BusinessĀ isnāt as simple as sales,in contrary sadly YG is doing rather good actually, now yes yes sale wise they have seen brighter days but bear with me here. As a company, they have been grown immensely, seen as they are planning to move out in a bigger building (hopefully with a better management)So there are many aspects of business, but stepwise. A comeback is always more of a cost as a win for a company. Because buying a song costs, its a back and forth till everyone is happy, and time again costs.Ā YG has its main producer under contract, Teddy, this means its still costly, but less expensive than to hire another company to do it. It also means less way between production, customizing and studio.Ā MVās are extremelyĀ costly, and in contrary to SM past box MVās YG is known to be quite artistic with there MV. 2ne1 - Hurt for examples.Itās super costly, the more location and takes an MV has the more it cost, director, staff,Ā costume, editing, cutting, special effects cost, they also take time, and again time is expensive.So the real win and cash donāt come from album sales, it comes from touring. Hence YG business plan apparently is as few comebacksĀ as possible: Again rememberĀ comeback costs, while touring brings in money. So let his artist have as many concerts and meet and greets as possible till the atmāsĀ fans are tired of the same song and only then the cashcowsĀ artists are allowed to have a comeback. So this has nothing to do with being professional or wanting to only produce quality stuff, it is and has always been YG way of making business.Also, YG has an immense amount of sub-labels, not just the views we are aware of, but also the side labels which arenāt officiallyĀ under hisĀ name. Sunmiās current label is rumored to be a side label of YG, out of obviousĀ reason,Ā they must have some sort of ties to get teddy to produce her songs. Whatever true or not, the company can have stock and investments in other companies bringing them back profit. Also, YG has a huge brand worth, thanks to all of us. Hence papa YG is still a (sickening) thing, itās theĀ image he gave his brand, nothing more.
So sales donāt define YG power as a company, it takes a lot more to fall and crumble, but the loss of BigBang certainly will be felt in the annual account.