Ya know it's bad when Bruno Mars can't help you crack half your previous album sales

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Well album sales are in general down in S Korea.

But yes, all these are SolUnits, subunit of 1 member of active groups leveraging group fandom.

Their traction as Soloists will be known only when the group is in the past.

- Chinese weren’t interested this time

- people are poorer

- Westerners don’t bulk buy

- sajaegi has become more expensive

"Even after show stopping chart topping Bruno clout song. "

Someone translate this part

It's really weird...

Like, in all my years on line this has never happened.

But sometimes, when I load up allkpop, especially the kpop subforum, like I am immediately assailed by the smell of poo. Like, how weird is that? You go to a website and can SMELL something bad. It should be physically, and technically, impossible to have a website emanate a SMELL.

So, despite the stink poo smell, I scroll through the threads, finding ones I think of interest, and as I scroll, the poopy smell will get worse, almost as if I am getting closer and closer to source of the smell of dookie.

And every... single... time.. this happens.

Each and every time.

I hone in on the source of the excremental aroma...

And find it is, as always... a SeulgisAbs thread

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Quote from Ripia

It's pretty sad honestly.

This thread? Agree

Is this true? Why did she sell less or not even close to Jisoo? Jisoo released her album in 2023 (sold around 1M first week iirc) and Rose released her album 2024 so not that far apart. I really thought Rose was the dark horse of BP, quiet fans online but spends a lot on her and I thought she had the Chinese fans support too.

Quote from jojo7

Is this true? Why did she sell less or not even close to Jisoo? Jisoo released her album in 2023 (sold around 1M first week iirc) and Rose released her album 2024 so not that far apart. I really thought Rose was the dark horse of BP, quiet fans online but spends a lot on her and I thought she had the Chinese fans support too.

'cause Rose doesn't have a mass-buying Chinese fandom.

Blinks said I'm clueless when I said she's the most underrated member of the group, while not only her physical sales but her digital numbers proving my point, excluding the Bruno collab of course.

Quote from xPaulettex

It’s way cheaper than paying 15-35 for an album plus the $35 shipping fee and having to wait 2-3 months shipping time. Even on the low end I can get 5 or more months (especially if you get student pricing) of Spotify for the cost of 1 album. Inflation has killed sales all around, even for Taylor Swift in the US.

To be honest, I'm never gonna understand why some Kpop fans buying albums from Korea, when they can buy it in their own regions. I can still buy her album in Europe, and I only have to wait 2 weeks at max. And all of these webshops are included in Henteo.

Quote from David33

To be honest, I'm never gonna understand why some Kpop fans buying albums from Korea, when they can buy it in their own regions. I can still buy her album in Europe, and I only have to wait 2 weeks at max. And all of these webshops are included in Henteo.

They want the pre-order goodies that arent necessarily included in purchases from other regions.

All this shows is how inflated kpop sales really is.

Quote from ISaidISaid

All this shows is how inflated kpop sales really is.

always has been, always will be

Quote from xPaulettex

In my area we don’t have k pop shops, I so wish I did. We have like hot topic. Walmart and target here carry some of the bigger more popular groups at times but it’s quite limited.

But I'm sure you have online webshops, that's what I'm talking about, not actual Kpop stores.

You live in the US, right? I mean, that's where Walmart etc are. There are a LOT of US Kpop Webshops. It's probably cheaper than in the actual store, not to mention no one's gonna mess with your album and steal things from it.

Quote from 0ppar

They want the pre-order goodies that arent necessarily included in purchases from other regions.

But you can get all of those in any other Webshop, all-around the world. At least, I have never seen any different when I bought albums. Sure, it's limited, but I'm pretty sure it's limited in SK as well.