"Where are Tao and Luhan, where did they go?" Li Chenghuan glanced at the members and suddenly found that two people were missing, so he couldn't help but ask.
The members also looked at each other, asking with their eyes if anyone knew where they had gone. Before Li Chenghuan was ready to find someone, Luhan and Tao trotted over from the side. Seeing this posture, they quickly apologized and quickly stood in the queue.
Li Chenghuan didn't say anything when he saw this, and then directed the members to stand ready to take pictures. It was originally a time to rest and celebrate, and we had just won a big prize, so it was no big deal to play for a while.
Holding the trophy, the members stood in two rows and took several certification photos and celebration photos. Everyone in front of the camera had a happy smile on their faces, and the overflowing joy could completely infect all viewers who saw the photos.
Although there is no more excitement than the previous two grand awards, no one would complain that there are too many awards. Being able to win the gold record award is still an extremely happy thing. Chi Jingyuan has always been relatively calm. I was actually very happy in my heart.
After taking the photo, they packed up their things and prepared to leave. When walking out from the backstage, Chi Jingyuan saw Luhan walking next to him, glanced at him and asked casually: "Where were you just playing? went."
"It's not fun..." Luhan denied it at first, then looked at Chi Jingyuan and hesitated for a moment. It took two seconds before he said, "I just saw...I saw Wu Saike in the background, so we chatted with him. Two sentences, after all, we have practiced together for so long..." Although Wu Saike left the company, they have always been in contact, but it has not been frequent. Exo happened to give them an award today, so they met backstage and chatted. A few words.
Luhan knew that there was a conflict between Chi Jingyuan and that person, so he hesitated for a moment and didn't know whether he should say it.
"In this way... they are developing well..." Chi Jingyuan didn't seem to care about that person at all, but nodded and praised sincerely.
"Yes, it's okay." Luhan also nodded in confirmation.
"After that day, I thought I would never see him again. I really didn't expect... As Xia Wen said, things are unpredictable. Will there be a bright future or a bright future?" Chi Jingyuan said with a smile. He looked at Wu, as if he was discussing a friend he hadn't seen for a long time.
"It kind of means that." Luhan pursed his lips and glanced at Chi Jingyuan: "It doesn't matter that your spoken English is good, Xia Wen, but you can even use this idiom?"
"I know a lot, you don't know, brother."......Exo won the Golden Disc Grand Award in the recording category and naturally made the headlines in the entertainment section that night. Compared with them, they won the Music Award. The popularity and discussion of pSY is somewhat smaller.
But this time, in addition to the fans who were still excited and carnival, the reaction and attention of passers-by were much smaller. The awards from the first two award ceremonies proved that although Exo today is still very young, many passers-by in the peninsula In the eyes of the audience, he is no longer a simple newcomer.
In other words, it is no longer surprising that they won the grand award. On the contrary, it will make people feel that 2013 Exo won these awards.
From November last year to now, Exo has won three awards in a row among the four major award shows in the Peninsula music industry, which is enough to prove their success last year.
However, compared to the explosive popularity of Lin Yoona's relationship exposure, the news of Exo's gold record is still far behind.
Many netizens saw those very attractive melon-eating scandals a few days ago, and suddenly saw orthodox entertainment news like winning awards, and they felt that it was a little less interesting and a bit boring.
This kind of award-winning news is the most boring. Isn't it normal for Exo to win awards? What we want to see is when XO will be like Girls' Generation, when a popular member breaks love news or something, that's called explosive.
This is the truest thought in some people’s minds when they see Exo, which is in the headlines. …………
"Don't let me get tired or discouraged.
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"Tell me quickly."
"Say you love me." In the recording studio, Chi Jingyuan and Bae Suzy looked at each other sweetly and sang the last line with full emotion. As the music gradually fell, Park Jinying and the recording engineer outside the recording studio The vocal teachers all started applauding.
"Very good, the effect sounds really great." After Chi Jingyuan and Pei Xiuzhi walked out, Park Jinying clapped his hands and walked up, his eyes cracked into a smile, and he kept nodding at the two of them.
Chi Jingyuan returned the greeting, then walked to the sound engineer, picked up the headphones, put them on his head, and started listening to their recording.
He is also half a producer. After every recording, he has to listen to the effect completely. Wherever he has done well, he has to point out any problems and improve them. He cannot be like Pei Xiuzhi and just go to that place as soon as it is released. Sit down and act like a normal person.
Park Zhenying didn't bother him, and whispered something to the music teachers next to him. Pei Xiuzhi sat on the sofa, seemingly worried that her makeup was a little smudged, and used the black screen of her mobile phone as a mirror to look at it. The face and bangs are constantly photographed.
After listening carefully, Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but nodded. The effect was indeed great and it had met his requirements.
