Rank the top kpop girl groups!

[KameKun]

Agree with most of your list except I would firmly put Red Velvet in 3rd place over Mamamoo. Let's compare metrics. 

Albums that sold over 100K:  

Red Velvet = 7    (Rookie, The Red Summer, Summer Magic, RBB,  The Reve Festival Day 1, Day 2, Finale)

Mamamoo= 1    (Reality in Black)

 

MV views over 100 Million+

Red Velvet = 7    (Ice Cream Cake, Dumb Dumb, Russian Roulette, Red Flavor, Peek-a-Boo, Bad Boy, Psycho) 

Mamamoo = 2   (Starry Night, HIP) 

 

Title tracks that achieved Gaon's Digital platinum status (2.5 million+ copies sold)

Red Velvet: 3    (Russian Roulette, Red Flavor & Bad Boy)

Mamamoo: 2    (Décalcomanie & Starry Night) 

 

Longest charting title tracks on Melon (20+ weeks)

Red velvet: 7      Red Flavor - 65 weeks           

                             Russian Roulette - 39 weeks   

                             Dumb Dumb - 30 weeks

                             Rookie - 27 weeks 

                             Bad Boy - 27 weeks

                             Peek-a-Boo - 25 weeks

                             Ice Cream Cake - 20 weeks

 

Mamamoo: 5      Décalcomanie - 43 weeks

                              Starry Night - 34 weeks

                              You're The Best - 31 weeks

                              Um Oh Ah Yeah - 28 weeks

                              Egotistic - 23 weeks

 

Music Show Wins: 

Red Velvet: 73    (Won triple crowns on all 3 Korean public broadcasting stations KBS, MBC & SBS) 

Mamamoo: 41   (Won triple crowns on 1 Korean public broadcasting station SBS)

 

Spotify Monthly Listeners 

Red Velvet: 4.4 Million 

Mamamoo: 2.6 Million 

 

Most #1's on iTunes worldwide

Red Velvet: 44 countries 

Mamamoo: 18 countries 

 

Instagram Followers

Red Velvet: 8.7 Million

Mamamoo: 3.6 Million 

 

Twitter Followers

Red Velvet: 2.4 Million

Mamamoo: 1.2 Million 

 

None of the Red Velvet members have made their solo debut yet so you cant really compare that metric. However as far as public recognition goes, both Red Velvet and Mamamoo have their respective "it" girls Irene and Hwasa. Both are insanely popular in Korea with multiple CF's and endorsement deals and both have consistently topped the brand reputation rankings many times in the past.

However I do think collectively, Red Velvet members are much more balanced in popularity than Mamamoo which is why I give them an edge over this as both Seulgi and Joy have been topping the rankings in recent months. For example in the most recent March brand reputation ranking ALL Red Velvet members rank in the top 30 list with Joy, Irene and Seulgi all ranking in the top 10. Hwasa also ranks in the top 10 but is the ONLY member of Mamamoo to rank in the top 30 list at all. 

Also on top of that, Gallup Korea (very renowned list) released their top artists ranking for 2019 and the only female idol groups to rank in the top 10 are Twice (#6) & Red Velvet (#8). This list is determined by research and public respondents so it's a pretty accurate measure of public recognition. Red Velvet are either on par/beats Mamamoo in almost every category and for that reason I would place them 3rd. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2020 by soneluvie