Posts by possiblymaybe

Quote from drchimchim

Suga also dropped D-2 as a zip file on Dropbox that you can download.

Just because you make something not intended for commercial success doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the little bit of income it can generates for you. People sell their arts and crafts on Etsy for the same reason.

they all dropped download links, ever since RM1

Hobi and Joon in the two years since HW and mono have become the most followed Korean soloists on Spotify with just their EPs and solo singles and Suga isn't too far behind. Trying to say that they're on the level of an unknown hobbyist selling stuff on Etsy is silly. They're huge stars and they definitely made some good money off their work as they should've. They changed the game by putting HW on Spotify, but bighit and some fans still try to pretend that they didn't which is funny to me

KTH1. He said the release got pushed and I think it seems kind of obvious now that they wanted to re-release BE and do this winter package first

Quote from wendii

I don’t know but it’s dumb.. singers releasing mixtapes of original music instead of just releasing an album is dumb.

BTS are getting old.. pushing 30, NOW is the time for them to start setting the stones of their individual career paths!

you're right and you should say it

Quote from mashimaroluff0

Like others said mixtape used to be completely free and can only be found on SoundCloud but due to fans request, they added it on several paid platform like iTunes and spotify because fans want to stream it easily together with bts other discography. However it can still be listen for free. The idea of mixtape is still the same. Suga and hobi mixtape charting is just a byproduct of fans enthusiasm and bts current popularity but the ambition was never meant for it to chart or anything.

To our consumer eyes maybe mixtape and solo album are the same but to them the process of making them might be different.

That's not really true. The first two mixtapes were classic mixtapes in the sense that they used samples. But by HW, the pretense of a true mixtape was gone and they could therefore monetize it which they did, immediately lol. I consider HW to be the first real solo EP by one of the members and now all of rapline have them, since mono and D-2 have come out. I think since HW they have meant to chart, otherwise they wouldn't release them on paid and streaming platforms. The only place they've kept them off streaming is in Korea for some odd reason.

And Joon's mixtapes also charted on billboard, even RM1 charted on the world albums with no availability on streaming sites

BTS fans have kind of been sold on this whole idea of BTS giving away free music and they do, but only on soundcloud. Anything released on spotify and other streaming platforms is monetized as it should be. Nothing as good as the rapline mixtapes deserve to be treated like handouts, when BTS promotes the hell out of crap like Make it Right

I agree that the members seem to make some distinction, and i think it's just bc they can have the pretense of not looking at things commercially, even though Suga has said that he's always thinking of commercial charting success with his songs.