This month, V shook Kpop when he released his first official solo album. With a unique melody and style, Layover quickly conquered the hearts of fans and achieved many remarkable achievements for a Kpop artist.

However, before fans could enjoy the happiness of V's success and the new album, they were extremely upset by Billboard's recent article about V's achievements. Specifically, in this article, Billboard seems to "allege" that V's album recorded a large number of sales thanks to the release of many versions of the CD.

This is completely untrue and it inflames the anger of ARMYs globally:

V's first official solo album 'Layover' was released a few weeks ago. With the implication of a break in between to look back on the past journey and reflect on the final destination, V has revealed his 'newness' through his first solo album since his debut.

With this album, V puts aside the flashiness on stage and shows his natural self. 'Layover' has a total of six songs, including the title song 'Slow Dancing' of the pop R&B genre. After Layover debuted, V achieved many remarkable achievements and records for a Kpop solo artist.

On the first day, V's first solo album 'Layover' immediately became a 'million seller' by selling 1,672,138 copies on the day of release. At the same time, he also set a new record for the highest sales on the release day for a solo K-pop album.

Following that, V's first release 'Layover' recorded a total of 2,101,974 copies, setting a record for the most first K-pop solo album releases in history. In particular, with this, V also won the title of the first artist to surpαѕѕ 2 million copies in the first week, both as a member of BTS and as a solo artist.

In addition, it ranked first in the 'Daily Album Chart' released by נαραи's Oricon (as of September 8), selling 221,491 copies, and the title song 'Slow Dancing' topped the 'Slow Dancing Chart'. Daily Digital Singles Ranking'. Recently, Album 'Layover' maintained the number one position on the K-Town For You weekly chart, calculated from the 11th to the 17th with 43,494 copies sold during this period.

Not only that, on the 17th, the album 'Layover' was also declared No. 2 on Billboard's main album chart 'Billboard 200', ranking second behind pop star Olivia Rodrigo's 'Guts'. The album recorded album sales of 100,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release.

However, in the same article announcing V's achievement, Billboard also published information that ARMYs considered false and "reduced his influence". Billboard mentioned: "Layover’s debut was enhanced by its availability in 13 collectible CD iterations, all with randomized branded merch elements contained inside, with exclusive variants sold via Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart and the Weverse store."

It is known that in actual release, V only released 3 versions of Layover with 3 different package colors but did not release13 versions of the CDs as Billboard wrote. This may cause confusion for those who don't know about V's album well and don't respect the achievements that a Kpop solo artist has achieved.

Before this information from Billboard, ARMYs reacted by commenting below the article and tagging both @billboard @keith_caulfield to receive a satisfactory explanation:

- Hello @billboard @keith_caulfield. Respectfully, could you please show us where these 13 versions of the CDs are?

- How do you write the article without even doing your research? Please  explain "13 collectible CD iterations." We ask you to correct the article and stop being unprofessional!

- Why are we not informed of this 13 versions of collectible CDs? Misleading information just for the sake of reporting @billboard

- please V only had 3 album versions for the US and ONE physical CD for slow dancing

- Hey @keith_caulfield please do show us where are the 13 CD versions for V's layover? In your article you added versions that don't exist, but forgot to mention Olivia's 14 variants for vynil alone. V only had 3 album versions for the US and ONE physical CD for slow dancing.

- How did they even come to the conclusion that layover has 13 CD versions?!

- oh 13 version??? where are they?? @keith_caulfield @billboard where are the 13 versions you are talking about in your article? Where can we buy them?

- Imagine they had given us 13 versions all with randomised items inside!?!??  We would have fought each other for the rarest photocard, lol.
There aren't 13 iterations nor there is random merch inside!! Rectify your "mistake" @keith_caulfield @billboard

- What do you mean when saying that his huge number of album sold is thanks to the mutiple versions!?