Have you ever bought a group's album pre-debut?

We're seeing so many groups get crazy debut sales so thought it be interesting to see if any allkpopers have pre-ordered a group's album before they made their debut.

And if you have why did you decide to do it.

Quote from dummi

naur, was gonna preorder newjeans but tbh I realized how stupid that was cause Ik I'm not stanning

Why did you want to pre-order it if you weren't thinking of stanning?

Quote from OldJeans

I wanna buy NewJeans but unfortunately, I am broke. It's either the album or food. But with NewJeans it's different since they already released 3 songs that I love.

Yeah I can see how it's different when you've already heard multiple sings that will be on the album.

Quote from horizonshard

Yes, I like my NMixx Blind Package.

It's so pretty.

So you bought it without knowing what type of music they would release or what the album would look like. Didn't that feel risky

Quote from dummi

Im a visual stan, it looked pretty. Prior to stanning IU fully I wanted to buy her album cause it was pretty too

Didn't think of that reason. Suppose album collectors might buy albums just for the pretty packaging

Quote from kb801

no but i would have if aespa had debuted with a mini album instead of a digital single.

Quote from aclassyteaparty

personally no. i was very close to buying lsfm and new jeans albums tho. only thing that stopped me is the fact that shipping prices are like 3x the cost of the albums these days. i'd prefer to buy from u.s retailers if the albums are officially available there

Do you guys buy a lot of albums? How did you decide to buy a group's album when you didn't even know what they'd be like yet

Quote from blingyblinger

Yes for Stray Kids! After listening to Mixtape I was convinced that District 9 would be good and I was right

It's kinda cheating with groups who've released music pre-debut. Like I'd completely understand if Orbits pre-ordered Loona's debut album