The schedule is very tight, there is only one week of promotion time from the first song to the title song, and the time for the pre-sale of the album is not enough buffer, everything seems a little urgent.

But there is no way, and no one can expect the unexpected situation.

And the return date really can't be postponed any longer, and in late May, EXO will officially start the concert plan, and then a devil's itinerary of playing songs + ordinary activities + variety shows + concerts will be opened, and the iron man may not be able to bear it.

So the final date is already the best return date that can be obtained.

Even this date actually has a lot of shortcomings, for example, the company obviously has no intention of letting the precursor song "dope" play, because according to the announcements of major TV stations, the week of "dope" released on May 8, except for "M! C", the other three major TV stations' singing programs have not yet resumed and are still on the air.

When the show resumes the following week, EXO will start the stage for "overdose".

In other words, there is only one stage for the song "DOPE", which is "M! c", which can be described as extremely pitiful.

And "Overdose" is not expected to be a full month of songs, because if the time of the trip conflicts, of course, the concert is more important in comparison.

It can only be said that a month was freed up in vain, and a lot of advance planning and preparation were all disrupted.

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Practice room in the JYP building.

"Is it open?"

"It's a few minutes before tickets go on sale...... You've been urging it for a long time, and you must have opened it a long time ago, that. “

Sasha Minato said as she waved her phone at Minami Naina, making her look at the Gmaket webpage that had been opened on the screen, signaling that she was working hard.

After seeing it, Mingjing Nan smiled sweetly at her and compared her heart.

After she came to JYP as a trainee at the beginning of the year, she was very confused and uneasy for a few days when she was unfamiliar with her life and not proficient in Korean, but fortunately, she soon found her own organization.

JYP's foreign trainees are all relatively grouped, and several neon trainee seniors are also very welcoming to the arrival of Mingjing Nan, and decisively pulled her into their own small group.

The peninsula is a relatively xenophobic place, they are all wanderers from the same country who came here to work hard to keep warm, and they naturally have a sense of closeness to each other, basically they will mix together every day, and they are already very familiar after getting along for a few months.

"Mina, you're really an EXO fanatic, you've been urging since just now, didn't you say you like 2PM's seniors, why haven't you snatched their concert tickets?"

Sasha Minato sat there a little bored with her mobile phone, so she looked at Mingjingnan and was curious, and asked with a smile.

"Not anymore...... I just like their stage more and think it's very good. ”

Nai Nan shook his hand, hesitated for a moment and pointed to Hirai Tao next to him, and pulled her into the water: "Didn't Momo-chan also say that she likes EXO and wants to grab tickets to go to the concert together?" ”

"That's right."

Hearing that he was called, his eyes lifted from the phone, Hirai Tao looked at the two of them and blinked, and his tone was reasonable: "The hottest boy group on the peninsula is them now, EXO is so handsome, of course I like it, I eu-reu-reeu-reu-reong you ......"

While talking, Momo Hirai, who was sitting on the floor, took the initiative to sing, and at the same time twisted her upper body to cover the dance of "Roaring Filial Piety" and made a signature hammer movement, which looked decent.

"Right."

Minami Nai's eyes were bent into a crescent moon and she smiled at Sasha Minato to show her upper gums, and then waved her hands and covered it with Hirai Momo for a while, but she couldn't jump off without twisting a few times and made a mess.

"Okay."

Sasha Minato sighed softly, sat there smiling and watching the two dance, and after a while waited for them to calm down, he mentioned something: "By the way, I heard that the MV for the title song of Lee Jun Ho's predecessor's new album is selecting actors among the trainees, so let's try it together." ”

"Senior Lee Jun Ho?" Minami Nai looked at her.

"Yes, I heard that this is Neon's solo album, and we are all neon people, which is very advantageous."

Sasha Minato is one of the more cheerful girls in their neon line, who likes to socialize, and has a more likable personality and is the most well-informed.

"Okay, let's try it out."

Momo Hirai nodded, a little expectant.

Being able to appear and show their faces in the MV of their debut predecessors is something that most trainees are very willing to do, not only can they accumulate performance experience in front of the camera, but they can also show their faces after playing, and maybe they can attract a little fans to increase their popularity, thereby increasing the chance of debut.

can also have a good relationship with those seniors, whether it is vanity or improving their own connections, in some ways it is very helpful for them.

For example, Jiang Shiqi and Sun Shengwan are just two ordinary trainees who have not debuted, but they have a relationship with Chi Jingyuan, I don't know how many female trainees envy and envy them, and after the news spread, the previous face-to-face bullying and bullying disappeared in an instant...... Of course, there must have been more irresponsible and yin and yang weirdness behind the scenes.

And even the trainee head has a better attitude towards them.

These are tangible benefits.

