The strangest thing about this controversy is that 99% of the people who are talking about it don't understand anything about the music industry or how the data is calculated (and probably wouldn't even care if it wasn't about this group). Some of the data presented here has already been redacted from other more reputable sources (and I highly recommend that readers seek those out). In any case, none of this matters in the long run. We're here for music, not accomplishments; these are musicians, not a sports team.

A bigger emerging concern is foreign sales counting on the BB. Korean retailers sold thousands of SuperM albums and none of them are showing up on Gaon for the two week period the album has been out.

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As I say that, remember to focus your attention and displeasure at the appropriate figures: BB and SM and SuperM as an entity of SM - not the members as artists/performers. If they would have had the choice, I don't think they would have chosen this path.