No I’m not a millionaire who needs to evade taxes. So it would have no value to me. At least fine art is tangible.

No, I think it's stupid to buy it for myself.

But if prices do go up because K-pop stans, then it might be an interesting investment.

nope, kpop photocards will always be superior!

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nope, kpop photocards will always be superior!

Until they stop making them for collectable NFT Kpop cards lol. I can see some companies doing that, since they don't have to spend the money on actually printing them.

I don't know, but I have already invested in environment-friendly cryptocurrencies. I am not investing in Bitcoin because of that reason. For NFT I still want to collect more data on what I want to do with it.

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then fans will stop buying physical albums (getting albums for the photo book will become less important) fans mostly collect photo card

I honestly don't get the point of albums, CDs is a dead medium. Companies already sell separate photobooks.

Honestly, the only reason for any of these things is for people that want physical goods in their hands, even with photobooks you can get tons of better or just as good photos for free from the artists Instagram page (in HD without print errors).

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I was saying the same thing few days ago to another kpop fan , I only buy physical album of Japanese release because it's hard to get legal digital copy , multiple fans argued that digital sales doesn't help idol ear a lot and they don't want to pay each month for a service that they won't use it everyday or so. physical albums contribute to charts (and idols make a lot by selling them) idk If you think about it , for small groups that doesn't sell 50k-100k copy then cancelling physical albums might affect their mental health (negative thought, they're in small company and they don't see any result of their hard work, it's already hard for these groups to sell physical albums or get into tvshow so imagine the struggle that they will have to do good on youtube or other media platform)

I think music CDs are still in increase in japan but maybe not the rest of the world, however there have been increase in vinyl sales and I think maybe kpop will focus on vinyl &cassette more than CD

[Article]Cassette sales double in a year with Lady Gaga best-selling album on tape

not sure how accurate are these datas

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I don't know if artists really make and money from physicals sales either. I think the problem with what artists make come from the way contracts are set up with labels, I don't know about Korea but most of the revenue from actual music sales go to paying back the debt that artist owe to the labels, the money used to make music and promote it belongs to the labels. This money has to be paid back as it is essentially a loan to the artist.

I think most of the personal income for artists comes from touring and brand deals/cfs.

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I think music CDs are still in increase in japan but maybe not the rest of the world

They're slowly going down

2017-2019 it didn't change much

But it took a big hit last year

I think that you did the right thing. Invest in whatever you like and whatever makes you happy. I could suggest you invest in NFTs because they are a good and easy way of making money. After giving up on mining, I started my own NFT project, and I am glad that I did that. At first, I had some difficulties, but I overcame them and achieved my dream. For example, my first attempt to get on the blockchain was a failure, but I did not give up, and I searched for a launchpad to help me. I came across http://bhero.com, which helped me get legally on the Elrond blockchain and turned my project into a success.