Snsd is surely one of the top 2-3 girl groups in terms of successful career in korea. They've stopped being the trend in the last 2 years or maybe more so right now no they are not the biggest gg and I highly doubt they'll be back at the top.
If we're talking about korea the biggest gg right now is Twice without a doubt, on an international lvl prob Little Mix even though there are other possible contenders (let's not forget BlackPink reached n1 on US iTunes with Square One and all of the members are fluent in english so they're most likely going to promote in the states/uk in the near future, they have potential).
Also, LMAO at the TWICE stans running in here to drag SNSD. How can you drag SNSD when:
1. TWICE doesn't even have the sales or charts receipts to beat them
2. Everything TWICE does is a literal ripoff of SNSD. TT being a knockoff of Gee, CHEER UP stealing the visuals from Oh! 9 girls, etc.
Without SNSD, TWICE wouldn't even exist.
TT sounds nothing like Gee and SNSD didn't invent football-themed videos, the Cheer Up video is actually based on so much more than that.
And I'm not considering 2ne1 cause they disbanded unfortunately but they've sold more than snsd in like half the time and with only 2 studio albums compared to 8 snsd released.
That Wikipedia article
AKB48 surpassed 40 million physical singles in November, besides, Japan has messy charts. For example Oricon reports 1,5 million for Tsubasa wa Iranai and Billboard and Soundscan report 2,5 million. And we still have to add all the digital sales
Girl, this isn't even accurate.
SNSD's digital sales on Gaon alone (which was created in 2010) are 64,781,411+, and even that number is super outdated.
that's not even including album sales, non-GAON sales, Japan or any other countries.
Lol, this is inaccurate and out of date. The SNSD number doesn't even have a source
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Originally posted by BlazingLovatic
Girl, this isn't even accurate.
SNSD's digital sales on Gaon alone (which was created in 2010) are 64,781,411+.
that's not even including album sales, non-GAON sales, Japan or any other countries.
Mess, I'm not saying it's accurate tho. I should've clarified that in the post. I know better than to believe wikipedia.
And I'm not considering 2ne1 cause they disbanded unfortunately but they've sold more than snsd in like half the time and with only 2 studio albums compared to 8 snsd released.
False. SNSD has surpassed 2ne1 and is over 60 mil if I remember correctly. Stop making facts up.
With any group with over 8 members you have to start dividing the success a LOT. So no, only BTS and 2NE1 are the only big K/J/Asian-Pop acts on a world scale.
Girl, this isn't even accurate.
SNSD's digital sales on Gaon alone (which was created in 2010) are 64,781,411+, and even that number is super outdated.
that's not even including album sales, non-GAON sales, Japan or any other countries.
No. SNSD are my ****ing faves and they are the legendary mothers that birthed K-pop girl groups. But AKB48 is literally the biggest in terms of size and in terms of sales. No one can or ever will top them.
Poor TWICE fans!
S.E.S. is the blueprint for all of kpop girls groups not snsd.