[Pannchoa] ONEUS holds 51 fansigns (still counting) to boost album sales

[My Everything]

columns in order: gate, singer (album name) - mini, daily sales, cumulative sales

 

 

Total albums sold: 177,877 copies 

 

(t/n: some international fans might not know this, but 'first week sales' aka 초동 is super important for idol fans because they have rankings on music sites about 초동 records. It's arguably the most important timeframe for album sales, after the 1st week, fans generally don't care anymore) 

 

The album's fansign events right now = 47

 

--> actually including the ones on top, they have added more totaling 51 fansigns right now

 

Their album let them to their 1st win 

 

original post: here

 

1. People put way too much meaning in the first week sales, are the fans really not buying any albums after the 1st week anymore?? I don't know. Is Hanteo even able to do this????

 

2. ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ I'm an idol fan myself butㅠㅠ The physical album industry has became so bizarre 

 

3. having 47 fansigns is just too much 

 

4. Are these video calls or onsite fansigns? It's such a burden on the artists and the fans.. 

 

5. ...? What are you saying..? Is this illegal?

> It's not illegal, it's just business

 

6. This is just crazy... If they're doing this, won't fans be expecting even more for the next album...? This is such a f*cking exhausting method

 

7. What the? So they only sold 5000 albums after the first week sales...? They sure will do anything for a record in the first week sales 

 

8. They're not the only ones doing this. There are lots of small agencies pulling the same trick. Golden Child did the same 

 

9. They're doing all those fansigns for first week sales...?ㄷㄷ

 

10. If you sell albums like that, what's even the point? Only the people who want to buy them will buy it, but they end up buying tens of copies... 

 

11. My bias is the other way around, people were getting pissed because we couldn't even make it to the ranking with the first week sales

 

12. The agency is overdoing it. This isn't helping the idols at all..

 

13. By the way, the 51 isn't the final fansign, they're still doing them right now 

 

14. So they did that for the first week sales, but they're still doing them to boost the sales, but the sales aren't rising anymore

 

15. The fans were happy because they thought they were only doing this for the first week sales, but what are they doing now..?

 

16. This is sajaegi 

 

17. The idols must be tired too attending 51 fansigns

 

18. But the company already planning these to raise the first week sales and winning #1 on music shows is considered sajaegi no? Can you even sell albums like that? And doing 51 fansigns to have these numbers... 

 

19. Wow do they need to go this far.. 

 

20. The idol industry is becoming so weird. We need to cut the fansign culture for real. 

 

Source

[MelanatedBeauty]

who's oneus?

[Trashie]

HELP 

[Shinki]

you gotta do what you gotta do

[babyv004]

companies should really start to do like victon company did

Bc i bet those albums will be dumped in the streets too

[munyuna]

oh theyre from rbw, this company is crazy. look at purplekiss fansign pobs, 40 sets just for Zombie

 

 

[RussianRoulette]

Every time I go to my local used book store I literally find TONS of oneus and purplekiss albums (You can sell used books/dvds/cds there for cash). The bookstore literally can’t sell them fast enough(/at all tbh…) and every time I go there there are more Oneus/purplekiss albums piling up.

Also, because this used book store doesn’t know anything about Kpop albums the “fans” sell them stripped of everything but the actual CD (no photocards, inside photo booklets, folded posters, etc) and the store doesn’t know it’s missing stuff and sells them at almost full price. Because of this I literally kid you not there have been oneus/purplekiss albums sitting on the shelf collecting dust for over a year now because no Kpop fan is going to want to pay full price for an album with no goods…

I always feel bad seeing those albums sitting on the shelf every time I go there and I never knew why there were always so many of the same oneus/purplekiss albums dumped at the store at one time. Now I guess I know why

[lgbtxt]

oof, i feel for the idols having to put up with doing that many fansigns and for so long.
one day we'll have to address the environmental impact of kpop and all of this album waste. 

[Guest]

lol

[Iljin Oppa]

15 hours ago, RussianRoulette said:

Every time I go to my local used book store I literally find TONS of oneus and purplekiss albums (You can sell used books/dvds/cds there for cash). The bookstore literally can’t sell them fast enough(/at all tbh…) and every time I go there there are more Oneus/purplekiss albums piling up.

