BTS member Jin's single album 'The Astronaut' quickly became out of stock, worrying fans that HYBE Labels may have underestimated the amount of albums that would get sold. 

On November 1 KST, one netizen created a post on a popular online community titled, "They said BTS Jin's album is out of stock". Here, the netizen wrote, "Is this an album that they made last minute or something? The fact that they can't sell it because they don't have it...For first week [album] sales, [artists] are only given 1 week so if it's shipped after this given time, it won't count [as part of their first week album sales]. [HYBE] must have not known that [the album] would sell this much." 

The netizen then included a screenshot of their attempt to order Jin's single album 'The Astronaut', only to see the warning message, "Because the quantity available is less than the amount of orders received, orders with complete payments following October 28 KST will get shipped in early November." This caused many fans to worry, as they speculated that HYBE Labels may have underestimated the number of albums that would get sold and thus, did not prepare enough album quantities to benefit Jin's first week album sales count. 

Netizens commented:

"I want to receive my album already...Weverse, please send mine already."

"Is their company intentionally trying to decrease [Jin's] first week sales or something?"

"It's his first [solo] album in 10 years, and they're handling it in this manner?"

"HYBE interferes with BTS's achievements and even more with the individual members' achievements."

"Sukjin must feel so discouraged."

"This is so cheap of HYBE."

"When can I receive my album TT."

"Isn't it a good thing if an artist achieves high first week album sales? Why is Big Hit doing this? I don't understand anything at all."

"Did they just start making the album after preorders were completed?"

"HYBE didn't even release a physical album for J-Hope TTT."