Chapter 61: J-H's Big Bang (Part I)
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"A week of music news - 2006 is coming to an end, the music industry compared with last year, the overall decline is becoming more and more apparent, the record industry statistics in the first half of the year show that album sales continue to decline, down 30 percentage points from last year, the popular idol group myth released the official 8 albums have not turned the tide, 04, 05 years of domination of the annual sales list of SG.Wanna.Be has not continued to stage a legend. However, after the second half of the year, the situation has improved, in September, the popularity of the newcomer group TVXQ exploded after its debut, and the official 3 albums "O. Pros and Cons Together" topped the annual list with an absolute advantage of more than 300,000 sales, sweeping away the gloom in one fell swoop, and in October, Ahn Jun-hyuk, who helped Baek Ji-young make a perfect comeback last year, once again went out to write a 'lyrical duo', Yoon Mi-rae "Don't Leave" Set off the trend of lyric songs again, and the physical record sales in 11 days were 140,000, surpassing Fly.To.The.Sky to rank in the top 5, and according to the performance, it may eventually reach 25-300,000 sales...... According to the analysis of professional media, according to such a performance in the second half of the year, there is no suspense in the competition for candidates for major TV stations, Golden Disc Awards and other music awards and important trophies at the end of the year, and it is between TVXQ and Yin Meilai......"
ββ¦β¦ According to the sales and popularity of both sides, TVXQ obviously has more advantages, and some professional organizations predict that SM may become the biggest winner in the record industry in 2006!
"Biggest Winners......
Chewing these words, Li Xiuman casually picked up the remote control and pressed the standby button, and the screen on the opposite wall flickered. Extinguish.
The shutters behind him cut the skylight, and the slightest light diffused in, and the cold wind that gradually cooled in winter seemed to freeze the sun, and the light was no longer dazzling and scorching, and the shadows cast by some of the office furnishings were scattered and scattered, and the whole room seemed to be gray.
Leaning on the leather chair, dragging at his feet, the figure extending under the desk swayed slightly, pondering for a moment, he smiled: "Finally." It's a victory!"
The phrase "victory". There are many meanings involved.
Since his tenure in office, SM's strategy has been frustrated, myths have been lost, and its performance has been declining. His voice in the company is weakening. The rise of Kim Young-min was a severe blow to his authority. If it weren't for Ahn Junhyuk's involvement in the dispute later. He seized the opportunity to actively woo and finally won Ahn Junhyuk's support and sat in the position of chairman of the board of directors. To regain some of the support of the decision-making level is likely to be long gone.
One of the meanings of the so-called victory lies in this, TVXQ is his training, organization, and planning, if he loses power, the results of this group naturally have nothing to do with him, but in the case of his regaining support, TVXQ's "merit" of this explosion of popularity, no one wants to pick peaches.
In contrast, Kim Young-min, who has been concentrating on the girl group, was suddenly dwarfed after the failure of the Heavenly Ji-hee plan.
On the other hand, the challenge comes from Ahn Joon-hyuk!
In order to win Ahn Jun-hyuk's support, he withstood the pressure of shareholders and allowed Ahn Jun-hyuk to secede from SM, which is still a pimple in the hearts of shareholders, especially after J.H developed the prototype of the group, seeing Ahn Jun-hyuk's potential, shareholders are quite resentful of his decision to ignore the company's interests.
Whether it is to appease the secret dissatisfaction of shareholders, or to prove that SM is still the number one entity in the music industry even if he lets Ahn Joon Hyuk go, no one can challenge him, and Ahn Jun Hyuk can't do it, he must make enough achievements, at least to surpass J.H.
Thankfully, this year this goal has been achieved.
These days, he has been waiting for the media to compare, and only with comparison can he distinguish the superior, and seeing that the trend as he wishes appears in public opinion, Li Xiuman is naturally in a very good mood. So much so that an hour later, when he presided over the management meeting, he also changed his previous silence and greeted people everywhere with a smile on his face.
