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Saw this, this morning. I love how Rolling Stone has always been so respectful toward BTS And another video by Seoullite TV on the MHJ saga. I always take Social media videos with a grain of salt, but the lunacy unveiled is on a different level. Imagine if Jimin actually got radio play and a promo tour. The Fallon performance really seemed to have struck a chord with the public

I see it now https://w2g.tv/?r=z04hx19jn5jqmll4la

I'm not sure exactly where we are. I thought we were in 2017 It's been a while since I did a room. It looks like Watch2Gether changed things. Hopefully you can get there with this link. https://w2g.tv/en/room/?access_key=ee8pnwmk00uo5nsejtlbh9 I haven't changed any settings so I think that means anyone should be able to start the playlist

And apparently Source Music actually has 2 lawsuits against MHJ. I think if they win both, then Hybe can fire her. If not, then Hybe can make a deal with the British band so they lose enough to fire her, but not except as a last resort since it would have repercussions on Hybe as well if they lose that lawsuit.

I redid my "Who" focused playlists to include Fallon and the remixes if anyone is interested. The playlists are pretty long so make sure you're interacting with them throughout the day. I just keep them that long in case I forget to restart them I haven't seen any Apple Music specific streaming guides. All the streams count apparently. I just tried to randomize the order a bit https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/muse/pl.u-Ymb0vdyFDyKL3MB Spotify only counts 20 plays a day Youtube Pandora. No clue how Pandora works but someone said you can loop to your heart's content https://pandora.app.link/OeaFaS81sLb

These Billboards will go up around the time that Jin will likely release his album. So this is actually a decent prize for one of these silly online contests

I downloaded Robinhood. Now I need to learn how to use it before the announcement instead of spending my whole day scrolling Twitter If the boxy Tiger Smile didn't convince you to be Team Tiger, then certainly buff military Tae should be Tiger. I know Bears are strong, but they're also round and Tae is all shoulders and biceps these days. Lol. S. Korea is harassing N. Korea on the state run loudspeaker with BTS news about Jin's torch relay I would never have put Jimin and F1 racing together, but huzzah for our man getting more promo!

That's incredible. I'm so proud! Even Seven, Butter, and Dynamite (all #3) didn't debut #1 on that chart. Not as exciting, but "Who" went up from #18 to #14 on US Spotify as well. grr, I'm so bummed that Fallon didn't air that performance yet. Sometimes I wish that BigHit would do what the other Kpop companies (including groups under Hybe) do and pay for Youtube advertisement. It looks like it's standard industry practice and NOT doing it is hurting BTS on the charts and awards. I'm not so naive to think that they avoid this due to some morals - I'm guessing that Hybe benefits more from the extra sales ARMY is willing to do in order to push the guys up than they do from the extra views. I have no idea what these ads cost the companies. In my less cynical thought process, I think maybe BTS being so closely tied to BigHit and having more influence on that faction, has caused BigHit to be more honorable and not partake in such practices I've seen ads mentioned before, and never understood what that has to do with anything other than promo. Recently, I've seen people complaining that Lisa's "Rockstar" amongst other Kpop (especially YG) group videos showing up in their history even though they have them blocked or never clicked on anything related to them. It turns out, what YG does is they start the videos as "ads", meaning that they automatically play for people on Youtube and TikTok between videos, often times unskippable. It looks like buying the ads not only inflates the numbers by forcing people to watch, but it also prevents views from getting deleted, although these are still counted as low quality streams which explains why a lot of these videos don't get put on top Youtube music lists in spite of the huge numbers. BTS isn't "shadow banned", as a lot of ARMY will claim (if they're shadow banned, they will have single or double digit numbers), but their views are more likely to get deleted if there's even minorly suspicious activity since they're not putting money into YouTube pockets unlike groups that pay for the ad time. This is how "Rockstar" by Lisa, all those BlackPink videos, Jisoo's "Flower" in spite of not even cracking Hot 100, and all these lesser known groups get such huge numbers while ARMY has seemingly abandoned Youtube. This also explains the huge disparity in "likes" vs. views for those other groups as well as why other groups results on things like Spotify and Itunes don't reflect their Youtube success. Now that I understand this tactic, I would understand why Billboard doesn't put much weight on Youtube IF it weren't for the fact that radio play is even more easily manipulated, though with less clarity. Honestly, if it wasn't such a commonly accepted practice, I would call it Sajaegi (chart manipulation) as insidious as "Payola" (paying for radio play) or companies buying their own albums to inflate numbers.

