Fans’ complaints are piling up in light of their approaching the group’s second anniversary.
On the 16th, an online community posted an article titled “aespa wrapped up their activities with only four music shows in 2022.”
Specifically, the article said, “While aespa is marking their second debut anniversary tomorrow (17th), the group has only been on music shows four times with their comeback ‘Girls’, plus one b-side song, “Illusion”, performed on stage and a music room stage. Fans were upset because there was no difference”.
In contrast, the album sales were not at all terrible. Their second mini-album “Girls” recorded more than 1 million copies in its first week and performed quite well in Japan without an official group debut in the country. What fans were not happy about was “there is no news of the year-end stage yet.”
This is not the first time fans complain about aespa’s lack of domestic activities.
During the early release of aespa’s second mini-album “Girls” in July, they did not appear on any music programs until the 14th of the second week of the album’s release, performing the title track “Girls” and b-side “Illusion”.
Since then, aespa only appeared on MBC’s “Music Core” on the 16th, KBS’s “Music Bank” on the 22nd, and SBS’s “Inkigayo” on the 24th, upsetting fans with only a few appearances on national broadcast.
Internet users stated their dissatisfaction to this continued “lost domestic activities”, “Is it a mystical strategy?” “Isn’t it necessary to promote the song?” and “Show me the stage often.”
aespa is a girl group under SM Entertainment that debuted in November 2020, releasing mega hits since their debut to the present, starting with “Black Mamba” to “Next Level”, “Savage” and “Girls”.
Source: Wikitree
