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It all comes down to forecasting. KFC and other chicken fast food chains do their level best to predict the future. That’s right. They have to predict the future. Why? Because chicken takes 15 to 20 minutes to cook and the customer wants their food at the drive thru immediately. See the problem? They have to know what to cook before it’s needed.Forecasting uses a formula consisting of: last year’s sales for this date (adjusted for day of the week), sales last week, sales direction (as in trending up or down), a mixture of clairvoyance, and luck.The managers will usually get a daily sheet telling them when and how much they should have products ready to sell. Chicken can only be held for so long after cooking, after which it has to be thrown away, or rapidly chilled, to be reused, for example chicken pot pie.If they get this forecasting wrong, for whatever reason, it can result in either product being thrown away, or not enough ready product to sell. Neither option is a good one. The idea is to almost run out and then have a fresh batch arrive just in time. Hopefully.So, you see, they just didn’t make enough chicken, but give them 10 minutes and there will be more ready to go.

To be completely honest, it’s just BTS at the moment. What I mean about this is that they are the group that the public can recognize or have heard of before, since they are all over social media, television, and news broadcasts. However, Blackpink is hands down the most popular girl group within the niche K-pop community in the USA. Their popularity is not that well-known among the public, yet. You never know if in the future they could release a smash radio hit and receive the public’s awareness, or end up like PSY where his song was more popular than him. Similar to Fifth Harmony where their songs were better known than the girl group itself.K-pop itself is becoming more known within the country especially after BTS hit it off in 2017. I have noticed that a lot of US-ARMY are becoming more open to other groups and becoming multifandom. Why is this important? We all know that BTS’s fandom in the US is MUCH larger than any other Korean group. How do we know? Their sales and touring attendance proves that.Billboard 200 Album ChartBTSMOTS: Persona (2019)- 230K first week sales (410K as of June 5th, 2019); Physical distribution and Amazon.LY: Answer (2018) - 185K first week sales (600K+ as of June 5th,2019); Physical distribution, tour bundle & Amazon.LY: Tear (2018)- 135K first week sales (400K+ as of June 5th, 2019); Amazon and physical distribution.LY: Her (2017)- 31K first week sales (350K+ as of June 5th, 2019); only digital distribution.5. WINGS (2016) - 16K first week sales; only digital distribution. At that time, it was huge. It broke BoA’s 7-year record for highest first week sales for a Korean Act with 8K in 2009.BackpinkKill This Love EP (2019) - 19K first week sales; tour bundleSquare Up (2018) - 14K first week sales; only digital distributionEXODMUMT (2018) - 23K first week sales; Physical distribution and AmazonThe War (2017) - 8K first week sales; only digital distributionNCTWe are SUPERHUMAN (2019) - 27K first week sales; Merch bundles, Amazon, physical distribution, 9+ versions for vinyl/album, and RVSP access to see NCT if you preorder their album in the US. Basically, a lot of gimmicks to increase first week sales.Regular-Irregular (2018) - 8K first week sales; Amazon and physical distribution.If we go by sales, it seems like NCT is more popular than Blackpink/EXO in the USA, which isn’t true. The more gimmicks you use, the more sales you get.US - TourBTSWINGS Arena Tour (2016) - 66k+ attendance with 5 concertsLY Arena + Citi Field Stadium (2018) - 220K+ with 12 concertsLY Stadium Tour (2019) - 330K+ with 6 concertsLove Yourself Tour Total Attendance: ~550K+ (Biggest US Touring Attendance for a Korean Act)BlackpinkIn Your Area (2019) - 60K-65K with 7 concertsNCTAwaken and We are Superhuman (2019) - Numbers unknown with 10 concerts.Basically, fandom size: BTS >>>>>> WALL >>>> EXO>Blackpink>NCTOverall popularity: BTS (huge fandom + 7/10 public recognition) >>>>>>>>> Blackpink (fandom + most popular girl group within the K-pop niche + 3/10 public recognition) >> EXO > NCT > GOT7=Monsta X=TWICE > other Korean groups.Social media and YouTube have helped A LOT with the growing popularity of K-pop in the USA. Will it ever go mainstream? I doubt it. Only 1–2 groups will be able to maintain their popularity (fandom + public recognition) there. BTS is one one them and Blackpink could continue to grow up to BTS’s level, or another group could surpass them too.

$6M seems like a really low amount of money for one of the major pop stars of our time to be making from the premier streaming service.She's already made $12M in one week with 1989. I suspect that Spotify would have cannibalized sales, so she likely already made a sizable fraction of those lost revenues back from one week's sales of one of her albums.Unofficial videos on Youtube will be given DMCA takedowns and she'll make advertising off of Youtube and the streaming isn't nearly as complete of a service as Spotify is (which is sufficiently good enough that people don't buy music).