WARNING: KPOP related post but it's not a usual "I LOVE BIGBANG ERMERGERD" post. So please continue scrolling if you'd like to invade my thought processes?
A friend sent me a link a few days ago regarding the revenues of two of the biggest S.Korean entertainment companies in 2012. Here is the link. But if you're like me, lazy to read (though I did read this one), or don't care (if you're still reading in the next few seconds, I guess you do care? haha idk)... Long story short... SM Entertainment (the guys who own the big names like SNSD/Girls Generation, Shinee, Super Junior, etc) raked in USD 154 Million while YG, the company who made Bigbang, 2NE1, Psy (yeah you and I we both know how big this dude is right?), and the likes... FAMOUS. They raked in... Are you ready for this?
USD$91 Million.
er... whut??
Frankly, I was taken a back a little at the beginning. My friend was very very surprised. She said it didn't quite make sense cause of Psy and Bigbang + 2NE1 world tours and all that... But I mean, merchandise sells more than tickets do, no?
But then it got me thinking... Cause I heard that the entertainment companies... Say for example company A, who owns Band/Group BZ. BZ is famous. So technically they should be making shit loads of money from album sales and all right? Well, not how they roll in S.Korea... The artists only start making money after selling a fixed amount of albums.. If I'm not mistaken 1 Million albums? So only after that amount is sold, do these babies get money. Sigh. The price of fame man...
Which now brings me back to what I was thinking...
So now, we have a figure to the faces... Say each group/solo artist is their own unit... And the fans (omg, the fans. I was just made aware of Sasaeng fans... Fucking cray bitches... [Read here of an example, and KEEP IN MIND, these artists pay SHIT LOADS of money for their homes for the purpose of keeping the fans AWAY])
ANYWAY. So right the fans. Now that they see the figures.. and like any crazy obsessive fan who treats their favorites like their boyfriends... I wonder what they'd be thinking?
Side note: The same friend showed me a gif some a letter some girl sent to her favorite artist written with her period... I threw up a little when I read the translation... It said:
I dedicate to Taecyeon my period blood letter.
Ok Taecyeon, You cannot live without me.
Sprinkled with a few strands of my pubes
Dear Lord.
Sorry guys... For the really random and weird post. Erm. Yeah. But yay for finally writing something in here after ages! yippeee!
xoxo,
Kim. ♥
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