Was it wise for Hybe to allow Seventeen to outsell BTS?

The highest selling album in the last 10 years is Seventeen's FML, with 6.4 million copies (Jay Chou's compilation album sold more but it is not a single album)

BTS' best selling album was Map of the Soul 7, with 4.8 million copies

Ever since Seventeen is looking down at BTS, not respecting it

Unlike BTS, Seventeen's leader S. Coups DID get the military exemption, but since few Korean males cared about Seventeen, they didn't get angry about it

Just more reason for Seventeen to look down at BTS more

I can understand IU looking down at BTS since IU knew BTS from the days when they were nugus, which hurt them so much (something which I will discuss in a post in the near future), but Seventeen looks down at BTS because they sold more albums

SM made sure no act not pushed by Lee Sooman would get ahead of the act Sooman was pushing, so no acts were allowed to sell more than the act de jour, TVXQ (not DBSK though), Super Junior, EXO, NCT, etc.

But Hybe and Bang allowed a label act, Seventeen (albeit it didn't debut under Hybe to begin with), to outsell BTS, showing the world that Seventeen was more relevant

Was it right, or not? I do not think so, since it led other labels, especially a certain director whom I do not have to name, to think that they can now jump over BTS without any consequences

Quote from Rengya-Utoma

What are you on about?

since seventeen sold more albums than BTS, svt could now claim a superiority over the Big Hit act

Quote from KarimaJ

I think it was smart. It would have been worse if stray kids beat them.

Now SVT is going into military mode so they're not at full power and can let BTS shine. When the BTS guys get tired of touring and reach even more seniority then seventeen can come back from the military. Having two big boygroups alternating is going to make Hybe more money since they won't be direct competition for each other.

5 of the 13 members will not serve so it is possible for them to do concerts

This will be BTS' final tour , well , till they turn 50 or something. SVT will mostly perform as units (BSS , the chinese members, the American members, etc) so plenty of potentials remaining

Quote from vinslow4

If not for Seventeen then the record would belong to other non hybe company, which is even worst.

Maybe, maybe not, but it would not have led other labels to go uppity