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Originally Posted by visionfactory
Japanese market works this way:
Single 1, Single 2, Single 3, Album including 3 previously released singles
Korean market works this way:
Mini-album, Repackaged album (Mini-album with more songs)
and sometimes they release a digital single before releasing the mini-album
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I think that explanation is a little TOO simplified? Like, Koreans don't always release mini albums, and they generally don't repackage their actual mini albums. They pretty much do whatever the f they want though, lol. They switch between releasing singles and mini albums (which can both have three songs if they want, they don't care). Some artists release albums that are six songs (which we would call mini albums, but they call albums) and some release albums that have ten or more songs. Also, depending on the artists and apparently what they just happen to feel like doing at the time, the title tracks from previous singles and mini albums may or may not end up on the full album. Albums are generally the only ones that get repackaged, but not ALL artists repackage their albums. I think the album repackaging thing is
mostly an SM thing, because I can't really think of any YG, JYP, etc. groups that have repackaged their albums. Of course, it's not ONLY SM artists, like how BEG, T-ara, Infinite and many others have repackaged their albums. But generally, it's not something that everyone does/something that happens every time an album is released.