BTS is doing their solo activities this year. It started with j-hope's perfect solo and now it's Jin.
As a management company, HYBE needs to have plans to support the members' solo music releases, but it seems that HYBE is going against this. Many ARMYs are feeling angry that HYBE seems to be sabotaging the release of BTS members' solo albums.
Here's what ARMYs pointed out:
BTS has announced that the group will focus on solo activities from June. The first person to open the BTS solo was j-hope and he was received with a lot of love.
Next, at the end of October, Jin will release his first music product. HYBE also said that Jin prepared a lot of content for this promotion. In the same announcement, HYBE confirmed the release date of Jin's solo album on October 28.
However, ARMY began to rage when speculating that HYBE was sabotaging BTS's solo activities. It comes from the way the company handles their solo album release.
Specifically, according to the company's announcement that Jin will also release his first solo single - 'The Astronaut,' on October 28 at 1pm KST but the weird thing is a physical copy of his album will be released overseas at a later date. This will significantly affect Jin's album sales.
It seems that HYBE releases Jin's albums at different times to influence the achievement of solo album releases. Although don't know what the real reason is after that, if it's a management company and wholeheartedly supports the artist, HYBE will not let this happen. Because other artists of HYBE when releasing albums recently did not have this situation.
Worried that Jin's achievements would be disadvantaged when releasing albums at two different times, a part of ARMY asked HYBE to stop delaying Jin's album release overseas so that they could make statistics. exact amount sold in the first week.
They wrote, "Jin's solo single 'The Astronaut' album performance is expected to be affected negatively, as well as the Initial first-week sales count because the release date of the album overseas differs by more than a month. We strongly request that the album be released in 'early November' at the same time as the music release so that the artist's efforts and results can be properly evaluated."
Many ARMYs also pointed out that during j-hope's solo, HYBE didn't get him the best that his solo album could do. In July, HYBE announced that his solo album has no physical disc for environmental reasons. Instead, they released a digital album with just one QR code and two photo cards.
This is completely detrimental to j-hope's debut as a solo artist. Because relying on physical album sales can bring more good results for j-hope because Korean music charts still calculate points for physical album sales.
ARMY also pointed out that other HYBE artists who released albums at the same time still have physical albums but j-hope doesn't. Even HYBE released the vinyl version of j-hope's solo album late in December this year. It almost doesn't make sense to give points to j-hope when he is a solo. In addition, HYBE has not fulfilled its responsibility in promoting j-hope's album in the media.
Here are ARMY's frustrations on the matter:
- I feel like HYBE is doing this on purpose to show that they are depending less on BTS
- So they still want to make money but make sure that BTS members' solo albums don't have good performance
- they didn't even release a physical album for J-Hope's solo album
- I feel like HYBE is wary of BTS or something
- I think it's better if BTS just sets up their own company
- I think HYBE is trying to sabotage BTS solo releases since they feel the members won't renew their contract, lol
- HYBE's goal is to get more revenue but make BTS's performance drop
- HYBE really sucks, they even leaked the lyrics sheet before
- Are they try to show the less dependence on BTS? So silly for this choice
- HYBE seems like a rival of BTS kkkkk
- It's possible. It makes sense. HYBE's scared to lose their main money maker. I feel bad for the members.
