(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.
