Thank you very much for the video.☺

You honestly deserve so many more subs and views because your content straight up states facts, it's so true that sone radio hosts only see us armys as crazy superficial fans and they care nothing about their music and don't even know how much their lyrics and songs mean to us, and I didn't know anything about the radio host talking about manifestation, he talks shit and these kind of people are really frustrating, this video made me realise how BTS and Army are so important to each other and they see us as equals, it's true, we don't need radio plays, we're still going to be on top!

@@jinishi6720 facts!

very well said ARMY.... 👏👏👏👏👏 just like Jungkook said in hIS vlog... BTS 💜 ARMY FOREVER....

Thank you for this 🥹

True. Is sad, because when they were there for the first time they were so happy, you could feel their excitement but then, after years passed,happened like you said, the sarcastic answers began after the dissapointment of how music industry works there. Is sad. They were so naive.

They must have become so jaded by the corruption. That's really sad.

yeah

Mario Lopez don't have anything but a dimple! He's not even a good emcee.

@@leahkalkbrenner6172 yes I just watched too hot to handle new season.. he's not aging well 🤔

artists don't need radio to gain fans. They need to be more open on social to fans, and develop a fan base, and they need to do better. work harder, earn respect =more money for the artists and the loyal crew that work with them. BTS has proven that.

Just like how they grew organically in South Korea, in they own way instead of through the usual kpop system.

@@LPnerd to depend on your fans to stream is sad & cheating. radio is accurate way to see what song is popular & highly requested

You will never remain on top. One u didn’t even get to the top. u niggas have to manually mass stream to get views, the only way it should be is that an artist is depending on mainstream buying, streaming, & voting. what will bts do when army dies out? well they will perish as well. if they were mainstream their songs would’ve been the center for success but because that has not happened. army & bts use not only numbers but manipulated numbers to float their way through. bts is like those groups that suddenly disappear

@@corpedatlanta wrong. You do realize that other people can also put in requests to hear songs that haven't been heard in YEARS; for example the Beatles. They haven't been on the radio in decades yet they still maintain their popularity due to being dependent on their fans. Just say your faves are flopping and go. You're too obsessed, looking at your other comments !

Oof yeah I’m just so sick of radio’s shenanigans. Im still so happy to hear BTS anytime on the radio, but it ticks me off that a massive fanbase can request the Korean songs a million times & it won’t matter, but any english collab is a piece of cake- or collab in general like w/ Coldplay.

I remembered doing a lot of request one time too to a bunch of radio station, I wasn't the only one, there were a lot of armys doing it too but they never played them. That's the reason why I get so excited when I hear their songs on the radio.

@@heianneeve3341 , I'm happy bighit does not participate in Pay for play!

aww, hugs

I agree. Plus I love your username 😊

@@shelby2135 thank u!

@@cupcakenfetti that's been going on for decades, they do that here too.

@@cupcakenfetti you're so naive if you think bighit didnt manipulate and pay people

@@janvdb9258 Big hit was going bankrupt i'm sure they had money to spare to pay people. You aren't the first person to bring up this allegation and you won't be the last.

@@janvdb9258 Bighit doesn’t want to spend their money on things like this, there is nothing to be naive

​@@janvdb9258 dude back then BTS come from a small no name company, they don't have the money for such thing, they become famous because of their own talents and hard work. In fact using money to buy fan never work because those fan don't stay, they are not gonna buy merch nor song and album, they contributed nothing to the profit of the company and thus they're a liability, not a benefit.

I’m kinda sad they only play their English songs but I’m happy they at least play their songs, Last time I went to the mall they played “10000 Hours”by Jungkook so it was kinda surprising

I also heard ptd in Wal-Mart the other weekend XD I almost cried because for once it wasn't butter or dynamite, even if it still was an English single.

I actually work at one of my local Walmarts as a Vendor, so I'm there all the time and I can tell you they play Butter and PTD ALL THE TIME! I was really surprised. I'm at Walmart at least 4 times a week for a couple hours a day and I have heard their music played on "Walmart Radio" during literally every shift (they also really like to play Loona's "Star" but that's it). Those are the only songs I've heard played by any Korean artist on their radio.

