"I've gone shopping several times in the past two days, and exo's albums are the best-selling ones. That store usually gives away posters when buying albums, but sometimes if you go there wrongly, all xo's posters have been given away..."
"It's a pity that "e" doesn't have a separate cover this time, otherwise I guess the sales would be better. I see that many fans have left messages on SM's official website asking why they don't release more versions, such as the more popular Yuan, Can Fans of members like Lie and Sehun, especially Yuan, actually want to buy singles."
"Actually, many old fans of xo this time are a little shaken because of last year's turmoil, including a lot of Ariel I know who didn't buy the pre-sale because of some disappointment or worry, but these days most people have already I came back to the pit and started moving albums like crazy, and I only came back after watching the MV and stage of "e"."
Listening to her classmate Jin Huimei taking the trouble to introduce the situation of EXO to her, Li Yunzhen listened carefully and nodded from time to time.
As a new Aili who has just become a fan of EXO, she is now very curious about all news about idols.
Li Yunzhen is a third-year student at a nearby girls' high school. Although she has always paid attention to kpop like everyone else, she had her own destiny and had no feelings for EXO, which has become popular in the peninsula in the past two years. The same goes for the veteran Ari Kim Hye-mi who was involved in "Hyo" period and has been with her countless times. Even though she admits that EXO is indeed very popular, and those lines are more handsome than the last, but there is just a lack of movement, and she can't be immersed in it. .
Then something happened to EXO. First it was revealed that they were in a relationship, and then after the members left the group one after another, they naturally became less fans. Even Kim Hye-mi, a former loyal fan, was shaken for a while and almost lost her fandom because of the member's withdrawal. Later, she still became a fan. After listening to the winter single "Let It Be" released at the end of last year, she became determined again and continued to be a fan. However, she has not spent much time with her good friend Li Yunzhen since then.
It was only two days ago that EXO returned with its first single album. After the release of the title song, the response on the Internet was very good. Kim Hye-mi seemed to be resurrected and started to get excited with her again. She hugged her relatives and friends and took a look at the same time. With a lively attitude, Li Yunjin casually watched the first stage of EXO's comeback "Inkigayo"...
Then I came to buy it today.
I don’t know why, but Lee Yunjin has seen all of EXO’s popular title songs before, whether it’s “Pao Xiao”, “Addicted”, or even “Dope”, the pinnacle of direct-filmed songs so far, and admits that they are very handsome, but they are a little bit No feeling.
However, this time, after watching the first stage of "Call Me Baby" and seeing Chi Jingyuan with smoky gray hair sitting on the sofa, she instantly felt that her heart had been hit, and her whole mind was shaking uncontrollably. .
This is the feeling of being trapped in a second.
When this feeling arises, climbing the wall becomes natural.
She really likes the song "Call Me Baby". The melody, lyrics, and choreography of the entire song all highlight a strong sense of fashion. It's not just Chi Jingyuan who makes her fall in love, but also the looks of other members. Hit her spot.
They happened to have some free time today, so they went to the video store nearest to the school to buy some music.
"Why doesn't SM sell single covers? Sales should be better if there are more versions, right?" Li Yunzhen asked curiously after hearing the introduction from a friend.
Kim Hye-mi was obviously well-informed, so she casually said without thinking: "According to the fan club's analysis, it should be for the final four-in-one regular second album. SM may be afraid that too many single albums will be released, which will lead to the final The sales of the important second album have been affected, so the first four singles cannot have separate covers to whet the appetite of fans. When the final second album is released, there will definitely be many versions."
"That's it. Actually, I really want to buy Yuan's cover album..."
The two chatted while walking, and soon they arrived at their destination, a physical audio store called cooltrack.
This video store is located next to Yongshan subway station, on the 6th floor of Daqiao Library in ill park mall. It mainly sells online sales, so the area of the physical store is not very large, but it is not too small. From time to time, there are some TV station variety shows. The filming was done here. I heard that Girls' Generation's Seohyun and Jung Yong Hwa's sweet potato couple had been filmed here, so they are somewhat famous among the fans.
But Li Yunzhen and the others came here mainly because they were closest.
As soon as we reached the sixth floor, a huge poster of the nine members of EXO was hung on the billboard at the door. Many people around could not help but stop and watch.
There are quite a few customers in the video store right now, and it’s very lively with people coming and going.
"This time SM finally has some conscience. The configuration of the Obamas' single "e" is pretty good, and everything is exquisitely done. The main thing is that the members' photo albums are all very well shot this time. nice."
