Chapter 698: The Passing Year (Part II)
"I'm so tired." As soon as Lin Yun'er returned to the dormitory, she stretched out her unsightly feet, and put one foot directly on the back of the big sofa, lying on the sofa in a large shape.
"Get up, you occupy all the sofas by yourself, where do we sit?" Zheng Xiuyan was a little annoyed and tapped Lin Yun'er's belly with her toes.
"Oh, Jessica, just let me lie down, I'm exhausted."
"As long as you're tired, we're not tired?"
"That's it." The girls laughed and blew Lin Yun'er up, and each found a place to sit down.
Since Kim Young-min returned to power, after several years of efforts by S.M Company to gather the resources of the company, Girls' Generation can now be called Korea's No. 1 girl group, if not Korea's No. 1 group group.
In 2009, after returning from the shadow of the Black Sea incident, his first song "GEE" set a record of nine consecutive titles for KBS Music Bank, a record that was not broken until November last year by Uncle Bird's "Gangnam Style" for 11 consecutive titles.
Since then, the development of girlhood has been smooth and out of control.
First, on December 19 of the same year, the group held its first solo concert at the fencing arena of the Olympic Park in Seoul.
On February 3, 2010, the second album "Oh! As soon as it was released, 65,532 copies were sold in the Big H list within seven days, entering the third place in the first week of sales in the history of the Big H list. On August 25, the first showcase was held at the Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo, Japan, due to the number of registrations exceeding expectations. It was temporarily changed to three sessions, and a total of 22,000 people gathered. On September 8, Japan's first single "Genie" was released. On October 9, Girls' Generation won the 25th "Golden Disc Award - Record Award" with the album "Oh!", becoming the first singer in Korean history to win both the Record Award and the Music Source Award, and the first female singer in history to win the Record Award. On November 1, Girls' Generation held an overseas press conference to announce its attack on overseas markets.
On January 20, 2011, Girls' Generation won the 20th "Seoul Music Awards-Grand Award", becoming the first female singer in Korean history to win two consecutive awards. June 7. With their debut Japanese album "GirlsGeneration", Girls' Generation became the first Korean girl group to top the weekly album chart of Japan's public trust chart. And with 231,553 initial moves, it set a new record for the highest initial move of an overseas singer's original regular album. On July 13th, he participated in the K-POPFESTIVAL concert at Tokyo Dome. On August 2, according to the statistics of the Japanese public trust list, the sales of Girls' Generation's first Japanese album "GirlsGeneration" exceeded 500,000 in less than two months after its release. As a result, Girls' Generation became the first Korean girl group in history to achieve double platinum certification for their albums in Japan. He is also the third Korean singer to win this honor after Boa and TVXQ. August 19th. Girls' Generation was invited by the president's wife to visit Wèn. On August 9, Girls' Generation won the "one" of [SISAPRESS Survey: Who is shaking in South Korea in 2011], becoming the first singer group in history to win the first place on this list. August 30th. According to the statistics of the Japanese public trust list, the Japanese series "GirlsGeneration" has sold more than 10,000 for 13 consecutive weeks, staying in the TOP10 of the Oricon weekly list for 13 consecutive weeks. On September 6, according to the statistics of the Japanese public trust chart, the sales of the Japanese album "GirlsGeneration" have reached 581689, setting a new record for the highest sales of a single Japanese album by a Korean group. On September 11, Girls' Generation became the first overseas girl group to hold three consecutive solo concerts at Taipei Arena, and set a record for the largest number of audiences mobilized by an overseas girl group in Taiwan.
Since 2012, S.M has used the network of ZX Group's American branch to officially promote Girls' Generation to overseas markets, and has appeared in various star variety shows such as the American talk show "David Late Night Show", the TV program "LIVE!withKelly", and the French talk show "LeGrandJournal". On April 1, Girls' Generation's regular third album "TheBoys" sold 410,000 copies, making Girls' Generation the first singer group in the history of the GaonChart chart to exceed 400,000 sales with a single version of the album. On April 29, "Twinkle" was released globally through guò iTunes and won the fourth place in the US iTunes album chart, breaking the all-time record of a Korean singer on the US iTunes album chart, and winning second place in its sub-chart POPTOPALBUM. At the same time, it won the first place in the Japanese iTunes album chart. On May 3, the album "Twinkle" entered the BillBoard 200 Albums in the United States, and set a new record for the highest ranking in the history of the Korean singer in the American BillBoard album chart. On May 5, Girls' Generation appeared on the homepage of the official Grammy website in the United States. On June 8, the Japanese album "GirlsGeneration" was certified by the Japan Recording Industry Association as a million albums, and Girls' Generation became the second Korean singer in history to receive the Japanese album million certification after Boa, and became the first Korean group to receive this honor. On July 7, Girls' Generation was printed in the Korean National Culture Brochure for the London 2012 Olympic Games, and 10,000 copies were distributed throughout the city. On August 9, the Korea Post Headquarters issued a stamp commemorating the 5th anniversary of Girls' Generation's debut, becoming the first Korean artist. On August 12, Girls' Generation won the "one" of [SISAPRESS Survey: Who is shaking in South Korea in 2012] and achieved two consecutive championships. On September 26, Girls' Generation's fifth Japanese single "Oh!", DVD and Blu-ray disc "GIRLSGENERATIONCOMPLETEVIDEOCOLLECTION" released in Japan topped the Oricon weekly singles chart, DVD comprehensive chart, and Blu-ray disc comprehensive chart, respectively, becoming the second only rock band Mr. Children. This is the second time that a singer has won the championship in three categories including CD, and it is also the first female artist and overseas artist to achieve this move. On December 29, Girls' Generation was even nominated as a candidate for the 2012 Youth Inspirational Person of the Year on the annual youth inspirational figure list.
