At late night on February 9, a topic titled “Music Bank score tally that is being discussed” was published on the Korean forum “theqoo” , drawing massive attention.
This topic raises questions about IU’s latest win on Music Bank with “Love Wins All” , which is the female idol’s 100th music show win, and attaches the score tally behind IU’s win against (G)I-DLE‘s “Super Lady” , which came second.
In particular, from the score tally, it can be seen that despite having sold over 1.4 million albums on Hanteo, (G)I-DLE received 0 points for physical sales. As the gap between (G)I-DLE and IU was extremely close, (G)I-DLE could have won with a proper physical sales score.
Therefore, many fans have taken to SNS platforms to express dissatisfaction against Music Bank. They have also trended the hashtag #KBSmusicbankcorruption and mass-emailed KBS to demand an explanation behind the score tally.
How did we have 0 physical points after selling more than 1.4M of physical copies? We demand an explanation KBS!!!JUSTICE FOR GIDLE#KBSmusicbankcorruption @KBSMusicBank pic.twitter.com/mDGSYj23kp
— soyeon pics (@soyeonmania) February 9, 2024
IU’s fans have also shown their frustration, claiming that despite this being IU’s 100th music show win, they couldn’t celebrate since “(G)I-DLE clearly has been getting robbed” .
it’s IU’s 100th win but it doesn’t feel good since gidle clearly has been getting robbed https://t.co/tt1VrOo22a
— 🪽🍊 (@uaenadreamer) February 9, 2024
Below are some comment from netizens:
- Music Bank’s scoring system has been f*cked up since forever
- Some are saying that the physical score used for (G)I-DLE is that for “Wife” since “Wife” has a better digital score… However, KBS banned “Wife” due to the lyrics, so this couldn’t have been the case
- This really doesn’t make sense
- I hope this is a mistake because there’s seriously no logical explanation for this
- A physical sales score of 0 is simply ridiculous for an album that sold over a million copies ….
Source: theqoo