SM Entertainment has reportedly stopped printing departing EXO singer Tao's version of the Exodus album. The singer, who recently announced he was leaving the band, was involved in a long running feud with his management company SM Entertainment. Now, those albums may become more valuable.
It all started great. In March the album was released and sold faster than they could be restocked. Exodus was not only the best selling album in April, but within hours of being released, became the best-selling Korean release for the first quarter of 2015.
Exodus was released in both a Korean and a Chinese language version. In its first month, it sold 450,000 units in South Korea and another 275,000 in China.
Not only did the EXO album make South Korean charts, but internationally it did well on iTunes as well. Their debut single "Call Me Baby" was a smash hit and collected award after award on South Korean music shows.
Exodus, to date the band's most popular album to date, was the first new recording in two years from the SM Entertainment lead group and the first since Kris and Luhan famously parted ways with the company.
The success of the album is in question, however. It was released in 20 separate versions of the album. Each of the group's ten members (Yes, I know. Parliament had fewer members) received his own version of the album in both Korean and Chinese, leading to multiple purchases by obsessed fans.
Whether or not SM Entertainment will or will not press any more copies of Tao's Exodus remains to be seen. Certainly, they are aware of all the potential publicity Tao's departure has for them. Of course, this may be a ploy to spur up sales even more. No doubt there will now be a run on record store to snap up the remaining few copies of Exodus left.
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