Posts by erighter

Quote from wendii

Ok because I’m trying see if it’ll be on the top 10 IFPI list for 2021 as well, and it seems if VERY likely!

It’s gained a little under 500 million streams on Spotify this year as well and a little around 439 million on YouTube. This doesn’t take into account streams from local streaming services.

And we still have 5 months left. I predict Butter and Dynamite will be in the top 10!

I wonder if Butter has a shot at #1? It is probably leading everything in global downloads, and it's pretty close to driver's license in total streams across youtube (all videos) + spotify (all audios)

Quote from wendii

I cant find it.. I’m trying to see something!

Dynamite had 570.5M streams on spotify and 741M views on youtube by the end of 2020

edit: better numbers above

Quote from Flowercrew

I just want My Universe to come already

Coldplay are literally sitting on a #1 right now

People replying that they are "fake" are missing the point of the appeal that made BTS #1 in the first place.

Yep, when BTS debuted people just expected them to be another nugu idol group, and then they became the biggest act on the planet. It must have made a lot of people very mad lmao. Also, being successful as a woman will already get you a lot of hate, so I'm sure Blackpink and Twice have had to deal with that.

Their dominance in Japan is astonishing

Quote from kayn

can i speak what i think without suffering mafia army attacks?

I mean questioning whether you will "suffer mafia army attacks" makes your stance pretty obvious

Quote from RJTATA

obviously bts is going to change their music styles. if they stuck with just one style then it’s bound to get boring. plus DUH they are gonna make songs that appeal to the western market cause they are getting bigger in that area.

and as you can see it’s been VERY successful so they’re doing fine.

Seriously, compare the first and last albums by the Beatles and they sound completely different. Does that mean the Beatles were fake too?

Quote from RJTATA

sorry but have you read ugh’s lyrics or....??

clearly not, the song isn't even about their haters specifically

I wonder why evolution of musical style is perceived as "fake", they are literally just making music that they want to make. Naturally, their taste in music and desires for their musical style changes over time.

Hoping for an album announcement in the next few weeks

Quote from potatodonuts

What era did you start becoming an army?

During LY: Her promotions!

Quote from potatodonuts

Hi erighter I see you in a lot of BTS thread?

Are you army? New in AKP?

Here is Bulletproof guild where we can talk about all things BTS safely

Do check out this other threads in this sub-forum...

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Yes to both questions

It's #1 in my country

Quote from BlackpinkHouse

Maybe OP is talking about sexism and chauvinism in Korean culture in general, not a specific BG vs GG comparison. This general societal bias leads to male artists being valued more.

For example, IU is clearly the most successful and most popular act in Korean music today, but no one calls her "Nation's Pride" like they do for BTS. She never gets mentioned by the President or gets picked to go to the UN or whatever.

She is the most popular act in Korea when it comes to digitals, but counting physical sales gives BTS a lead since they are much closer to her digitals than she is to their physicals. Also, the other things are reserved for BTS because they are the most successful act to ever come out of Korea globally. If IU or Blackpink or any other female act had the same global success as BTS, I'm sure the president would give them the same treatment.

Quote from ArmyBlink0

This is really interesting. I am surprised that some of these songs didn't chart though, I mean, they were big hits! Is Japan a really hard place for foreigners to chart?

Yep, Japan has a very localized chart. A foreign act like BTS consistently dominating over there is almost unheard of.

2nd week in a row of replacing themselves at #1 lmao

Quote from potatodonuts

I thought non-army AKP user always said that:

- only armys knows BTS

- hard carried by their fandom

- nugu everywhere

- etc

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That's the jist of it, you can always expect one of those statements to crop up in a thread mentioning BTS

Quote from merribelle

I have MOTS concert ticket for Soldier Field in Chicago. Tried to get the Friday night show as well. Sold out in less than 20 minutes. I wish less people knew them in Chicago. since being in Michigan I am 5 hours away from both Chicago and Toronto. I wish less people knew them in Toronto as well.

I live in a southern city and I remember the local McDonald's having around 2x-3x the amount of customers during the BTS meal promo, even enough to compete with the neighboring Chick-fil-A that usually crushes it in terms of customers lmao.

Quote from Kouss

Honestly the problem is some of you don’t even live in the US and want to use industry articles and charting as evidence of BTS reach. For us that actually live in the US, we know that our friends (22/23 exposed to kpop since i talk about it, watched BTS new-years performance, and one listened to Vixx on spotify) they have no idea what Butter is. Yeah mainstream media is definitely giving them attention, but all of my friends/family have no idea who they are or have never heard Butter (or atleast couldn’t hum or sing a line)

Ofcourse media outlets are gonna write about BTS because they know they will get clicks no matter what, but anybody thinking BTS is a household name in the US straight delusional.

I live in a major city in the U.S. and I can tell you that I have had a different experience, BTS is commonly known around here.