I was at Walmart couple of weeks ago and they were playing “Yet To Come”

But it doesn't count for chart,bcz it still give them zero points on chart

Yeah, seems like radio DJs are not just talk personalities, not actual DJs. In my country, the classical radio station is run with the traditional DJs choosing their own songs, wish more stations were like that. The radio station I have on at work played Liam Payne Strip That Down twice a day and every day I cringe in embarrassment, its such a bad song, the only reason that song gets played is because someone paid to have it on. No one in their right mind would listen to that song voluntarily.

Ikr.....who needs radio ? There are a lot of better media to listen to our fav.song n artists. BTS is my thing idc ppl hate them or whatever. Borahae💜

@@loftyradish6972 I used to wonder how certain songs gets so big when they're so obvious bad. I guess I didn't really think about it until recently.

Anytime something gets that commercialized it's the beginning of the end. TV/cable? Haven't watched in over 10 yrs. Don't miss it, I find my own stuff to watch. Award shows? Nope, especially in the US. Too many overhyped celebs preaching instead of entertaining. We have a station here on the radio that actually plays requests & songs that are not usually played. It's classic rock which I have no problem with but if it's any mainstream pop 🤮 I swear I can't take it. You can find much better music on the internet. Not saying that the money don't roll in because of how commercialized it is but don't come at me with artistry because corporate ruins artistry. It's all formulatic pablum.

@@melaniecarver5719 i used to think this too. lol

So true! Where I live one channel got in trouble bc the pre-programed centralized broadcast did not suspend their broadcast to deliver necessary tornado warnings!

yep, USA radio is so corrupted, here where I live (Argentina) that doesn't happen, DJs play whatever is popular on streaming platforms or requested songs, as you can imagine BTS is being played all the time. I don't even listen to the radio but in the rarely occasion I do, they're always being played.

i live in Canada so it might be a bit different here, but i'm really glad that doesn't happen here. i mean it could but i could be happening but I'd be surprised if it was. i have heard; boy with luv, yet to come and even run (not the new run bts like the old hyyh era run) on the radio. mind you this is a very popular radio station and is also a pop radio station. i'm very glad they play these and thanks to the dj for picking them!

I live in Minnesota, USA and rarely hear BTS on the radio but it was funny when I heard them playing in a small town at a Walmart store! I was so happy!

@@pennymcdonald538 I think they've been included in the playlists for some commercial establishments, which are different from radio playlists. I've heard them at the grocery store, but never on the radio.

True especially YGE,their such a shady company setting Blackpink up

Same, I also quit radio cause of garbage music.. got myself spotify and listened to bts only

@Jiraca I do listen to others too from time to time, especially 2010's music, but at the end I always end up with bts

Wasn’t Radio supposed to play what people want?

@@emacarvalho7889 It used to. Back in the 80s and 90s. When the music industry didn't feel so 'threatened' by foreign music. But the US music industry is based on the idea that American music is, OF COURSE, the best in the world. So having K-pop artists in 6 out of the top 10 on Digital US Sales, or 7 out of 10 on US Trending, looks oh so 'threatening' to them. (eyeroll.)

@@ystrw they can stay conservative or narrow-minded or money-hungry all they want but the relevancy will come back if they start opening up to other forms to music :-) not forcing them to listen to bts but rather at least going beyond their comfort zone

Radio Station better get with the changes technology is here and moving rapidly. Don’t be afraid of change and get with it or you may be left behind ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼💜

@@jojoccc The trouble is, they think they have gotten with the changes. They've 'consolidated' the thousands of radio channels into 6 main companies. They've 'removed guesswork' by issuing playlists that DJs aren't allowed to alter. They seem to think that by controlling what people hear, they can decide what music is popular and what's not. They're literally being paid to do this, so they don't suffer financially. And since Billboard is weighting radio spins higher than anything other metric, they aren't getting any reality checks. Yet. But they will. They've left fandoms out of their reckoning, at that is where it will bite them. Especially K-pop fandoms, who are all getting very tired of this nonsense.

totally agree. I also live in Europe and that's exactly like that

Which part of Europe, please?!🙏💜🇬🇧💜

When I heard my universe in the car on radio, it was edited to only played the english parts. The only time I heard the full song on radio was at Walmart. (Which is called walmart radio).

@@TayaTawan OMG that's so unfair!!! I can't imagine how ashamed Coldplay would feel with this behavior of the radios, he wanted the collab, so play the whole music dammit!

