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It's Interscope, not YG. YG = physical albums and they're still at 50$, Interscope = Blackpink store and they waited monday to add digital album on the website.
Also :
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YG fucked up with the physical sales price, that conpany is so stupid to think blinks would buy an album at 50$ + expensive tickets concert in the same week.
It's not only in USA, in Europe too.
Blackpink is fine. It's YG being greedy and stupid as usual. It was obvious the physical sales will not be good with an album at 50$. They released individual digipacks later at 20-25$ but it's not even available on physical stores, like Target only sell the expensive Box in their stores and the digipacks are only on their website store. They finally posted the digital album on Blackpink store today, crazy they didn't do it before.
Another stupid move by YG was putting on sales the concert tickets few days before or even on release day for general sales, tickets expensive as hell of course. If blinks had to make a choice between an album at 50$ or getting tickets the later win obviously.
And finally the 8 songs tracklist disappointed many fans + YG lying about Blackpink having big promo. I guess for them big promo was VMAs.
Just to say, yes it's sad for Blackpink but YG deserve it for the mismanagement and all the scamming they did using Blackpink brand.
DeuxMoi posted about Blackpink today.
Money and even HYLT were popular on tiktok without YG trying. They never try for BP anyway so instead of wishing they should just promote BP better. Because even tho Money (and HYLT) was popular they did nothing.
Will "Ready For Love" be a pre release or just PUBG collab? will it be on the next album?
Update :
If they're disappointed maybe they should just start to do their job? Ice Cream is the only song they sent to radios (impact), gave some playlisting on spotify but still only give some radio itws as big promo, Selena carried the promo on internet.
Another example is "Money", the song was viral etc... but Interscope did nothing to promote it. They sent the song to radio after its peak....
As for that podcast, it's just billboard journalist who think Interscope must be disappointed but doesn't point out how Interscope (and YG) do the bare minimum for BP.
+ Tour end of the year
Also Jisoo on Weverse
Honesty digipaks are the biggest contributers to the sales boom imo
They're super cheap & in multiple versions
Yes and I forgot in my post to add online fansigns, the more you buy albums the more chance you have to be selected for the fansign.
Sales was never the only factor to determinate BP over other gg bc by July on 2020 they were already that.
Exactly. They have spotify numbers, touring numbers, charted on the 10 biggest music markets etc.. people should just ignore the trolls or 4th generation GG fans who want to compare. Let's wait for BP comeback.
They won't get tired!
But What is Digipack?
Digipack is this
You have a cd, photocards and folded poster. It's for individual members, basically if you want to be sure to get your bias photocards, you buy a digipack. And price is between 8-12$ .
For Aespa they have 6 digipack versions, 4 members, 1 group version and 1 target exclusive.
There is many reasons for the album sales boom
1- Kpop is bigger now, in 2020 when BP sold +1M copies only 2 groups had more than 1M sales : BTS and NCT. Now you have more Boys Groups ( Seventeen, TXT and Stray Kids joined them + more NCT subunits). As for Girls Groups, Twice latest album is around 900k, Red Velvet (without WW distribution) 600k, Ive (single album, no WW distribution) 600k. New groups (from big agencies) 1st albums are selling 200k minimum
2- Worldwide distribution. Kpop albums are available in many stores around the worlds, more kpop acts get WW distribution deal so higher stocks orders.
3- Companies are now doing Digipack. It allows fans to bulkbuy more albums and inflate sales. Digipack have individual versions (with photocards) and are cheaper than buying a standard/photobook edition, solo stans/fanbases will likely buy this instead of a group versions. NCT have individual digipacks, Treasure too and now Aespa. More kpop groups will have digipacks in the future. There is also jewel cases for some kpop groups, like Ive, it's also cheaper.
YG main goal for Blackpink is the World Tour, not the Comeback. They're most likely trying to book dates for the tour and will put the comeback just before it start. I don't think we're getting The Album roll out, it will probably be a mini album, or an album if we're lucky, with a korean title track, 2 weeks of promo on Korea music shows and 1 or 2 US shows and then start of the world tour. So my guess is comeback around september/october, tour starting in october.
The QRTs...
I have never seen Blinks so mad before...and directing their anger towards BP themselves instead of just scapegoating Teddy or YG?
I believe blinks are angry with the girls because they keep telling us the comeback is soon but then we learn they don't even have a fucking concept...better to say nothing than lying and make us believe the comeback will happen "soon".
They are not cmb in sep/oct
Also we don't know when this was recorded bc the RS interview was in April, the photoshoot was letter when Jennie had orange hair
Jennie already had orange hair for coachella.
