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Friday, May 17, 2024

The reason why first-week sales in K-pop doesn't make sense



(TOP 50 First-Week Sales According to Hanteo)
(L-R: Ranking, Release Date, Singer, Album's name, First-week sales)

Top singer Taylor Swift sold 2.6 M copies in the US on the first day of release. Combining sales from all countries, she only sold around 3.3 M copies. 

-You can't compare K-pop albums to Taylor Swift's albums, she doesn't have photo cards or hold fanmeetings. 

-Wow, Seventeen and Stray Kids's sales are impressive...

-Taylor doesn't do fan meetings. K-pop is truly crazy.

-While K-pop culture might be strange, it's not unreasonable. It makes sense for fans to buy multiple copies since they have random photo cards.

-To think that a person buys multiple copies of the same album... It just seems insane to me.

-There are idol groups in Japan that sell a million copies just domestically, so I think 2-3 million is possible and still makes sense.

-Are those 5 million copies really being bought by 5 million people?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-It's bizarre. Just bizarre.

-Aren't photocards just... photos? Do people really buy albums just for that? I used to be a fangirl myself, but I don't understand their obsession with stuff like that.

-Honestly, just sell the photocardsㅠㅠ....

-It's going to cause massive environmental destruction... 

-It's really annoying that it's become so natural to encourage fans to buy dozens or hundreds of copies...

-It's a bizarre culture. They're trying to enter Billboard chart and set records with this.

-As a fangirl myself, I realized first-week sales to be meaningless. I have stopped buying physical albums since then.

-Let's stop obsessing over first-week sales nowㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-K-pop is becoming bizarre.

-It would be better if they sold photocards separately and did fan signings with random draws.

-It's both bizarre and environmentally destructive.
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