"Nei, Jingyuan, there is a cooperation stage that requires members of Team K to participate. Do you have time recently?"
Li Chenghuan went straight to the point and asked.
He is EXO's main manager and worked with Ji Jingyuan for a while before, but he stopped working with Ji Jingyuan after Park Jae-hyun joined the company and became a full-time manager of the EXO team.
Now Chi Jingyuan's personal itinerary is directly connected between the company and Park Jae-hyun. Li Chenghuan is not very clear about Chi Jingyuan's schedule. He will definitely be able to ask about it when he goes to the company, but it is faster to call him directly.
"Uh...huh..."
Chi Jingyuan chewed a few times, swallowed the burger hard, took a long breath and asked: "What kind of cooperation stage?"
"It's MBC's New Year's special on January 1st next year. The theme is romantic fantasy. There is a special stage for Girls' Generation's comeback. We are looking for team K to collaborate with three people from each side. The song has been selected and is "Marry you" 》, SNSD’s manager has communicated with me, and their first choice is you, and it doesn’t matter who the other two are.”
Lee Seung-hwan briefly told the story, and then continued: "This stage requires almost three to four days of evening practice, because everyone is very busy at the end of the year and there is no time then. SNSD only has the time to practice in these few days. Can you spare some time recently?"
Chi Jingyuan turned on the speakerphone after Li Chenghuan said the first sentence. Park Jae-hyun also put down his burger after hearing this. After wiping his hands, he picked up Chi Jingyuan's recent itinerary, looked at it carefully and shook it at him. Shake his head.
"Miah Nei, Brother Chenghuan, my schedule these days is already full. My evenings are full of pictorials and commercial shoots, so I may not have enough time to practice."
Chi Jingyuan sighed and refused.
"It's okay. If you can't spare time, forget it. I'll tell them over there and just let the other three children go."
Li Chenghuan didn't care, and finally said a word of concern: "Jingyuan, no matter how busy you are, you should pay attention to rest."
"Nai, I know brother Chenghuan, Kang Sangmita."
The two exchanged casual greetings for a few words before picking up the phone. Chi Jingyuan took another burger and ate it, not taking the news seriously.
Of course, the main reason is that he doesn't have time. On the other hand, he is not very interested in the collaboration stage with Girls' Generation. Judging from the current popularity and celebrity positions of both parties, it is said that it is a collaboration stage. It is estimated that EXO members used to be backup dancers. of.
SNSD's manager wants him to go, naturally because he has been very popular recently and can increase the topic.
It's a pity that I didn't have the chance this time, I will definitely do it next time.
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December 14th is the Melon Music Awards Ceremony, which is also the time when the MMA is held.
MMA is one of the four major award ceremonies in the music industry, and the awards are relatively valuable and are valued by many people in the music industry.
However, this time except for Chi Jingyuan, no one else from EXO came. The company knew in advance that XO would not win the award and could not even win the Newcomer Award, so they did not let them attend.
Ji Kyung Won attended the award ceremony with Jung Eun Ji because he was nominated for 'Best OST' again.
I have to say that "All for you" is really popular. After being rearranged, this song is very popular among young people. It has also become the most popular OST and male-female duet song this year through the popularity of "Please Reply".
Basically, in the recent award ceremonies, as long as there is an award for TV series OST, "All for you" will definitely be shortlisted, and the shortlisted will definitely win the award.
This song has been firmly at the top of the major music charts since its release, and has never fallen out of the top ten on the melon list. According to this trend, when the annual rankings are calculated, it will definitely be in the top five, or even It is possible to enter the top three.
There is no hope in the first place. No one can beat "Gangnam Style" this year.
As expected this time, the 'Best OST Award' was firmly accepted by Ji Kyung Won and Jung Eun Ji.
The acceptance speech is still the same. Chi Jingyuan has said it many times in the past half month, changing the soup every time.
After receiving the award, Chi Jingyuan left the stage. This time, he did not have a stage and simply watched the entire awards ceremony.
Needless to say, the song of the year, one of the last major awards, was taken away by PSY. "Gangnam Style" is really popular this year, especially in Europe and the United States. It has led the trend for quite some time, and Peninsula is a relatively advocating one. In European and American countries, it is unusual for PSY not to win awards.
The Artist of the Year went to the boy band Beast. They have won the MMA Artist of the Year award for two consecutive years. They are one of the most popular boy groups in recent years and have a lot of fans.
But there is a problem that I have to say. As the most popular top boy group in the past two years, Beast has won the MMA Awards for two consecutive years, but their album sales cannot compare with EXO.
Whether it is the first full-length album "Fiction and Fact" released last year, with the hit title song "Fiction", or the fifth mini-album "Midnight Sun" released in July this year, the sales were all exploded by the newcomer group EXO, which just debuted this year. .
As of December 2012, Beast's two albums have sold 150,000 and 140,000 copies respectively, while EXO's debut album "MAMA" has exceeded 230,000 copies.
Obviously the popularity of the two boy bands is quite different now, but this comparison in sales also reflects some very interesting questions.
At the same time, it also shows that among all EXO fans, the proportion of die-hard fans who are willing to spend money on their idols and buy albums with real money is much larger than that of other boy groups.
The purchasing power of these die-hard fans is too strong.
It is worth mentioning that this year's MMA Newcomer Award was given to Ailee and BAP. The former is a solo female singer, and the latter BAP is a new boy group that debuted in January this year, which is barely in the same period as EXO, which debuted in April.
Chi Jingyuan remembers clearly that in the first few months when EXO debuted and were very unhappy and ridiculed by the crowd, he was the most scolded on the Internet and made all kinds of negative comments on the forum every day, except for those from his own company. In addition to the fans of several senior groups, the most fans are BAP and NU'EST, which debuted in March at the same time.
During that time, fans of these boy groups directly regarded EXO as soft persimmons. They would mock EXO when they had nothing to do, and scolded them with words such as "the ugliest group," the most money-losing boy group, "disband quickly," and so on. Very happy.
However, with the popularity of Chi Jingyuan in recent months, EXO has gradually gained momentum, and fewer people have criticized it.
By now, the situation of several boy groups that debuted this year has almost been determined. Let’s wait and see who wins and who loses next year.
