After crying, the mood stabilizes and what remains is joy. The members and the staff celebrated happily together, and then at the manager's instruction, they took a certification photo of all the first place students.
In the photo, Kim Jun-myeon is squatting in the center holding a trophy. The other members stand in two rows around him. Ji Kyung-won is standing on the left side of the back row. Next to him, Oh Se-hun puts his hand on his shoulder. Their faces are He smiled happily and showed his thumbs in a 'woareone' gesture.
The photo was uploaded to SNS and became a hot search within half an hour. The likes exceeded 100,000 in a short period of time. Countless fans left messages under the photo:
"I watched the whole live broadcast and burst into tears the moment the winner was announced."
"When Suho gave his acceptance speech, I wanted to cry and laugh at the same time..."
"uuuuu, it took one year and three months, 432 days to reach No. 1, and a gap of more than half a year. It is really difficult for EXO to go all the way from their debut to now. We must take a happy path in the future!"
"This is our first one, definitely not the last. Sisters, don't forget to vote every day, let's vote together!"
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June 13th, when they won the first place, was written into the encyclopedia. It was an extremely memorable day for EXO, and it also gave them a good start for their next few hits this week.
At noon on the 14th, a piece of news went viral. EXO topped the US Billboard global album rankings with their regular album "XOXO".
This news has attracted the attention of many people. For many Peninsula viewers, being at the top of the Billboard list is a great honor, and the sense of EXO has also become a lot better.
In the Music Bank broadcast that day, EXO defeated super senior Cho Yong Pil, who returned to the music scene after many years, with the title song "Wolf" and won the first place again.
"The one who is honored today is...congratulations to EXO!"
"In the second week of June, one of the winners of this issue of Inkigayo is... EXO, rough card!"
In the last two days of this week, they all won first place in Music Center and Inkigayo. In this week's singing programs of the three major TV stations, including M!C, EXO won a total of four first places. There is a style that is about to become a trend. Feel.
But the momentum was halted the next week.
In the fourth week of EXO's return, after they won two more No. 1 spots on Thursday's M!C and Friday's Music Bank, they were ruthlessly ended by Sistar, who officially started singing in the second week of their return.
On June 11, Sistar officially announced their comeback with the release of their second regular album "Give It To Me". The title song of the same name immediately topped the charts of major music sources as soon as it was released, and it seems to have great stamina and a tendency to dominate the charts.
Although the group Sistar does not have many die-hard fans and sales, their music performance has always been very good, and the quality of their title song this time is also very high. In line with their nationality, they have a great advantage in the singing arena where their music performance is good. Basically, one position is locked.
When they defeated EXO with an unsuspecting score and broke EXO's streak of one place, Chi Jingyuan, who returned to work as a clapping member, inadvertently sighed in his mind, they don't know when they will become so popular that as long as they return, they can Let everyone retreat and reach a state where whoever touches him will die.
As the music performance of "Wolf" continues to decline, this week is almost the last two No. 1 hits for EXO's comeback. In addition to last week's four, they have won a total of 1 for the return song of this original album. 6 per person.
This result is already considered very good, and it is an achievement that can only be achieved by a first-tier men's team.
In the following period, although there was little hope of winning the top spot, for the sake of publicity, they would still attend the weekly singing stage, but the focus of their work had quietly shifted.
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As the music of "Roar" was turned off, the entire practice room fell into a dead silence. The EXO members who had just finished dancing stood in two rows, their heads hanging down, waiting for the coming storm.
Today the company sent someone to check on their recent practice and progress. Just now the members danced to "Roar" in front of the company's staff and managers, but...
The VJ who had been filming the behind-the-scenes video also turned off the camera at the right time.
"Did you just take a few and start drifting away? See for yourselves what you just danced about?"
Sure enough, within five seconds, the manager started to criticize them with a very ugly face:
"Is this the dance you have been practicing for several months? Ai Xi, the dance is not neat at all. Everyone is doing their own thing. If you don't know, you might think it's a group of trainees who have just started practicing.
"Baekhyun, what on earth are you doing? You always make mistakes when standing up from the ground. You have practiced so many times and you still can't get up?"
"Tao and I can do things like bumping into each other while walking. Are you really paying attention?"
"And Kai, why are you moving so widely? Do you look like you're a good dancer? You look completely different from the other members. It's very abrupt. Can you fit in with the team?"
The people who were named all lowered their heads and remained silent. They all knew that their performance just now was very poor.
Finally, Li Chenghuan's voice slowed down a little and he looked at Chi Jingyuan: "Jingyuan, this is a dance you choreographed yourself. You can even forget the moves. Can that be justified?"
"Miah Nei." Chi Jingyuan nodded slightly and apologized.
His performance this time was not good either. His head was empty when he danced, and he forgot a few beats of the dance.
Recently, I have been busy with my schedule. Due to fatigue and surprising results, many people have become a little erratic and not very focused during practice.
In the last few practices, many members have been a little absent-minded and occasionally slacked off.
"The MV will be shot soon, and it will be a one-shot shooting that requires very high requirements for overall dancing. How can you meet the requirements like this?"
"Don't sell more, get carried away after winning a few, and this comeback only barely meets the company's expectations. Do you know what reluctance is?"
"The company's expectation for us is not that we want EXO to become a first-line boy group. There are too many first-line boy groups in Peninsula, and we at SM don't like it. The company ranges from TVX to SJ. Generations of boy groups have all been TOP. After a few years, we EXO's launch must also meet this requirement. Do you think that now that you have achieved it, you will start to be proud and stop practicing seriously?"
"And for this comeback, the company has very high expectations for the performance of the song "Roar" and the reissued album, even more than the original version. So many resources have been invested in making the album. This is how you treat your future. ?"
Li Chenghuan cursed a lot and finally left the sentence: "I will work overtime and practice from today until I meet the MV shooting requirements." After that, he and several company personnel left the practice room.
The dance teacher and a few members were left behind. The members who had been severely criticized sighed, looked at each other a few times, shrugged, sighed and started practicing again.
