NU'EST get massive popularity spike and re-enter Korean music charts

[boxcuttergirl.livejournal.com]

And it's all thanks to Produce 101!

NU'EST are one of the more high-profile contestants in season 2 of Produce 101, despite having debuted back in 2012. While the winners of the show have yet to be announced, it appears that NU'EST's appearance on the show has already paid off big time!

Despite releasing their most recent album "Canvas" way back in August 2016, the exposure from NU'EST's appearance on Produce 101 has resulted in the album (and some of the group's older albums) to re-enter various Korean music charts.

Over on the best-selling physical albums chart on HANTEO, NU'EST have re-entered the chart at No.5, No.9, and No.14 with "Canvas," "Q Is" and "Action" respectively.

[13.00KST] 170509 #HANTEO CHART

#1 Triple H
#2 Sechskies
#3 Lovelyz
#4 IU
#5,9 **NU'EST**
#6 BTS
#7 SF9
#8 PRISTIN
#10 DIA pic.twitter.com/0VQfcf4PlJ

— Real__Miko* (@Real__Miko30) May 9, 2017

That only scratches the surface as NU'EST managed to do even better on the Yes24 chart, coming in at No.7, No.12, No.14, No.25, and No.27.

And finally, the boys have also hit it big on the Melon charts, coming in at No.12 on the Korean Male Group chart, as well as coming in at No.39 on Melon's Top 100 Popular Artists.

#nuest #뉴이스트 no.39 !!! It's a chart on Melon 😭😭😭 top 100 popular artists!? Happy tears again 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/HNrVooGdzk

— Chris (@chris_nuest) May 9, 2017

Not only have NU'EST managed to re-enter various music charts, but fans have also reported that the group's albums are sold out on a number of K-pop sites, such as YesAsia and KpopMart.

WOW!

Keep up the hard work, NU'EST, we are behind you all the way!


sources: sbs pop asia, @Real__Miko30, @chris_nuest, yes24, melon



this is my first time embedding tweets, let me know if they dont work.

Comments

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

are we about to witness exid 2.0?? rise boys!

[torontok.livejournal.com]

This is why I didn't get the whole boo-hoo brigade over them joining the show.They needed this desperately and it paid off. Otherwise they probably would have gone the After School route.

Ren and Jonghyun especially have gotten a massive boost from this. I wonder how awkward it will be for Aron after this lol.

[cuizy.livejournal.com]

I thought it was minhyun and jonghyun

[juhli.livejournal.com]

Minki

[antrea.livejournal.com]

Dongho (esp from the clips I've seen of ep5) and Jonghyun (leadership in ep4) for me

[hilary-faye.livejournal.com]

I'm so thrilled for them. They've been so solid and putting out excellent music for years and I'm glad people are finally seeing it. I'm sure Pledis will find a way to screw it all up once the show's over but I'm gonna enjoy it for now.

[jiyonqiee.livejournal.com]

I really thought Pledis was making a big mistake by putting them on p101, so I'm surprised. but I still don't want them in the final 11. the best thing for them would be to gain some popularity and to promote as nuest again.

lol @ them selling 25 copies and people hyping it up like they sold 25k.

[soft-taozi.livejournal.com]

To be fair that's the real time chart, aka the number of albums the sold in the last hour (I'm assuming that's what the real time chart means).

Would be interesting to see the weekly sales cause real time sales seems a bit irrelevant.

[audiograms.livejournal.com]

😭😭😭😭

[suggestivepeach.livejournal.com]

Ooh, this is a bit of a surprise. I was hoping they'd gain more attention but I didn't think they would gain this much.

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

They should thank mainly Jonghyun being nice and Hyunbin being lazy for that, tbh lol But good for them! People should listen to Hello, it's a good song!