Of course, meeting other debut artists will not have the immediate benefit of knowing Ji Jingyuan, but it will definitely bring some help.

After chatting a few words, they looked at the time and quickly took out their mobile phones:

"It's about starting, it's about starting!"

"It's time, get ready to start grabbing tickets."

Several neon line trainees were holding mobile phones, and on them were web pages that had been open for a long time, and everyone was waiting a little nervously.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the ticket window for the EXO concert immediately appeared on Gmarket, and countless clicks rushed to the scene at this moment, and the line was immediately crowded.

"Did you get it?" Hirai Tao's phone was a little stuck, and there was no response after the link was clicked for a long time, and he looked up and asked the friend next to him in a hurry.

"I didn't...... It's only been a few seconds and you're out of tickets? ”

"I grabbed a ......"

"I didn't ...... either" Minami Nai looked at the words 'sold out' on the screen, and his voice was a little low.

"It took several of us to grab a concert ticket, SM This is too much, is it really so popular?"

A friend said unhappily.

"The 24,25 two-day show is out of tickets......"

Sasha Minato saw that Minami was a little lost, and after thinking about it, he comforted him: "The tickets are selling so hot, it is estimated that their company will add the show, and we will grab it together when the time comes." ”

"Okay......

…………

The next day, the news came out, EXO's first concert tour, two concerts in Seoul on May 24 and 25, with a total of 36,000 tickets, were sold out in only 1.1 seconds after they went on sale at the ticket window.

1.1 seconds, the slower hand is estimated not to even have a link.

Countless fans who have been waiting for a long time with their mobile phones have no tickets before they can react.

Some are stunned for a second, or the mobile phone network freezes for a moment, and as soon as they turn around, they are directly announced that they have lost their chance.

This feeling of being long-awaited and ready but not being able to grab a ticket at all is naturally full of unwillingness and annoyance, and some angry fans even smashed their mobile phones in a hurry.

Naturally, SM was rushed by countless fans who couldn't grab tickets.

"SM Die! SM goes out of business! ”

"If you don't plan it, can you get out, I've been looking forward to doing it for a long time?"

"You guys don't know the popularity of the oppas or what's going on? Can't you rent a bigger venue? Is there enough place for your family to cram this field of more than 10,000 people? “

"Is EXO a boy group on our peninsula, and is SM a company in our country? Why did EXO have a total of these two concerts on the peninsula this time? But there are more than a dozen on Xia Guo's side? Thailand has two in West Eight, %... &SM Apologize to all the people! ”

"Extra! Extra! ”

The official website and social media were filled with the anger of the swarming planetary meals, some of them were just venting their anger and insulting, and some of them were desperately asking for an additional show.

Seeing this, SM's department in charge of planning the EXO tour also felt that they were a little too conservative.

EXO's last full-length album, XOXO, sold nearly 1.5 million copies, and the number of sales is the best indicator of how many die-hard fans an idol group is willing to spend money on them.

It is also the most intuitive data to evaluate the box office and the number of mobilizers on tour.

Many idol groups are very popular and famous, but there are not many die-hard fans who are really willing to spend money for them, and those passers-by usually make a lot of noise on the Internet, and they seem to like this group very much, but when it comes to buying tickets and albums, they all disappear.

And among the millions of sales of EXO, even if you remove the number of Xia Wen versions, and remove the fact that there are many fans who buy a lot of copies alone, there are at least hundreds of thousands of die-hard fans on the peninsula who are willing to spend money for XO consumption.

Under the influence of star-chasing culture, the concert tickets on the peninsula are not expensive, and many meals have also developed the habit of going to concerts, and the 35,000 tickets for these two shows are really a drop in the bucket compared to the huge number of XO fans.

After a series of discussions and communication, the company issued an announcement admitting that the previous planning was a bit conservative and apologized to the majority of XO fans.

At the same time, it was announced that at the request of fans, the first tour, which was originally scheduled to have only two shows in Seoul, will add a new one on May 23, and the ticket sales for this concert will open at 8 o'clock in the evening a week later, also on Gmarket.

Although the move of adding more shows made some fans barely ease their mood, there are still many people who keep scolding SM for having too few local shows, and even if they add more shows, there will only be three concerts in total.

And even with the addition of 18,000 tickets, it still meets the huge needs of EXO's fan base.

However, there is no way, the overall planning has been done a long time ago, and the venue has been rented about half a year in advance, and it will take a lot of time and energy to renovate the venue, and it will already have to coordinate a lot of things to add a temporary one, and the overall planning process is really difficult to change.

In the face of the surging tide of accusations, these concert planners shrank their heads and did not hear it.

Scold it, just scold it, anyway, they're used to being scolded.

Just remember to pay for a ticket.

