Anonymous caonima · 13d
oppar, I've been noticing quite a big of "deluxe" versions of pop albums recently, and I noticed that while it's kind of common to have deluxe versions of pop albums, it's exceedingly rare to see deluxe versions of kpop albums. Why is that? And why are "deluxe" albums even a thing, couldn't they release all the tracks at once?
K-pop albums are already pretty 'deluxe' when you look at the physical packaging. In the west, repackaged albums are a scam to get superfans to buy the thing twice but adding extra tracks etc, this has been a thing since the 90s where CDs became popular and since most albums didn't fill a whole CD there was room to play with
