Posts by OnceauraBella

STOP WORKING WITH WESTERN PRODUCERS.

its so annoying what made Twice popular was there Korean sound, as soon as Twice got popular they transitioned to western sounds (more and more ) thinking the west would prefer a Western Twice song then a Korean one, what jyp and Twice fail to see is that Twices international fans prefer Korean/asian sounding twice then western sounding Twice,

a example of this is there Japanese discovery, thankfully its not handled by JYP but Japanese team and they are still so successful in japan because the songs used still sound like Twice, perfect world, Hare Hare all twice sounding songs

tokyo dome

osaka dome?

and then maybe they will add pay pay dome and nagaya dome

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Ok genuine question

The girls obviously don't want to be there so they want out

But how can they go out?

Like how did JYJ/Jessica get out of SM? I don't suppose SM just let them run away did they?

Is it by paying money? If so then why don't MHJ just pay the money to get them out?

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jyj filed and won a lawsuit against SM

Jessica was kicked out of snsd by the members + (thus sm as you cant be in a group where most of the members dislike you), this happened in 2014, and then in 2015 Jessica and SM signed a agreement allowing jessica to leave SM as a whole

so 2014 she left the band

2015 she left the company

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Also, I know this have been said before

But it is actually really scary to be how weirdly attached they are to their CEO

Like I don't think (it's an opinion) the girls would go to such lengths to protect their own blood but they would for MHJ. They are down deep (grooming vibes not in a sexual way because many assume grooming means sexual).

It's sad. The girls shouldn't feel the need to do this to defend adults

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100!! it so weird like these girls are defending a 40+ year old woman

shes a creep, she makes them feel happy and gives them what they want, like very groomy

what I dont get is everyone like they don't need min he jin ... new jeans are popular because of there hardworking

no just no, min he jin was the mastermind new jeans, she literally created everything, the ethereal concepts, the music, the virality

that's like saying Quentin Tarantino films are only popular because of the actors no Quentin Tarantino himself, the man who created the whole thing

I may not like min hee jin but without her, theres no new jeans concepts

tiff was what drew me into snsd in gee, her bob curly hairstyle was so cute, but jessica became was ult bias, everything about her, her incredibly sweet soft voice while still being able to hit high notes, that juxtaposition with jessica always amazes me, when you listen to her you don't think she can hit high notes but damn she can.

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Think you got some numbers wrong but I get what you mean but its not that simple. GG and Kara had 1 hugely selling album but many average to low selling in between. Twice hasn't had as big of a peak but have been selling pretty consistently hence them being ahead. The worldwide increase hasn't really impacted Japan because until recently, it was hard to buy Japanese albums outside of Japan due to licencing and it wasn't till recently Twice could even perform their Japanese discog outside of Japan. I-fans also ignore Japanese release and don't have the tradition or fandom routes to buying them.

Kara has 36 (about to be 37) Japanese releases, the highest sales being 275k first week and 746k all time whilst the lowest was a couple hundred. Only 10 of the 37 sold over 100k all time, 18 failed to get beyond 50k all time and 12 didn't get beyond 10k. Thier all time sales are 3.1 million so they averaged 86k per release.

GG has 18 Japanese releases, highest sales being 231k first week and 872k all time and lowest being 5k all time. Of the 18, 8 didn't get past 100k, 4 didn't get past 50k and 1 didn't get past 10k but their at 2.6mill all time. They average 144k per release.

Twice has 18 down (not including Dive), their highest being 262k first week and 363k all time and their lowest is 81k all time for a total of 3.9mill so average 216k per release.

I think there are two main factors Twice never beat the single album sales of GG.

1 - Promotion is also very important in Japan. Twice's sales decreased during the pandemic from 200k minimum to 80-150k because pre-pandemic they had loads of J-fan exclusive content and promotions including handshake events. I don't think Twice has ever gone as ham with Japanese promotions as Kara and GG did back in the day, they simply didn't have the time. Kara and GG had 2 CB's per year which would be heavily promoted then they'd do 2-3 Japanese releases in between and fully promote those on Japanese TV. Twice did 4 CB's the year they debuted in Japan but have been dropping 2-3 Japanese releases per year. They only dropped down to 2 CB's because of their world tour, and have now dropped down to 1 due to the scale of this world tour.

2 - China, the Tyuzu scandal really hurt them so their fanbase there has always been small and whilst its hard for western fans to get Japanese albums, Chinese fans are well known for flying over to Japan for a concert and buying Japanese albums.

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100! 1 thing for me is SNSD and KARA had such short peaks/relevancy in japan, SNSD,KARA and Twice had huge peaks , I believe SNSD/KARA sold 1mill+ for 1 each album because of the start of the Japan hallyu wave and Twice brought it back to life, but the thing is Twice managed to keep there japanese popularity, doing dome tours, stadiums and know nissan stadium,

SNSD only managed to do it once, (they could of done it in 2011/2012/2013 easily)

and that's about it, and then once Jessica happened there popularity just started decreasing and then when they had Phantasia world tour, they couldn't do any domes at all? one would think if you can sell out tokyo dome in 2014 then you can again in 2015/2016 but they didn't, even there sales slowly started decreasing,

the Same can be said about KARA, what happened? there peak was massive but as time went on there sales decreased and there venues even decreased, at least SNSD could still sell out arenas (saitma super arena ) but even kara couldn't,

I heard about there was a Japanese soft ban during the time but anyone care to elobrate?

i heard that Kpop was getting so popular in japan that the Japense media starting soft banning content around the time snsd/kara popularity was decreasing

harambelives you know a lot about snsd, care to add anything +

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I'm sure everyone is tired of me posting the graphics and numbers, but you can find them easily enough in my thread history.

