Backbuying? Gurl, that's soooo 2012: Journalist tweets regarding digital chart manipulation

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

Instiz: Kim Yong Ho's tweets regarding digital chart manipulation

"As if buybacks weren't enough, I recently received a report about an entertainment company spending upwards of $100,000 USD to hire hackers to manipulate the digital music chart. Which company do you think it is? (You bet that I'm going to go strong on this articleㅋ)"

"Of course, the companies are a problem but Mnet and Loen are also just as guilty for not only dominating the distribution market but even producing their own songs and spamming them up the chartsㅋ."


"Jeez, is it really that hard to ask for some fairness?"

"Wow, which company could it be? It's going to be a mess if people ever find out who it is."

"This is going to be fun ㅋㅋㅋ"

"Who is it ㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜㅜ"

"Then is he hinting that their distributor is Loen??? I have a feeling it's a girl group, a specific one..."

"Wow, I really hope they get to the bottom of this... I just hope it isn't the agency of my favorite artist..."

"Isn't there a famous company known for these things? Especially with buybacks... ㅋㅋㅋ"

"Hurry up and release the article, we're all curious."

"It's always the agencies that end up screwing their artists over in the end."

"I have a feeling I know which company it is but he should hurry up and release his article so that innocent groups aren't put on the chopping block."

"This really is going to cause quite a stir..."

"What a 'brave' crime to be committing when everyone is watching the charts like a hawk these days."

"So I guess the rumors running around Hanteo charts were true... I was just staying quiet because I wasn't sure."

"Okay, I think if it's the group we're all thinking about it, it's not the company that's doing this but their composer."

"This was all over Hanteo but no one ever had any evidence..."

"To give everyone who doesn't know a hint, think of that one composer famous for manipulating the digital charts... His songs are always at the top of the charts when they shouldn't be."

"Why is everyone in the media releasing teasers through SNS now."

"I think that company is very 'brave' to be doing what they're doing."

source: Netizenbuzz + @charogne6 (1), (2)

Comments

[epona.livejournal.com]

sounds like 4minute to me.

journalist and brave bros are both equally as sketchy so who knows though

[nicole8991.livejournal.com]

Waiting for people to name names.

[tumblingpony.livejournal.com]

"Brave" indeed

[nortonamo.livejournal.com]

'brave' icwudt. It's 4minute, somehow What's Your Name has been in the top 5 for awhile.

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

lol at this subtle brave brothers shade ♥ good going netizens.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Hackers? Really? I'm not buying esp from him, he's a glorified gossip columnist.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

you mean you don't trust korea's tradition of strong investigative journalism and journalistic integrity?????????

[evivante.livejournal.com]

lol

[love-allure.livejournal.com]

that guy's a hack though.

[naturalhonee.livejournal.com]

CUBE has been doing buybacks for 4minute since their Volume Up album... or possibly earlier?
as for digital charts, Brave probably made a deal with CUBE to manipulate them since both companies don't seem to have a problem with this sort of thing

[falling-empress.livejournal.com]

I'm not even sure I understand...even if you hack something to make it look like people like your song...it doesn't change the fact that if people listen to it and don't like it, they're not going to buy it.

[harisukaori.livejournal.com]

But if you chart high it means you're popular and you'll get more CF deals. And in CF the money lies :)

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

Sounds like 4minute.

[rachelrainna.livejournal.com]

(4 minute) WHAT'S YOUR NAME? WHAT'S YOUR NAME?

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand why anyone pays any attention that jackass "journalist."

[unlived.livejournal.com]

hmm... Don't care, i think the Brave brothers songs are pretty nice, but not all of them. so whatever, if i like the artist ill buy the album if i don't i wont, i don't care about digital sales and all that. really people are way to obsessed with this shit. And even if CUBE JYP YG SM LEON, etc buy back and all that they are the ones making their own artists look bad, who gives a shit, support the artist you like and that's it.

[k3vk3vk3v.livejournal.com]

i know brave brothers has a history of buybacks but can someone explain this to me instead?



yoohoo had the most suspicious spike and even beat out roy kim and stayed at number 1 for a while until the buyback news came out. after that, the song had the weirdest drop (probably to try to avoid suspicion) and now it's at number 8 on instiz. idk who TS ent is trying to fool with this kind of unnatural chart trajectory but i guess they probably thought they could buyback their wins like they did against dbsk a few years back