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Originally posted by BnPac
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These are the worst receipts I have ever seen. I mean, really?
According to you, these prove that I never compliment Beyonce's sales in Korea and that it's "only not impressive" when Beyonce does it:
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=133901
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=142011
http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=132710
In the first one, it says that she sold 419k after THREE WEEKS, to which I said:
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That's not remarkable.
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Because, well, it's not.
In the second one, though, I said:
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I can't at how quickly Ugly fell off.
I'm just going to stop mentioning that it isn't impressive for Beyonce (or any artist, for that matter) to be selling 110k in Korea, because no one seems to get it through their heads. And I will also stop mentioning that it isn't impressive for a bonus track to be doing so well because that's how it always happens in Korea.
But I swear that some people think all markets work the same way.
BUT...
congrats to everyone in the top 10 of both these charts anyway. Even if 110k isn't impressive, a #1 is a #1. And Beyonce obviously has a following here if she's taking nobodies in Korea to #1 on the international chart.
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Where is the shade? Where is the insulting? I said I'm going to stop mentioning that it's not impressive for her to sell 110k because although it isn't, my mentioning it is pointless since no one seems to realize it and admit it. But after that, I complimented Beyonce. But of course, you're hell bent on making it seem like all I do is shade Beyonce, so you didn't take note of that. You even skipped over the part where I said ANY ARTIST FOR THAT MATTER, to point out that it's not just Beyonce that this isn't impressive for.
And in the last one, I said:
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Wow, fantastic!
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HOW IS THAT SHADY? I complimented her! Selling 110k in Korea is much, much less impressive than selling 175k in Korea, so I complimented the latter and didn't compliment the former. Where's the problem?
With the next two links, you implied that my posts were more complimentary. Not really.
The first one said the following:
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"Scary" should be released as the next Asian single on a re-released version of Femme Fatale over there. Britney is a budding star in Asia, and if they were to release it in just Asia, it could SMASH. It's a very J/K-pop style song, too.
And it's the best on Femme Fatale, too.
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This one says nothing complimentary. But I apologize for not saying that that was not remarkable. I truly do because that was a case where I should have. And if I didn't, then I should have at least said in one of the Beyonce ones that she should capitalize on the interest Asia has in her, like I did for Britney. I am sorry for that.
In the second one:
and THEN, when someone tried to act like LADY GAGA'S sales were super impressive, I said:
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The Queen? That's really not that good. Though the Korean market is difficult for non-Koreans to break, this isn't something that you should be calling her "The Queen" for.
Hell, Britney sold nearly the same amount of a non-single.
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Don't try to act like I was complimenting Britney there, because I wasn't. I was trying to set the Gaga stan who was shading Britney straight. There was no Britney complimenting with that.
Then I said this:
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This is the most idiotic and ignorant thing I have ever read. You must know nothing about South Korea. First of all, don't put IWG's success down. It has not been released as an official single anywhere; it's simply achieving success and recognition in South Korea. Nice try, though.
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I don't go after mods. And this post doesn't say IWG's success is anything to praise like you're trying to imply. But I do admit that it was wrong of me not to put it down. In my defense, though, this was while I was trying to set that Gaga stan straight, so I wasn't about to shade who I was defending.
And lastly, I don't know why I didn't post in those! Am I supposed to post in every thread about Korea now?
I'm not a phony, but if you want to think that, then fine. I can see where you were coming from with a few of these posts of mine, and I do apologize for those. As I mentioned, I'm not going to post about Korean sales of American artists anymore because it never goes anywhere. But most of these "receipts" don't prove anything and I don't know why you posted them.