"Jingyuan, how's it going? Is it good?" Park Zhenying asked looking at Chi Jingyuan who put down his headphones.
"Brother Zhenying said that the effect is very good, so of course it is great." Chi Jingyuan narrowed his eyes and praised him.
"Haha..." Park Jinying pointed at him and shook his head, and got down to business: "The recording of the song "some" is completed, and other post-production matters will begin immediately. The set for the mV shooting has been set up. The synopsis of the plot and the filming process have also been given to your agent, and filming can begin tomorrow."
"Jingyuan, are you okay there?"
"Of course it's no problem. Don't worry, brother Jinying. I've seen the shooting plan for the music video, and it fits the concept and characteristics of the song very well.
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"That's fine." Park Zhenying smiled and was about to say a few words when he suddenly remembered something and patted Chi Jingyuan on the shoulder: "By the way, I haven't congratulated you Exo for winning the Golden Record Award yesterday."
“Exo is really a big hit. It’s been more than a year since their debut, and this is their first major award...
"'Roar' is really hard to say, it's so popular, even the trainees in our company were dancing to this song some time ago."
"Jingyuan, congratulations!" Park Jin Young said, and the sound engineer and music teacher next to him also took advantage of the situation to discuss yesterday's gold record, sighing at Exo's current popularity.
Pei Xiuzhi also came over and winked at Chi Jingyuan with a smile.
"Kang Sang Mida." Chi Jingyuan smiled and bowed slightly to thank these people.
"Oh, I don't know when got7 will reach the level of your Exo. Even if it's just a little bit close, I'm still satisfied." Park Jinying smiled, somehow thinking of got7, and slowly stopped laughing.
"Didn't their debut go smoothly?" Chi Jingyuan asked tentatively.
"Neither the sound source performance nor the online discussion has reached the company's expectations. Yesterday, I recorded the first stage of m!tdown. After the broadcast, there was not much popularity. Recently, the big news in the industry has come one after another. It's really..." Park Jinying shook his head. , briefly described the situation of got7.
"Actually... we, xo, were miserable when we debuted. At that time, the ugliest group and the most money-losing group were all blamed. It took more than a year after our debut to get the first number one, and it was all one by one. I'll get through it." Chi Jingyuan smiled lightly and shrugged. Park Zhenying didn't know what to say when he heard this. He knew that what the other party said was true, so he could only smile dumbly.
"Brother Zhenying, I'll take my leave first." Chi Jingyuan said goodbye to several teachers, put his bag on his back and left the music room. Pei Xiuzhi even ran out to see him off.
After practicing together for such a long time, the two of them were very familiar with each other. They chatted casually about their own affairs and soon arrived at the elevator entrance. "Would you like to have dinner together tonight?
"After the elevator door opened, Chi Jingyuan did not walk in directly. Instead, he turned his head and looked at Pei Xiuzhi and took the initiative to invite him. The last time the other party invited him to dinner, Chi Jingyuan declined because he had an appointment with Zhou Ziyu. It happened to be a bit late tonight. He wanted to make up for the time, which was regarded as reciprocity. Pei Xiuzhi smiled and winked at Chi Jingyuan, tilting his head. The closeness during the chat disappeared at this time, and his tone seemed a little cold: "Next time. , I happened to have an appointment with someone today.
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"Inside." Chi Jingyuan glanced at her and nodded with a smile. Without saying anything, he walked into the elevator and gently waved his hand to Pei Xiuzhi. As the elevator door closed, the two of them looked at each other. Interrupt.
Looking at the closed elevator door and feeling the weightless feeling as the elevator descended, Chi Jingyuan thought of the conversation between the two just now and suddenly couldn't help laughing and shook his head slightly.
He couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "He is really skilled enough.
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"really interesting……"…………
"The company has confirmed that Exo's second mini-album is officially named "overdose\/Addiction". The album contains a total of 6 songs, the title song "overdose" of the same name, and the lead song is set to be the track "dope" composed by Yuan."
"The return date is tentatively scheduled to be April 15th, and the prelude song will be released about half a month in advance." In the large conference room on the fourth floor of the Sm Building, an announcement meeting about Exo's next comeback plan was being held. In addition to all Exo members and In addition to the manager, the company's record planning department, artist management department and many other departments were present, but Lee Soo Man did not come today.
The one who is announcing the plan is Li Changchan, a manager of the record department. The company also attaches great importance to Exo's comeback this year. Preliminary preparations have been underway since November last year. Later, there was a slight delay due to the arrangement of the title song, Ji Jingyuan's submission of the song, and other related reasons. for a few days.
However, the company has already made a complete plan at this time, and today is the day to officially announce it with Exo and relevant departments.
The twelve members of Exo were divided into two rows and sat on the left side, listening carefully to Li Changcan's words. Everyone is also looking forward to the upcoming comeback plan.
