At late night on February 9, a topic titled “Music Bank score tally that is being discussed” was published on the Korean forum “theqoo”, drawing massive attention.
This topic raises questions about IU’s latest win on Music Bank with “Love Wins All”, which is the female idol’s 100th music show win, and attaches the score tally behind IU’s win against (G)I-DLE’s “Super Lady”, which came second.
In particular, from the score tally, it can be seen that despite having sold over 1.4 million albums on Hanteo, (G)I-DLE received 0 points for physical sales. As the gap between (G)I-DLE and IU was extremely close, (G)I-DLE could have won with a proper physical sales score.
Therefore, many fans have taken to SNS platforms to express dissatisfaction against Music Bank. They have also trended the hashtag #KBSmusicbankcorruption and mass-emailed KBS to demand an explanation behind the score tally.
IU’s fans have also shown their frustration, claiming that despite this being IU’s 100th music show win, they couldn’t celebrate since “(G)I-DLE clearly has been getting robbed”.
Below are some comment from netizens:
- Music Bank’s scoring system has been f*cked up since forever
- Some are saying that the physical score used for (G)I-DLE is that for “Wife” since “Wife” has a better digital score… However, KBS banned “Wife” due to the lyrics, so this couldn’t have been the case
- This really doesn’t make sense
- I hope this is a mistake because there’s seriously no logical explanation for this
- A physical sales score of 0 is simply ridiculous for an album that sold over a million copies ….
Source: theqoo
