u/fintlinez

ARIRANG is literally BTS's most successful ALBUM and era yet.

This rant is only towards the people that think so of course. None of the Arirang promo failed. Swim did not fail. The album was so successful that a lot of songs went viral. Just because some of you didn't like the song they chose as the main title track, despite hearing all the reasons why they chose it, doesn't mean it failed.

And just because your twitter or other corner of the internet bubble convinced you it failed doesnt mean that's reality. As far as I know arirang has been their most discussed album era yet and thats exactly what bts wanted.

Unfortunately a lot of army started to believe kpop stans when they say Bts's music is only know by the fandom and not the gp, while it's a healhthy combo of both. And I beg y'all to stop consuming hate posts and anti content all the time it'll make you delusionally sick. (I know it's hard)

ARIRANG gave BTS career peaks:

- First time ever they reached #1 in spotify artists chart.

- First time ever they reached #1 in AM.

- One of the few acts who replaced themselves at #1 on AM.

- Billboard All Kill

- ONLY album in history charted all songs in billboard global excl. US for 11 weeks.

● It gave them their highest streaming day too with 135M, biggest kpop debut ever on spotify and am, holds the biggest album debut for a male artist this decade on the Billboard 200 with 641k units and the list goes on to be honest....

If swim failed then artists like drake failed miserably and just about everybody else this year so far Hello? Even Hooligan is now the most viral b-side, brands keeps using the intro.

Outside of the numbers (which we of course love to show love & gratitude) the album in itself is so good and rich it's easy to give it this much love. I hope people who say this era was this or that, realise first it isn't even over yet and second there is still much love to show!

(compiled this from several posts)

I stan a hybe group myself but even I AM so tired of seeing hybe in every post, every discourse, basically EVERYTHING. At his point its kpop spaces themselves making kpop revolve around hybe. Even the most random kpop stan if I scroll their account there is a hybe related post or tweet. Instead of ignoring for example the gg collab they hate so it flops or something.. they just make 100+ reddit posts and tweets… if hybe does it with boygroups I'm seriously blaming you all 😭 You can dislike stuff in peace saying it once or twice out loud is fine if you have to... but constantly? Nah, it has to stop man 😭 focus on what you like.

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I'm seeing some discussions going on about this topic and I'm wondering what you guys think, your opinions?

On one side I'm seeing: Stop the more fast fashion kpop mindset, the album is still only out for about 2 months, instead of a summer single make a track on Arirang a new single + mv for example: Normal.

On the other side: Yes summer single! So many new people are interested and it could be a potential dynamite 2.0, it would be so much fun.

I've seen so many good arguments on both sides that I myself am a bit unsure on what I want 😭😳 so I'd love to see what you guys have to say.

I really do. I was once again scrolling my timeline and seeing Mexican Armys egging stalkers at Bts's hotel 😭 My timeline has just been so fun since they've been in Mexico and this is truly what it is about. All this fun we have together along with Bts all paired with the great music they give us.

The warm welcome that a country as diverse as México is giving BTS is a wake up call for Armys and BTS themselves, showing them that they truly are a world famous group with an immense impact outside of Korea, BTS being the biggest group in the world IS REAL. And it was exactly what we needed.