There's so much reason to envy the guys but I think I'm most envious of their incredible love for each other. I think these types of relationships are often so rare and they all have 6. I had no idea that's what that song was about. It's crazy that it came out so quickly. US rednecks almost blocked Seven from getting #1 and now this thing is out there I never thought I'd see our guys be tied to Trump's name. After the torch relay/assassination attempt, I asked my husband who he thought the most mentioned names in the world would be, and he guessed Trump, Putin, and Taylor Swift. I don't think anyone would have had the weird events of the past weeks on their Bingo card.

Tbh, I never completely understood how all the alternative versions work for charting. It seems to help but the streams don't get combined. The accounts say to only use them as filler but you would think it should either not help at all or you should use the full 20 for Spotify, ~5 for Youtube, and however often as counted toward others. I'm looking forward to the Acoustic version - looks like it might be a legit remix instead of just chart filler But I'll update all my lists and post them in case you ladies don't have time. I'm ambivalent about having it be so RPWP focused since I don't actually believe RM will get nominated, but I feel like I want to have felt like I did my part in having it be considered. Billboard made a short list of predictions for Grammy noms, and Sabrina Carpenter is on there in spite of not even having been released yet and RM being one of the most critically acclaimed artists of the year despite the Kpop bias - shows the state of the industry.

He'll definitely be in Hot 100. It's #1 that is unlikely because of the inflated importance put on radio play and the limits to how many purchases count. We did better than Lisa on almost every platform and metric, but Rockstar still charted higher than SGMB because she got radio play and he didn't ETA: ETA 2: ETA 3: unrelated but minimizing multi posting

With new rules, #1 in Hot 100 is likely out of reach but Jimin is doing great and he should be proud no matter what the results. I love the song and the album overall is really good. Even the weaker songs are still decent. I wished the Fallon performance was on Thursday night/Friday morning instead of Monday to give every bit of promo and video play possible for the tracking week

It looks like I can get into Spotify after all. I made a Who / RPWP focused playlist if you don't have time to make your own

Couldn't add the last one

I made a "Who" focused playlist. I read that only a limited number of views/video/day count so I have 6 of the "Who" official MV. I'll add more if I find more official videos with Who. Also found a very thorough tip on streaming - the only reason I've seen for not using playlists on the 1st day is that there's a delay in having the views count so it affects the 24 hour count. Since Youtube has made it impossible for us to achieve any records anyway, I use the playlists to make life easier. As they say, "anything worth doing, is worth doing half assed"

So good! I wish I had time to add it to my playlist at home (Spotify is blocked at work). I hope it does well. I'm a little nervous that Army steam has died down. Looking forward to the rest of Muse. Same here in NY. But she was always in bed after me and awake before me and I slept less than I normally do. Still so jelly

Staying up too late to do a before bed Twitter scroll... I wish I had @rockstaryuzu's ability to function on so little sleep. This is so sweet that France is publicly showing so much gratitude Gucci better put a ring on it before another company steals Jin away Make sure to add Standing Next to You on your stream list I renewed my Premium Spotify. So hard to decide what should go on the list - I want to stream for Jin, but the delulu part of my brain is hoping that stream for RM might get him a Grammy nod, but I also want Jimin to get as high on the charts as possible

Why in the world are they waiting for the announcement?

The plagiarism charge is a surprise. The Source lawsuit is for a relatively small amount (500 million won is a 361.67K USD) but Seoullite TV thinks it's more about trying to trigger the clause in MHJ's contract that states that she needs to do something criminal in order get fired.

another hint... we better throw some money into the Alo stocks. I never heard of the brand before huh. This is an interesting decision. Seems like it would be harder for all the attendees and would put them in the opposite time zone of the bulk of its viewers

incredible how far ahead BTS planned and that they managed to keep everything secret

One of my favorite things about Jin is that he still has a childlike wonder These security guards sound so sweet

Lol. French Commentator called Jin "This young boy", not that I can blame her for thinking that