Chapter Seventy-Eight: Sold Out
Because he didn't participate in the first week, and for the anticipation of the follow-up regular album, SM didn't arrange too much itinerary for EXO to return to the first song, and all the activities were basically concentrated in the first two days, and as soon as the first two or three days passed, EXO's itinerary was immediately reduced, and the final preparations for the return of the regular album in three weeks began.
And this is also extremely criticized by fans, after so long the Alice themselves have not seen their idols sing and have accumulated a lot of enthusiasm, this time the unique style of "Fire", the difficult choreography and the very burning stage also make most fans like it, when they are in full swing and want to support their own Oba, EXO suddenly can't see anyone, and there is only one stage in the first week after the song, and I don't know where to go if I want to find the materials for the stage.
The feeling of the "DOPE" period is back, there is an extremely amazing first stage, and the direct shooting of Chi Jingyuan's police uniform also directly exploded, opening the era of direct shooting in modern Kpop, and all kinds of big explosions are available, but unfortunately I can't see anyone.
Even if fans actually know that the official album in two or three weeks is the main event, and too many activities now will lower their sense of anticipation, they are still very unhappy...... They can't find a place to move an album if they want to.
At the same time as SM was scolded, as time went on, EXO's precursor song "Fire", which was expected by many people, has also been shown in front of everyone, because of its popularity and national popularity, this single exploded into a high popularity on the peninsula, and after the first airborne chart, it also maintained the first place on the daily chart for two days, and then slowly declined and stayed near the inner ring, and the speed of decline began to speed up after several days.
"Fire" is a congenital electronic dance music that is not popular in terms of sound sources, and many people even feel a little noisy when they listen to this kind of explosive style, and they can get such a prominent score in terms of sound sources in the past few days, so that most of the boy groups have the same results as listening to the story, that is, because it is EXO who released the song, and changed the names of other boy groups, except for bigbang, many people will not click on this kind of song to listen to it.
However, even Ji Jingyuan and they can't change the advantages and disadvantages of the song category, and when the first week is about to pass, "Fire" has dropped significantly on the music source list, and the stamina is not as good as the first song "cheer up", which is still a lot worse.
"cheer up" has been singing for nearly four weeks, and it is still in the top ten or even the top five of all music source lists, and the daily listening volume has not decreased but increased, and the stamina is as stable as Mount Tai.
But the sound source is not all, the popularity is very high while the sound source is declining, the very characteristic 'hot hand dance' and Chi Jingyuan have become a topic of conversation in the last two parts, and it seems that because the electronic music of the chorus part of this song is very dynamic and enthusiastic, it is very popular with some variety show groups, and in less than a few days, there have been some variety shows and programs that have quoted the melody of "Fire" in the background sound, and there is a trend of gradually becoming popular.
In addition to the local area, at the same time, overseas popularity has also been fully verified, the most gratifying thing is that the MV of the song "Fire" has achieved very good results on YouTube, and in April, twice only relied on the MV clicks of less than four days after the song was released, becoming the MV video with the most viewers in Kpop that month, which surprised many insiders, and this month's "Fire" shows EXO's superior popularity overseas, with a precursor song with more than 10 million MV hits in less than three days.
And the follow-up speed has not decreased significantly, and it can be seen through the location of the audience that the style of this song seems to be more favored by overseas audiences in Europe and the United States.
With the development in recent years, after Kpop began to develop outside of Asia under the efforts of PSY and EXO, some data that were not very valued in the Peninsula music industry before, such as "the number of viewers of the title song YouTube MV" and "Spotify's sky-breaking results" began to be more and more valued by the company, especially the attention of fans.
Regardless, as a prelude to the full-length album, "Fire" has definitely done its job very well, and in many ways exceeded the company's expectations.
A week passed quickly, and after entering the school celebration period in May, the major idol groups and singers were also busy, shuttling back and forth between major colleges and universities, showing their charm and popularity.
At the same time, during this time, almost everyone posted songs every day, some caused repercussions and became hot spots, and some did not disappear in the sea of people without any splashes, which made the recent song world extremely exciting.
One of the most noteworthy is of course the former Girls' Generation member Jung so-yeon who released her first solo album on the 17th, and the fans on both sides of the former were quarreling because of the head-on collision with the previous feud because of the return of the same period, after Huang Meiying's solo results almost came out, including many people who watched the excitement and had fun, how should Zheng Xiuyan respond.
