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Today we're checking out 'why the music industry is terrified of bts'
Wikipedia states:
BTS (Korean: 방탄소년단; RR: Bangtan Sonyeondan; lit. Bulletproof Boy Scouts), also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a South Korean boy band formed in 2010. The band consists of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, who co-write or co-produce much of their material. Originally a hip hop group, they expanded their musical style to incorporate a wide range of genres, while their lyrics have focused on subjects including mental health, the troubles of school-age youth and coming of age, loss, the journey towards self-love, individualism, and the consequences of fame and recognition. Their discography and adjacent work has also referenced literature, philosophy and psychology, and includes an alternate universe storyline.
BTS debuted in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment with the single album 2 Cool 4 Skool. BTS released their first Korean and Japanese-language studio albums, Dark & Wild and Wake Up respectively, in 2014. The group's second Korean studio album, Wings (2016), was their first to sell one million copies in South Korea. By 2017, BTS had crossed into the global music market and led the Korean Wave into the United States, becoming the first Korean ensemble to receive a Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for their single "Mic Drop", as well as the first act from South Korea to top the Billboard 200 with their studio album Love Yourself: Tear (2018). In 2020, BTS became one of the few groups since the Beatles (in 1966-1968) to chart four US number-one albums in less than two years, with Love Yourself: Answer (2018) becoming the first Korean album certified Platinum by the RIAA; in the same year, they also became the first all-South Korean act to reach number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Global 200 with their Grammy-nominated single "Dynamite". Follow-up releases "Savage Love", "Life Goes On", "Butter", and "Permission to Dance" made them the fastest act to earn four US number-one singles since Justin Timberlake in 2006.
As of 2023, BTS is the best-selling artist in South Korean history according to the Circle Chart, having sold in excess of 40 million albums.[2] Their studio album Map of the Soul: 7 (2020) is the third best-selling album of all time in South Korea, as well as the first in the country to surpass both four and five million registered sales. They are the first non-English-speaking and Asian act to sell out concerts at Wembley Stadium and the Rose Bowl (Love Yourself World Tour, 2019), and were named the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's (IFPI) Global Recording Artist of the Year for both 2020 and 2021. The group's accolades include multiple American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Golden Disc Awards, and nominations for five Grammy Awards. Outside of music, they have addressed three sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and partnered with UNICEF in 2017 to establish the Love Myself anti-violence campaign. Featured on Time's international cover as "Next Generation Leaders" and dubbed the "Princes of Pop", BTS has also appeared on Time's lists of the 25 most influential people on the internet (2017-2019) and the 100 most influential people in the world (2019), and in 2018 became the youngest recipients of the South Korean Order of Cultural Merit for their contributions in spreading the Korean culture and language.
On June 14, 2022, the group announced a scheduled pause in group activities to enable the members to complete their mandatory South Korean military service, with a reunion planned for 2025. Jin, the oldest member, enlisted on December 13, 2022, followed by J-Hope on April 18, 2023, and Suga on September 22, 2023.
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It's always so nice to see people who understand ARMY aren't paranoid cultists. We're just regular cultists.
Dreamcatcher Endless Night please 🙏 They are one of the most unique kpop group out there
What's ironic is that literally, LITERALLY every interview BTS did in the US when they started to be known, they'd get asked this question: when are you every going to do an English album? Radio stations would tell us they couldn't play their music because it wasn't English? And now they release English songs and people are complaining about how bts only sing in English and the radio still refuse to play their English songs. What a corrupted music industry. ( both in the West and in their home country)
They are in such a Catch 22. If they sing in English they get Chastised. If they sing in Korean, they are told media outlets won't play them. ARMY has always followed the rules but media outlets find ways to stop BTS from Being Successful.
That new York Times Podcast Just days ago! "I would rather have Justin Bieber sing korean than JK do a whole english album" Like what. The Journalist they Had in there being a 2nd Gen Stan and literally saying anything is un any way negative on twt for Younger groups but then Standing there and saying she is right was so annoying
But we know why US Radio are corrupt they do under the table agreements with US music companies where they demand huge amount of money otherwise they won't play the artists songs. It's illegal and has been talked about it in the US press yet most Americans have no idea that this illegal pay for play system is going on. It's referred to as 'payola'. BTS and their company refuse to use illegal methods.
My local radio station plays K-pop music every day.
@@marydavis5234 oh if you are in the US it must be one of the still independent Radio stations I mean one of those the big 3 Radio's companies haven't bought out yet.
Back in 2018 Jin wore a shirt at a Korean awards show that was a copy of a Dead Kennedy’s shirt calling out the corrupt industry (it’s a giant spray pained dollar sign). He also asked the industry to basically be less corrupt calling them out very politely in tears during a 2019 awards show speech. BTS doesn’t do pay for play so the industry hates them in Korea and the West. Boracity videos are so good.
That’s heart breaking, it’s ridiculous how much it is pay to win now!
I do not get suggested BTS content on UA-cam. I’ve been an army since 2016. I constantly watch BTS stuff. UA-cam’s algorithm is a joke.
