Seventeen album dumps highlight Min Hee Jin's rant on the topic of album sales gimmicks
Article: Min Hee Jin was right? Seventeen albums thrown away in piles found at Shibuya
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[+745, -9] How is this not considered on par with sajaegi, especially when charts are determined by album sales?
[+575, -378] Everyone knows this is how K-Pop rolls... and it's not like Min Hee Jin is innocent of it with her SM days, or even with New Jeans. She's just as greedy ㅋ
- [+65, -1] What're you talking about? New Jeans includes all member pocas in their albums
[+285, -97] Min Hee Jin has just been speaking the truth all along
[+185, -17] Seventeen beating out Taylor Swift by sucking the wallets of their fans dry, amazing
[+61, -1] So this is what fans are buying tons of albums for? Photocards? So album sales don't determine popularity, huh
[+31, -0] There is something clearly wrong with the way albums are being sold. There are also instances of fans buying tons of albums the first week for first week sales numbers and throwing them all away. Year-end daesangs have become meaningless. It's gotten so bad that a certain singer has even started urging their fans to stop buying their albums and just spend that money on themselves.
[+33, -3] Okay but why are we spotlighting this as if Hybe's the only company that does it
[+36, -8] Don't all companies partake in this? SM, YG, and JYP too? It's unfair to treat this as just a Hybe issue
[+22, -0] My house has piles of the same albums too because of my kids buying multiple albums to try to get into fan signings, photocards... the CDs are never listened to, just trashed in the corner of the house. This whole system is killing parents and contributing to trash.
[+19, -0] I thought this was a known issue. Even to get into fan signings, fans are forced to buy dozens to hundreds for a chance. It's craziness like this that creates fans that the rest of the world looks on in horror with, like with Karina's dating scandal.
[+15, -2] This is embarrassing
[+12, -0] My daughter was a TXT fan and I remember having to buy multiple albums of the same album for her. It's basically all on the parents to have to pay for these gimmicks. Kids will endure getting yelled at by their parents for a chance of collecting all the photocards... it's a bad system!
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[+4,600] This has been such a longstanding and severe issue that the public has yet to find out about
[+4,300] A clear example of just how utterly ruined Hybe has turned the K-Pop album industry into...
[+1,800] Min Hee Jin is 100 times right... K-Pop hasn't been growing, it's been rotting from the inside out
[+1,200] No one in the world these days is listening to CDs ㅋㅋ these albums are obviously a marketing ploy to rip money off of fans. It's only going to get worse because fans keep allowing it.
[+1,600] So terrible for the environment. What a waste of everything, money, nature..
[+2,400] Hybe wants her out because she thinks like this
[+1,100] Jungkook's albums were thrown away like this as well. This is a really bad issue that Hybe needs to be held accountable for.
[+521] Does it truly make fans happy to land on the Billboard like this?
[+534] Crazy that New Jeans are selling the numbers that they are without any of these gimmicks
[+1,500] Min Hee Jin seems to have a better management eye than Bang Shi Hyuk
[+817] Min of Arc was right all along...
[+140] This random poca business is terribly wrong. It puts fans under so much press to get the poca that they want, and with groups as large as Seventeen with over 10 members, it's just a lot of unnecessary pressure on the fans. It's gone from "if you like our music, listen to it on our album~" to "buy our album if you like what it comes with~"
[+302] Legally, I don't know who's right or wrong, but I think Min Hee Jin's vision for K-Pop is the right one
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