Netizen are divided into their opinions.
BIG BANG member and rapper G-dragon It was recently his long -awaited return with his third studio album, Superhuman.
This album marked G-Dragon’s return to music after Bigbang’s 2022 release, “Still Life”. It is also the first solo output of the rapper in eight long years after his last EP Kwon Ji Yong, which was released on June 8, 2017.
Given the long break, the return of G-dragon was undoubtedly very expected. But the sales data of his latest album left the Netizen bewitted. Second Hanteothe total number of sales in the first week for Superhuman It is over 832,700 copies, marking a career peak for G-dragon as a soloist.
To put it in perspective, the first week sale number of sale Superhuman It is about 18 times higher than the sales record of the first week of his last EP, Kwon Ji Yongwhich is 46,397 units. While G-Dragon has always enjoyed constant popularity as an artist, his new album seems to have reached a much wider audience than before.
This enormous increase in sales numbers has obtained some conflicting reactions from the Netizen. While some saw him as a testimony of G-Dragon’s ability to reach new peaks despite his longtime career, others felt that reflected the change in the mentality of consumers among K-pop fans.
- “GD is GD.”
- “Then, the culture of” first week sales “did not exist, Lol.”
– “2017 was the maximum splendor period of the third generation. It was very there. “
- “Wow, the culture that buys the albums has become really distorted. Looking at it like this, it seems even stranger. “
- “Wow, but this is really impressive. It’s really a 2nd-Gen idol?
– “Ye, s it is.” - “Oh my God!”
- “Please release the albums often.”
- “20 years later, and has just set a new career.”