JK recently performed at Times Square, 30 mins or so before it starts it was only officially announced and thousands of ARMY gathered and filled Times Sq and sang word by word even when the album was only released days prior. One time a BTS ad was released and thousands of ARMYs gather ud think its concert crowd and BTS was not even there. 😅 i think its safe to say ARMYs are not bots like others claim. ARMYs are loyal and we go hard for our boys. And that scares the industry. That for once, fans genuinely love their artists music and willing to stream it multiple times a day and that is deemed as bot behaviour 🥲
I know right am really saving towards 2025 tour and doing everything to get visa I have to be in that your 😂😂😂😂😂 I just love our 7 men they are amazing with music
I’m watching this on the day that we, Army, somehow DETHRONED MARIAH CAREY at #1 on iTunes in 80+ countries in December with a BTS song that is 6years old Just because we are sad over enlistment. Mariah’s song never leaves no1 in December most thought it was impossible. But we did it, at least on that streaming/buying platform.
THAT IS INCREDIBLE!!! Goooo ARMY
What I hate is that UA-cam always deleting views of BTS and BTS members music videos
Taylor chooses when to play industry games and when not to. And you can find numerous examples of this. That's not saying that she isn't talented or that her success was industry based. She had her share of pushbacks. She fought with Apple music for artists rights, she is fighting her old label with rerecording and finally owning her masters.
The thing is BTS never wanted to play the game and on top of that the industry wouldn't let them because they are a band from Korea, speaking Korean and showing how you can succeed with only having FANS buying your music.
BTS never wanted to be a part of anything dirty revolving music, no radio payola, no bundles, no shaking hands and pleasing industry important people for their gain. BTS only makes music. And they make music the right way. No sketchy things involved. And ARMYs, get this, BUY that music, BUY physical albums, help spread it by showing it to people.
As SUGA said: you'll like BTS music if you listen without prejudice.
Thank you for this reaction. I subscribed. 💜.
At the end of the day Taylor is still an American darling whos music will be shoved with propaganda into our ears just bcs of her ethnicity
another artist that has fought hard is Kelly Clarkson, also Bruno Mars and Eminem. also and the most important might be Prince. He refused to turn into Michael Jackson. and For my money Prince was better than MJ in every way, musically. MJ was very good, but not the type of human I could ever support.
@@carlaa2207these were exactly my thoughts while watching
@@LPnerdAbsolutely, I agree about Prince.
@@LPnerd I agree with the overall spirit of what you wrote & I'm also a huge Prince fan.
That said, Michael's genius is undeniable. He almost single-handedly transformed the American music industry by creating the best, most popular & most financially successful version of American Pop imaginable. In an industry that was (and is), still deeply segregated, his music from the late 1970s to the early 90s was a watershed period for music globally. The rule was that non-White artists stayed within racially defined genre boundaries, while Pop was the melting pot where mainstream (i.e. white), artists were free to take influences, elements, songs & songwriters, musicians, designers, etc., from the various sub-genres at will, then re-package it with the edges sanded off for mass appeal.
Michael Jackson destroyed all of that by, essentially, reclaiming Pop music as a Black American form, thereby demonstrating to the world that Black music IS American music and is, by definition, (P)opular. It was always open to everything & available for everyone. Also, don't forget that Michael started with an independent label, Motown, as a genre artist relegated to R&B who also had to overcome abuse, exploitation, manipulation & entrenched bigotry to achieve what he did.
I'm a new Army and I'm a 72 year old white American woman. I'm also an Adam Lambert fan and a fan of the S. Korean quartet, Forestella. My tastes are eclectic but damn, great music is great music. I've already purchased Jungkooks Golden album because every single song is not only in English, but is hit worthy. The album itself is absolutely Grammy worthy! I HATE what the suits in the music industry have done and are still getting away with! BTS have managed to survive and thrive due to hard work, talent and integrity! LONG LIVE BTS! 😊👍 ❤❤❤
I’m a 78 year old ARMY and appreciate your view. I’m not familiar with Forestella but will check them out. I liked Adam on American Idol but haven’t kept up with him.
Golden was released to late in the yr. But IMHO Idigo was much better than anything nominated. Pay for play rules the game in Music, politics, and gov. Spotify, I make my own playlists, and am careful not to listen to same songs in a row. apple music is total crap, social media award at billboard got rid of that award after BTS won it 4 yrs in a row as they know no one else will win it, and that fact makes them not getting awards in other category's ridiculous.
Just last week I noticed that Jungkook's Standing Next To You had a couple of million views deleted even though it's already been out for weeks. I just so happened to have watched it again and noted that it was at 48 million views, then a couple of days later it had dropped down to 46 million. This is weeks after release. And yes, I do also notice that sometimes official BTS content doesn't get recommended to me at all even though unofficial content like reactions and edits do.
I sometimes hear on twitter that something just got released and I come immediately to youtube, and logically you'd think that it would be at the top of my recommendations bc it's an official release and I watch tons of BTS content. But it's not there and I have to do a search for it, and sometimes it still doesn't come out at the top. The sabotage is real and it's insane.
There was a chart that was going around twitter a while ago that showed over 25% of their current spotify follows came in chapter 2. Take that in. In less than 2 years they grew the group fandom by a third, and the group isn't even active right now.
Wow! Thanks for letting us know. I didn't know that the fandom grew so much these last two years!
On the premiere day they deleted 7mln streams in about 1hr. I did screenshot just to check it later and like I thought they deleted it.
@@Yoonji9212deleting on premiere day is pretty much expected at this point, i just didn't think they still gaf weeks after that
@@TooLittleInfo YT still delated views from Jimin Like Crazy one month after the premiere ! I was so upset, seeing by myself millions of views delated EVERY DAY !
I had to search for the usher remix.
