Idol popularity and J-HOPE
아이돌 인기와 J-HOPE
BTS is currently absent from the US.
They are not doing any notable activities in Korea or Asia.
In the meantime, J-HOPE’s mixtape (originally a cassette tape containing songs remixed by hip-hop DJs. Now a CD?) has been released.
American fans have been waiting for this. The numbers in the article show it.
J-HOPE is showing up in various categories such as Billboard’s ‘Billboard 200’ at 63rd place, ‘World Albums’ at 1st place, and ‘Top Album Sales’, ‘World Digital Song Sales’, ‘Artist 100’, ‘Hope World’, and ‘Artist 100’.
Out of these, I paid attention to ‘Billboard 200’ at 63rd place.
As a K-POP solo singer, J-HOPE seems to have entered the top 100 for the first time.
It was surprising that he had never been alone until now.
Even BIGBANG, which boasts great popularity in Asia and is thought to be popular in the West, barely made it into the top 200.
Or rather, only four people were sent into the top 200 (BoA (127th), BIGBANG's SOL (112th), SHINee's Jung Hyun (117th), BIGBANG's G-DRAGON (161st)).
Of these, BoA is thought to have achieved it quite a while ago, but after BIGBANG's SOL, it has been a story of the past 1-2 years.
It is presumed that after BIGBANG's SOL, BTS's popularity began to penetrate the US.
BTS is popular as a group.
However, it is often said that the penetration of individual members is low. The members of BIGBANG are also being compared.
BIGBANG members are known worldwide, but BTS is stuck in the group's popularity.
If it's a phenomenon in Japan, it's understandable. It's obvious from the difference in the number of dome performances.
In terms of the globalization of K-POP, the individual name recognition of BTS members is considerable, and I would like to say that they are now surpassing BIGBANG.
This mixtape's hit can be said to be a good example of that.
Artist popularity can be measured by the letters or numbers left on paper.
However, idol popularity seems to be like the air that bubbles create and inflates.
You can expand your imagination on the back of letters or numbers, but humans who cannot clearly observe the current soap bubbles themselves are always slow in their thinking.
Right now, J-HOPE's soap bubbles are dancing a few degrees in clean colors...
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