[Sports Chosun] 2020 Power People of the Industry (20 Entertainment Agencies voted)

[satoori]

20 Entertainment Agencies voted on the top boy and girl group, top soloist, hot rookie, and top producer

In celebration of Sports Chosun’s 30 year anniversary, entertainment company employees from a total of 20 music agencies were asked to cast their votes for the top boy group, top girl group, top soloist, hot rookie, and top producer of 2020.

Representatives from the following 20 companies including SM, JYP, Big Hit, Woollim, Pledis, Play M, Cre.ker, Cube, Blockberry Creative, MLD, FNC, The Music Works, KQ, Maroo, Source Music, RBW, P-NATION, Swing, Music K, and Yuehwa participated in the voting.

Top Boy Group
BTS (94 points)
EXO (52)
SEVENTEEN (42)
MONSTA X (21)
NU’EST (20)
NCT (15)
GOT7 (13)
ATEEZ (9)
TXT (7)
BIGBANG (6)
SF9 (5)
Shinhwa (4)
SuperM (3)
H.O.T (2)
Super Junior, 2PM, Golden Child, PENTAGON, ONEUS (1)

Top Girl Group
TWICE (83)
Red Velvet (45)
BLACKPINK (40)
IZ*ONE (25)
(G)I-DLE (24)
MAMAMOO (21)
LOONA (12)
ITZY (8)
GFRIEND (10)
Girls’ Generation (5)
Wonder Girls (4)
AOA, Fin.K.L, MOMOLAND (2)
2NE1, Dreamcatcher, EVERGLOW (1)

Top Soloist
IU (74)
Taeyeon (57)
Chungha (42)
Zico (29)
Sunmi (19)
Paul Kim (11)
Kang Daniel (10)
Baek Yerin (9)
Song Gain (6)
Rain (5)
Yang Joon Il, Lee Hyori, Taemin, Heize (4)
Kim Gunmo, Baekhyun (3)
Luri (2)
Chen, Hwasa, Jeon Somi (1)

Hot Rookie
ITZY (56)
TXT (43)
ATEEZ (30)
AB6IX (9)
EVERGLOW (6)
(G)I-DLE, Park Hyewon, ANS (5)
LOONA (4)
Kang Daniel, VERIVERY, Baek Yerin (3)
CIX, DKB, Kim Jaehwan (1)

Top Producer
Bang Si Hyuk - Bighit (71)
Lee Soo Man - SM (29)
Park Jin Young - JYP (21)
Pdogg - Bighit (19)
ZICO (14)
Kim Do Hoon (6)
Teddy - YG (5)
Changmo (4)
Slow Rabbit - Bighit (3)
Lee Deun Jung, Park Woo Sang, Giriboy, Jo Young Soo, Bumzu, Yoon Jong Shin (1)

 

 

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Edited March 21, 2020 by satoori
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[satoori]

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Sports Chosun 30th Anniversary Survey: "Power people of the Industry"

Participants included Big Hit, SM, JYP, Cube etc

For the Top Boy Group category, BTS was the overwhelming #1 with 90% of the vote (18/20)

When asked for a reason why, majority said "do we need a reason?"

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Edited March 21, 2020 by satoori
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[satoori]

More about the point system:

In celebration of Sports Chosun’s 30 year anniversary, the media outlet polled officials from 20 different entertainment agencies including SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, Big Hit Entertainment, and more. The officials from the agencies were asked to vote for their Top 5 in each category, with 1st place receiving 5 points and 5th place receiving 1 point. The points were then tallied to see who the industry officials believe are the top in each category.

Edited March 21, 2020 by satoori
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[hynapia]

Surprised at RV above BP, Gidle above Mamamoo and Loona above ITZY and Gfriend.

The rookie list has some surprises too. Verivery and even some nugu groups like ANS and DKB are in the list while more popular rookies like Oneus, Cherry Bullet, Rocket Punch, Bvndit or even MCND don't appear.

[Drama Drama Drama]

4 minutes ago, hynapia said:

Surprised at RV above BP, Gidle above Mamamoo and Loona above ITZY and Gfriend.

The rookie list has some surprises too. Verivery and even some nugu groups like ANS and DKB are in the list while more popular rookies like Oneus, Cherry Bullet, Rocket Punch, Bvndit or even MCND don't appear.

Stray Kids not appear

Surprised with local rising of SF9 and Golden Child

The rest was expected

[lighterxx]

Wow loona above itzy?? Im surprised o.o

 

Congrats to everyone, and especially seventeen hello babies you did good

[godblessdelulu]

Twice at top, and Loona too, don't ever underestimate them!

