Netizens questioned NMIXX's popularity after none of the guest stars on tvN's 'Amazing Saturday - Doremi Market' recognized the group.
On a fairly recent episode of tvN's variety show 'Amazing Saturday - Doremi Market', Jang Na Ra, Jang Hyuk, and Chae Jung Ahn made a guest appearance. Here, the actors played various game rounds involving K-pop groups and popular songs. Here, NMIXX was one of the groups that the stars had to guess correctly. While it is completely normal for the stars to get the answers incorrect, many were surprised to see that not many of the panel members and the guest stars seemed to recognize NMIXX even after the correct answer was revealed. At one point, the regular cast member Kim Dong Hyun asked Jang Na Ra, "Do you know [NMIXX]?" to which Jang Na Ra replied, "Not at all".
Upon seeing this, many netizens questioned the popularity of the group NMIXX, as the group has a record of previously achieving 1M copies in first week of album sales. Some netizens commented, "They're actually flops", "[This is] the class of selling 1 million copies in first week sales loll. Nobody knows them though", "LOLL...and they sold 1 million copies in their first week of sales?", and more.
Their fandom obviously knows them, and kpop listeners know of them only because they come from JYPE. The general public has no clue who they are, and their songs, specially their debut, are not what people put on repeat in retail and coffee shops.
JYPE already fumbled the bag with ITZY after they started so strong by giving them weird/bad songs, and instead of learning from it, they did it again with this group...
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