Music Show Problems for Big Bang and EXO

“INKIGAYO” AND “M!COUNTDOWN” EMBROILED IN VOTING CONTROVERSY WITH BIG BANG AND EXO

The calm before the storm is over, and before BIG BANG and EXO’s first meeting on a music show where they battle it out for the trophy, fans are butting heads, both with each other – ever since the music videos for the two groups were released – and with the music shows – namely SBS “Inkigayo” and Mnet “M!Countdown.”

“Inkigayo” and “M!Countdown” had it coming, though; both apparently couldn’t handle the pressure of doing the same thing that they do every week again this week, and royally screwed up, so now they’re facing the wrath of V.I.Ps and EXO-Ls. (Slow clap.)

The first stumble: On June 8, EXO’s song “Love Me Right” was missing from the voting list for a crucial seven hours. Someone at “Inkigayo” must have gotten an earful. The production team apologized to fans, and said, “We sincerely apologize for our mistake to fans and viewers who intended to vote for the artist in question.”

The solution: “Inkigayo” announced that they would be accepting e-mail votes for seven hours on Wednesday, June 10, from the period of 12-7 a.m. Cheers to the poor intern still counting e-mails.

The second stumble: Well into the voting period, BIG BANG’s song “BAE BAE” was changed to “BANG BANG BANG,” effectively nulling all the votes that had previously been made for “BAE BAE,” although, according to the “Inkigayo” production team, they did not make any mistake.

They explained via a viewer forum, “The songs that get listed for the preliminary vote every Monday come from the top 60 of the ‘Inkigayo’ chart and artists that were on the show the previous week. On the afternoon of Wednesday, new releases from Monday through Wednesday, and new releases from artists appearing on the show get added to the list. Of the artists that were listed on Monday, if they have a new release, the old song gets replaced with the new.”

A total of three days of votes were lost with the song switch, as well as the ability to vote for those who had already done so.

An hour away, across the Han River from SBS at Mnet, “M!Countdown” was also dropping the ball on things.

“M!Countdown” held its preliminary votes internationally, in Japan and China in addition to Korea. However, the voting window, supposed to close at 9 a.m. on June 8 for all three countries, did not close for Japan, and remained open.

Mnet confirmed on June 10 to CBS NoCut News that the voting window did not close properly, and that Chinese fans who became aware of this fact bypassed the IP restriction to vote through the Japanese site.

“However,” Mnet stated, “only the votes made before 9 a.m. will be reflected in the final count, and those made after the fact will not be valid.”

Such, folks, is the power of BIG BANG + EXO.

Source: soompi

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VIPS FLOOD INKIGAYO FORUMS FOR ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BIG BANG

VIPs are outraged at the alleged discrimination that BIG BANG faced at SBS’ Inkigayo for their new song, “Bang Bang Bang”Fans flooded the “viewers forum” of Inkigayo with complaints on the disadvantages that BIG BANG suffered for the rankings vote for their new song and comeback.

The problem occurred when BIG BANG’s “Bang Bang Bang” was released at 12:00AM on June 2nd KST, but was delayed on being registered in the voting system for 41 hours.

VIPs are outraged at the alleged discrimination that BIGBANG faced at SBS’ Inkigayo for their new song, “Bang Bang Bang”Fans flooded the “viewers forum” of Inkigayo with complaints on the disadvantages that BIG BANG suffered for the rankings vote for their new song and comeback.

The problem occurred when BIG BANG’s “Bang Bang Bang” was released at 12:00AM on June 2nd KST, but was delayed on being registered in the voting system for 41 hours.

Numerous fans began voting on BIG BANG’s track “Bae Bae”, which was the only registered track during this delay. Due to the 1 person 1 vote system that Inkigayo has in place, fans were then unable to vote for “Bang Bang Bang”, splitting the votes.

Comments appeared as below:

884495: Please give proper feedback with regards to Big Bang’s voting
884494: Are you going to keep pretending you’re mute and deaf?
884493: Who is this broadcast for
884492: Please read
884490: I would like to know what that policy really means
884489: Stop trying to justify yourselves
884488: Let’s see if you can justify yourself after seeing this chart
884485: Requesting a formal apology and damage control of Big Bang’s absence from the voting candidates
884484: Negligence towards Big Bang, and its unfairness
884482: Yes very fascinating
884481: Are you serious with that response
884480: Please provide us with a proper feedback

‘Inkigayo’ responded through the forum stating, “Every Wednesday afternoon the candidates are determined based on ‘new songs released from Monday~Wednesday of the week’ and ‘New songs from appearing singers’. This means that if an artist is already a candidate on Monday but releases another song, the song of the artist is replaced with the new song during the process of voting.
In the case of BIG BANG’s ‘Bang Bang Bang’, due to its release on Monday June 1st, according to proper procedure, their song ‘Bae Bae’ was replaced with ‘Bang Bang Bang’ on Wednesday June 3rd in the afternoon. This did not go against our normal policy.”

Fans are however still not satisfied, stating they would have held their votes and waited for the registration of ‘Bang Bang Bang’ on the charts had they known this policy.

They also claim that the treatment is different from other incidents, where on the 8th, ‘Inkigayo’ failed to register EXO’s new song on the charts and apologized to fans. They also allowed fans to re-vote via their email.

Some fans commented:
[+ 3528, – 478] Big Bang must be choked ㅋㅋ Not even a few hours but over 40 hours ㅋㅋ It’s not like the song is bad it’s actually great.

[+ 2957, – 244] Whether it’s Inkigayo or other music charts, none of their hands are completely clean

[+ 2683, – 284] Do your jobs properly it’s their first comeback in a while and what is this?

Source: Koreaboo via BBU