So SM are also using non US sales for Aespa to chart on BB just like Jyp with Stray Kids?

    Shocking. They have multiple versions up with hundreds of sales in just minutes.


    The cheapest version costing 21 bucks for a "counts toward Billboard" version of Girls that yes, before you ask, ships to non USA consumers. Jyp was desperate, well now SM has joined in.

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    Shocking. They have multiple versions up with hundreds of sales in just minutes.


    The cheapest version costing 21 bucks for a "counts toward Billboard" version of Girls that yes, before you ask, ships to non USA consumers. Jyp was desperate, well now SM has joined in.

    I’m not sure if SM is using the same method as JYPE, but JYPE’s method requires a US delivery address for the sale - otherwise the order is rejected and refunded.

    ain't nobody gonna paying that

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    Embarrassing how SME is doing things for Aespa to chart in the USA. Guess this is what you do when you clearly don't have an successful international act but still want an successful international act.

    How many times is necessary to say that Billboard doesn't accept sales imported from other countries for K-pop stans stop this narrative? Even if SM is trying as much as they want the way you say, It won't be effective in the end, their real US sales will be what is on Billboard.

    It doesn’t count if it wasn’t from a US location though. They just added these versions so I am guessing they’re temporary?

    Embarassing. 😂😂 Kpop and their obsession with Western validation.

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    That is extremely expensive plus shipping chart. What is the rational for doing this? I doubt if it make any difference when they already have most U.S distributers. And it does not make sense for SM to deploy this method. Think about this. The sale that going into this could have double the sale that SM could get out of.


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    It doesn’t count if it wasn’t from a US location though. They just added these versions so I am guessing they’re temporary?

    This. I guess ktown try to compete with local U.S stores? U.S residents buy the more expensive album and eat the shipping charg instead of buying the cheaper version from their local stores without shipping? Make sense.

    As people have already pointed out it doesn’t count unless it’s from a US store :facepalm:

    what does it mean? can someon eexplain

    This is ktown4u scamming people. As people said before, they won’t count for Billboard unless they’re being shipped to the US.

    how cares? as long as sm can introduce the narrative that aespa at some point charted on bb, they will imput this thought on the minds of the public. And that is what they want, they are Big Brother. And if you don´t what big brother is - Read at least wikipedia version, and you will learn something about mass meddia play

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    how cares? as long as sm can introduce the narrative that aespa at some point charted on bb, they will imput this thought on the minds of the public. And that is what they want, they are Big Brother. And if you don´t what big brother is - Read at least wikipedia version, and you will learn something about mass meddia play

    I heard they are using the aes to spread that narrative,be careful next time you click on an aespa mv you might get brainwashed and naevis will take over your body

    What are you talking about. Sm has been doing it first eons ago before jyp with superm or did you all have amnesia about it? Let's see whether it has any impact tho considering the previous attempt was a huge flop and waste of money.

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    It doesn’t count if it wasn’t from a US location though. They just added these versions so I am guessing they’re temporary?

    ship to a US location aka a drop off address then, they distribute it to the world.

    How long are you going to keep believing that lie about SKZ? It has been shown that that site uses the same line to advertise many artists, but it only counts towards Billboard if you purchase from a US address, and counted purchases are limited to 4 per address. (Stray Kids's own online shop would not let you buy more than four albums either.) And Billboard is not run by one sleep-deprived intern from mum's garage. They employ a whole different company to verify sales. You realise that Billboard charts are some of the most important in the US, right? People there have seen many things and are not going to bend over backwards and ignore their own rules for the sake of some relatively new group, a KOREAN group of all origins. It's time to accept SKZ have a big fandom in the US.


    But some miserable British skz anti that doesn't even speak Korean but pretended to be Korean told you that it's real so you believe it?


    And what happened to the "SKZ have no Korean fans" narrative? Before Oddinary, all their sales were international fans, but before Oddinary they suddenly lost all those US fans and k-fans mass bought it for triple the price and effort? K-stays throw hissy fits if SKZ leave South Korea for an hour and are actively against international promo, you think they'd suddenly care about US charts?


    And before anyone attempts to spread misinformation about this too, the Target exclusive photocards were a compensation for two inclusions missing from the Frankenstein version of Oddinary in the US (a photo foldout and an "invitation card", iirc) in accordance with Billboard rules (Scanning and Mask Off ver. aka the regular versions, don't include those two inclusions in any shape, therefore they had to be removed from the limited version too). In addition, shop-specific photocards have always been a thing, Synara get their own, Aladin get their own, etc.

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    says ain't, and can't even formulate an actual English sentence. STOP BUTCHERING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

    Tell me you have no life besides kpop without telling me.

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