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mjohnso · 4 months

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Periodic Rookie Groups Report No. 22

Periodic Rookie Group Reports are a series of biannual reports that seek to put a number to how many rookie groups debut and make comebacks in a given year. For Report No. 22, I cover the activity of '22 rookie groups between July and December 2023 and the total number of rookie groups that debuted in 2023.

2022 Rookies In the previous Rookie Report, I covered five groups that had debuted in 2022, only to disband less than a year after their debut. I have two additional groups to add to that list. They are as follows:

WSG Wannabe: A project girl group (July ‘22) created for MBC’s Hangout With Yoo, the group concluded their activities following the show’s August 6th, 2022 episode.

X4: The project co-ed group (July ‘22) was formed to promote Busan’s bid to host the 2030 World Expo. Following voting on November 28, 2023, Busan ultimately lost its bid to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Consequently, it is safe to assume that the group disbanded.

This brings the number of disbanded groups to seven—two boy groups, four girl groups, and one co-ed group. Factoring these seven groups brings the number of groups that debuted in 2022 and were still active in 2023 to 69 groups—20 boy groups, 37 girl groups, and two co-ed groups. Of these 69 groups, 52% or 36 groups released new music at least once in 2023. 34% or 24 groups did so between January and June, while 17% or 12 groups did so between July and December. 30% or 21 groups released new music in the first and second half of 2023.

Korean Releases from ‘22 Rookie Groups: July - December 2023

Note: Releases marked with an asterisk (*) indicate an additional release from a group following their initial release

July 06 FIFTY FIFTY - “Barbie Dreams feat. Kaliii” (Single)* 06 Kep1er - “RESCUE TAYO” (Single)* 06 LE SSERAFIM - “Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s Wife (English Ver.)” (Single)* 06 Queenz Eye – “UN-NORMAL” (Single) 10 ARTBEAT v – “DUBI DUBI” (Single)* 11 NMIXX – A Midsummer NMIXX’s Dream (Mini Album)* 14 LE SSERAFIM - “Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s Wife feat. UPSAHL” (Single)* 21 NewJeans - Get Up (Mini Album)* 21 Pattern - “Miro” (Single) 25 ILY:1 - New Chapter (Mini Album)* 26 Liberty - “One Summer” (Single) 28 LE SSERAFIM - “Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s Wife feat. Rina Sawayama” (Single)*

August 01 XEED – Blue (Mini Album) 02 The Wind - “We Go” (Single) 03 ABLUE – “MAD” (Single) 03 Nine.i – NEW MIND (Mini Album) 04 LE SSERAFIM - “Eve, Psyche & the Bluebeard’s Wife feat. Demi Lovato” (Single) 11 TAN - TAN MADE [ I ] (Mini Album)* 30 H1-KEY - Seoul Dreaming (Mini Album)*

September 06 Trendz - “My Way” (Single)* 14 mimiirose - “Flirting” (Single) 20 Tempest – “Vroom Vroom” (Single)* 25 Kep1er - Magic Hour (Mini Album)* 27 XG - NEW DNA (Mini Album)*

October 02 Girls World - “Fly High (Thumbelina)” (Single) 04 NewJeans – “GODS” (Single)* 10 The Fix – “CITY” (Single) 10 The Fix – “Time” (Single)* 15 Queenz Eye – “THIS IS LOVE” (Single)* 17 YOUNITE - 빛 : Bit Part.2 (Mini Album)* 18 Superkind - Profiles of the Future (Λ): 70% (Mini Album)* 20 weNU – “My Everything” (Single) 24 ILY:1 - “To My Boyfriend” (Single)* 24 UNI – “Blue Night” (Single) 27 LE SSERAFIM - “Perfect Night” (Single)* 30 LE SSERAFIM - “Perfect Night (Sped. Up Ver.)” (Single)*

November 02 Nine.i – “Neverland” (Single)* 02 VIVIZ – VERSUS (Mini Album)* 23 LE SSERAFIM – “Perfect Night (Holiday Remix)” (Single)* 26 CSR - “HBD To You (Midnight Ver.)” (Single)* 27 ATBO – “Must Have Love” (Single)*

December 04 NMIXX – “Soñar (Breaker)” (Single)* 08 XG – “WINTER WITHOUT YOU” (Single)* 17 CSR - “HBD To You” (Single)* 19 NewJeans – NJWMX (Mini Album)* 20 CLASS:y – “Winter Bloom” (Single)* 21 ABLUE – “Snowman” (Single)* 21 NINE.I – “Back to Christmas” (Single)*

2023 Rookies In 2023, 95 groups—44 boy groups, 46 girl groups, four co-ed groups, and one queer group—debuted. Compared to last year this marks a 25% increase in the number of new groups debuting. Similarly, boy groups, whose numbers had been declining since 2020, made an about-face, with a 100% increase in the number of new debuts versus last year. Meanwhile, girl groups, who posted a record-setting number last year, saw a small decline slipping 10%. For their part, co-ed groups saw a modest increase from three groups last year to four groups this year, a 33% change.

