Army closed the way BTS paved

BTS paved the way for K-pop in the US, but army mass buying to get in the hot 100 made Billboard change their rules and close the very way BTS had opened. Now K-pop is over before other groups even had their chance.

and we are happy for this .

Thank you bts that even your goodbuy song is making people angry

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I never got this paved the way thing. Army would brag about it but then block the way for any group that tried walking the path long before billboard changed anything.

There's no use paving the way if no one else can follow.

BTS never paved the way, they just made kpop more mainstream and that was something that eventually it would come anyway, independent of the group. 2nd gen promoted there and charted there before, even award show and succesful tours, just BTS made it mainstream and enlarged the stigma that it was against kpop with the fandom manipulation that billboard called out

Sure!!

Interesting.

as if kpop even had a chance before the change lmao

well no kpop act but bts or bp enter hot100 tho, its about the same as always

Good job armys

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and we are happy for this .

Thank you bts that even your goodbuy song is making people angry

the op is talking about this which happened long before the goodbye song

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Kpop is dead in the US... Billboard announces rule change.

twitter.com/chartdata/status/1481051433923649538?s=21

Of course BTS will be fine.

wendii

Jan 11th 2022

and no one's blaming or angry at bts, maybe at some armys but not bts

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BTS never paved the way, they just made kpop more mainstream and that was something that eventually it would come anyway, independent of the group. 2nd gen promoted there and charted there before, even award show and succesful tours, just BTS made it mainstream and enlarged the stigma that it was against kpop with the fandom manipulation that billboard called out

okay anti, BTS ruined kpop. Geez...

Yay!!!!

The impact of armys for Billboard to change their rules lmao. Dont worry Billboard just wait and see when their fans gather their thoughts lol

True, their donation accounts couldn't have been louder if they tried. So "organic".

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BTS never paved the way, they just made kpop more mainstream and that was something that eventually it would come anyway, independent of the group. 2nd gen promoted there and charted there before, even award show and succesful tours, just BTS made it mainstream and enlarged the stigma that it was against kpop with the fandom manipulation that billboard called out

Then what is paving the way is to you? Because bts dedicated fans who later turned rabid showed american record companies how profitable they can be. Look at their industry now. Even a listers don't sell that much these day with a few exceptions.

Bp with all their mediaplay still didn't attend or win any shows, nor were they invited for any important events. Still no 4th gen can come close to their achievements let alone bts.

2nd generation promoted there like 1 or 2 times and that was it. Concerts don't count when bts managed to sell out stadiums and turn Vegas purple. I remember this tweet from one non kpop related professional saying how the Vegas thing is fascinating that no A lister in america managed to do that and that will never happen in the nearest years or ever. Psy was a monster in 2012 yet he didn't make all those album distributions available everywhere.

Armies did mess up the bb thing, I'm not arguing that. But let's not act like the stigma against kpop was going to go away anyway. It had racism behind it(and you can't change my mind). As if american popstars are not manufactured and controlled at all. They all give images to artists and have their own agendas. Prince(the slave on his cheek thing) or Mj and how they overworked him even in his 50s would say otherwise. Not exactly like kpop, but they do give you more fake illusion of freedom. Finally something not western is popular and the first thing they do is discredit it with - control, manufactured, depression, suicide. Yes, they can openly talk about it, but are their stars completely fine? As if sexual/physical/child/drug/alcohol abuses don't happen. Look at Justin bieber, or Doja. Americans are not as open minded as they think they are. Spanish is popular there due to large hispanic community(and plenty of acts are white or white passing) and the countries surrounding the states. The only popular non english acts were still white. Anyway, millions of cases and they're not as free as you think.

Just like Boa and Dbsk opened the door to Japan, Bts did with America. They didn't close a thing bc

Boy groups of 4th gen still can't be compared to what bts was in 2017. Just in 5 years coming from a non big 3 company, they were selling out stadiums in American and European countries. And kmca know there won't be an act like bts coming soon at all which why they are begging them to come back bc there won't be another chance to make a criteria for exemption for ALL idols if bts won't be exempted.

if they paved the way then it wouldn't end with them im starting to think they never paved the way at all if it was just them carrying KPOP