Why Buying KPOP Albums Became Extremely PROBLEMATIC! 

It's no different than people throwing streaming parties and just putting a song on repeat just to get numbers up. Listen to the song if you genuinely want to listen. Buy an album because you genuinely want an album. Kpop fan just care about numbers now instead of simply enjoy kpop on their own time

Personally when I buy an album is because I can and want to .My sister and I like collecting for fun, and it’s something we bond with.I wish people could enjoy things and stop being pressured to buy when they can’t or don’t want to. Music is to enjoy people!!! 🎉

I really hate bulk buying. Everyone just throws away most of them just to make their favorites popular. Oof! 1.6K likes in 2 days??!! I’m shocked

I remember last year when an article was published about Loona potentially disbanding because BBC was in so much debt. Orbits had the audacity to blame other Orbits for not buying enough albums and said that if Loona disbands, then it's our fault for not buying albums, which is ridiculous. Loona has so many albums too, to buy them all would be so expensive. It's BBC's fault for spending so much money that they didn't have in the first place. It's not fair to blame fans for a group's financial situation..

Always hated bulk buying. Been a kpop fan for well over 10 years but as a multi stan I legit can't afford to buy albums. My other expenses matter more. Kpop is no longer about the music and I'm tired of newer fans saying that's not true. All they care about is numbers and not quality.

I've been listening to kpop since 2008 and wow kpop has changed so much. I used to use my photocards as bookmarks. I love how you call it pieces of cardboard because it just is! people just love putting value on nugatory things and others just blindly follow them. Imagine what you could buy with $3,000. its not like Jungkook would value you more, he would probably think you're stupid for buying a piece of cardboard at that price.

Am I the only one who is actually just buying the albums for the music rather than completing a collection? 😆 I am always happy with what I get regardless whom I get it be my bias or not. I support the whole group and not just a member of it, I never understood this to be honest. Besides I love collecting CDs and with a rare exception of having 2 copies from a group (because of a signing) I stick to one only. Also where to leave all these copies? LOL

I work at a place that sells some Kpop albums and one of our biggest problem is theft. They either take the entire album or they slice the plastic film and take the photo cards. And it’s especially frustrating when they take the photo cards because the entire album becomes unsalable and has to be returned to the distributor. Which really ticks me off because that was the creation and countless hours of a lot of people; including the Idols that you say you love, support and respect. Thank you for letting me rant.💜

I remember Baekhyun telling Aeris to not buy their albums and use the money for something they could use like, padded jacket and food. Haechan had also mentioned before, the re-selling of their photocards in a higher price point. He literally said, "Who is selling our photocards for an expensive price?"

I got into kpop because of ATEEZ back in 2020 and started collecting all their albums and official merch, after a year I realized how much I spent on them and regretted spending so much on stuff I stored in my closet so they wouldn't get dirty or ruined. Since everything is digital now, I just do my best to support them by contributing to streams. Not buying a physical album does not mean you support your groups less. P.S. and with the way people are bulk buying albums now and leaving those albums to rot, I'd rather not contribute to more waste..

Being a 8 year old K-pop stan. The only album I ever brought was Skz’s Maxident n it’s become something really precious to me. I hope jyp does not get rid of Physical albums but I think there should be a limit on each order/account so there’s no bluck buying. Ppl might make more accounts but I’m sure there’s a way to still caught that.

I mostly buy those extra unsealed photobooks that are being sold for cheap prices because I enjoy making a journal with them or use it for packaging purposes~ so its kind of disappointing and saddening to see them throw them out when it can be used for so much more!

Baekhyun said it long ago: guys don't buy our albums, buy padding jackets. And if you really want to, just buy a version

I buy albums bc it’s fun. I have a couple duplicate albums but I use them for collages and just gifts that I’ve received. People that bulk buy ruin it for everyone and it honestly makes me feel bad when I buy albums cause I don’t really need all of them but I appreciate all of them. I don’t buy them for the charts, I just love opening them with friends and enjoying them together, the way they were meant to be

I don't want psyhical albums to disappear. I prefer them in this version.. The problem are the people who are mass buying them..

