Chapter 102: Busy Days
In 2004, a "Full House" was a complete hit with Rain, a Mizuki drama that began airing on KBS on July 14, 2004, and it took only three weeks to break through the 30% ratings and start selling overseas. China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore and other countries have successively bought the broadcast rights of this TV series.
Although the overseas market does not know what the effect is, in South Korea, Rain is the general trend now, and like prince, all entertainment news is broadcast in order to attract attention. And both parties debuted in 2002, which can be called the two brightest new stars in 2002. Especially Rain is still a solo singer, although there are not as many fans as Elves, but Rain alone has more fans than those second-tier groups.
SM is now the big surprise. Prince has had such results in running on both sides of South Korea and Japan during this time, and Rain just took over a TV series and kept up with Prince's pace, and it became like this! Now, SM is also unbalanced, and after the results of "Full House of Romance" are broadcast abroad, they can also accumulate a lot of popularity for RAIN! You must know that Korean dramas have swept Asia over the years, and even Korean dramas with low ratings in South Korea can be broadcast in China and other regions!
During this time, Prince not only ran between Korea and Japan, but also traveled in Japan one after another, and so far, since his debut at the end of April, a total of six singles have stayed in the top 200 of the Japanese public trust chart. "proud" had a best score of 13th and "Fire" had a best of 7th place!
Japan's busy promotional activities also have to travel to Korea and make appearances on TV programs to maintain popularity!
The company has also begun to plan to pick up a TV series or a reversal drama for one or two members of Prince, and Rain has become so popular recently that the company is also red-eyed. And it's always wrong with JYP, and SM naturally doesn't want to see JYP so happy.
Prince has been very busy during this time, and since his debut at the end of April, every month has been an endless singing activity. "Proud" in June and "Fire" in July ......, and now in October, six singles have been released, and each of them has sold well! The three singles after "Fire" have also sold to the point of 200,000. During this period of time, I have frequently seen the Prince group go abroad, even if you like fresh young people, if you are not a five-person fan, you will feel aesthetic fatigue!
So for the activities in the second half of the year, Ai Hui's plan is to release an album for the last promotion!
The latest album "TheOne" includes nine songs including the title song "mydestiny".
In addition to promoting the sixth single throughout September, the Prince group is practicing the songs in the Japanese album, and in October, the Prince group officially started recording, this time Ai Hui has great expectations for Prince's Japanese album, and the popularity of this time is a bit empty, so the response to this album must be good, and it must be so popular!
This album continues to have Jun Tachida no as the recording and producer, and he will produce the songs, and then Katsuto Matsuura will personally post-produce and shoot the MV for the album!
Since last year's second Korean album "withoutyou", Kim Sung-han has never cut his hair short, and now the length has reached the length that still reaches the shoulders after styling and perming his hair!
Ahn Sungmin's hair has also become very long, and the sideburns that were cut off last year are now long to cover his cheeks!
In the recording studio, Jun Tachida was listening carefully to the recording, sliding the instrument under his hand from time to time, staring at the computer screen all the time!
Jin Shenghan: "I want to go back, but my heart is still wandering in the long night!" ”
Ahn Sungmin: "I can't go back, because the oath I made in the hazy morning will become a lie." ”
Gu Hee-hyun: "Our shadow at that time. ”
Lee Jun-hwan: "Now stand up and get ready to go, Youknowthat'sI'mstillwaitingforyou!" ”
Kim Sung-han: "AnotherdayAnothernight, although the future is there. ”
All:“Nowlivingwithoutyourlove! ”
Jiang Euncan: "Whenever I think of your trembling shoulders, I always tell myself. Only reality, sad, mydestiny! ”
The recording time of "mydestiny" was not long, but the MV was very difficult to shoot, and I found a good place after looking for a lot of scenes!
pinching the envelope, Kim Sung-han staring affectionately; Ahn Sung-min, who wore headphones and looked bitter; Kang Eun-chan holding flowers and a scarf; Goo Hee-hyun dancing in the heavy rain and Lee Jun-hwan wearing a hat in the castle!