Boracity Magazine's not afraid of being controversial but she usually brings the receipts to back it up. I'm always up for her BTS videos. 👍💜
So true the receipts are never lacking.
i'm about to say something spicy and probably unpopular but - taylor swift 100% plays by the industry ways, just not by the people who screwed her. the industry wouldn't promote her the way they do otherwise, no matter how popular she is, and she doesn't get even a single percent of the filtering bts do - she never did for a single second. she has been back on spotify for a long, long time now, and the whole re-doing albums thing seems more and more like a money grab to me the more time goes on.
Exactly!
Sorry never a fan of Taylor Swift when I hear her music in public I want to smash the radio system lmfao
She literally Just did it recently, a remix of a Song that is available a day before the Last Tracking day but only until midnight in the Last Tracking day for that week, and she did Block jungkooks golden from that 1 in the Album charts
I love Taylor but you are correct, she is the media's darling right now. It feels unfair to others, like BTS who are getting blocked in every direction. But she's also taking some hits from the crazy Right Wingers who hate that she has this fame and access.
absolutely
The thing is Taylor is the queen of the west. She rules ..there's no way they can stop her. I'm sure she also plays the industry games. But they don't allow BTS cuz they are not from the west. That's the reality
Taylor benefits from playing the industry game AND having a dedicated fanbase. In terms of fanbase I have no doubt that army can stand toe to toe with swifties, BTS's only disadvantage is not playing the industry game
For anyone not in the know, Jimin and J-Hope that they have changed rules for This video doesn’t include the more recent releases by Jung Kook and V. If she had waited there would be Ben more proof for her to include, because the music industry changed more rules days before JK and V released their music. Billboard decided to exclude one of the main sources that many international army buy digital content from in an attempting JK and V from teaching number 1. I’m sure there are other things they’ve done, besides radio, that I’m not aware off.
As far as Taylor. She get HEAVY radio support. I respectfully have to disagree that her situation is ANYTHING like BTS and the members. (And I like Taylor, so my comment isn’t anti Taylor.) I saw a video a couple of weeks about comparing Taylor’s song at the time, Standing Next to You, by JK and the Beatles new single. Taylor had 77+MILLION radio plays, the Beatles had almost 2 million and SNTY had 400K. That is 76.6 MILLUON more plays for Taylor the JK although both were chatting and all English. That is a HUGE difference.
How much music has the music industry kept from us?!?
Far too much!!
They keep a lot! That’s why I don’t listen to radio. The owners of the stations have their favorites and play them on repeat so much my head wants to explode.
Americans are realizing that there is awesome music in other countries and are now wanting to check it out……radio is a has been
Isn’t that the million dollar question? Pretty much every reactor listening to BTS or the members’ Chapter 2 songs for the first time has voiced some form of “Why haven’t I heard their/his music before?” They usually get recommendations from friends or subscribers or they discover them by reacting to their collaborations with other artists.
Blame the United States being an isolationist country. (Before the 20th century)
Independent American rapper Tom McDonald has started facing the same industry sabotage starting ummm about 2 years ago. People love him and his messages. He is 100% independent, him and his girlfriend Nova do their own mvs, package & ship albums on their own and the industry has started doing the same thing because they make 0 dollars off of him. It is so sad and infuriating at the same time. The Western Industry loved BTS when they thought they were were a passing fad, then panicked when they saw they were here to stay and couldn't get a slice of the BTS pie.
This
The racist one? Why are you a bts fan a fan of that guy? He’s the opposite of what bts stand for 🤮
I don't know how I happened on to you but I'm glad I did. Thank you, I've never seen this video. I laughed when you compared this to politics. That is exactly what it is. I've been watching a lot of reaction videos...specifically BTS. So....who knows why you showed up for me? What is amazing me is the number of reactors that are saying they have never heard of BTS. Possibly the information in this video is the reason why??
It must be!! Thank you for watching, we’re so happy to have you here!!!
the gra**y and bi**board behaviour actually isn't just simply shitty and xenophobic. it's a tactic of extortion: exhaust the independent artist by blocking it from free success until they give into the system
What kills me is that they wanted to keep BTS from becoming a successful artists in America. Well BTS will never listen to what they can’t do because BTS always succeeds. It backfired because now they have skipped being American stars to becoming GLOBAL artists and America and her gifted artists are lining up to be a part of this success!! I’m so proud to say I’m an ARMY! I’m no young kid as thousands of us aren’t. I’m silver army, 65 years young! Oh BTW, not bragging but you know you’re a star when our Queen Bae follows you. Peace and enjoy BTSs music!
U guys r the only non-ARMY reactors I've come across who gets all this. Really loved the reaction nd the commentary!!
THANK YOU!!! I am clearly an Army and I watch BTS content ALL the time. BUT in the last few months, i've realized that UA-cam stopped recommending me BTS videos. Like i might get 1-2 videos recommended, but for the amount of time i spend watching BTS content, that doesn't seem proportionate. Even BTS related channels I subscribe to, don't get suggested to me when there's a new video. I either have to scroll really far down my suggestion list, or have to go to my subscription tab to find it. There have been times where i can't even find a BTS video that i manually search for. I had to go to the channel and search their videos to find it. Seems highly sus to me.
And regarding the deleted streams and views. I have personally witnessed videos freeze views for hours or even a day, and have seen the counter decrease rather then increase. UA-cam and Spotify have also confirmed that they delete streams/views because of "bot behaviour", but how do they determine bot behaviour? Butter broke the record for the most views within 24 hours at over 100mill streams. Since PTD, all of BTS's new releases struggles to break 10mill views in the first 24 hours now. How does that even make sense? The fandom has grown so much since Butter. Whenever a BTS member does a live, it's usually 10-30 mins long, and i would say there would be an average of 5-6 mill real time viewers in that short period of time. Don't forget that the lives can be at odd hours too due to different time zones. So you're telling me, a live of 20 mins can get 6mill unique views, but an official MV drop can barely surpass 10mill views in its first 24hrs? that doesn't make ANY sense! If they want to say that views are from "bots" then explain how that other k-pop video Boracity mentioned get 80mill views in it's first 24hrs!
