Next kpop giant NCT, TXT, ATEEZ or Stray Kids?
All of these groups have been around for at least over a year and have each grown a pretty solid fan base, although all of them (except for maybe TXT) are by far more popular internationally. My final verdict is as follows: Ateez -> (TXT ->) NCT -> Stray Kids Reasons for this ranking: Ateez Ateez debuted by the end of 2018 from a company nobody has ever heard of before: KQ Entertainment. Still, they managed to gain an insane amount of popularity (internationally) compared to other (relatively) new groups from the Big 4 (I'm counting bighit in. BTS is way too big not to acknowledge that, and if bighit were to debut more groups then just TXT right now (such as a girl group), I believe they might even take the top spot of Korea's entertainment companies. But this is not important right now, so nvm). I know that they are more popular internationally and that it will undoubtedly take some time for them to grow in Korea, but they are on the rise. And even if it doesn't