To ARMYs and netizens these days, Jimin seems to be the pride of ḳöŕệä as he achieved a remarkable achievement on the Billboard Hot 100. ḳöŕệän media and even international media have a lot to say about his success. This is his outstanding achievement with his debut solo album.
However, despite the congratulations and praises for Jimin's No.1 achievement, a ḳöŕệän critic made negative and odd comments about his achievement. This person also showed disdain for Like Crazy's achievement as well as accusing ARMYs of "manipulating music charts".
In response to these comments from the ḳöŕệän critic, netizens and ARMYs are exploding with anger over his disrespectful attitude towards the artist:
As many people know that Jimin is setting records and making history with the release of his new album FACE. In March, Jimin released his first solo album FACE - bringing his signature musical color and the title track "Like Crazy" which attracted great attention from the public.
Then, on April 3, ARMYs couldn't contain their excitement after Billboard released the top songs on their Billboard Hot 100. In it, Jimin made history with “Like Crazy” after becoming the first ḳöŕệän artist to reach #1 on Billboard. He is also the only artist with a record of topping the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist and while working with BTS.
As noted earlier by the producer working with Jimin, he and the album FACE established a new world order for K-pop. After this great achievement, BTS members praised and were very proud of Jimin. Meanwhile, ARMYs and netizens alike continued to congratulate their idols and share their reactions on social media.
Even Jimin must be surprised and happy for this u̾n̾e̾x̾p̾e̾c̾t̾e̾d ̾ achievement. He even turned on Weverse in the middle of the night when his phone had 5% battery left to thank his fans for their support and share his honest feelings.
However, one music critic seems to go against the reaction of the majority. He made comments that seemed to discredit Jimin's historical achievement for his recent release.
Specifically, in an article shared on the ḳöŕệän forum theqoo, the saying of music critic Kim has attracted the attention of fans. According to the critic, he seems to believe that Jimin's number one spot comes from his popularity rather than talent.
He expressed his personal opinion: "It is true that K-Pop has a large discrepancy between sales and streaming-radio numbers, and this is a glaring example of this. This (Billboard win) is a result of ‘chart manipulation’ that is attributed to K-Pop fandoms all over the world, in which there are only people who buy the music without anyone listening to it."
When the quote from his speech was shared on a ḳöŕệän forum, it received a lot of attention because of this controversial opinion. Most of the netizens' comments below were against his outrageous accusations and also outraged at him for showing such a negative view of the artist and K-pop fans:
- Jimin: #1 on Billboard Hot100
Normal ppl when their countrymen receives a remarkable win : THAT’S AMAZING I’M SUCH A PROUD FELLOW COUNTRYMEN, THIS IS A WIN FOR OUR COUNTRY
ḳöŕệän Music critic : We’ll see if he’s still on next week, otherwise mmehh, it’s just fans buying music.
- there’s som̾e̾t̾h ̾ing so sinister about the way kmedia treats the tannies like nobody’s harsher on them than their own country’s media and it’s so sad to see like how many countries would LOVE and be proud to have legends like that but we all know who’s behind those articles so we move! anyways keep streaming and buying like crazy & face specially us/pr armys we need stability Jimin deserves it sooo much
- Damn but if my country had someone like BTS we would literally cherish them .. and they would be loved and respected as they should. Kmedia has always tried to sabotage tannies success one way or another
- It's been 10 years how long are they going to be bitter about bts success
- Im really scared, im serious, pls god, save mimi... even this people is waiting for next week. Very ungrateful, cmon buy nd streams
- So is he trying to say that it only made it to #1 'cause of ARMY, not that it's actually a good song? don't think we'd be pαssionate about it if the song sucked. They don't want to acknowledge that each member is great on their own, which makes them a powerful force as a team.
- And I can αssure you - ppl would listen to it if any western artist would have released it. But with zero radio play there is not much we can actually do about it
- Not him criticizing face when his whole kpap industry is more of the same and doesn't make it past the top10 in bb, but it's easy to open your mouth when you need to be relevant. Again, sk does not deserve bts
- My вlσσd is seriously boiling right now
- Music critic but didn't know how the new rules work
- We are not in debt with them, is a HIT for us. For kmedia the success of our boys will never be enough. But I would said that I want Jimin to stay on the chart more weeks.
- I’m not surprised at all. some might even say it’s a fair αssessment but the fact remains Jimin does not have radio, but he does have fans & they’re the ones he made this song for so he doesn’t need to prove anything + the songs a f-ing bop, it was / is successful out the gates.
- wowww. what a bum of looooooossssssseeeeeeeerrrrrresssssss
- this is disgusting. instead of applauding him, they have to talk down/negative about it. so much hate for no reason at all…
- how much do these people get paid to say those things? lmao they are JEALOUS
When ARMYs shared the post, the comments attempted to reαssure fans, sharing their anger at someone trying to discredit Jimin's enormous achievement. Meanwhile, some people take a more positive view as this person may be pointing out that Jimin's popularity helps his achievements increase rapidly.
However, in the end, while critics may be skeptical of Jimin's success, almost everyone believes that the power and influence of BTS in general and Jimin, in particular, are unmatched. Negative comments no longer affect their careers too much at this point when Jimin is standing at a new level!