Bulk buying is what keeps K-pop afloat. We should be grateful, not hateful.

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Why not turn those 1 million albums in pure profit selling the, digitally? No more production costs, no more middlemen in market place either.

I would understand the concern of digital reducing the interest in albums because the albums are collectibles, but nowadays people are buying hundreds of thousands non shipping back albums... means people don't give a fuck for collecting anymore, they just want high sales to brag about on twitter

So you offer some physical albums for people who really wants to collect

And offer a digital version for people who only want to spend their money mindlessly

You just need to guarantee those digital albums will count on music shows and awards (and on Gaon/Hanteo) and boooooom, we would have a profitable and more envinronment-friendly market

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The caveat here is those downloads MUST count for the charts because in the end the bulk buying is for the charts.

If you say unlimited downloads are going to inform charts I don’t think everyone is going to be happy and it’s going to take away from a lot of smaller artists or non fandom driven artists.

Unlimited physical album sales is currently not that much opposed only because the physical album chart is strictly separate in Korea.

If there weren’t then we’d have a billboard situation and they’d be capping physical sales per person.

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The caveat here is those downloads MUST count for the charts because in the end the bulk buying is for the charts.

If you say unlimited downloads are going to inform charts I don’t think everyone is going to be happy and it’s going to take away from a lot of smaller artists or non fandom driven artists.

Unlimited physical album sales is currently not that much opposed only because the physical album chart is strictly separate in Korea.

If there weren’t then we’d have a billboard situation and they’d be capping physical sales per person.

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Those downloads would count towards album charts, where smaller non-fandom driven are already nonexistent. Those digital album sales would count to the already fandom-dominated album charts

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Those downloads would count towards album charts, where smaller non-fandom driven are already nonexistent. Those digital album sales would count to the already fandom-dominated album charts

Yes that’s what I’m saying that would involve changing the current digital chart. Which is heavily influenced by downloads.

Album sales are still the most effective way for companies to make money. Streaming platforms just can't compete.

To generate the same amount of money for selling one million physical albums, you would need around 3 to 4 billion streaming on Spotify, and that is if you were mailing getting those streams from the US.

Tour and endorsement are good too, but It can take it longer to get those big revenue numbers that album sales bring. Even then, the companies would get a smaller cut of the money compared to the album sales.

In resume, kpop is killing the planet, and you should just get used to it. Better yet, make some money from all those photo cards, so you can build some nice end-of-the-world bunker.

the issue for a lot of people is the environmental impact it has and for fandoms to throw away the albums whilst taking the goodies inside...

the question is - what is the next best alternative to that when albums are one of the primary sources of data aka success

and what pollutes the planet

I just see buying albums as the same thing as buying any type of merch for your favs. Let people do what they want with their money.