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Well, at least I now know the answer to why BTS got into the Billboard Top 20 chart: first day sales rush. (A student of mine insisted everyone in America knows BTS and likes them. I raised an eyebrow and said, "I doubt that." He pointed at Billboard as evidence.) @digitalmusicnws/1010232252163395587
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I mean a week later, BTS was selling less than a generation-old rock album and a Disney soundtrack from years earlier. (Probably because streaming tracks counts as some fraction of an album sale, apparently?) So, yeah... of course, this is dated. But still helpful context.
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Given it's the last day of class, I'm not going there with this guy—no sense in risking outsized outrage so late in semester!—but at least I have it in my back pocket for next time. Because definitely *someone* is going to bring it up again, right?