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Post by melissavandella on Jun 20, 2024 18:44:34 GMT
Album: Greatest Hits iTunes: #1 Vietnam #5 Australia #5 Taiwan #7 Japan I know, digital sales are super low nowadays and irrelevant but why would even one person buy the digital version of a GH album? I understand if you'd want a physical copy, even I will probably get the CD once it's out in stores, but digital?
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Post by melissavandella on Jun 20, 2024 18:53:52 GMT
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Post by giveuwhatulike on Jun 20, 2024 19:04:10 GMT
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Post by mondragon on Jun 20, 2024 19:26:45 GMT
Was just about to post this. Interesting as the author of the article Alexis Petridis once did a scathing review of UMS
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Post by giveuwhatulike on Jun 20, 2024 19:33:25 GMT
Was just about to post this. Interesting as the author of the article Alexis Petridis once did a scathing review of UMS I remember he did a not so good one for haw aswell. He doesn't seem like a fan but he's always reviewing her stuff 🤷
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Post by mondragon on Jun 20, 2024 19:51:02 GMT
Was just about to post this. Interesting as the author of the article Alexis Petridis once did a scathing review of UMS I remember he did a not so good one for haw aswell. He doesn't seem like a fan but he's always reviewing her stuff 🤷 Maybe he’s been made to write this article. I think she’s been an easy target in the past, review wise. I think UMS is one of her better albums. He’s a bit pretentious anyway.
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Post by ame · 雨 on Jun 20, 2024 21:27:40 GMT
Her last 3 booklets (HAW, LS and GH) are incredibly lame and boring. I can't believe western artists put so little effort in their physical releases. Such a shame.
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Post by blackmage on Jun 20, 2024 21:39:03 GMT
Unfortunately, physical releases in the western world are practically dead. It's no wonder Taylor Swift continues to sell so many physical copies, as she's one of the few artists still investing in them. Even Adele, once a strong force in physical sales, released her latest album in a lackluster physical format.
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Post by ame · 雨 on Jun 20, 2024 21:40:18 GMT
Just to put it into perspective, this are the "inclusions" of a kpop album. - 72 pages of photobook (with matte and high gsm paper) - 2 photocards (lol, would be funny seeing Avril photocards xD) - 4-cut-photo (have no idea what is it, maybe a 4 piece folding thing) - 1 post card - meme card (stickers i believe) - scratch card - 1 poster And this is new group, nowhere close to the success of BTS or Blackpink but these companies have understood a simple thing: if you want people to buy your physical albums, make them worth the purchase. Some western artist like Taylor or Billie have released "special editions" that resembles these kpop format albums but they charge a ridiculous amount of money where in Korea these albums are a normal price of 15-20 USD The music industry is not dying, CD are not dead, Vinyls won't save the industry. A good product and a good design and creative team behind it will. I just wish Avril knew how much she could do to "celebrate" these milestones froma bussiness perspective point of view and making the fans happy at the same time. Releasing mid designed clothes worth a kidney won't do it, honey....
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Post by ame · 雨 on Jun 20, 2024 21:46:23 GMT
Unfortunately, physical releases in the western world are practically dead. It's no wonder Taylor Swift continues to sell so many physical copies, as she's one of the few artists still investing in them. Even Adele, once a strong force in physical sales, released her latest album in a lackluster physical format. As i said in my previous post, these kpop artists are selling more than Taylor easily. It is true that the "multimple album versions" comes from kpop, therefore maybe the "pure sells" are lower, but the fans buy 2, 3 or 4 versions of the album if it's worth it. Here's a small list of the best selling kpop albums. Seventeen - FML - 6.3 mil Seventeen - Seventeenth heaven - 5.6 mil Stray Kids - 5 Star - 5.2 mil BTS - Map of the Soul: 7 - 5 mil BTS - Map of the Soul: Persona - 4.6 mil Here's an article from Forbes that talks about this: www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2024/03/27/k-pops-global-impact-19-of-the-20-bestselling-albums-in-2023-are-from-south-korea/If you release crappy CD's, people won't buy them. As simple as that.
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Post by blackmage on Jun 20, 2024 21:55:25 GMT
These four cut-photos are a Korean phenomenon. In the Western world, we also have something similar found in malls (at least in my country), where you can enter a photobooth, for example, and take up to four random photos. However, in K-pop booklets, these photos are included randomly so that fans can purchase multiple versions and collect them.
That's what I know. I'm not sure if there's anything more to it than this.
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Post by gabbox on Jun 20, 2024 22:08:22 GMT
The greatest hits is out on my country on Spotify and it took me 4 seconds after play to realize she used the Let Go 20th anniversary mixes. Trash.
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Post by eismann on Jun 20, 2024 22:13:04 GMT
The greatest hits is out on my country on Spotify and it took me 4 seconds after play to realize she used the Let Go 20th anniversary mixes. Trash. I dont understand the reason behind it? Why not use the original? I get she didnt do new remastering, but why wouldnt she use the original?
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Post by gabbox on Jun 20, 2024 22:14:30 GMT
Also now that I have the tracklist in front of me I realized how 4 songs out of 20, which mean almost 1/4 of the GH is made up of love sux songs and sorry that bois lie feat MGK among her “greatest” hits makes me laugh and cringe a lot
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