Before I started collecting albums, I always watched unboxing videos of ALL versions of a specific album. At first, I felt so down when I realized there were multiple versions because I know I wanted to collect every album and every version back then. Now that I have 4 albums from different groups each, I realized that it was just simple. I set up rules for myself to avoid buying so many and wanting EVERYTHING. I first ask myself if I really wanted this kpop group. Then asked myself if I want majority of their songs in this particular album I want to buy. Then I ask myself what version I love the MOST by checking out unboxing videos in all versions and choosing the concept I love the most. It’s just that simple. There’s no need to buy every version of every album. It’s the joy of collecting the one you love the most. And besides, if you look at a shelf full of kpop albums, wouldn’t it look too boring if multiple albums looked the same because of every version???? That’s my most favorite reason of not buying all versions. And also I avoid buying digipacks because I think ahead of time that I’m not always gonna love my bias😂 cuz there will come a time when I eventually lose interest in my bias so it’s safer to buy an all member version always. (Just like how I did with NewJeans album). ❤ I’m just sharing this to those kpop fans who always feel like they want more. When really, it’s the process that makes you happy. The ordering, the shipping, the arriving, and finally the first unboxing.

Yeah, I wish it wasn’t like this and just about the music. Some fans be taking it overboard sometimes and it’s sad that members have to feel left out because one member is popular then another. This doesn’t mean you don’t have to support your fav, but still I’m saying.

I honestly would be so mad if they stopped making physical albums alltogether because, as someone who lives in Europe, where there's less events dedicated to kpop, it's the only way that I have some sort of connection to my favorite artists and actually feel like I'm supporting them! I mean, streaming is great and all but owning something physical makes it seem more real and secure. (Also I'm not paying 30€+ (reminder that shipping to Europe is also incredibly costly) for a photocard and a album I can't even touch, but maybe that's just me.) In my opinion there's two possible solutions: -Putting a max. amount of albums one can order -Making the albums more enviromentally friendly In my case, I only buy albums for 1 group and I treasure them very much, so I can't even imagine spenging that much money and throwing an entire album out! The people who bulk-buy albums could just resell them at a lower price (since the photocards scavengers open them up) and make someone's day, is that so difficult?? Sorry I got a bit heated there, but I would hate to have my little molecules of serotonin taken away from me :( (Sorry if I made any mistake in English, spare my Italian self ok? Ty

it always makes me sad when people throw their albums away. it's fine to buy them if you actually have the money and don't prioritize bulk-buying over more important things but don't just throw them away. you can always sell them for a small price or even just donate them if you don't need money. i also collect photocards for fun and i really wish people didn't charge like $50 for a photocard. no matter how rare or cute it is, it's just a piece of paper after all.

Omg I’ve been into Kpop for 13 years and have only purchased two albums total: Stray Kids’ Maxident and Onew’s Dice, which both came out this year. They both mean a lot to me and I can’t picture a time when physical copies could be obsolete. That really shocked me!

I think that mass streaming and bulk buying are huge problems. They hurt the idols' credibility as artists and musicians because the numbers are inflated. As a result, many people outside of fandoms don't take their successes and career milestones seriously. Eg, I live in NYC and remember how upset I was when BTS didn't win the grammy for Dynamite. My brother responded "well their #1 isn't even real so what did you expect", of course, I was offended but then I realized that this was an outsider's POV of fandoms manipulating the charts and numbers. And due to this, the idols will never have a genuine concept of what their real successes are, they'll never know if their hits records are really hits or if their charting positions are genuine, and many people in the general public will never give them their flowers because they think that idols' successes is fake and unearned.

I hate bulk buying too. But stopping making physical albums isn't a solution either. Nothing compares to a physical album. I only own one album which is love yourself her. And I remember how happy I was when I got it. I still love it a lot. To me it's a way to keep a memory of my idols. The way jyp and hybe are gonna make digital albums just made me kinda sad. I know why they're doing it but why would I buy an album just to keep it in my phone and I'll only have the photocards? I could easily listen the song on online platforms. I was actually gonna purchase skz and twice albums. Cause I really love them. I think there should be another solution thought for this.

