All these fandom wars in KPop seem futile when a nonKPopper takes the title of the biggest concert in K-O-R-E-A

Quote from chanbinhan

you must be fun at the parties lol

And stray kids is having a concert after THE pandemic, last time they had their concerts when they were rookies so do you expect them to get large venues for concerts already? You think jyp is that dumb to think they'll sell out a stadium of 60,000 capacity for their first concert after the pandemic? Also dont worry their venues are getting bigger slowly cz jyp knows how to "play it safe"

JYPE has a long tradition of playing it safe so it never does anything until someone else did that first

Quote from bbgc

There is little correlation between Album sales and Concert attendence.

It is pretty much well known that Album sales are entirely fandom driven and with activities such as bulk buying, crowd sourcing etc.

Similarly voting in awards is a joke.

But albums are crucial for sales revenue, the agency doesn't care whether it is bulk buying or not.

The most reliable measure is Unique Listeners for popularity, followed by concert attendance.

And yes, IU is very strong in those metrics in Korea.

And why would the authorities not invite her to perform, when she had already booked, cancelled due to COVID, when the construction got delayed, of course they should reach out to their cancellations.

But others are doing fine with concerts outside Korea, hence the difference might be due to cultural differences between Koreans and other places.

Between male and female acts etc.

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Her lifelong hostility to KPop all culminated in that concert.

No one will beat her record for another 3 years, at least, and that does give her an advantage over everyone else , and she not being a KPopper does become a big detriment

Concert goers, especially in Korea, are serious fans who are willing to spend real money and time to support the singer and the nonKPopper, whose name I won't use in this thread, showed she could raise more serious fans than anyone else currently active in Korea.

That will be a huge drag on every single act originating from Korea, except the trottists, since no matter how well they do in sales and overseas concerts, if they can't outdo the nonKPopper their actual fame will be questioned by Koreans.