We’re happy to announce that we will be collaborating with the lovely fanbases USBTSARMY, BTS Kookie Monster, and ARMYUNITEDBTS for a fanchant project to support BTS’ debut performance on US television at the AMAs!
Here are printable versions of the fanchant guides: goo.gl/CsoSm5
We hope that all ARMYs attending the AMAs will participate and make the night extra special for the boys ✨
We are so happy to announce that we will be having another banner support in the USA for Bangtan’s upcoming WINGS tour!
We plan to have thousands of cardstock banners manufactured in order to give out to the attendees of their concerts in Anaheim, CA and Newark, NJ. Each concert will have a different banner design as pictured above! Unfortunately, we probably won’t be able to raise enough money to have a banner support in Chicago, so we apologize to all the fans attending their concert in Chicago.
(Click here for a photo of our banners for KCON 2016 LA! The banners for the WINGS tour will be the same size, but will be slightly thinner, due to the weight + price of the thicker cardstock)
Green Design:
우리는 방탄을 믿어! 💣 → We believe in Bangtan! 💣
This banner is referencing the lyrics to Not Today.
Blue Design:
우리 사랑을 다 가져가! 💘 → Take all of our love! 💘
This banner is referencing the lyrics to Blood Sweat & Tears.
Yellow Design:
우리 화양연화의 꽃이야 🌸 → You’re our most beautiful moment in life’s flower 🌸
This banner is referencing the lyrics to 2! 3! (Even So, There Will Be Better Days Ahead).
Pink Design:
웃을 수 있어 함께라면 💞 → We can smile if we’re together 💞
This banner is referencing the lyrics to A Supplementary Story: You Never Walk Alone
Please click here for all the info, benefits, and donation form!
We’re currently at just above $1,000 in donations, but our donation goal is $3,000 in order to have 5,000 banners at all 4 concerts (20,000 banners in total)!
Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far! Your support means the world to us!
We are so happy to announce that we will be having another banner support in the USA for Bangtan’s upcoming WINGS tour!
We plan to have thousands of cardstock banners manufactured in order to give out to the attendees of their concerts in Anaheim, CA and Newark, NJ for free. Each stop will have a different banner design as pictured above, but we have yet to decide which venue will get which design.
(Click here for a photo of our banners for KCON 2016 LA! The banners for the WINGS tour will be the same size, but will be slightly thinner, due to the weight + price of the thicker paper)
Blue Design:
우리 사랑을 다 가져가! 💘 → Take all of our love! 💘
This banner is referencing the lyrics to Blood Sweat & Tears.
Yellow Design:
우리 화양연화의 꽃이야 🌸 → You’re our most beautiful moment in life’s flower 🌸
This banner is referencing the lyrics to 2! 3! (Even So, There Will Be Better Days Ahead).
In order to make this banner support happen, we will be accepting donations via PayPal from now until March 4, 2016 at 12AM PST. Our donation goal will be $2,000 USD to provide 10,000 banners in total for the USA stops!
Even if we don’t reach our donation goal, we will get as many banners as we can with the funds that we have, and hand out equal amounts of banners at both venues!
To thank donors for supporting our project, we will be giving gifts to five different donation tiers!
Please click here for all the info + the donation form!
We’re so grateful for your guys’ support for our previous projects, and we hope to receive as much love and support for this project!
(BONUS: Danny Im giving our KCON 2016 LA banners a shout-out while interviewing Bangtan!)
We are so happy to announce that we will be having another banner support in the USA for Bangtan’s upcoming WINGS tour!
We plan to have thousands of cardstock banners manufactured in order to give out to the attendees of their concerts in Anaheim, CA and Newark, NJ for free. Each stop will have a different banner design as pictured above, but we have yet to decide which venue will get which design.
(Click here for a photo of our banners for KCON 2016 LA! The banners for the WINGS tour will be the same size, but will be slightly thinner, due to the weight + price of the thicker paper)
Blue Design:
우리 사랑을 다 가져가! 💘 → Take all of our love! 💘
This banner is referencing the lyrics to Blood Sweat & Tears.
Yellow Design:
우리 화양연화의 꽃이야 🌸 → You’re our most beautiful moment in life’s flower 🌸
This banner is referencing the lyrics to 2! 3! (Even So, There Will Be Better Days Ahead).
In order to make this banner support happen, we will be accepting donations via PayPal from now until March 4, 2016 at 12AM PST. Our donation goal will be $2,000 USD to provide 10,000 banners in total for the USA stops!
Even if we don’t reach our donation goal, we will get as many banners as we can with the funds that we have, and hand out equal amounts of banners at both venues!
To thank donors for supporting our project, we will be giving gifts to five different donation tiers!
Please click here for all the info + the donation form!
We’re so grateful for your guys’ support for our previous projects, and we hope to receive as much love and support for this project!
(BONUS: Danny Im giving our KCON 2016 LA banners a shout-out while interviewing Bangtan!)
Hello, I just wanted to ask a quick question. If I switch from US and Korean app store (like shown in your tutorial), then will I also be able to buy songs from the Korean app store? Thanks in advance! Xx
I'm not sure since I've never tried ;; I assume so, though?
Since Bangtan’s WINGS comeback is just around the corner, I’ve made an updated MelOn tutorial for iOS devices! If you have $13.99 USD to spare or even $9.99 USD, please check out this tutorial!
It will cover:
How to change your App Store to the South Korean App store to download MelOn
How to purchase a MelOn Streaming Pass
How to download Bangtan albums from the app
How to stream music to boost Bangtan on the charts!
This tutorial is pretty foolproof with screenshots and descriptions of every single thing I do, so it is very lengthy!