But to your comment about their Japanese promo strategy, that's exactly the problem. They need to go all in for Japan promos and not just release uninspired Japanese versions of all their Korean songs

that one of the reasons why Twice did so well in Japan, they treated there japanese discovery as its own separate entity, they followed the Kara and SNSD route

hoping at the end of the nissan concert they announce dome tour/ Japanese tour for the end of this year/ next year + MiSaMo comeback!

SNSD has the most impressive reign as they were the only girl group of there generation where the gap between them and the other groups wasn't even small, there peers 2ne1, Wonder girls, f(x) ....

they wiped them with album sales, touring, hit singles.

if we are talking about reaching all time highs, BlackPink, each comeback being stronger then the last, doing stadium tours, selling millions of albums.

IF WE are talking about longestivity, Twice wipes the floor with snsd and BP,

snsd sales peaked in 2011, there touring power peaked in 2014, kicked out a vital member (3rd most popular) Jessica

Blackpink constant haitus stopped them reaching there potential

but Twice, there sales go up every album, there total attendance go up every tour, the fact that they are so active in the 9th year is unheard of by any kpop group (2024 = 1 mini album, 1 full japanese album, Japanese stadium tour, Nayeon solo, misamo rumored comeback, 4th full Korean album later this year, 6th world tour later this year)

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Doesn't detract from being unable to stay in the top 100. Not even nugus struggle that hard while Twice is supposed to be NGG.

Dunno what crack your own but SNSD dance line were more than capable in their early years, the weakest like Hyoyeon or Yoona were actually able to sing live, while dancing too. Dance line have improved ever since and all can easily sing on their own without issue, Sooyoung has done a dew SNSD songs like ITNW on her own. Meanwhile Twice years after debuting and experience still couldn't sing live includingduring mutiple encore across multiple years.

so you agree Twice is the ngg?

your constant repetitive nature bringing up the top 100 is quite humorous, TWICE ARE SUCH FLOPS!

anticipate Twices triumphant japan stadium tour this july! a ft snsd could do

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Need to be more specific about going off rails, I thought you were referring to them starting the terrible encore trend.

snsd vocal line with jessica was great

but lets not be oblivious to the fact that yonna, yuri , hyoyeon and then sooyoung could not hold a single note,

why do you think the line distribution in snsd dsongs were always so terrible?

because they couldn't sing, hyoyeonwould always get about 3 secs at best

SM was smart, they knew there dance line couldn't hold a note, so they gave them little lines = no bad encores

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You gonna ignore the last few years where Twice struggle to stay in the top 100 mutiple times?

ik him mentioning snsd was going to hurt you

Twice outsells and outtours snsd in every aspect and the difference isn't even minimal

if you really want to compare digitals to that monstrous feat then go ahead

plus Twice never kicked out any members, jessica says hi!

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Snsd was "never digimon got outcharted by their rival"

Remind me where "Forever 1" peak in the chart after 15 years of activity as a group ??

Oh yeah top 5 after 15 years not bad for a group who's never been strong in chart

How is twice doing in the chart after 9 years of activity ??

Oh yeah sorry i should not have asked, i know it's a sensitive question for Once

Also funny how you mention that snsd was never digimon cuz they got outcharted by their rival

When twice whole discography for the past 3 years have been outcharted by their rival, blackpink, red velvet, ...

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that's nice, it took snsd like 4 years to do tokyo dome alone

Twice did that overnight next

Im a huge fan of new jeans so imma be up front :

yes NJ lost some stream, big deal? not really since there numbers look really good rn + japan tokyo dome

all groups use payola for streams + the only valuable stats we can use is touring numbers and nj already have that down in japan

lets all chill and enjoy the music !

Twice with there upcoming Japan dates + previous stadiums ? this year

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HYBE has Illit, Le Sserafim and Katseye in the same quarter. Bang PD is geeking to give them all the success to make Q3 successful.

if predictions are right Twice will be having there 4th album released + 6th world tour end of this year

awww

hope jessica goes on her show

love me some OT9

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I'm glad he openly talk about this

Because way too often kpop fans consider that the actions of their company is a reflect of the artist thoughts

Kpop idols sold their image to their company so they can do whatever they want with it, and company are hungry for money so they don't give a f about what's happening around the world if they can gain 1 more dollar at the end of the month

But their actions doesn't reflect the principles and ideology of their idols

And i'm glad that Taeyong isn't afraid to be vocal and say " they are using our group name but i don't support this and you neither shouldn't"

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ur reaching, boycott what?

if he has the decency to post boycott

he could have been you know a bit more specific

I just see this as him not wanting the controversy somi went though that's it, lets stop babying our idols

are you people ok?

acting like hes doing something so groundbreaking?

all he did was post-boycott leaving the rest to our imaginations

if he could do that he could of posted actually serious things about Palestine, like go fund me/charities/ informative things

but that being said I do hope this starts a trend in kpop where idols talk about the issues around the world