Road to Kingdom

Road to Kingdom

A battle between 7 potential boy group

Channel: tvN

Airtime: Thursday 11pm

Cast: Pentagon, ONF, Golden Child, The Boyz, Verivery, ONEUS, TOO

After the popularity of Queendom, Mnet back with the newest reality show for kpop idols. Unlike Queendom, Road to Kingdom is about a boy group idol who hare mostly unknown to many. Meaning they are not popular enough compare to others. 

There are 7 boy groups who participate in this competition.

PENTAGON

           •Cube Entertainment home of Beast, 4Minute, BTOB, (G)I-dle
           •Debut 2016
           •They are the oldest group in this competition. They have one-time success    with Shine

GOLDEN CHILD

• Woolim Entertainment home of a popular group such as Infinite and Lovelyz
• Debut 2017
• They didn’t have any success until recently they reboot and win their first-ever music program with Wannabe.

ONF

• WM Entertainment home of B1A4 and Oh My Girl
• Debut 2017
• I didn’t know much about this group but some of their releases are good

THE BOYZ

• Cre.ker Entertainment
• Debut 2017
• They might be the popular group among those 7 groups since they have a high number of album sales.

VERIVERY

• Jellyfish Entertainment home of VIXX and Gugudan
• Debut 2019
• Decent album sales and their songs were also quite good.

ONEUS

• RBW home to Mamamoo
• Debut 2019
• I could see this group can popular in a few years' time because they keep releasing amazing songs from debut.

TOO

• Stone Music Entertainment
• Debut 2020 from the survival show World Klass
• Since its a new group, we cannot measure the popularity but as Mnet says a show for the group with potential.

Out of 7 groups, my pick is Golden Child and Pentagon. 

First episode

In this episode, each group will be given 90 seconds to make a performance that showcases their group talent. The first place of this battle can decide the order for the next performance.

The Boyz snatch number the first place with their warrior concept, followed by Pentagon, Verivery, Golden Child, ONF, ONEUS, and 7th place is TOO.

Personally, I like Golden Child's performance more than other group but I cannot deny other groups especially Verivery. They really shine throughout the performance. Pentagon’s performance is also great.  

Second & Third episode

Their first performance in this competition. After last week's competition,  The Boyz decided the order with help from other groups. This week's concept is Song of King. They must perform a cover of popular songs.  The order of the group are as follow

Order	Group	Song	Final Ranking
1	Oneus	Warrior’s Descendant	7th (-1)
2	TOO	Rising Sun	4th (+3)
3	Verivery	Mansae	6th (=)
4	Golden Child	T.O.P	5th (-1)
5	ONF	Everybody	3rd (+2)
6	Pentagon	Very Good	2nd (=)
7	The Boyz	Danger	1st (=)

Only The Boyz and Pentagon maintain their position for 1st and 2nd place. TOO make such a drastic improvement after snatching 3rd place with Rising Sun. Out of all the performance, ONF really stands out for me with the arrangement of the song and the dance break. Golden Child standout since they perform a delicate song and add some modern dance in their performance but I think they didn’t execute it well lead them to the fifth place.

The second performance concept is My song. They will perform their own hit song. Pentagon starts the second performance with the tear-jerking performance that they made specially to their member Jinho. It will be Jinho last performance before he went to the military. 

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