What you don't get is that starships operating profit was NEGATIVE for years before ive's debut, which means they literally skyrocketed their revenue. Monsta X last world tour was in 2018 and the group is barely active now because the members enlisted in the military. Cravity and wjsn doesn't do tours,cravity sold a total of 420k this year and wjsn last album was released in 2022 and sold 196k, do you understand now how little do they count in the yearly net profit? Their other department that manage actors is called king kong, I don't know if it was included in the calculations but starship have that acting department since 2015 lmao so it's obvious how little impact it had in their profits as they only left the negative side after Ive's debut.
I never imply otherwise and clearly pointing out that Ive contributed the most. I just corrected the user because the overall numbers include the entire company, not just Ive, so those numbers do not represent only them. And the data shown by the user above didn’t show Starship operating profits in negative since 2021; they may have been prior to that, but I can’t speak to that without any data.
As the data we're talking about were from 2023, here’s a breakdown of the album sales from all Starship groups that year:
Cravity: 303,914 + 337,203 + 26,045 = 667,162
In addition to this, Cravity also had their first world tour and had held two fan concerts.
MONSTA X: 438,274
Total Album Sales: 1,284,131
Cravity World Tour Profits: ?
All of this still contributes to Starship’s operating profits. You can’t disregard the other groups' contributions on paper just because Ive is making a larger impact. Starship isn’t a one-group company like Ador or soumu, where the company’s earnings are solely from one source only. For Starship, the figures include earnings from multiple groups.