When it comes to buying for me, -I have to be really into the group/artist. -like most if not all the songs on the album -like the album packaging -like the photo book which includes the concept, styling, layout, and photography There can be exceptions but if anything turns me off about an album, I just don’t get it. When I watch unboxing videos, it’s sorta depressing when the collector isn’t impressed by an album or it’s packaging but they have it anyways. Owning the physical thing and letting it take space in your home should honestly require more of a standard.

A lot of it is because with each album purchase, you get a chance to go to a fanmeet. During Twice's "Signal" era, a news outlet went to the fansign. There were 200 lucky fans in the line up. Every single person in the line-up had bought a minimum of 20 albums each.

I heard about a company doing it where you got one physical album and the rest of them they were just sending the photo cards from the rest with it. I actually really liked that idea because some people do prefer to have a physical album. If the company wanted to they could do that and have an option of just getting all of photo cards and no physical album, I think this would be a better way of going about it so you can still have a physical album if you really want to have one. I like to have physical ones when I really like the group or all the songs, I've only bought a pre-order once and that was because I had a lot of faith that I'd like it and I did so it worked out.

The biggest problem is the photocards and that's a company's fault! Making 3 photocards for each member, but only putting one in the album, making ppl buy 3 of the same album for example is an example on how is their fault. Pre-order benefits, which are controlled by the company and retailers also affected this. I understand having a "special gift" so people will buy from your store, but making 30 dif preorder benefits, 10 fansign cards and lucky draws on top of all that is def gonna encourage bulk buying

like legit people just buy so many albums, keep the card and postcard and posters, and some keeps the photobook and thats it, the rest is all being dumped and wasted while others who wants it and cant get it

I like physical albums simply because the audio quality of CDs is always better compared to streaming plattforms. You can hear a major difference, especially if you got a really got sound system - which I don‘t but my parents do and I plan on buying one once I finish university and get a job. So I‘m kinda sad that at some point in the future I won‘t be able to buy them anymore and listen to them. But the need to buy as many albums as possible and stream non stop during a comeback is part of the reason why fandom culture has become so toxic in my opinion. I just want to enjoy the music and their content without spending time & money I don‘t have. I‘d much rather save the money for concerts than buy multiple versions of one album. Also I wish it wasn‘t possible to mass buy albums. I totally get that it‘s very hard vor Kpop artists to be successful chart wise, especially in western countries. To a certain degree mass buying evens out the disadvantages they face like less radio play due to stereotypes & racism and western artist & their fans do it too. But it’s a very capitalistic system which makes the environment suffer. The fan calls made it even worse and it‘s usually the same people who get into the fan calls because they either organize GOs or are desperate enough to buy an insane amount of copies. Which I feel only fuels an unhealthy parasocial relationship.

90% of the album I own is second hand, cheaper and avoid wastes

guilt tripping for album sales and streaming is one of my pet peeves in the Kpop community frfr

i usually buy albums to listen to them and collect the stuff inside them. + i dont buy the same album more than once since it makes no sense to me.

I only ever had 2 BTS album, and I'm not ashamed because my lack of collection than the other army's. And I'm not feeling obligated to buy their albums/merchandise just because they're my favorite, I used my money to get my living expenses instead. What matters is my real support for them is within my heart 💜

This video is so funny to me, because it’s basically addressing the embarrassing behaviour some fans display by doing things like this. The whole “outsold” agenda, the “__ charted” “___ did this” did that, the whole agenda for their idols and their fandom to be “better” than others is hilarious. Fans are obsessed with being on top, more so than actually caring about their idols as ARTISTS. And streaming parties and bulk buying literally proves it.

