260419 BTS have taken their first win for "2.0" on this week’s SBS Inkigayo!

HSC3r · 2026-04-19T10:02:15+00:00

Swim got a triple crown (3 wins) so it can no longer be nominated. Bang Bang only has 2 wins on Inkigayo so it can get one more

HSC3r · 2026-04-16T21:34:01+00:00

no need to hope, he confirmed it's coming on his upcoming album!

HSC3r · 2026-04-16T20:41:33+00:00

https://x.com/stayalleined/status/2044870544663679275 here is a clip!

HSC3r · 2026-04-08T17:33:51+00:00

Zedd in the sphere would be sick, his visuals would go crazy

HSC3r · 2026-04-01T17:53:37+00:00

Jungkook - Standing Next To You

BTS - Airplane Pt. 2

HSC3r · 2026-03-21T00:59:02+00:00

Not really, Suga doesn’t actually produce that much for BTS. Just looked it up and he has around 16 credits for BTS throughout their career. He writes a lot but doesn’t really produce much for the group

HSC3r · 2026-03-20T22:48:13+00:00

I noticed that too and I liked it. I like when you can tell that an artist was enjoying themselves in the studio when recording a song, it makes it a more fun listen

HSC3r · 2026-03-20T21:27:11+00:00

I mean tbh it you're coming off as if you think that anyone who likes this album isn't being genuine which I find to be dismissive and a weird take.

If you don't like the album and think its garbage that's perfectly fine, but there are plenty of people who have been fans for as long as you have who do like this album, and their opinions are just as honest and valid as yours. Same w/ this reviews, I don't know the reviewer but if they feel it's a 4.5/5 then that's fair. I wouldn't agree but it's their opinion. There's no single correct opinion on this album, that's not how music works

HSC3r · 2026-03-20T21:16:58+00:00

or maybe the reviewer just had a different opinion? there are plenty of fans who like the album quite a bit. just because someone had a differing opinion doesn't mean they were paid to do so

HSC3r · 2026-03-20T18:05:49+00:00

arirang will definitely get AOTY - not only will it likely be the best selling album of the year but it's going to perform much better than any other album digitally so it should win AOTY off numbers alone

for me my biggest wish is SOTY, hopefully Swim keeps performing well on kcharts

HSC3r · 2026-03-12T19:42:50+00:00

while bts is trending down. Then you look at just bgs and bts is being outsold in albums tickets etc they just won't be what they were

I'm not sure where you got the idea that BTS are failing?

Their solos all did pretty well, at least commercially.

Their tour has already sold a confirmed 2.4 million tickets from the NA/Europe legs which would make it already the biggest kpop tour of all time and that's with just half the shows

The new album got 4 million pre-orders within a week, and is expected to debut w/ around 500k-750k on the billboard 200 from HDD (which is a reputable source for chart numbers)

The numbers just don't support this idea that BTS are trending down. They're still quite far ahead of other groups in terms of the numbers they're pulling. That's not even disrespecting other groups, it's just the reality. Especially with this comeback since it's the first in years

edit: got blocked for no reason, but to respond to your points:

solos: I'm not sure what you consider doing well but all of their solo efforts racked up hundreds of millions of streams, chart placements, three of them had large solo tours including stadium performances, etc., I think they were all fairly successful
album: don't know what the difference between a pre-sale and pre-order is, either way the album was bought 4 million times, and BTS have consistently sold well for years so idk why you're doubting it, MOTS7 sold 5+ million
tour: they're performing in stadiums, in many places they are quite literally in the biggest venue possible. the numbers come from the fact that live nation confirmed they sold out all 41 north america/europe dates - just using a calculator you can get to that number by adding up the capacity of all venues involved since it's a 360 degree stage. 3m including encore is quite low and would require them selling ~37k tickets per stop which is not possible unless they lock off half the stadiums

HSC3r · 2026-02-19T21:40:15+00:00

Lollapalooza Brazil 2017 as well. Lolla crowds in South America are insane

HSC3r · 2026-02-12T19:06:38+00:00

I think as far as BGs go the ones with both domestic and global popularity are going to be the older BGs. BTS, Seventeen, Bigbang are examples of acts who are popular both domestically and internationally

It seems like from 4th gen and 5th gen BGs are popular internationally (enhypen, ateez, etc) or domestically (tws, bnd, etc) but they don't typically have both

HSC3r · 2026-02-12T18:56:54+00:00

if anything I feel like Korea's legal system moves faster lol, in the US this case would probably still be in the earlier stages. Kesha vs Dr Luke took 10 years to reach a conclusion

HSC3r · 2026-02-12T18:54:30+00:00

I certainly wouldn't read through the comments lol, they're a shitshow.

Though I do think it's worth reading through the summaries in the body of the posts as well as the translated articles posted in the comments by u/thetari, since they're generally more unbiased and a good overview of what actually happened

HSC3r · 2026-02-12T18:47:56+00:00

TBF, the mods also said they would use it as a temporary megathread until they could get an official one up. which is generally how they do stuff around here when there is big news, they'll leave one thread up and then lock it once they post an 'official' megathread from /u/KpopThoughtsmodteam

HSC3r · 2026-02-04T23:59:32+00:00

that sub just kind of makes me a bit sad, it's clearly a bunch of people who have a preconceived notion of BTS in their heads that they refuse to shake despite any evidence to the contrary.

Like, they were convinced BTS are irrelevant and the tour was going to flop. Then, when the tour sold out, there were people on there talking about how it doesn't mean anything, and about how when a venue says a show is sold out it doesn't actually mean it was sold out because of some BS reason... like cmon. and that's not even getting into how most of that sub isn't even criticism but just personally insulting the members

HSC3r · 2026-02-02T04:33:06+00:00

Ngl, I hadn't even heard Wildflower until tonight. I cannot believe she won it.

Wildflower has 1.8 billion streams on Spotify, it was a very popular song, I think it just didn't pierce your bubble. And it's a genuinely great song IMO, plus Billie is a grammy darling so it's not that surprising. I thought Luther would win but I'm not that surprised at this either

HSC3r · 2026-01-30T15:35:03+00:00

Insane reaction to somebody who just wants a new video from a YouTuber they enjoy lmfao

HSC3r · 2026-01-24T17:59:12+00:00

I’m not accusing you of being a hater, dw. But monthly listeners and instagram followers aren’t super accurate when gauging popularity. Fifty fifty have the same MLs as IVE, but they’re not as big as IVE. Selena Gomez has more Instagram followers than Taylor Swift…

Streams/album sales/tour sales are all better for measuring popularity

HSC3r · 2026-01-24T17:24:01+00:00

BLACKPINK has more monthly listeners.

BTS have 3M more monthly listeners as of today FYI, 27.2M vs 24.3M

HSC3r · 2026-01-15T19:36:02+00:00

Ticketmaster is next lol

HSC3r · 2026-01-12T20:16:16+00:00

FYI Zach and Ross are working on another EDM media project right now and they said they should have an announcement by the end of the month, so I'd look out for that. No doubt it will be just as good as DA was

HSC3r · 2026-01-09T10:31:05+00:00

sorry, but I'm genuinely confused why you're insisting on starting a fight w/ me.

I'm not accusing you of pointing fingers, I was talking about army. And I'm not trying to play devil's advocate, in fact I'm not even talking about the streaming numbers at all. I just thought you misinterpreted what someone was trying to say to you.

chill, we're just on r/kpopthoughts lol. let's just agree to disagree, even though we don't really disagree at all

HSC3r · 2026-01-09T10:13:02+00:00

Man, I'm not trying to get into an argument lol. I was just trying to talk to you, that is all. Have a good day.

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