K-netizens Wonder If SM Is Still Using Trick To Increase Album Sales

A netizen shared in Nate Pann the album sales of SM singers recently under the title, “Reason SM album sales should be filtered”, drawing attention.

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Hanteo 1.15 million copies 

Circle 890,000 copies

RIIZE

Hanteo 1.25 million copies

Circle 1.07 million copies

Red Velvet

Hanteo 270,000 copies

Circle 200,000 copies

Noting that Hanteo counts the album sales while Circle includes shipped albums, the netizen commented, “Last year, RIIZE and NMIXX got criticized a lot for their strategy of pushing album sales. I think SM is still using the same trick to increase their first-week sales”.

In response, other netizens commented:

– The company that suggests the trick to push album sales is HYBEㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– Don’t write anything if you don’t understand it. Hanteo counts sales from invoices issued before albums are shipped. I just received my pre-order album this week. Now that you know it, please delete the post. The album already surpassed 1.2 million copies on Circle

– I still haven’t received the RIIZE albums that I purchased in the first week, although I bought a lot…

– There are still people who try hard to do reverse viral marketing without getting paid. Keep going. You guys only write nonsense. That’s why you only get downvotes 

– HYBE and JYP are all doing the same thing. Why are you still bringing the issue up?

– The fact that RIIZE pushed sales to get ‘million seller’ title is legendary