IVE, the girl group under Starship Entertainment is touted as one of the rookie monsters for their extraordinary achievements in the South Korean music world. But recently IVE's achievement on one of the music charts has been questioned.
Through the Pann Nate community forum, there is a thread discussing the achievements of IVE on the Melon Chart. It is known that Melon and the agency IVE (Starship Entertainment) are both under the same parent company, Kakao Entertainment.
"It's strange that an entertainment company and a music company are connected," said the thread's author. He also added that the IVE song was not as popular as "Next Level" aespa and questioned the high score Wonyoung Cs.
In response to this, netizens flocked to make various comments that contradicted the statement in the thread.
“IVE “Love Dive” is at No. 1 on the annual YouTube Music, Flo, Vibe, Bugs, and more charts in October. Are all those music sites under Kakao? ha ha",
"If the IVE is below Kakao, and if the IVE score is high (because of that), MONSTA X's score is not high?",
“You said because IVE was under Kakao, their score was good, haha. But (if true) why only IVE? It's because IVE is successful, better than your idols”,
"Even if you don't believe IVE's musical achievements, nothing changes, right?", and various other comments. (www.kpopchart.net)
