Do you think they’ll be able to break their own records or did they set the bar too high for themseves?

Never say never

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Hmmm we'll see

What is the rule change?

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Youtube changed the rules for views. They started freezing the views longer and deleting more views, so gaining views is a lot harder now

Since when this was implemented? Was there any official source or is it based on speculations?

I think bts and BP both will break their record for album sales

Not the yt views though

I don't know enough about the other groups to say

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Not the yt views though

i believe bp can do so

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i believe bp can do so

I hope so

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6. Seventeen: Highest album sales for an album: Record: 1.4M albums. Comeback after it: 1.1M: I don’t think they’ll be able to break this record considering there was 5 months for fans to save money.

What do you think?

Just gonna comment on Seventeen’s one. Fallin Flower was released in April, followed by that Heng:Garae was released in June, then in September 24H was released, right after that in October Semicolon was released. There was no 5 month break, and Semicolon was announced just 2 weeks before its release. Within just one week it was able to sell 900k, which is an amazing feat. It’s amazing how a special album, which generally sell less then usual was able to hit 1.1M with just only one version, even with just 2 weeks notice before comeback. I definitely think they can break their previous record, Carats this time around are aiming for 2M for the full album.

Imo view wise for BTS. Yes its dependent on the song. I would say its more dependent on the type of the song not language. Its obvious BTSs pop songs (DNA, BWL, Dynamite), pull in the biggest view numbers.

But to put some numbers into perspective for the 71M that LGO got.... it got similar numbers to BWL despite it being a slow song which one can easily see get lower views (e.g Look at Spring Day's views, despite being the title track for their YNWA comeback, Not Today the bside mv has more views cause its a more upbeat dance track).

Its also obvious videos with choreography in them get more views most of the time (most of BTSs less viewed MVs are ones with a storyline, e.g. I NEED U, Spring Day, LGO, ON).

So basically LGO got almost the same number as BWL.. a song that is the type of BTS song that has an advantage for views being a Pop, dance, song and on top of that it was a collab with HALSEY which helped the views a bit obviously vs. LGO a slow Korean song with no dance with no collab, which is the type of MV that doesn't normally get a large amount of views. (And that goes for any artist most of the time, e.g. BPs least viewed MV is Stay, their slowest song that has a MV... it has the same things with it, no dancing, slow song.)

Dynamite's record will be hard to break in general cause its such a high umber. But personally I can see them breaking it because LGO got such a big number that was almost the same number as BWL despite being the type of song and MV LGO was.

And thats why I don't see it as dependent on language. I think BTS will have to release an upbeat song with choreo to break it, doesn't matter if its english or korean. I can see either breaking it.

Album sales wise. Considering the amount they've grown WW in 2020 and how they are continuing to in 2021, they can beat the 4.4M MOTS:7 sold. BE got 2.7M with ONE $50 version. It will obviously go over 3M with the new essential edition but again that makes it only 2 versions. If BTSs next album goes back to their usual 4 versions that MOTS:7 had... they can break it, and i do think by a quite a lot cause they've grown in most places in the world a lot, BUT one place in particular that is gonna prove beneficial to their physical sales growth that they basically exploded in popularity in is Japan. Dynamite has made BTS blow up in Japan and Japan is a known big market for physical sales. so if BTS's next cb does indeed have their usual versions like MOTS:7... than yes I can see them breaking it and not by just a little bit.

I hope Blackpink continues to be more successful than they already are

Twice's view record is unlikely to be beaten.

Album sales would be easy if JYPE won't release Japanese album at the same time with 5 different merch pre-orders. They just need proper distribution not like they had with EWO (US distribution came 2months after comeback)

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Twice's view record is unlikely to be beaten.

yep, the hype for fancy was just off the bar due to the interest in seeing a concept switch up

I think as long as these fandoms keep growing, of course it's possible.

Y’all still questioning BLACKPINK... of course they can.

It depends on song choice and strategy, but I think it’s certainly doable for all of these groups. While fandoms can certainly power success, BTS made a very strategic and specific choice with Dynamite, while Blackpink has also applied very specific strategies in song selection and collaboration to reach a wider market. For Seventeen and NCT, song choice also plays a role partnered with an emphasis on dances that can go viral and/or drive social content. RV certainly had a hit with “Psycho”, again I think song choice will be key here.

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5. NCT: Highest album sales for an album: Record: 1.4M albums. Comeback after it: 1.2M. This will be easy to break with a decent margin. The only reason why they couldn’t sell more with this comeback was because it was a repackage and there was around one month for fans to save money.

nct are rapidly growing rn, im pretty sure they can easily outsell themselves