Chapter 36: Busy (I)
At the entrance of a shopping mall in Cheongdam-dong, the flow of people was crowded and blocked.
"Ahn Joon Hyuk, please look here!"
"Please laugh ......"
"Uncle, uncle!"
"Let Jean, please let Jean. ”
The moment I got out of the nanny's car, there was such a noisy shouting all around, and the boys and girls in school uniforms, young or middle-aged women, pushed hard towards the zhongyāng. There are also reporters with long guns and short cannons, shouting and clicking the shutter, and the flash lights are beating like a storm, even if they are blocked by sunglasses, they feel dazzling. The assistant and the security guard transferred from the mall blocked a small gap for Ahn Junhyuk in the crowd and hugged him and walked quickly towards the mall.
The reporter next to him still followed unwillingly, asking questions while taking pictures, and then more fans were clustered, screaming and shouting, and the huge waves of sound converged and hit people's eardrums.
The noisy and hot scene almost made people think that this was the scene of a press conference, but in fact, it was just a new product exhibition of an electronics company.
The reason why so many people can gather is only because Ahn Junhyuk attended this commercial performance.
In March 2005, the three words "Ahn Junhyuk", since the end of last year occupied the headlines of various media, once again swept back with a thunderous momentum, different from last year, this time he was a singer, aroused huge attention from the media and the public, and became the most influential person in South Korea in the whole March.
All because his mini album "Me Touching Ry" successfully broke through to 100,000 copies in the middle of March.
Earlier, when the sales of "Me Touching Ry" reached 60,000, some media predicted that it would not take a month to break through 100,000, which was calculated with reference to the inevitable decline period after the crazy rush to buy. However, it only broke through the 100,000 level in the middle of the year, and such a speed still made many media dumbfounded.
Then, a heated discussion erupted.
“…… This is the first half of 05, the record industry has been waiting for a long-awaited shot in the arm, or it will break the cold winter ......"
"Newcomer Ahn Joon-hyuk presents an exciting gift to the record industry!"
Newspapers, Entertainment Magazines, Interviews...... Many practitioners, analysts, did not hesitate to crown the praise on Ahn Junhyuk's head, not because of the pursuit, but because the result was really exciting.
The entire Korean record industry, starting from 02, counts the record sales reports released by various statistical agencies every year, even if you are not a professional, you can find that the record industry that has been hit by the Internet, the names at the top of the weekly, monthly, and annual sales charts have not been changed for several years, Seo Taeji, Lee so-young, Hway-sung, Ko Yao-tae, Lee Seung-chul, Lee Hyo-ri, ...... It's always these people, the difference is only in the rankings.
What worries many people is that judging from the sales data, even these old singers, the total annual sales of records have declined by more than 30% every year, and the newly debuted rookie singers have not entered the top 10 on any list in recent years, and even after a year of hard work, the record can't even sell 100,000 copies - such sales, the cost of making records is slightly larger, and it can't be recovered at all.
Without making a profit, the agency naturally has to find a way to cut the production cost of the album, and the shoddy album is even more difficult to sell...... It's a vicious cycle, and if left unaddressed, the decline of the song is just around the corner.
In the past, some experts denounced brokerage companies for fishing for profit, but in fact, they also know that the root cause is still the depression of the entire market. The continuous decline in the support of the people has made newcomers unable to see the future at all, and the number of newcomers who have debuted is getting fewer and fewer year by year, and the new buying groups attracted are also less than a year.
Everything in the world needs to be updated, and the same is true in the music industry, no industry can always eat the old and prosper.
Now Ahn Junhyuk's rise is called "exciting", and the achievement of 100,000 copies in half a month is only one of the reasons, and the more important significance is that he has created a new whirlwind for the aging music industry, bringing a new main buying force - the most common age group of his fans, more young people in their 10s to 20s!
They may become the soil for nurturing the next generation of debutants.
In the eyes of many people, this is the biggest role of a successful idol singer, and it is also something that the newcomer king group of the year can't do last year, so praise is naturally deserved.
For Ahn Jun-hyuk, who has become the protagonist of the topic, and the S·M company to which he belongs, there is no need to think about it so far-reaching, the sales of "Me Touching Ry" are hot, and the stock price of S·M Company has risen by 5 percentage points in a short period of time, and every time RI opens, it still rises in a curve, and what it brings to Ahn Jun-hyuk is a busier RI journey.
After entering the mall, arranged by the organizers, after the performance began, Ahn Junhyuk was protected by his agents and assistants, boarded the nanny car, and slowly drove away in the siege of the still unwilling reporters.
It wasn't until the nanny car drove away from the crowd that Ahn Junhyuk, who had been wearing sunglasses calmly, suddenly relaxed the smile on the corner of his mouth, took off his sunglasses and loosened his tie, and took a heavy breath.
