Peony 387 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 There's charts and rankings for every little thing now. Daily, weekly, monthly, annually... Kpop websites create new rankings for fans to compete over. Fans hesitating to support nugu groups unless they pull a Momoland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feary 2,115 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Well, it's like being born into a cult. Since they are new, this type of chart obsession is all they know. It's only been getting worse. As for supporting Nugus, I'm really getting into Fromis although I wish they would change concepts but... And I'm also getting into The Boyz even though it's been like 3 days and I can't tell more than 2 apart. I've never struggled to learn idol group faces like I do with the boyz, especially Hwal and Kevin who I swear take turns shifting into each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimz 3,113 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Chart/ranking updates annoy the hell out of me simply because I see fans tweeting/posting about them every 5-10 minutes. If the updates came like every couple of hours or once or twice a day, I wouldn't be so annoyed. I get it. They sold 3 more albums in those ten minutes. I don't need an update about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kally 9,950 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 So what? Nothing wrong with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAE ZONE 10,428 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 some fans (new or old) care about charts and sales, and some fans don't care. this isn't something new. the rise of sns and the increase in translators 'amplifies' it, sure. but not a new thing in kpop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legendnctzen 210 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Yeah a lot of new stans even in western music are OBSESSED with chart positions and sales. I used to be ngl but now I don't even care, I just like the music for the way it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pururin 14,348 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 yes. new kpop fans first check gaon and melon and then pick who to stan. that's the current ritual of entrance to the world of kpop. back then these evil things didn't exist everyone only cared about the gee gee gee gee gee baby baby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FactMan 2,366 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 There's charts and rankings for every little thing now. Daily, weekly, monthly, annually... Kpop websites create new rankings for fans to compete over. Fans hesitating to support nugu groups unless they pull a Momoland Yes Especially whatever western ranking there possibly is So twice as bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honeybbh 2,957 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 There always has been that obsession it's part of stan culture after all But it is a lot worse today. Just yesterday I saw someone on twitter say they refuse to stan pentagon even though they like their music cause they're nugus... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geez 1,587 Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 most of them come from western fandoms, so yeah... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satoori 45,814 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Charts and rankings are great! And I'm proud when my favs do great! But that doesn't stop me from learning about nugus too. Recently I've been interested in fromis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riyuu 745 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Don't know which is the end which is the beginning. Probably a cycle but it happened more or less because of, 1. Frequent flop name calling. Naturally fans would find their way to prove them wrong. How? Well. Physical sale. Digital. Youtube views. You know, chart. Gotta collect all the receipt. Aren't fun when people call your best-selling bias a flop, now is it. Even group that do well nowadays still got called a flop group. Must have triggered some fans. Tbh they do have a reason to be triggered. 2. Bragging rights, 'my bias is better than yours', 'the king', 'the queen', etc. Tho if we want to be honest, it's fandom culture. Don't join any fandom. Listen to the song. Stay away from twitter fanwar. Happy life 101. Fans hesitating to support nugu groups unless they pull a Momoland They are afraid of getting grilled in a fandom war. That's why just listen to the music in peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Bo Yum 467 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Like idk but usually people don’t get interested in sales until they are like a huge kpop stan... like I didn’t even know what melon or gaon was until prob like 5 months in. Personally I like the numbers/data and my favs doing well... but plenty of people don’t care. Also I don’t know why people act like this is new. I remember when I was in to one direction we were all trying to get their albums charting high on billboard and tried to break “most views in 24 hours†records and that was in 2012/2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Star 32 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 More like youtube rankings and Bb rank sht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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