Display MoreGame plan is to give up. Kpop was and is always marketed towards Younger audiences and preferably female too. Whereas country music is marketed towards all ages and gender.
A country singer like Swift, Wallen will have hits that last generations and continues to influence the music scene for that demographic for years to come.
Kpop is geared more towards fast and flashy, you will be lucky if something lasts longer than a decade. This includes BTS as well. Though they are great artists they are still kpop and after so many years they will be forgotten and fans will slowly move on, grow up, start families etc. Whereas that dang country music is eternal.
Then you add on the fact that BTS are foreigners to that country. No matter how great you think they are they will never replace someone like Wallen or swift for one simple factor. DEMOGRAPHICS! This is true in every country Same reason why swift or any other western artists hadn't replaced BTS or BigBang etc. BECAUSE THEY ARE FOREIGNERS!! The overwhelmingly vast majority of people in their respective countries listen primarily to music that is in THEIR OWN FUCKIN LANGUAGE! For obvious reasons. Plus the slight factor of familiarity as the singer is a citizen like them and likely share something in common. Whereas with a forgien singer there's likely none of this.
No forgien singer will ever replace the domestic singer for their own country. Only way BTS could ever replace Wallen is they would have to totally study USA culture and then make country music and sing it entirely in English. Something that's never going to happen
Taylor Swift began as a country singer but was considered to be Pop for quite a while.
At the height of BTS' power in 2021,
these 9 singers won the most awards in the world
BTS 164
The Weeknd 82
Ed Sheeran 76
Taylor Swift 63
Dua Lipa, Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo, Megan Thee Stallion (who featured in a BTS song)
IU (9th) - 46
Assuming all of IU's awards were won in Korea, and BTS' Korean awards are similar to IU's ,BTS had 118 (164 - 46) non-Korean awards
Stronger than The Weeknd, Ed Sheeran, Tay or anyone you could name.
BTS' power was so great that the #2 singer in Korea, and irrelevant to everywhere else, was in the top 9 of the world.
Having written about IU for years, it seems other than a few idol songs, few people's songs other than IU's are sung after 10 years in Korea. This year is BTS' 10th year so we will have to see since BTS didn't have hits until around 2015.
But at the height of its power BTS could overpower anyone you could name, and if it had been allowed to operate longer outside of Korea the country singers would have to wait for years until they had their chance. Now they are entrenched, and Tay is coming to aid them by fighting JK later this year, so the entrenchment is becoming insurmountable.
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