I totally agree that is the best financial decision, but I worry so much about SM's being incredibly stubborn/stupid as usual. It's crazy we're even having this discussion to be honest, any other label would be thrilled to get the essentially free money an EXO ot8/9 comeback would generate for them.
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so what does everyone think will be in the cards for EXO when Sehun gets out, given the information we currently have (which, admittedly, is not much)?
EX5 comeback (as the Koreans are calling it these days)?
EXO ot6 (with Lay)?
Or Ot8/9?
I'm hoping maybe SM is just trying to play hardball until Sehun gets out, but they know that, when push comes to shove, the money from an Ot8/9 comeback is too much for them ignore.
I was talking to my middle school class yesterday and I was asking some Riize fans about this, and they all seemed very confident EXO would come back next year in some form. They were confused that I was even asking them if they thought EXO would be back (however, they also all thought it would definitely be as EX5). -
whoah June?? If his concert is in June, shouldn't his album be before then? Chen supposedly is dropping his album soon too . . . there's no way they would BOTH release in May right? Plus Ksoo is going to drop his album in June/early-July too seeing that his first ever concert tour starts in July.
Not to mention, Chanyeol was hinting at his next solo-release dropping this summer as well.
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is there some reason for this?? Like a limited release or something along those lines?
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If only they all clear this instead of keeping us guessing whether they are still OT9 or are OT5, OT6 now. How is CBX presenting themselves? Do they still say EXO in their introductions? Because ta the height of the last lawsuit I read a statement in which they say they will only present as CBX (no EXO). So I guess the distance only grew in the aftermath of the lawsuit CBX filed without telling the rest of EXO.
they still do introduce themselves as "EXO's ______" and refer to their fans are "Eris/EXO-Ls". It's just they say CBX when promoting as such, instead of EXO-CBX, because SM owns the branding for EXO-CBX but not CBX.
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this live and Lay's weibo live, has me more confused than ever about the future of the group. I truly believe there will be another comeback next year, but I guess I never really thought OT5/6 could be possible, I just thought SM would eventually break down and go for the easy money and allow OT8/9, but now it does feel like OT5/6 is most likely and it's hard to reconcile with that. The fandom will absolutely meltdown if that's the case I think, altho it seems like they already are ugh.
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his solo career has just been fantastic so far, his taste/sense is honestly so underrated. Everything about each album and its era is so perfectly curated.
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given that this is a domestic ranking, I think IVE could do it and aespa too (as they are at numbers 7 and 8 on that ranking already). However, I feel like now that H2H debuted, eventually SM will start shifting their resources over to the new kids, which could hurt aespa.
I think if Wonyoung and Yujin continue to be big stars in the decade to come that will help keep IVE in the public's imagination, even if the group stops having comebacks; a la Taeyeon and Yoona with SNSD.
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Why tf would he admit to it? What did he even think was gonna happen?
he admitted it to the police, he probably just didn't bother to cover his tracks and knew they would figure it out quickly. If he admits it probably a lesser punishment or whatever.
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we need Kai's album
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probably Kai I guess
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I'm basic, but it's Whee! for me. But I really love Switch Off too. But I can listen to the whole album back to front easy peasy.
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You don't like armageddon? Ngl this is my first time seeing anyone saying this!
maybe my least favorite SM girl group song ever lol, the chorus is incredibly grating to me
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but how much accurate is international streams ???
Jimin "Who" is able to do achievements like gangnam style on spotify when nobody ever heard this song in their life besides army
one thing this NJ vs HYBE situation thaught us is that international streams are push a lot by company behind the scenes tactics
cuz you can clearly see the difference in NJ streams when they were push by HYBE money and ressources before the drama
and then see how big of a drop their stream had once Hybe gave up on them after the drama with How sweet and supernatural streams
they used to do 2M streams and this time they were barely able to make 1.3M
one thing who didn't change was korean charting
regardless of pre-hybe drama or after hybe drama, NJ have always been able to have great performance in the chart
which makes me think that international streams are boosted a lot by the ressources of a company
compare to korean charting
that's why i personally give more credibility to korean charting than international stream now
also even if LSFM's foreign streams are really good, if other groups outdo them in the two other metrics (album sales/domestic charting), then I still would put them behind that other group. Babymonster's last comeback outsold LSFM, did much better on Melon, and did way better on youtube (altho we 100% know that can literally be bought). If LSFM comes back and performs worse than before and BM keeps improving, then idk how BM can't be the #5 group.