Thanks for bringing to light the environmental issues of the K-pop industry 💚

I'm into kpop since 2010, started with snsd/super junior/shinee and expanding my love for so many other groups very fast, the first physical album I bought was B1A4's Ignition (only ONE version and no photocard but I bought it because I FELL IN LOVE DEEPLY with every song from it!) and bought so many others through the years! I reached a point where I owned almost 150 (or 200 lol) cds from different groups (i didn't buy every version, I did it only for SHINee because I was (and I am still right now) a big fan and I wanted my collection to be complete as possible). From 2010 until now I saw what the cd market became and I can tell you that cds nowdays are SO EXPENSIVE and it's impossible to have every version, unless you are very rich lol + some groups make a lot of comebacks so lot of cds and versions. I REMEMBER YEARS AGO CDS WERE LIKE €10-15 SHIPPING INCLUDED!! At the beginning not so many groups had cds with photocards but some years later.. DAMN everyone is releasing lot of versions, with lot of photocards or stickers or postcards (which is very fun, because I remember how fun It was opening a cd, looking at the photobook and trying to guess which member photocard would be in it) and it's just overwhelming. I think that for kpop fans (a part of them not everyone luckily) nowdays is more important to buy a lot cds just for the charts and wasting money lol because buying all of those cds just for the charts and throwing them away next day because they're too many it's just a waste of money lol (to me) Not everyone do this luckily. ANYWAY, supporting your fave group doesn't mean you have to buy 213921391 cds. You can support them in many ways, and I agree with Wendy's words, buy one or two album and with the money left you can do something else. BUT I know that everyone manage their own money as they like ofc. btw I'm still into kpop but I don't buy physical cds anymore since 2018/9 it's sad because I miss the feeling of joy while opening an album but since the prices are very high I can't afford them so I stopped collecting them 😮‍💨 same for the photocards!! I used to buy Taemin's photocards (my ult lol) and the prices were a little bit high, nowdays... even worse I guess ahahah

That's why Baekhyun always say buy only one. He ask fans to spend more on themselves.

bulk buying and collecting photocards in general always seemed so weird to me... you're paying so much money for a selfie of an idol made out of paper...? i remember watching some variety show where an idol took a selfie and they made a photocard of it on the spot in like 2 seconds. this is what you're paying so much money for? a selfie it took an idol 2 seconds to take and a card that took 2 seconds to make? just so strange...

I do buy albums, but sort of how they were intended to be. I like supporting my groups, but I buy one theme (either that or go random) and a digital album as well. I like the chance photo cards too, because it's more special if you pull your bias or something like that. But yeah, I can understand why this can be an issue. It's basically loot-crate/gambling only with idols. Not only that it falsely brings certain groups up when they don't really need it. There are some really great mid-to-smaller groups out there, guys, but they almost never have a chance to even been seen on music shows because of the big dogs hogging up the spaces. So I really don't know what the solution is. I want to collect my favorite group albums, but not encourage this bad behavior too. Why can't the fans just be pleased if the song is great on it's own and not try to artificially boost its greatness with sells? I also never liked how my fandoms want me to stream songs on repeat instead of, i don't know, enjoying them properly. I get it, you want your stans to be successful, but most of the time that comes organically, even with rigged systems. For instance, Dreamcatcher finally got recognized as the talent powerhouse they are only recently, not due to sells but due to their own talent and a little bit of good luck. SO yeah, I never liked fandoms cheating, even in the streaming sense either. It really makes it hard to tell what's actually good when some K-pop whale is paying to win. You don't discover jewels that way.

When I first got into kpop (2019) I kinda went crazy buying albums, the excitement vanished once I opened them and they took up space on my shelves :/ I love a lot of groups and I genuinely wish them the best but buying albums has become too much

I like albums. I hope they wont be digital only. That would suck.

I sometimes will buy different versions of the same album because the packaging is pretty and had different colors or different designs on it. And obviously I like photo cards too, but bulk buying seems very dramatic and super wasteful. Although I would be quite sad if k-pop groups stopped making the physical copies all together since I like having them 😢

Honestly bulk buying is horrible because fans want to get their faves on the charts and now companies are trying to stop this problem by removing the physical albums and fans who just want to have them as memorabilia have to suffer because of this and I myself want to buy albums to enjoy but their selling out because of the bulk buying

The only albums I bought by myself are StrayKids NoEasy, Oddinary (2 ver.), Itzy Checkmate and BornPink by BlackPink. Was more for emotional Support but way too much money. I could have spend it on my favorite book franchise. Sometimes just not worth the money

I must admit I fell satisfaction when someone bulk buys and every single photo cards they get it’s the exact same. I also benefit from album resells with no inclusions because if I get a brand new album I normally pay from 40 to 50$ just for duties T.T I collected them for the album and photo book, I don’t really care much about photo cards or posters.

i hope kpop companies get called out for there ignorance on having GROUPS being ambassadors of UNICEF for THE ENVIROMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE, and have them brag about VVs, and partnering them with NFTS (HYBE, JYP,SM,YG and many more)

I really want an album. And I mean it. I’m not gonna throw it away, and I’m not gonna buy thousands of the same one. I just want an album to listen to

When I buy an album, it's because I like the songs on there. I don't even mind which photocard I get.

