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Posted by Sophie-Ha Thursday, March 10, 2022

Netizens confused how aespa's "Next Level" never won first place on a music program when it was the most viral song of 2021 and even won a Daesang

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aespa's "Next Level" might be one of the most viral, if not the most viral song of 2021. This song has been played on various shows and even used during the broadcasting of the presidential election vote tally results.


Therefore, many might have naturally thought that the group must have won first place on many music show programs with this song. However, one netizen recently revealed that aespa's "Next Level" had not won on any music programs but won a coveted Daesang (Grand Prize at the end of year music shows).

The netizen who wrote the post explained, "The best hit song from last year that never won 1st place in any music program but won Daesang and has the most parodies." The post created included the music video for "Next Level," and many netizens gathered to share their thoughts on this.



Netizens commented, "Oh I never knew it never won number 1 on a music program," "Well at least it won awards in the year-end shows," "Maybe it's because this song started receiving recognition later," "I know for sure it swept up the music charts later down the line, it wasn't popular when it first came out," "I think they weren't able to win number 1 because their comeback overlapped with BTS so they didn't win," "Oh what? 'Next Level' was really viral," "Everyone was singing 'I'm on the next level' last year, lol," and "That's so crazy, I thought it would have won first place on a music show at least once."

What do you think? 

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IMakeMyPoint
IMakeMyPoint2,218 pts Thursday, March 10, 2022 0
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Manyreasons, 1, it was a digital release, so no physical sales to help with music show scores,

2. bad timing, it was released at a time when many other big names released songs too, like IU, BTS etc

3. The song has immense longevity, but not a sudden initial spike of huge success, so it is still on the melon and other charts even today, almost 10 months after release, but becos Aespa was still a rookie, it took time for people to slowly discover and fell in love with the song.

Music show wins are very dependent on having high sales and scores within a short time, Next Level was different. It was nominated like 20 times on music shows, and always was second place, even losing to their own song Savage,

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Procrastinating
Procrastinating5,048 pts Thursday, March 10, 2022 0
Thursday, March 10, 2022

I remember it kept being one of nominees on music shows even months after its release, but always ended in 2nd place. It even lost to Savage several times after that was released.

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