When they got up early the next morning, they met with the brand first, and then went to the advertising company to start working together.
Although SM has slowly adjusted the focus of EXO's activities and begun to prepare to focus some energy on the neon market, the company, especially Lee Soo Man, still attaches great importance to Xia Guo and has not said that it will just ignore it. You can tell that this comeback album is still specially released in Chinese version.
Every time the entire peninsula comes back, EXO is the only one that releases a Chinese version of their album. Moreover, they don't just translate the original lyrics and then just record them. Instead, they specifically find well-known lyricists to collaborate with and rewrite the lyrics. When shooting the Chinese version of the MV, the movements and parts would be re-divided, which took a lot of effort and can be said to be very sincere.
After all, Xia Guo’s activities, including commercial performances, singing and advertising endorsements, can earn several times as much money as those on the peninsula. No matter what albums or songs the idol group releases, their ultimate goal is to Revenue is profitable, exo is still so popular here, no one will take the initiative to give up such a large market.
Moreover, the response of the market and fans has actually given corresponding rewards. In addition to the increase in the price of advertising endorsements, even if all the Chinese line members left, the number of losses this time around was significantly higher than last year. The sales of their EXO albums are so unparalleled in the peninsula, and the failure of Xia Guo fans accounts for many reasons.
It's a pity that Team M is only a handful. The activities to stabilize the local Xia Kingdom have naturally been reduced accordingly, making it difficult for people here to see them.
After the commercial, I conducted several interviews including Yinyuetai. I was busy until the morning of the 5th before I took a flight back to the peninsula.
Although he was in Xia Kingdom these two days, Chi Jingyuan was still paying attention to the news on the peninsula that day, and Pei Zhuxuan was still resisted and attacked by most of Aili.
Judging from the current situation, fans' anger and dissatisfaction are still at their peak. This situation may not be reversed in a short period of time, and it is estimated that every time "Music Bank" ends during this period, there will be a smear campaign. Her peak.
However, there are actually many good reviews. Some passers-by and even fans from other houses are very surprised by the MC pairing of Ji Kyung-won and Bae Zhu-hyun. The reviews are very good and they are looking forward to it. The soaring ratings on the 1st have actually shown that Got this.
It's a pity that girlfriend fans don't care about this.
Chi Jingyuan estimates that it will take at least a while. After the Aili people are a little angry and some of them have adapted to their fixed MC partner, it may be better. Maybe there will be fans among them who will knock them like others. The Yinyin CP in the company is here.
Bae Zhuhyun's popularity has exploded these days, almost catching up with exo and bigbang who have just returned. After seeing it, many people are curious about why so many people want to criticize her. Everywhere they click on the webpage, there are photos and news about her. And although the various pictures have been photoshopped, you can still tell that the real person is actually pretty good-looking.
This level of popularity and discussion makes those unknown girl groups in the 18th tier feel envious when they see it.
After some of them curiously read some materials and "Music Bank", they actually attracted a wave of fans to Bae Zhuhyun. When the activity period was about to end, her popularity actually increased beyond the red vevlet group. Quite a few.
I don’t know if the Allies who hated her to the core expected this.
In fact, if Pei Zhuhyun doesn't care about these attacks and rumors, it will bring her a lot of benefits. However, even though Chi Jingyuan called to comfort her just once before, based on his understanding of Pei Zhuhyun, this sister must still care a lot.
There was no other way but to let her vent a few more times.
In addition, BigBang has completed its first stage on "Inkigayo" on the 3rd, and Chi Jingyuan even took the time to watch it.
I have to say that yg is really good at creating stage effects. Dozens of reflective glass mirror doors were placed on the stage. Five members of Big Bang sang during the period, and the lighting created a dreamy feeling. The effect looks really good.
The excellent stage effect combined with the publicity also played an obvious role. On the 4th after the first stage, the daily sales of Big Bang's single album "m" increased significantly, compared with the previous day's increase Nearly 30 times.
Their sales on the first day did not even break through 20,000 despite the hard work of fans, but stopped at 19,000. On the second day, they dropped to only 5,000, and on the third day, it was even worse, falling to only 610. Three.
