All these SM stans blaming NCT Dream for things they didn't even do/things that didn't happened at all. They make scenarios that favors their narratives without checking the truth.
All SM groups experience mistreatment from the company, this isn't a competition of who got worse
Mark and Haechan are rightfully part of 7DREAM, so the other members have all the reason to say they miss them without reservations because they are their own team. I hope people don't forget that.
So we have Realize, Confused, Change and Break.
You realized first, then you start to get confused, but it will lead you to change, and then you break out.
The four films showed four stages of being trapped inside, then they escape.
NCT DREAM – 7 YEARS SINCE DEBUT
Best-Selling SM Ent. Artist – Overall
Best-Selling SM Ent. Artist this Decade
Best-Selling SM Ent. Artist of 2023
Best-Selling SM Ent. Album (ISTJ)
Best-Selling SM Ent. Mini Album (Candy)
Best-Selling SM Ent. JPN Single since 2012 (BFE)
To flex, NCT DREAM is the only boygroup to be present on all 5 charts since January 1, 2023.
They boast a perfect daily attendance along with few girlgroups.
NCT DREAM slowly grew in Japan with a very minimal amount of exposure in the country. They had it big with their Debut Single after 7 years & still got poor to no promotion at all.
BFE sold more copies than any SM Single releases in Japan for the past 12 years, it was that big.
Although SEVENTEEN is leading with two Diamond Certifications which is really amazing, the fact that NCT DREAM is catching up with SM barely doing anything to promote them there is incredible enough.
#NCTDREAM
(2) now joins TVXQ (20), SHINee (9), SNSD (4) and EXO (2) as the only SM Entertainment artists to have multiple Top 3 Hits on Billboard JAPAN HOT 100.
Their only artist to achieve it this decade, continuing the 3 decades streak.
NCT DREAM has a steady career in SoKor and a loyal chinese fanbase, they're starting to chart well in Japan too, has the indonesian fanbase backing up their Spotify streams.
What they really need more now is that boost in international stats, like iTunes, Apple Music & Spotify.
#NCTDREAM
is now the Best-Selling SM Entertainment Artist on Billboard JAPAN selling over 1.3 Million units with all their releases, surpassing TVXQ (1.1M).
1st Full Album at 5th year is outrageous
1st World Tour as 7DREAM at 6th year is ridiculous
Japan Debut at almost 7th year is atrocious
And ya'll wanna act like this is some sort of special treatment. There needs to be a study about the relentless nitpicking towards NCT DREAM
NCT DREAM being a 3rd gen with their 3rd gen monster achievements, getting a 2nd gen-like treatment from their company despite having a 4th gen-like mean age.
This isn't what we meant when we say Transcending generations 😂
NCT DREAM made 2023 the biggest year for SM Groups this decade.
※ Highest stock pre-order for any SM albums (4M)
※ Longest SM BG song on MelOn Daily Top 10 in 14 years
※ Best-Selling SM Japanese Single in 12 years
※ Biggest Single Year stream on Spotify for any SM Artist
NCT DREAM already had their tour in the US and SM never once thought of signing them up to a US Label. Only managed to come up with an album distributor.
NCT DREAM has now won a Daesang for two-consecutive years on Hanteo Music Awards.
They have now taken home both Best Album (2023) and Best Artist (2024) awards on the ceremonies' two years long of awarding Grand Prize.
I love how NCT DREAM has full awareness of how they are as a group and as individuals. They know and is openly supporting each other's activities. They know what type of songs to release for a sudden winter album, the line-ups for their tour, how TDS3 is already on their plans.
Dreamzens literally survived 2019 and has since thrived in this industry with NCT DREAM, don't you question our loyalty and assume we would be head over heels to a group who has yet to debut and prove anything as a group.
NCT DREAM really grew in South Korea first before they expand worldwide, now they're highly popular in Asia, and will steadily grow in the west now that TDS2 will be going thru EU and US
NCT DREAM being the Best-Selling NCT Unit this year on US Billboard 🇺🇲, QQ Music 🇨🇳, Circle Chart & Hanteo Chart 🇰🇷 and Billboard JAPAN & Oricon Chart 🇯🇵 speaks so much about how they are the face of the Brand.
