Physical or Digital Fame; Which Is More Important in K-Pop?

In a day and age where we rarely see and hear the word “CD”, the South Korean music industry changes the game with its high sales. While the rest of the world has moved on from using compact disks aka CDs, South Korea has not! According to the “Hanteo Global K-Pop Report: 2021 Semi-annual Summary” released in July 2021 by Hanteo Global, which runs the album sales tracker Hanteo Chart, CD sales in the country increased 34.25 percent during the first half of 2021 compared to the same period in…

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