Hee Sung's fourth album was released simultaneously worldwide on April 1, April Fool's Day.

The album was released by HS in China through the channel of S&M Entertainment, and it was still handed over to Warner abroad, and the album can be seen in genuine record stores in a total of 32 countries and regions.

As of April 7, the first week of the album's release, the total global sales have exceeded 300,000, with more than 40,000 copies in South Korea, and Hee-sung's album sales in Japan surpassed South Korea for the first time, reaching 60,000 copies.

This is not surprising, firstly, because this album contains two Japanese songs, and both of them are excellent, occupying the sixth and eighth places on the public trust chart, and secondly, thanks to the hit of "The Secret Garden".

What's more, Hee-sung has a lot of die-hard fans in Japan itself.

The mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan together have 30,000 tickets, which can be regarded as borrowing the east wind of the "Petition for Nomination".

Europe is also close to 30,000, most of which are concentrated in English-speaking countries, and the United States is the world's largest physical record market, with Xicheng's four albums selling directly to 150,000, which is the total sales of the entire Asia.

received three Grammy nominations, making Hee Sung a household name in the United States.

There is a good chance that the album will be certified platinum in the United States.

In summary, only sales in South Korea are not satisfactory, and the reasons are self-explanatory, just look at the endless negative news in the media.

After the sales in the first week came out, the orthodox media reported more objectively, while the online media was very polite, and repeatedly fried the album sales of more than 40,000 in Xicheng, which means that Xicheng is no longer good.

Has the former popularity king begun to decline?

180,000 official fans, only sold more than 40,000 albums, which means that four-fifths of fans do not support their idols, and even fans do not support them, who else will buy it?

It's not just the media that says this, but even Hee-sung's friends are starting to worry.

Lee Hyo-ri called Hee-sung and asked if he needed help. said that if she needs to cooperate with the publicity, she can do it at any time!

Liu Zaishi did not look for Hee Sung, but when he was recording the show, he mentioned Xi Sung's album in the show more than once, and spared no effort to promote him.

"Two Days and One Night" was not to be outdone, Lee Seung Gi sang Hee-sung's "Fox Rain" on the show, and a group of people praised the song.

Lee Sun-hee, the original singer of this song, has already started talking to Hee Sung about the cover.

She had previously covered "Marriage" written by Hee Sung, and gained very good popularity and results, and this time she aimed at this song again.

Lee Sun-hee is also very strange. Why does she feel that the song created by Xicheng is so suitable for herself, every time she hears this familiar melody, she can't help but hum a few times.

Overall, Hee Sung's fourth album presents a situation where house flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers.

In the second week, the global sales volume was 370,000, which was a strange upward trend.

Mainly due to the increase in sales in the United States and South Korea, as of April 15, the total sales in South Korea reached 106489 in two weeks, which means that the second week has increased slightly. In the United States, it reached 220,000.

In the third week, which ended April 22, the United States sold 180,000 in a single week, and South Korea sold 50,000 in a single week. The total global sales volume is 330,000.

Generally speaking, sales in the first week account for one-half or more of total sales, and at least no less than one-third, after the first week. Sales will decline rapidly, and even constant publicity and ranking will not change.

Hee-sung's album endurance has been tested for a long time, and it will not be on the sales chart for two or three months.

So far. The total sales of his album exceeded one million in just three weeks, which greatly exceeded the results of last year's three albums.

In fact, it's normal to think about it, Hee-sung four albums include fourteen songs, half of the original songs have achieved excellent results on their respective charts, and even three songs have reached the top three on the Billboard singles chart.

It's always easy to find your favorite genre among these fourteen songs.

He's not selling albums with the title song as the highlight, he's squandering the classics!

On April 22, Xicheng's 08 "Secret Garden" Thanksgiving Concert officially began to sell tickets.

This is a promise he made last year, if the Secret Garden reaches a certain level of ratings, he will hold a concert as a thank you.

A few days ago, there have been media clamoring for Hee Sung to go downhill, believing that his fans no longer support him, and his fan club loses an astonishing number of thousands of fans every week, and many people wonder if 18,000 seats can reach a full 50% seating rate.

However, it turned out to prove once again how ignorant their fears were.

TVXQ claims to have 500,000 fans, but they only sell about 200,000 albums, and rarely exceed 300,000. But this does not prevent them from being sold out when they hold concerts, not to mention that the quality of Xicheng's album is far better than that of any singer in the world, because each of his songs is a masterpiece, and any of them can be used as the title song.

In just one minute and 27 seconds of going on sale, 18,000 tickets were sold out, and many people were hard to find.

At the end of April, he was still one on the music charts, and his peers were no longer curious about whether he could get one, but paid attention to how many songs he would take to hit the charts.

On April 24, the 44th Baeksang Arts Awards ceremony was held at 5 p.m. at the Seoul National Theater, and in the film category, Hee-sung won the best male newcomer with his role as Jin-woo in "Gorgeous Holiday", beating Jang Keun-suk's "Happy Life".

