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3.388. ONEUS 2025 WORLD TOUR ‘H_OUR, US’

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I just really want ONEUS to do well🫶 submitted by /u/Majestic_Respond_258 [link] [comments]

3.389. Some reasons why kpop groups don’t tour Canada

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I’ve seen a lot of comments from people that are sad or confused on why so many big kpop tours don’t come to Canada nowadays. As a Canadian who pays attention to ticket sales, these are very telling and help explain why. Note this is more so focused on larger scale concerts in arenas or stadiums. Might go on a tangent but here we go: 1. Canadian tickets are expensive for local wages and can be even more expensive than American ones. This impacts ticket sales as local affordability is awful and makes Canada a riskier market compared to the US. Let’s look at some recent concerts and compare to other western countries: Blackpink GA Pit VIP US: $900 USD Canada: $1500 CAD Stray Kids VIP US: $600 USD Canada: $800 CAD Australia: $500 AUD Babymonster Send Off VIP US: $500 USD Canada: $800 CAD Since Canada is so close to America, we get the unfortunate reality that our ticket prices are usually on par with theirs or EVEN MORE after FX conversion. BP and Baemon have ridiculous FX conversion rates of $1.60 or more. This makes those tickets actually the most expensive for any fan. Looking at Stray Kids, Australia actually has higher salaries then Canada but has cheaper tickets. This makes it way more affordable for local fans. But Canadian shows are never priced to local affordability because of how close we are to the US. By doing this you price out locals and so a lot of people buying your tickets either are Americans travelling or huge fans willing to spend the money. North American Kpop tours absolutely depend on casual fans unless you have a massive fanbase especially when you’re playing bigger venues such as arenas or stadiums. Blackpink is a prime example. Day 1 Toronto sold out pretty well, but Day 2 sales were awful. Clearly no demand at the same high Day 1 prices. So they cut floor prices to $450 CAD or less and that’s when tickets started selling more. But those prices are less than the equivalent American tickets so the tour is making less in Toronto. Blackpink haven’t sold out either date for the $1500 CAD VIP tickets which makes sense because it’s easier for an American to pay $900 USD then a Canadian to pay $1500 CAD. Our wages are a lot worse. Sure we have had artists sell out arenas in Toronto such as Twice, Aespa, and Ateez. But Twice is a long running group with a massive fandom and 2023 was their first shows ever here. Aespa is the biggest girl group at the moment so that makes them trendy and popular with lots of casual interest. Those two had very big popularity to help sell them out. Ateez did well with last year’s concert (I think basically selling out) and getting tickets for them wasn’t particularly difficult. But they aren’t coming back and I think Toronto just wasn’t worth it for their current tour. For the biggest American cities, they chose stadiums and they definitely don’t have the popularity to do it here in Toronto. Plus, they increased ticket prices by a lot. Lower bowl regular tickets are $300 USD+ which would be over $400 CAD. Their most expensive VIP is $1200 USD and that would be at least $1700 CAD. I don’t doubt they could sell the VIP out but higher ticket prices for regular seats would start pricing out locals and considering they just came last year, I can see many people choosing to skip it. Another group that came earlier is NCT 127 and this was their first Canadian concert since 2019, but ticket sales weren’t great and they sold the lowest % out of the NA tour here. Yes their concert was on a weekday, but so was Aespa which sold out. If people wanted to go, it wouldn’t stop them. Concerts like this can make promoters and companies hesitant about doing shows here. Is it worth the extra difficulty of planning a Canadian show if it performs worse than the American stops? 2. Venue availability and tour costs We all know kpop tours are announced with much less notice than American tours. Toronto gets so many other tours along with basketball and hockey games. The main arena (Scotiabank Arena) is in very high demand that both BTS and Blackpink have never played there because other artists had concerts at the same time. Toronto only has one arena of the typical concert capacity (10-15K) so if they can’t book here then they’ll have to play in a town away called Hamilton. This is an inconvenience for both the tour and fans so if there’s nothing in Toronto then it’s easy just to skip Canada. There are other factors too that I think make concerts in Canada expensive. All the VISA costs just for likely one Toronto concert. Concerts in Canada have different laws with merch which makes it logistically more difficult. Booking the one downtown arena in Toronto also likely isn’t cheap. Also, hotels in Toronto are widely known to be very expensive. All in all, I could see Toronto concert operating costs being very high for a place that doesn’t have the same demand as NYC, LA, or Chicago. Financially, is it really worth coming here? Especially when some kpop tours (cough HYBE cough) do very short tours and little US dates to begin with. Of course, they’re going to be picky and try to maximum their tour revenue in the US and go to the places with the most demand and reliable markets. As someone who likes a lot of HYBE groups, it really sucks to never get their tours here. But I don’t see that changing. HYBE does very short North American and overall tours compared to say JYPE tours. They’re not going to spare us a date. BTS is the test. They could play multiple days of stadiums and easily sell them out. If BTS don’t come then no other HYBE kpop groups will come (Katseye is the exception as they are western focused). submitted by /u/insidedarkness [link] [comments]