Because it was just a meeting, the atmosphere was quite relaxed, and a director saw that Li Xiuman was in a good mood, so he smiled and joked: "This year, under the leadership of the president, we finally won back the previous honor, this year the president has worked hard, seeing that the dust has settled, have you thought about where to go to vacation?"
"Ha Luha, Director Jiang don't kill me, if it weren't for your help and support, how could I have today's achievements? Don't say anything under my leadership, the credit should belong to everyone, it's all for the interests of the group!" Li Xiuman narrowed his already small eyes and said with a smile, he didn't mind verbal promises and modesty when the victory was in hand.
A few directors who usually lean close to him laughed when they heard this, and a few others who were more distant also barely smiled, while quietly looking at Kim Young-min, who had a gloomy face on the other side of the conference table.
Compared with Li Xiuman's achievements this year, the business led by Kim Yingmin seems to be a mess, and when they see that he is depressed at the meeting, several people sigh secretly, but what can they do? The current Li Xiuman camp is just like the middle of the day!
The emotions of the loser are taken care of by no one.
A director of Li Xiuman's camp said angrily: "Recalling last year, the company suffered blows one after another, and Heavenly Zhixi has failed, and the girl group still seems to be unable to participate in the competition in the record industry. Fortunately, the president has the power to turn the tide this year, planning TVXQ to overwhelm those traitors in one fell swoop, and regain our honor in the music industry, we dare not be ashamed of this credit, at the shareholders' meeting early next year, I propose to re-elect the board of directors, optimize the superstructure, clear some obstacles for the president, and lead us to make persistent efforts to regain glory!"
As soon as these words came out, Kim Yingmin's face suddenly turned pale, and in front of the facts, they admitted that Li Xiuman did a good job, but such an aggressive attitude was too much.
One person couldn't help but be dissatisfied: "There are still more than 2 months before the major awards, Director Chen, it's too arbitrary for you to make a conclusion now, right?"
"Yes, everyone knows the strength of J.H Entertainment and J.H Music, although Ahn Jun-hyuk and Kwon Bo-geun are still newcomers in the circle. But after all, he walked out of SM and brought SM's team, Ahn Junhyuk's talent is obvious to all, who knows what will happen to Lu Dao in more than 2 months?"
Hearing this, everyone in the conference room, whether it was Li Xiuman's camp or Kim Yingmin's side, was a little depressed.
Not to mention Ahn Jun-hyuk, Kwon Bo-geun, the CEO of J.H Music, SM's biggest opponent, was born in SM, and many people in J.H Music were also exiled by SM at that time. Think back to the beginning. Compared with now, my heart was suddenly very complicated and uncomfortable, and Li Xiuman's expression was also stagnant.
Kwon Bo-geun and Ahn Jun-hyuk were both brought out by him, and he let go step by step. Let them gain a foothold in the world of songs. As a result, these are the two people who didn't care too much about it. As soon as SM came out, it was like a dragon returning to the sea, and in a blink of an eye, the wind and water rose.
At the beginning of the year, there were many people in the circle gloating. Openly and secretly sarcastically SM has created an opponent for himself, although it is just idler gossip, but every time he hears it, Li Xiuman feels as if it is a thorn in his heart.
Noticing that the atmosphere in the room had become dull under those words, Li Xiuman took a deep breath, suppressed the fluctuating heart, and knocked on the table: "Okay, don't mention the things that have passed." J.H is indeed our fierce rival, but it is already November, and J.H does not have enough time to do anything else. Don't be too ambitious, I admit that Ahn Joon-hyuk is very talented, but a good song like "Don't Leave", I don't believe he can create another song in a short time!"
In fact, the biggest reason why Li Xiuman was able to convince himself to settle down was that Ahn Junhyuk was banned, otherwise, I'm afraid he would have been really frightened in the past two months!
