The recent KBS 'Music Bank' win by ATEEZ has sparked a wave of controversy among netizens, who are puzzled by how the group managed to secure the top spot over aespa and NewJeans despite having lower chart rankings. 

On the June 7th episode of 'Music Bank,' ATEEZ snagged first place with their latest comeback title song "Work" after competing with aespa's "Supernova." 

According to the scoring shown above, ATEEZ's digital streaming score was only 19 as opposed to 3882 of aespa's. This is because aespa's song has been charting around at #1, followed by NewJeans' songs while ATEEZ's song was charted outside #100. 

However, the scoring shows that ATEEZ had much more TV broadcast appearances and album sales than aespa which tipped the scale. This subsequently led to a heated discussion online. Some of the comments include: 

"It's been a while since Music Bank lost its credibility."

"Who is ATEEZ? This is my first time hearing their name."

"Music Bank just came down to The Show or Show Champion level."

"lol how exactly ATEEZ song was played more than aespa's 'Supernova'? Music Bank never changed their rigged system since the Lim Young Woong incident in the past."

"Supernova is at its 3rd week while ATEEZ came back last week so that scoring actually makes sense. In other words, ATEEZ's broadcast score has to be higher because they have been appearing in KBS shows in the past week to promote their latest comeback. I know y'all are upset because some random boy group won but don't jump to conclusions."

"I have not been trusting them since the time they gave 1st place to LE SSERAFIM instead of Lim Young Woong."

"lol, it's not even close to the 100th (added the below screenshot showing 'Work' was ranked at 717th on melon)"

What do you think?

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