It is very gratifying that Kim Taeyeon's solo title song has made progress. Her solo has been prepared a few months ago. In fact, Chi Jingyuan himself was quite anxious after it had been delayed for so long. Although there were still several months before the expected return in the plan, the production of a mini album required many aspects of work.
Style and theme setting, song selection, lyrics, recording, shooting MVs and pictorials, recording albums, advance publicity and other complicated matters take a lot of time, and Chi Jingyuan's own work and schedule are also very busy, at least not recently. You can't put all your energy into it.
So it’s better to prepare the album sooner rather than later.
Once the title song is finished, the progress will speed up immediately. Once the demo is recorded for Lee Soo Man to listen to and discussed in a meeting to confirm, if there are no problems, after Kim Taeyeon has finished the lyrics, we will then perfect the arrangement. It's time to start recording.
Speaking of which, Chi Kyung-won originally wanted to try some songs related to the "Infinite Challenge Music Festival" today. Unexpectedly, the original goal made no progress at all, but he unexpectedly finished half of Kim Taeyeon's title song. It was an accident. Rejoice.
After all, the songs at the Song Festival are not in a hurry now, and variety shows like this don’t actually have very high requirements for the quality of the songs, the style doesn’t matter, and the arrangement doesn’t require so much excellence.
In order to participate in this infinite challenge, Chi Jingyuan also watched the song festivals of previous years. Although many of the songs in them were brilliant and brilliant, to be honest, many of them were quite average. After all, guests were required to write in a short time. There is no time for you to polish the songs you created within the time limit.
Being able to occupy the top of the list and cause such a huge response is mostly due to the popularity of the program itself and the popularity of the guests.
In comparison, for Ji Kyung-won, the importance of the song for the festival is far less than that of Kim Taeyeon's solo title song. After all, this is the first time that he has tried to compose a title song for someone other than EXO and served as a producer. .
Moreover, as a close relative of Noona, Chi Kyung-won was touched by Kim Taeyeon's optimism and trust in him. As a relative and a producer, he naturally wanted to hand over a satisfactory answer and try his best to make this sister His first solo performance in eight years since his debut was a success.
After the breakthrough, Chi Jingyuan focused on completing the music and arranging it. As for the song festival, let’s wait and see what happens next time their group records.
The style hasn't been decided yet.
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Today is June 30th. At the moment, all EXO members are in the lounge at the backstage of SM Town Coex Center. There will be a press conference about EXO's regular second album "EXO-L" in the front auditorium later. held in.
EXO's regular second album includes all eight songs from the previously released four single albums "e", "x", "o" and "l", and also adds two new songs, which are more lyrical. "if you" and the dance song "exodus" with strong rhythm.
A total of ten songs make up this regular second album "exo-l" which has not been released yet but has been characterized by many insiders, professional musicians, fans and passers-by as a divine album.
The song configuration of this album is extremely luxurious, and four of the singles have four title songs.
The song "Call Me Baby", which started with "Call Me Baby", swept across January and exploded in popularity. Many of the members' looks are still talked about by fans to this day. Besides the addictive melody, this song will really become popular and the most important thing for idols. Handsome and fashionable to the extreme.
The music source of "Spring Day" has been surprisingly strong after its counterattack. It is still ranked at the top of the music source chart several months later. So far, the number of daily independent listeners is much higher than those of boy groups that have just come back recently. It has greatly improved EXO's reputation as a boy band's music source among the public.
"lht" is slightly weaker than the other title songs, but it has a novel and strong rhythm of dance music and pleasing choreography, a very youthful feel, an enthusiastic stage appearance and style, and an eye-catching American college style and rugby style. The concept is still a popular song above the standard.
"Orientation Sniper", which was included at the same time, completely overshadowed the title song in terms of popularity and performance as a non-hit song. It is extremely popular among the audience group mainly composed of students and young people, and the music performance is unexpectedly good. At the same time, it also created the buzzword "orientation sniping" that is very popular among young couples today.
Not to mention this month's "Boy with Luv". Thanks to the previous preparations, its popularity and popularity have exploded. Within one day of its release, it has almost broken all the records of boy groups, and it has also been on the music charts. It firmly suppressed the equally excellent "bangbangbang".
It also made a breakthrough and entered the top 100 singles on the US B-chart, creating the best performance of a Peninsula idol group. Various influences have gradually transcended the song itself, and it has also made onlookers and even BigBang's own fans feel... This time the competition between the two top men's teams has the concept of victory or defeat.
Nowadays, how many people in the Peninsula, and even many people in Asia who like kpop, can't hum "oh mymymy" when the music is playing?
Other included songs including "El Dorado" and "Butterfly" are also well-produced and are high-quality tracks that are liked by many people. Their respective sound source results are very good, and they also have live stages outside the circle. These songs are placed in some songs. Among groups with less resources, playing the title song is definitely more than enough.
The two newly added songs, "If You", is a lyrical song that Chi Jingyuan himself likes very much. It sounds very emotional under the interpretation of the four main singers.
At that time, "exodus" competed with "Call Me Baby" to be the title song of the first album "e".
There are ten songs in the entire album, more than half of which are standard quality songs. The other included songs are not inferior to the main songs but also have their own characteristics. The music quality of this album can be seen by other boy bands. I don’t know. How envious and jealous you must be, you know that among kpop idol groups, of all the resources every time they come back, the most important one is the song resources.