As a result, on May 4th after the first stage, the single-day sales instantly jumped to more than 18,000 copies. This increase is really exaggerated.
After EXO's huge sales on the first day, the sales curve also declined obviously. On the 4th, it was even overtaken by Big Bang.
However, one day's surprise cannot save BigBang's disappointing total sales. No one on the street will buy their albums just after listening to the songs. The number of fans is not as big as that of Danzhuan and Duanmengang. In terms of complete sales data, the two groups Still far from it.
May 5th happened to be Children's Day on the peninsula. After landing from the plane, they took a short rest and quickly ran a few corresponding activities. However, probably because of the long journey, the company did not arrange too much, or even none at all. Qie was asked to work overtime in the practice room and returned to the dormitory around ten o'clock.
"Hey, why are you so quiet today when you didn't send a message?"
Oh Se-hun and Do Kyung-soo walked in from outside the room together, carrying bags in their hands, and their mouths were still oily as if they had just eaten something. After they walked in, they glanced at each other and were leaning on the bedside holding a mobile phone. Chi Jingyuan, who was looking at something, approached and handed the bag over, and asked casually: "I'm hungry. Brother Junmian just bought the fried chicken. This is yours... what are you looking at?"
"Thank you." Chi Jingyuan glanced up, took the fried chicken and said thank you, then reached out and pulled a small table from the side, put the fried chicken on it, and put his mobile phone on it: "Watch variety shows."
"What variety show? Oh, it's the one where you were a guest for JYP. It premiered today?" Do Kyung-soo glanced at it and understood immediately.
"Yeah." Chi Jingyuan took a piece of fried chicken with his hands and put it into his mouth. He gasped because it was a bit hot and nodded in response.
JYP has made preparations long in advance, selected the best of its female trainees, and personally participated in the carefully produced girl group selection program "Sixteen" which finally premiered today.
Chi Jingyuan has been paying close attention to it because of the participation of acquaintances. In addition, yesterday Zhou Ziyu was pretending to be pretentious. He mentioned in a casual tone that he just happened to get off work today and had nothing to do, so he started watching the live broadcast. .
"Why don't you go outside and watch TV." Wu Shixun sat back on his bed and took out his mobile phone. He glanced at him and said, "Which episode are you participating in?"
"Too many people."
Chi Jing didn't even raise his head. He chewed the fried chicken happily. After swallowing it, he replied smoothly: "It should be the third period."
Seeing him looking so serious and comfortable while eating, the other two roommates didn't bother him anymore, and each took their mobile phones and went about their own business.
The broadcast period of "Sixteen" is a bit average. It only starts at 11 o'clock in the evening. It is not even as good as EXO's previous group variety period.
At the beginning of the variety show, there was a special mention of Wirls and Missa, two girl groups under JYP, and they made their company look like a famous girl group. Chi Jingyuan was a little speechless.
As for the two girl groups Wirls and Missa launched by JYP in recent years, the former failed to stabilize the situation while the iron was hot due to problems with the company's decisions when it was very popular. It lost a lot of market and was directly caught up by its competitor Girls' Generation. I have completely lost the hope of reaching the top group. Although my music performance and national popularity are still very good, it is no longer the grand occasion it once was.
The latter got off to a great start when she won a grand award as a rookie in her debut year. In the middle, Suzy Bae unexpectedly became popular because of her movie roles. As a result, with so many advantages, Missa is now like this. I don’t know if it’s the company. The problem is still a problem of combining people.
Anyway, Chi Jingyuan personally feels that JYP is not very good at running women's groups, at least not as good as he boasts.
However, the songs provided to the girl group are really good. Whether they are written by Park Jin Young himself or purchased from outside the company, the quality is very high.
More than an hour of the program passed quickly, and Chi Jingyuan smacked his lips as he watched the end of the commercial.
Although the various facilities, including the costumes and even the stage settings, seem a bit simple, the filming of the show is quite interesting, and the survival and elimination mode in each episode is cruel and exciting enough.
However, in terms of the stage in the first period, which was the task of "are you a star" that Zhou Ziyu had told him before, most of the trainees' performances were actually not too eye-catching in his opinion, they were all very ordinary. stage.
