19 hours ago, Zack said:

Both Dirty Work and Rich Man were huge, they did not underperform.

 

SM tends to screw up with timing for aespa, they are always up against some huge hit or surprise viral success. It's happened ever since Next Level.

SM should try releasing in quiet months like January for a change.

Dirty Work was heavily targeted at the US and failed to take off whatsoever, even with a push to bulk buy digital single albums (I know that SM didn't submit the sales but it still wouldn't have charted very high). Combining 3 separate versions of the song puts it at about 81m streams. Whiplash was getting around 750-800k streams daily about 4 months after release, and Dirty work is getting 250-300k. Idk how you cant see that as a heavy underperformance. The video isn't performing on par, the song isn't performing on par

 

Rich Man is already DOA as another attempt at a cross promo single. 0 chart impact in the US, already out of the top 10 in Korea. On YouTube, their video has already been passed by Western pop acts (the acts that traditionally don't get views). Sabrina Carpenter's Tears and Lady Gaga's The Dead Dance both passed Rich Man with ease. Theyre failing to match their juniors H2H on Spotify too which is heavily embarassing. STYLE is getting the same numebr of daily streams as Dirty Work. It had an apple promo as well. 

 

You can try to spin it like these were huge singles but they weren't. They both pale in comparison to all of the other title tracks aespa put out in 2024. Let's compare! 

 

Supernova passed 100 million streams 2 months after release -> Dirty Work will be lucky to pass 100m streams within 6 months of release (it won't its already stalling). Supernova had two weeks of music show promotions, just like Dirty Work did. Dirty Work passed 100m digital points on circle in 2 months, while Supernova passed it in 4 weeks. The song is literally performing at half the pace of supernova. 

 

Armageddon also passed 100 million streams 2 months after it released. It's gained another 180 million streams since. Performed better than both TTs this year. It had two weeks of promo performances, just like Dirty Work did. In the time it took Dirty Work to pass 100m points on Circle, Armageddon passed 200m points

 

Whiplash passed 100 million streams 57 days after release. It's been 52 days since Rich Man came out and it's at 36 million, performing at less than half the pace Whiplash performed at. They also performed on music shows for two weeks.

 

This is the definition of UNDERPERFORMANCE. They aren't performing close to the level that their year-old singles were, theyre performing at or under HALF the numbers.  I get that you want to support your faves but its delulu to act like these singles are performing well. 

aespa has had another GREAT year! On to their 5th anniversary soon! 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 25, 2025Oct 25 by Zack

34 minutes ago, illia said:

Maybe if you stanned See That I would be kinder

 

Did you stan 2023 SOTY Party O'Clock? 

the biggest solo debut that somehow has 1/2 the streams of HOT btw

Jawnald Jrump lied 

Edited October 25, 2025Oct 25 by Sheep

1 minute ago, Pluto6 said:

Did you stan 2023 SOTY Party O'Clock? 

this + roller coaster ended blue waffle

 

1 minute ago, Pluto6 said:

Did you stan 2023 SOTY Party O'Clock? 

Roller Coaster kinda ended

 

 

1 minute ago, lgaga1fan said:

this + roller coaster ended blue waffle

 

OMG, another Party O'Clock enjoyer

 

Like I will never understand why it flopped so bad (it has only 38M streams on Spotify after 2 years) 

11 minutes ago, illia said:

Roller Coaster kinda ended

 

 

it's a cute pre-release, but I hate how it overshadowed the better song and the actual title track Party O'God

Edited October 25, 2025Oct 25 by Pluto6

So it's almost November. What's winning daesangs this season?

 

(and would KDH apply because then Golden might sweep)

I love NMIXX

I'm not crazy about them but they always deliver experimental and enjoyable songs and I use all of their releases. I loved O.O and Tank too  I'm really happy they finally got their flowers with Blue Valentine 

 

and not to mention they absolutely kill it live  

Edited October 25, 2025Oct 25 by Hazy

25 minutes ago, New Edition said:

So it's almost November. What's winning daesangs this season?

 

(and would KDH apply because then Golden might sweep)

Artist of the year: aespa 

Song of the year: HUNTR/X - Golden

Album of the Year: Stray Kids - Karma

 

we need this gif'd ASAP

 

Studio Choom: ❌

 

Studio Chaewon: ✔️

 

 

Now SHOWNU   

 

 

Her career is really random like that. How did she pop up in China rapping too  

Just watched Spaghetti and it just made me miss young posse's food trilogy era 

 

 

Edited October 25, 2025Oct 25 by Sheegs

 

40 minutes ago, Xalric said:

 

Her career is really random like that. How did she pop up in China rapping too  

She released a mandarin song and it did well (or better than expected) she s branching out since korea pays her dust all the time

 

 

 

the way Fix A Drink could be a huge hit in america

 

3 hours ago, Zack said:

aespa has had another GREAT year! On to their 5th anniversary soon! 

 

 

 

 

We love our underperforming queens. 

KISS OF LIFE situation is really disturbing how can a group can go from being loved to being hated that much that the public don't care about the member having their CCTV of their dorm and company leaked to the public to show they are dating. 

3 minutes ago, Xalric said:

KISS OF LIFE situation is really disturbing how can a group can go from being loved to being hated that much that the public don't care about the member having their CCTV of their dorm and company leaked to the public to show they are dating. 

Unless they're on stage twerking, nobody is thinking about them.