Posts by 3-percenter

Quote from HardcoreBLINK

Now albums are only counted as a sale when it gets shipped to the buyer themselves (back then it counted immediately once payment is made)

Yeah, that's I thought but wasn't sure. Maybe it's possible that they have so many physical albums to ship that they just got swamped and couldn't send them on time, and waited too late to start the process. I hope that's mainly what happened for the U.S. physical sales charting. To me it's unexcusable, but at least an explanation other than lack of demand.

Another meta thing that happened today was that there was an earthquake in S.E. Taiwan that created a tsunami warning up to Japan. That may have kept ships from leaving Korea today, but that doesn't explain why these weren't shipped in late August.

Quote from kittykitka

It's not blackpinks fault though?

Maybe turn that energy towards yg/teddy? 🤔

They say it is. They think if the Pinks are involved in selecting songs for their albums, then they must by default approve of the number of songs on the albums.

Maybe they do. But it's an artistic choice, probably mixed with a business choice from the YG marketing people. I'd like more songs too, but these boycotts and "I'm not going to stan anymore" is just going to increase the chances that YG will give less content (yeah...that's possible) than they do now. In the YG executive mind, if BP stops being profitable...there's lots of YG boy groups and former YG talent they can join.

I think from all we've learned over the years about YG, how they do "business," their lack of energy, their hated of spending money to make money with more frequent content, that we just have to accept that Blackpink isn't a typical Kpop girl group and never will be, and they are marketed differently. Being angry about it isn't going to change anything.

I've also seen some commentary from Korean YouTubers and Form of Therapy that they think Blackpink will be a hip-hop/American Pop, completely Western oriented group in the future. No more of their old styles of songs. Their theories are that "Shut Down" meant they are changing musical direction, and a lot of people, especially the Korean public, aren't going to like it.......

Quote from LalisaLovesNnie

I mean, if you look at other stats and stuff, we should be getting more. But of course, Blinks are stressed already about it and Anons are laughing.

Yeah, the usual suspects and anons are loving it. I really think the physical numbers will be higher when the shipping problems get worked out. I think the numbers sold are counted for charts when the album box gets scanned into the ship or airplane carrying it, or physically delivered to the post office in Korea for shipment, not when you make your credit card payment.

It's a shipping problem. A transportation of the albums problem, not a Taennie problem.

I pre-ordered my album from ChoiceMusicLA on August 12th. They still haven't shipped it yet. That means they didn't get it from Korea yet.

People are panicking and starting to turn on the Pinks and their mindset about renewal and how serious they are about music and bunch of other crap. It's not time for that. We may or may not break sales records because of how sales/shipments are counted, but when adjusted numbers of sales come out in the next few weeks, a lot of 'Blinks' may be (or should be) ashamed to show their faces.

I also bought Born Pink on Itunes. That is, I used my credit card, I had to navigate a bunch of screens and update my billing information, and eventually sign in AGAIN, but purchased it and downloaded it to my computer. So one way or another, my purchase should count.

Quote from Hilary-21

because all of them are just soo good!

Our avatars are the same...sort of. I changed my last one (from Pink Venom) because it was an exact match with someone else.

Quote from HardcoreBLINK

Think it's mostly done by now 👀

Yep...it's done. Around $1900 for a resale ticket in Los Angeles.

Quote from VenerableBede

I'm looking for someone who's willing to share their code, I'm looking for to buy one ticket only

I just wanted one ticket too, but it doesn't look like its going to work out. The resale on a ticket is already $1500-$1900 that I saw.

Um...presale is going on right now for tickets in the U.S.

Is everyone logged on to Ticketmaster or Weverse?

Quote from BEG4DAWIN

Looks like sales for LA are open

https://www.ticketsales.com/bl…nia-stadium/event/4098611

This looks like it's a resale site, not an official ticket site. I would look for Ticketmaster when its time.

Quote from cherry-boy

I hope so, for your sake: Jennie is not as forgiving as I am

(Thankfully someone got this reference )

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Quote from cherry-boy

Are you saying that YG asks the impossible and you need more Blinks?

We shall double our efforts.

Congratulations on getting tickets. Now I have to fight to see them in Los Angeles........

And I hear the drums from Beck's "Loser" during Lisa/Jennie's main rap.....

The whole main forum is all Pink Venom threads. I'm overwhelmed trying to keep up with everything. I'm going to log off and regroup tomorrow and catch up on everything.

Pink Venom's growing on me every time I hear it.

For those of you experiencing your first Blackpink comeback, enjoy it! Enjoy the chaos, the love, the haters, the changes in opinion, the milestones and records broken, the disappointed Blinks, the Blinks who love it so much they would step in front of a bus to hear it on the way to either the heaven or hell they are consigned to, because a Blackpink comeback is an EVENT.

Quote from jdpm12021991

Jisoo was beautiful in the MV she had my favorite look loved her piercing

I really agree. She was REGAL.

Quote from azhra-0110

Yes I like it, was kinda overwhelmed the first time mostly because of the music video but it just gets better after that

I think I feel the same way. I like the song, I'll play it again, and it made me smile. That's what's important to me.

Pink Venom is going to divide people. I like it, but I have to get used to it because it's a "harder" sound than usual for me, I think because of the rapping. I think the drums behind the rap are similar or sampled from Beck's "Loser," or is that the Rihanna part people are talking about? Rosé on guitar, Jisoo just REGAL stood out. I liked the bridge when the epic "bom"s came in. I like that.

This song made me smile. I liked it and I'll play it again. That's what's important.

Quote from kittykitka

I hope you're doing well ❤

Backreading 300 pages sounds like torture though omg 😲

I learned:

This manga sucks

Thor sucked

School sucks but we make the best of it for our futures

America sucks everything in France is better

People got colds before each teaser

People say "hello" and "I'm going to bed" a lot

People earn a lot of akorns talking about absolutely nothing

Jisoo's era is no joke.

This song is going to divide people....

Quote from Hilary-21

You missed it?

Thread

BLACKPINK COUNTDOWN LIVESTREAM DISCUSSION

youtu.be/C8YDXGL-v7w


The countdown starts in an hour, so here's a thread where we can discuss it and count down together

kittykitka

Aug 18th 2022

Thanks! More backreading!