why does blackpink not promote in japan if the japan market is so lucrative for kpop
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isn't it? why do other groups do it then?
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They don't promote ANYWHERE because YG just doesn't let them. This could be said for many other things BP are being held back from(more music, more promo, etc)
Japan support could help alot in their growth, but they're doing fine without it. It's just impressive to see that BP have a stable fanbase there without doing much.
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Are they doing the right thing? Well they sold 1.3million with one album without the Japan 'support' so I gues they're doing all right.
Imo, YGE just focus on Japan when it's regarding tour. They know that Japan is the goldmine when it comes to touring, and since BP can still sell out dome tours, I guess they don't really see the need for more effort. I wish they would though. Having Japanese songs would be nice.
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isn't it? why do other groups do it then?
I mean its still a good market but BP can most likely grow more in the west more then they can in JP.
BP can still tour and rank high on rankings for girl groups even without trying in JP.
It sucks but it is what it is.
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yeah I was wondering the same, they ain't even try to made original JP release for once,
BP japan album sales kinda low (because lacking of original JP content ?) but surprisingly their concert tour over there is always packed.
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My guess yg is not trying bc:
- Concept limitations.. when did a gg get big there without being on the cute side?
- Japanese fans require a lot of fan service something bp doesn’t do, the fans you’ll get without that are already yours without trying so hard with something like original songs
- the language barrier prevents them from going on shows unlike other ggs
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I'm sure YG doesn't have a partner to handle Japanese promotions, album release and distributions. Promotions in Japan means TV appearances and heavy advertisement, YG logic was always cut the liabilities as much as possible when it comes to releasing music and music promotions, they spend with their brand instead
TLDR, he doesn't want to invest on Blackpink. The company sees their tour attendances and call it a day
I also realize in Japan celebrities and singers aren't at all correlated and Japan has a very high dissonance with international markets when it comes to modeling and even social media presence. In Japan if you want to be a singer you need to be a SINGER, being half-time singer who spend the other half of the year modeling on Instagram will not help their popularity at all like it helped outside Japan
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- Concept limitations.. when did a gg get big there without being on the cute side?
I'd suggest looking at Morning Musume (a Japanese girl group known for its multiple lineup changes) as an example. The group started with 5 members (Yuko Nakazawa, Aya Ishiguro, Kaori Iida, Natsumi Abe, and Asuka Fukuda), and its lineup's changed since, with it getting big in some years and getting small in some other years (take back when the group had a 12-member lineup at the beginning of 2012 due to a member's graduation from it + the additions of 4 new members a few months earlier, for example) - I see this as an example of a GG getting big in Japan without always being on the cute side (in fact, I feel like their 2014 comeback with TIKI BUN wasn't on the cute side but, rather, on the girl crush side - also, I can say that one of their latest songs, Junjou Evidence, was also on the girl crush side).
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they never really promote bp
2016/2017 was concentrated in korea
in 2018 they charted on bb100 so 2019 was for western promo which they somehow managed to fuck up too lol
they begun getting big in china too if the kpop ban wasnt there im sure they'de be promoting over there
if we want bp to get japanese promotions than they need to have a song go viral over or something idk
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I see the main reason is effort required vs results. BP has been concentrating on the American, and SEA market and recently the Chinese market to some extent. You can't do everything and if you attempt it you don't get the result you usually expect because you can only put in a half a$$ job. BP has no native speakers and they never attempted to train their girls for that. English/Thai/Korean etc... are their language specialties and were they have been focusing and done a "fairly" good job at that. It's not so much their cute concept as there are several Japanese acts that have done very well without the cute concept. E-Girls, Perfume, and for soloists their is a horde of non cute concept singers like Yoasobi, and LiSA (this is not Lisa)
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I'd suggest looking at Morning Musume (a Japanese girl group known for its multiple lineup changes) as an example. The group started with 5 members (Yuko Nakazawa, Aya Ishiguro, Kaori Iida, Natsumi Abe, and Asuka Fukuda), and its lineup's changed since, with it getting big in some years and getting small in some other years (take back when the group had a 12-member lineup at the beginning of 2012 due to a member's graduation from it + the additions of 4 new members a few months earlier, for example) - I see this as an example of a GG getting big in Japan without always being on the cute side (in fact, I feel like their 2014 comeback with TIKI BUN wasn't on the cute side but, rather, on the girl crush side - also, I can say that one of their latest songs, Junjou Evidence, was also on the girl crush side).
Interesting.. I know little about jpop, but if you can think of just one group. I’d say the odds are against a foreign act like bp
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But it's working out very well, with bp at least. They are miles ahead of everyone else in china and outside of asia while still being VERY popular in japan. Something tells me we might get original japanese songs tho that can later on get korean versions too
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the limitation of their concept. They could chart a few viral WW hits there but is hard to get solid support without being cute/fanservice.
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