The other directors apparently had similar thoughts, so the atmosphere soon became enthusiastic and optimistic again.
This meeting will be to discuss the allocation of resources within the company in the next year-end period, of course, the main reason is that Lee so-man's camp oppresses Kim Young-min's side and demands that more resources be tilted towards TVXQ.
This is a draw from the bottom of the kettle, Heavenly Jihee and SJ have the influence of Kim Young-min, and it is also an important force to support him to sit in the position of president, if the resources are withdrawn and tilted to TVXQ, then the results of the two combinations will be farther and farther away from TVXQ, and similarly, a president who makes decisions but cannot bring benefits to the company, shareholders are too lazy to investigate the details, and will naturally ask for recall.
The meeting was noisy and shouting for more than an hour, and there was no consensus on good opinions, but Li Xiuman was not in a hurry, and he didn't even speak much during the whole meeting, just calmly looked at the two directors who were close to him the most active, and Jin Yingmin's side quarreled with a red face and a thick neck.
With the odds in hand, there is certainly a reason to sit back and watch the wind and clouds!
After the meeting, Director Jiang followed Li Xiuman back to the office, and said with a smile when he entered the door: "Kim Yingmin's response is becoming more and more weak, President, when will you general? With your current prestige, as long as you speak, we are sure to persuade a large number of shareholders that it is not impossible to re-elect." β
"That's just a possibility. Li Xiuman waved his hand and motioned for him to pour water and cigarettes by himself, "Jin Yingmin's ability is still very strong, the shareholders can see it, there is no decisive advantage, and it is not so easy to kick him out." β
Director Jiang also understood this truth, so he didn't say more, he found tea leaves and brewed two cups of tea, brought them to Li Xiuman, sat down, I don't know what he remembered, his expression was a little solemn: "Now let's see if J.H will make any big moves in the remaining two months." β
Although he was pressed down by Li Xiuman at the meeting, in the final analysis, J.H was still a thorn in the heart of the whole SM, and he was always nervous without a conclusion on the coffin.
In particular, they have all gotten along with Ahn Jun Hyuk, and the young man who knows that Lu Dao is extremely ambitious, although last year he didn't know what Lu Dao was doing and only launched Baek Ji Young and died down, but this year, when J.H has been split and reorganized, growing bigger and bigger, and rising brazenly, will Ahn Jun Hyuk be satisfied with only launching one Yoon Mi-rae? Will he be satisfied with being trampled under the feet of other companies?
It's hard to say about this question, since Ahn Jun-hyuk bought Bugs to fight Melon, his ambitions are no longer a secret in the circle, and he wants to dominate the chorus film industry, so he naturally has to have enough prestige - financial resources, achievements, and connections, and it is the community of interests that is gradually woven from this.
These views are not internal SM analysis, but the problems that J.H is currently facing when a professor at LG Economic Research Institute wrote an article for Dong-A Ilbo in September about the barriers to the development of the record industry and its future, citing J.H. as an example.
Li Xiuman drank tea quietly and did not speak. Director Jiang had no choice but to wait no matter how anxious he was, and when he looked around, he felt something behind him, took it out and looked at it, and saw that it was a remote control, but he didn't care about it, and put it aside.
Then, probably accidentally touching the button, the TV hanging on the wall on the other side lit up abruptly.
Director Jiang hurriedly put down the teacup and was about to turn it off. The signal flashed a few times on the TV screen. The sound that sounded in silence for a short time suddenly froze his movements, and beside him, Li Xiuman, who was raising his glass and sucking tea. also raised his head in amazement-
ββ¦β¦ Evening program preview. Variety Channel at 23 o'clock tonight...... Program cancellation. The successor program is "Celebrity Debut Record" produced by J.H Entertainment Co., Ltd., and the first episode of the star, J.H and YG jointly launched a new men's HIPHOP group. Bigbangβ¦β¦β
Boom!