Walking into the video store, Kim Hye-mi and Lee Yun-jin were both familiar and walked towards the kpop album section. As they walked, Kim Hye-mi introduced it to her friends, and at the same time couldn't help but smack her lips:
"In this "e", Yuan has a super cool photo card, which is his photo card with ash hair color. I saw someone opened it in the fan club. It is really handsome. I checked it yesterday. The price of this card has skyrocketed. Ai Xi doesn’t know if SM has specially reduced the number of special editions of that card. I bought 10 albums but didn’t get one... Yuan’s other small cards are actually the same. All of them are okay, but the hair colors are all original colors, and only that one has the smoky gray hair color in the comeback music video, which is really eye-catching and has great collection value."
"Except for Yuan's sky-high price card, the other ones that are more beautiful are those from members like Chanyeol and Sehun, but they are not as expensive as they are speculated to be..."
"Hey Yigu, I really, really, really want Yuan's gray hair card..."
Amidst Jin Huimei's expressions of emotion and envy, the two walked to the best counter of the video store.
The albums sold here are all the highest-selling albums recently, and they are arranged in ten rankings in order from the top shelf to the bottom according to sales volume.
In the most conspicuous position, the two albums ranked No. 1 and No. 2 have exactly the same logo at first glance, but the colors are different. They are the Korean version and the Chinese version of EXO's single album "e" respectively.
Further down the row, you can also see albums from groups such as Vixx, Shinhwa, and 4minute. They are all relatively popular artist groups that have recently come back.
At this time, there were quite a lot of people in front of the Best counter. Eight or nine people gathered in front to look around. Under the gaze of everyone, a beautiful girl with long black hair suddenly strode from behind to the shelf and stretched out her hand. I took a handful of the Korean version of "e", and then I took it back with some difficulty and counted it in my hand. I found that my hand was still a little smaller, and I still had a few fewer copies, so I reached out again and took three more. After rounding up the whole number again, a happy smile appeared on his face, and he squeezed out of the crowd towards the cashier with satisfaction.
"Is this Ellie..."
Li Yunzhen witnessed this girl's shopping process with her own eyes and sighed secretly in her heart.
At present, the physical record market in the Peninsula music industry is really not very prosperous. Most groups cannot sell in quantity at all. Let’s not talk about girl groups. Among male groups, those who can sell more than 100,000 physical albums can be called first-line groups. .
For example, many fans of EXO buy five or ten albums at a time, which is really not common among fans of other groups.
For example, Li Yunzhen herself used to buy albums one by one when she was in other groups. Now when she saw this girl Aili, she really sighed to herself.
The two of them watched for a while, and then Li Yunzhen walked forward and picked up a Korean version of "e" from the shelf.
"Take one first..."
She still doesn't like buying a lot of albums at once, and although single albums are not expensive, as a student with no financial income, the financial pressure of buying many albums at once is still quite high.
Li Yunzhen is also planning to save money to buy the follow-up "x", "o", "l" and regular albums.
"Buying one is actually enough. Many Alis are not from well-off families. Like me, and the Ali just now must have saved money for a long time to buy so many. After all, xo did not have a winter special last year. , the money saved is useless.”
Jin Huimei seemed to be afraid that her relative would be embarrassed, so she took the initiative to smooth things over and added at the end: "But she might also want to draw a small card..."
"..."
Li Yunzhen looked at each other and smiled. After two more casual walks, they went to the cashier to pay.
There were quite a lot of people buying albums at this time, and the two sales clerks were a little busy, so they waited in line for a while before it was their turn.
"It will come with a poster of Posters, there are also pictorials of some of the most popular artists on the wall behind.
"Is there any Yuan? I want Yuan." Li Yunzhen said directly without thinking about it.
"Sorry, Yuan's personal poster is no longer available today. It will arrive later." The cashier smiled apologetically and apologized skillfully. It seems that he has said this countless times today. .
"Then... let's do it as a group."
"OK."
"Kangsangmita."
After paying the money, just as Li Yunzhen and Li Yunzhen were holding the bags and preparing to walk out, a harsh scream suddenly came from the front. Although it was not very pleasant, the sound was obviously full of surprise and excitement.
"Ah ah ah, I'm here!"
The sound instantly attracted the attention of many people nearby. Li Yunzhen and the two of them also leaned over curiously, and found that the one who screamed happened to be the long straight black Ai Li who had bought more than a dozen albums before them. She paid. He didn't leave after that. Instead, he sat on the table at the door and started unpacking the album. There was a lot of unpacked packages and albums in front of him.
At this time, she stood up from the chair, holding a small card in her left hand, and kept waving her right hand vigorously to hit the air to vent her excitement. After doing it a few times, she seemed to feel that this was not enough. He simply jumped on the spot several times in a row, and the ground made a booming sound when he jumped.
Anyone could tell that he was really excited.