3.390. Ranking All Road To Kingdom 2 Group Performances (Because I Miss It)

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This was so hard to make because I love all of these groups 😣 please check my video and channel out! submitted by /u/Suspicious-Art9256 [link] [comments]

3.391. “Why do some fandoms downplay other groups to hype their own?”

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Okay, first of all: I’m not a BLINK. I’m not an ARMY. I’m just a regular, sleep-deprived K-pop fan who clicked on a video about BLACKPINK and somehow ended up in a BTS timeline conspiracy theory thread. Like how did we go from “BLACKPINK Having a 2025 World Tour Is Still Dumb” to “It’s because BTS is being discharged 😌”?? Be so serious. This isn’t a Marvel crossover. It’s not Avengers: K-pop Endgame. BLACKPINK didn’t suddenly remember they’re idols because Jungkook got a haircut and put on a uniform. 😂 Now apparently, every group that released anything this summer did it to “ride the BTS wave.” Summer, comeback season? Nah. It’s the Bangtan Moon Cycle. 🌙 TXT? BTS. LE SSERAFIM? BTS. Your fave’s subunit? You guessed it — BTS. Like every K-pop CEO is at HYBE’s door begging, “Please, sir, may I have your calendar?” 📅 Let me be clear: Yes, companies watch trends. That’s literally what marketing is. But some of y’all talk like every K-pop company is out here tracking BTS like it’s their period. “Oh no! BTS ovulates in June. Better schedule a teaser.” 🤦‍♀️ Like HYBE sent out a mass email to all the companies saying: “Here’s BTS’s entire schedule. Now go copy it, but change the font.” That’s not how the industry works, I promise you. Also — and I cannot stress this enough — if the video is about BLACKPINK, maybe don’t turn the comment section into a BTS fan meeting. It’s like someone reviewing ice cream 🍦 and someone else busts in yelling “OKAY BUT HAVE YOU TRIED TACOS???” 🌮 If the roles were reversed and someone commented, “BTS is only coming back because BLACKPINK has a tour,” ARMYs would have that user deported from the internet. 🚫💻 I get it — BTS is huge. No one's denying that. They changed the game globally. But they didn’t invent comebacks, nor did they trademark the month of June. Not every tour, teaser, or concept is secretly tied to BTS’s enlistment arc. And while we’re at it: Yes, BTS paved the way — for global visibility 🌎. But they are not the sole blueprint of K-pop. 1st and 2nd gen groups built the foundation of K-pop in Korea and other Asian countries way before BTS even debuted. Let’s not act like they invented the genre with one VLIVE and a bucket hat. 🎩 Oh, and before I forget — I saw someone say Seventeen is only popular because BTS is in the military. Like, excuse me? I’m a Carat myself 💎, so I know firsthand the talent and hustle Seventeen puts in. Saying they’re riding BTS’s coattails is not just disrespectful, it’s lazy fandom math. 🤷‍♂️ I’m not biased (okay, maybe a little biased — go Seventeen! 😎), but come on. Every group’s grind is their own. The K-pop world is not a BTS monopoly. Stop acting like every success story is just “leftover hype” from the Bangtan era. If BTS is the sun ☀️, then every other group isn’t just a shadow — they’re stars 🌟 in their own right, shining with their own light. So yeah, maybe cool it with the BTS stans pulling a “my group’s the reason for everything” every time someone else gets a win. It’s exhausting. 😩 I’m not even defending BLACKPINK specifically here. I’m defending common sense. I don’t care if it’s BLACKPINK, TWICE, NCT, Seventeen, or Taemin’s left shoe 👟 — let artists have their moments without dragging in unrelated fandoms. In conclusion: Not everything is about BTS. Sometimes a BLACKPINK tour is just a BLACKPINK tour. Companies aren’t stalking HYBE like exes on Instagram. 📱🚫 And not every K-pop move is some covert BTS-inspired strategy. So please — let’s stop turning every comment section into a BTS lore panel. submitted by /u/Zealousideal-Use3610 [link] [comments]