SS501 in the top 5 in the Group ranking with the highest commercial value in South Korea

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Now, let me ask this question again: Why then did DSP let them go? I guess some of my previous post has answered that question.

Credits to (original source not quoted) 1st post by SHINEE家族 & 百度SHINee吧 & SHINee Shine Forever論壇 + 2nd post by Love Jun - 金亨俊台灣後援會 + (English translation) kelemama @501wangja.multiply.com

Group ranking with the highest commercial value in South Korea for the past 25 years

Korea's style of creating stars has always been grooming groups into popular bands, since the first Korean wave HOT, every year there are countless of new groups that step into the entertainment industry, there are even some groups who had not even performed on stage and had already been eliminated and need to go through reselections again, but there's also some who rose to stardom with just one hit. Take a count in 25 years on the male and female groups, according to Daum Cafe ranking statistics, DBSK with more than 2 fold of votes surpassing No.2 Bigbang and claimed the top spot.

1. DBSK - 784147
2. Bigbang - 366398
3. SNSD - 297771
4. SS501 266442
SS501 (pronounced as Double S 501) is Korea's famous boys group, 2005 debut till now, has been showing very good results in Korea and Japan. The S in the group name is derived from Singer, Super Star and 5 stands for 5 person, 0 stands for forever, 1 stands for together as one.

5. 2PM - 264345
6. Super Junior - 248616
7. Shinhwa - 188821
8. SHINee - 116447
9. Wonder Girls - 109823
10. FT-Island - 109585
11. 2NE1 - 96690
12. HOT - 75616
13. GOD - 72020
14. MBLAQ - 67417
15. BEAST - 64287
16. SES - 61319
17. 2AM - 57662
18. F(X) - 55682
19.Kara - 52849
20. Brown Eyed Girls - 44003
21. T-ara - 20210
22. 4Minute - 18854
23. After School - 14726
24.U-Kiss - 4936
25. HAM - 961