Hwang Mi-young, who returned on the 11th, is a member of the second solo of Girls' Generation, and because of the tearing between sone and card fans, her popularity is very good, and the sales of more than 50,000 in the first five thousand, although it is far less than Kim Taeyeon of last year's one-person super-large group, but it is already a very good sales result in female solo, and the second airborne in terms of music source, but the melody is not enough to be popular The music style is not very popular with passers-by, and the stamina of the sound source generally declines quickly, and the word-of-mouth evaluation is somewhat polarized...... On the whole, it can't be said to be very outstanding, but it can be regarded as qualified.
And Zheng Xiuyan, who sang on the 17th, was a little surprised, on the 16th, her company announced that the 60,000 physical pre-sales prepared in advance had all been sold out, and on the 17th, her solo album "With Love, J" sold more than 20,000 copies on the first day, plus the 60,000 pre-sales before, and the sales of 80,000 directly overshadowed Huang Meiying and countless female solos.
At the same time, the sound source of the title song "Fly" also performed very well, and like Huang Meiying, it landed second and reached the top in two hours, and at the same time, the stamina was gratifying, obviously much higher than the main audience of Pani's European and American style.
After quitting the group, she was silent for a while, and Zheng Xiuyan, who hadn't been active in the Peninsula song industry for a long time, had such good results in solo for the first time, which was really surprising, and some of her fan-only combat effectiveness was really honed in the 14-year withdrawal incident.
Although it's not a lot, Huang Meiying has been overwhelmed a little in terms of data, and there seems to be some gaps in the evaluation of songs, it seems that the solo battle between the former members and the current members seems to be the last laugh of President Zheng who has been at the next level, but the fans of Girls' Generation and Huang Meiying did not admit defeat.
Because the singers' achievements are not only in these aspects, they also say that Wuli Pani has already won a song in "The Show" on the 17th, and the trophy of "Show Champion" on the 18th is estimated to be in the bag, so he is obviously much ahead of Zheng Xiuyan in singing.
"Playing a song is the one that best reflects the comprehensive results of returning singers, and no one is embarrassed to say that his return results are good?" Many fans are openly clamoring on the Internet.
Zheng Xiuyan can't sing on the peninsula because of some objective problems, it's not enough for outsiders, anyway, in terms of singing, the sones are invincible.
During this time, one of the big station singing shows was monopolized by twice's "cheer up", and there was EXO eyeing it in the follow-up, and these two groups didn't go to the small station to play songs this time, so it was not worth mentioning that Tiffany could only get one on the small stage.
This dazzling collision made Ji Jingyuan, who was watching the whole process, full of excitement, and added a lot of evocative excitement to his boring life in recent days, although he had a good relationship with his youth, but there was no contradiction with Jung so-yeon, except for a few members of Kim Taeyeon who had a good relationship, his position was very neutral, so it didn't matter who lost or who won.
After watching the excitement, he couldn't help but be a little amazed when he saw some data, because after the debut of Hwang Mi-young and Jung so-yeon solo, in the past ten years, all female solo singers on the peninsula have sold in a single monograph, if you don't count the repeat singers, the first Kim Tae-yeon's, the second IU, the third and fourth are Jung so-yeon and Hwang Mi-young, and three of the top four were all members of Girls' Generation.
No matter what the split sone has become of, but whether it should be said or not, Girls' Generation really deserves to be the TOP of the previous generation, and the combat effectiveness of the people and fans is really not covered.
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returned on the same day as Zheng Xiuyan, as well as AOA, which caused a lot of turmoil during this time.
After several years of hard work, AOA, which has become a first-line trending girl group, looks very careful in all aspects of the mini-four album released this time, and the agency shows its ambition to take them further through this album, the two versions each shoot a different style of cover, and the title song "Good Luck" is also of high quality, regardless of song selection, choreography, styling, and planning all aspects are online.
It's a pity that the company's public relations and group variety program teams have dragged their feet.
After the accident in early May, the agency FNC did not respond, and it was not until the incident intensified that the members came forward to apologize on the 12th, but it did not have a good effect, and the negative repercussions continued to spread, and there was still no change until the release of the album on the 17th.
It is the first time that Ji Jingyuan has seen an idol group not talk about the new album at the press conference of the new song album, but has been crying bitterly and apologizing for the incident half a month ago.
Originally, the group was to return to warm up, but it turned out to be digging a pit for itself.
The quality of AOA's album this time is really good, and the sound source is also very good under the negative news, but the annual increase in the past few years has stopped here, and at the same time, the popularity of passers-by has declined across the board, and the road ahead should not be very good.