And knowing how much many Nuest fans loathe the Seventeen boys, I can't help think it's really weird that that tweet translated everything on the hanteo chart right but the fact that Seventeen is number 4, not IU

[kazu-kumaguro.livejournal.com]

LOL honestly I don't think Hyunbin is being lazy, I think he is just not used to idol trainee's schedule (less sleep, intense physical activities) because he used to be a model, idt model is losing sleep except maybe for one or two days, and he actually delivered after JR's warning.
Not a big fan of Hyunbin (I am for Sorry Sorry Team 2 and Nuest though) but I think people overreact on his 'laziness' lol
But yeah, maybe Hyunbin falls so Nuest can rise.

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

lol I don't care enough about him to be mad. I don't think he's specially handsome because he's totally not my type, and I don't think it's good for his image to go on the program if he's not willing to commit from the start, but as long as he doesn't kick my faves out of top 11, he can keep doing what he's doing hahahaha

[krissasaur]

They should stay as 4 as Aron is obviously unneeded.

[miyozari.livejournal.com]

mte

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

Preach!

[tree-star123.livejournal.com]

lol yup

[milkmp3.livejournal.com]

tbh they all are except for Prince Ren

[antrea.livejournal.com]

Yesssssssss

[welljustguess.livejournal.com]

Woah it really works. I think it is also because the boys were entertaining and attractive in the program.

[greywonderland.livejournal.com]

I hope all the best for them<3 maybe this is truly a new beginning

[jinkiestabi.livejournal.com]

I still don't know much about them, but Q. Is and Canvas are bop albums.

[bmo.livejournal.com]

u would think they sold like 10k albums and its just like 50...... putting them on p101 was obviously smart but unless they start selling a couple thousand, this isn't rly showing results. this rly shows kpop fans dont know how the different charts work. it doesnt matter if ur #1 if ur selling 25 copies.. come on now.

[froggster.livejournal.com]

Rise. become exid 2.0, because Love Paint and Overcome are amazing and deserve that.

[cuizy.livejournal.com]

I do wonder if p101 will have a lasting effect on them especially if they don't make it into the final group.

As of now I think minhyun and JR has a good chance of making it but I actually kind of don't want them to even though I do like them on the show. It just doesn't seem fair to me and also their auras don't really match that of the other trainees.

[edanz-castle.livejournal.com]

Omg..happy tears in my eyes. I hope they continue to rise.

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

This is great, but will it translate over to them selling albums? Because this means nothing if they don't have a hit single out.

[woohyun.livejournal.com]

[fadeintoyou.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy for them. They had some good jams especially hello.

[avrgaesthetics.livejournal.com]

yeah 2 of them are in the top 11, JR and Minhyun

[sangyeollie.livejournal.com]

YES!!! Rise my babies!!!!

[milkmp3.livejournal.com]

nobody cares!!! where is after school's comeback? orange caramel's?

[moonsuns.livejournal.com]

[milkmp3.livejournal.com]

[donutism.livejournal.com]

RISE my boys, RISE

[10135.livejournal.com]

GOOD

[goldenrosalie.livejournal.com]

congrats ofc but how many copies is that? because based on pictures it looks like 25 + 17 + 10 copies. this is so low to call "massive popularity spike"... but it also looks like realtime chart... what were number for a day/week?

[kattun23.livejournal.com]

Melon

Domestic Male Group Rank
Nu'Est - 13th

Real-time rising keywords rank
Nu'Est - 15th

Popular keywords rank
Nu'Est - 74th

Yes24

Bestsellers rank - 11th May

Nu'Est - Canvas - 5th
Nu'Est - Q is - 7th
Nu'Est - Re:BIRTH - 8th
Nu'Est - Action - 13th
Nu'Est - Sleep Talking - 14th
Nu'Est - Bridge the World - 69th


Considering that Twice and Vixx are before them (1st rank, respectively 3rd and 4th), they might have sold quite a lot.
If someone can give me the links to the daily/weekly album charts of Melon, Gaon etc etc, I can tell you guys more info. (I'm a bit busy with work to look for them by myself lolz)

[bmo.livejournal.com]

Keyword rankings are irrelevant because they aren't equivalent to sales. Anyway they've sold about ~700 copies as of the 10th (maybe a bit more but I think more than 1k is not likely) in between all of their releases (the sales that count are basically the ones showing on Hanteo) which isn't a lot still considering the amount of exposure they are getting imo.

