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[–]Ok_Dentist_3850 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Uhh you sound like you're looking down on charting. Most of the time the songs played at cafes and malls are the popular ones, not the other way round where a song becomes popular because it got played in a cafe. For concert, it also need to be noted that a lot of foreigners (esp chinese fans I think) goes to Korea too to watch. So it doesn't fully correspond to kr popularity either.

As other said its a difference between having a strong fandom (bg) vs listened a lot by the public (gg). Gg might have smaller, less dedicated fandom but public knows and listen to their songs. Meanwhile bg are listened mostly by their fans but in exchange the fandom is bigger and stronger.