#vs in kr its treated as a separate album/release and charts seperately

[lesbiancarat]

i believe the single album term being used in or music releases is specific to just kr. since they use the world "album" to refer to any music that's released physically, that's how the distinction between what a single and a single album is usually determined. most of the time the single albums will have 2 or 3 songs total, n they can be all different or 2 new songs and the third is an instrumental of the song they promoted with. OR like chunga did with gotta go, it could just be an actual single that's also sold physically, since most true singles are digital only releases. i think that case is related to charting? since like gaon for example has a digital n album chart, n if the single is release physically it has the opportunity to chart on both rather than just the digital one. not too sure abt the last part bc idc abt streaming n charting LOL but yeah single albums confused me too until i asked some of my kr friends abt the nuances of that lol. it's similar to how "title track" is technically meant to refer to the song that the album is titled after but in kr music it's just the equivalent of a lead single/promoted song

yeah that makes a lot of sense! i am aware that there are differences between korea and US/western music in how they label things. actually last year i had a whole conversation with my roommate who's not into kpop explaining how title tracks mean something different compared to western music djfk

but even knowing there are differences it's still sometimes hard to know what they are or what they mean LOL. esp for me since i only follow SVT really closely so sometimes i don't know if certain things are just pledis being weird or if it's common in korea

but yeah i feel like all of that tracks with stuff I've seen from other groups 🤔