[FYI] ALBUM SALES

Music industry in South Korea is one of the successful industry in the world and the most influence in Asia beside Japan. In Korea, singers release their songs in form of physical and digital. Actually, there are some piracies towards music copyright, it is an illegal activity and government take an action to give the pirates with appropriate punishment and it makes piracy rates in South Korea is low. South Korean people are like to support their singers by buying the physical album and download the digital album in the official music download website. It makes the singers and also the composers get their right to receive royalty of their works. In Korea, physical album is very popular because despite of they are support the singers they also receive the present in the form of photobooks and photocards. In an album it usually contain several pages of picture that printed in the form of book and the special thing is that in an album people can get a random photocard. Digital album is also popular, usually Korean people like to do streaming than buying an physical album. Streaming is the simple way for busy people who want to listen to their favorite music.

In the other hand, piracy issue is one of controversial issue in Indonesia even the government can not solve that problem. Actually, Indonesian singers are lack of both of physical and digital album. There are many sellers who sell rigged album, usually middle class people buy this kind of album. People who like to download the album are not download it in the official website but in the illegal website. In one hand, people can understand this transaction but in the other hand it is wrong to buy rigged album. It can be because of the design of the album is too simple and the price is too high.

Indonesian people could follow the way South Korean singers do, not all the way they do the design or the way they promoting. Singers can design their album as unique as possible or they can hold an event for people who buy their album. For example like a singer who sell their album in the franchise stores, it is kind of the way the singer sell and promote their album. people can support their singer in several ways, but they have to choose the right way, the legal way so Indonesian singer could get their right and it can be a motivation for them to always give the best works. Don’t forget to support the singers by buy the phisical album, download, or streaming the digital album! don’t think about the price, for your information KPOP album is more expenssive than Indonesian album.