There's a UA-camr that did a cover of Jin's Astronaut and he was surprised that UA-cam was deleting his views on that video. It just goes to show that UA-cam will sabotage anything BTS related.
For Spotify's autoplay feature, before I turned it off, it was totally happening. My playlists are 90% BTS. If they want to recommend me other songs, wouldn't the algorithm know to play me other K-Pop artists? So why would they play me songs that are totally different then BTS?
One thing i've been trying to emphasize to others that are not Army is, you don't have to stan BTS. everyone has different tastes in music and BTS might not be for you. BUT they should be respected for willing to stand up to the unethical practices of the industry. Whoever you stan, this benefits your favourite artist! You should be thankful that BTS is willing to put their own careers on the line to fight this fight so that your fav might have the chance to actually produce music they want to do, AND make money doing it without having to be controlled by the industry. Isn't that a win-win for everyone? That's another reason the music industry is terrified of BTS. They don't want other artists to realize that they don't need the music industry to succeed. They don't want BTS to set the example.
Yes! I can confirm both the insane number of views for UNANNOUNCED lives(often just a few minutes long) at odd times in the day/night. I once watched Jungkook work out at an ungodly hour along with around 12million other people. On a dedicated fandom platform. There is no way an ANTICIPATED new MV would not legitimately gather many multiples of that in 24 hours. Their own YT channel BangtanTV has over 70 million subscribers who SHOULD get notified and/or have said MV show up in their recommended list as soon as it drops.
And I can also confirm the situation of The Astronaut’s cover (a really good one, btw) getting views deleted. The vocalist documented the entire saga.
Yes I an confirm the removal of view's on BTS MV's I always click on the view number eg 23million view's since and then watch the number role up and suddenly I'll notice the numbers drop. I've taken screen shot's and even held my mobile at my laptop screen and filmed the views being removed.
@@eileencritchley4630 It’s infuriating.
Great post, thx.
@@7Flowers1Dream It's insanely infuriating but It's not going to deter me either in fact it's made me watch BTS MV's and even more and Stream BTS albums etc even more.
Thanks so much for your reaction to this. I am 51 and have been an ARMY since 2014. I always listened to pretty much all genres of music except hate music and the "roughest" metal. When I became and ARMY and saw how ridiculous the pushback was against having BTS's music played in the US (I live in Tennesseee), I was shocked at first. Then, a bunch of us got together and formed fanbases specifically geared to getting BTS's music on American radio. When I tell you that I had djs hang up on me, laugh in my face, refuse to take my request, spout racist and xenophobic slurs about BTS, require a certain number or ARMY to follow them on social media--all just to get 1 spin of a BTS song at 3am when everyone is sleeping, I mean that that was not the exception here in the US but the rule. We never gave up and finally got a little bit of airplay but still to this day BTS/members do not recieve the amount of radio play that they should get. I had to quit being in the fanbase because of my health but they are still around and stll to this day trying to convice radio stations to give BTS and the members a spin. Do you think that anyone has to call a radio station and request Olivia Rodrico or Taylor Swift for a station to play them 3x an hour? Nope. So, ARMY keeps fighting hoping that some day there will be a more fair and just music industry. ARMY in every country on the planet are doing what they can to fight. Thanks again for checking this out. I am enjoying your BTS journey!
I have a moot on X who called a radio station a few weeks ago to request 3D. The DJ told her "we can only play songs that are in English on our station." (spoiler: 3D IS fully in English)
@@OT7_DopeOldARMY so typical
Yeah, I’m gonna challenge u on that one… TS is not like BTS. While she does also have a large fandom to help drive her success, she’s grown up in the Western music industry & readily works within it. You see it in her media plays, in her history of bundling & other sales tactics, in the who, how, & when she chooses to interact or mention certain ppl or issues, & with her tracks being so overly saturated on streaming playlists & radio. She 100% plays the industry games & makes sure certain ppl’s pockets are being lined.
She also uses Bundles to sell more tickets. BTS will never do bundles or payola, that's why they don't get much airplay because they won't take part in chart manipulation, they achieved all they have by their sheer determination, talent and passion for music. ARMY are 1 billion strong around the world and are not all teenage. We are all ages, I'm 59 UK army . There's a 90 year old army and two Italian nuns and a priest who are also army.
Though tbf the artist themselves generally aren't the ones paying people off, their labels are
@@Al_-cf1dj BTS company don't do payola, that's why BTS often get disrespected.
@@mrsta8233 I know. I never claimed they did. I'm just saying, TS isn't personally paying ppl, her label is.
@@Al_-cf1djbut of course she agrees with it anyway
15:11 that rank is actually based on the monthly listeners not streams. They're the 10th most streamed artist of all-time on Spotify
I thought we are 9th. How come we went down to 10th again?
@@cupcakenfetti they dropped to 10 in 2023 because of the hiatus
@@cupcakenfettithey are still 9th most streamed act.
Hiya from a fellow Aussie! Some other K-pop companies were caught adding BTS into their search options so that when someone searched for BTS, their artists MVs also appeared in the search! On Spotify was the band they recommended next start with a B and P? 🤔 TS did not reject Spotify. She is industry backed and her “rejection” was all about making money for herself. It was a way for her to keep appealing as authentic and her constant self victimisation story.
