At the end of February, Li Lin's EP "Mask" was announced.

EPs, also known as mini albums or small albums, are generally composed of three to five songs, and are works used by record companies to test the waters of the market - if the EP sells well, then the album will follow, and if the EP does not sell, then sorry, S.M is not a charity company.

After considering the issue of the album after the EP, Li Lin removed the originally prepared song "A Man" from the EP and added the song "How to Avoid the Sun" instead.

"A Man" is the trump card that Li Lin used to achieve the double grand slam of sales and awards, and no matter how you look at it, it can't be wasted here.

"Mask", "How to Avoid the Sun" plus a song "Lonely", three songs form the EP "Mask",

As soon as this news came out, the entire Korean music scene was a sensation, and everyone knew that this EP came from Li Lin, the king of China, to test the waters of the Korean music scene, and once it succeeded, it would mean that Li Lin would completely gain a firm foothold in the Korean music scene.

At this time, Li Lin's popularity in South Korea also began to completely explode.

Pre-sale of 40,000 tickets!

The EP has reached 40,000 copies before it is officially released, which is simply different from the treatment of Li Lin's "New Style" when it only sold a few thousand copies a day in South Korea.

Li Lin and his team spent the whole month in non-stop busyness, and Li Lin was on the list of major Korean TV stations such as SBS TV's popular songs, KBS TV's music bank, and so on. He also participated in five or six Korean variety shows in one go, and he was tired enough, after all, Korean variety shows are not all variety shows with a playful nature in China. Some wild variety shows are quite fortunate.

And such a strong exposure rate in exchange for Li Lin won a championship on SBS TV's popular songs, two championships on KBS Music Bank, and other charts such as music centers have also achieved good results one after another. Some small South Korean newspapers also exclaimed 'wolf' - in their eyes, Li Lin, who has not signed any Korean brokerage company, is an outright outsider.

At the same time, Li Lin's "Mask" EP also sold well during this time. Li Lin's "Mask" sold 90,000 copies on the first day, which is already equivalent to the sales of a new album released by a popular Korean group, and then, although the sales of Li Lin's "Mask" fell all the way, it also sold 400,000 copies in the first week.

In a month, Li Lin's EP sales exceeded one million.

Although the EP sales of this million copies cannot be compared with Huaxia. But in South Korea. This can already be used to compete for the annual sales championship in Korea.

Under such sales, although many people know that the reason why Li Lin's EP sells so much is related to the quality and price of the EP, many people in the Korean music industry are red at this.

A senior Korean singer who Li Lin has never met publicly said in the newspaper: "Li Lin is just a rookie solo singer in South Korea, and the reason why his EP sells so well is entirely because Korean fans worship foreign fans." ”

He also said, "Korean fans are superstitious that Li Lin is the king of China, and they think that liking Li Lin is a very lofty behavior, but they don't know that their ideas are just being used by some bad companies." ”

"In fact, Li Lin is not the king of China at all, he is just a newcomer in China, and even the so-called album sales of more than 10 million are fake, fictitious, and deceiving the Korean people."

"Damn." In the office of the president of S.M, Li Xiuman slammed the newspaper in his hand on the desk viciously, "Who is this, who is who, where did this come from?" ”

How could he remember such a little-known so-called predecessor in the music industry. Li Xiuman roared angrily, "You dare to talk nonsense in the newspaper." ”

Li Xiu's nose was about to be crooked. The bad company in the mouth of this singer is S.M company, "Check, check for me, see which company gave him the courage to be ambitious, and dared to point fingers at us in the newspaper." ”

At this time, the S.M company was the absolute hegemon in the Korean music scene, and they occupied the vast majority of the music industry with the name of Dream Factory, and even the DSP company could only compete with the S.M company in the era of the Crystal Boys, as for the JYP company, that was after rain became popular in Asia, and now JYP is only a second-rate record company close to the first-class.

This so-called senior in the music industry dares to point fingers at S.M Company in the newspaper, if there is no company behind it, it is absolutely impossible, and Li Xiuman even suspects that the company behind him is not one, but several.

"Yes." The two Koreans standing in front of Li Xiuman hurriedly responded yes.

"In addition, inform Li Lin and tell him to start preparing the album, but you go and ask him if he is preparing the album yourself or let us help prepare it."

