NewJeans, Seventeen dominate Okay-pop scene in 20232 min read

Boy band Seventeen, left, and lady group NewJeans [EACH AGENCY]

 
In a 12 months of Okay-pop the place lady teams as soon as once more obtained the ears and boy bands the {dollars}, two bands emerged as champions unmatched by every other — NewJeans and Seventeen.
 
NewJeans’s “Ditto” (2022) and “Hype boy” (2022) had been the 2 most-streamed and downloaded songs of 2023 in line with information compiled by native gross sales tracker Circle Chart, from Jan. 1 to Dec. 23.
 
The lady group landed 4 songs on the highest 10 of the record of 200 digital track chart of 2023 in Korea: “Ditto” on No. 1, “Hype boy” on No. 2, “OMG” on No. 4 and “Consideration” (2022) on No. 8.
 
4 songs additionally landed on the highest 10 record of digital track chart globally: “OMG” on No. 1, “Ditto” on No. 2, “Tremendous Shy” on No. 5 and “Hype boy” on No. 6.
 
NewJeans’s second EP “Get Up” bought 1.6 million copies since its launch in July, the 18th highest quantity out of the 100 best-selling albums of 2023. The lady group bought a complete of 4.4 million copies of all of its albums this 12 months, the best for any Okay-pop lady group, in line with its company ADOR.
 

Lady group NewJeans [ADOR]

Boy band Seventeen [PLEDIS ENTERTAINMENT]

 
Seventeen, which additionally belongs to the identical HYBE umbrella as NewJeans, was the best-selling artist of Okay-pop, when it got here to albums.
 
The band’s tenth EP “FML” bought 5.5 million copies since its launch in April, the best not solely this 12 months however highest ever by any Okay-pop artist. The band’s eleventh EP “Seventeenth Heaven” was the No. 3 best-selling album with 4.8 million copies bought since October.
 
Yr-end charts usually present lady teams’ songs rating excessive relating to streams, however boy bands champion album gross sales figures because of their variations within the target market.
 
Lady teams cater to a bigger viewers of listeners, whereas boy bands purpose for a smaller pool of devoted fan golf equipment who willingly open up their wallets for his or her stars.
 

Boy band Stray Youngsters [JYP ENTERTAINMENT]

Lady group IVE [STARSHIP ENTERTAINMENT]

 
This 12 months, solely two out of 20 most-streamed and downloaded songs had been by male acts. Lady teams NewJeans, IVE, (G)-DLE, Le Sserafim and aespa scored excessive on the digital songs chart, whereas solely ballad singer Parc Jae-jung and BSS, a subunit of boy band Seventeen, landed on the chart.
 
Solely 5 albums by feminine acts — aespa, IVE, Twice and NewJeans — had been named on the highest 20 record of most-sold albums of 2023. Boy bands Seventeen, Stray Youngsters, NCT Dream, Tomorrow X Collectively, ZeroBaseOne and Enhypen had been the best-selling artists this 12 months, together with members Jungkook and V of boy band BTS.
 
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BY YOON SO-YEON [yoon.soyeon@joongang.co.kr]