Yet even with girl group numbers taking a dip, these are some of the best year-end numbers for rookie groups the industry has seen in years. Certainly, the numbers have not been this good since the beginning of the pandemic. So, what changed?

As always with rookie group numbers, context matters. Technically, rookie group numbers did rebound because agencies began to debut more groups, but what is meant by groups has expanded. That is, while once the dominant image of an idol group was a group assembled by an agency created from trainees who had been under and remained with a company for years striving for stardom, that has now changed. As I have written about at length, Rainbow E&M intends for their Future Idol Asia groups to be temporary stops for members rather than their permanent groups. Meanwhile, university k-pop departments, like Howon University in Gunsan, have been debuting their groups. Similarly, television shows have also served as an unconventional conduit for minting new, often temporary, groups. And this is all to say nothing about the recent influx of virtual and "AI" groups that have become part of the industry.

To give this a number, around 40% of the groups that debuted in 2023 qualify as idol groups under this broader definition. Looking to the next year, I expect to see a similar number or more, given that survival shows, Future Idol Asia project and virtual idols are not going anywhere in 2024. Beyond that only time will tell if this is the product of convergence of multiple trends or a fundamental shift in the industry.

Miscellaneous stats:

January saw the most amount of debuts with the debut of 13 new groups: five boy groups and eight girl groups.

Once again, December saw the least amount of debuts with the debut of only three new groups.

For the fourth consecutive year, more girl groups debuted than boy groups.

Methodology: https://blog.mjohnso.com/methodology

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fromdusks · 1 year

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#chenford #the rookie #this is christina reporting live #fresh new poll asking the REAL questions

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cementcornfield · 4 months

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Ja’Marr Chase accepts the 2023 Bengals Media Cooperation Award

Oh, y'all think I'm nice?

#'no i'm evil i'm evil!!!!' he insists with his big sweet eyes and warm open personality #while being universally beloved by fans players and reporters alike #he's evil actually 😈#also i love that he notes cj having won it - he misses his rookie year big bro #ja'marr chase

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jonasiegenthaler · 8 months

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The way Jack speaks of Nico with the same admiration he holds for his brother 🥲 that’s love baby

!! it's just. So Sweet. i wish we could get a real candid interview, article, something about them specifically like the media makes so much of the 1-2 punch, pillars of the franchise thing but it's weirdly underreported? and maybe that's just because they hate to see hot bitches from new jersey win— but it would be really cool to see. especially when you piece together old and new interviews where they talk about each other it's such an intriguing dynamic it's absolutely wild that they've never been put in front of a camera together

#sorry about the tangent #but i remember seeing an interview from jack's rookie season after some game where he got targeted a bunch #and some reporter asked him about it #and he was like. nope i haven't been targeted at all this season idk why you'd think that #entirely sincerely #and that vs him now talking about how his rookie season was hard after nico called it out in that espn interview #this is a matryoshka of tangents im so sorry #picture me as conspiracy charlie day #im connecting some dots #asks #anon

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sansisnes · 2 months

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DO NOT DRINK CAFFINE AND WATCH EPISODES 7 AND 8 OF JJBA PART 6 PART 3

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keepingthepeaceinouterspace · 1 year

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My predictions for future Chenford obstacles are:

He's kind of her boss, so... that's going to be a little sketch

It's all going to all be fun and games until Chris sees them together and gets hella mad because he KNEW it but he trusted them

Lucy going undercover for a while

#Chenford #The rookie #I don't understand how the reporting structure works at the police force #But Tim is often running the place so...

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makeoutstopcrime · 1 year

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me after this moment right here during the end scene where Tim moved .0001 cm closer to Lucy and I had myself convinced I was getting my long-awaited forehead kiss:

#one day my time will come #and it will be glorious #the rookie #chenford #the rookie spoilers #chenford forehead kiss captain reporting for duty

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jrueships · 23 days

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momma cat teaching baby cat how to walk is so jaren and gg coded

#when the kitten started walking too fast and the momma ran over to catch up to it so he doesnt stray too far #jaren worrying to reporters on if he's too hard on gg sometimes bcs he genuinely believes gg is gonna grow up to be the best in his position #is so so so cute #he just wants to be a good vet to gg!! a good mother !!!#especially since the biggest jab to grizzlies' rep is a lack of a strong veteran presence #so ofc they adopt the youngest player in the league lol #fratbros find a baby in a box abandoned on their doorstep like a firehouse would #' i dont watch the grizzlies anymore' u dont care abt jaren sharing an nba vet trick to gg #and correcting his previous rookie thought #and always quickly running over to him and high fiving gg as positive reinforcement #u dont even wanna watch jaren gentle parenting him ???#des always keeping a watchful eye on gg and asking him his opinions on new things to his bright eyes?#'what you see gg?' as theyre both looking at the same thing but he wants to know what GG sees.. what GG thinks !#theyre a vaguely gay vaguely polyamours (im not correcting thay) fratbro frathouse gathering their collective single dusty tiny braincell #together just to try and take care of this fratinfant. the fratbaby #theyre incredibly dear to me. very so #gg #jaren

