JYPE plans on removing CDs, lyric books, etc from albums leaving only photo cards.

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It sounds like they are copying the IST platform album model, you can buy the full album, or for a little less you can buy the version that is just photocards and a digital link to the music and photos, etc.

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4 hours ago, babyv004 said:

the problem is not exactly the physical albums (well it is, if they have 456789 versions. they need to decrease that to only 1 version) but the bulk buying system kpop that there is rooted in kpop
they need to get rid of the fact that fans buy many copies just that they could access fanmeetings and other events. and to the fans that bulk buying to collect photocards, they need to have other ways to "sell" them along with the digital version and you only need to pay the shipping (or at most you pay like a tiny bit more the digital price, plus shipping)

maybe physical albums sales could stop counting for rankings or have a way that even if you buy a bunch of albums with same account, it would only count 1.

but this is not a thing that 1 or 2 companies in the industry can change. the whole kpop industry needs to join together to discuss and rendo the way things count to rankings and to attend events

 

And since the cds mostly useless now, but people still like physical things even tho they dont play the cds, another solution is them inventing smth that could replace CDs (like they did with VHS). i thought kino would do that but then i was disappointed the way it works. if was just smth that you plug in your pc/phone like a usb and without the need to install a app and much less have to download the songs, you could listen the album with that attached to the pc/phone or then it would connect by bluetooth.

 

Honestly I think the platform album model works just fine, who would want to buy 10 full albums, when for less money you could buy 1 full album and 9 platform albums, they count the same for physical sales, you get the same number of photocards, etc. I really don't get the reluctance by the bigger companies to adopt it so far, I bet the profit is way better on the platform's too, you're literally just selling the PCs (dirt cheap to produce) and a link to the music.