Posts by WhyKnock

Spring day

It will stay in Melon for virtually forever

IZOne will clean Lee Jieun's clock hopefully

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Nope. You really think Koreans are going to drop a platform with IU in favor of a platform without IU? :confused:

Even with all the chart manipulation, sajaegi scandals in 2018/2019, Melon still lived on. People will always favor domestic platforms compared to international platforms lmao.

That person was the former CEO of Melon iirc, but it's not hard to understand why big companies like BH, YG, JYP, etc want their own platform with all this going on.

The Korean tendency to treat IU as someone much more equal than other singers harms KPop a lot, including this

That's nothing

As long as Melon/KakaoM controls KPop's Senior Singer, who is the person in my sig, it will continue to thrive

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Huuum, maybe.

Guess it will depend on the government directives and the sitution of the COVID in SK.

It's kind of irresponsible to re-open stadiums before they even start to vaccine the population in my opinion.

But there were smaller trot concerts without the vaccines and they tended to attract older fans who were more vulnerable

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i doubt we will get any huge concerts where the stadium is gonna be full, they will be concerts but with safety distance like enhypen did with their fanlive, i can see izone having their farewell concert(s) in person

It is only 6 weeks away but I agree they will allow fans to watch it from some distance

Probably having returned to China already

On March 21-23, at the Olympic Hall of the Chamshil Complex, the 10 more prominent contestants of the Sing Again show will have the first concert in Korea since the second outbreak.

And then on April 09-11, at the KSPO Dome (better known as the Gymnastics Arena), the contestants of Miss Trot 2 will have a joint concert.

Which means Korea is now opening up to Concerts as well.

Now,BTS and a certain Senior Singer are due for a Big Concert at the Olympic Main Stadium at Chamshil because they were supposed to do that but could not since the conditions worsened.

In addition, Lim Youngwoong, the trottist, might want to show the world that he is , at least in Korea's older pop, as relevant as BTS and the Senior Singer by having a concerts at the Olympic Stadium as well.

I think Seventeen, after seeing all of these, might want to do that themselves as well.

Do you think these huge concerts will be held? I could only find four candidates (BTS, the Senior Singer, Lim Youngwoong and Seventeen) but you might write in your own candidate.

Unlikely. They are now passe

BTS never left the chart while the so-called Queen of Digitals has done so quite a few times

No. I do not know any songs from NCT or txt but I am fine.

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Am I the only who tried looking for his sig?

I now have a sig.

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There's no sig in your sig.

Well, Korea is not that interested in K-pop as we can observe from the MelOn chart. Only Dynamite, Life Goes On and Lovesick Girls did well. We need to wait and see how much room is still there for international growth.

I now have a sig.

The person in my sig has announced she will release her album 'in the first half of 2021', which means she has up to June to strike a blow against a major KPop act (most likely BTS).

Meanwhile, this year is already 1/10 past but only Gidle's HWAA has won music bank out of newer idols. The rest of the wins were bts' August song, plus the songs of Yunho (debuted 2004) and Lee Jieun (debuted 2008).

Although they did not collide this time, a rematch of this Jan 2011 bout did take place metaphorically

when DBSK and Lee Jieun had collided.

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Although there are still many acts in KPop, because of the atomization of the industry and the proliferation of trottists, KPop acts now target smaller and smaller segments of i-fans and it becomes harder to maintain its edge around the world.

BTS will still stand like a big mountain, but the slow advances of newer acts do concern me a lot while the older acts show no sign of going away.

Blackpink will be active and Seventeen will probably gain ground, but Seventeen is not a newer act either.

As a philosopher and a student of history, Whyknock is now a bit concerned about the fact that KPop might not be able to maintain its edge in the year 2021, especially when acts in other countries begin to have concerts but Korean acts are not allowed to do so and not allowed to leave Korea to perform.

Unfortunately, a Senior Singer writes plenty of lyrics, but only for Koreans

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Ppl forget it’s a tiny country lol.

50m pop is not tiny.

Popularity in SE Asia

But in Korea Lisa is still behind to the person in my sig

YG with all these antics and releasing very few songs

AKP has been cold towards KPop's Senior Singer.

Actually, it is either a KPopper or a Trottist. Most other genres all withered