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Lessons companies should have taken from BTS:
-personalizing music builds strong connections w fans
-quality storytelling in lyrics >> music genre
-higher quality production passes language barriers better
Lessons they did take:
-"social media" - more of it
-boy bands are in!!!
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anyone else notice how BH is repeatedly posting about Spotify and AM audio streaming?
it's like there's ... a priority ..... we should listen.
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white men are convincing themselves that bts is a corporate scheme not realizing they're literally an indie act
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all members of BTS will benefit from the remix doing well
but when the song releases, some solos will identify changes (including reduced verse length) to suggest that supporting the song is harmful
reminder: all members of BTS will have approved the song. all members benefit.
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to prevent mass filtering, we gotta each harass 1-2 friends to stream it even just one time. that would be enough to double or triple the numbers we get alone.
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it's impressive to see how much people just listened straight through the full album (usually with new albums there's a more substantial drop off)
#JITB
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they really ate the loss from the cancellation and didn't pass that cost onto their fans 😭
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it's always amusing to think of how BTS' spotify streams include 0 contribution from their home country - the only country that predominately speaks the language (most of) their music is in.
we're tracking their popularity among people who (mostly) don't even understand korean.
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just remembering how kpoppies claimed BWL was easy... justice for the choreo now 😂
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SUGA officially has a song with a Korean ft. on top 40 radio! Two top 40 songs for BTS! 🥳🥳
it's really hard to get on top 40 at all, let alone with a Korean feature. pls make sure Blueberry Eyes is on your playlists!
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I just saw a second gen stan speculate that BH "bought the streams", in all seriousness. BH doesn't even buy YT ads. 😭
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This is insane btw.
that's the MAIN list, not the "emerging artist" list.
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US armys, we we have a "comeback" right now with MIR being promoted as a second official single...... boasting about what might happen in the future isn't constructive to our current goals.
the next album will be even bigger if we give MIR more exposure. pls don't be complacent.
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I think about this with respect the ON official video... it's 6 minutes long. no one trying to crush streaming numbers in record time would release a video that long.... but someone who wanted to make an interesting MV with a complex storyline to support a song's message would.
I always do everything I can to support
@BTS_twt
but I also think abt this sometimes:
That BTS/BH often talk abt “Let’s try not to dwell on results & records. Music isn’t the Olympics...the moment we start talking abt [it] it makes us seem like ppl who are not truly into music”
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@SydneyBattle
Omg I'm the same way!! I always tell ppl I'm not a "real" vegan bc I think that rule is stupid and ignore it. Vegan 13 years otherwise. The bees are fine and doing their thing.
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BTS were likely advised to make English language albums/songs by...many parties...a few years ago.
This week they were
#3
on the Artist 100 chart, with three different albums on the Billboard 200:
two albums in Korean and one in Japanese.
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We need touring to start again to more thoroughly humiliate the US industry.
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looks like BTS won't be repeating at
#1
on bb200... though there's still time to change that outcome. 👀
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Before people who have never watched before freak out, GMA ***will not air the full concert on TV***. Only a few songs will actually air and the rest is just a normal concert.
There is no reason to think anything else will happen. That's how the GMA concert series works.
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some authors really don't get that BTS fans will remember everything, for years.
I have a folder on my desktop called "receipts" and it does not contain evidence of past purchases.
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we've learned over and over that the most important thing is to just KEEP VIEWING regardless of what the view counter says. it can get slow to update, but the OFFICIAL count is what matters, and we always end up winning there.
the idol MV passed 70M views three times. 😂
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LOL, MTV execs being trash resulted in Nielsen Music's leadership talking.
"David Bakula, senior vice president of global leadership at Nielsen Music, told MarketWatch that BTS has become too mainstream not to be a contender for MTV’s top awards."
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giving too much attention to producers and writers in BTS' periphery rarely goes well
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Armyyy, we got an official statement from Twitter:
“We’ve taken action on a few thousand such accounts for attempting to inauthentically inflate their following and amplify content,” a Twitter spokesperson told ET.
