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Originally posted by T-Swizz
Incorporating album sales to see which single is more popular? 
Taemin's a great soloist but he doesn't deserve to be winning #1, not with PYN
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They count album sales for the same reason they give more weight to downloads over streaming and use a global platform like youtube rather than what's mostly used by Koreans and require active fan voting -- because it's all advantageous to certain groups within the industry. But not an indicator or what people are actually listening to...
Anyway, it was a courtesy loss for Mamamoo as Taemin is a guest in their CJEM/Mnet house, and that $600 trophy just an act of hospitality. Actually, things are pretty good right now within the CJ/SM dynamic seeing as their troll duet are charting remarkably well...