Weverse Albums 4+

I like the quality of audio Weverse albums offers and that I can collect my favorite artists newer albums into one app that I can play offline without paying for streaming.

However, a big turn off to the app is that I can’t shuffle all my albums together. I like being able to put all my favorite songs into one playlist and just hit shuffle but that’s not an option on Weverse albums. I hope this, or a similar feature, can be added in the future.

I like the idea of giving another option for fans to purchase the album, but keep the bulk of what a typical album has digital. Digital photo book, listen to the tracks, read the lyrics, etc. Then you get a couple photocards sent to you physically. A lot of K-pop stans collect photocards, it’s a very big part of the K-pop culture. In the past you’ve had to buy them through a third party individually or you had to buy albums upon albums and then you end up with a bunch of excess physical albums you have to sell, donate, or what have you. This way you cut out the cost of the physical album creation which is reflected in the cost of these digital albums. The only downside is sadly since everything comes from Korea and shipping is outrageous due to post pandemic price increases you may find yourself paying crazy prices for 2-3 photocards which is the only con that I personally see. If only the albums $10 (average) price point was accompanied by a $5 shipping fee. Sadly this isn’t the case since even if bought in the US at a more expensive start price point $15 it can’t be shipped as Media Mail through USPS (the cheapest shipping rate) since it doesn’t fall under the requirements of media mail (since it isn’t physical media, it’s digital media and photocards) but nevertheless I still really like the idea. Bravo to HYBE/Weverse’s marketing teams for continuing to find more ways to provide for every type of fan.

I wanted to like this app because even though I was disappointed that there was no physical album for Jack in the Box it was substituted for a physical album. I don’t like this app at all. I wish I could download the music to my phone. Since the app doesn’t count as streaming it doesn’t make since that I can’t just download the music to my phone or device. The photos are okay but I’d rather have physical photos because the images I can just save from online. The video that came with this album in the app was glitching so I couldn’t get through it. I don’t like how I have to scroll to find the JITB album. There should be a separate page for albums that I’ve bought.

I’m disappointed that I payed so much for 3 piece of paper essentially (with crazy shipping that was more expensive than the cd itself). Beyond that I like having a physical CD that I can play in my CD player. Also I like having a physical photo book with lyrics that I can flip through time to time. I enjoy when there is a nice case that the cd and phonebook come in that’s designed by the artist. I like having physical photo cards that I can look at.

Please think about how fans of the artist feel before creating an unnecessary app.