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reality check: Grammys don't work like the tacky K awards fans are used to. it's not an attendance-based award. it's not even a sales-based award like BBMAs.
it's subjective & based on the whims of the voters.
if BTS snag even 1 nom in a music category I will be celebrating.
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now that PTD secured its
#1
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we just need them both to do well in whatever order, there isn't a need to strategize other than "support each BTS song as much as possible"
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The US media has run out of explanations for BTS' success and now having die-hard, paying fans is being twisted as a bad thing.
Meanwhile, all the home-grown acts are doing album giveaways ("bundles") and everyone is too nervous to call them out on it. 🤡
🍿 The threat is real.
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there is a clique of older white armys who complain about ageism when they're being creepy and objectifying the guys, and then become increasingly racist as they get scrutinized... 💀 no apologies from that crowd as they feel superior to everyone including bts.
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BTS has never been bigger, but this fandom feels like its entered its weakest stage in terms of coordinated action ... right when BTS need us the most to hype them for their Grammy nom
remember that it's free to change your pfp to a pic of one of the guys and cosplay as army
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@IFPI_org
@BTS_twt
@BigHitEnt
@UMG
Could do without the claim that it's due to social media when they don't even use their Instagram account... and EVERY artist uses social media - typically more than them. Attributing their success to social media is lazy.
It's because of their *musical quality and charisma*.
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what corporation would promote an asian act that primarily doesn't speak english over white US acts without having massive amounts of data to suggest commercial viability... their brand is huge with real human buyers and that's why they get these deals.
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not sure ppl saw, but recently an official source (The Orchard, a BTS distributor) described in depth what 'counts' as a youtube view for Billboard
a key detail: the user MUST be logged in.
and views on embedded videos (other websites, facebook) are 'logged out' & won't count
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Casual reminder that BTS won Top Duo/Group last year based on actual performance in the US music market. They are not some up and coming act that needs to prove anything to the industry to receive further recognition.
Any US-based award show that pays them dust is illegitimate.
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congrats to Bad Bunny for getting a top 10 w/o radio support!
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that boost! this is what happens when we stream all the newest releases together, as we did in 2019 when they kept releasing new singles every week one summer lol
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remember that HDD numbers are not what BB numbers will be
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prayer circle for i-ARMYs outside the US and Japan that they get the pricing & distribution they've been asking for
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"big" companies not sending their acts to a major award show bc they aren't likely to win is itself a kpoppie mindset - these shows are a huge promo opportunity.
the short-sightedness of kpoplandia denizens is why they'll stay there. 💆♀️
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To get the cover of EW as a music artist you are in competition with the blockbuster movie releases, trendy TV shows, etc etc. All of major US pop culture.
@BTS_twt
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cautious US armys should note that both of these songs are technically also Butter's competition on Hot 100...
do with that info what you want
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@brianstelter
It's funny to see labels just blatantly redefine what counts as a sale in order to make a claim like this. 😂 And they've got everyone believing it, too.
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things we can control: BTS music consumption statistics.
buy old singles on itunes, buy albums in stores, stream their music, watch official MVs!
consumption numbers are where it's really at.
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@Finknottle_G
Yes, I’ve noticed excessively weird ageism from this group too - like “22 is old” kind of comments, as if adults now must just go to work and have no interests. It’s a sad perspective of their own future.
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too many people don't seem to grasp that BTS at Jingle Ball indicates that they want to have a positive relationship with iH and get radio support.... the guys are actively working on it, so I can't imagine they would thank anyone for being antagonistic towards iH right now.
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BTS made more $ in the US from streaming than from sales last year -- this is bc ppl stream every week, but we only really buy in massive quantities a couple weeks a year.
The streaming revenue is healthy for a modern act! It means people are listening and watching regularly. 💆♀️
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@runner_girl_RN
I don't think I've ever gone this long w/o even a cold!
Plus on the US east coast I keep seeing pedestrians wearing masks because it's cold out and now their face is warm. Masks are like hardy scarves now.
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Don't know if anyone caught this bc we tend not to look at Rolling Stone's charts, but for the month of May Agust D charted on their Breakthrough Artist ("fastest rising artist of the month") list - at
#3
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Based on audio streams...obviously he had enormous growth.
