Posts by crimsonice

maybe it's just as simple as they love working with each other and really feed off their support for one another

I'm very happy! I didn't think they would all renew together.

Quote from yoyo281

I find it hard to believe all the other girls renewed for 5 years…I bet it’s 3. Five is a very long time…I can’t think of any 5 year contract extensions from idol groups..

Agreed... everything I've read for extensions are 3 years. The girls are in the position of power during these negotiations, why would the other girls sign for 5 when they can sign for 3 and then re-negotiate again then if they want to continue for even better terms.

just watched it.. it's pretty funny.. glad the girls had fun

Oh, I'm suddenly more interested.. maybe I'll take a look at a couple of their videos

oh nice growth!

very disgusting indeed.. especially for someone like me who is similar (half Chinese half Korean)

Of course, it's just keyboard warriors there saying what they want... I do have lots of friends and family in SK who are very open and welcoming.. not everyone there is like this

Interesting that they conveniently left out NingNing who is top 3 overall...

I love girls! It's one of my favorites.

also sounded like some of the SM rookie girls (koeun, lami, hina, NN, etc) were going to debut and had the plug pulled

Gosh.. the life of a trainee is harsh.. from the sounds of it (and hearing about all the girls leaving/let go) it's a real bloodbath.

I love this song!

Quote from Elbereth

Just ignore it, it might be hard at the beginning to hold yourself back but i think some of us are used to it already and don't see the point to be involved.

I agree.. I commented on a couple.. but new threads keep on popping up throughout the day. I'm pretty much avoiding them now

Quote from www1717

sadly there's nothing we can do about this we are lacking bodies in here. On the bright side , the hate weren't as severe as in twitter. I saw hate tweets with 60k and 26k likes respectively

Oh wow.. I guess it's not too bad relatively to other platforms.

I see there's a lot of bashing of aespa on the main board. I don't recall it being this bad during the Savage era.

Quote from BlackpinkHouse

Very true. Album sales for Kpop groups are so insane that plenty of A list local talent are probably jealous af lol. Selling just 1 million albums a year (only 500k per comeback which a lot of groups can do nowadays) gets you 10-20 million in gross revenue. It takes billions of Spotify streams per year to make that kind of gross revenue.

List of groups that can sell around 500k per comeback:

Seventeen

BTS

EXO

127

Dream

Wayv

SKZ

Ateez

Boyz

TXT
Enhypen

Treasure

Super Junior

GOT7

Aespa

BP

Twice

Red Velvet

Lesserfrim

Ive

Itzy

NMIXX

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Yup.. I was reading a financial report for JYP.. and it said they made $10 M for the year (don't remember which year it was) for streaming for all of their groups combined across all steaming platforms. Streams don't make them much money compared to everything else..

ya.. I'm all for limiting bulk buying.. I usually buy all the album versions of my favs.. but never buy multiples of the same copy. Maybe they should just raise the album prices, that way there's less costs, more profits and better for the environment

Quote from Icaro_Ribeiro

I'm not aware of what restrictions were imposed on individual orders, please enlighten me, what are you talking about?

I think a couple of years ago, the Chinese government put in a bunch of restrictions related to bulk buying/Idol worshipping.. etc.. They suspended a bunch of the large bars due to the bulk buying activities and excessive fundraising

For specifics (I can't read Chinese and use google translate), the bars are limiting the number of albums each user can order (I can't tell what the number is) and are also collecting some sort of IDs (I'm guessing as evidence to prove they are not violating any policy).

Quote from HardcoreBLINK

Why won't u stream the albums u bought on streaming platforms lol

Streaming ≠ looping a song x30 in a day

For me.. I'm working and between that and going out.. etc... I don't really care to find time to steam just to make the numbers look good. I'm perfectly willing to spend $$ though.. bought their physical albums and paid for their digital downloads as well. Donated money to sns groups to promote.

Hopefully they figure out the shipping costs issue... I was able to buy twice albums at almost the same price as what they sell in SK. ($15 usd.. while I'm paying $30 usd for Aespa) JYP must have some distribution deal with Canada/US retailers.

Quote from Icaro_Ribeiro

There is a misconception about their real chinese sales

600k were the bulk order from Chinese bars

But there are tons of individual purchases as well, those ones more likely to be really delivered unlike those ~600k non ship back bullshit

that might be true in the past but since the bulk buying restrictions have been put in place.. there's limits for how many each individual can order. I would imagine almost all of those bar orders are legit now.. especially the big ones as they are probably being monitored... they wouldn't dare risk having any potential issues with the government.