Numbers aren't lying, even more so, their Spotify Listeners~
NCT DREAM is under Avex Trax in Japan and yet, when you look at their portal on their website, you won't see them on their Artist's list, nor is
#BFE
present on their calendar, not even their Concert on Kyocera Dome is in their calendar but other groups' concert is listed?
Highest First Week Sales by SM Artist on Billboard JAPAN Top Single Sales
#1
NCT DREAM, Best Friend Ever – 348,132
#2
NCT DREAM, Moonlight – 222,702 (still counting)※
#3
EXO, Coming Over – 150,176
※ 3 days tracking period
NCT DREAM didn't experience any big decline with their digitals for the past 4 years, in fact starting from Ridin (2020) up until Candy (2022), they were very consistent in charting and is now one of the few boygroups to put on some big numbers both in sales and digitals.
Highest First Week Sales by SM Artist on Billboard JAPAN Top Single Sales
#1
NCT DREAM, Best Friend Ever – 348,132
#2
NCT DREAM, Moonlight – 253,965 🆕️
Even without Candy, NCT DREAM have Glitch Mode, ISTJ & Broken Melodies to prove that they have a solid fandom to keep them on the charts longer than majority of the current active boygroups and is only behind to few that can be counted with 1 hand.
Candy, proposed by Chenle, is by the way, the 2nd Best-Selling Mini Album of 2022 on Circle Chart with over 2 Million sales.
The title track, is also the 2nd boygroup song released in 2022 after BIGBANG's Still Life, with the Highest Digital points (390M) on Circle Chart.
It's February 26, and NCT DREAM was supposed to have their comeback on March 25 but SM has yet to drop the comeback teaser and pre-order links. We'll have less than a month for the countdown.
Then watch how it will only have 2 weeks minimal promotion 🙃
NCT DREAM having 2 albums on the Top 10 Highest 1st week sales on Hanteo says a lot.
Like the list will definitely have another 7DREAM album added to it this year.
I need a healthy comeback for NCT DREAM. Sufficient promotion where they got to enjoy whatever new music they release.
When we say healthy:
not rushed, no delayed promotions, no understock issues, no shortened promotion,
at this point, nct dream hasn't debuted yet in Japan at all. The Dream and Best Friend Ever were both their 1st japanese releases to commemorate their tour in Japan only.
Both were never intended to serve as their "debut" to begin with.
DREAMZENS, I HAVE AN IDEA!!
Let's make NCT DREAM's Candy our immortal songs on chart where it will rise again whenever Ber months will enter, and make it our exclusive Winter Season song!
「Best Friend Ever」needs to have 260,000 sales on its Debut on Oricon Single Chart to claim the record for the Highest Debut sales (single) by a K-Pop Group on Oricon, but even with 100K, it will alr be in the top 7 biggest single debut
NCT DREAM never once failed to bring back a Daesang ever since Hot Sauce came out, but SM always fails to give back what they deserve, the acidity and alkalinity of SM is like a broken homeostasis.
BFE's wasted potential, ISTJ's messy promotion, and Candy's misfortune during cancelled mushows.
Not a single release where it happened peacefully & rightfully, but NCT DREAM still managed to pull amazing numbers and records.
Whoever is part of NCT Dream's management team, I hope you guys are aware how underwhelming the kind of promotion and treatment the most important pipeline of SM has been getting for years now.
Be ashamed how obvious and blatant it was and how embarassing it is to be part of SM
SM was so shameless to overprice TDS2 Tix in North America when they never invested nor promoted NCT DREAM in the U.S.
No US Label, only 1 album who charted in Billboard 200, then you give fans a bullshit about the tix price?
@SMTOWNGLOBAL
Top 5 K-Pop Boy Group Songs with the Highest Digital points on Circle Chart in 2023 (so far):
#1
#NCTDREAM
Candy – 118,403,409
#2
Ay-Yo – 51,192,017
#3
Sugar Rush Ride – 49,464,117
#4
Still Life – 41,964,277
#5
Dynamite – 41,644,918
Top 5 K-Pop Boy Group Songs with the Highest Digital points on Circle Chart in 2023 (so far):
#1
#NCTDREAM
Candy – 108,464,230
#2
Ay-Yo – 47,343,214
#3
Sugar Rush Ride – 42,552,170
#4
Still Life – 37,501,662
#5
Dynamite – 37,032,326
why is it so hard for others to see the blatant disrespect to NCT DREAM and the mistreatment they get from fvking SM. Their achievements is not proportional to the kind of treatment they get. For all I know, that's all because of 7DREAM and dreamzens who worked hard for it..