The EP was prepared by Li Lin himself, and the S.M company only helped with printing and distribution, but the album and the EP are different, the number of songs in the album is three or four times more than the EP, it is difficult for one person to write so many songs, and even if it is written, it may not look very good in terms of quality.

Although Li Lin had a precedent of writing an album by himself, it was a Chinese album, which was different from a Korean album.

"Okay." The two Koreans standing in front of Li Xiuman responded again.

Li Lin, who was promoting the EP at the music bank, had just stepped off the stage and was about to take a break when he saw his agent coming over with an unsightly face, and he hurriedly asked, "Li Yulongxi, what's wrong?" You don't look good. ”

According to the rules of the Korean music industry, artists should add 'brother' or 'oppa' to their names when calling their agents, but Li Lin has no feelings about this rule, in his eyes Li Yulong is just a temporary agent, and the real agent is Shen Meng, or Luo Feng, who is still growing.

So when he called Li Yulong, he added xi directly after his name.

"Look at this." Li Yulong handed the newspaper in his hand to Li Lin, "Someone is making a fuss about your identity as a foreigner." Li Yulong was very angry in his heart, although he had only become an agent not long ago, he was an absolute newcomer in the circle of agents, and he was also a temporary agent, but in any case, Li Lin was an artist under him, as long as Li Lin could achieve great results in the Korean music scene, then he would be a qualification.

But now, some people are actually making a fuss about Li Lin's identity as a foreigner, which is to ruin Li Lin.

As a Korean, Li Yulong knows the minds of Koreans better than any foreigner, on the surface it seems that Koreans are very accepting of outsiders, but in fact Koreans are very xenophobic, this kind of xenophobia is even more powerful than Japan, for example, there are two fast food restaurants on a street, one of which is opened by Koreans and the other is opened by foreigners, even if the fast food restaurants opened by Koreans are a little worse than foreigners in terms of price and taste, then the business is definitely opened by Koreans.

The reason why Li Lin is so popular now is completely because no one makes a fuss about this aspect, just like the Korean film industry, in the Korean film industry, it is always foreign movies that make a big profit at the box office, although there are local Korean films, but the influence is really not very good, but if you think that foreign movies can be rampant in South Korea, it would be wrong.

For foreign films, South Korea's Film Association (Korea Film Promotion Council, referred to as the Film Association) is a hurdle that can never be bypassed, which is the same as in China that cannot bypass China Film, although the Film Association does not have the power of life and death over foreign films like China Film, they hold another weapon in their hands, that is, public opinion.

Some films that are secretly released in South Korea without going through the film industry will encounter a crisis of public opinion, such as Li Lin's "Red Cliff" in his previous life was boycotted in South Korea, and the Korean media yelled to protect their own films and boycott foreign films, calling on the Korean people not to watch "Red Cliff", so "Red Cliff" was a tragedy in South Korea.

Also experiencing boycott treatment is "Transformers 2".

If it weren't for the deep influence of the United States on South Korea, the Film Club would have shouted the slogan of 'boycotting foreign films, supporting domestic films, and the Korean people don't want to watch "Transformers 2", as for those foreign films released by the Film Club, they have never encountered a boycott.

Now some artists make a fuss about Li Lin's foreigner status in the media, regardless of whether the artist is influential or not, as long as this matter is expanded to the most embarrassing, it will not be good for Li Lin.

If the consequences are mild, Li Lin's anti will increase significantly, and if the consequences are serious, Li Lin's album may not sell well in South Korea - don't doubt how much power the Koreans can explode under the call of the media, and the Hollywood blockbusters that have suffered a fiasco in South Korea in history are the best proof of this.

"Making a fuss about my status as a foreigner?" Li Lin glanced at the newspaper and understood what was going on, but he was not too worried about this, not to mention that the S.M company would not agree to the expansion of this matter, even if it expanded, the South Korean government itself would suppress it.

Don't forget that South Korea is now discussing with China and Japan about the abolition of policy barriers, and once the matter is negotiated, the three countries will officially enter the ranks of trade freedom, which is similar to the European Union, so some people in the outside world call this the 'Asian Union', and the South Korean government will definitely not want to break out at this time large-scale xenophobia.

Li Lin said casually, "Li Yulongxi, leave this aspect to your company." ”

"One more thing, some crews have sent you audition notices, do you want to take a look." (To be continued......)