Do these accusations have a basis?
I see people claim companies buy their own albums
Yet never am provided anything approaching actual evidence.
Like a report
Photos
An invoice
Anything
I need more than just vibes.
Stans can't predict shit. Why should I trust y'all feelings on matters.?
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Shukan Bunshun's got a reputation.
They've cracked various major entertainment stories from murders to affairs to rapes.
They're not 100%, but they're absolutely not completely unreliable.
This isn't something you'd be able to tell unless you've actually been to Korea.
And can't really say I agree. Only ones you could make this argument for are Soyeon and Miyeon (Miyeon especially) in Korea.
Minnie has some permeability, but definitely not on New Jeans level and Yuqi definitely does not, maybe in China where she's more popular.
whyknock pretending like he understands Jpop and their isolationism is hilarious.
Its's due to economic pragmatism on their part, not just cause Johnny's is big there.
IU also, she only charts in Korea, nobody knows who she is outside Korea.
Literally false.
He’s still the producer tho?? I can’t understand the obsession to refuse giving Pledis credits when it’s due and always act like every success they’ve gotten must be credited to Bang PD. Just like how Seventeen would still be the top bg right now even without the meddlement of Hybe
If evey groups under Hybe is guaranteed for success then what about Fromis 9 and BND who chart much lower than TWS even though they debuted last year? Or since they aren’t successful enough thus they arent the children of Bang PD?
He doesn't actually care, he has his dumb talking point that will escue reality if it doesn't fit his narrative.
He's not gonna go "oh my bad" he's just gonna try and twist any point where he's wrong into him being correct.
using unpromoted groups of sublabels of conglomerates that aren't major players in the industry will always be the most dumbass thing kpop fans do.
No Billlie does not get the same kinda promotion and marketing a proper SM group does
And a Kakao sublabel like IST does not have the zeitgeist factor like from JYP or YG
I think a big concern is that smaller groups aren't getting the airplay that they used too.
Combine that with the sales explosion not really trickling down and they're fighting for smaller and smaller pieces of the pie.
In order to break even and make a profit, purely on physical sales, an act needs to sell at minimum 70k, but on average they need to sell 100k albums.
Now take a look at the latest sales of everybody beneath the big 5 and the previous big 3 (Separating both collection of girl groups cause they'll always do numbers)
The next in line are
Itzy - 568,622
Nmixx - 759,888
StayC - 379,573
Now these are all excellent numbers, all three of these groups could survive pretty much forever off of numbers like this....
But then you have to consider. StayC, despite having the best digital performance in this group is firmly in 3rd place physical sales wise.
Going down a big more
Fromis9 - 190,594
Dreamcatcher - 126,507
Kep1er - 141,529
We're effectively out of the girl groups that chart realm and the drop off in sales is very very clear. These groups are making a profit, but they're making a profit almost entirely on physical sales and concert performances
Now look at everybody else
Billlie - 91,143
Kiss of Life - 59,092
H1-Key - 77,524
TripleS - 29,078
Purple Kiss - 17,058
Of these groups, only H1-key has managed to chart. And sales wise only H1-Key and Billlie manage to be outside the red zone
it's both
what a waste of a nice stripped down hiphop beat.
Even just a slightly better rapper would have gotten so much more out of a beat like that.
I'm the trend isn't even the best rap she did in 2020 especially considering its followed right by dumdi dumdi, which is a lot better verse from her.
Also insane to say given the verses she drops on her solo album. Gotta be living on nostalgia to think her UPR raps are even the best stuff she put out. (It's her queendom verse)
Maybe I treated Teddy too harshly.
just cause it's bad rap doesn't make it not rap.
YG has the leaat concern of the big 3.
Not because they're not on a downturn but because their business portfolio is a lot stronger than the other two
YG's distribution and Actor's ventures laps basically anything the other two are doing.
JYP is imcredibly risk averse but they're basically doing business as usual.
On its face, SM is in the best place, due to how successful riize and Aespa are... but just like YG, SM has had a huge amount of talent drain infrastructure wise and they've yet to replace it.
