I feel like a lot of people have this thinking that Pristin is such a big and successful group that got fucked over by Pledis by dungeon-ing them and then suddenly disbanding them out of nowhere. However their numbers don't support this at all, Pristin's debut album sold 43K but their second dropped to 27K, The digitals performance of their lead singles also dropped correspondingly. Then they tried a subunit thing called Pristin V that consist of their most popular members but that sold even worse only 18K physicals and basically nonexistent digital performance for "Get It". For reference, Weki Meki's first two albums sold 49K and 34K respectively and Gugudan's first two albums sold 22K and 29K. In other words, both group's 2nd albums sold better than Pristin did, and look where they're both at now stuck in nuguland. Yes, Pristin did slightly better than both of them on the digitals side, but nothing to impresive about it, Sure obv this industry is completely unpredictable, but then if one is depending on that to make the argument that Pristin is such a big and successful group that got fucked over by their label one has no argument at all. Look I'm not defending pledis here, What they did was pretty shitty, but if we take emotions out of the way I really don't see any argument based on objective facts that Pristin is such a successful group that got fucked over by their labels. submitted by /u/Party-Confection417 [link] [comments]
(Unpopular opinion) I feel like people are overestimated pristin popularity
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