Being honest here, i like to collect albums but i control myself whenever it comes to buying them. I buy my favorite albums from my top groups instead because i don’t want to spend too much on every single album from a group. i want to keep an album i treasure or love so much. (i’m not sure if i explained myself well, sorry :( )

As someone who collects photocards i can say that people do group orders so they can most likely only get photocards of their favourite member, someone bulk buys the albums and then sorts the pcs so that other people dont need to buy hundreds of albums Also, people usually buy all the versions of the albums then trade the photocards to get their favourite member, they sell them if they have left over cards or cards that they cant find trades for, very few people buy pcs for the purpose of reselling them. Another thing is that a lot of the time when someone buys in bulk they take the photocards out and resell the album for a heavily discounted price, which helps people who dont have enough money to buy the actual album. (Some go for like €3) A lot of this video is over exaggerated or only applies to korea, because ive never heard of someone in the west buy lots of albums the just leave them on the road. Albums are very cheap in korea compared to over in other places, so obviously theres going to be people who do that sort of thing. This whole video paints kpop photocard/album collectors as bad people who hate the environment when most people dont even do it.

This kind of system ruins the fun of being a kpop fan. Someone on Twitter cyber bullied me for being a multi and blamed me for not being faithful to the group and assumed that I'm not stream enough or buy enough albums. Dude i have like 99 followers. This massive fandom is problematic too. It's brutal

Can the companies like hybe, YG etc just normalise one album, one version only? My / our bank acc is crying at the corner.

The worst part of it is cbars. If you didn’t know cbars which stand for Chinese bars are these rich groups of Chinese solo Stan’s who will bulk buy LOADS of kpop albums only to throw them away, it’s a big problem when it contributes to half of certain groups sales

adding goodies to physical albums was BRILLIANT. personally, i really like collecting things, so i would probably buy them anyway (not in a bulk buying way, just one, i'm too broke for that anyway) but i admit, the photocards and stuff do make it a lot more fun.

It's just crazy that suddenly a lot of girl groups hit million seller

As a kpop fan for almost 7 yrs, I never buy an album and I just play their songs on yt coz it's free and accessible.

Thanks a lot for this. I buy albums from groups I like because it does help them but also because I want a collection to look at. I should not be surprised about the bulk buying as it is done with books here. Ever hear of the NY Times best sellars list? Same problem for decades.

Why do K-Pop fans, stans, and entertainment companies worry so much about numbers and figures? All that did not define the artists' musical value, nor tell how critically acclaimed their music really is. Unless they worry too much about face value where it is all style and no substance. Which reflects how shallow they are about music and entertainment.

What's bad is when people just buy them to get the photocards and then just donating them to charity shops to deal with the albums. It is incredibly damaging to the environment. If the items in charity shops don't sell, guess what? They often either go to other charity shops or they go to recycling or landfill. The recycling industry is so defective that a lot of recycling ends of in the oceans and land fill anyways. I also remember the Grammys complaining about how Army's bulk buy BTS albums which skews performance data and doesn't show a realistic version of how the song is actually perceived among the general public. I think if this is an issue, it also needs to be addressed as a whole. However, once you mention any popular group, the toxic fans will come at you with their knives.

I mostly like to buy albums for photocards, but I use the cds daily in my cd player i have in my room. But for me its fun to collect things too

instead of companies thinking on how to minimize bulk buying, they are thinking on how to make packaging more eco-friendly.. in the end it's they prioritize profits..

