Get closer? "Girl of the Month (Loona)" style day
近づく？ ”今月の少女(Loona)スタイル”の日
Loona's new album makes it into the US Billboard 200 - the first girl group from a small agency
★Loona is the sixth K-pop female artist to chart, following BoA, Girls' Generation, 2NE1, TWICE, and BlackPink.
This is the first time a girl group from a small agency has charted, and it has attracted a lot of attention both at home and abroad.
BoA and Girls' Generation are from SM, TWICE from JYP, and 2NE1 and BlackPink from YG, all of which are major agencies.
Loona is made up of 11 members.
They are a girl group that doesn't have much of an impression of being active in Korea.
I've always thought it was a strategy to become a global girl group. But they have little image of being active in Korea or Japan, and I don't think they have much of a presence.
The only song I remember is "Butterfly," and I don't even know who the main vocalist is or who the center visual is.
To begin with, I didn't know any of the members' names.
Unlike Japan's Oricon, the American Billboard 200 is a ranking that music from all over the world competes for.
If they've made it to the point where they're on the rankings, it might mean they're becoming more well-known in America.
Even if they're not that popular in Korea or Japan, where K-POP originated, if they make it onto a global ranking site, it's likely to send a considerable response around the world.
Why are BTS and BLACKPINK, the most popular K-POP groups, world stars?
First of all, their music is popular enough to receive a fair response in America, and they have gained a route to amplify the popularity of their group and music by spreading that response around the world.
Loona is the sixth girl group to enter the US Billboard 200, following BoA, Girls' Generation, 2NE1, TWICE, and BlackPink.
They are from a small agency, which is something they have in common with BIGHIT's BTS.
Perhaps the reason they haven't made much headway since their debut is because their agency hasn't been very proactive...
They seem to be a group that competes with the image and concept of their performance as a whole, rather than highlighting the individual characters of the members.
Could this mean that this performance style is being accepted in America as well...?
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