"Moonlight" by
#NCTDREAM
has sold 222,702 units with only 2 Days tracking for the Initial Chart of Billboard JAPAN Top Single Sales.
It is already the 2nd Best-Selling NCT release on the chart.
#NCTDREAM
x "THE FIRST" Saga with BFE
The First NCT release/song:
– to be Certified Platinum (RIAJ)
– to surpass 350K units (BBJPN)
– to surpass 200K sales (Oricon)
– to debut in Top 3 (Japan Hot 100)
#NCTDREAM
's "Best Friend Ever" debuts at
#37
with 231,846 sales on Oricon Year-End Singles Chart.
It is the only SM Japanese single to enter the list in 13 years having 200K sales, since TVXQ in 2010.
Hot Sauce, Glitch Mode, Candy and ISTJ were all eligible for RIAJ certification if it's only sales-based but because it was manufactured in SK & shipped to Japan, sadly it's not.
SM not fixing this system of them despite having a close-partnership with Avex is such a waste.
NCT DREAM's List of Daesangs 🏆
KEAA
Boy Group Daesang (2019)
KCA
K-Champ of the Year (2021)
GMA
Top Album (2022)
Top Artist (2022)
MMA
Record of the Year (2023)
SMA
Grand Prize (2023)
Grand Prize (2024)
HMA
Best Album (2023)
Best Artist (2024) 🆕️
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@NCTsmtown_DREAM
's "Best Friend Ever" is pacing to Debut straight into the Top 10 of Billboard Japan Hot 100. It will be the first Top 10 entry of NCT on the chart.
TDS2 in Japan already had around 200k attendees, TDS2 in Jakarta is sold out so that's around 25k while TDS2 in Seoul had 135k. TDS2 currently had 360k expected cumulative attendees from just 6 tour stops, and this is just the first half for their Asian leg for TDS2
Glitch Mode, Beatbox and Candy carried the digitals for the Brand in 2022, now imagine without these 3 songs, not even a single song for the brand to reach 100 Million digital points on Digital Chart 🤭 it's the first, only, fastest, most, highest and biggest for me HAHAHAHA
i watched and enjoyed ego a lot, but I don't think dream loop plagiarized it? the substantial parts are still authentic on both contents.
escape rooms are fundamentally finding clue and solving puzzles, so the only thing to say that is copying here is whatever elements used
We need Broken Melodies's Charisma and Candy's Chart power, Hot Sauce promotion, and Glitch Mode's album track supremacy all in one comeback and we'll have the perfect 7DREAM album.
7DREAM doesn't deserve to get the last minute announcement treatment and be used for false marketing. This isn't what we meant when we said "promotion"
Got to admit, SM is doing a pretty good job setting a better exposure for NCT DREAM in Japan.
Guesting on TBS CDTVライブ!ライブ!for Smoothie promotion (which btw is kind of a good move), and some other local media appearances, then now a Japanese Single along with a Dome Tour!
"Best Friend Ever" by
@NCTsmtown_DREAM
is starting to gain popularity in Japan! Let's take this opportunity and utilize TikTok into following "Life Is Still Going On" footsteps!
Here are some Tikok entries that you may support
By @/qpitdef7
To achieve the same feat as the original version and potentially surpass its milestone, it's so uncommon to see successful remakes recently as these old hit songs tend to not cater the quick-shifting trend of music nowadays!
It's a remake, but it can stand alone on its own now!
"Candy" by
@NCTsmtown_DREAM
now sits beside the Original "Candy" by H.O.T (1996) as both now have 2.3 Unique Listeners on MelOn. It's only behind the re-release of the song from 2001. NCT DREAM's Version is the Most-Streamed of the three.
It took NCT DREAM to have overseas schedule as 7DREAM 7 years into their career, they had to have a World Tour for that to even happen, this goes without saying how different the treatment was when it comes to them, clearly they are not prioritized for the past years.