It took two days to shoot this MV with only 5 minutes and 24 seconds!
On October 16, Prince's Japanese series was officially produced and began to be packaged and printed.
On October 27th, Prince's album "TheOne" was officially released! Pre-orders had reached 65,000 copies by this time, and the title song "mydestiny" reached No. 9 on the first day, and the album "TheOne" sold more than 74,000 copies on the first day. It shook the entire Ai Hui company!
In just one day, there are some popular artists who are close to a month and a half, and Japan is a country that resists fakes, but that doesn't mean that everyone will buy your album! Moreover, coupled with the development of high technology in Japan, the current computer network technology has greatly impacted the record industry, and it is rare to see an album that sold more than one million in the past. In Korea, it no longer exists!
Not only Japan, but also South Korea's entertainment news has stepped up its coverage, and even the mainstream media in South Korea have entered the coverage. As soon as "Fire" was released, it entered the top 100 of the public trust chart and was frantically reported by the Korean media, along with the results of the previous two singles. This time, as soon as "mydestiny" came out, it ranked ninth on the public trust list, which made the people even more excited!
In November, Japan's Ai Hui Company officially counted the current number of fans of the Prince group, and it reached 170,000! I just debuted this year and has such a result!
Because he was busy in Japan all year long, Prince did not attend any of the year-end awards ceremony in Korea. However, some media outlets have begun to speculate that Prince may return to the Korean music scene in 2005, and as they consolidate their popularity in Japan, they can already play on both sides. And it is estimated that SM's new boy group TVXQ, which officially debuted this year, will also officially attack the Japanese music industry in 2005! At that time, in order to avoid conflicts, Prince's activities in Japan will inevitably avoid TVXQ!
This year is also the year of the rise of TVXQ's new stars, the title song "thewayyouare", and the later "I Believe" are all well-received hit songs, which are highly praised on Mnet, KBS, and SBS!
In November, TVXQ broke out in the so-called Yellow Rose Incident, which put SM and TVXQ on the cusp for a while. Fans are almost convinced that Kim Jae-jung is about to be replaced, and they continue to put pressure at the door of SM to intercede for TVXQ!
In fact, these are all means for the backstage team of SM Company to increase the popularity of the sluggish members, and openly use Yellow Rose on TV to tell fans that they are going to be replaced, how could SM Company do such a stupid thing. If you want to change people, you will be like Andy who treated the myth at the beginning.,How can it come out and tell you with a yellow rose!
And to put it bluntly, the reason why the hero in the middle of the gods has not been as popular as other members for so long is because of the cold and arrogant image arranged by the SM company, although Kim is cold and arrogant in the middle of the middle, but the personality is gentle and kind, which is known to acquaintances, and many of the trainees in the company are his friends.
As of December, Prince's Japanese album has sold 370,000 figures, and it has entered the album sales list of the Japanese public trust chart, ranking high.
The promotion period of the Japanese series has just ended, and no one can be regarded as taking a breath of relief, so he hurriedly nested in the dormitory to rest.
"Ahh Still comfortable in the dormitory! Lying on the soft sofa, Gu Xixuan pillowed the pillow, looking comfortable.
"Get up!" Ahn Sung-min walked to Gu Hee-hyun's side and smashed it with a pillow!
"What?" Gu Hee-hyun hurriedly got up and complained.
"Brother! Shenghan, you don't have to make arrangements for your birthday today. Ahn Sung-min said seriously to Gu Xixuan.
Kim Sung-han and Lee Jun-hwan's birthdays are both in December, but since their debut, Kim Sung-han and Lee Jun-hwan's birthdays have been very simple, and the end of the year is the stage of major award ceremonies, so they had to live a simpler life, and even the fans had to bless a few times in the fanclub and send some gifts to the two, and they were a little sorry for these two famous fans.
This year, Hee-hyun and Seung-min were both in a very empty period, so the five Prince helped them through, but the June month where Eun-chan was located was very sad, busy with publicity, everyone just cut the cake and celebrated!
Today, December 5th, the other four members took advantage of their rare free time to prepare for a birthday party for Kim Sung-han!