2nd Gen Girl Group solo careers rankings (any opinions?)

[EYA]

So I've been watching stuff about 2nd gen ggs members and honestly, it's not what I thought, I mean I knew idols don't really make much money in those 7 years unless they're the top groups but in reality, it's tragic, turns out half of them, tho coming from "successful" groups, are now having side jobs to survive, have tons of bills to pay and in debt, the best of them would be having regular jobs or found other careers to survive.

7 years ago those idols would be at the top of my list of potential successful solo careers but now I had to make a research to see who actually made it as a solo from 2nd gen top groups.

Note:

*This is just my opinion

*Group rankings are about the group's solo career as a whole, all members included, and not just one member so no Suzy or Hyuna if you know what I mean.

 

 Groups

     1. SNSD / T-ara

     2. 2ne1

     3. Wonder Girls

Individuals: (not necessarily in order)

Yoona, Suzy, Dara, Taeyeon, Jiyeon, Hyomin, Eunjung, Sunmi, CL, Soyeon, Hyuna, Eunji..

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Just in case you didn't know;

• Digitals don't have a big revenue, that is because a song download is less than 0,5$ while a stream is 0,01$
• artists earn only 3% of their discography's digital income; meaning 100M song streams (a hit) brings about 30K$ / 2,5M song downloads bring ~40K$
• Idols don't take a lot of revenue from their albums unless it's in their contract or the album is low budget, bug companies are known to give like 10% of revenue to their artists (which is low)
• Money-making careers: acting, commercials, regular TV activities, tours/fanmeets, songwriting..

 

 

Edited September 12, 2022 by EYA

[abra]

T-ara is my favourite group but I would not put them at rank #1 for success.

I'll start with listing some of the most successful solos from the second gen.

Taeyeon is first. Her solo career is much more successful than anyone else from the second gen.

The following tier would be Sunmi, Hyuna, Hyolyn, Jessica, Eunji and Ga-In. 

But musically my favourite soloist is Ga-In.

[EYA]

29 minutes ago, abra said:

T-ara is my favourite group but I would not put them at rank #1 for success.

I'll start with listing some of the most successful solos from the second gen.

Taeyeon is first. Her solo career is much more successful than anyone else from the second gen.

The following tier would be Sunmi, Hyuna, Hyolyn, Jessica, Eunji and Ga-In. 

But musically my favourite soloist is Ga-In.

Here are my arguments for my choices here:

• When I said group solos I meant solo careers within the groups meaning for Miss A for Ex, although Suzy is a legend by herself, the rest of the members don't have anything really while for 2ne1, all members are fully booked and busy and making money.
• I really couldn't rank SNSD and T-ara so I just put both at first.
• T-ara members (particularly EJ, HY, JY) have moderate to successful acting careers adding to the decent music they released, each member has her own commercials (actual money-makers) and other side careers including TV shows, hosting, songwriting...

           I really don't see how SNSD is above them, except Taeyeon and Yoona, the others have decent to successful careers but usually in one field (acting, Tv shows..) and not even THAT successful.

• Agree about your soloists except being successful/known doesn't mean you're earning money, which was the purpose of this thread, Hyolyn, for ex, doesn't earn as much as you think, yes she's doing well but she's nowhere near the rest simply because she mostly has digitals which bring her a few dollars, her physical sales are tragic, she only toured once? and it wasn't that big, she doesn't have many commercials either. Her biggest source of income is probably songwriting credits and random gigs (TV shows appearances, lives...)
• This is precisely why I put T-ara at the top; they're basically outdoing half of the industry in Money-making gigs.

Edited September 12, 2022 by EYA

[abra]

11 minutes ago, EYA said:

Here are my arguments for my choices here:

• When I said group solos I meant solo careers within the groups meaning for Miss A for Ex, although Suzy is a legend by herself, the rest of the members don't have anything really while for 2ne1, all members are fully booked and busy and making money.
• I really couldn't rank SNSD and T-ara so I just put both at first.
• T-ara members (particularly EJ, HY, JY) have moderate to successful acting careers adding to the decent music they released, each member has her own commercials (actual money-makers) and other side careers including TV shows, hosting, songwriting...

           I really don't see how SNSD is above them, except Taeyeon and Yoona, the others have decent to successful careers but usually in one field (acting, Tv shows..) and not even THAT successful.

• Agree about your soloists except being successful/known doesn't mean you're earning money, which was the purpose of this thread, Hyolyn, for ex, doesn't earn as much as you think, yes she's doing well but she's nowhere near the rest simply because she mostly has digitals which bring her a few dollars, her physical sales are tragic, she only toured once? and it wasn't that big, she doesn't have many commercials either. Her biggest source of income is probably songwriting credits and random gigs (TV shows appearances, lives...)
• This is precisely why I put T-ara at the top; they're basically outdoing half of the industry in Money-making gigs.

I thought you meant solos as music only! Now I understand it better

[Morgan]

Taeyeon, Yoona, Jessica & Seohyun for SNSD 

Sunmi for Wonder Girls

CL & Bom for 2NE1

Suzy for Miss A

HyunA for 4Minute

Nana & Kahi for After School

Krystal for f(x)

idk enough about T-ara and Kara's solo careers to fully say which members had the most success away from the group

[EYA]

11 hours ago, Morgan said:

Taeyeon, Yoona, Jessica & Seohyun for SNSD 

Sunmi for Wonder Girls

CL & Bom for 2NE1

Suzy for Miss A

HyunA for 4Minute

Nana & Kahi for After School

Krystal for f(x)

idk enough about T-ara and Kara's solo careers to fully say which members had the most success away from the group

I actually meant for a group as a whole but for individuals, I guess we have the same list.

For T-ara members Jiyeon, Hyomin and Eunjung should be up here because each has a big enough career in acting, music, or commercials..., the rest have careers but not THAT big. Mostly acting for Eunjung, Music/acting for Jiyeon and modeling for Hyomin.

[Aegyo]

YoonA, Taeyeon, Seohyun and Jessica from SNSD

Victoria and Krystal from f(x)

Suzy from Miss A

Sunmi from Wondergirls

HyunA from 4minute 

Nana from afterschool 

Hyolyn From Sistar 

Yura and Hyeri from Girls Day 

Apink Eunji 

Jiyeon from Tara