This year, on the first day of the new year, when Girls' Generation released the official fourth album "IGotABoy", it only took 55 hours, and the MV of "IGotABoy" exceeded 10 million hits on YouTube, becoming the fastest MV for the Korean group to break 10 million. On April 1, the MV of "Gee" exceeded 100 million views on YouTube, and Girls' Generation became the first K-pop idol group to exceed 100 million views on YouTube.
Fame is great. There are more invitations to various programs. There are even several ambassadors, such as the image ambassador of Incheon City, the image ambassador of Korea Digital Transformation Project, the ambassador of Gyeonggi Province, and the ambassador of Jiang. It is natural that the Southern District image ambassador and so on, the schedule is too busy. Sometimes they even had to move separately in squads.
The high-density schedule made the girls complain, and even once because they were too tired. Team member Choi so-young and her agent were in a car accident on their way to a charity event. Wounded along with the broker. He was rushed to the hospital and had to temporarily suspend his tour and other activities for the next few weeks.
At that time, Zheng Xiuyan also had a big quarrel with Xiahou Zhongying for that matter. Xiahou Zhongying, who has never been in charge, can only smile helplessly, and go to Jin Yingmin in person, hoping that he can control the schedule of Girls' Generation, and don't squeeze them to death, otherwise the girls of Girls' Generation will be squeezed by S.M Company too hard, and he will have to be squeezed by Zheng Xiuyan as soon as he turns around.
However, even so, Girls' Generation's itinerary was not much looser, and it was still very close. S.M concentrates most of its resources on girls' generation girls, and if they don't make money from them, the shareholders won't be able to get it back. You must know that although Xiahou Zhongying is the largest shareholder of S.M Company, it is far from the point of full control of S.M Company. When it comes to profits, the shareholders of the fat-headed and big-eared S.M company will never compromise with Xiahou Zhongying, unless he is willing to compensate them for their losses from other places.
In this regard, Xiahou Zhongying was also very helpless, and later Zheng Xiuyan quarreled with him twice, and he was also annoyed, and said to her that since she was tired of being a singer, she would simply quit the group and be the president of her ZX Group with peace of mind, anyway, she is not short of money now. In this way, Zheng Xiuyan didn't dare to mess with him, but the Cold War was unavoidable, Zheng Xiuyan didn't give him a good face for a long time, and when they met, they gritted their teeth, insinuated, and scolded Huai.
"Well, by the way, the company just notified me that it had received an invitation letter from the Ministry of Sports, inviting us to go to the United States at the end of next month to sing the national anthem for Yoo Hyun-jin and Choo Shin-shou in Major League Baseball." Kim Taeyeon said with a frown.
"Again?" Zheng Xiuyan was stunned for a moment, and then asked helplessly.
"No way." Kim Taeyeon smiled helplessly, "We in South Korea finally have two players who play in Major League League, and the sports department is naturally a treasure." ”
"The company is not very concerned about this kind of thing, but it can't help but give face to the sports department." After a pause, Kim Taeyeon continued: "But we have a lot of schedules for the past month or so, and it is definitely impossible to go to them all, so the company means that it is okay to arrange three people to go over, and as for who to go, it is up to us to decide." ”
"Don't look at me, I don't want to go." Zheng Xiuyan said: "When I go to the United States, I can't help but see Uncle Ge and Mama He, and when I go to see Uncle Ge and Mama He, I have to see that hateful woman. ”
"Okay, count me in." Huang Meiying sighed.
Among the Girls' Generation groups, Huang Meiying and Zheng Xiuyan were born in the United States, so there is naturally no problem with English, and the others, except for the studious Xu Zhuxian, are okay, the others can be said to be British blind. Zheng Xiuyan has made it clear that she is unwilling to go to the United States, so she has no choice but to go.
"The TV series I participated in is already in preparation, and it should start filming in the near future, and I can't help it." Xu Zhuxian spread her hands, indicating that she was not free to go.
"I don't know English, I didn't understand anything in the past." The other girls almost all used this reason to shirk it, leaving Kim Taeyeon with black lines on her head.
"Then I'll go." Kim Taeyeon is the captain, and when no one else wants to go, she can only take responsibility. However, even if she was added, it would only be two people, and there was still one short, so she looked at the other five girls and said, "There is still a position, you can choose for yourself, or guess the boxing to decide." ”
The women laughed and began rock-paper-scissors in a circle. It didn't take long for the winner to be decided, and Lee Soon-gyu, who was finally elected, was depressed and depressed. (To be continued......)