The biggest path BTS paved was distribution and concert venues. They opened up distribution avenues and concert venues in regions that Kpop never dared dream of. Everyone after them walked in those footsteps and still do to this day
JOHN CENA mentioned #JHOPE and #BTS 💜
“J-hope is my guy. I don’t necessary like K-Pop, I gravitate towards BTS! What BTS specifically did for me is they found me at a right time in my life to give me hope and inspiration through who they are as people..they reached a 48 year old dude who was struggling with self worth.”
Tony Jones in an interview from 2014:
"people were like “Look up BAP, look up EXO, or G-Dragon,” and all these groups. I checked them all out, and it wasn’t the same for me.."
"K-Pop will blow up more and it won’t be a local thing anymore. It’s going to grow because of BTS."
sm really tried to downplay bts during their rookie years because this is crazy
sm tried to get american hustle life to not have bts on the show because they doubted them and thought they were a filler group and called them an experiment…..
It's so hilarious to me that kakao has indulged in everything kpop stans accused hybe of doing but they don't care coz kakao isn't the house that bts built 😭
Also that fine is ridiculous, you need to crack down harder you're talking about EIGHT years
It’s so heartwarming to see how women feel loved & celebrated within the army fandom especially older women that have been marginalised from pop culture due to the prevalence of ageism and misogyny. Oh to grow old with my friends and be as loved and carefree as these lovely women
The funniest thing about this is how that song never even got a PAK and was the group's best por forming song on kcharts. Meanwhile Boy with luv and Spring Day are both also in Korean and did better than Growl lmao
kpop stans to this day harass Namjoon over things he did as a teenager and since not only apologized by on his own did all efforts to educate himself… but idolize this
micro publishing is creating 150 to 200 versions and make them into “album collection” playlists they would run these micro playlists (20K listeners for each playlist) and every batch of 200 playlists cost 100K$
200 x 20K = 4 million streams out of this method alone