Are C-bars the future of kpop sales?

SM has been focusing on Japan since '98 or '99, except S.E.S didn't make much noise unfortunately.

Yes, C-bars are the future.

chinese fans only can contribute to sales, i think japan and SEA is more beneficial

I don't think any of know how cbars work

Cbars don't just buy the album out of thin air, they sell merch along albums. The more popular a kpo group is in china, the more merch they will sell that's why sm and YG groups sell so much there bc their groups always been popular there. Their music do well digitally there too

The money to adquiere those albums doesn't just appear, it need a process and to grow a following so u can see big sales

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chinese fans only can contribute to sales, i think japan and SEA is more beneficial

isn't a sale more contributing than streams though?

like a spotify stream or YT stream will get the artist like $0.005 per stream or something like that

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isn't a sale more contributing than streams though?

like a spotify stream or YT stream will get the artist like $0.005 per stream or something like that

Op seems really lost lol

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isn't a sale more contributing than streams though?

like a spotify stream or YT stream will get the artist like $0.005 per stream or something like that

I think i read some stats that it takes 1 BILLION streams to earn about 4 million bucks via streams. While Kpop groups can gross 4 million bucks with just 200-300k in album sales.

Ugh the ccp should let up on the restrictions to kpop...

I kind of hope not, mostly because of how volatile and cancel happy c-netz can be and how much influence the CCP can play in that

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With Aespa and now NewJeans, we have seen explosive growth of sales, without equal growth of other metrics like MV likes on YT. The most obvious explanation is that the sales are coming from China, since they don't use YT. Particularly C-bars who bulk order. It's seems like China is the next big market you need to be in, like how SM focused on Japan in the early 2000's to explode sales.

China has ALWAYS been large consumers of Kpop. Not sure where u were all the time.

Big groups like Big bang, SNSD, Super Junior, EXO all had big following in China. This is evident with how the songs charted in China. The Chinese fans were not as organised they are now (grouped as bulk purchaeses via C bars nowadays) but the supports have always been there.

Korean success is still the biggest thing, most companies still make the greatest part of their revenues from the Korean market.

probably yeah. but considering how sensitive and restrictive the ccp can be about stuff idk

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isn't a sale more contributing than streams though?

like a spotify stream or YT stream will get the artist like $0.005 per stream or something like that

touring gives more money though, u cant tour in china

China has been a major buyer of kpop albums since 2nd gen

I think Japan and korea still are major album buyers. Not to mention touring in japan being a big revenue for most of kpop artists.

China has been hardcarrying sm and yg groups for ages now

They've been in existence since forever though.