[Lee]

Source: Soompi

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Concerning the top boy groups, BTS took the first spot with 94 points. About 90 percent (18) of the participating officials chose BTS as the best boy group. BTS achieved records that no other Korean artist did before, and their recent album “Map of the Soul: 7” and swept the world’s major music charts, including the U.S. Billboard, British Official, and Japanese Oricon. In particular, BTS has entered Billboard 200, the Billboard’s main album chart for four consecutive albums, including “Love Yourself: Answer,” “Love Yourself: Tear,” “Map of the Soul: Persona,” and “Map of the Soul: 7.” In all of the world’s music history, the group showed its ability to enter four albums in the shortest time since the Beatles.

As such, officials highly rated BTS’s milestone. One official said, “Even now when they’re moving beyond Korea to the top of the world, BTS is constantly thinking about music, performance, and tour. When I see them practicing, their passion makes me wonder if they are a rookie group. Their constant effort, unwavering courteousness from debut until now, and self-management without a single major accident seems to help them maintain their current popularity.”

EXO took second place with 52 points. One official noted, “EXO is a nine-year-old group. The fact that such a group is united without a single major accident in itself supports how well they manage themselves and how good their characters are.”

SEVENTEEN came in third with 42 points. Officials highly evaluated the group for their self-production, Japan dome tours, and large-scale world tours.

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As for the best girl groups, TWICE came in first with 83 points. They came out on top with various hit songs, such as “Cheer Up,” “TT,” and “Feel So Good.” They were also considered for their popularity abroad. TWICE proved themselves to be the best K-pop girl group last year by successfully wrapping up their Japan dome tour, and they also won three gold medals at Japan’s Gold Disc Awards. Recently, JYP has signed an agreement with U.S. Republic Records and declared that it will speed up its world-wide move, raising further expectations.

Second place went to Red Velvet with 45 points. They gained immense popularity with their unique music and concept. One official said, “Red Velvet’s concept is something very new that no girl group has ever shown. That’s why I thinki fans always look forward to what kind of music and concept they’ll show for each comeback.”

BLACKPINK was ranked third with 40 points. Their songs “BOOMBAYA,” “Whistle,” and “Playing with Fire” achieved great success on music charts as well as YouTube. An official said, “When BLACKPINK debuted for the first time, there were some people who liked and disliked them as some had dubbed them as the ‘visually upgraded 2NE1.’ However, as time went by, they proved that not only their looks but also their skills and individuality were outstanding.”

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IU was voted as the best solo artist with 74 points. Starting with “Good Day,” all of her songs have swept the music charts. One official commented, “IU is doing well in various genres of the music field. Not only does she have a solid fandom, but she is also an artist with a wide range of popularity, and she has maintained the top position in all aspects, including her ability to compose, sing, and make headlines.”

Second place went to Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon with 57 points. Taeyeon has been successful with her solo activities, and her second album “Purpose” and the repackage album topped music charts. An official pointed out her greatest point is that she is a vocalist with outstanding singing ability who can pull off various concepts.

With 42 points, Chungha came in third. She started off in “Produce 101” and participated in I.O.I. until she started her successful solo career. One official said she shows her presence as a solo artist with strong performance and vocal skills.

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Concerning the best rookies, ITZY landed in first place with 56 points. The girl group became a hot topic with their debut in February 2019 with “DALLA DALLA.” An official remarked, “There are many girl groups that stand out, and among them, ITZY is a group where each member stands out, and they draw attention to what concept they will impress the public with next.”

With 43 points, TXT took second place. From Big Hit Entertainment, they received a lot of interest for being labelmates with BTS. One official pointed out they are rising stars who are dubbed ‘the second BTS’ who stole the spotlight with their unique concepts and skills.

ATEEZ was ranked third with 30 points. ATEEZ is a team that is building its own musical color with its soulful choreography and free-spirited concept. They are also expanding their scope by being recognized for their powerful performances, and they even showed tremendous growth by hosting a world tour with more than 10,000 seats in just over two years since their debut.

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The fifth and final category that was on the survey was for the top producers. First place went to Big Hit’s Bang Shi Hyuk who earned a total of 71 points. BTS was also chosen as one of the top producers with 19 points, making Big Hit a power house for productions. One official explained Bang Shi Hyuk deserves to be No. 1 because he was a pioneer who was able to recognize and capture the value of BTS and Pdogg. They said Big Hit also has great business capabilities.  The company not only increased its size by conducting mergers and acquisitions with Source Music and other companies, but also built a solid loyalty by creating a dedicated platform to provide the same services to global fandom at the same time.

