Clarification about SNSD

[tingavai]

After operating on Onehallyu for a while, I noticed that a lot of sones and nonfans alike seem to have a tendency to believe that snsd only got big after Gee and Wonder girls going to America, this is completely false. With the way SM operated at the time, SNSD will be thrown away if they did not see the strength the girls have. Yes, they are not as well known musically as wonder girls in Korea, but individually, Taeyeon and Yoona was not any bit less well known than any of the wonder girls (Sohee with her "omona" included) thanks to "If" and "You are my destiny", Hell, Yoona was even more well-known, Jang Sae-byuk was everywhere at the time (for anyone too young to know, that's Yoona's character). and the other girls appeared on TV like crazy. And SNSD as a whole only pale in comparison to wonder girls, but that's only digitally, their physical is much much more stronger than wonder girls (120k with 1 album for snsd and less than 80k with 2 for wonder girls)

 

 

 

 

Here's the source for anyone interested: https://web.archive.org/web/20081203032946/http://www.miak.or.kr/stat/kpop_200809.htm

 

As can be seen, SNSD's situation at the time is good digital, great physical, good public recognition while wonder girls is great digitall, average physical, max public recognition, and after Gee, well, it's max digital, max physical, max public recognition. What I'm trying to say is SNSD at the time is already stronger than all other girl groups, it just seem like they are weak because almost all boygroups fandoms ganging up on them.

[gayporn]

_{yas gurl teach these peasants}

[Happy_04]

You right but antis and haters always said opposites..

[vanillalatte]

yes omg finally someone said this

taeyeon's if and yoona's drama was sooooo popular back then

and snsd even won 1st place @ MCountdown with ITNW

 

at first i thought they won first time with kissing you, but it's not. they are already popular since the beginning, building their fandom and popularity slowly but sure.

[Chae'sBian Park]

_{yas gurl teach these peasants}

[vocabulary]

I agree about with everything. I still listen to Taeyeon's If TBH

[Yul-aholic]

Most people who believe Soshi only succeed because Wonder Girls went to the US (actually they were still in South Korea when Gee was released) are bitter antis who parrot whatever it's convenient to them and don't even bother to check the facts. Glad you brought some receipts and ended their delusion.

[taeyeon's jawline]

yes OP let these rats KNOW

 

i was there at the time, OPs tea is scalding hot

 

[feel it yum]

Nvrm

[JiMiJu]

Some people just want to detract from SNSD's success. 

[Gacha]

real facts!

[mimiou91]

soooo true let them ive in their imagiation

[huffpuff]

Thanks for posting this 

[Sophi Sone]

They are undermining Soshi's hard work with nonsense. Probably just couldn't accept how strong our girls, now ladies, are. Now that there are millions of SONES always with Soshi, we won't let that happen again.

[JihyoIsAQueen]

Soshi built their fame step by step and it was obvious that they will make it big cause they had everything right going out for them , even if wg stayed in kore , nothing would have changed the fact that they would still rock the top ranks as a top girl group