BENEFITS:
You can listen to the WINGS album right when it comes out because the album is released first on Korean music streaming sites, rather than iTunes or Spotify!
Also, MelOn is the largest Korean music streaming site, so helping them on the MelOn charts would be the most beneficial! Let’s get them at least one win on a major music show!
Disclaimer: I’m from the USA and I have my Visa debit card linked to my Apple ID! I have no idea if this makes a difference, but some people have issues with changing their App Store country. I’ve had 0 problems with this for the past ~2 years since I’ve been doing this! A credit card should work fine, but I’m not sure about iTunes gift cards as a form of payment linked to your Apple ID.
If you have questions to ask me, DO NOT SEND TO MY TUMBLR INBOX! Please direct them to my Twitter or my Ask.fm! I barely use my Tumblr, but I am constantly checking my Twitter and Ask.fm daily.
I will try my best to answer questions, but if it’s about issues with your Apple ID, I’m probably stumped. However, I am more than happy to help people navigate MelOn and do things outside of this tutorial!
Now onto the tutorial!
CHANGING APP STORE + DOWNLOADING MELON:
Step 1: Open up the App Store and scroll all the way to the bottom of the App Store homepage and click where it says your Apple ID
Step 2: Once you click your Apple ID, it will give you multiple options and you will click “View Apple ID” and then proceed to enter your password and hit “OK” to login
Step 3: In your Apple ID account settings, click “Country/Region” and then once the next page loads, click “Change Country or Region”
Step 4: You should now see a list of countries after the previous step. Scroll all the way to the bottom and select “대한민국" to change your App Store to South Korea. Agree to the terms and conditions to move onto the next step.
Step 5: Now you have to edit a bit of your payment info. First, put in your card security code and then scroll down and edit your billing address. All you need to change is the “Province” to “Seoul” and whatever your current zipcode/postal code is to “11100″. Click “Next” once you’re done!
Step 6: Hopefully you made it past the previous step safe and sound, and the congratulations page comes up! Click “Done” and then search for “melon” in the App Store. Typing it in English is totally fine, and now you can download MelOn!
If you want, you can switch back to your native App Store now by redoing the steps, but selecting your own country and filling in your information correctly! Some parts are in Korean, but the placement should be the same! Let me know if you need help with this process~
You do not have to be on the Korean App Store in order to use the MelOn App. You only need it to download MelOn.
GETTING A MELON STREAMING PASS:
Step 1: Open up your MelOn App and follow the steps in this older tutorial I made in order to make a MelOn account
(Totally forgot to make a newer looking tutorial for making an account, but it’s the exact same steps as it was 5 months ago haha)
Step 2: Login to your account and then go to the MelOn homepage! Click the top left corner with the ticket icon in order to purchase a streaming pass
If possible, buy the one I circled in order to support Bangtan by both downloading and streaming their album! If you only have $9.99 USD to spare, click the option above the one I circled (Yes, it says different prices, but it’s actually $9.99 and $13.99 when you go to purchase them). The cheapest option allows unlimited streaming for 30 days, while the $13.99 pass includes 30 MP3 downloads as well as unlimited streaming for 30 days.
Step 3: After selecting your desired pass, enter your Apple ID password and confirm your purchase! Now you should have a MelOn streaming pass!
DOWNLOADING A BANGTAN ALBUM:
As stated before, this will only be possible with one of the streaming passes that includes MP3 downloads! This will help their digital sales for things like year-end awards and their general sales statistics!
Step 1: Click the magnifying glass icon on the bottom of the screen in order to enter the search page. Search “bts” in order to find Bangtan songs/albums.
Step 2: Click on the tab that says 앨범 in order to view albums related to your search term! They will be listed in chronological order, so the most recent related album should be on the top. I’ll be downloading RUN (Japanese Ver.) for the sake of the tutorial, but WINGS will come up once it’s October 10, 2016 12AM KST
Step 3: The album info with the list of its songs should come up and you want to select 전체선택 in order to select all the songs and then click 다운 to download the selected songs! The download page should come up, and then you want to confirm your download as shown in the 2nd picture below. Your download should start after you confirm!
STREAMING A BANGTAN ALBUM
Streaming will help to boost the boys on the MelOn charts, which will lead to music show wins and the public being more interested in Bangtan and possibly checking out their new album!
Streaming is super important, so please try to stream their title track “피 땀 눈물” once an hour because the chart refreshes every hour! Or even better, their whole WINGS album just once every hour! As far as I know, MelOn doesn’t count repeated streams, so just once an hour would be the best way to go about streaming!
Step 1: Go to your desired album via the search as shown in the “Downloading a Bangtan Album” tutorial and then click 전체재생
Step 2: Now the whole album should start playing and you’ll know you’re streaming if the icon next to the song name shows a music note with little wifi signals coming out of it!
Hopefully my tutorial was helpful, and I’m sorry it’s so long, but I really wanted to cover all the basics to support Bangtan with their WINGS comeback! We have tough competition this month, but I’m sure we can get the boys at least 1 win on a major music show!
If you want to know how to do something else in MelOn that I didn’t cover in this tutorial or you need help/clarification, contact me on Twitter or Ask.fm!
We’d like to announce that we’ve remodeled our dearbangtan blog for the first time in about 2 years which includes the theme and our brand new staff page!
We’ve noticed that many of our followers send messages unrelated to current BTS activities on our main blog, so we encourage everyone to send us all of your questions to dearbangtan!
You can ask us about anything from facts about the boys, fansites, to questions for our staff!
We check our inbox regularly, so please ask away~
Also, please give a warm welcome to our all of our newer admins Jas, Romny, Maylen and Sha! Thank you to everyone who applied for our admin position!
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