RM has a brilliant song All Day with Tablo from Epik High that has a line, “fuck the algorithm”
On record sales - ARMY supports buying albums because we wanted to make BTS untouchable to the industry’s shenanigans. This then allows them to make the music they want as artists without having to worry about $. This is why you see all the think pieces about us just being bots and streaming farms.
There's even a singer in my country (not gonna name drop) whose family members bought half of the concert tickets and distribute it to random people on the street to watch the concert for free yet people refused to go and waste 2 hours of their time watching a concert they don't like.
ARMYs paid money to buy a ticket and watch the concert. A stadium full of people is not even enough to describe BTS' success because there are more ARMYs who are so unlucky, willing to pay for a concert ticket, but can't purchase because they're all sold out.
The point you made about this also being a reflection of politics and media in general.... this is so important. ARMY have been talking about this too, and it's a theme that comes up in BTS' music as well. The nearly 10 years I've spent following BTS has not only destroyed any faith I had in the music industry and entertainment journalism (and let me tell you, this video still just scratches the surface!!), but it's also shown up time and time again how even serious mainstream news sources will copy-paste false information, run with shallow narratives, and basically print whatever they're told by the highest bidder. What I had suspected for some time as a regular citizen has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by the example of BTS coverage.
Think of it this way: being a fan of something means you essentially become an expert in that thing, you become a researcher, you know all the facts, you have all the sources, you end up with a fairly encyclopaedic knowledge of whatever you're a fan of. And that means when you interact with the media, you have the perspective of an expert, comparing whatever is printed against what you know to be true - and as a result it becomes startlingly obvious that the media constantly prints misleading inaccurate 'facts', extremely biased 'expert opinions' (seemingly paid for), and does little to no research even on sensitive subjects.
The amount of times some shady tabloid or even amateur blog would post some kind of false rumour about BTS, and within the hour it would have been blindly parroted across the entire mainstream media without a scrap of research! The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The BBC etc. News outlets which cover important political news, which are supposed to have some level of editorial oversight and ethics. If they will happily print complete nonsense about BTS with no reliable source, then why should we trust anything they print about any subject?
What the establishment doesn't seem to realise is that ARMY includes 10s of millions of real people at this point, many of us adults, many of us voters, many of us politically engaged. It might seem petty and insignificant to focus on our favourite band being snubbed... but the corruption we've witnessed has far-reaching implications.
The artists from certain labels may be really good and organic but the labels themselves squeeze them out for profit. The number of times I've heard a song on the radio can even get nauseous.
And about the bts song suggestions on the youtube feed... its sooo true! youtube was actually called out for it like a few years back!
I hope you listen to more of their music! I like your guys' reactions a lot and I wonder what your reactions would be to their really intense and beautiful lyrics and music!!
They might have been called out but it seems they completely ignored the memo.
The thing that gets me as an Aussie is that we love an underdog that comes good and yet, by the time (if ever) BTS get a proper spotlight here, not the halfhearted attempts that happen on occasion, then most in the general public would just see a popular boyband and the tall poppy mentality would automatically apply. It's kind of frustrating actually 😅 The exposure here is minimal; radio play is almost nonexistent with few exceptions like Dynamite and Seven and to a lesser extent Butter (not that radio counts here like it does in the US, but it still helps with exposure). Even recently when Jungkook released 3D featuring Jack Harlow, one of the morning shows (I think it might have been The Today Show) in the preview of the entertainment segment described it as "Jack Harlow releases new music". They're barely given the time of day despite topping the ARIA album chart multiple times as a group, reaching #2 on the singles chart, with multiple top 10's as well, plus all the eligible solo albums charting well despite not officially being distributed here (for some unknown reason that UMA has never explained). Good thing they've got ARMY behind them 💜 Thanks for the videos guys, I love seeing them!
I love the fact that they sing in Korean! I just bought V's LayoVer. Some of it is in English and some in Korean (I think). Sounds so melodic 😊. Now that BTS is serving their country, I have time to go through and buy more music. Of course, I have Jungkook's Golden. Suga and Jimin are next. I will continue until I have what I need. BTS!❤❤❤❤❤
There is a great translation site called Doolset Bangtan that provides translations and context to their amazing lyricism. Jimin’s album Face is one of my favourite albums of all time. For BTS there are so many songs to fit whatever mood you are experiencing at that time. Plus they are just seven wonderful adorkable humans. Welcome to the rabbit hole, it’s a long way down but so comfy.
Think about it all you hear in American rap is my bitch this my bitch that. When u actually have a group trying to spread positivity its looked at as something bad. I relearned how to enjoy music again through BTS. They are classy and kindhearted. Nowadays you can't please everybody- so they will try to tear you down because they might not want to do things a certain way. Really sad. BTS has my support.
When dynamite and butter came out, i was surprised. It was the first time i heard a BTS song being played in German radio and just radio in general. After that, more english songs dropped and i was confused why they wouldn't play it. It's digusting really.
This is why ARMYs are over protective towards BTS..... Everyone, Literally EVERYONE tries to harm and insult them
I love your reaction, & you truely get what Boracity is saying. All of her video essays are good. You might like the one she did about Spotify & streaming & the one how BTS are more like metal music than pop.
A few years back the streaming numbers (in US) came out & within the top ten every artist except BTS had this one town as their streaming epicentre. The town had less than 5000 people living there but were streaming more than New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles. The industry scrabbled so fast to cover it up & had that town removed but older ARMY have receipts. I believe they have even tried to remove access from being able to view streaming locations from public view.