Also, because this used book store doesn’t know anything about Kpop albums the “fans” sell them stripped of everything but the actual CD (no photocards, inside photo booklets, folded posters, etc) and the store doesn’t know it’s missing stuff and sells them at almost full price. Because of this I literally kid you not there have been oneus/purplekiss albums sitting on the shelf collecting dust for over a year now because no Kpop fan is going to want to pay full price for an album with no goods…

I always feel bad seeing those albums sitting on the shelf every time I go there and I never knew why there were always so many of the same oneus/purplekiss albums dumped at the store at one time. Now I guess I know why

Why did the store buy so many of the albums in the first place?

Sounds dumb...

[pinkpanda_spirit]

RBW everytime they plan a fansign for oneus

[RussianRoulette]

13 hours ago, Iljin Oppa said:

Why did the store buy so many of the albums in the first place?

Sounds dumb...

It’s a big chain used bookstore so they will literally take and sell everything and anything.

Last time I was there they were literally selling some photo booklet thing from a Loona album by itself for like $5 bucks. (It literally wasn’t even the entire album, someone straight-up just took the photoshoot booklet out of the album and I guess sold it to the store for a couple of bucks and the store thought it was some type of book and was selling it on the shelf…)

[Vikturi]

On 1/20/2022 at 8:59 AM, RussianRoulette said:

Every time I go to my local used book store I literally find TONS of oneus and purplekiss albums (You can sell used books/dvds/cds there for cash). The bookstore literally can’t sell them fast enough(/at all tbh…) and every time I go there there are more Oneus/purplekiss albums piling up.

Also, because this used book store doesn’t know anything about Kpop albums the “fans” sell them stripped of everything but the actual CD (no photocards, inside photo booklets, folded posters, etc) and the store doesn’t know it’s missing stuff and sells them at almost full price. Because of this I literally kid you not there have been oneus/purplekiss albums sitting on the shelf collecting dust for over a year now because no Kpop fan is going to want to pay full price for an album with no goods…

I always feel bad seeing those albums sitting on the shelf every time I go there and I never knew why there were always so many of the same oneus/purplekiss albums dumped at the store at one time. Now I guess I know why

I feel bad for the environment more actually

Imagine how many piles of those are collecting in storage or in dusty shelves or in the trash heap somewhere. The industry needs to change this notion on basing success on physical sales because fans and companies find a way to inflate the numbers and consequently use up more resources.

Also you might wanna tell the bookstore they're selling husks of albums lmao

[Pyo Hyemi]

On 1/20/2022 at 1:59 AM, RussianRoulette said:

Every time I go to my local used book store I literally find TONS of oneus and purplekiss albums (You can sell used books/dvds/cds there for cash). The bookstore literally can’t sell them fast enough(/at all tbh…) and every time I go there there are more Oneus/purplekiss albums piling up.

Also, because this used book store doesn’t know anything about Kpop albums the “fans” sell them stripped of everything but the actual CD (no photocards, inside photo booklets, folded posters, etc) and the store doesn’t know it’s missing stuff and sells them at almost full price. Because of this I literally kid you not there have been oneus/purplekiss albums sitting on the shelf collecting dust for over a year now because no Kpop fan is going to want to pay full price for an album with no goods…

I always feel bad seeing those albums sitting on the shelf every time I go there and I never knew why there were always so many of the same oneus/purplekiss albums dumped at the store at one time. Now I guess I know why

where do you live?

[schue]

On 1/20/2022 at 8:59 AM, RussianRoulette said:

Every time I go to my local used book store I literally find TONS of oneus and purplekiss albums (You can sell used books/dvds/cds there for cash). The bookstore literally can’t sell them fast enough(/at all tbh…) and every time I go there there are more Oneus/purplekiss albums piling up.

Also, because this used book store doesn’t know anything about Kpop albums the “fans” sell them stripped of everything but the actual CD (no photocards, inside photo booklets, folded posters, etc) and the store doesn’t know it’s missing stuff and sells them at almost full price. Because of this I literally kid you not there have been oneus/purplekiss albums sitting on the shelf collecting dust for over a year now because no Kpop fan is going to want to pay full price for an album with no goods…

I always feel bad seeing those albums sitting on the shelf every time I go there and I never knew why there were always so many of the same oneus/purplekiss albums dumped at the store at one time. Now I guess I know why

Damn this is really bad for the environment.

 

 

RBW's marketing strategy doesn't seem to be environment-friendly