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Originally Posted by Maemi
I'm sorry if this has already been posted, but I just can't find a thread like this 
Anyway, I'm very curious and I hope someone can explain me...
I'm cognizant when comes to Japanese releasing of music. I know they have their Orican chart, and that they always release few singles before album, to support and increase their sales.
But I've noticed that they release only digital singles in Korea, including mini albums, and of course full albums.
In China / Taiwan I can't see any singles released from popular artists, for an examle - Jolin Tsai.
Am I wrong, because it's impossible for me to know all artists' discographies, but that's just smth I noticed, so I want to check it. Why is so? |
I seriously prefer the Japanese way of doing music. I really like their idea/strategy of releasing singles before the actual full album as it gives their fans a taste of what or how their (the artist) sounds will be like.
According to my cousin who is a big fan of K-Pop, it is currently a so-called trend for artists to release digi-singles and/or mini-albums. IMO, the korean music industry adopted the U.S music industry marketing strategy, where an artist releases an album, and they release singles afterwards. Quite the opposite from the Japanese marketing style/strategy. Actually, I won't call it as releasing singles but more like promotional tracks to promote the album.