Same thing with weird cities popping up just happened with the Spotify Rewinds this year. Lots of "Davis, CA" and "Fullerton, CA" in the cities with people "who listen like you" were showing up.
@@OT7_DopeOldARMY Agreed, but the Davis, CA was partly explained as ARMYs popped up informing about a rather large campus with a very invested KPop-community, so that one might be legit. Dunno about Fullerton. At least I got Seoul, South Korea. :)
The stream bot town was Glendive, Montana and it was exposed in 2020. And the very next thing BB magazine does in 2021 is to accuse BTS to their faces of having bots stream their music, just as they continue to link BTS's name to shady tactics of other labels. "Oh no, we got caught! Let's blame it on the foreigners!" 🥴I sincerely hope all the ARMYs cancelling their magazine pre-orders caused them a significant loss.
I guess that small US town is a bot centre for so called famous American artists who really don't have the streams or any real amount of sales either.
My top artists on Spotify are bts and it’s members
I have never been recommended their new songs instead I get artists I’ve been listening to maybe 3 times…
Dude I swear I found it so weird every time I saw a BTS official video having less views than what they usually would get in like an hour or two in 2018, especially since I've seen them become even more popular as years go by
Boracitys video about bts discography is a must for you! Its long but a very good overview and you can pick what you usually like music wise and go from there❤
Awww tysm guys,i've been waiting for your Bts reaction🥺💜💜💜
You're so welcome!!!
I hate that people think that having a fandom is a bad thing of course every fandom has toxic people the bigger the fandom the more,toxic people and they tend to be loud but a solid fandom is the only thing an artist should need to be successful outside of their talent. As an army and a multi Stan fans in fandoms support almost no matter what and that isn’t bad it’s natural. In kpop people become interested because of the music and stay for the personality so just like you support your friends no matter if you agree or like what they are doing you support them because you like and care about them army is the same and so are most fandoms there are times ( very rarely) I will not like the song but I love our boys so I still listen and watch the video and reactions and performances and support them because that what you do.
I even saw in our countries trending musice video in that jungkook's standing next to you released after 4 hours has millions of views being 4th in the list and the 1st 3 has just 200,000 views for 4 weeks! How is that more trending than his music video? That's insane!
@ 6.08 they literally changed the rules of charting from one week to the next cause they were so pissed Jimin got that Nº 1 and admitted it! not being pissed but that they changed the rules lol they have no shame meanwhile their industry darlings live inside their top 10 thanks to radio.. who tf listens to the radio?? whooooooo
apparently alot of ghost of past, present and future...
Yes, this is crazy and it happened to all the members as well, not just Jm!!! 🤦 Jungkook JK and Taehyung V were to a lot of vandalism but they broke the world 🔥😉💜
Pighyung is phucking jennie by the way.
And Jungkook is scooter braun's baby so stop vctmizing him. He got all the payola in the world.
@@ivy721 crying pjm joker 🎶🔊
@@ivy721- payola for which songs?
Ts is payola queen 100% inorganic with releasing 50 versions of her albums do not compare ARMYS with them BTS does no payola
I haven't opened my Spotify ever since it started inserting random TS and KPop groups when I'm have my BTS-centric playlists in random loop during the day. I stopped the loop in the middle of a TS song and I haven't been able to get out of that. It's been a year.
This is why I don’t do Spotify
I guess you have the new version on your mobile I have the older version on my laptop so I don't get the that happening in my only one play list. I have all the BTS albums in my albums folders and I swop out songs from the albums into my play list every couple of weeks. I also just click on the album I want from my list of BTS albums when I want to stream a whole album. In fact I have it down to a T now. I stream a solo album a BTS grou album and my very large created BTS play list every single day. I just have to catch when it come's the last song and hit pause before I select the next BTS Album or play around with my playlist re organise it remove a song add another song.
Your festival slot story summarize this industry perfectly
i enjoyed this reaction a lot guys, you clearly educated about the industry, id love to see more boracity reactions from you! have a good day
If bts wanted to they could run on there own e.a.s.y that’s why the fear … I predict they will soar after returning watch and I’m American ❤
You guys should watch Boracity "Why most ARMY'S don't like Kpop" or "BTS vs. Spotify" and "Why BTS are Rockstars"
And seven was 1 on top 50 for more than a month and then after like 6 weeks it was finally added at like nr.12 on that currated today top hits, mind you seven had more that 15M streams a day for more than a week
BTS are actually very high in the most streamed artists of all time. What you see at the bottom is the monthly listeners rank which fluctuates quite often (also heavily influenced by playlisting)
Whoa! I think I like these reactions. Been checking your video and looking for some BTS reaction. Please continue this journey, ARMYs are so supportive to people who appreciate the Bangtan.
Another artist that refuses to play the game is Pink. She has MASSIVE music sales and streams and INSANLEY popular and packed shows and global tours, but you almost never see her on the charts.
Also ageism comes into play here as well. I saw a UA-cam comment from a guy saying that Taylor Swift was basically ageing out of the music industry, and she's only 33!
There was always some shady crap going on when it came to BTS only but when Like Crazy came out we really started seeing how glaringly awful this all was and still is.
Watch BTS Hip Hop Lover, and after listening to Jhope's verse , this song came from BTS's early days. Then watch On the Street Jhope featuring J Cole. This collab was made just before Jhope went to do his military service, but had the effect of introducing a whole new set of fans for BTS.
