Do more versions help in increasing album sales?

One version per member because of akgae battles!

Yes and no.

I think 2-3 versions help but like not to the extent you think. But beyond a point no matter how many versions you have the sales won’t be that high. Like 10 versions isn’t going to give you 10 times the sales any more.

I’ve seen this over the years with exo albums.

Obviously.

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would a group sell more with 4 versions than 2 versions or would they sell more with 2 versions than 1 version

This is hard to say because net kpop sales has gone up consistency over the years.

There are many examples of lesser number of versions having sold more than many versions. But it’s hard to say if versions had anything to do with it or it was just because kpop grew year over year

it depends on the content of the album I would think

does the multi version path offer special content in the album

and is the special content enticing enough to make the buyer purchase more

Yes and anyone telling you otherwise are lying to themselves. Let's say x group only has 300K dedicated fans buying albums. If they have only 1 version, 300K albums guaranteed. If 2 versions, 600K guaranteed. If they have 4 versions, 1.2M guaranteed. If they have 5 versions, 1.5M guaranteed etc.

I'll use BTS in this case since this applies to them. When 7 came out it had 4 versions and at a regular price. To date, it sold 4.7M albums before Dynamite era. Then we got BE which has 2 versions, not regular priced and spaced out in different years that sold 3.6M albums after Dynamite era. The decrease in sales based on version and album pricing is very apparent even after the explosive amount of fans Dynamite gave to BTS.

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Yes. Versions help esp when you have a dedicated fanbase. If there are individual versions, it will definitely help cos of solo fanbase competitions. However it also depends on other factors like price and fanmeetings. Some companies use fan meetings to boost album sales by having so many of them and fans will buy a lot of albums to get into them.

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depends on the number of photocards? :D

this is exactly what i was gna say, versions matter until probably only up to 3 version but there are a lot of pc collectors

Obviously. Even multiple versions affect a big group like BTS so it’s impossible to assume other kpop groups aren’t benefiting too

Yup,it's pretty obvious when you look at the stats.

of course it helps. so fans of groups with 10-15 versions have to stop repeating nonsense like "we'd get the same sales with 3 vers" no u will not, the companies know that and this is why they give you twenty versions

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of course it helps. so fans of groups with 10-15 versions have to stop repeating nonsense like "we'd get the same sales with 3 vers" no u will not, the companies know that and this is why they give you twenty versions

It's business If putting out 10 versions ain't profitable, why would a company do that? Unless the company's a charitable institution.

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It's business If putting out 10 versions ain't profitable, why would a company do that? Unless the company's a charitable institution.

What does that have to do with anything I said? Of course companies will put out 100 versions if they're sure the fandom will buy them all

obviously or companies wouldn't waste the extra cost... yes the bulk buyer fans will buy a million copies no matter if there's one version or 12, but for "regular" fans they might be tempted to buy 2,3,4 copies of an album if they like the other versions, or there are member versions and they want to collect their bias.

Obviously, it does. By how much, though? That's a totally different question.

not to the extent some fans seem to think they do. the "akgae fights" argument is a moot point because all the versions will be count as one and there is no way to find out which member's version sold more.

i believe fans who want to bulk buy albums (either because of photocards,, fansigns or for records) will bulk buy regardless of how many versions there are to buy.

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What does that have to do with anything I said? Of course companies will put out 100 versions if they're sure the fandom will buy them all

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Of course, because some crazy fans would get every version.

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Yes and no.

I think 2-3 versions help but like not to the extent you think. But beyond a point no matter how many versions you have the sales won’t be that high. Like 10 versions isn’t going to give you 10 times the sales any more.

I’ve seen this over the years with exo albums.

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obviously and only fans of groups with 20 versions say they don't.

if companies thought they could get the same sales with 1 version they'd put out 1 version, everything else is extra expense. K-Pop companies aren't producing these things out of the goodness of their heart.

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Yes and no.

I think 2-3 versions help but like not to the extent you think. But beyond a point no matter how many versions you have the sales won’t be that high. Like 10 versions isn’t going to give you 10 times the sales any more.

I’ve seen this over the years with exo albums.

yep Exodus had 20 versions and Sing for You had 18 lol. And both were outsold by the Growl repackage which had only 2 versions and came out 2 years earlier, and that was pretty much the same fanbase 2013-2015. What matters most is how big is the fandom and how motivated they are.

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I'm agreeing and adding my thoughts 👍

Oh sorry my bad, I misunderstood

Can't say because I don't really care about numbers but I think maybe more version are better

I believe it's common sense they do, people implying they don't are lying to themselves

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Oh sorry my bad, I misunderstood

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