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But cd market in Japan isn't dead. Utada Hikaru's new album is successful. So successful it even sells 250k in first day.

Aside of her hardcore fans and older generation who still listen to music through cd players, who are going to actually buy her cd album just for listening to her music when there are other option like itunes or mora?

I don't understand why you said Two of Us is selling well. It sold almost 28000 copies in the first week and is already out of the top 20 of the daily chart, so it will most likely not reach more than 50000 lifetime sales. That's quite low considering how many hardcore fans Toho are supposed to have in Japan

50k will be the number Toho usually sell their single without any gimmicks done at all since 2013 and considering how dead cd market in JP that number is actually a good number for first week sales for compilation album without much promo and serious effort from Avex.

What do you have to say about BTS breaking all records of preorder sales (more than 100k in a day) ? They are in competition with SHINee who are much senior but as a shawol i feel like they are losing to them?

As a shawol, shouldn't you focus more at how Shinee doing in tours more than how many copies of album they could sell? Idk what kind of gimmicks BTS agency does to drive sales but I know SM have stopped scheduling more than 6 fansigns to drive sales for Shinee's kr album ever since they could fill Tokyo Dome. Then again preorder number doesn't always equal to actual sales.

ichi, in the future, if you feel that yoochun has done everything possible to redeem his mistake, grows as a person, you could return to support his activities?

Of course. I liked him for his talent in acting singing and composing so if he can somehow redeem the mistake he'd done, then as long as I still find his artistic output great, I can always turn back to support him.

I'm a bit dumb for languages but can you explain like i'm 2 years old why is it confusing if they are or not friends? If their friends are even willing to talk about them as them, as a unit in the sense of having a relationship ( i mean in terms of friendship, it's just that english is not my first language and i'm bad at explaining, sorry) wouldn't that lead to thoughts of them being friends again surely?

I wonder too, why the fuss of difficult technicalities/the score between them when we all know they're in contact and are not hostile toward each other.It's like they want me to prove something that doesn't need to be proven.

He was at his the 55th unit those days. Maybe it was SM being intrusive again. LMAO

lmao at you for thinking an organization as big as MMA is licking SM's asses.

Is SM giving TVXQ any time free after army service, at least a couple of days for each at their discharge from army and police? their idols and artists usually get them?

I don't know the usual practice. I don't follow many SM male artists older than the boys except Heechul, and from what I remember, he didn't get total free days after army discharge and SM scheduled a pictorial for him. But maybe because he's in public service so he and SM don't think it was necessary.

What if 4th generation kpop is the solo era coming back, similar to 2003->2006 era with soloist dominating the industry after 1st generation idol groups died. Would you like this to happen? or Would you want a brand new young wave of kpop groups again, like the previous generations.

Solo acts have consistently dominating casual music listeners market in the past 10 years, from the likes of Boa to Ailee, but I seriously doubt solo acts will be able to compete with groups in term of revenues in the foreseeable future, and that will make agencies keep producing more groups over producing soloists.From what I observe, the reason groups are always more successful business unit than soloists is because of how koreans access their entertainment. They mainly use TV and internet, so group with many members have bigger chance to gather more fans than soloists due to bigger exposure coming from each member's various entertainment activities. Having more fans = having more stream of revenues.So back to your question. I think your hypothetical scenario is unlikely to happen. My personal preference is group singing in harmony, so of course I prefer more if agencies could just produce more talented groups. But if solo acts are more profitable than group acts scenario does happen, then I hope my fave artists have been prepared to transition themselves into solo acts.

Is TVXQs income really 90:10 in their favor (as in confirmed by source), or were you just using that ratio to give a general idea of just how much they gained after being in the business/company so long? Seems like so much! Not that that's a bad thing of course, hehe.

That's the profit sharing rate from overseas concerts.

"Maybe in 2025… lol" Would Infinity Challenge still exist? lol. The boys completely missed out all the 2010's variety shows

You do know that IC already existed since 2005 right? The boys have stated many times how eager they were to appear in the show, but somehow IC and their schedules never match.

Do you actually care about the difference in popularity of the members? both tvxq & jyj. As a fan do you ever envy/jealous or feel bad towards a certain members popularity?

Used to feel bad at how underappreciated Changmin was, being the maknae and silent guy he was, I thought it'd be hard for him to make himself stands out from other members.Don't feel that way anymore post split, because he got much more popular in JP.Never feel jealous to other members' popularity because they earned their fame through hardwork and talents too.

Jaejoong will have a full year to promote alone. What are you expectations and hopes for his works? Album, tour, drama?

I think he will keep being the jack of all trades like what he's already done before army.But in my observation, it seems that his main passion is still music, and being a respected singer is still his main goal. Maybe it's because I have a different attitude in career than him, but sometimes I'm confused as why he behaves like a flowing water, he looks into every opportunities arise and then trying every bit stuffs here and there whereas I view those stuffs more as distraction if I have yet to reach my main goal.However, I'll be a bit dissapointed if he doesn't give bigger effort to promote more in JP post army, especially if he doesn't show any intention to release JP album.

i agree 100% about TONE and their latest albums. The songs don't stay with you like TONE songs did and also the album doesn't flow like TONE. I can remember every single song from TONE. What's you favorite JYJ japanese album?

JYJ only have one group's JP (mini) album and it happens to be my most fave release from them as well.I will kick you if you ask me to choose between Tone and The... 😝

Speaking about finding a sound, i feel like JYJ albums are still not very cohesive, i'm not sure if it's them just trying many things or if they didn't find their musical color yet. Their japanese single was fun and cute but i was expecting a more powerful song to display their vocal abilities.

When it comes to JYJ, I think it clearly shows where members' first priority lies. It's in their individual works. Junsu and Jaejoong's solo albums so far are more solid and cohesive than JYJ's kr albums.Their best group release imo is their The... mini album. It's released long time ago so I'm not sure that sound will still work now. Wake me tonight single is never intended as their serious effort to enter JP market, more as a tool to gauge their JP fanbase size, so I didn't really expect it to sound fantastic either.

What do you think of this wave of old groups releasing stuff again? Does that leaves hopes for idols groups to last longer than they used to? It looks like the groups are lasting more and more.

Only few absolute top groups back in the 1st gen of kpop could have realistic chance of being active again. Just like only a handful of groups in 2nd gen of kpop could last long into their careers.

This is very silly and maybe I'm the only one who thinks this but ... I don't think Yunho's sister is pretty. I say this because in every photo of her wedding all praise her beauty. what you think?

I think you're crossing the line trying to discuss non public figure here in a matter that's totally unrelated to any of the boys or other public figure.

Do you think the Infinite Challenge crew would even consider a TVXQ reunion as a plan for future totoga episodes? I think the only way Yoochun could make a successful appereance in public again is through a big show like IC, just look at Sech Kies If i'm not wrong two of their members were in jail and IC put them on the indutry AGAIN in a really awesome way.

Maybe in 2025... lol

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