Chapter 64: The First Million Sales
On August 16th, most of the headlines in the entertainment news section carried EXO's name.
As of 23:59 a.m. yesterday on the 15th, EXO's regular album "XOXO (kiss&a;hug)" and the reissued album "Roaring Filial Piety (kiss&a;hug)", all the sales of the four versions combined, officially exceeded the 1 million mark.
"XOXO" totaled more than 540,000 copies, and "Roaring Filial Piety" had more than 460,000 copies.
This is the first time in 12 years that the Peninsula music scene has seen a single album with millions of sales.
In fact, on the first day of the release of "Roaring Filial Piety", after the initial sales exceeded 400,000 copies, people in the Peninsula music industry already had a premonition that this long-standing record would be broken in the hands of EXO, a boy group that has only debuted for more than a year.
It's just that the expectation is expected, but when it really happened, it still plunged the industry into a big earthquake.
The major media websites that had been tracking the news for a long time immediately changed their headlines that morning to report this incredible news.
After a morning of fermentation, basically most of the people also knew the news, and they were surprised and started discussions on the Internet:
"It's no surprise that I expected it on the day of the release of "Roaring Filial Piety", but I didn't expect it to be so soon, with millions of sales reached, and all idol groups in the song industry ranked first, EXO Dafa!
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"It seems like it's been twelve years since this record, and the last million album seems to be Kim Modeling, who else is it? I haven't paid much attention to EXO before, but I've heard the song "Roaring Filial Piety", which is really good, but I didn't expect it to sell millions of copies, it's really amazing, they are the pride of KPOP."
"EXO's momentum is too hot, I feel like they are definitely the next TOP, I watched both the MV and the stage of "Roaring Filial Piety", they are great in all aspects, and they are about to turn fans."
"Ahhh EXO Daihatsu!
Reaching one million sales in the first year of debut, uliXO is the general trend, the hottest boy group, scheduled for this year's major awards ceremony record awards, XO, we will always support you."
"I'm laughing to death, if fans of other groups can buy more than a dozen albums per person, or dozens of albums, a group can reach millions of sales."
"Upstairs is the dinner of other groups, please don't be sour. It is not denied that we have a lot of die-hard fans of EXO, and our purchasing power is also very strong. But it's impossible to buy a million points just by relying on die-hard fans, and the majority of sales are still ordinary fans."
"What I said upstairs is right, can some of the other group's meals focus on the main thing, why do you run over and embarrass people? How popular is "Roaring Filial Piety", are you blind or deaf and can't feel it? I don't dare to say about other age groups, but more than 80% of the students in high school love "Roaring Filial Piety"!"
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In addition to the heated discussions on the Internet, the most deeply felt are the peers who are also idols, who are the most sensitive to millions of sales.
"Hey, one of the ancient episodes, EXO's regular album has sold more than one million......
In the Girls' Generation dormitory, the members who have reunited to promote the single are chatting in the living room, and after seeing the news on their mobile phones, Kwon Yoo-ri immediately reports it loudly.
"Alas, it was expected for a long time, and our maximum sales were only ...... Why do you think their sales are so high? 「
Kim Taeyeon lay there weakly, and after hearing it, she fluttered her short legs twice, looking like she had been hit.
Some time ago, when she was chatting with Ji Kyung-won, she also discussed that the sales of EXO's regular album were about to surpass the best-selling album of Girls' Generation, and Kim Taeyeon was very unconvinced.
Unexpectedly, EXO not only surpassed them, but directly broke the twelve-year record.
"Their MV shot this time is really good, it was designed by Jingyuan, right?"
Hyo-yeon glanced at Sunny, and after the other party nodded in confirmation, he continued, "By the way, because of EXO's big hit this time, it seems that the title song MV for our next return will also be
It is necessary to use a one-shot approach. 「
"Don't say it, it's already uncomfortable to be sold so much, and now I have to imitate the juniors, I can't hold my head up in front of Jingyuan......
Kim Taeyeon took a pillow to cover her face, and her voice was a little muffled.
"Ah...... "The sisters sighed together.
At a time when the group returns and sells more than 50,000 albums to celebrate with big-character posters, EXO's million sales are a miracle-like sales figure for most artists.
As a practitioner, it is natural to discuss and learn from EXO's successful experience, and in a short period of time, many agencies are ready to make their boy groups appear in the next comeback, such as suits, school uniforms, back numbers, one shot to the end and so on.
Especially in one shot, including Girls' Generation, it is known that several well-known groups will use this method of shooting in the music video for their next comeback.
EXO and Chi Jingyuan can be regarded as creating a precedent and leading the trend.
All of a sudden, EXO became the focus of discussion in various parts of the entire music industry.
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"I'm Eu-Reu-ReEu-Reu-Reong."
"I'm Eu-Reu-ReEu-Reu-Reong."
"If you don't back down, you don't care if you get hurt."
Amid the enthusiastic cheers and screams below, the twelve members of EXO formed a circle and put on an Endingpose to complete the live stage of the music bank.
EXO didn't leave the show after the performance, because they were the last to perform on stage this episode, and they stood there waiting for all the other artists to take the stage and prepare for the awards.
Today's music bank on the 16th, one of the candidates is FX and EXO, and now when the awards are presented, the two groups are standing on either side of the MC, nervously looking at the screen on the side of the stage, which is counting the scores.
FX is officially back on July 31st, and today is the third week of singing, and it has won four places before, and the results are not bad.
Their second full-length album "PinkTape" was released this time, and the reviews were very good for both industry professionals and passers-by, and the results of the title song "First Wisdom Teeth" were also quite gratifying.
According to the results of their return this time, after three weeks of accumulation, it should be normal to get a few more singing shows.
It's a pity that under the arrangement that SM doesn't know for what purpose, FX and EXO's "Roaring Filial Piety" collided.
Soon, the scores began to be announced.
The audio source score is EXO4880, FX4200, and the difference is not very much.
And because of the second week of return, I didn't participate in a few shows before, and EXO's broadcast score was 0, far behind FX's 1000 points.
Just after FX fans breathed a sigh of relief, the album sales score came out.
With a sales score of 4950 points, EXO completely crushed FX's 200 points......
This comparison of sales scores made all the artists on stage and the fans and audience on the stage can't help but exclaim.
KBS's music bank is a program that focuses more on sales among the major singing programs, and artists with good sales will have an advantage here.
"The one who is glorious today is...... EXO, rough Kahamida!"
In the congratulations of the MC, the streamers floated, and EXO's "Roaring Filial Piety" won the first singing show since this return.