Top Fourth-Gen Girl Group’s “Downfall” With Recent EP Release Sparks Major Heartbreak

It all related to streaming stats.

ITZY‘s streaming stats for their new release have shocked netizens.

The members of ITZY

ITZY recently released “Motto.”

Following the EP release, the stats for the Spotify streams were shared.

ITZY’s ‘Motto’ EP debuts with 1,141,212 streams on Spotify Counter:

• Motto – 390,419
• Glitch – 138,322
• you And I – 114,734
• Pocket – 119,242
• Asylum – 105,543
• LOOK – 97,414
• Undefined – 90,623
• Tangerine – 84,915 pic.twitter.com/BYnkPI7zAI

— About ITZY (@AboutItzyYT) May 19, 2026

While some fans pointed out how the numbers beat the stats of “TUNNEL VISION,” it still sparked major shock and concerns for ITZY, especially as they were always seen as one of the top fourth-generation artists. Some particularly shared shock as they thought the song was very good, and while past releases had fans divided, this one had seemingly had a positive reaction, yet still couldn’t achieve huge numbers.

Why is nothing working for them? Like, this song is so good 😭 what happened? https://t.co/C5jHqe5xZG

— ICONIC ONCE🍭 (@ICONICONCE) May 19, 2026

Thought this was the title truck numbers at first and was gonna praise https://t.co/747e01jtal

— BLACKMAMBA (@THEOGBLACKMAMBA) May 20, 2026

If only jyp put their favouritism away and don’t focus only on one certain gg https://t.co/CyBJdG7eDE

— L (@SKINGZ__) May 19, 2026

they’re really over i fear…. even 5th gen groups debut with more, 1.1M for the WHOLE ep is crazy😭 https://t.co/ZWfIuHTvo3

— nalani🧛🏼‍♀️ (@starhonie) May 19, 2026

Their downfall needs to be studied 😭😭 https://t.co/hKjmd0Tyu0

— hanniè will be ending bts (@Hudsg_0d) May 19, 2026

Even a tweet mentioning the title track streams alone sparked some confusion about ITZY’s impact and influence in K-Pop.

ITZY’s ‘Motto’ debuts with 390,419 streams on Spotify Counter. pic.twitter.com/N930jTkaaT

— ITZY BASE (@itzypopbase) May 19, 2026

Even though itzy keep releasing (great) songs, Idk what caused them to lose so much popularity. Unfortunately, I don’t think they’ll ever regain that level of success, and they may eventually disband https://t.co/DUFH4H1bIw

— YNAA ᥫ᭡ (@mzrrr_mk) May 19, 2026