So China restricting album purchase was just noise?

It was obvious it was a scare tactic from the beginning lol

it was never targeted at kpop, and 70K is miniscule to the shit they were pulling with chinese celebrities, which is why they did it

the mass buying thing is from 2 things, 1 reducing children access to it, 2. cbars for chinese celebrities were buying out anything that had promo on it and would throw it away

I mean they did shut down a ton of China Bars, but clearly, they haven't gone through with this yet. They won't until they make more restrictions and some more famous celebrities get into more scandals.

The amount these Kpop groups/acts have been selling lately … it’s been obvious China bars are still active for album buying

There's some misinformation here.

The restriction on mass buying was never about physical albums in other countries. It was a restriction on mass buying DIGITAL albums on CHINESE music services.

And that did happen. Before customers could buy multiple digital albums on Netease, Kugou, and QQ, nowadays they can only buy 1.

Also it's obvious some fans blew out of proportion to shame groups who have Chinese fans

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Wow so kpop fans was making noise out of nothing

I mean, certain types of mass buying absolutely are dead, like as mentioned earlier in this thread. But it refers to merchandise and goods in China (Due to the milk scandal) rather than overseas albums.

70K is still little for Chinese Vbar. The last time they bought 230K. Before BE album, they had to cancel their orders due to the restrictions of the government, everyone trying to hunting down bars, but it seems like things are slowly loosening up.

interesting

It is more accurate to say the China Government banned Fan Events that raised and/or spent money on advertising their Kpop favorites.

Buying Albums or Official Merchandise is fine however some China Media and Social Network companies also targetted that and began banning Fan Groups or restricting Album Sales to 1 for their Charts.

The China Government is unlikely to really push to ban Kpop especially as the get paid Tax for it