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Posted by Kkkpopvvv4,234 pts Monday, December 9, 2019

#EXO Fans start trending #SMsabotagingEXO to call out SM Entertainment for not re-stocking EXOs' album and delaying shipping on purpose

EXO just ended their promotion for their comeback title track "Obsession" and many fans are extremely happy with the album and the songs but at the moment they are very angry because of another situation. Immediately as the 27th of November came problems started to occur. SM entertainment was late with providing links for pre-ordering the album for US fans and what made many fans angry is that the link provided became from Amazon Prime to not Amazon Prime at a certain point and showed that the shipping will take 1 to 2 months which made fans extremely angry. Later fans noticed that on sites like Ktown4u showed that the album is expected to be in stock on the 4th of December with the 3rd album version and it was later revealed that it was not only Ktown4u but most of the sites like Yesasia, Kpoptown and other sites fans use to order have such problems. This meant that SM entertainment could not provide the desired stock and big stores will have to ship out in small batches as the album becomes available. Many fans have already revealed that their orders have still not shipped and are not expected to ship any time soon and are not getting any responses on why this is happening from customer service. 

Now EXO-L are calling about SM for sabotage using #SMsabotagingEXO on Twitter. because many US EXO-L have trouble receiving their albums or their albums have still not shipped and the albums that were shipped got shipped 1-2 days before the Billboard tracking thus sabotaging EXOs album ranking on Billboard and not to mention the fact that the album was constantly not in stock resulting in lower charting than usual for EXO and fans claim SM might be doing it on purpose(due to conflict in interests with a US label and another groups' ranking). Many made a comparison of how ridiculous is that the song made it to number one on Billboard digital but the albums ordered are nowhere to be found because many have not yet shipped or are not even stocked yet.

What fans also fear is that SM might do as they did with Super Junior in October(which they also think was a sabotaged due to this album problem happening only to EXO and Super Junior and possibly for the same reasons) and make stores give refunds instead of stocking the albums. During Super Juniors' comeback ELF that contacted Ktown4u got an explanation from Ktown4u that SM entertainment (they knew the number of pre-orders) provided a limited amount of albums thus resulting in Ktown4u and other stores having to give ELF refunds instead of their paid-for albums. That angered many ELF as this year SUJU album pre-orders were extremely high and the album sales still being high for a K-POP group could have been even bigger reaching a whole new milestone for them and many pointed out SM might be doing it on purpose due to the timing of their comeback. Now, what EXO-L fear is that this might happen to EXO so they decided to trend a hashtag hoping to catch SMs attention and call them out on their sabotage using #SMsabotagingEXO. Here are a few tweets down below from fans who share the problems they are having with their albums and their concerns about what might happen! 


  1. EXO
  2. Super Junior
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Kireta
Kireta159 pts Monday, December 9, 2019 0
Monday, December 9, 2019

SM what are you doing!!!

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courtney86
courtney861,199 pts Monday, December 9, 2019 0
Monday, December 9, 2019

SM always seems to put their efforts into the younger artists, while their older artists receive little to no support regarding comebacks or are seemingly put on the back burner. They are too busy trying to break into the US market with Super M and NCT 127. They could have done this year's ago when EXO was at the height of their popularity. That was definitely a wasted opportunity because EXO was/is popular and talented enough. I feel bad for a lot of the older groups, because as far as vocalists go, SM has some of the best in the industry and their talent is going to waste. I hope when EXO is up for contract renewal, they leave SM and form their own company.

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