For example, Seventeen sold ~5k of Going Seventeen last month I think or the month prior to that, ~1000 of Love&letter, ~1000 of the Love&Letter repack, 600 Boys Be and 500 17Carat. That's 8.1k in a month. They aren't even promoting but their sales show they are gaining a fair amount of new fans anyway. There are a quite a few groups that sell more than 2k a month because of that. In order for Nuest to really show that they are getting great results, by the end of the month they need to have sold at least 5k (more really because 5k is already pretty low). 1k isn't bad but they have a long way to go especially with the amount of releases they have out already.

[kattun23.livejournal.com]

but you also have to take into account that they got more positive screen time in the last 2-3 episodes that people got to see how good they are and become their fans...

also, their albums are sold out or almost sold out from the distribution channels (considering Pledis gave up on Nu'Est, I don't think they invested that much in making lots of copies) so Pledis needs to issue more albums which I think it will take some days, no? I'm not that sure how everything works.

it's a bit unfair to compare them to SVT which is a newer group with fresh, cute songs that a lot of people like. And they have 13 members which eventually each member brings more fans. Also, maybe, just maybe, Pledis has learned from Nu'est initial failure and they manage SVT better. I love both groups so I want them both to succeed. :D

Anyway, we have to wait a bit more to see how everything will turn up in the end.
The thing is: Pledis needs to work harder for their groups and promote them better.

[bmo.livejournal.com]

excuse my incoming bad grammar im a little lazy lmao :(

i don't see pledis issuing more albums because it's too risky and it wont give them enough profit. nuest is already in so much debt (they said so themselves), selling a couple thousand copies won't do anything.

idk if it's fair or not but what i know is that produce 101 is insanely popular and it makes all kinds of people know u. mnet has highlighted that they are members from nu'est and there have been articles about it too. thats why im saying like.. after getting all this recognition i would expect a couple thousand sales by the end of the month to show that the group is gaining a lot of fans. or what could also happen is that they gain a lot of akgae fans (like sejeong & kangmina) and i guess it would be hard to see results til they released something new.

having 5 members or 13 members doesn't change anything because there's a lot of groups with more than 10 members who do rly bad. svt doesn't do well bc they have many members, they do well bc they worked hard. it had nothing to do w/ pledis either. pledis did svt dirtier than they did nuest because if u look back at adore u era... it was bad :/ they got no promo at all and u know their stream pre-debut was watched by less than 200 people >< yet somehow during adore u & boys be they gained a LOT of fans. what nuest need to finally realize, which im guessing maybe they do now.. is that they need to take matters into their own hands. that's why seventeen succeeded.

normally in these kind of shows, companies pay for screentime or for a spot in the ranking. idk if pledis paid... a part of me thinks so because thats how it works but another part of me doesnt believe it bc pledisboss seems to not give a shit lol. but if they decided themselves to join this show, it was rly smart of them, a good realization of the position they were in and a step in the right direction.

[musicnkisses.livejournal.com]

Congrats on moving 45 albums.

[hitthoselightz.livejournal.com]

lol @ people shitting on them for this

did any groups last season sell old albums after appearing on produce 101? no so give them some credit jfc

[bmo.livejournal.com]

none of the ppl last season were in a group that debuted 5 years ago and they were girls so thats irrelevant

[onemoretym.livejournal.com]

mte

[boxcuttergirl.livejournal.com]

thank you

[antrea.livejournal.com]

MY BOYS (- Aron)
I'm so glad they finally started to show their true selves on bro101 (really don't want to look back at the fiasco that was Nayana reevaluations)
Baekho and JR especially have come thru with presenting NU'EST in a better light I think - Baekho's manliness, protecting his son Guanlin and JR's new title Nation's Leader lol
god I love JR