The remote control fell to the ground.
β¦β¦
"Star...... Debut record?"
When KBS inserted the program preview and notified the program adjustment, the unfamiliar terms of the new program suddenly turned into doubts in many people's minds.
In Seoul, a young man with unkempt hair who had just come out of the kitchen with a bowl of ramen and unkempt hair in a fairly high-end apartment building looked at the trailer on TV suspiciously.
β¦β¦ It's J.H again......
Scratching his hair, the young man muttered to himself. Although he is an otaku, but in recent times, the frequency of J.H's appearance is too high, TV, newspapers, and the Internet, with Yoon Mi-rae's song "Don't Leave", a lyrical storm has blown again in the Korean entertainment industry after a year's absence, as long as you don't live in a vacuum, anyone can hear J.H, who has been overwhelmed by the media, and Ahn Junhyuk's reputation.
The success of two consecutive works made J.H known as a star-making machine by the media, and Ahn Jun-hyuk also became popular because of the two works, and his reputation was unmatched for a while.
That's the identity of the three stars, the interaction between the front and back of the stage, the chain effect of fermentation, in fact, the young man himself likes "Don't Leave", every time he plays the game, if he doesn't get a copy, when he mines and does tasks by himself, he likes to turn off all the sounds of the game and loop the song over and over again.
He felt that the song was quite suitable for him, on the vast map, as far as the eye could see, he was the only one busy in various mines, and the sun rose and set in the game, tasting such a unique loneliness, which was very in line with his mood.
Thinking about it, I was a little distracted.
At this time, there was a sudden roar from the bedroom, which suddenly pulled the young man's spirit back from the leisurely swing: "Dian prince, your uncle is going to eat ramen and eat the toilet? If you don't come, we'll open it!"
Damn!
The young man, known as the prince of the dots, swallowed the noodles in two bites, rushed back to the bedroom in a hurry, and shouted back in a louder voice at his obviously impatient companion on the other side of the voice while logging into the role: "Are you in such a hurry to go to reincarnation? β
"What's the matter, your girlfriend wants to go to you?
"Get out! it's not a problem to press you to play with it for 6 hours!"
As soon as the words fell, a snorting voice sounded on the other side: "Ah, Prince Dian, July, you two perverts, there are children here!"
"Yes, you big-headed ghost! The eldest sister and Xiaoyun are not here, don't pretend to be pure when killing gods!" The man whose ID was called July nodded nonchalantly, and he didn't care about the collapse of the "killing god" over there, gritting his teeth, and asked the "little prince" instead: "Prince, say, why do you only play until 11 o'clock." β
"It's nothing, when I just ate ramen, I saw KBS preview a new show, what is it called the celebrity's debut record, it feels quite fresh, and I'm ready to take a look. β
"Huh, what?"
"It seems to be a documentary made by a group of celebrities when they debuted, but I don't know, but I know that the first star of the first episode of Lundao was the HIPHOP group launched by J.H Company, which is called Bigbang. β
As soon as the words fell, the killing god, who was still depressed just now, immediately interjected with interest and asked, "If Bigbang?boy group J.H Company launched the song, was the song written by the uncle?"
"Oh, how do I know that there are so many roads, when the time comes, watch it yourself, hurry up, start at speed, and watch it on time at 11 o'clock!"
"That's okay, I'll take a look at it when the time comes, don't say it, the few songs written by Ahn Junhyuk are good, and this boy group may also be done by him. β
A few people stopped gossiping and waited for the role of the prince to go online. The three of them quickly formed a team, and shouted a few more juniors in the guild, and a group of people rushed into Naxxramas.
The time of the game flies very fast, the difficulty of Naxxramas is already very large, plus most of the newcomers with him, the cooperation is not very tacit and does not know how to move, the middle group is wiped out a few times, almost in a blink of an eye to 11 o'clock, the personality of the point prince immediately threw down the mouse, and said goodbye to July and the killing god. I moved a stool and sat in front of the TV.