Yes. Left and Right was played in Europe too tnx to Charlie and being in English

Industry here is sooo corrupt yes indeed

lots of racism and xenophobia towards Asians from American industries

Well the thing is their music is way too diverse for it to just be categorised as pop. I could easily name about 15-20 songs that fall under rock, emo, Funk, Grunge, Electronic. And that doesn't even include the huge part of their discography being hard-core hiphop. So the issue of the genres you mentioned facing these problems are sure one part of it. But that would only be if people were even aware they have a discography of almost about 300 tracks with the most diverse songs. The Western media loves pretending BTS is just kid friendly pop music. This is were the industry politics come in. The west likes when something from outside trends as long as they can call it 'oh how cute', or 'how funny', or 'its ridiculously catchy' etc. Remember Gangnam Style? That's a good example. But the moment they realise an artist from outside is beyond one trending song, but has a huge history and artistry it's now a threat. So they will actively downplay everything to fanatic, obsessive fans that will die for these 'little korean boys'. Wherein the reality is the highest percentage of their fans are of age 30 to 40 and the rest of the age groups almost equally divided. Ps. They did have problematic past. Mainly the rappers since they came from underground. And their exposure to hip hop was not educated exposure. Partly also since, Korea back then weren't too aware about political correctness and what could be insultful. So them as 15-20 yr olds would imitate a lot of things, and hairstyles not knowing it could be insultful to the community. Until they themsleves started realising what they were doing. Because of which, by 2016, after writing their lyrics they would get it read by professionals so that they could learn how the issues work and where they must improve. And note, this was when they weren't even big in Korean.

If kpop is played in Radio it can only mean PAYOLA. BTS were played once or two times bcs it was imposible to lie about their songs not actually being requested massively by actual people, but we are certainly done with radio now.

thank you so much💜

SAME SAME

HEAR HEAR!

@@boracitymagazine r u from poland ?

Same

Sadly this video will mostly be watched by us fans who already knows about this unfairness. Maybe we can recommend it to reactors.

@@atin4353 Yesss that was my idea too!💜 Let´s do it!!💪 I think it´s a topic and problem that effects other fandoms too and just in general should be important to every true music fan - so I´ll really do my best to also recommend it in comment-sections of channels that don´t exclusively react to BTS and K-pop🙌 I mean how can we change things (and I genuinely think we actually could if only enough people stand up and begin to talk) if no one is aware of the extent of this scam going on... so THANK YOU and APOBANGPO🤗💜💜💜

@@rapjinenthusiast731 yes and the USA do it to their own artists as well the smaller Indie Artists. US artist have spoke out about the corruption more than once but people don't listen or pretend to to hear. Yet this 'Payola' scandal has been reported in Major US Media and with a big case going to court. Yet still the average American hasn't a clue what goes on.

fr llke the chart is supposed to be a reflection of what the people WANTS to listen to, not labels and djs. atp radio shouldn't even be counted on charts anymore as it doesn't accurately represent the purpose of the charts. it's ridiculous how bb weighed down the sales' influence on hot 100 when out of the three factors (sales, streams, radio) it's the sales that is the most organic and the one that has least chance of being manipulated.

Exactly 💜

Yes, that's why BTS MVs always hit millions of views in their first minutes and hours. But I think YT has reduced, or even eliminated, the repeat-views count. Because recent views are way, way down- not just for BTS, but for Itzy, Seventeen and others. and they all cap out in their first 24 hours at around the same number- between 10 and 11m views. (I'm trying to figure out a way to test this...) I also notice a lot of people are moving off to other platforms, Patreon especially. And as to replay, yeah, it may surprise some people, but ARMY don't actually sit on social media 24-7 waiting for every slightest update. We spread the word like that because it's a big fandom, and the boys pour out so much content that it's easy to miss or overlook something. Besides, we like to share. If other fandoms don't, that's a them problem; they're perfectly free to remind and encourage each other if they want to. They don't want to, fine, but then they've no right to complain about us doing it.

ROFL ARMY and guilty of manipulation more than anyone. Buying 20 copies of a record is distorting reality. God you folks are delusional hypocrites

Not really. I'm retired mom doesn't know who BTS ever are.