When Jin Huimei heard this, she immediately walked over quickly. Her eyes were very smart and she directly glanced at the small card in the girl's hand. After seeing it, her whole body froze, her mouth opened slightly, and her eyes suddenly straightened. The boy's eyes were full of sadness and envy.
"Did she get that Yuan's sky-high price card?" Seeing her friend like this, Li Yunzhen understood immediately, walked up and asked softly.
"Yeah, that one is super handsome, super expensive, super rare, super sense..." Jin Huimei felt a little bad. She obviously bought ten albums, but she didn't even smell them. Why was it in front of her eyes? Did this woman drive out, or was it just in front of her?
It seemed that she felt that the girls who were leaning in front of her were also fans of EXO. This straight black girl, Aili, was very generous, with a sense of showing off, and very cautiously. She preciously showed the photo card to them, and suddenly It caused a lot of exclamations.
"..."
Li Yunzhen took a closer look and pursed her lips. She finally understood why this Yuan card was so popular among Aili and Yuan fans.
In this small photo card, Chi Jingyuan's head accounts for two-thirds. He is half-looking down with a completely disgusted face. In the picture, he is quietly looking at the camera with a very sad smile, and there is something hidden in his dark eyes. With a hint of curiosity and pursuit, the soft facial features and the somewhat fluffy hair under the gray and white ash hair color match perfectly. It not only looks fresh and natural, but also has a sense of fashion.
He seemed to be outdoors when the photo was taken, with the scattered bangs on his forehead trembling slightly in the wind, and the raised bunch of dull hair adding a lively and lively charm to the entire photo.
It's not a handsome and impactful thing, but one that is extremely comfortable to watch, and it satisfies people's psychological and visual needs by getting feedback. It makes people want to watch it more and more and they can't put it down.
To be honest, Li Yunzhen was slightly stunned after taking a look at the small card... She was also moved, and really wanted to open the album in her hand immediately to see if it was this sky-high price card. If not, she wanted to directly I turned around and went shopping at the shelves, buying seven or eight albums, just to get this card.
"Jinjia! Oh Mo! I actually got this one! I really want it..."
"Anihasay, maybe you have considered selling this yuan card?"
"..."
Seeing that Jin Huimei had rushed to the side and looked at the small card in the hand of the girl Ai Li with a face of covetousness, at the same time, there were several girls nearby who were obviously EXO fans and came over, and they started discussing in various directions, and some people directly When Li Yunzhen opened her mouth to buy something, she bit her lip and touched the album she just bought to her chest. She suddenly felt infinite anticipation in her heart.
"It must be opened!"
…………
The singing stage effect of the "Inkigayo" in the first week was indeed very good. In the following days, you can often see related discussions on the Internet, excluding the rainbow farts or slanders with obvious bias, The reviews from the passersby audience were also very good, mainly focusing on the choreography, expressiveness, and the transition from shot to shot. They were full of praises for a while.
On the next day, SM officials and fans at the scene uploaded direct shots of the members on the first stage on YouTube. "Call me baby" was only half shot, and the outdoor and lounge scenes pre-recorded were not taken, which made some fans I was a little disappointed. Although the stage at the back was actually pretty cool, it was a bit unsatisfying to watch only half of the show without the introduction at the beginning.
On the other hand, "butterfly" has a tendency to be a bit of a hit on stage. Although this non-hit song ranked second after the sound source was released, not many people were optimistic about it. However, after it was played on the stage, there was an obvious increase in the number of people listening to this song. The increase, just the replay clicks on SBS’s official channel is very high. After the direct recording was released, each member of the song is very popular, especially the personal direct recording clicks of Ji Jingyuan’s stage have been soaring in the past few days, below He was embarrassed to read all the flattering comments.
Rainbow farts such as 'Stage Fairy', 'Lord God of Light', 'Fragmentation', 'White Moonlight' really made him feel ashamed.
All I can say is that Ellie is so enthusiastic.
After the great praise from the initial stage, EXO has continued to participate in various schedules and interviews for promotion in the past few days, and SM has accordingly invested a lot of resources in various aspects. There has been a lot of discussion, and there are already signs of momentum in various aspects.
The most obvious thing is the sharp increase in sales. Before the return of No. 1, the pre-sales of "e" were only 430,000. Not only was it lower than SM's expectations, but it was almost half as low as the pre-sales of last year's "Addicted". Cut in half.
But in the past few days, especially after the official comeback, sales have continued to increase. In just four or five days, the two versions of the album have sold nearly 160,000 copies, and the trend is still increasing day by day. This uncharacteristic reverse growth really surprised industry practitioners and other idol groups.
I don’t know if these new recruits are returning to the industry after losing their jobs, or if they are new fans who have just been attracted by this return.
With exo's comeback showing great prospects and clearly gaining momentum, the environment in online forums seems to have returned to the period when Ellie dominated the world.
