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Stats: 2NE1: "Falling in Love" sells over a million in Korea
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Member Since: 5/30/2012
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
This is a one week total?! Now I understand how Korea can have a mostly self-contained music industry and still have really high budget videos and production.
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I couldn't be bothered explaining it but until January of this year, sales were worth $0.03 each. Now they are closer to $0.20 each. Plus, the sales which you saw there (2ne1's) are inflated with Gaon's new methodology which nobody knows or understands, hence a 350% increase in sales.
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Member Since: 12/25/2003
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The biggest digital store, MelOn had a massive 50% discount for songs starting about 3 weeks ago. I guess that's still taking effect now.
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Member Since: 5/30/2012
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Originally posted by Hector
The biggest digital store, MelOn had a massive 50% discount for songs starting about 3 weeks ago. I guess that's still taking effect now.
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It wouldn't have had that big an impact though. Gaon have done something, hence why the half year digital download totals are all over the place
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Member Since: 12/4/2011
Posts: 438
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Originally posted by Sooyoung
The fact that you know SNSD first week sales of IGAB yet haven't observed the mess that Gaon has made. SMH, let me educate you.
Here is the list of total download for the top-100 songs each week for the first 26 weeks of 2013:
5,182,485
6,016,661
5,556,093
5,548,432
5,412,629
5,663,981
4,360,925
5,492,163
5,087,701
5,389,979
5,206,607
5,626,556
5,060,580
5,916,817
6,955,402
6,072,666
6,116,412
6,295,399
6,302,701
5,357,319
5,142,167
5,354,509
5,693,642
5,692,981
16,022,927
19,257,538
The next two weeks following this have equally strange numbers. Gaon has mucked something up and are now counting digital downloads differently. That is why 2NE1 managed to get such a high number. I would guess that 2NE1 would have sold 300k+ with the previous way of counting songs and would have high first week sales regardless.
Basically, Gaon has managed to count sales in such a way now that there has been a 350% increase in sales with no explanation (Genie sales started being counted in April I believe so it isn't that). Therefore, 2NE1 (and every other song charting in the last 3-4 weeks have experienced massive inflation with no explanation), the same way IGAB sold 1.4million this year and went up to 6.8million in the half year sales chart.
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PREACH!!!!
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Member Since: 9/12/2009
Posts: 3,300
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sooyoung
The fact that you know SNSD first week sales of IGAB yet haven't observed the mess that Gaon has made. SMH, let me educate you.
Here is the list of total download for the top-100 songs each week for the first 26 weeks of 2013:
5,182,485
6,016,661
5,556,093
5,548,432
5,412,629
5,663,981
4,360,925
5,492,163
5,087,701
5,389,979
5,206,607
5,626,556
5,060,580
5,916,817
6,955,402
6,072,666
6,116,412
6,295,399
6,302,701
5,357,319
5,142,167
5,354,509
5,693,642
5,692,981
16,022,927
19,257,538
The next two weeks following this have equally strange numbers. Gaon has mucked something up and are now counting digital downloads differently. That is why 2NE1 managed to get such a high number. I would guess that 2NE1 would have sold 300k+ with the previous way of counting songs and would have high first week sales regardless.
Basically, Gaon has managed to count sales in such a way now that there has been a 350% increase in sales with no explanation (Genie sales started being counted in April I believe so it isn't that). Therefore, 2NE1 (and every other song charting in the last 3-4 weeks have experienced massive inflation with no explanation), the same way IGAB sold 1.4million this year and went up to 6.8million in the half year sales chart.
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Calm down your dusty ****, granny.
Thanks tho for the free education.
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