SM’s Lee Soo Man took second place with 29 points. He is a veteran producer who helped raise various idols, such as SHINee, EXO, NCT, BoA, and more, to stardom. An official said, “It is amazing that he gave success to girl groups and boy groups with various concepts within the genre of ‘SMP.’  It was also Lee Soo Man who pioneered the Japanese market and created the first generation of the Hallyu culture by conducting aggressive overseas marketing with BoA and TVXQ. We cannot discuss K-pop and idols without Lee Soo Man.”

Park Jin Young was ranked third with 21 points for producing songs for JYP idols, such as Wonder Girls, Miss A, TWICE, ITZY, 2PM, and 2AM, as well as himself. One official shared, “Park Jin Young is a producer who works on the basis of genius. Even if there have been many issues recently, expectations for Park’s music and the groups he presents remain high.”

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[hynapia]

7 hours ago, Drama Drama Drama said:

Stray Kids not appear

Surprised with local rising of SF9 and Golden Child

The rest was expected

Yeah, I'm surprised at that too. I know SKZ is not well known in Korea but that's the same case for ATEEZ and they're #3 for rookies and #8 for boygroups.

[satoori]

Just now, hynapia said:

Yeah, I'm surprised at that too. I know SKZ is not well known in Korea but that's the same case for ATEEZ and they're #3 for rookies and #8 for boygroups.

( @Drama Drama Drama)

This is a "power" people survey voted on by the ent. companies

It seems many factors are being consider outside of popularity in Korea. These companies know that's not the only key to being powerful in the industry. A group's impact on the industry overall, potential, and global power seem to be some of other factors.

Right now, Ateez is basically seen as the group that "potentially" will do very like BTS. That small company underdog that will shock everyone later. They have more buzz and media attention then SKZ internationally too. SKZ has a big fandom for rookies, but that's about it. People rarely talk about SKZ anymore,  even ifans. JYPE is not good with keeping the momentum.

Also this interesting...

"The officials from the agencies were asked to vote for their Top 5 in each category, with 1st place receiving 5 points and 5th place receiving 1 point. The points were then tallied to see who the industry officials believe are the top in each category."

So does that suggest no one agency voted for SKZ...not even as their last pick? not even JYPE?...

[Drama Drama Drama]

14 minutes ago, satoori said:

( @Drama Drama Drama)

This is a "power" people survey voted on by the ent. companies

It seems many factors are being consider outside of popularity in Korea. These companies know that's not the only key to being powerful in the industry. A group's impact on the industry overall, potential, and global power seem to be some of other factors.

Right now, Ateez is basically seen as the group that "potentially" will do very like BTS. That small company underdog that will shock everyone later. They have more buzz and media attention then SKZ internationally too. SKZ has a big fandom for rookies, but that's about it. People rarely talk about SKZ anymore,  even ifans. JYPE is not good with keeping the momentum.

Also this interesting...

"The officials from the agencies were asked to vote for their Top 5 in each category, with 1st place receiving 5 points and 5th place receiving 1 point. The points were then tallied to see who the industry officials believe are the top in each category."

So does that suggest no one agency voted for SKZ...not even as their last pick? not even JYPE?...

JYPE is done with SKZ?

Another GOT7 with high middle success?

Thanks for the details

[satoori]

Just now, Drama Drama Drama said:

JYPE is done with SKZ?

Another GOT7 with high middle success?

Thanks for the details

No problem!

I also find it strange that not even JYPE voted for them. Even with just 1 point, SKZ would of made the list at the bottom.

So JYPE has given up on them...but why? It's to early. Did something happen? Do JYPE have plans to debut another rookie boy group soon? 

[Mehhh]

wbk that RV is more popular than BP in SK

and Queen Taeyeon did that 

[topcat554]

I read a translation of this article on Twitter that stated company representatives could not vote for their own groups. I don't think this article mentions it so it may, or may not, be true. 

[satoori]

Just now, topcat554 said:

I read a translation of this article on Twitter that stated company representatives could not vote for their own groups. I don't think this article mentions it so it may, or may not, be true. 

I don't remember that ever being the case before with this survey tho

but maybe there was a new rule change about who companies could vote for?...idk

[Saram]

Lee Soo man is a producer?  that's a news for me lol

[rananicolee]

2 minutes ago, Saram said:

Lee Soo man is a producer?  that's a news for me lol

Yeah he produces most of the albums for SM groups and produced a song for Loona. 

[Aphrodisiac]

Ayyeeeee look at RV

[hynapia]

1 hour ago, satoori said:

( @Drama Drama Drama)

This is a "power" people survey voted on by the ent. companies

It seems many factors are being consider outside of popularity in Korea. These companies know that's not the only key to being powerful in the industry. A group's impact on the industry overall, potential, and global power seem to be some of other factors.

