here in korea it’s gotta be seventeen, stray kids or NCT. not sure about internationally, maybe stray kids?

People saying BTS are missing the point - OP asked for most popular besides BTS. We know they're still the most popular domestic and international lol

they had a sold out fanmeeting a few months ago, and two sold out concerts at seoul’s second biggest venue (after the olympic stadium) two weeks ago. not every group can do that, they’re definitely immensely popular here. also i’m a teacher here and they’re the only boy group i’ve ever seen my kids mention (including BTS), so they’ve gotta be doing something right. koreans really love felix’s visuals, he’s the only male photocard i’ve ever seen in a korean’s phone - it’s usually an ive or aespa member

seventeen is really dominating the korean charts this year so i would say them for korea, but i would say stray kids internationally (they are definitely going to end up beating seventeen’s latest preorder album sales records next week lol)

i’m sorry but this simply isn’t true lol. ‘nugu’ literally means ‘who’, and they’re from a big 4 company and easily one of the biggest 4th gen boy groups. they broke the record for most orders in hanteo charting history with their last comeback, and they’re predicted to take that record back from seventeen next week. the meme of changbin’s rap from S-Class was huge here in korea when the song came out, it was a big tiktok thing. i hear their songs in shops and cafes all the time. there’s absolutely no metric by which stray kids are considered ‘nugu’, they’re huge here

SEVENTEEN NCT SKZ

There are actually a lot of Stray Kids fans when you talk to the current group of Korean college students.

SEVENTEEN comes first, but I would put NCT and Stray Kids close to each other after that.

I think that their fans were just younger and less noticeable. But now that the fans are in high school and college, they are becoming more noticeable online.

I wonder if the same thing will be true of NMIXX in a couple years.

I have a feeling they’ll focus on solo works like BTS since some members have been putting out solo releases lately and they seem really interested in it. Plus, their bond as a group is really strong. They probably do not want to promote with a member/s missing. But if they promote as 11, that might affect their sales a bit. One of the two oldest members, Jeonghan, is one of the most popular members, being the most popular in some countries like Japan. And S.Coups is pretty popular too. I can imagine that this will affect some people’s interest to support their OT11 comebacks. They’ll still earn success and good amount of sales, but it will probably be a bit less than what they’re getting right now.

Yeah skz is dominating the west and seventeen most of Asia

It’s still BTS, but if you’re asking for the second most popular boy group, then probably Seventeen or Stray Kids. Their fandoms have gotten huge over the years, and they’ve been breaking lots of records recently. Seventeen seems to be more popular in Korea than SKZ, while SKZ seems to be more popular internationally. But they’re pretty much neck and neck.

Sadly though, Seventeen will also be entering their enlistment era soon as two of their oldest members (95 liners) will have to enlist by 2024.

shouldn’t bp be included if u are including streams and brand rep… they were able to get number 1 in brand rep this year and hit 3B streams despite having only 1 new single and headlined the most popular us music festival and had the highest grossing K-pop tour of all time with like 1.7M attendees that was 100% sold out just to name a few things so I think not releasing an album shouldn’t discredit them considering they were on tour until September

lets talk about the most popular ACTIVE bg and gg who made waves around the world. Also a little heads, i tried to fit in all the groups based on charting and sales, touring, brand rep, etc. so popularity isn't something that can be quantified easily.

Its funny that you didnt considered naming blackpink at first when they literally did the best in almost all the criteria you mentioned 🤷🏽‍♀️😭 but apparently headlining 2 major festivals in 2 of the biggest music markets,having an audience of 1,8M in a 66 dates tour,being the first girlgroup in history to headline a concert in Stade de France, being the first girlgroup to perform in gocheok sky dome in Korea, charting in global spotify an unpromoted game OST and in billboard global charts, wasnt being active enough and isnt a sign of popularity either lol its not making waves😭

"Active" LOL. Anyway, I think TXT is definitively included.

BTS is always a safe bet, also TXT and seventeen

lmfao the downvotes are crazy 😭

Depends what the event is. BTS, TXT, seventeen, ateez, enhypen are all popular. Newer 5th gen groups such as riize, boy next door and zerobaseone are pretty popular, especially in korea

Depends on where you event is located. If its the US, it will be very different from a China event, for example.

boy groups-

bts

skz

enhypen

seventeen

txt

girl groups-

blackpink

aespa

lsf

gidle

new jeans

K-Ville Entertainment ranks popular songs & k-pop song charts.