At the same time. Seonyoung, who is far away in Yeongdeungpo-gu, also finished her homework and turned on the TV.
Half a month ago, she was still a pure fan of Yoon Mi-rae. Now, half a month later. I still like Tasha though. And I like it more, but I can't help but idolize the other person - it's the one who made "Don't Leave", the music is gentle and silent. It seems to interpret the "uncle" of the world with a sensitive and rich heart, Ahn Junhyuk!
Many times like an idol, in fact, it is the first impression and curiosity under the in-depth understanding, and she is the same, when she heard Yin Meilai sing "Don't Leave" for the first time, when she was caught by the melody, she strongly thought, what kind of person wrote it?
I was curious, I went to understand, and I watched some selfies that were still well kept in Anjia Xiaozhu, some selfies he uploaded when he debuted, the video of singing "1 minute and 1 second" at the SM Autumn Eve party, and the Black Sea that she never understood what it meant before that time.
Recalling what he saw, in the shaky blurry lens, in the darkness, he roared out, and the depression, shock, and emotion when the lights were turned on for the first time in the audience finally turned into hopeless love.
For the first time, I understood what kind of psychology the girls in the school who liked him had.
Don't say anything else, just treat the fans like that, it's enough for them to pay.
It's a pity that he was banned, and he won't be seen on stage for at least another year, but it's consoling that his work keeps appearing. Or Aiya and Wu, or looking forward to hearing the songs he wrote again, after dinner in the evening, Seonyoung received a call from the support club, saying that KBS was going to screen the debut record of a new group launched by J.H, and she secretly decided that she couldn't miss it!
When I turned on the TV, the advertisement was still playing on the screen, and my mother, who had just finished taking a shower, came out of the bathroom wiping her hair, and saw her sitting motionless in front of the TV, and asked curiously, "Sunyoung, have you finished your homework?"
"Oh...... What are you watching? New idol drama?"
"No, it's a new show from Uncle's company. β
The mother was a little surprised, she knew that her daughter usually doesn't watch variety shows, and was about to say something more, when several logos flashed on the TV screen, the picture darkened, trembled, and a door appeared.
The cameraman carrying the camera moves the camera to include a middle-aged man next to him, and the subtitle below reads: Bigbang's manager.
"Isn't that right?" said the agent, his voice lowered, his expression hesitant.
The photographer shook the lens: "Absolutely OK, don't worry, if you shoot something you shouldn't see, we will cut it out when the time comes." β
"Well, that's pretty straightforward...... Will you cut it out?"
"Absolutely OK, isn't it a fraud if you don't cut it out?"
Hearing the soft-spoken, sneaky conversation between the two, and the photographer's assurance, Sunyoung's mother couldn't help but laugh even though she didn't understand what this show was.
Shanying is also a joy, especially when she sees the agent's relieved look when she hears the assurance, and then compares the picture broadcast at this time, her eyes are full of joy.
The camera continued, and the photographer's agent believed in the picture, took out the key to open the door, and in the clicking sound, he could still be heard muttering to himself: "I've been bringing artists for so many years, and it's the first time I've secretly photographed them, I said, what do you want to do? Forget it, I don't understand these things, oh, come in, it's the first time in history that the celebrity's private dormitory has been made public!"
Sunyoung's eyes widened with curiosity.
I saw that the camera shook, and the photographer squeezed sideways past the agent, and the first image included in the screen was a slightly narrow entrance, and ......
From the entrance all the way to the bathroom, clothes littered everywhere!
"Ahh......h You're going to cut this out, right?"
"OK, absolutely!" the photographer assured categorically, patting the clothes all over the floor.
Looking at the smooth and unretouched picture, and the few mosaics that finally appeared in the camera, a few mosaics all over the ground, Sunyoung, who understood something in an instant, burst out laughing! (To be continued......)