After seeing the news, Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in his heart.
Speaking of which, AOA debuted in the same year as their EXO, and I saw it many times backstage when I was a rookie, and the members were very familiar with each other, and the upward momentum was still obvious last year, but this time something suddenly happened.
After the gradual end of the second-generation girl group in 2014, in 2016 this year, although there are various coincidences and accidents, it seems that it has also reached the decline period of this generation of girl groups that debuted in 10-13 years.
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"Agassi, and any snacks with walnuts? It's 'Ka...", wait, I'll see. ”
Two girls with school bags and beautiful braids, looking like high school students, walked into a convenience store, and when they entered the door, they didn't go to the shelves, but walked directly to the counter, and asked the uniformed clerk directly.
Halfway through speaking, one of the girls seemed to have forgotten the sign she wanted to buy from, and took out her phone to take a look.
However, the clerk asked directly: "Is it 'kabi', a walnut kernel snack of the Kirby brand?" ”
His tone was familiar, and he sounded faintly tired, as if the phrase had been repeated many times.
“…… Inside, this is it! ”
Although the clerk said so, the girl still insisted on taking out her mobile phone, for fear of buying the wrong one, she had to look at it carefully, then nodded quickly, looked at the clerk and asked expectantly: "I'll buy this brand, I want honey and butter flavor, is there anything else?" ”
"Nope." The clerk shook his head, and his calm voice was very indifferent to extinguish the enthusiasm of the two girls.
"What about the other flavors?" The other girl asked tentatively.
"Not anymore."
"It's gone?" The two girls responded dissatisfied, and looked at the clerk with some blame: "This one is gone, and several have left...... Why don't you stock it? ”
The clerk waved his hand, sighed, and pointed to the obviously empty shelves over there helplessly and said: "Three days ago, all the snacks of the 'Kirby' brand were sold out, and there are many people like you who have come to buy this walnut kernel in the past few days...... We also have a headache, but also want to buy and sell, but unfortunately the manufacturer seems to have a sudden surge in orders these days and is out of stock, I heard that it is working overtime to produce, but it will take a few days. ”
"Alas" The two girls looked at each other, looking a little disappointed.
"By the way, no one bought this brand of snacks before, why did it suddenly become so popular? Did you advertise anything? It just so happened that there were no customers who were not very busy at this time, and the clerk looked at the two female students and suddenly asked with great interest.
"There is no advertisement, because Jingyuan Oba ate a pack of 'Kirby' honey butter-flavored walnut kernels in the live broadcast, casually mentioned it, and then the next day the brand became popular all of a sudden."
As soon as she heard the clerk ask, the girl's face immediately lit up, and her eyes lit up and she explained to the clerk, and while saying onomatopoeia in her mouth, she also used gestures to imitate the appearance of an explosion, and she performed a little exaggeratedly: "Aili in our class bought the same style for the first time, especially delicious...... Unfortunately, we bought two packs at the time, and now we have finished eating. ”
"It's not an advertisement, it's just a pack?" The clerk didn't seem to believe it, but he knew that 'Kirby' was just a very ordinary snack brand, and this style of walnut kernel snacks had been out for a long time, and it had always been sold very ordinary.
Recently, the popularity of this brand of snacks has directly turned the world upside down, and he knows very well how well it sells as a clerk. He was a little unconvinced.
"I just mentioned it casually, oh, it sold out directly, amazing?" The girl shook her braids triumphantly and raised her head with honor: "Recently, it has become fashionable to eat the same 'Kirby' snacks as Jingyuan Oba, and not only among students, but also in many places...... I also saw someone in the fan club breaking the news that many snack brands have found SM and want Oba to endorse them......"
Another girl also agreed: "Jingyuan Oba likes to eat, of course it sells well." ”
"Chi Jingyuan, I know, it's EXO's, right?" The clerk barely believed the girl's explanation, and nodded lightly with the name in her mouth.
Even though I don't pay much attention to Kpop, the clerk has heard of EXO and Ji Kyung-won, and has seen his dramas.
"Yes, Agassi, let me tell you, Oba is not only an idol, he is still ......"
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A few minutes later, the two girls walked out of the convenience store with a spring breeze on their faces, although they didn't buy the same snacks as Oba, but they gave an uncle who didn't chase stars a little bit of their own Oba, and let him know the meaning and weight of the name Yuan, and they were still very accomplished.
The two of them carried their schoolbags and walked briskly towards the next supermarket.
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