Right now, Ateez is basically seen as the group that "potentially" will do very like BTS. That small company underdog that will shock everyone later. They have more buzz and media attention then SKZ internationally too. SKZ has a big fandom for rookies, but that's about it. People rarely talk about SKZ anymore,  even ifans. JYPE is not good with keeping the momentum.

Also this interesting...

"The officials from the agencies were asked to vote for their Top 5 in each category, with 1st place receiving 5 points and 5th place receiving 1 point. The points were then tallied to see who the industry officials believe are the top in each category."

So does that suggest no one agency voted for SKZ...not even as their last pick? not even JYPE?...

I wouldn't say that. I still see a lot of stays in social media (especially stan twitter) and their last album sold +200k. But I agree that ATEEZ is more hyped right now.

Some stuff in the list is still weird tho. For example Loona above ITZY, when ITZY literally has a smash hit song and better sales and views. Or G-idle above Mamamoo, when Mamamoo has plenty of hit songs and public recognition in Korea and even a lot of i-fans.

Edited March 21, 2020 by hynapia

[car door guy]

BTS obviously. TXT doing great already. Also, RV seems to be rising, which is interesting to achieve this much into their career (congrats!).

[satoori]

42 minutes ago, hynapia said:

I wouldn't say that. I still see a lot of stays in social media (especially stan twitter) and their last album sold +200k. But I agree that ATEEZ is more hyped right now.

Some stuff in the list is still weird tho. For example Loona above ITZY, when ITZY literally has a smash hit song and better sales and views. Or G-idle above Mamamoo, when Mamamoo has plenty of hit songs and public recognition in Korea and even a lot of i-fans.

As I said earlier,  SKZ have a big fandom for rookies. So seeing their fans on sns and having high album sales makes sense. But I was talking about general buzz/attention among the international community. Meaning not just stans of SKZ. Notice how even on OH Ateez is talked about way more then SKZ among non-stans too.

I don't agree with everything on the list either, however I don't think there's anything "weird" about it.

Loona (12) and ITZY (8), a 4 point difference. We simply don't know what the break down looks like. For example with Loona...It could be 12 companies picked them as their last choice, or 6 companies picked them as their 4th place, or 2 companies picked them as their 1st and 1 as their 4th place, etc. etc

Every company have different opinions. The fact IZTY was ranked #1 on the rookie list could show many of the companies still view them as just rookies, and don't want to consider them a "power" people yet for the overall GG rank. 

Gidle another group like Ateez, many see them having great potential internationally.

Edited March 21, 2020 by satoori

[Aquamaraqua]

IDLE at #5. Daehan Minguk is awaiting their comeback as well it seems hehe

[CandyCane23049]

3 hours ago, satoori said:

No problem!

I also find it strange that not even JYPE voted for them. Even with just 1 point, SKZ would of made the list at the bottom.

So JYPE has given up on them...but why? It's to early. Did something happen? Do JYPE have plans to debut another rookie boy group soon? 

How did JYPE give up on SK when they have teasers coming as of today for a new mixtape and just release their old songs with current members? 

 

Anywho, shoutout to GOT7 who promotions are dismal.

Edited March 21, 2020 by CandyCane23049

[satoori]

3 hours ago, CandyCane23049 said:

How did JYPE give up on SK when they have teasers coming as of today for a new mixtape and just release their old songs with current members? 

 

Anywho, shoutout to GOT7 who promotions are dismal.

First off; We're all just throwing around questions here. Nothing is absolute set in stone and/or a fact. 

JYPE was able to pick 5 groups for the BG category.And SKZ could still be classified as rookies?,so JYPE had 5 there too. So it's not strange to question why JYPE didn't pick SKZ.

 

edit: Now I'm wondering who were the 5 BGs and 5 rookies groups JYPE voted for. 

 

Edited March 21, 2020 by satoori

[stp87]

1 hour ago, CandyCane23049 said:

How did JYPE give up on SK when they have teasers coming as of today for a new mixtape and just release their old songs with current members? 

 

Anywho, shoutout to GOT7 who promotions are dismal.

lol truth, I wonder if any of the people who voted for this realize that or if they are oblivious.

7th is respectable and nice and i don't want to be greedy. but I was hoping for the 4 or 5 spot.(I think we all pretty much knew/assumed who would be in the top 3)  happy for MX. they did exactly what got7 should've done in the past - go to US promote.  Must be nice to work for a company that gives a bleep about promoting their artists.

congrats to all other artists too

Edited March 21, 2020 by stp87