TLDR Disclaimer, if your attention span can't make it past one paragraph:
Antis dumb. Please learn how Spotify works.
This discourse has picked up speed because Jungkook got people so pressed. Especially antis hyping up our akgaes with fake shit but if we start hyping up their akgaes, we love to pit successful women against each other or the classic "we hate to see women succeed" But I digress. It's also a kpop stan thing running with forced misinfo but let me clear up some things.
The only version destroying records right now is just Seven. That's it. "BUT THEY'RE COMBINING 2000 VERSIONS!!!" no they are not. For all of time, Spotify has ALWAYS combined the Clean and Explicit versions because it's still the same composition, same lyrics and same language just one saying a few or a lot of curse words not safe for radio/kids.
Case in point the songs released before Seven:
And the song released after Seven:
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How Seven looks like:
And to the akgaes, Like Crazy was a case of Spotify, that's right SPOTIFY, playing politics with which songs they choose to combine that are different languages. Not BigHit, not Scooter Braun, and not a figment of your imagination of Jungkook being an evil mastermind.
So we will take Spotify's " we don't combine different languages" legit until they don't, then we can rightfully call out the double standards. Until then, they always combined Clean and Explicit and *not different language versions.
"But what about the 99483829082 remixes!!!!!!!!!!" Karen, Spotify has NEVER combined remixes because it's a totally different composition to the original.
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*It's only six remixes but for an annoying reason we also count the instrumentals and explicit, tho the explicit is combined with the clean but whatever lol*
Remixes/Instrumentals only count for Spotify Daily Artist Rankings but more so for BB HOT 100. And with the d2a store gone, this will be the only option that Columbia/Geffin can play to sustain him on the charts. Just like the many others before him.
The discourse going around by pressed antis and akgaes are either acting obtuse on purpose, have low IQs, or just joined pop music this year.