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GagaKwin's avatar

What is Billboard looking at? The entire K-pop community is shocked that flopezz got to 69th place when they weren't even close to the top 100 predictions. They don't even have streams! They're not on any American charts! Billboard, change the rules, don't turn us into suckers

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Pravidniu's avatar

Ateez are scammers. With literally 0 US streams, no US chart hits, they SUDDENLY hit 69. They weren't even predicted. The Aespa fandom is already planning on using this dirty trick. Ateez fans don't even have a clue how the Billboard charts work. They can't tell the difference between bb200 and bb100.

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abbi_Lake's avatar

It turns out that the mass noise in social networks is not simple. No-names in high positions no longer seem like a global joke

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MyUniferM1's avatar

Ateez are pure scammers. $4 per CD just to push their flopplv into hot100. I hope the rules will be changed and they won't get there anymore. I wish the rules would be stricter, so that fans the Aespa were unable to use the atiny tactic in the near

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LucasENTER's avatar

I wonder when Billboard will update the rules again? You are not becoming the best chart, but are rolling down where you can be stupidly bought en masse when "hit" is listened to by one and a half chinese~ The first part of the article about ateez (flopez) is such a glitch. It's not funny to place it in 69th place (it's not even 100th place, but 69th!)

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ClipopMuy's avatar

The main thing is that they mentioned bb200, but they kept quiet about bb100.Apparently the author of the article himself doesn't know how Ateez got into the Hot 100 or is embarrassed to write. And you don't be embarrassed and write "with zero radio station, with zero streams, without getting into all the US charts, With the mass purchase, the group entered as high as 69th place". Hot 100 has turned into a scam

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Fuckuyou's avatar

It's so funny to see that Hot100 is losing its relevance and turning into a dump. Instead of publishing real viral tracks with high streams and demand, it is now enough to buy up CDs with the failed numbers on the song. I didn't understand why kpop fans were whining. I Decided watched it for fun, 69th place is such nonsense. And when I saw their streams, I almost fell off my chair

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Lara's avatar

ATEEZ debut on Hot 100 when NOBODY listened to their songs. That's fraud from mass buying cds.

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Makannning's avatar

yes

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Kitarino's avatar

I've long since gotten used to the fact that K-pop fans, like their groups, are scammers. They will never be on the level of westerners with a real demand for hits

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dewiDvd_Happy's avatar

try

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KingMyNAmmm's avatar

Great pride in Calum Hood!!🔥🔥 How did 69th place debut on 69? The only thing they could write about bb200 with sales, and how did these no-names get to this high place? It is obvious that the author of this article himself does not understand. Hot100 is becoming more and more a real buying dump, where it is enough to have a mass purchase, and not a real demand from real people

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Tu lluvia's avatar

Now that's what I call the manipulators of the year. I realize the discontent in the comments. I had to look for information about this K-pop band myself. There hasn't been such clowning for a long time.

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Pawed21's avatar

While my group was busting their asses for a debut in Hot100, a flop group without American streams got as high as 90th place? Change the rules immediately. It's embarrassing to look at Ateez fans, blindly believing in their "power" when they got out of it with fraud🤣🤣🤣

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uzkc's avatar

Now the spots on the most important charts in America are really useless. Thanks for informing us about the loophole. We will do the same.

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typicalopoi's avatar

Lemon Drop entering the Hot 100 is insane. Highest daily stream was only 884K, it’s been out for a whole week and still under 7M total. Even Billboard predictor accounts didn’t have it listed. Be serious, this makes zero sense

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Cillop12's avatar

Explain to us how "Won't Stop" was replaced out of nowhere by a song that wasn't in the top 100??? 69th place is pure scammers. I have no idea what kind of artists they are, so I decided to check the charts. The result is that they are not in any of them! Streams are a pity, it's funny to look at them. What is a billboard?🤡

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FrederikMit's avatar

No shade but seriously? How? Hot 100 is starting to make even less sense to me nowadays. If it had zero radioplay, a few thousand streams, 2 sales and no entry on Spotify US, how does it make it onto Billboard? For me, Ateez is an example of the shame of their fandom.

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