Chi Jingyuan also attaches great importance to it. The cooperation with Pei Xiuzhi is just an attempt in his personal capacity. His real roots are still with xo.
After last year's big hit, whether this year's comeback can continue the popularity of last year and reach a higher level is something that every member and fans are very concerned about.
Li Changcan glanced at everyone and said the key point: "This time Exo's second mini album comeback will no longer be in the form of 12 people like last year's regular first album, but will return to the two members of Exo-K and Exo-m when they debuted." Activities are carried out separately in the form of teams.
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"Team K focuses on the peninsula market, and team M still focuses on the Xiaguo market. They also participate in singing shows and daily schedules as separate teams, each participating in their own activities without interfering with each other." After hearing this, the members couldn't help but look at each other. They looked at each other and exchanged glances.
When K and M units debuted, the simultaneous activities of the two countries was really an innovation. It attracted a lot of attention at the time, and this model of activities also had very good returns.
At that time, when Team K was in the cold, Team M was unaffected and became very popular in Xia Kingdom, which created a lot of benefits for the company and also accumulated a large fan base in Xia Kingdom for the entire Exo team.
It was only because of the failure of Peninsula that the company canceled the separate activities in the first regular album last year and changed it to a twelve-member unit in order to make progress in the Peninsula market and change the dilemma of being neither sluggish nor popular during their debut. .
This goal has been achieved. The explosion of "Roar" and the popularity of Chi Jingyuan's TV series have made the entire Exo very popular in the peninsula, Xia Kingdom and even Asia. Seeing this situation, the company decided to return In the previous team activity model, both sides attracted fans and made money at the same time in order to maximize profits.
This model has a lot of benefits, but there are also many hidden dangers, at least in terms of the team atmosphere.
A sub-unit and two teams do not meet for a long time, and conflicts can easily arise when there is a difference in popularity. In the year of their debut, the members had many quarrels and fights because of this.
However, the company may not care much about this kind of estrangement between members. Revenue is the most important thing.
After pausing for a few seconds to give the members time to accept, Lee Changcan continued: "The title song "overdose" will be filmed in multiple versions of the MV, including the Korean version for 12 people, the summer version for 12 people, and the K-Team There is a 6-person Korean version and a 6-person Xia version of Team M. Each version of mV will focus on different members’ performances.
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"Except for the title song, other included songs that need to be shot for MV, including the prelude song "Dope", will only shoot the K and M versions, not the 12-member version.
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"Do you understand?" Li Changcan asked.
"Chief Nim." Chi Jingyuan raised his hand to say hello, and when Li Changcan smiled and nodded in response, he said: "The company means that except for the title song, all other songs included will not be combined by twelve people. Is there only K, or the six-player version of m?
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"Yes."
"The same goes for the choreography. Except for "overdose" which has 12 choreographers, the rest are all 6?"
"This is the current early plan. In the future, 12 people may be added to the stage choreography for some songs on special stages.
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"I understand." Chi Jingyuan nodded to express his understanding, pursed his lips and sat down. Once this plan came out, Chi Jingyuan no longer had to worry about the things that had troubled him before.
If there are no accidents, the choreography work for the two songs "Dope" and "INEEdU" he submitted must be the same as "Roar". He took the company's dance teachers to do it together.
But he had no idea about the 12-person choreography for these two songs, because the number of people on the stage that he ideally wanted to achieve the best results for the two songs would be smaller.
Now I only have to choreograph the 6-person version, which is naturally much easier. Except for the title song, all other songs are not available in 12-member ensemble versions. This time, the company's intention to carry out separate activities and develop two markets at the same time is really urgent.
"The choreography of the title song in the album has been completed. As for the choreography of the two songs "dope" and "INEEdU", Jingyuan, it is still you who will do it, and you will still cooperate with the company's dance teacher." As expected, Li Changcan immediately He gave this task to Chi Jingyuan.
After seeing Chi Jingyuan nodding in confirmation, he continued: "It is already January 18th. Excluding the post-production and promotion time, we only have about two months to prepare. Although it is a six-song mini album, This time is also very tight. I hope that we xo can devote ourselves wholeheartedly and use our efforts and enthusiasm to prepare for this return."
"Gui, we will work hard." The members responded together to express their attitude.
"Very good. The preliminary work for the album has been completed. The plan will be officially launched after this meeting. I hope you will hurry up." Li Changcan nodded with satisfaction. After talking about returning to the album, he mentioned another important point: "In addition, the company It has been confirmed that after your return and the end of your singing career, Exo's first Asian concert tour will be officially launched in May this year. It is expected to hold at least 20 consecutive concerts in six countries across Asia. The company has started preparations in advance. The venue has also been booked.”