That's why ARMY loves BTS and vice versa. We relay on each other 😢
Yeah it’s tragic how corrupt the industry is, but it just shows how dedicated ARMY is, and how much we love our boys. Even with all this sabotaging BTS manages to stay on top, that’s why I’m proud to call myself an ARMY.
I really liked the comparison you made to the Fair Work Act. Like musicians are being messed up by a corrupt industry
Hi guys. Love your channel💜. I would recommend the summary of BTS’ discography (An introduction to BTS discography (chapter one)) from Boracity Magazine just to get an overview of everything they’ve done.
Please react to Jimin's Set Me Free Pt.2 and Like Crazy mvs.🙏
Like Crazy debuted straight up to no. 1 in BB HOT100. A Korean solo song. BTS's Jimin made history as the first South Korean solo artist to top Billboard Hot 100 on April 4.
yes the youtube suggestions is something the labels has to buy. one time another kpop acts videos got suggested non stop. and i never follow them, i don´t think i have ever watched a single content or mv from them.
but they where the ONLY kpop artist who got suggested to me, not BTS.
i kept blocking them but you can´t really do that on YT.
but one day all of that stopped. from one day to another. it was like they didn´t excisted. so now i only get BTS suggestions again, because that is the only artist i listen to on YT.
and also other content i watch of cores. so this was the korean label paying for YT "suggestions or what you call it" and when they stopped paying it got cancelled. it was so obvious.
I’m Army and don’t listen to other K-pop groups, but I also noticed that I don’t get bts videos recommended to me but another K-pop group instead. Without calling out any names, is this K-pop group you’re referring to perhaps one that has a B and a P? I don’t follow them so I have no idea why my feed is all their content, when I only get recommended 1-2 OLD BTS videos
Believe me, BTS albums are not cheap. I have all of their albums but Dynamite. I bought 2 albums from US in Weverse Shop, i purchased rest of them from Weverse Shop shipped from South Korea. The shipping is approx 50% more price of album. And you may have to buy same album 3 to 7 copies because of random photocards in them, if you can afford them.
its really awesome to hear your guys prospective about bts especially with your music background and inside knowledge
Thank you for your reaction😊😊😊
Love this! Finally some great Aussie (and musicians) YT reactors. If you didn't know BTS is coming out with a documentary worked on since debut date. We are all waiting 20th December on Disney channel ❤❤❤
Biracity make really good videos where you get a goid Insight into the fandom Organisation and also get a good summary and Arguments even if you wrre rigth there when stuff she mentioned happend
Gracias por la reacción 💜, BILLBOARD, UA-cam, GRAMMY etc etc corruptos
South koreas media scene is also kind of wild
Taylor Swift definitely made money off of her outrageous Ticketmaster sales. From my understanding, she never spoke up against it. She toes the line and plays the game when she wants. BTS NEVER played the game and still refuses to do it.
I just found bts and when I say I listen to them everyday and I mean everyday me and my kids lol we love there music and what they stand for I’m so happy I found them they’re helping me with my depression I’m army for life
another great reaction guys 💜 glad u can relate to the tannies
And the most recent and obvious situation to me is with ticket sales. It’s always been hard to get concert tickets but Ticketmaster had been screwing with BTS concerts long before Taylor Swift had a problem. But… because it was BTS, it wasn’t news. I don’t have a problem with Taylor Swift, but it’s ironic that it didn’t come to light at the level it is until it was TS.
MV ads should be illigal. The fact that this tipe of views are consider like "real views" is a fraud.
agreed it shouldn't be considered a view if you can't decline it eg run more than 30 seconds before you get the option to reject it.
I've probably seen hundreds of paid ads of Kpop MV in my UA-cam, but Batter Up & Crazy Form is definitely more frequent
I ❤ all the songs, English amd Korean
In addition to bundling, TS also has a history of releasing multiple album versions. 3 easy examples: Folklore (18), Midnight (20+), 1989 (18) etc. Too tired & disillusioned to look-up ALL the limited, exclusive or bundled + variant versions/packages available for them OR for rest of her many other albums…..... I find this truly disheartening since it now forces me to re-examine her artistic integrity & re-visualize some of her formerly “courageous” actions as calculated risks instead. And re the Ice Spice racism/xenophobia ugliness:- Not just media critics but even her own fandom actually called her (& ex-bf) out on the entire fiasco & disingenuous PR damage-control cleanup. With her undeniably tremendous talents, TS is actually 1 of few artists powerful (& privileged) enough to NOT have to engage in mercenary tactics & still be able to succeed in the industry. So her questionable choices really hurt those who respect(ed) her, her music and/or even consider her as a role model.
She's been using kpop strategies for a while now and people are applauding her just for doing what the Korean artist do...
@@Blackitty19According to Billboard she was so innovative and creative for having 20+ versions of Midnights.
That thing about Jay-Z. I had been wondering for a very long time why Holy Grail with JT was grayed out on Spotify. It was there one day, then it was cut to an abridged version, then it was unplayable. Then, for a while, it was completely gone. After a long time, it was there again. I didn't really expect to get an answer today for why that happened while watching ya'll today. 😂 Being ARMY really gives you pleasant surprises. Thank you! ❤️
Thank you so much for your reaction💜
Borahae☺️
ill really love if you react to more videos of her. she always does such a amazing job.
