It seems that ARMYs and Jimin's fans haven't had time to celebrate his new achievement with his solo album, but they already have to endure a bad feeling brought on by Hanteo. This comes from the fact that Hanteo rankings have inaccurate and non-public updates on sales on the first day of FACE's launch.

Not only that, but ARMYs also found a lot of evidence to prove this lack of transparency of Hanteo. Although they have made some corrections after receiving complaints from ARMYs, fans are still not satisfied with the subsequent actions of the chart.

Now, many fans are asking the rankings to clarify this issue and give a more specific, precise explanation:

For all ARMYs know that BTS has always been unrivaled on digital music charts or album sales. BTS members and the group in general when launching new products are leading in these sales.

Following the success of BTS, Jimin as a solo artist has also proven his great achievement. Specifically, on the afternoon of March 24, the first few hours after its release, Jimin's album FACE officially surpäṩṩed the sales record of BTS Butter on the Hanteo chart.

Previously, Butter's record on this chart was more than 229,000 copies sold while Jimin's reached 247,000 copies in the same time period. This achievement helped FACE and Jimin hold the record of having the highest 1st day sales in Hanteo history and also the first time for a кσяєαn solo artist.

As the media reported on this achievement, ARMYs celebrated the groundbreaking start of Jimin's solo career. But the joy did not last long when fans discovered soṃệẗḧing unusual happened with sales of the album FACE on Hanteo's website.

ARMYs noticed that the site didn't record any new sales for nearly six hours. They also noted that around 30,000 sales were removed within the hour, leading to a heated discussion as to why these sales were not counted towards FACE sales.

When ARMYs started wondering about this discrepancy, Hanteo released a statement saying that they had looked at the sales data and that FACE had apparently sold 991,437 copies as of March 24, 23:35 KST. However, this chart does not provide any explanation for the loss of copies in the previous hours.

In fact, fans discovered another statement with data on Hanteo's website. This data shows the recorded sales of 1.75 million copies of FACE on March 24, 23:35 KST. It was the chart’s app version that reflected the smaller number.

As a result, fans are constantly calling for this music chart to clarify the matter as they themselves have explicitly denied the data provided by their own website. In response to fan criticism and exposure, Hanteo, in an unprecedented decision, has hidden its real-time charts and graphs from the website.

As suspicions of manipulation continued, the platform released a second statement saying it was conducting a complete survey and would respond to fan questions.

This situation has made fans uncomfortable because all fans are doing is a lot of efforts to show BTS' influence and success. But this platform denies the effort and money of BTS and their fans.

Some fans even suspect Kakao M to be the source of the foul play since the company acquired most of Hanteo in 2018. If you pay close attention, you can see that HYBE and Kakao have just settled finished their dispute over the right to manage SM Entertainment as the largest shareholders.

While waiting for Hanteo’s clarification, ARMYs are pulling hard to ensure that Jimin gets his million-seller record even with the updated numbers. If they manage to make it happen, it would be the fourth time the album will hít 1 million sales within a day.

Looks like this album is seeing all kinds of firsts within a day of its existence!