@@janvdb9258 you are the one being a delusional hypocrite over here. what are your opinions about the other western artists who push their fans to mass buy??? *You don’t have to look far to see other artists who have played this game to their advantage. Take Harry Styles, who gave his slow-burning hit “Watermelon Sugar” a last-minute push to No. 1 in early August by releasing three physical/digital single bundles, two new music videos and discounting the download to 69 cents during the same tracking week. Or Travis Scott and Kid Cudi, who blasted “The Scotts” to a No. 1 debut with help from “15 physical configurations,” according to Billboard. (The track dropped to No. 12 in its second week, proof that staying at No. 1 is a much different battle than reaching No. 1.)* *Speaking of remixes: Maybe BTS’s critics forgot about Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s “Rain on Me,” which was available at various points to stream and purchase in its original form, as an instrumental, and as remixes by Purple Disco Machine and Ralph Rosario. That’s to say nothing of Doja Cat’s “Say So” and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage,” both of which vaulted to No. 1 thanks to high-profile remixes featuring Nicki Minaj and Beyonce, respectively.* *People who accused BTS of releasing too many versions of “Dynamite” might have also forgotten about Taylor Swift, who released 16 deluxe physical editions (eight CDs and eight vinyl) and a variety of merchandise bundles of her latest No. 1 album, Folklore. Swift also boosted her recent No. 1 single, “Cardigan,” by selling a limited edition vinyl single that included the song’s original voice memo and releasing a “cabin in candlelight” version of the track for purchase and streaming.* *And of course, no rundown of outlandish Hot 100 antics would be complete without a salute to Drake, who reportedly recruited dancers and social media influencers Toosie, Ayo & Teo and Hiii Key to create dance moves for his chart-topping “Toosie Slide” and flaunt them across their social media platforms, creating a viral dance challenge for a song that hadn’t even dropped yet.* And these are not my words. These are facts. *ROFL* Edit: though this is from 2020, my point still stands

Not just a venue the biggests venues on the planet like BTS do.

Yeah the cupcake thing! I have seen that interview many times but never knew that. That really makes me mad. They could have atleast said Army got these cupcakes for bts but they made it look like they got it themselves. What ever, atleast bts got to eat Army's cupcakes.

honestly, BTS is the only concert I'd consider going to. NO one comes close . I like other pop music, but not much. I respect Swift, but not my thing. Bruno Mars, some Gaga, mainly I like classical and musicals. LOL but BTS is amazing.

I didn’t know about the cupcakes either!!! My gosh, just when I think they can’t get any lower…

I think RM knew, the cupcakes were from armys. He made a joke about it. He said, "You guys must be rich". Those djs started laughing.

@@LPnerd I'm not into pop music I prefer Rap, Rock, Heavy metal, Gospel, R & B, Soul, Jazz and Reggie.

'You can shame me for streaming when your faves don't have a chart showing how much they've been streamed. Till then, shut it.' 🙂