In the TV drama department, Hee Sung lost to Park Shin Yang and failed to win the Best Actor, and Ha Ji Won also lost to Yoon Eun Hye in the competition for Best Actress, it can be said that the male and female protagonists of "The Secret Garden" both lost, but they didn't get nothing, and the two won the popularity award together, which is better than nothing.

Fortunately, Yoon Eun-hye, the best actress this time, is a person from HS Entertainment, which is the most important award won by the company since its establishment.

Jiang Hudong is powerful, and he won the biggest award in the TV department, that is, the TV Award.

He's a funny entertainer!

But he won the grand prize!

For the first time ever, the Baeksang Arts Awards have given an award to a comedy artist.

Not to mention the audience in front of the TV, even the artists who attended the meeting were all dumbfounded.

It's not that it can't be awarded to an individual, but a funny artist!

From the beginning of "x_man" leading the trend of variety shows, to the moment when "Infinite Challenge" and "Two Days and One Night" successively beat countless TV series of the same period in terms of ratings, the era of variety shows has inevitably arrived.

Compared with the variety show of the scenery. Korean film and television dramas can be said to be no longer beautiful. The comeback of many big names on the screen can't save the market. Not only are the TV ratings dismal and the investment shrinking, but the box office of the movie is also much worse than before, with negative growth for the first time in 97 years. Industry insiders are thinking about a way out of the predicament, and South Korea's TV and movie industry has begun to weaken.

Xicheng clearly knows that in terms of movies, only 7 of the more than 110 movies released in 08 are profitable, and most of these films that make money are small-budget movies, and the protagonists are also relatively unknown rookie actors.

Only seven of the 110 made money, and the rest all lost money. What is this concept?

It can be said unceremoniously that Korean movies are dead!

Even a blockbuster movie like "Good Guys, Bad Guys, Weird Guys", which has more than 7 million viewers, has lost money due to huge investments, and "Fate", starring Song Seung-hun and Kwon Sang-woo, which also has two returning kings, has failed to recover its investment.

The same is true for TV dramas, in the past two years, many TV series starring super actors worth 50 million in a single episode have even had single-digit ratings, and more than 30% of the ratings are born in Japanese dramas.

What's even more embarrassing is that because of the sluggish popularity. Advertisers refuse to buy advertising space during the interstitial period, leaving many TV series to appear barely.

Gone are the days when stars were the power of the box office.

The award of the TV drama award to Jiang Hudong marks the prosperity of variety shows, and also indicates that film and television dramas are further dying.

April 24 was clearly eventful. On this day, Choi Min-so, a famous South Korean film and television drama actor, was forced to hold a press conference and apologized to the public in tears at the meeting.

According to people familiar with the matter, Choi Min-so was around 1 pm on the 21st. He got into an argument with Liu, the owner of a restaurant, somewhere in Seoul and tried to drive away from the scene after violently beating Liu.

In order to prevent Cui Minxiu from leaving, Liu threw himself into Cui Minxiu's car. Cui Minxiu ignored the old man's move, drove Liu for nearly 200 meters, and waved a mountaineering knife at Liu from time to time to threaten him to let go.

According to the police, when the incident happened, Cui Minxiu drove back home, because the road in front was blocked by other vehicles and scolded, when Liu was nearby, after hearing Cui Minxiu's swearing, he persuaded him that as a public figure, he should not swear in public, but Cui Minxiu rushed down from the car in anger and punched and kicked Liu, the frightened Liu hurriedly used his mobile phone to call the nearby security personnel for help, and Cui Minxiu saw Liu asking for help after seeing Liu asking for help, and tried to leave the scene by car.

Liu saw Cui Minxiu trying to flee by car, and threw himself into his car in order to stop him, and at this time, Cui Minxiu ignored Liu's safety and dragged him for nearly 200 meters, and he stopped the car when he saw the police who received the report.

It is reported that because the victim Liu said at the time that he was unwilling to hold Cui Minxiu responsible, the police did not detain Cui Minxiu, but the Seoul Rongshan police had summoned Cui Minxiu yesterday to investigate the matter.

This morning, accompanied by reporters, Choi Min-so went to the restaurant run by Liu to kneel down and apologize to Liu, and held a special press conference in the evening to kneel down and apologize to the entire Korean people.

Although Choi Min-so and Choi so-jong clashed with Hee Sung together, this matter had nothing to do with him, and no reporter deliberately approached him to ask him for his opinion on this matter.

However, just because he didn't care didn't mean that it really had nothing to do with him.

Because, Mr. Kim Doo-hwan, the executive director of HADES Korea, participated in the incident in a very special way as soon as it happened.

A few months earlier, at the request of Hee Cheng, in addition to covertly acquiring S&M's small shares in the stock market, he also acquired an online media outlet, the once brilliant "OhmyNews".

OhmyNews is a South Korean news website founded in 2000 by 36-year-old Oh Yeon-ho with the belief that every citizen is a journalist!

Five years later, OhmyNews has become one of the most influential news outlets in South Korea, with the British newspaper The Guardian calling it "the world's most influential news site on national affairs."

