{"id":36964,"date":"2022-11-30T12:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=36964"},"modified":"2022-11-30T12:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T20:24:59","slug":"billboard-under-fire-for-mistaking-bts-suga-for-got7-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/billboard-under-fire-for-mistaking-bts-suga-for-got7-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboard under fire for mistaking BTS&#8217; Suga for GOT7 member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Billboard<\/strong> published an article about <strong>BTS<\/strong> <strong>Suga<\/strong>&#8216;s new variety show, titled &#8220;<strong>SuChwiTa<\/strong>&#8220;. Following its post and spread on Twitter, fans are calling out Billboard for its continued <strong>mistreatment<\/strong> of the boy group.<\/p>\n<p>BTS continually tops the Billboard charts continually setting new records. However, while the boy group and K-Pop in general have become more common on the <strong>charts<\/strong>, fans of the genre continually criticize the <strong>magazine<\/strong> for discriminating against idols.<\/p>\n<p>BTS <strong>ARMY<\/strong> calls out Billboard again, not because of the content of the article about Suga&#8217;s new variety show, but because of the initial image the company used. Instead of using an image of the idol, it featured an image of <strong>GOT7<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Youngjae<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard removed the tweet and changed the image to one of Suga. But ARMY is frustrated by the <strong>wrong<\/strong> <strong>image<\/strong>, believing that given the number of times Billboard has covered BTS, he shouldn&#8217;t have used the wrong image.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/130613fate\/status\/1597627353882320896?t=_AaSHXVA3D3XMAPfotjoNQ&amp;s=19\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Billboard never fails to prove to everyone how horrible they are. Racists in every shape and form. They know what they\u2019re doing They\u2019ve covered them for years. This is all on purpose. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oVLY6AJKAl\">pic.twitter.com\/oVLY6AJKAl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mu\u2077 (@130613fate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/130613fate\/status\/1597627353882320896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>Fans are <strong>criticizing<\/strong> Billboard for &#8220;<em><strong>being racist and mistreating<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; South Korean artists, for the constant &#8220;<em><strong>disrespect<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. And though the tweet has since been deleted, fans are still demanding answers from Billboard.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, fans expressed their frustration with Billboard&#8217;s new event, <strong>The -K Billboard Awards<\/strong>, to highlight &#8220;<em><strong>the dazzling achievements of K-POP artists based on the Billboard charts<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, fans were disgusted by the need to from Billboard to have a separate award program for Korean artists.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a statement made by <strong>Bik Hwang<\/strong>, the executive director of the <strong>2022 K-Culture Festival<\/strong>, which launched The-K Billboard Awards, suggested that they were looking to &#8220;<strong>find the next BTS<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, ARMY boycotted a magazine where the interviewer directly asked BTS about chart <strong>manipulation<\/strong>, specifically their fan involvement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Through honest means, ARMY has long exploited loopholes in music chart rules (including Billboard&#8217;s) to boost the performance of BTS&#8217;s singles<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billboard published an article about BTS Suga&#8216;s new variety show, titled &#8220;SuChwiTa&#8220;. Following its post and spread on Twitter, fans are calling out Billboard for its continued mistreatment of the boy group. BTS continually tops the Billboard charts continually setting new records. However, while the boy group and K-Pop in general have become more common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":36970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,1361],"tags":[49,935],"class_list":{"0":"post-36964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"category-social-network","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-suga"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}