[instiz] CLARIFYING RIIZE’S ‘GET A GUITAR’ SAJAEGI

1. RIIZE’s Get A Guitar

1st week sale – 1.01M 

Total sales 1.09M

Circle – Physical albums shipment count

Hanteo – Merchant sales count

2. The agency told the record labels

“We’re going to hold this many events for you, so you can go ahead and register this many orders already”

So the even before opening said events (lucky draw, fansigns, etc.), the record labels already created more “orders” than the actual amount of “sales”

3. The reality is not that they have sold 1.01M physical copies in the first week sales and then sold another additional 80K, the 80K comes from the number that was not captured during the first week sales

To illustrate: 

Company A orders 1M

Company B orders 10K, then later adds another 80K > the first week sales becomes 1.01M and the total sales becomes 1.09M

So how many thousands were lost in the middle?

t/n: basically, OP claims that RIIZE sold 1.09M copies during the first week sales, but instead 80K was ordered during that time but added after the first week sales. OP claims that SM basically told labels to sell 1.09M albums ahead of time (to match the events they will be holding) but the first week sales showed 1.01M because there was 80K that failed to be captured in the record. However, chronologically speaking, they haven’t sold 1.09M in only a week

4. And let’s look at all the events RIIZE held since September

Even after their promotion (for Get A Guitar), they released another digital single and other lucky draw events and all these numbers went into the Get A Guitar album 

bullet 1: fansigns

bullet 2: lucky draw)

5. They’ve held this many events, but at the turn of the year, they’ve only sold 1000 extra copies

 

???:  Doesn’t this mean that they have sold 1M copies over the span of 3 months?

Either there is a record label that has not yet returned the sales or is accumulating album inventory, but either way, the actual number of albums sold may be less than a million.

1. Wow how many video calls did they have to hold ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

2. Wow what is this?

3. Yet they introduce themselves as million sellers?

4. Amazingㅋㅋㅋ

5. Meanwhile they’re making the kids hold that many fansigns, what crime did they commit

6. This is a scam

7. It should be inacceptable to prepare your own “performance/result” in advance just to increase the first week sales of an album, and then make up for the gap by filling it with the promotion of a digital single, without even having a physical album

8. Is the company insane…?

9. So they’re still holding fansigns for Get A Guitar?

10. They didn’t even have to go this far for RIIZE to hit big, but this company is doing too much. Even if they were to sell 1 million in the future, do you think people will believe them?