#1 in Korea and #7 on Spotify Global
It-girl indeed
Well, not a proper breakthrough, but Hot100 entry? possibly
If this was asked before last year I'd say no, but Whiplash's (and to a degree Drama's and Supernova's) performance is impressive. Most these streams aren't from the west, but we can assume that they've been growing a lot there as well, and looking at their tour they do indeed have a decent audience there.
The English version of Whiplash shows SM now still wants to push for it despite previous flop attempts. Now, the songs people like from aespa that get good (international) streams are like Drama and Whiplash, so why they previously did a 180 with English releases with songs like Life's Too Short is beyond me. Incredibly strange and frankly dumb move. So it'll be interesting to see how SM now tries to strike while the iron is hot, because this is the best chance aespa has ever had for a semi-breakthrough in the west.
She has the IT-factor
Most likely not much, if any. It does not have that much power. Enhypen also isn't a group with much western appeal or a strong following in the US beforehand.
The only kpop acts that's likely to have a proper moment and be talked about by many is Lisa and Jennie. Enhypen will be more similar to Ateez.
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But tbh this is one of the best years in kpop
I'm so glad they left the stage. I think that was the only thing they could do at that point to help
How is this even a question 
The way it's impossible to utter BP members' names without a weirdo puritan jumping in to slutshame and bodyshame these women is infuriating
And they were flops until 2020 when they started gaining some momentum, only really doing anything really noteworthy since 2022. Bringing up Hellevator is.. lol. On this survey they were the 3rd highest group in the regions except for Asia Pacific (Americas, Europe, Africa), and they'll continue to grow.
It's just music, not a job. Why should anyone force themselves to be a as big of a fan of someone if they don't make music they love as much anymore?
A lot of kpop fans are quite young and indeed will jump to what's trendy fast. But that's their right, maybe they didn't connect as much with the music as they thought when they were younger, it is what it is.
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Cutie!!
Their highest attended concert ever (so far)
(and they have double dates here..)
BTS' Permission to Dance is pop terrorism
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Her with this hair length 
I found one on Youtube!
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Han killing LiSA's highnotes (along with stays ofc)
Since I didn't see them posted:
(beautiful Sulli in the thumbnail 
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