The driver in front of him was Cha Won-sung, and the assistant Choi Sung-woo was sitting in the passenger seat, and seeing Ahn Jun-hyuk's tired appearance, he opened a bottle of pure water and handed it over. Ahn Jun-hyuk took a sip and let him lean over to help wipe his sweat, and asked Kwon Bo-geun, who was sitting opposite him flipping through the memo, weakly: "Where's the end?"
"The signing party of Myeongdong Lotte Department Store ......" said, Kwon Bo-geun glanced at Ahn Jun-hyuk, looked at the dark circles on his face that couldn't be covered even with light makeup, and said distressedly: "I'll let Won-sung drive slowly, you can rest for a while!"
From the trough all the way to the current Ruri Zhongtian, Kwon Bo-geun can't be indifferent to Ahn Jun-hyuk as a money-making machine after all, looking at his strong physical strength, although the professional cāo Shou reminded that letting fans wait may affect the results of this signing meeting, he still wants to help him buy a little rest time, so that he can breathe a sigh of relief.
An Junhyuk, who had rested for a while with one hand on his forehead, shook his head when he heard the words: "No need, I'll just lie down for a while, and you will call me when you arrive." ”
“…… Alright!"
Sighing secretly, when Ahn Jun-hyuk lay down, Kwon Bo-geun found a thin blanket given by a fan and put it on him, then sat back in place and looked through the memo.
The dense records on it are all Ahn Junhyuk's itinerary for a period of time in the future, various interviews, invitations to programs, and various commercial performance projects, all of which are arranged by the company. Behind the good news that the company's long-stagnant stock price began to rise, shareholders began to pay more attention to Ahn Junhyuk, and also revealed another problem that cannot be ignored: Ahn Junhyuk's contract with the company will expire in September next year.
This short two-year contract was originally run by Kwon Bo Gen, and he reluctantly negotiated it because Ahn Jun Hyuk did not borrow any resources from the company when he debuted, and he was caught in a boycott storm at that time, and he almost couldn't see any future.
And now, the company is starting to regret it.
However, the contract has already been signed in quadruplicate, and in addition to the company and Ahn Junhyuk himself, the zhèngfu notary office and the entertainers' union also keep one copy each, even if they regret it, there is no way.
Of course, the company will not obediently admit the loss, these intensive trips are the company's counterattack against Ahn Junhyuk - since you want to ziyou, then before you ziyou, feed me first!
Kwon Bo-geun was a little disgusted by the high-level decision, those short-sighted idiots, forgetting who was waving the flag for them to fight against Lee so-man? Forget it, they are so persecutive, will they completely push Ahn Jun-hyuk, who might have considered staying in the company, into the arms of others?
But what puzzled Kwon Bo-geun was that Ahn Jun-hyuk didn't have any indignation or anything like that, he just silently accepted the company's arrangement, neither rebelled with his current status, nor did he make small moves in private, which was really not like his previous Xingge.
And what's even weirder is Li Xiuman.
This tyrant, seeing Ahn Jun Hyuk, who betrayed him, was in trouble, did not settle the score, but just watched silently.
Two people who are extremely similar to each other to some extent react in the same way, Quan Baogen sensitively felt that there must be something wrong with it, but what was the reason, he thought for a long time and did not find an answer.
"Is it an IQ problem?" Scratching his head in frustration, looking at the itinerary on the memo in his hand, Quan Baogen shook no longer thinking about it, looked carefully, and after a while, he selected a few less important ones, and dialed them one by one according to the contact numbers he had noted.
"Hey, hello, I'm Ahn Jun-hyuk's agent, Kwon Bo-geun, that'......"
"Hey, hello............ I'm really sorry, but we have some minor health problems, so I have to trouble your company to move back the time...... Yes, yes, thank you for your understanding. ”
“…… I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, but I will have a chance to meet again in the future...... Toot ......"
After a prevarication phone call, some expressed understanding, and naturally some had an unhappy attitude, but these itineraries are not very important, and the weight of the inviting party is also average.
Now he, or Ahn Junhyuk he represents, has this confidence.
After a few phone calls, under the inexplicable gaze of assistant Choi Sung-woo, Kwon Bo-geun sighed quietly: Junhyuk, that's all I can help you.
Ahn Jun-hyuk, who was asleep, didn't know how to sigh, in his perception, he slept a little, and when he woke up again, the car had arrived at Myeong-dong, drove towards the building that marked Xing in Lotte Department Store, hurriedly tidied up, the nanny car stopped, and when he stepped out of the car, what was presented in front of many fans was still the idol star Ahn Jun-hyuk with full of energy and a friendly smile.
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