True, and will soon start witnessing it
We are witnessing a slight decline on BTS popularity but only very slight. I say it would still take quite some time. When Jin finished his military training and re-united with the rest of the members you see still 572K likes and 3.7 million views in 3 weeks, and we are talking about millions of likes and over 30 million views if we talk about Tiktok and Instagram, twitter too.
Kpop has been and always will be niche. Marketing will help expand that niche but i doubt Kpop will ever be mainstream. First is racism, nobody wants to see Asian singers/performers for some reason, the only true superstars arent really coded Asian (nobody knows that Bruno and Olivia are half Filipino, everyone thinks theyre latin if anything). Secondly, the language barrier, only 1M speak Korean in the US in comparison to 50M Spanish speakers which is why Spanish songs have a much easier time charting here. Thirdly, the genre, Kpop is boyband music, which has never gotten respect, it's always been relegated to the realm of adolescent teen girls fangirling over hot young guys, nobody considers Backstreet Boys, Nsync, 1D as true artists just manufactured industry drones.
This is ok though. Kpop doesnt need to be like hip hop or RnB. There is plenty of money to be made along the edges of the US mainstream, even just 2-3 percent of the US music market would be a ginormous boon to most Kpop groups.
Yes it's a niche but I still think it is a significant niche. We see various Kpop bands invited in different american shows. Kpop draws a large loyal fanbase even if the majority of people don't know about K-pop bands.
Kpop basically depends on female fans for survival: Teens, kids, young adults.
The fan base of K-pop is targeted are females; teens, young kids and young adults. Expanding it's sphere of influence is a good thing.
She's sexy and pretty
I also felt the same but especially BTS because they broke world records that even matched the Beatles in no.1 charts, they are basically in the same level as the very top western artist and already surpassed over 99% of the american in turns of stadium concerts. Even Blackpink is nowhere close to BTS achievement, they can only match in the youtube 24 hours, highest views, most subscribers contest, which they win in some but BTS was so great they were even invited to the UN and president Biden
If you don’t want people to wear Kimonos or use Chinese hand fans you can start a campaign, I don’t believe non Asians will have a problem with that. We will survive.
Kendrick Lamar
If you don’t want people to wear Kimonos or use Chinese hand fans you can start a campaign, I don’t believe non Asians will have a problem with that. We will survive.
I'm non Asian myself.
It's not just Kimonos and hand fans.
Rihanna wore Chinese traditional dress
You know this cultural appropriation is getting so tiring. I say let a K-pop artist do what they want.
We seen many western artist wearing Japanese Kimono's or using Chinese Hand fans too.
What about them? They are the youngest boyband in the world (like 6 to 12 years old) although they have very low popularity
Not Gina dropping her debut single an hour before A2K's lmao.
Smart, ngl.
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Wow. she could just be a western pop artist instead of Kpop. She already got 30.3K followers in just the month but I'm not sure if she will ever get sign to a western label, it depends on her growth. I feel like she could still a popular artist making money with her music youtube and online download.
This global gg isn’t going to sing in Korean from what I gather. They might be trained under kpop, but I believe they’re singing in English , so I don’t think most people will consider them kpop. I could be wrong though. Anyone know for sure if they will be singing in Korean when they become a group? Maybe they’re like XG.
I just saw the A2K finals and debut. They are basically a english singing Kpop group.
I remember the international fans hated the idea of white members groups of started a K-pop boyband known as the exp edition they were considered the world firs non-korean kpop group but they got lot of hates for it. But this time I see a lot of support for the girl groups but I still think it's less than local Koreans.