"There will be professional concert stage effect designers and dance teachers to teach you about the concert stage exercises. However, it is still early. I just want to tell you in advance that the most important task now is the return of this mini album. "When they heard the news about the concert, all the members' eyes lit up and their interest was obviously rising.
Whether a concert can be held and how much box office it can generate are very important indicators to measure whether a Peninsula idol group is popular.
Especially large-scale concerts with more than 10,000 people can only be held when the artist's popularity and reputation are very high, and there are also a lot of die-hard fans willing to spend money for you.
This is really not that easy to do, because many combinations seem to be very popular, but when it comes time to spend real money to support, all the passers-by fans who used to make noises disappear in an instant.
For example, sistar, which has become popular in the past two years, has very good music performance, and has a lot of popularity and fans. However, their sales have never been high, and they cannot hold large concerts because they have too few die-hard fans. There are not many fans willing to pay.
As for a Peninsula idol group, where they really make money is in concerts and overseas trips. The first contract the idol group signed with the company after their debut was very demanding, especially for the local itinerary in the peninsula. After deducting the company's fees and costs, and then dividing them equally among the large number of members, everyone would get nothing at all. money.
However, the income sharing of overseas concerts is different from that of local events on the Peninsula. Compared with the local events on the Peninsula, the income sharing will be significantly higher by several levels.
As long as the idols become popular and can be launched, the first thing most groups do is to hold tours and concerts, because this is where they can really make money.
And the company is happy because idols have made money, and the company's income will only be higher.
Performance fees from local tours and album sales only account for a small part of the revenue of most idol groups. The real bulk is advertising endorsements and overseas tours.
The members were naturally very excited when they heard that Exo would hold a tour this year. This is not only a reflection of their popularity, but also because no one wants to make money.
Chi Jingyuan may not care much about profits, but he is actually also very interested in concerts, where tens of thousands of fans stare at him performing on the stage, standing in the center of the stage and listening to countless people shouting his name. It felt like he had always wanted to try it.
After saying some other things to note, Li Changcan sorted out the manuscript, and after whispering a few words with several other managers, looked at Exo and finally asked: "That's pretty much what I want to talk about in today's meeting. What are the details?" The documents and travel schedule will be given to your agent after the meeting.
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"Do you have any more questions?" Most of the members shook their heads and said no. Basically, they would not say anything during this kind of meeting. At present, they have only been in the same company for less than two years. How can I say that they are in the same company? What to do situation.
Even if they have any questions, they can just ask their agent privately. Chi Jingyuan remembered something at this time. He glanced aside and raised his hand: "Chief Nim."
"Jing Yuanxi, tell me." Li Changcan smiled at him.
"When I visited our fanclub some time ago, I found that our fans do not have an official name. Fans in many different fanclubs call themselves different, and fans in Peninsula and Xia Kingdom also have different names."
"Many of our fans call themselves 'Planet Fans'. This is a name they came up with based on our Exo setting and concept, but there are also many fans who don't like this name."
"This situation is a bit inconvenient for both support and normal communication. Does the company have any arrangements?" Chi Jingyuan asked a question he discovered a few days ago.
As a tradition in the Peninsula music industry, all idol groups with names will determine their fan names, support colors, support items, etc. when they debut, or after a period of time after debut.
Because idol groups are all about fans, these things can greatly increase fan cohesion and loyalty.
Moreover, the company can also take advantage of the trend to launch support peripherals and make another fortune. For example, those seniors from the same company as Sm and fans of TVXQ are called 'Fairy Queen', and they are quite famous. SJ's '.F' and Girls' Generation's 'Sone' are both very famous in the fan circle.
However, there are also some who have not had official fan names for many years since their debut. For example, Fx does not have one. I don’t know what Sm company thinks.
Exo has been debuting for almost two years. Apart from the silver color, they still don’t have an official fan name. In the Peninsula Fan Club, Chi Jingyuan has seen a variety of self-proclaimed names, and Xia Guo is currently the most popular. The approved name is 'Planet Rice'.
As soon as Chi Jingyuan's words came out, the members nearby also nodded immediately. Many members would often communicate with their big fans, station sisters, and they all knew about this issue.
"The company has also noticed what you said, Jingyuan. Because of your Exo's popularity, we are discussing the establishment of an official xo fan site, but the fan name of xo is still under discussion. You members can discuss it among yourselves after you go back. Do you think If it's suitable, let us know through the agent." Sm obviously also understood this matter, and Li Changcan also assigned the task of coming up with names to them.
There were no more problems after that, and the other party said a few more words of encouragement before adjourning the meeting.
After the meeting, the manager went to contact the company, and the members returned to the practice room, sat on the sofa and the floor, and started discussing enthusiastically: "Isn't our slogan 'weareone'? Our fans just It's called 'xone', what do you think?
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