This is why I purchase CD’s and merch. The artists make money off of these items.
and concert tickets and merchandise I've only bought one BTS concert ticket I that was for the second night at Wembley Stadium where we sang Forever We Are Young to BTS.
so glad you mentioned the 123rd thing! that is so obviously not true. surely they’re in the top 30 at least
I buy music only physical albums which I do listen to as I've a great sound system, but I also stream on spotify as well. In fact last night I pop V's Layover CD into the CD player and listen to it in bed before drifting off to sleep. The 3 reasons I buy physical music is(1) the artist get's more from the sale then they get per stream. (2) My excellent sound system (3) Streaming service's come and go and songs whole albums and artists can vanish off them.
I'm so excited for that 🎉
We can't wait for you to watch!
I recently listened to Jungkooks album Golden on Apple Music, and as soon as it finished it started playing DJ Snake songs. He was a part of only one song on the entire album, so why not more JK songs or other BTS solo or group content? It would make sense since that’s what I listen to on Apple Music 99% of the time, but it hasn’t done that a single time.
that doesn't suprise me either it did the same thing to me on Spotify the first time I listened to Golden on Spotify and yes it was a DJ Snake song that started before I could change it to RM's Indigo album. Does one think maybe DJ Snake's label are doing some kind of deal with those 2 plateforms eg sponging off our JK.
me too.. i never get bts's content suggestion in my yt feed. even though I subscribe to the BTS channel. i always know about their new song or their new content from twitter.
Thank you guys please continue reacting to bts 💜💜
BTS Don't need Any Music industry,,,,,,,,,,
They Have Army,,,❤️
There have always been shortsighted people working in the music industry but at the same time there were always visionaries who appreciated & nurtured talent, even if some of them were only doing it for the money.
Now the Western music industry has almost been killed off as the shortsighted ones are now in the majority. Racism, sexism & ageism plus laziness & greed have all played their part here.
I remember when Beyonce first went solo, her record company said that her first album was no good and they couldn't hear any hits on it. Beyonce actually had to set up a meeting with the company, she told them that she wasn't changing anything and that they would just have to release the album as it was. As we now know, that album included Crazy In Love which is one of the most famous songs of all time. As soon as I read that story, I knew the music industry was dead.
Ironically, it was the near death of Western music that opened the door for K-pop to become so huge.
I can completely agree with your first part but I don't know anything about Beyonce never heard one of her songs and know nothing about her. So thank you I learnt something new today.
love your reaction appreciateit
It's nice but also sad listening to hear about your own stories. I didn't know about this corruptions about the industry music before I watch Boracity Magazine videos. It's also surprising and horrible how it happens in almost every country. I hope you guys will be successful if not you are probably have genuine people who likes your music.
I Love your reaction guys so much 🤗💜💜💜
bts paved the way why is it so hard to accept it from Boracity Magazine. plssssss do a reaction video of this
Oh one group got court doing that here in the UK in the late 70's I think it was early 1979 and ended up in court and their company was finned.
Thankfully you can't do that here in the UK because in order to air a radio broadcast you require 2 things (1) a Radio Licence and if you are going to broadcast artist music you also require (2) a paid up Royality licence. That Royality Lience is paid twice yearly and from it money given to every artist that who song has been played on a Radio station. We have very strict copyright laws, it's why you don't hear music in our shops unless they have a special licence ( sorry I forget what it's called) so that the artist will receive their money. Also UA-cam MV's can't be shown without the correct paperwork in a public establishment eg the pub or night club this is to protect the artists and they get their cut (royalities).
true, swifties and army is very much alike. their concerts for instance is very similar in terms of audience engagement. they know every song by heart. and both BTS and taylor swifts tickets is way higher than any other artist in the world. i saw ticket master reselling tickets for 42k that´s insane. and last time both Suga from BTS and taylor swift had concerts ticketmaster was also reselling, and two lawfirms contacted army and swifts because they where looking for witnesses so that they could bring ticketmaster to curt.
but we never heard from them again. so i think they backed away. because ticktmaster has monopoly on concert tickets.
The western music industry doesn’t understand the dedication of Kpop fans, and BTS is the strongest example on this because the fans know our/their dedication and it makes it so easy to spot the injustice as it happens live.
“It’s unnatural for someone to stream a song that many times in a short period” - yes for WESTERN ARTISTS, not for Kpop.
But even their attempts to put western artists on the same playing field as BTS by manipulating the BTS fandoms efforts, they still don’t measure up.
It’s sad that the industry isn’t grabbing on to new ways that can make more money, since they are instead focusing on “defending” their share of what they believe is “their” industry.
Actually bts are the top 40 mist streamed artist in the world without a comeback since last year and Jungkook is the top 20 most streamed artist unique listeners are gained when you release music so there is a difference and yes as an army I can say I barely get bts songs on my recommendations untill I search them up bts are shadow banned in almost all platforms specially Twitter since they used to trend everyday Twitter banned their name from trending
Army tenemos que estudiar para hacer streaming 😂 , por ejemplo, aquí en UA-cam cuando sale una canción nueva, tenemos que ver los anuncios por lo menos 30 segundos, ver 3 videos entre medio antes de ver de nuevo el vídeo, en Spotify tenemos que desactivar la reproducción aleatoria para que no se reproduzca una canción que no queremos , no escuchar mas de 20 veces al día la misma canción por eso creamos playlist especificas ...
We already do all of this for years
@@carolinesch. off course 💪🏻💜
Those albums that was bought by 1person/ 1IP think they are the one who distributing bts albums for free during concerts of bangtan,,and for me that is so amazing act of kindness.,
16:15 There's another bts reactor named wrighteousj I think y'all would have some really fun conversations about the industry
I love BTS so much💜💜💜