This is a question that I always had as a fearnot. Despite being met with great chart success during their earlier career,lesserafim never had that super hit that cemented their place in kpop like ive had for example with love dive.
During their antifragile-unforgive-perfect night run they were at the peak of their performance on the korean charts and I thought they had great potential to have their own magnus opus hit yet none of these songs became that. I thought the songs are good enough and at that time the group had enough traction for a huge megahit. The closest they got was with Perfect night but it didn’t become a supernova/love dive/ditto level hit.
Up until early 2024 with easy all their tts became top 5 hits. So why do you think that is? I think it’s partly because of their rocky start and partly because of the 2024 hate train. During debut,the garam scandal was so big that the korean gp boycotted the whole group till she was put on hiatus. It’s harder for a rookie group,that doesn’t have a big,established fanbase yet,to fully recover from that.
And the 2024 hate train was big enough that the korean gp also semi-boycotted them again. They went from charting within the top 5 on melon with easy shortly before it started to peaking in the top 40 with crazy just a few months later,even though it wasn’t worse than easy or a bad comeback at all.
At this point,I think they missed their chance on getting THAT hit. They are already on their 4th year and they don’t have the privilege of the “fresh new shiny thing” plus lukewarm comeback reception. Tho they do chart decently. So,what do y’all think?
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