fan base K-Pop: New Year, New Us

[Eternium]

2 hours ago, Cheers said:

 

BELIFT, please respect ENGOD. What is this lineup? Why are you sending them here? 

ENHYPEN were never escaping the khia asylum with that name. It just wasn't in the cards for them.

[Cheers]

4 minutes ago, Eternium said:

ENHYPEN were never escaping the khia asylum with that name. It just wasn't in the cards for them.

Tokyo Dome sellouts are above being called Khias. Take it back!

[MAKSIM]

1 hour ago, Pikachu said:

 

the way it's so obviously pre-recorded vocals  

No one is singing meaningfully live with headset mics - but this attempt is crazy because this song is entirely talk singing. There aren't actual notes being sung  

[romiskes]

45 minutes ago, katyberry said:

where is the mv?

 

It's coming next week along with the album (not really an album, just 1 other track).

[Gorjesspazze9]

Is SNSD all members making a suprise appearance at SMTOWN 30th anniversary?!  
SM last ditch effort to get their flop tickets to selll

 

[Zaram]

5 hours ago, Cyanide said:

Ever since RIIZE every new boy group looks like this, isn't this like the 5th one now? 

I love this era of non noisey group comebacks.

My ears are healing

[IamCY]

It's a bit too Yaosobi'd for my liking. It sits maybe in the middle for their title tracks.

[Antunes]

gfriend releasing a qwer demo is so beneath them. the never ending sabotage 

[Queenyoncee]

My Girls 

 

 

 

[Queenyoncee]

Only 2 Exo Members  Everyone said no to SM nnn

 

[Sheep]

2 hours ago, MAKSIM said:

No one is singing meaningfully live with headset mics - but this attempt is crazy because this song is entirely talk singing. There aren't actual notes being sung  

truly who cares they dance more than your favs ever have and give just as much stage presence.

[Sheep]

13 minutes ago, Queenyoncee said:

My Girls 

 

 

 

not to be dramatic but seeing Sunny and Tiffany's faces is literally a blessing from the universe and made me emotional

[Sheep]

gays all over the world after seeing a jpg of snsd in 2025:

 

edit: not the triple post sorry 

Edited yesterday at 08:28 AM by Sheep

[swifthino]

 

this is the greatest song of all time wtf, we need to [REDACTED] pledis ceo

[Odette Violet]

2 hours ago, Gorjesspazze9 said:

Is SNSD all members making a suprise appearance at SMTOWN 30th anniversary?!  
SM last ditch effort to get their flop tickets to selll

 

 

55 minutes ago, Queenyoncee said:

My Girls 

 

 

 

!!!

 

They all look so good, the face card never declines, a reminder they are the template for modern korean girl groups 

 

thee world is literally waiting for this Empresses. 2OTH ANNIVERSARY is going to be super culturally massive 

 

 

 

 

Now unto my hibernation 

 

 

 

[Sailor Moon]

now give us a comeback!

[Darkling]

Future nation bg (now Liizard is over) released another cute winter bop today 

 

 

[Queenyoncee]

There will lose all their artists 

 

[Darkling]

What I said 

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 10:20 AM by Darkling

[Pluto6]

11 hours ago, lgaga1fan said:

This comp is already so funny considering SKZ released 4 albums in 2018 and aespa released 2 songs 

Maybe it's because he literally claimed that aespa outstreamed SKZ every year when comparing each of their first 4 years, so I pulled out the receipts and debunked his claim 

 

9 hours ago, Eternium said:

Not calendar years  You're comparing a group that debuted in January to a group that debuted in November. Your argument holds no weight because you're trying to compare 358 days of SKZ (31 tracks) to 41 days of Aespa (1 track) to claim SKZ are bigger.

 

Aespa are significantly ahead of SKZ at the same point in their careers. SKZ have not yet passed 1B on Melon and they're still behind Aespa on Genie. Aespa are also performing better on Apple Music.

 

Spotify:

Aespa - 1,510 days - 3,435,090,944 (+4,965,140 daily)

Stray Kids - 1,604 days - Hit 3 billion on Spotify

 

Stray Kids hit 4 billion in 1,782 days and 5 billion in 1,981 days. If Aespa maintain their daily rate, they will gain 466,723,160 streams and hit 3,901,814,104 by their 1,604 day mark. By their 1,782 day mark, they'll add another 883,794,920 for a 4,785,609,024. And by their 1,981 day mark, they'll be hitting 6B. They are way ahead of SKZ now  
 

Here's how they're performing today:

Aespa only had one song in 2020 (Black Mamba on November 17th). Their second song was Forever (2/5/21). Then Next Level came out 5/17/21. Savage Mini gave us six songs on 10/5/21 and then their tenth song, Dreams Come True, came out 12/20/21.

 

For comparison, Stray Kids dropped their debut, Mixtape, on 1/8/18 with seven songs. They then followed it up with 8 more tracks on 3/26/18. They dropped another mini with 8 tracks on 8/6/18. Then 8 more tracks on 10/22/18. Then 8 more tracks on 3/25/19. Then 7 more on 6/19/19. Then 8 more on 12/19/19. 
 

I have no choice but to think he's playing daft by trying to compare Aespa's first 406 days with 10 tracks to SKZ's first 722 days with 54 tracks  

Btw, JYP acts didn't join Spotify until March 30 2018.

 

Anyways, the way you constantly wanna compare SKZ's first few years, when I myself acknowledged multiple times that SKZ's career started out slow  

And yet despite SKZ starting slow, aespa by the end of 2024 still wasn't able surpass SKZ's total numbers by the end of 2022  The fact that SKZ in their later half of their first 4 years (2020-2022) alone did almost the same numbers as aespa from debut to present which is 4 years   

 

If aespa were truly bigger than SKZ on streaming as you claim , they would've outstreamed them by now, just like how LE SSERAFIM and NewJeans managed to surpass aespa on Spotify, despite debuting later than them. 

 

SKZ with their back catalog alone are pulling in more streams yearly than aespa does in a year with multiple album releases + their catalog. They are not the same.

 

And it's funny how you wanna bring up Korean streaming platforms, when SKZ's total Spotify numbers ALONE is bigger than aespa's Spotify + Youtube + MelOn + Genie + every other music streaming platform COMBINED 

 

aespa will NEVER be bigger than SKZ on streaming or in general  The only 4th gen group that ever rivaled and truly gave SKZ a run for their money on streaming at some point was NewJeans who actually even managed to out stream SKZ in 2023. 

Edited yesterday at 10:38 AM by Pluto6

[elevate]

Lily just roasting the kids 

 

 

[elevate]

 

[Darkling]

 

Edited yesterday at 11:50 AM by Darkling

[Sheegs]

OH THEY ARE SO ******* BACK

[Zack]

2 hours ago, Queenyoncee said:

There will lose all their artists 

 

What is worse is that the official announcements said WENDY was not attending for "personal reasons" suggesting it's because she was sick, when she's really not. 

 

I don't know why SM keeps doing this. I guess her contract renewal is still not negotiated.