I’m not for bulk buying for the sake of fan meets and throwing them away. I’m definitely someone who buys every version available or joins group orders that are actually going to fans that joined the go. Like I usually do a group order if I trust the person organizing because it’s cheaper to buy them through the go. Also I thinks it hilarious when people are like I need to collect all the members photocards and I just take the cards that I get in my albums. My pride is getting all of namjoon’s photocards from love yourself answer. I’m happy with all my photocards.

3:18-3:39 OMG...Wendy is such a sweet heart 😭💙

Streaming and bulk buying make all the numbers of kpop songs and albums very skewed and unrealistic. No, I don't believe that 3 million people bought a BTS album, or that 1 billion people listened to a BTS song on RU-vid. With a large enough group, you can bulk buy and stream meticulously to get numbers boosted. It's all fake, and I hate it. I miss the old days when views and album sales reflected more realistic numbers.

Such a waste of money and resources bulk buying is :((

kq has also taken the initiative to do meta/digital albums now as they restocked ateez's treasure series albums again. fans will get the photocards and postcards with a qr code provided for the digital contents which is a good initiative from them

I buy second hand albums from places like mercari. Idc about inclusions since if im buying an album, it's because I like the music on the CD.

This is super interesting to me... Thank you for sharing because I didn't know this was a thing. I am new to K-pop. I became a fan in March 2021. I started collecting albums to support and because I genuinely love albums musically. My sister and I buy them for the design aspect as well. She is now inspired to go into book design. It is sad to see something as exciting as buying albums disrespected.

There’s been times where I’ve had little money, but still bought NCT or SuperM albums because I love them so much and want to collect them. I had no idea that bulk buying actually happens and I feel bad for Giselle, she has many more fans than that surely and doesn’t deserve the hate and everything she suffers from🥺

I buy an album if I like it. Simple as that. I have a multi-disc CD player in prime condition, and I still use it. The posters and the photo cards are just gravy. I have my favorite members, but I stan the GROUPS, so whoever I get is still cool.

bulk buying is such a problem is Korea where you can find that some people throw away brand new albums!

I have like 30+ albums but like they’re all from different groups and different comebacks, I get them but only if I really like a majority of the songs and the concept and also cause I think it’s fun collecting them but I think the fact that some fans have the audacity to blame other fans form the same fandom for not buying albums is so stupid and annoying!! Some people are not as well off as other fans so they can’t afford to buy them!!

What I like about K-pop is that it’s free. I don’t have to buy anything to enjoy the music through RU-vid and Spotify free.

Dont worry i buy 0 im poor

The real problem are the photocards. the more albums you buy the more likely it gets to get your biases. Mosrly i see armys reselling the empty albums to fans who can't afford the full price. the problems are companies doing 4 comebacks a year with 13 album versions and 47564874 different pcs

kpop stan are so obsessed with numbers its so crazy

i feel like the best way to get rid of this problem is to have digitals albums.. that way people that want photobook and stuff can buy physical versions, and people that just want to collect photocards can stick with digital version.. i mean look at the j-hope's solo album, it was a digital version but you got photocards..

I don't understand why people say the albums get wasted. Do you not make things with the photobooks and packaging? Because that's what I do, it's why I love the photobooks/packages and not just getting a digital download.

I hated bulk buying because then the same fans get to talk to the K-pop artists which is frustrating to other fans who are buying just 1-2 albums. 😅 And the same with PCs. How people would buy PCs and sell it for over $100 in MERCARI, EBay etc. And don’t get me started on scalpers buying K-pop tickets making it difficult for fans to get good seats without paying a fortune.

It’s really funny seeing this as someone who also follows jpop idols bc they’ve been doing stuff like this for years. Photo cards, special posters depending on which store you bought it from, hand shake events, release events and concerts, checki/photo events etc.

The problem with bulk buying is it gives the aura that the artists number 1s aren't real and that fans are manipulating the system. Which I mean technically they aren't wrong. I bought two versions of each BTS love yourself albums because I wanted to frame the cds and hang them on my wall, I was worried the discs would get scratched when I hung them, but other than that I don't buy multiple copies. I hate when fans say if you don't buy it then you aren't supportive. Not everyone can afford it, maybe not even the single. You should collect and stream because you want to not because you're required too. People take breaking records way too seriously and sometimes I wonder if people are actually enjoying the music or just want that number 1.