Their videos are usually long, but if you don't want to watch them, you can see the list of the songs that are mentioned in their caption.

Would recommend checking out:

• The Best K-pop Songs of 2022
• Best K-pop Songs of 2022 so far! (Male Version)
• Top 100 - Most Viewed K-pop Songs of 2021 (Official Year End Chart)

If you go by domestic charting, girl groups generally have the edge (in the past 6 months the only two idol groups to get a #1 on melon were red velvet and apink). If you go by physical sales/fandom size, boy groups do far better. If you go by popularity in the west, BTS obviously wins out there.

About even I guess. It's not something about gender. It just depends on the group. There are Twitter boy group vs girl group fans, but that doesn't represent popularity. Most groups from the Big 3 companies, Produce series, BTS are the top sellers and most well known right now.

Girl groups tend to fly better with the public in terms of charting, but boy groups are more likely to have dedicated fans, especially because most Kpop fans are female.

depends on who you ask.

There's a lot of different factors that could determine the "popularity" of a group (the number of fans in the fanclub? how many countries stream/buy their music? how many awards the group wins?) It's really hard to make such a sweeping generalization over the entire industry. For example, if you're going solely by name recognition, BTS is probably the most well-known K-pop group globally, but even then that's just one boy group and doesn't speak to boy groups in general being more popular.

it’s funny to see these rankings but also see aespa haters continue to push the “they only can chart well on MelOn because Kakao!!!” narrative

Who thinks aespa will win Daesang this year? They are killing it right now! Rich man I think don’t them though and the choreo is lazyyyy

wow newjeans last release was July 2024 their music longevity is so strong

https://youtu.be/tzY1YCdVrjg?si=i2QMDUHIUZSROHYL N.Flying - another real group of musicians

As a Myday since 5 years this makes me so happy for the boys 🥹 they deserve all the love and appreciation that comes there way.

Oneus, Stray Kids, Victon, Enhypen, ATEEZ, TXT, NCT, SHINee, CIX, E’last, Verivery, 2pm, OnlyOneOf, A.C.E., Xdinary Heroes, Golden Child, Seventeen, Pentagon, Vixx

Oneus is my ult tho :))

seventeen (ult), nct, txt, ateez, xdinary heroes

Ateez

Seventeen, ateez, onlyoneof, oneus, day6, the rose, txt, enhypen are the main ones I listen to

I have many lol

NCT, EXO, iKON, Ateez, Winner, Stray Kids, Seventeen, CIX, Got7, Monsta X, TXT, BAE173, Treasure, P1Harmony, BigBang, The BoyZ, DKB, Verivery, MCND, ONF, ENHYPEN, BTS, The Rose, Oneus, etc

NCT is my ult group though especially NCT 127

{Best-selling Groups across all formats :

1. Bts - 134M
2. Maroon 5 - 95M
3. One direction - 72M
4. Seventeen - 61M
5. Imagine dragons - 59M
6. Stray kids - 46M
7. Arctic monkeys - 42M
8. Blackpink - 41M
9. Twice - 36M
10. Exo - 35M }

I think this list is more accurate if we’re talking about total sales , it includes albums, physical singles , digital singles, and downloads sold globally — not just physical albums tracked on Korean charts like Gaon or Hanteo like in the list you posted it mainly shows Korean album shipments, which don’t count digital single sales or international sales on platforms like iTunes, Amazon, or Oricon in Japan. And that’s why groups with massive digital hits worldwide (like BTS or Blackpink) show much bigger sales on this list, it reflects their overall impact outside Korea too.

The person who posted said it only included groups that debuted in the 21st century so it wouldn’t include Destiny’s Child but something isn’t adding up with the data anyway because Little Mix and PCD and The Jonas Brothers would be on it in that case. I wonder if it’s just for Korea or Eastern regions.

Edit: word correction

That 45 million is just ot7 or it includes solos too? Genuinely curious? Because it's crazyyy they sold that much with their last studio album being 2020?!?!!

I remember when only Twice and Blackpink could sell over 200,000 in one album, now seeing so many gg sell so well makes me so happy. Kpop queens!

Straykids!!!!

They were called King of Girl Groups for this reason.

So proud of Seventeen and BTS

Does this involve their sub units and solo activities if so I don't think they should count imo