If you are the investor in the company, what would you choose? 9
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Feel My Rythm and Birthday aren't the best songs by Red Velvet but they are the most successful in terms of sales, one album sold almost a million and the other is a little less than 1.5 million albums sold.
So SM chose to make more money by with more album sales instead giving RV better music.