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(funk music)
Welcome to a new video,
I sound like a beauty guru.
- You don't look like one though.
- So, what we're going to do today
is as much for me as it is for you.
I wanna find out if the everyday store,
not a flagship store in London, will stock K-pop.
- For context, we live in Greater London,
so we're not in Central London.
It's kind of Essex.
And we're going to go the local HMV
and see what they have available.
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- Either way, we're going to probably buy a BTS album,
if there's one available,
and at the end of the video we'll do a giveaway,
so you should stay tuned for that.
- [Sammy] HMV is biggest music store in the UK
and I went on their website and I typed in
Kpop, K-pop
BTS
Bangtan
Nothing came up.
- [Niki] At all! - [Sammy] Nope.
So I proceeded to make a phone call to our local HMV.
(phone ringing)
Hi!
(distorted woman's voice speaking)
Yeah, I just wanted to see if you had an album in stock?
(distorted woman's voice speaking)
Yeah, it's by, it's K-pop.
(distorted woman's voice speaking)
Yes! BTS.
(distorted woman's voice speaking)
Yeah, but I can pop by later on if you can put it aside?
(distorted woman's voice speaking)
Brilliant!
(distorted woman's voice speaking)
And what time do you close?
- Mission accepted! Begin!
(Sammy singing)
(pop music)
- As far as I know, the lady on the phone said
that she's put a BTS album aside.
- [Niki] Did she know who BTS was when you asked?
Or she said, "Okay, what did you ask for?".
- Funny enough, I didn't really discuss that with her.
- [Niki] Oh.
I'm kind of also gonna keep an eye out
if there's any K-pop memorabilia in the shop.
I don't know how big this shop is.
- [Niki] It's not much to ask for a poster though, is it?
- But I feel like this is a good example
of what you'd expect if you walked into any HMV
in the country.
So, this is a good experiment!
- [Niki] Sammy has decided to put reverse
into maybe the most narrow gap I've ever seen.
(car beeping)
We literally, so, we don't need to go back anymore!
(beep)
(pop music)
So as we walked in...
- [Sammy] Straight by the front counter,
straight by the cashiers.
- The cashiers.
Voila!
There's another one over there.
Next to Gary Barlow.
- [Sammy] Dreamy.
What is it?
- It's like an annual?
An unofficial biography.
- [Sammy] Brit Awards 2019, the winners.
International category wasn't very international,
but we'll let it slide.
(pop music)
- [Sammy] Let's discuss the best selling in the UK
at the moment.
- The Top 10 CD's on the chart are all compilation albums.
- [Sammy] In the UK,
I don't know if it's different around the world,
but they have Now charts.
Which are Now singles, which are like compilation discs
with loads of hits on them.
And I used to buy these when I was younger,
just 'cause it had all the hits,
and I didn't have to buy separate albums.
So, I don't know where K-pop is at this point in time.
But I have found Baby Shark and Kidz Bop.
Which, is there anything on here that's K-pop?
Nope.
- I've actually, I've looked up and down every aisle
and I can't find where it'd be?
I know there's one behind the counter for me,
but I want to see it on the shelves.
- [Sammy] Yeah.
- So people would know where to look.
- [Sammy] It's not by music, DVD and Blu-rays?
Which, you know, obvious.
Oops, nearly dropped my phone.
- [Narrator] Several days later.
- [Sammy] So you go through the story.
- We walked past it.
- [Sammy] We walked past it.
- So basically, it's here in the rock and pop section
- [Sammy] Yup, it's rock and pop A to B.
- And it's the, it's not the compilation,
it's just the CD.
So, we're going to get that!
- [Sammy] So they've got the Japanese release,
but they don't have the actual release CD.
Is there anything behind there?
- No, it's still Japanese.
(pop music)
- Got it!
- Okay, so we got it.
It was down the pop and rock section.
- Which is a step up.
I thought it'd be down specialist music or world music,
but it wasn't. - Yeah.
- It was in the pop and rock charts.
Just let us know in the comments
if you have been to a local music store around by you.
And if you've managed to find BTS.
Again, this wasn't the most recent, obviously, most recent.
- Yeah, yeah, I find it weird that they have...
- Face Yourself. - Face Yourself!
- A Japanese release?
- Crystal Snow!
- This was a year, no, how long?
Like six months ago?
- [Niki] Yeah. I completely forgot about it.
- We got asked to do some questions about BTS.
And they put...
- [Niki] And they put the critical line
BTS are more like Lady Gaga than One Direction.
Which definitely does not summaries my point very well.
- Looks dangerous, doesn't it?
It's got a poster in it!
- [Niki] Okay, it's got a poster!
Seeing BTS at the O2 was like a pilgrimage.
The concert was an experience.
- [Sammy] Well moved.
Terrifying.
So we have learnt two things.
One, I dislike shopping centres greatly.
- And two, I know why record stores are going under.
- Because... - They are bleak.
- This is not the latest BTS album.
- I find this to be the most unlikely of the BTS albums
to be in a British store.
- My theory as to why this was available in HMV,
it's because it's part of Universal Music Group,
the Japanese release.
So I feel as though it's easier for them to source that
than it was for them to source the Korean version.
- I think the reason we had trouble finding it
in the first place, and had to ask for help.
- We looked in the wrong place.
- Was because we were looking in the wrong place.
We went to specialist music, we went to trending now
which is a section they had by the charts.
I also looked for world music and it wasn't there either.
Here's a fun thing...
(imitates alarm sound)
We are doing a give away for this
so if you feel like winning this all you need to do is:
one, subscribe to the video.
- Two, give the video a like!
- And three, drop a comment telling us your favourite song
of the Face Yourself album.
By the way, mine is Don't Leave Me.
- Unfortunately, due to postage prices
we're going to try and keep this within Europe.
But we'll try and do another giveaway again in the future.
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Thanks for watching bye!