A close friend of mine got into kpop around the same time as I. Throughtout the 6 years of stanning and since she and I are multi's, she has spent so much on each comeback of all the groups she stans. It's addictive, spending money on a group you like but it gets excessive when you literally can't support yourself anymore.

Bulk buying albums doesn't make much sense to me.. even if you're trying to get a certain member as a photocard it's unnecessary. As The8 said once, you can just print a photo of the member or something, there's no need to spend so much money on albums 😭😭 And having like 20 of the same album is weird too, like one is enough

BTS never ever had more than 4 versions of their albums. Their recent albums are 1 or 2 versions. And very expensive too ($50-$70). Other Kp0p groups like bp and sk have more than 17+ versions for their albums to chart higher. Taylor Swift also did with her recent comeback (20 versions or something). It's crazy!

If they don't produce physicals anymore I'll be sad. I'm one of those people who love to collect things I love as hobby. My room full of figures, toys, albums, vinyls, vintage items & sneaker boxes. As a collector of memories, I'm sad.

6:46 a better word in this case would be "non-biodegradable", as "sustainable" has a strong connotation for the opposite meaning, i.e. sustaining the environment/Earth.

Didn't knew how the photocard market is like this. When and why did people started to minimize their idols to a level of pokemon? Is Your bias some sort of shiny pikachu or what?

I'll be disappointed if physical albums stop entirely. I have a CD player boom box specifically for listening to my favorite albums, and I have a shelf for displaying them. It's a fun collection I started way back in 2012 and I dont want to stop

I own 11 albums, but out of all of them, 6 are from resellers & without the pcs.. I don't regret buying them as I enjoy everything included

I haven’t bought any albums and never plan to since there’s streaming apps everywhere nowadays

KQ is going the digital route with Ateez's old discography (the only physical item is a photo card and QR code). I have a feeling they'll be implementing this in some fashion in the future too.

I don’t thinks it’s a bug deal having a through from different groups, but buying every single album and just having it sit there rotting is not good

It all digital these days, buying physical copies of albums is outdated format but is still nice to have them in your collection and especially with the extras like the posters and photo cards

I only buy one album of any group I like. It is usually the theme I like the most or catches my eye the most. I don't buy anything else. For those that can buy bulk or multiple, I say go for it and do what you want with your money. I myself do not like digital albums, means I have to be on my phone or computer more and I just would rather limit my time on there.

I literally have one album because it's the one that means the most to me

gotta admit... These fans have an impressive amount of dedication to acually spend thousands of dollars on something you're gonna throw away.... And here I am happy with my only kpop album from 2ne1 😂

I like collecting albums for fun, I don’t understand why people can’t enjoy things like that to be genuine. Mass buying isn’t doing any good for anyone, even the idols are losing credibility since these album sales are going to a small portion of people.

This is the thing when I first listen to kpop started with BTS, my army friend told me you need to listen a song in looping then you can call yourself an army If you don't stream their song you are not a real fan I'm like is this a rule!? And I really followed it although it's not a song that I can listen through out my day but I did this couse he said that;; this is now happening in k-pop cause everyone wants their fav win so they vote them somehow;!!! And BTS is now in that position if they just made a comback with nothing they will get success like just see supar tuna it's not a song to break records armies do it cause midnight album they just want to see heir fav in first.. and do everything they can, idols also don't know are they really really famous or it's just s trick ;!!

I have never understood the obsession with photocards. Out of everything that comes with an album, a piece of cardboard is the most valuable?? To do what? Put it in a binder with a bunch of other cardboard rectangles and look at it occasionally? Can we not just do that on our phone gallery?

I remember watching a video of a girl opening up both butter (bts) album both yellow and orange she opened like 20 each and than she brought out 20 more just for the little pictures that's when I realized for the first time that they really don't sale as much cds as they say. This is why billboard changed the rules that they did and made everyone mad 😆 hahah

I hate bulk buying and I get wanting to go the environment friendly route with only photo cards but like the photo book is my favorite thing in albums (I only have one but like)