Influence and impact

Super Junior is credited as literally the biggest boy band in the world and the largest group SM Entertainment has ever created.[1] During the course of Super Junior's career, several pop groups were formed with similarly extraordinary numbers of members. SM Entertainment created another group, the nine-member Girls' Generation,[105] and marketed them as the female version of Super Junior. JYP Entertainment also recruited thirteen boys to be in a boy band, who were all revealed in the show, Hot Blood Men. Of these thirteen, eleven were split into two groups that debuted at different times: 2AM, which has four members, and 2PM, which has seven.[106] Together, the two groups form the eleven-member boy band One Day. Ast'1, a boy band under DSP Entertainment, released a promotional video in March 2008. In the short preview the boy band expressed that they would "Knock Down Super Junior",[107] which resulted in a lot of criticism lashed into the group. However, they clarified that they had no means to create conflict, and explained the reason why they want to defeat Super Junior is because they see Super Junior as their answer of success.[108]