"Attachment: "This Week's Album Sales Ranking Data Chart""
"Well, I've posted the data. Ranking first and second are the two versions of exo's single album "e". You can see the numbers yourself. Before the Obamas came back some time ago, you guys were blowing it for a long time. You can knock it away. Exo's Shinhwa and Vixx are also on it, in case you didn't see it, it's specially laid out for you: Shinhwa's regular 12th album "we" sold 11,688 copies of the regular version, and the limited edition released on the 3rd sold 27,916 copies, for a total of 39,604 copies."
"Vixx's single album "Boys Record", which came back on February 24th, has sold just over 60,000 copies as of noon today, which is actually a good result. I won't mention 4minute specifically because we don't compete with girl groups, so I'm afraid you will criticize us. Ellie bullies others..."
"As for the sound source, I won't talk about it. The two songs of "e" stay firmly together and have great staying power. Unlike some people, the title song has almost flown off the charts within a few days of their return... This is what you said Can we knock down exo and expose exo's true colors as two popular boy bands? I really want to interview those black guys and their rival fans about how they feel now?"
"kkkk made me laugh to death. At that time, they were mocking the low pre-sales of xo, but in fact, no matter how low it is, it is still higher than your main owner who knows how many times. Want to see your xo father lake? It's a pity that we will all wait until your main owner is disbanded. No lake.”
"The results of "e"'s comeback are really great this time. The music source is airborne and the album is selling well. No one has mentioned the previous relationship and the group's withdrawal. The nine-member XO is obviously on the way back to its peak. If the following single albums can have the quality of "e", I am really optimistic about exo this year. I even think that if everything goes well, they can directly reach the top this year... Of course, we xo will definitely not be able to compare. You are the first-tier boy band that can only get two and one, sell tens of thousands of albums, and then publish big-character posters to boast about their comeback and make a big hit!"
"Hey, Gukkkk, can you please stop calling other people's names?"
"I don't know what you idiot fans are happy about. "Call Me Baby" is obviously much worse than "Paoxiao". It seems to be very popular these days and it is all based on the fans' idiotic bragging and the company's operations. In fact, you yourself Go to the streets and see if you can often hear this song played in the shops on the roadside. The 2013 "Paoxiao" is really popular. It is played in every school in the streets and alleys. That is the real popularity. What kind of "call" is this? "me baby" is simply a fake sensation, a fake sensation, created by marketing."
"It's so funny, which company are you from? Can your tone be a little more sour? Isn't the song "Pao Xiao" co-written by XO? And you're using a group's songs to criticize each other? You're really interesting, little cutie, admit it xo Is it so difficult to return to Dafa this time?”
"Are you idiot fans getting too proud too early? This is only the second week, and I haven't even won a single song. I didn't even win a single song from "The Show" or "Shoion" this week. Yes, yesterday’s "m!" one was from vixx. I really don’t know what you are so happy about. You have been bragging about how popular your comeback performance is, but where is the other one?"
"Can you please grow some eyes? What's the point of being embarrassed? (Hands out)? Exo usually doesn't go to singing shows on small channels like "The Show" and "Shoion". Yesterday's "M! Twenty Years Old" The special program required performing various nostalgic stages, so EXO didn't go there. It's not normal not to get one. Moreover, they were selected as a substitute without showing up. Yesterday's score was a little lower than vixx. I know that vixx has been accumulating for a long time in the third week of their comeback. The broadcast points alone are much higher than xo, so it doesn’t matter if they take the first place. Anyway, the first place in tomorrow’s “Music Bank” is 100% exo’s (shower).”
"Is this Aili? Then let's have a head-on collision tomorrow and see if you Oppa can get the first place in this comeback. I can only say that in terms of data and performance in life, whether it is Both Shinhwa and Vixx are definitely much better than EXO."
"Please, can those anti-fans stop making fun of our Shinhwa? Is it interesting to be black? The reason why the brothers are coming back now is to give back to the fans. We are really satisfied to be able to see their stage again. Basically There is no real Shinhwa Creation. Every day, they talk about competing with the younger generation to get the first place... And isn’t it crazy to compare sales with EXO? Who in the peninsula’s music industry can compare with them? Can I use you black fans to compare? Let’s compare with the real master, thank you for not mentioning our mythology.”
"Take away vixx and not make a date, please XO's anti-fans not to involve us anymore. Our fans are very satisfied with the results of Wuli Bisi's comeback this time. We don't expect to surpass exo, we just need to be ourselves."
"Hahahaha, I'm laughing so hard. My fans can't stand these black men anymore. They are a bunch of homeless wild dogs who dare not show their true identity!"
"%￥%...￥Xiba, let's talk about it after we get one, you bastard..."