…………

Because of the suspension of entertainment programs, it is natural that there will be no schedules such as events and commercial performances, except for a few members with personal resources, such as Park Chanyeol and Byun Baek-hyun, who will be busy with their own schedules every day, and other members of EXO are also happy to stay in the company's practice room every day.

All the work on the EXO Mini II has basically been completed, and in addition to practicing and familiarizing themselves with the dance every day, the focus of their work has shifted to the concert.

"Kyungwon, what do you think of your solo stage during EXO's first tour of Seoul this time?" Lee Seung-hwan called Ji Jingyuan to his office, and after bringing him a cup of coffee, the two sat there and talked about business.

EXO's concert is expected to last two hours, with a total of about 20 songs on stage, so it is naturally impossible for 12 people to dance from beginning to end for such a long performance, and there will be many other shows in between, such as chatting with the audience, farting, and preparing some special stages.

"gee" and "Say Your Wish", which EXO is practicing in recent days, are one of them.

In addition to raising the enthusiasm of the fans and setting the mood, the main thing of these shows is to change the clothes of the other members and take a little break.

The solo performances of the members are an important part of it, and many members of the first phase of the Seoul show have their own solo stage, and Ji Kyungwon is naturally one of them.

"Are you going to sing a song, or are you going to do a solo dance?" Lee Seung-hwan took a sip of water, opened the notebook and answered again.

"How did the other members choose their personal stage?"

"Kai is a solo dance, Tao is a solo martial arts performance, except for the two of them, everything else is a solo stage."

Lee Seung-hwan flipped through his notebook and said while reading: "Several of the children performed self-composed music, such as Y and ...... They have always been interested in composing, and they have applied to the company to use the songs they wrote for EXO, but the company did not approve them because of quality and style problems. ”

"This concert is just right for you, it's a good idea to talk about composing, and it's easier to get closer to fans, and it's a gimmick if it's dedicated to concerts."

Thinking of this, Li Chenghuan's eyes flashed and stared at Ji Jingyuan, and asked tentatively: "If it's Jingyuan, I think it's definitely a self-composed solo performance, and it's definitely better than the song the company chose for you...... Do you have any suitable works lately? ”

"What style of song do you need?" Chi Jingyuan raised his eyes and thought about it, a little moved.

"It doesn't matter the style, the other kids all wrote songs in very different styles...... After all, it's just that the songs performed at the concert don't need to be too complete, the melody is pleasant, and it would be better if the lyrics could be hooked with the concert or fans. ”

After Li Chenghuan said something, he looked at Ji Jingyuan and smiled: "But if it's Jingyuan, the fans' expectations may be a little higher, but don't worry too much, they are already very satisfied when you stand in the performance and compose the music." ”

"Hmmm......"

Ji Jingyuan nodded slightly, took a sip of coffee, lowered his eyes, and began to groan, thinking about whether there was a suitable song in his memory.

After two minutes, Ji Jingyuan raised his head and looked calm: "There is one song that is okay, but the lyrics are a little unsatisfactory, and it has nothing to do with concert fans and the like......

"That's it, I'll change some of the lyrics."

"Okay, Jingyuan, you can get it done in the next two days, and then give me the accompaniment......"

Lee Seung-hwan happily gestured, the more successful EXO's concert was, the happier his agent would be.

Immediately afterwards, he explained: "By the way, a VCR for this concert needs to use photos of you when you were a child, Jingyuan, you should have it over there, right?" ”

"Of course there is, how small?"

I couldn't help but laugh when I mentioned this, there were countless photos of him when he was a child.

As the youngest son, he was pampered by everyone in the family, and almost every period of his growing up was documented by photographs and videos.

"If there is, a few children's photos, elementary schools, junior high and high schools, even if some of them can't be used in this concert, many variety shows will be used in the future, so prepare now to avoid trouble next time."

Li Chenghuan thought for a while and said: "And if the growth photos are relatively complete, it can also be a good proof that Wuli Jingyuan is a natural handsome guy, and those black fans who scold and scold every day have nothing to say." ”

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As a very popular idol, Chi Jingyuan naturally has a lot of black fans, these people make various black acid comments on him on the Internet every day, although most of them are scolded by his fans for being incomplete and diving and dare not show their heads, but there are also some strong-willed people who are sprayed no matter how they are sprayed, and they also persevere.

Among them, these people often slander Chi Jingyuan, the 'boy group god', for plastic surgery, and a few people who claim to be Chi Jingyuan's high school classmates come out to testify, saying that their faces have indeed changed from when they were in school.

And because of the atmosphere of the peninsula entertainment industry, many people still agree with this view.

Chi Jingyuan also saw a lot of this kind of post when he brushed the news, it doesn't matter if he has plastic surgery, some people say this about the slightly better-looking idols on the peninsula, he knows very well in his heart that this kind of purely apocryphal black comment can't attack him, on the contrary, it can let him pass the time like fun.