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-promoting crypt0 currencies to manipulate their value is explicitly against TOS
-requesting 'likes' for a giveaway is platform manipulation
-buying/selling accounts is directly against TOS
-these ppl don't know what twitter's TOS are and that's why they're getting taken down
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@LilNasX
before I see anyone getting weird about the word "homies" it's apparently also a korean term ("homi") which is a plow, so he's doing bilingual wordplay with cultural references. we love nerd culture at BTS HQ.
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I think the solos are starting to get agitated about being blocked by larger portions of fandom now that blockchains are being normalized.... they want to be able to harass normal fans, and it's frustrating to them that they have to scream at a wall.
too bad so sad! :P
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the US competition this single is up against is no joke
I think uploading a conversation-starting dance video really helped spread the song beyond the usual crowd
sales will help BTS to compete vs the substantial streams for Eminem's and Mac Miller's albums in the US... 👀
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Hi
@Twitter
@verified
, your platform's tools are being abused by bad actors engaged in a coordinated attack from Facebook. This attack is motivated by discrimination against the LGBT community and religious freedom. It is currently weaponized against BTS.
#TwitterMaliciousDMCA
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Kpop stans they genuinely dislike art and challenging material. They refuse to entertain multiple ambiguous meanings of lyrics and theorize about messages - this interpretive work has never interested them. No one should ever listen to them regarding BTS' music, lyrics or MVs.
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@halsey
Folks who are new to BTS -- the closed caption button is your friend!
English lyrics are there if you click (some are cultural references that doesn't totally translate but ask and someone can explain). 👍👍
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you know he's going through it bc he misspelled his name oh noo
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ppl seem confused, so I'll clarify that the "world music" category at the grammys was renamed "global music" in 2020
now they added a performance category to go with the already-existing album category
traditionally it's gone to regional indie folk music artists
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as a reminder with the new release, in order for youtube streams to count for billboard charts (any of them):
--you need to be logged in to a YT account.
--watching on twitter or watching from a website ("embedded" videos) do NOT count as streams towards billboard.
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i do not believe twitter is making any real effort to examine its DMCA reporting platform. i think they think the current issue can be brushed aside by clearing up this particular case. the funny thing is that by ignoring the systemic issue they're leaving the company vulnerable.
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in case it's not clear, openly bragging about not buying BTS' music ........ is not ARMY behavior.
that's useless kpoppie behavior which leaves your fave in the dust while others succeed.
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the discourse around the album BE is very strange on every level, including american press outlets acting like it didn't exist, solos confusing everyone by deliberately misattributing album credits, and k-culture fetishizers upset that it doesn't cater to them enough
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I'm so confused by why the leader of .
@BTSx50States
was at a BP concert last night and missed everything, including their top group win.
That's not just being a multi, that's prioritizing BP over BTS! No wonder everything felt so disorganized last night, with no hashtag...
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can music outlets pls start tracking "first South Korean" and "first non-English" on behalf of BTS the way that film critics and pop culture followers have for Bong and Parasite?
they were the first act from Korea to perform at the Grammys ever, mis-reported as "first kpop"...
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BB can't stop us from using order numbers to estimate website sales 🦹♀️🦹♀️🦹♀️
on that note, pls try to only order full sets of 20 (4 copies of the 5 versions) and do NOT order if out of the US, as that won't count. we use the transaction # to estimate total sales.
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some of you might not have seen the clearest evidence we have of a so-called "fansite" acting in the wild, but here you go. I personally think of them as paparazzi.
and if they're not out to make money (as some of their defenders will tell us), then I consider them stalkers.
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My adult male officemate told me BTS were going to do "some subway show with Fallon" - the amount of press is huge. lol
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we need to vote on AMAs sites like we're battling a horde of bots because we might very well be doing that - how can we know?
I want zero losses.
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are the stans aware that their faves have online webstores where they can also buy digital copies of music every week if they wish? i'm not going to link them, but it's true for most artists. them being cheap fans isn't our problem.
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Folks, let's try to make the Variety article more viewed so that industry ppl see it. Click-click-click: it's not full of garbage about Ktart acts.