Army needs to understand kpop just isnt for everyone especially in the states

@@aziababy5732 we know that we just want basic respect Miss girl 🙄😀

@@aziababy5732we are not talking about kpop

@@aziababy5732 I mean it´s not about kpop or about wanting everyone to enjoy BTS. But right now we and BTS are just very misleadingly represented by media. So that regular people in the states or anywhere in the world usually have a wrong prefabricated, prejudiced opinion about the group, their musical catalogue and the fanbase. This way people won´t even be able to ever know if they don´t or do like them because they wouldn´t want to give them a chance in the first place. I mean one example: (I don´t know if that stood out only to me or...) When Billboard reported on J-Hopes performance at Lollapalooza where he showcased HIS SOLOWORK including his new album for the first time. The one snippet they chose to show out of his 70 minute-long performance that was a pure Hiphop-performance throughout (with rock and rnb influences here and there), was from the ONE BTS-song he performed to show love for his group and surprise Army - Dynamite. The english pop song everyone already knows and associates BTS with. The song (that I love btw) that couldn´t be further away from being representative of his solo work, what he wanted to show the world and what he brought on to the stage that day. - And what I naturally expect from a music news channel (and we are talking Billboard here...!) is to of course report on the facts about his solo Lollapalooza performance and show the footage that encaptures what was musically going on. People who "don´t like" and also don´t really know BTS have in common most of the time that they also have no idea about their incredibly diverse discography. BUT they will probably know dynamite (or mabye Butter). Because it was literally everywhere after it came out. And I bet people who don´t particularly enjoy funky disco-pop tunes like Dynamite might think BTS is just exactly what that particular song stands for - nothing more or less. And they wouldn´t in their dreams think BTS could bless this world with albums like "Jack in the box". Which is super understandable! I don´t know and people can´t imagine a group/artist where I can expect to find songs like _Mic drop, Singularity, ddaeng, black swan, zero o clock, ugh, Epiphany, Agust d, friends, your eyes tell, go go, Moonchild, chicken noodle soup, Idol, my time, ma city, forever rain, more, ON, airplane pt 2, Dionysus, butterfly etc. etc. etc._ to sit on one table! And as far as I could observe it the media constantly tries incredibly hard to keep it that way. (this one example on it´s own is maybe a little bit far fetched - it´s just I notice this pattern everywhere and all the time after paying attention...but of course media was always known to in a subconscious way stigmatize things so that people are lead to where the money flows into the industries pockets...) ...Oh and I´m sorry @AziaBaby I didn´t initially plan to write a whole essay here and it´s not directed at you of course😅I totally get what you mean! - people have different tastes and that´s so important to be respected. In my opinion that´s also one of the first reasons why money shouldn´t dictate whats on the charts! Fair and equal public media representation and people´s genuine heartfelt opinions on the latter should be💜

@@aziababy5732 We are not talking about Kpop we are talking about BTS. Kpop is an Industry not a genre of music. BTS is main stream pop, R&B, HipHop, Soul, Rock EDM just to name a few of the music Genre's BTS are part of. Oh and not forgetting Jaz.

The thing with this change is that it's going to come back to bite Billboard and US radio HARD. People are already focusing on digital over radio play, and the fact that you can't call in and request songs, and DJ's can't vary from the company-set playlists, means that people are going to keep turning away from radio and listening to what they actually want to hear from digital platforms. The Billboards are going to go the way of the grammys- disgraced and held in contempt- and radio is going to continue to struggle until it finally goes under entirely. It'll take a while, of course, but as long as they keep ignoring the Sales charts and the Trending charts- the ones that tell them what listeners are actually tuning in to- they're just shooting themselves in the foot. As for BTS- they don't need the grammys, and they don't need Billboard, either. Not when >15m people are breaking the internet and selling out tickets to watch ONE BTS member perform at America's most famous music festival. :)

@@ystrw exactly. radio is already dying, and even regarding physical sales nobody is buying. billboard just posted literally a day ago that "while ‘bundles’ are no longer accepted as of July 2020, box sets still count towards the Billboard 200" which is basically a more 'subtle' version of bundles. right it's the streaming era right now but nobody has the demand bts have and bb does not realize that these rules will affect everyone and it will backfire on them 🤷

Actually she just knows what BTS-related topics are most important and worth making videos on. This is a very talked-about topic on ARMY Twitter that always comes back every once in a while like just recently.

@@raccoonchild Of course. But no one make videos about these things. That's what I mean. There are lot of people like reactors who don't know exact information about these things. So i think it's great for them react to this channel videos. I've seen a few do it but this videos are so good. They should react to them rather than doing meaningless videos. You know what i mean. I see these useless video reactions everywhere. These people will learn so much and open their eyes if they watch something like this.

@@lakshi9276 Yes, that's why I praised OP in my own separate comment for making content 'KZfaq ARMYs' can rely on and maybe use as a bridge to even further research

@@raccoonchild 👍💜

@brookemorrison is an army and works in music industry. I wonder what she has to say abt this.

U re so correct

your english is great :)

@@ashton1356 thank you 😊🤗

billboard *knows* that it's just payola lol, that's why it weighs so much. because it can be controlled by labels and adjusted to the way they like it. billboard has more than 25 charts only indicating airplay across US

Not without fans it won't. Unless they go out on their own, Like Beiber did, and BTS to some extent.

that being said i hope all of you are voting them on MTV for group of the year

Me too, especially since music channels here started playing more kpop songs (only the popular ones) and marketing their channels using kpop, only to get the engagement and when we give them that engagement they don't even go through with playing them

you are right. The radios no longer deserve listening.