It's just that he was really a little speechless about the few people who anonymously said they were his high school classmates.

Before high school, he went to school in Xia and the United States, and after he came, his high school on the peninsula was a high-end private aristocratic school, and ordinary people couldn't get into it at all, and there weren't many classmates in it, and everyone knew each other either individually or family......

You said that my college classmate was okay and still in high school, so who are you and what is your name?

One mouth is my high school classmate, do you know which class I was in......

Too lazy to think about those black powder YY, Chi Jingyuan gestured 'ok'.

"Okay brother, I'll go back and make a call and ask the family to send some."

…………

"'My clumsy heart may touch you too'...... Hmm, change it to 'Actually, you've already been touched'. “

"'Actually, it's just hand-in-hand', it's changed to 'it's actually just a look.'"

Ji Jingyuan sat alone in a music room in the SM building, playing the previously recorded demo while spreading out the lyric book and trying to change the original lyrics.

The song he is going to change is a song that has been in the music library a long time ago, called "you=I", the style is sober and warm, the melody is pleasant and not complicated, and the chorus part is catchy and very in line with the characteristics of Lee Seung-hwan's solo track for concert performances.

It's just that the original lyrics express a girl's love and attachment to her lover, except that some of the wording is not very appropriate, and the whole seems a little too sweet.

However, the melody and overall style feel very appropriate, and a slight change in the lyrics can transform those attachments to lovers into passionate feelings expressed to fans.

And in the hearts of most fans, the idol they like is their lover, and in private they are all husbands and wives dear wuli, which is always called, so it's even more okay when you think about it.

"If you can become like you, the kind of person with a bigger heart......

"Hmm, what did it change......

Chi Jingyuan turned his pen, writing and drawing on the paper from time to time, and the song demo was played over and over again in his ears.

…………

Although all entertainment activities on the peninsula have been suspended, the biggest impact on the artist is that the show cannot be broadcast, and the schedule cannot be announced, and some other work is still not affected.

And the peninsula can't be active, many people leave the peninsula directly to run overseas trips, such as girls' generation directly started Neon's third tour of the concert, and I don't know if all the staff renewed the contract and negotiated it.

BTS is even more straightforward, they returned to the peninsula after a month of activities in the summer country, and launched the follow-up song "justoneday" to the mini second album, which encountered a shutdown in the entertainment industry within two days of the event.

But people were not sad at all, and they returned to Xia Guo happily to continue their activities, and it should be quite good to see how well they developed.

Instead of preparing the album, EXO, who only needs to prepare for the concert, has a little less work intensity than before, and although it is still quite busy, at least I can find time to do some of my own things from time to time.

A week later, on April 23rd, tickets for the additional EXO concert went on sale on Gmarket, and this time the tickets were sold out faster than the last time, and they were sold out in less than a second.

This time, there are still many fans who haven't grabbed tickets, but even if they rush SM's official website and SNS company again, they can't do anything, and the plan has been set and can't be changed, so they can only post on behalf of EXO to thank the fans for their support, saying that they will increase the number of shows appropriately next time, and they will definitely work harder in the future.

And just an hour after the concert tickets were sold out, Chi Jingyuan received a call from Zhou Ziyu.

"What are you doing?" Even if Zhou Ziyu's tone is not deliberate, it still sounds sweet.

It's a pity that Chi Jingyuan didn't eat her set, glanced at the members who were doing their own things next to him, and switched to Xia Wen: "What am I doing?" I'm talking to you on the phone, what am I doing...... Something to talk about. ”

Every time I send a message to contact, I suddenly call at this time, obviously there is something, and the little girl has to go around in a circle dryly.

Chi Jingyuan estimated that she should have been hesitant for a while before dialing, thinking about what to say after dialing, but after thinking for a long time, she thought, 'What are you doing?'......

Zhou Ziyu was not annoyed after being scolded for two sentences, and after a short hesitation for a second, he continued to speak, still in a greasy tone: "Can you buy tickets for your EXO concert there?" “

"Tickets? You're coming to see our concert too? Chi Jingyuan was a little thirsty, so he stood up with his mobile phone and walked to the water dispenser to pick up a glass of water.

"yes, my friends and I want to see ......"

Zhou Ziyu responded crisply.

"You didn't look for me a few days ago, and you called me today because you didn't get a ticket for the last one?" After taking a sip of water and moistening his throat, Chi Jingyuan felt much more comfortable.

"They are too fast, we didn't grab it ten minutes in advance at night, you XO is really hot enough, the fans are crazy" There was a small complaint on the phone.

Chi Jingyuan blew out and replied easily.

"Okay, little things, don't buy anything, I'll give you a few ...... directly"