There was only one performance that left a deep impression from beginning to end, and that was Saka Minatozaki's 'Vietnamese Spring Roll'.
The other trainees sang and danced, but she bought a few ingredients directly, then moved them all to the stage, and rolled a Vietnamese spring roll for Park Zhenying to eat in front of everyone, with various Japanese dishes interspersed in between. Chi Jingyuan was stunned when he saw his cute movements and tone.
When he came back to his senses, he couldn't help but sigh at this girl's boldness. It was really shameful to perform such an unconventional thing on the stage. Let alone a trainee, you can ask an artist who has been debuting for several years to estimate some of them. I'm a little embarrassed.
Apart from that, I can only say that Minatozaki Saka is really smart. She knows where her advantages are and wants to make people remember her at first sight through her special performance, and her goal has been achieved. Anyway, as an audience member, Chi Jingyuan remembers her the most among so many performances, and she also left a very good impression.
He recalled the recording and remembered that this girl's eyes were very interesting, and he really felt attracted when he looked at her.
If Chi Jingyuan chooses the members of this girl group, Sasha Minatozaki will definitely debut. She is really eye-catching and has almost all the excellent qualities of an idol.
There is not much else about the first issue. If there is anything else to remember, it is that JYP clearly focused on a few of the trainees and gave a lot of footage and special interviews. To say that there is no official debut list, Ji Jingyuan is Don't believe it.
It's just that the person he wanted to see didn't appear several times throughout the whole process...
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"Jingyuan, this is the Samsung phone you want. The card has been installed."
Park Jae-hyun took out a bag and took out three mobile phones in succession, all of the same model. The Samsung logo on the brand was shiny.
"Thank you, brother."
Chi Jingyuan gnawed on the burger in his hand and thanked him. With the burger in his mouth, he freed his hand to take the phone, opened it and started operating it.
He had just finished a platform promotion event for a personal endorsement brand. It was lunch time but he had other plans later, so he had something to eat in the nanny's car to cope with it.
Today, Wednesday the 6th, there is a song competition for "Shoion", but neither EXO nor Big Bang have any intention of participating.
"Shoion" is a singing competition program that I am really obsessed with. It has its own scoring standards and mechanisms, but they are not disclosed to the outside world. The scores obtained by each singing competition guest are also hidden from you. If you get more points or less, you will not be awarded. It depends on the program team's mouth. The top players and alternates are sometimes given inexplicably. They often use some popular groups to accompany them, and let them lose to groups that are obviously inferior to them to create some controversies and gimmicks.
Because of these characteristics, "Shoion" and "The Show" are relatively the lowest-valued singing programs. Top-tier boy groups like EXO and Big Bang are no longer struggling for one person. If there is a conflict, I generally will not participate unless there is an urgent need for publicity or I have a lot of free time.
And it doesn't matter whether you go or not. This show is not like "The Show", and it doesn't say that you have to be there before you can be awarded a seat.
Although this is usually the case.
If there are no singing members, they will run their own activities separately, but at night there is a collective radio station that needs to be recorded.
"Jingyuan, are you going to...vote?" Park Jae-hyun sat back in the passenger seat, looked back at Chi Jingyuan, who was constantly using his mobile phone, and asked tentatively after looking at it for a while.
"Um."
Unable to speak with the burger in his mouth, he responded casually, opened all three mobile phones, and started downloading the milk music app.
"Sixteen" had its premiere yesterday, but when he flipped through it just now, he found that there were not many discussions on the Internet, and there were not even a few people talking about it.
Although JYP has done a lot of publicity before, and even held a special press conference, and all members uploaded their own introductory videos on YouTube, the popularity and attention did not increase accordingly. The first episode of the broadcast did not feel It brought too much water splash and seemed a bit deserted.
After a few casual glances, there were far less people discussing "Sixteen" than those posting black pictures of Bae Joo Hyun.
There are so many trainees in JYP, but none of them can beat the popularity of Bae Zhuhyun alone, which makes people feel a little bit sad.
However, with the premiere of "Sixteen" yesterday, channels for members to like and vote have also been opened.
It's probably due to sponsorship issues. You have to use a Samsung mobile phone to vote for this show. Other brands are not allowed to vote. The high-ranking person used Apple's Chi Jingyuan to operate it for a long time and ended up not being able to vote. It's really disgusting.