There's this phenomenon where DREAM Bsides are being played publicly and quite consistently too. These bsides are also more Dream-coded compared to their recent title tracks. SM should really change how they arrange the album.
Public prefers dream-coded songs~
Worldwide best selling albums by Korean artists in 2023 (via. IFPI):
#1
FML
#2
5-STAR
#6
ISTJ
#8
SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN
#9
ROCK-STAR
#14
GOLDEN
#18
YOUTH IN THE SHADE
#20
I've IVE
these stupid idiots reasoning out that nct dream were minors before, that's why they got less promotion and albums 😭 as if 4th gen and 5th gen werent minors nowadays but still get proper promotion.. the difference is, when it comes to nct dream, ya'll decided to be dumb.
and it was Beaver Moon today as well, the time of the year where beavers are done with their hardwork. Harvest Moon back in TDS2, a time when farmers harvest their summer crops.
Both of which signifies getting the fruits of their labors, it's the moon telling NCT DREAM's story
Here's a comparison of NCT DREAM total streams on Spotify from the same day last year.
221029 – 1,342,942,778 (+1,122,104)
231029 – 2,127,655,845 (+1,755,521)
We improved by 784M stream in a year's time, now let's keep up the momentum!!
When dreamzens are complaining about 7dream getting undeserved treatment from sm, other sm stans would always squeezed in their agenda and try to make it about themselves. Like yeah we could sympathize with you to a certain extent but don't try to make it like ours was not valid.
since i've been monitoring and tracking nct dream's streams/sales since last year, it came to my mind the reason why we're not generally good streamers is because the fandom grew up having worries about the system more than build up a sense of competition to catch up with others.
companies would be head over heels to have a group like 7DREAM, with an established fandom of their own, had been in the industry for 7 years and still has 7 more years with their 4th gen-like ave. age, sales/achievements that are fitting as a successful 3rd gen, well except SM.
Smoothie needs to reach 10M streams in around 10 to 11 days in order to enter the Top 5 lists of Fastest SM songs to reach the milestone on Spotify.
All songs on the Top 5 are either from soloists or girl groups, this is our time to show how much we've grown since the last time.
you know nct dream has a solid dedicated fandom because even tho glitch mode didn't appealed so well to the public, it still manage to chart almost as good (if not equal) as Hot Sauce despite the reforms.
and we are only going up from now on.
DREAMZENS! Start going back on Spotify to increase 7DREAM's Monthly Listeners, so we'll have better chances of breaking their previous peak on the platform!
Don't worry, we want NCT Dream to be free from SM just as many of you want. They constantly put them in the most fucked up schedule there can ever be, that it's unfathomable how much the members have endured till now.
NCT DREAM will be performing Smoothie on CDTV Live! Live! on April 8, 2024. They will be promoting with other artists such as Hikaru Utada who is behind the famous song 'First Love' & SPYAIR who is also behind Haikyuu!! Iconic opening song 'Imagination.'
To think SM's next most successful boygroup after EXO would be from a unit that was supposed to be messed up from a graduation system that guarantees it no fixed future. It was fate and destiny.
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@NCTsmtown_DREAM
's "Candy" currently have 52 Million streams on MelOn, it's easily the Most-streamed Boygroup song from November 2022 onwards, a front runner for NCT Dream on MelOn Music Awards 2023.
Candy remake is successful because dream was able to add something more to it. Beatbox was a fever because of the vibes that dream has. Glitch Mode/ISTJ got decent digitals because of dreamzens. These are crazy shit combination that only works with us and no other.
Brodies week of release vs. ISTJ week of release
This is the power of timing and properly using your industry connection, which SM ultimately failed in. This has been their thing for so long now and each time, we are up against the toughest weeks of the year.
shipments for ISTJ on Japan were purposedly delayed in-lined with fansign events scheduled in August.
this deliberately downgrades the potential performance of NCT DREAM on local jpn charts. It's a bad thing since this kept on happening for many comebacks now
Dreamzens, getting higher streams right now is more important than makings points to haters who would be happier the lower our streams would get. Let's stop arguing for once and actually strean on Spotify!