAR a hundred or maybe even a thousand times so far?

Today the Circle Album Charts for the week of 2024.06.16 - 2024.06.22 were published. And NewJeans have conquered chart position 1 with Supernatural. Including the reverse version, they have already sold almost a million albums in Korea.

It is historically unique that a Japanese album has such a huge impact in Korea.

I'm surprised that NewJeans had such great success worldwide last year, because they are too good for the world.

Otherwise people would listen to worthless crap, because 99% of the music produced in the USA and Europe is worthless crap.

NewJeans have suffered particularly from the Hybe-Ador conflict. A few weeks ago, before a music show, the girls from Aespa cheered up and supported the girls from NewJeans.

Both groups are close friends and support each other. The topic of AeJeans and NewSpa is also a good topic at the moment. Allkpop, among others, reported on it.

This shows that both groups are very big and are role models for their fans.

If the two fandoms become friends, they would also show greatness.

This spring from March to May the Korean market is overloaded with a lot of releases from top groups plus the BTS soloists plus the strong rookie releases from ILLIT, TWS and BABYMONSTER and plus strong comebacks from TripleS and KISS OF LIFE and also QWER, RESCENE and UNIS have achieved notable successes within their framework.

Last year, Jimin and Jungkook achieved sales figures of over 2 million with their albums, but RM is clearly lagging behind with just over 500 thousand.

Most top groups don't even come close to achieving their personal successes. Only (G)I-DLE have clearly surpassed their personal record and IVE have landed in their range with their new album.

At the moment it is difficult to achieve new top sales values for both girl groups and boy groups.

I wouldn't worry too much about the success of the girl groups.

IVE don't set a personal sales record in Korea with their new album, but they've hit the ground running again in their area.

NewJeans and Aepsa are still well behind, but apart from (G)I-DLE, no top group has set a new personal record this year. NCT Dream, ITZY and TXT have noticeably large losses compared to their 2023 releases.

This spring there were a lot of releases one after the other, plus the top debuts from ILLIT and TWS and the album debut from BABYMONSTER. They probably stole each other's sales.

Smaller girl groups like KISS OF LIFE and TripleS have exceeded the 100,000 sales mark per album and thus significantly increased their personal sales records. QWER continues to be strongly represented among the top 5 Korean streaming providers.

NewJeans, IVE and Aepsa will determine these again.

IVE and NewJeans in particular have the advantage of being long-running chart favorites.

If you look at the global Spotify singles charts, you have to be much more worried about boy bands. In the top 50, only TXT with Deja Vu in 20th place is still relatively well represented with around 63 million streams so far. StrayKids with Charly Puth in 24th place with currently around 26 million streams and SEVENTEEN with Maesto in 31st place with 27 million streams. IVE with Heya isn't going well either with 28th place and around 24 million streams.

Instead, names like KISS OF LIFE and XG are appearing more and more frequently.

The top 50 is almost dominated by the BTS soloists and girl groups. These include LE SSERAFIM, NewJeans, BABYMONSTER, ILLIT and Aespa. However, RM's B-side songs are falling a lot again and LOST only stayed at number 1 for one day. Magnetic from ILLIT, on the other hand, lasts for many weeks.

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Korea is too small of an Area for BlackPink; They should go all in for the Global Girl Group title.

ok; Hear me out, do not start hating until you read the whole plan.




South Korean is a small country, it will just hold BlackPink back in the future. Black Pink is bigger than South Korea, they are a global Group only smaller than BTS.


But Boy groups are on the way out and girl groups are on the way up.

For their next comeback in 2025, Black Pink should just go all in with English songs, English is the universal language on earth, so they should fully embrace it.



A problem with that. They have 3…

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Aug 30th 2022

And this despite the fact that the quality of K-Pop is much higher than Euro-American music.

It's all just main stream and media hype, BLACKPINK have a little more support from that than other Korean girl groups.

It's a shame just now, I would have liked to see her encore.

For me, Ive Switch is the very first K-pop album in history, of which I really like all the songs, an absolute bop.

I like Maestro, it has some of the power of the 4th generation.

But due to the fact that the boy group sells 80% of their albums on the first day of sales and SEVENTEEN has only sold 2.2 million, they will not be able to achieve their success last year with FML. FML has sold almost 6.4 million copies, with 17 Is Right Here they will only do half that.

All the incidents surrounding HYBE and their sub label also seem to have a negative impact on SEVENTEEN.

Many girl groups are bombarded with hate and it is increasing. So before their debut, they should be taught to resist hate during their trainee phase. To them, haters should be completely worthless.

One more thing, according to the Bible, hatred is as great an evil as murder and I agree with the Bible.

For me they are definitely the best Korean band.