Disclaimer: This is totally for fun, and more about understanding trends in kpop than putting anyone down!
Sports Chosun, a publication in Korea, used to do girl group rankings. I believe they were normally compiled through fan input, but also had some input from industry professionals. I believe these were mostly done 2012-2016-ish. Here’s an example from 2013.
I was thinking about how a ranking of this sort might look sooo different now, especially because the industry is populated by different generations’ groups at the same time. Like, how can you even rank MAMAMOO on the same scale as izna, since they debuted on such different timelines? But most likely, they’re both going to be active this year, so that’s interesting. We can clearly see just how much BIGGER kpop is as an industry now.
The concept of changing popularity rankings is mostly interesting to me as a matter of history/trends/understanding how the industry and music are changing, so I’m curious if people have ideas of how they would attempt to organize/who they would put where. Is there anyone who has skyrocketed up recently/have there been major shakeups that come to mind for you?
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