A
Korean ELF went to visit a Hottracks store late in November. She said
that one of the employee’s computers was on, and the screen revealed the
Mr. Simple Version A stocks within every Hottracks store. Here’s what
it read:
Gangnam: 14 albums
Jamsil: 9 albums
Anyang: 10 albums
Changwon: 1 albums
Jeonju: 5 albums
Bundang: 11 albums
Busan: 18 albums
Mokdong: 3 albums
Cheonan: 8 albums
Centum City: 19 albums
Seongnam: 3 albums
Yeongdeongpo: 24 albums
Sooyoo: 1 albums
Daegu: 2 albums
Jamsil: 9 albums
Anyang: 10 albums
Changwon: 1 albums
Jeonju: 5 albums
Bundang: 11 albums
Busan: 18 albums
Mokdong: 3 albums
Cheonan: 8 albums
Centum City: 19 albums
Seongnam: 3 albums
Yeongdeongpo: 24 albums
Sooyoo: 1 albums
Daegu: 2 albums
She
said that she was greatly surprised with how low the stocks were, and
after finding out about the recent news of SM’s decision to no longer
print Mr. Simple Version A, she became shocked. SM’s excuse was that it
was “too difficult to print”. This is an outrageous excuse, and no
entertainment company simply stops printing their artist’s albums due to
“difficulties”.
Furthermore,
Super Junior has sold 480,000 albums total. Super Junior openly
expressed that they wanted to sell 500,000 albums. SM deciding to
suddenly stop printing the group’s albums keeps them from reaching this
goal. The boys are also going into a two year hiatus, and the future is
unpredictable. Leeteuk even said that the MAMA award could possibly well
be Super Junior’s last award, resulting with the rest of the group in
tears. This means that Super Junior also questions how well their
popularity will last. SM is not helping with the matter.
SM
obviously has other intentions as to why they won’t print Mr. Simple
Version A albums anymore. These are for reasons unknown; but I think we
have enough evidence to conclude that something is wrong. An
entertainment treats their artists right. This isn’t a competition about
how gets better treatment; this is about an entertainment becoming
incredibly ridiculous and unjust.
There
are barely any albums in the stores all over South Korea. There’s about
a total of 100 throughout the entire nation. They might all be gone
now. There are ELF who probably will never be able to get a Mr. Simple
album because of this.
The full story is here, written in hangul by SJ-Market.
I
would probably raid SMTOWN’s facebook page and ask for the true reason
as to why SM decided to stop printing Mr. Simple Version A albums.
Version A was our key to winning the Golden Disk… no, not even that… It
was the main album. And it’s only been four months since SM started to
reproduce this album! Stores all over South Korea even have Super
Junior-05 albums! SM decided to use the Mr. Simple album design and
cover, it was their decision. So it is their price to pay.
It
is their job to reprint albums whether they like it or not. They can’t
simply stop because it’s “too hard on them”. The fans demand it. No SM,
this isn’t about you. This is about what your customers want and what
your artists need. We won’t accept selfishness, greed, and whatever else
your company is playing at. We won’t go down without a fight.
As a K-ELF always says, “이렇게 쉽게 포기한다고 누가그래?”…”Who said we would give up this easily?” Because we won’t.
What do you think of this? A company stopping the printing of an artist's album because it's too hard? I honestly don't know why they are so hard on Super Junior because they seem to be just as popular globally as any other k-pop artists. And I'm sure SM rakes in as much money with SJ as they do with other artists under their name.
Source: ELFamazing
Source: ELFamazing