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important regarding the single next week, official affiliated videos count towards hot 100 - we should stream that MV as well as the planned listening on spotify/am. 👀
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too many western writers still think
@BTS_twt
came from a large and established company in the Korean music industry...
this ignorance continues to permeate discussion around BTS and causes complete failure to understand the magnitude of their accomplishments.
send tweet! 💆♀️
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this is truly crazy...
anyone clinging to the idea that BTS are powered by physical/digital sales alone is not looking at data
btw, Dynamite's 14M US streams this week were the same as 🍉's US streams when it hit
#1
... oop.
Most streamed artists on global Spotify (September 28)
#1
Juice WLRD 23m
#2
@Drake
21.4m
#3
@BTS_twt
20.5m
#4
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20.3m
#5
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19.7m
#6
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#7
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@mejustinbobby
They're basically Korean paparazzi masquerading as fans - they sell those pics later! They call themselves fan sites. A lot of them are stalkers, also...
Sorry you had to experience what actual BTS fans have been fighting against! lol
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Some industry folks, and esp pop culture vultures, really have forgotten that BTS is a stadium level act in the US.
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this has always been problematic
idk how "kpop" reporting can be allowed to exist in its current form
there is no cultural competency at any level and it is completely inappropriate
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outcomes like this are why the kpop model of 7-year contracts aren't as bad as western media pubs make them out to be... at least there is a contract with an END DATE. that's not the case in the typical US label contract.
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U.S. BTS Army mobilizes to collect donations for UNICEF at KTown Night Market
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I'm not sure I realized the crunch of that MTV Instagram stories poll - the Best Group category on EMAs is new and can only be voted on via IG stories.
If BTS don't win that vote *today* they are completely out. (MTV is annoying.)
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@dwnews
Minimizing it all! He also said they should go to North Korea for 20 years to pay for daring to do a cover of a song -- a cover that Coldplay themselves promoted. He used foul language against them. AND he said that there needed to be a vaccination against BTS themselves.
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@GRLWITHLUV7
@btsatanist
people hunted down the source of a leak in canada (a walmart selling early) and my DMs chasing down related problems were on fire...
meanwhile on the tl, everyone was posting fake news about the met gala as a cover/distraction.
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Reminder that the Global Top 50 (playlist with the 50 most-streamed Spotify tracks) is something ARMYs from anywhere with Spotify access - paid OR free - can contribute to!
We want to get as many songs from this album onto Spotify's Top 50 as possible. 👀😎
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when we say YT views are important for the streaming totals, this is what we mean!
day 4 on YT matters as much as day 1 for BB tracking.
36.9M of the first week views came from the first 3 days (21.7M from day 1). Currently the average is ~5M/day and dropping. And remember, we are up against week 3, which means there will be even more of a drop. Don't panic. US armys, get ready to buy!
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The reason
#ClubKane
is something I'm getting behind tonight is that it plays on OVER 95 STATIONS in the US. It's not just one random station.
We want that exposure! ✈️✈️ Maybe we can get Ddaeng? lmao
#BTSonClubKane
@VoteClubKane
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and it's worse than that - Liberty Media, owner of TM and LiveNation, also owns iHeart Radio, SiriusXM, AND Pandora.
they (actually, the main owner is John Malone) have a monopoly over **both** touring and radio in the US.
Before some of you get angry at HYBE for using TM... Please understand that Ticketmaster has a monopoly on US ticket sales. They literally have no choice, nor does any other big artist. Every stadium in the US does ticketing through TM/Livenation.
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they called BTS "electric", a huge compliment in reviewer-speak
The Best and Worst of the 2020 Grammy Awards
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Took a trip to wiki to look up that Japanese award show, no wonder the QTs on the announcement are all very excited Jarmys
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some insane info ... PERSONA initially only lasted as the top selling album worldwide on itunes for 5 days. in APRIL.
yesterday it ranked
#1
in the world across itunes again -we scored a 6th day ww! 😂✈️
(see last column - "pk" is peak, x6 = 6th time)
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vmas is more or less a US industry congratulation party for itself and the awards themselves about as impactful as kids choice awards these days so I'm just going to carry on, vote on the site, and not give it much psychological enegy
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