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Originally posted by SO.UNCOOL™
Such a shame considering her last studio album 'THE FACE' sold 110k first week.
I thought 'IDENTITY' could do atleast 60k first week but she'll be lucky to even sell 40k at this point.
She needs to take a long break or try a Korean comeback cause it's obvious Japan don't want her anymore :-/
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As much as I would like for her to go back to the Korean market, I wouldn't be surprised if she never recorded another Korean album again. She’s not exactly the strongest vocalist we’ve ever seen. The standard in Korea has changed. She doesn’t have an R&B/Ballad voice to compete with the non-pop artists. The artists that are doing pop are all substantially younger than she is, and even then so, many of them are beyond her vocally.
She is an amazing dancer and has amazing stage presence and charisma. Her experience and the amount of knowledge she possesses can help her to run circles around many artists in Korea – but will that help her sell albums? Probably not.
Nonetheless, she’s been cross-marketed between Japan and Korea since day one. She started her training in
Japan. She didn’t ditch her own country; she just became irrelevant in the ever-changing industry that Korea’s music scene exemplifies. Her labels decided that it would be fiscally wiser to market her in Japan, where she is still quite relevant and rather popular (to some degree).
A substantial reason BoA is also less relevant in Korea is because she has her focus in Japan (and the U.S. as well). BoA has assimilated quite well within Japanese culture, and her Japanese language skill has become quite fantastic over the past ten years. If you saw her on variety shows and heard her speak, you wouldn’t know she was Korean without prior knowledge or someone else telling you.
I was expecting a bit more but overall, it's a nice effort.
