In the vibrant world of K-pop, music, and performances seamlessly converge, and idol groups are the driving force behind the industry's global success.
In South Korea, four major entertainment labels - SM Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, HYBE, and YG Entertainment - have become the foundation for launching the top idol groups. Each entertainment label nurtures its own set of talented artists, contributing to K-pop's growth and evolution.
An intriguing aspect of this is the volume of music these groups produce under each label, which uniquely defines the K-pop landscape.
One K-pop enthusiast listed the number of K-pop songs released by the artists from each of these major music labels. The netizen who created the post that the compilation of the number of songs only includes the Korean songs released, excluding the Japanese and English ones.
SM Entertainment:
- TVXQ: 132 songs
- Super Junior: 196 songs
- Girls' Generation: 112 songs
- EXO: 108 songs
- Red Velvet: 102 songs
- NCT 127: 94 songs
- NCT Dream: 71 songs
- aespa: 29 songs
JYP Entertainment:
- 2PM: 113 songs
- Wonder Girls: 86 songs
- TWICE: 122 songs
- Stray Kids: 130 songs
- ITZY: 42 songs
HYBE Corporation (formerly Big Hit Entertainment):
- BTS: 218 songs
- NU'EST: 20 songs
- Seventeen: 124 songs
- TXT: 65 songs
- ENHYPEN: 23 songs
YG Entertainment:
- Big Bang: 69 songs
- 2NE1: 52 songs
- WINNER: 58 songs
- iKON: 72 songs
- BLACKPINK: 33 songs
- TREASURE: 40 songs
K-netizens commented, "I feel bad for YG artists," "Big Bang's been out for a long time but they have fewer songs than 4th generation idols," "With Japanese songs and English songs combined, TWICE and BTS might have over 300 songs each," "YG artists have really little songs, what's with BLACKPINK..." "BTS really worked hard," "Wow, BTS has the most songs," "BLACKPINK 33...I really think I memorized all of their songs," "WINNER has a lot of songs they made but the company's not going to release them? They debuted similar time as Red Velvet but the song number difference..." "They missed SHINee," "BLACKPINK songs are only produced by Teddy that's why," and "NMIXX is missing from JYP Entertainment too."