In light of the recent controversy between
Mnet and
iKON’s exclusion from the charts, the issue focused towards
YG Entertainment’s excessive media play.
A post on
Pann highlighted one of the reasonable explanation as to why Mnet decided to exclude iKON’s warm single “My Type” from their official rankings. As Mnet has stated in the past, non-promoted tracks are excluded from winning the trophy. The only artists who was excluded from the rule was
Busker Busker, the winner of Mnet’s
Superstar K3, while
Roy Kim, an artist signed by
CJ E&M,
Naul,
IU and other artists did not react to similar issues.
This statement led to netizens to focus on YG Entertainment’s reaction towards iKON’s exclusion from the official rankings as they accused the agency of putting out articles as deliberate media play instead.
As a response, the netizens expressed their thoughts on the controversy and revealed to have been fed up of the agency’s media play.
Below are collections of news titles that netizens claim are media play by YG
( Media Play )( YG is bitter )( Comments )( Updated Time it took boy groups to win #1 )Sources:
Koreaboo,
Pann,
iKonOT7@Twitter,
MrBunny@OH,
KPKF,
Pann
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