Why did Life Goes On not flop?

    Armys are all over anons claiming YTC charted the way it did by saying (1) it was a ballad (2) it was released with an album drop (3) Proof was super expensive, which pissed off armys and killed the hype


    But weren't all these things also true for LGO? So how come LGO outperformed on every metric despite being released 1.5 years earlier?

    And how does BTS announcing a hiatus affect anything, as armys are also saying ? Still Life was an actual disbandment single with 1 member leaving the company before the song even came out and it still did miles better in Korea

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    ARMY stream what they like :wellr:

    Because it was a better song. The ballad and 20 plus songs in proof excuse were complete bullshit. As if BTS has never done repackaged albums before which had successful title tracks.

    People underestimate two things-


    1. It being from an ANTHOLOGY album.


    2. People not liking the song at all maybe.



    Both are things we can't make further comments on. I can't see any other top k-pop acts ever releasing an anthology. You need to have a music legacy for that. And fans disliking is something we can only say on personal experience which can be very biased.

    The whole anthology excuse is so stupid, you had 3 new songs only, the other ones were released years ago

    But people were calling LGO flop too?

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    Which made BTS sad considered they didn't like Dynamite

    They liked Dynamite and so did a lot of people all over the world. They just didn’t like the thought that their Korean music didn’t get the same treatment. Which they aren’t wrong for feeling like that because many fans felt the same. The ideal would be an English song that they wrote with A list western producers. The English songs were superficial because they weren’t as involved as they normally would be and the Korean songs aren’t in English only. An entirely English song will always do better in an English speaking country. Dynamite and LGO were also what fit the mood during the pandemic. YTC doesn’t because the pandemic was winding down and people wanted to celebrate and go back to having fun.

    Armys didn't like the song. After three months it has only 146m views on YouTube, 10m likes and 1m dislikes. And you cannot blame it on antis, not enough views for that.

    Armys were pissed that after 1.5 years of waiting they got anthology album and they didn't like that the song was slower.


    The only "excuse" is that armys didn't like it and didn't care for it

    as simple as armys waiting for 2 years only to get a slow song again


    2 slow korean songs on a row is a wrong move by bighit. armys obviously did not like it thats why it flopped


    if run bts was the title it wouldn't have flopped even if it was with an anthology album


    as basic as that

    Ytc is a bad song. I’m an army and I dislike it. I enjoy life goes on a lot but I understand that at the end of the day it’s just a matter of preference.

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    They liked Dynamite and so did a lot of people all over the world. They just didn’t like the thought that their Korean music didn’t get the same treatment. Which they aren’t wrong for feeling like that because many fans felt the same. The ideal would be an English song that they wrote with A list western producers. The English songs were superficial because they weren’t as involved as they normally would be and the Korean songs aren’t in English only. An entirely English song will always do better in an English speaking country. Dynamite and LGO were also what fit the mood during the pandemic. YTC doesn’t because the pandemic was winding down and people wanted to celebrate and go back to having fun.

    Then why did they do the transition? RM said it himself "they wouldn't sell their selfs for a 1" and they still did at the end of the day and now you see the consequences in them, he is deppressed and they feel lost in their music as a group

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    Armys are all over anons claiming YTC charted the way it did by saying (1) it was a ballad (2) it was released with an album drop (3) Proof was super expensive, which pissed off armys and killed the hype


    But weren't all these things also true for LGO? So how come LGO outperformed on every metric despite being released 1.5 years earlier?

    And how does BTS announcing a hiatus affect anything, as armys are also saying ? Still Life was an actual disbandment single with 1 member leaving the company before the song even came out and it still did miles better in Korea

    I think it's really cute that blinks have so much time to spend so much time looking up the achievements and charting of the songs of groups they hate so much. But I guess that's what happens when your own faves put out music every 2 years.

    It's so painfully obvious but let's talk about it again.

    LGO came after Dynamite and it was the single of an album the boys worked even more on themselves. It was released during a time when ax it of people were in lockdown and it brought hope.

    The hype was huge at that time.

    YTC wars a disappointment even before its release because it has been leaked for a month before. That, along with the fact that Armys had been waiting for a new album only to get an anthology, affected the hype. And the cherry on top was the hiatus announcement just a few days after the official release. I am even surprised it did the numbers it did because of all that.

    Any other group would have flopped if so these had happened before an official release. Even BP, despite the fact the Blinks have been so loud about the song flopping.

    Bragging about surpassing such a song with all the problems isn't a drag.

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