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amastris commented on It still remains uncertain whether BTS's Jin, who turns 30 this December, will be enlisting in mandatory military service this year or not Posted by jieun-im
Friday, September 9, 2022
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Oh boy, I seriously have to address this erroneous idea. BTS debuted 1 year after 1 of the most popular Kpop boy groups, EXO. EXO cannot even remotely compare to BTS. Forget the fact they've never been on the Billboard 100, or played on American English speaking radio station's rotation, even their World Digital Song Sales are 1/3 that of BTS. BTS's success started in 2016 with BTS's album 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever' where 'Dope', 'Fire', 'I Need U', & 'Save Me' Hit the 1 & 2 spots of the World Digital Song Sales, then later in the year solidifying it with their 'Wings' album & the success of 'Blood, Sweat, & Tears'. Fair?!?! They took an indie label, BigHit Music, and broke the MONOPOLY of the Big 3 - SME, JYP, & YGE all on their own!!! How much FAIRER do you need?!?! Do EXO members backed by SME, or any other SME, JYP, YGE group trying to copy+pasta BTS's success, such as collab-ing with Capitol Records to create SuperM, need HELP and SUPPORT because BTS took THEIR clout?!? WTF kind of thinking is this, really??? Refer to Billboard charts for both EXO & BTS to see your PROPER comparisons.
But let's put this conscription issue to bed... The only possible popular competitive Kpop group that BTS could have stolen "visibility" from to chart would have been EXO. Big Bang neither had the "visibility" of groups like NCT or EXO, so BTS couldn't have stolen "visibility" from them either. No other can even compare to these two in the spotlight of popularity. But BTS is NOT responsible for the Chinese members exiting the group and messing up their rising mojo in 2015-16, period! That's all on SME, who now, after 10 years, finds it last remaining Chinese member, Lay, quitting the label, albeit m-b not the group. That was how this group was promoted M & K!! Now it's only K! BUT, the 1st member of EXO to enlist was Xiumen in May of 2019, a whole MONTH AFTER BTS dropped 'Boy With Luv' feat. Halsey and dancing on the stage LIVE in Time Square for GMA!! LIKE, WUT!?!? Are kidding me with this stuff? D.O. enlisted the end of the year, and the rest enlisted 2020-21, Kai, Sehun haven't even enlisted yet, so it's EXO's fault for staggering it out over 4-5 yrs, and SME for not being able to retain quality Chinese members. This has NOTHING to do with BTS AND/OR their success. BTS got their success all own their own, thank you very much.
BTS not going military will soon make their popularity questionable. More and more people will wonder how big BTS'd be now if the other groups hadn't been into (semi)hiatus because of military service. No need to be a genius to understand that the other groups' hiatus helped BTS to get more visibility, more time in the spotlight on charts, concerts, Radio, TV Shows &News, and other media and even in cultural/political events...so more popularity.
BTS should go military and make things in kpop look fairer!!!