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hearty-an0n · 26 days

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ur always on about hockey and its making me want to get into it, do you have any suggestions for like. how to be into sports ive never done that before. like is it just watching the games or is there other stuff too 😭sorry this is such a dumb question but i dont. i dont know its a whole new world to me lmao

watching the games is only about 15% of being a sports fan. the other 75% is being the biggest hater in the world

#<3 #asks #anon asks #for actual advice. just pick a team and follow them for the season #you can try to read the rulebook and listen to people argue over rules and stuff but just watching the games will have you understanding it #so much faster than actually trying to understand it #if that makes sense #and once you’ve picked a team? you gotta chose a little guy to invest yourself in #maybe it’s the rookie. maybe it’s the guy everyone is hoping will beat a particular record. maybe it’s the worst player on the team #but you have got to get yourself a little guy to rotate in your mind a little bit. it makes it easier to get into the games themselves #especially when the sport is hockey and there’s 82 games in the nhl season #but yeah most of sports is suffering and hating #hating rival teams hating players that suck on your team hating the coaching staff hating specific beat reporters for your team #but you love them still. it allll comes back to love baby #also yell at your tv its fun

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dylanconrique · 1 year

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.... suddenly a kidnapped chenford child fic is forming.

#*and this is icarly!#*my wips #the rookie #tim bradford #lucy chen #chenford #otp: you know me so well #OH THE ANGST OH!!!!!#i couldn't help but think back to when tim told lucy how much worse it is when you cover a case where a child dies during tonight's ep #and thus the wheels started rapidly turning!!!#NOT THAT I WOULD EVER KILL OFF ONE OF CHENFORD'S BABIES #i just wanna put mom and dad in a panic for a little bit #it also gives me a great reason to write lucy going off the handle at someone #the way she flew off the handle @ tim when he tore her apart for not reporting what he said about taking his own life back in the s1 finale #like someone tells her to calm down and she's like #'DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN MY BABY IS MISSING'#oh the wip! it's forming!!

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onlymylovesurvive · 1 year

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#if anyone needs me i’m sorry to report that i’ve died #cause of death: melissa crystal oneil #the rookie #lucy chen #melissa oneil

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ktinastrikesback · 1 year

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Coming back to 6b teaser, 150 pornbot follows, and the timeline full of Chenford…phenomenal👩🏻‍🍳👌🏼💋

#apologies in advance for the influx of rb’s you’re gonna see from me #also HI #‘Tina did you get your life together while you were offline?’ you ask?#NOPE #but I did watch 4 whole seasons of The Rookie so there’s that #I’m almost caught up and will be screaming with you all!#also I’m assuming nothing big happened with 911? that’s okay #I’m here for this lightning promo!!#also should I report and block all these pornbots or just…leave it?😭😭

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bladed-vengeance · 1 year

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LONG TIME NO SEE , ROOKIE

indie roleplay & writing sideblog for Jack Krauser of the Resident Evil 4 Remake, penned by Rat. reference rentry for details

follows come from @l0cal-r4t

my rentry

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marinehero-a · 2 years

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Rotates young garp in head

#{ ooc } ✗ 「 WENP reporter 」#[ some random rookie marine with an unprecedented grasp on armament haki....#[ absolutely more hardcore 'yippee!! justice >:D' / more blindly loyal than present #[ but still firmly a believer of moral justice #[ with sengoku and tsuru being the only reason he hasn't gotten booted early on #[ tries to recruit random people to the marines...#[ thinks!! ab #[ rotates in head as i try to avoid going /too/ luffy esc but garp is undoubtedly a public menace #[ honestly i like to think he got into the marines purely by chance #[ he was just beating up some pirates who were messing with him/his village and a marine saw him and went 'hey you want to join' 'lmao sure'#[ or just. accidentally stumbled into some marines training bc 'that looks fun' <- proceeds to beat everyone up #[ rotates!!#[ oda give us lore on the old people challenge

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makeoutstopcrime · 1 year

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thinking about a chenford forehead kiss

#chenford #the rookie #I work at an elementary school and we have a work from home day today to write progress reports and report cards #I have written TWO since 8am #I need to put my phone in the freezer

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my-shields-are-down · 2 years

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I dont want Chris to be at Lucy's place. Let Tim and Lucy have their moment!! 😍

don't say that out loud! I'm blocking that thought and that possibility from my existence. I don't even want to consider what that would mean. I probably would not watch the show for a bit if that happened.

BLOCK IT and REPORT THAT IDEA AS OFFENSIVE!

#askAndrea #not going there #nuh uhno #the idea is blocked and reported as offensive #nope nope nope #chenford #tim bradford #lucy chen #i love them #the rookie

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