Although it is a bit troublesome, even though Chi Jingyuan knows that even if he casts one or two votes, it will not have any effect, although he also knows that the vote is only a reference, and who can debut still depends on JYP himself.
However, he still wanted to support this kid Zhou Ziyu a little bit... There wasn't much reason.
Milk music was downloaded on all three mobile phones. After entering, he clicked on the exclusive page of "sixteen", scrolled up and down for a while, and found Zhou Ziyu, who had a beautiful face and a close-up of her face. He smiled and clicked to vote.
The first two cast quickly, but Chi Jingyuan hesitated for a moment when he was operating the third phone. He seemed to remember something and made two false strokes on the screen with his fingers. After thinking about it, he didn't make any more calls. I voted for Zhou Ziyu as before, but clicked on Ming Jingnan's profile picture.
Forget it, give that girl a vote too, she looks very likable.
Anyway, these two votes have no substantive effect, they are purely to express support.
After voting, Chi Jingyuan put away his Samsung phone. He took down the burger and ate it while watching the news on his phone. After eating, he wiped his mouth and looked at the time. There was still a while before work. He clicked on it out of boredom. Address book, casually sent a text message to Zhou Ziyu:
"Why can't I see your camera at all? Didn't you come in the first episode?"
He believed what Zhou Ziyu said before that the company was not optimistic about her. There were very few scenes of her in the first issue of "Sixteen", and they were all shot by chance. Except for the opening dance at the beginning, she didn't have any scenes. The difference in treatment between a close-up of a single person and those trainees who appear every once in a while is very obvious.
"How could you not come, you, why are you so annoying (angry)!"
It happened to be lunch break, and the other party's reply came after a while, but it was obvious that Chi Jingyuan's ridicule had stimulated Zhou Ziyu's little self-esteem, and the dissatisfaction and shame in the text were undoubtedly revealed.
Zhou Ziyu, who was about to finish lunch at this time, saw the name of the person who sent the letter, quickly picked up the last bit of bibimbap, wiped his mouth and opened the phone excitedly, but after seeing it, his expression immediately wrinkled, angry. He tapped the screen a few times and replied.
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After watching the broadcast with others yesterday, she had been feeling a little depressed because of the pitiful lack of scenes. She didn't expect that this person would actually expose his scars.
However, she quickly realized that the other party had specifically watched the live broadcast, and her frown could not help but soften a little. She pursed her lips slightly and sent two more messages in succession:
"Have you seen it?"
"...I don't know. During the recording, there were actually quite a few VJ shots of me, but...they should have all been edited out."
Thinking of the filming scene at that time and the broadcast she saw yesterday, Zhou Ziyu felt a little unhappy. To be honest, she was really not in a good mood after watching it.
They were all trainees who participated together, and they had several times as many shots as hers, as well as special interviews and various beautiful close-ups, but she was just like a borderline, so it was strange that she could be happy.
And now she has fallen into the poor student group. If there is no improvement here, she may be the next one to be eliminated. The pressure is actually very high.
The people around him were all competing trainees, and he didn't know who to turn to if he wanted to vent or talk.
Chi Jingyuan happened to be here, so after she replied, Zhou Ziyu was looking forward to hearing some comforting words from the other party. If it was Chi Jingyuan, she would definitely be in a much better mood.
However, after waiting for a while and getting a little anxious, the screen suddenly turned on. After clicking on it, there were only two words.
"pity."
Seeing the other party's reply, Zhou Ziyu immediately curled her lips in dissatisfaction, sighed with some disappointment, and tapped the screen hard with her finger.
But before she put down the phone, her hand was shocked again, followed by a text message. Zhou Ziyu clicked on it and saw that it was a picture, and it was actually the face photo she had taken specifically for the voting page. There is a passage below:
"This picture is okay, but it feels a little dull and more lively... Remember to behave well later and show your face more times so that my vote doesn't go to waste."
Seeing this picture and this paragraph, Zhou Ziyu couldn't help but pursed her lips slightly. She stared at the screen with her dark eyes for a while before smiling, biting her lower lip and typing:
"I know, thank you."