At the height of its glory in '05, it had 37,000 citizen journalists in South Korea. They feed the OhmyNews website on a daily basis with news from all over the world.

From general news and politics to economics to movies and sports, OhmyNews covers almost all the columns of traditional media. Citizen journalists are free to speak on a responsible basis, and each story is followed by a large number of follow-ups. It forms a distinct personality of the website. At the same time, "OhmyNews" also makes full use of the immediacy, interactivity, and focus characteristics of the Internet, and cleverly forms a misalignment with traditional media and its online version, and often appears on it with heavyweight comments that can affect Korean public opinion.

It has an average of 7 million daily visits and 25 million page hits, accounting for 33.62% of the online news market share in South Korea.

In 2006, OhmyNews entered the Japanese market and opened a Japanese branch.

However, OhmyNews has been in decline, and now its Japanese branch has been forced to close due to low traffic and plummeting advertising revenue, and the traffic ranking of the main Korean website has fallen from the world's top 100 to more than 6,000 at its peak, making it an insignificant small site.

Recently, OhmyNews was in financial crisis, and in order to keep the site running, its CEO had to issue a donation appeal to netizens

According to Kim Doo-hwan's analysis, there are two reasons for the decline of OhmyNews.

The first reason is that the development of the website is completely dependent on the participation of the people, but the measures taken by the website cannot make the people devote themselves to the cause of citizen journalism. The second reason is that traditional journalism is beginning to respond to the challenge of citizen journalism and compete with citizen news organizations, and OhmyNews lacks the strength to compete.

Hades pocketed the site for 1.3 billion won, and of course, 2.7 billion won of foreign debt was passed on to Hades.

Kim Doo-hwan's first task to Cho Dong-yang, the executive director of OhmyNews, was to send Choi Min-so to the eighteenth layer of hell. Let him never turn over.

In fact, Choi Min-so and Kim Doo-hwan have no grievances, the contradiction that happened with Hee-sung at the beginning is nothing at all, and the reason why the ex-driver's uncle wants to take Choi Min-so is just to test whether the knife in his hand is sharp enough.

OhmyNews claims that its website is a free and fair place, but there is a lot of truth in that, because as long as you are human, you have your own view of right and wrong. While the editor screens the news, it has its own subjective color, and there are also factors such as the most conspicuous position on the homepage. Not to mention that this site also has its own team of reporters.

First of all, he talked about the facts, and repeatedly hyped up the fact that Choi Min-so beat the old man, so that everyone in South Korea knew about it.

From the 21st of the incident to the 24th when Choi Min-so was forced to apologize, citizen reporters were in the three-day incident. Present this person's every move truthfully in front of the public.

still eating, drinking, and having fun, there is no remorse at all.

After Choi Min-so came to apologize in the morning on the 24th, "OhmyNews" once again pointed out that you brought a group of reporters to the door. It's the word of the word, which one apologizes.

At the press conference in the afternoon, "OhmyNews" also followed step by step.

"I'm not here to defend today, I just want to apologize to everyone. I can't forgive myself, I think it's better to die. This is too hypocritical and sensational, and it sounds more like a movie line.

And what he said about "kneeling for the first time in my life" and "I originally had a strong self-esteem and didn't know how to face my future life" made people feel that he didn't realize what he had done wrong, and it seemed that he suddenly became a victim who needed everyone's sympathy.

As for his promise to go to the mountains to practice after a while, it sounds simply ridiculous.

At the same time, OhmyNews also criticized the victim, arguing that he was irresponsible to the law and the public by not pursuing the responsibility of the abuser.

It is likely that there will be more public figures in the future who do not care about their image.

There are also TV stations, which are also among the questions of "OhmyNews", and the gold medal writer Xi Feng directly asked: What qualifications does such a so-called public figure have to appear in public?

From the outbreak of the incident to the tearful apology at the press conference, "OhmyNews" led a group of media to follow the trend and make a fuss about things that could have been turned into small things.

On April 27, three days after Choi's apology, the television station announced that it would no longer broadcast his recorded talk show, and that his role was canceled for a new film scheduled to be filmed in China in May 2008.

"OhmyNews" has been in the limelight in this pursuit battle, and many online media and even some traditional media have directly copied its material.

It can be said that Kim Doo-hwan showed his sword for the first time and got very good results.

Hee-sung didn't do anything to stop OhmyNews from letting Choi Min-so go, which was not a pitiful person worthy of sympathy.

With a kitchen knife in hand, he finally had a little more confidence in surviving the black 08 years.

Speaking of which, he knew that something would happen in 08, but the specific details couldn't be found from the otaku's memory after all, so there was no way to stop it, not to mention, according to his previous experience, blindly doing something like stopping Girls' Generation from letting them participate in a charity concert was likely to backfire.

The truth that blocking is better than sparse has been the case since ancient times.

PS: This is more than 5,000 words, and the loach tries to pick up his own festival exercises as much as possible, so that everyone can read a little more. (To be continued......)