Not only those small groups, but even within SM company, such as SJ, Shinee, and even Girls' Generation will be very jealous after seeing it, and they don't know how to discuss it in private.
As for the shortcomings, it should be that in order to complete the return mode of releasing songs month by month for four months, the song styles in the entire album are not uniform and can be said to be a bit mixed.
This may have some impact on some listeners, but most fans and passers-by don't care about these things. The vast majority of people only care about whether the songs are good or not.
There is still one day left before the official release of the second album and the release of the sound source, but the previous four single albums have already laid the foundation. EXO’s current popularity and fans’ expectations for their album are unparalleled. There is no need to do too much in terms of publicity. This time the company focuses more on promoting sales.
After all, although the quality of the album is incredible, most of the songs in it have already been released to the public, so the freshness is much reduced in comparison.
Chi Jingyuan was sitting in the corner of the lounge at this time. He casually took out an album from the mountain of albums on the table in front of him and looked through it in his hands.
Although this regular second album has not yet been officially released, insiders like them have already received the goods, because in the past few days there will be many activities to give back to fans and promote sales, such as raffles and autograph sessions. They will just take the time to sign their names on the album and give it to fans as a gift.
This time EXO's regular second album changes the way it has done in previous comebacks. In addition to the same team cover as before, it also launches 'single covers' for all members for the first time.
The so-called 'single cover' means that the members' individual photos are used as the cover and printed on the physical album, which is the 'individual cover version'.
This time, the "exo-l" album cover has a gold and silver theme. It has a Chinese version and a Korean version. The Chinese version has a silver cover, and the Korean version has a gold cover. Each of the nine exo members has a single cover and a group cover. All the different versions of the album add up to a total of twenty.
According to the development pattern of most idol groups in the peninsula, as the group becomes more popular and more popular, the number of members' Wei fans will also increase. Compared with the entire group, many Wei fans are more willing to do it for their own fans. That idol spends money.
Fans of EXO, or the only fans of the more popular members, have been calling on SM to release a single version of the album for a long time. However, SM has never released a single version of the album before, but this time it is finally okay. In response to the fans' wishes, the album album has been released. When the pre-sale channel was opened a few days ago, many fans cheered. Some more generous fans even directly bought dozens and dozens of single albums of their favorite members. Zhang’s enthusiasm was so enthusiastic that even SM people were frightened.
Although opening up single albums will to some extent boost album sales, to be honest, it is not all good. The first thing that bears the brunt is that the popularity gap within the team becomes more intuitive.
EXO is not a boy group with a relatively average popularity. The popularity and popularity can be as high as Ji Kyung-won, the top member of the team, and there are also popular lines composed of highly popular members such as Oh Se-hun and Park Chan-yeol.
But similarly, there are back and bottom popular members, and they are very different from the top members.
As before, although everyone has more or less personal resources, the difference is not very big. Things like popularity are relatively abstract. Even if the difference is huge, you can't tell it without looking for some relevant data.
But once this kind of single album is released, who sells more and who sells less will become particularly clear, intuitive, and cruel.
Since the pre-sale has been open, except for the group seals which still account for the majority, the sales gap between the number one single seal and the next few is several times or even dozens of times. This is because the company has specially set up a "single seal, not a single card" , that is, the cover is personal, but the photo card is immediately there, otherwise the gap will probably be even greater.
Although on the surface many members are used to the popularity level, such a huge gap will inevitably make these less popular members feel panicked and uncomfortable.
But there is no way. The competition in the Peninsula music industry is so fierce. In addition to competition with the outside world, it is also the same within the group.
In the past two days, after the pre-sale data came out, Chi Jingyuan faintly felt that the atmosphere in the team had changed. Although no one would take the initiative to show off or be jealous, sometimes the words and eyes would still become subtle. stand up.
When he thought of this, he felt helpless and at the same time couldn't help but admire Senior Yoona.
Girls’ Generation is also a group with a huge gap in popularity between the top and bottom.
During the years when YoonA was most popular, she was not only one of the most popular in the team, but also had a huge gap with the other top backs. At the same time, she also had a lot of film and television resources, and Ji Kyung-won with good resources. Somewhat envious.
In those two years, every time she was interviewed and participated in programs, when talking about topics and issues related to her popularity, she was always very humble and embarrassed. The most popular words she always kept on her lips were:
'Popularity has its seasons'.
Gee, this emotional intelligence.
Although those back sisters will not increase their popularity because of this, at least they will feel better.
Chi Jingyuan will now start to learn from YoonA senior.
After dispelling the complicated thoughts in his heart, Chi Jingyuan shook his head and looked at his single album in his hand.
On the cover, he is wearing a pure white plain shirt, his eyes are wavering, his expression is calm, and he tilts his head slightly to the left when facing the camera. The overall black and white color scheme and the silver coating of the album make the entire cover photo very natural and handsome, and at the same time, the whole cover photo is very natural and handsome. It is also very textured and classy, and it looks very emotional.
At the bottom of the cover are the characters 'exo-l' written in a matchstick-like font, and the back is filled with a large, very designed EXO logo, one after the other to form this official cover. The cover of the second album.
The single cover of Chi Jingyuan's Chinese and Korean versions is the best-selling among all the pre-sale versions, except for the group cover.
He held his single album and looked at it for a while. Looking at Chi Jingyuan, he remembered something. He glanced around, and then picked out a few albums from the pile of albums in front of him. After looking at it, he took out four group albums and stood up from the stool.
"Sign your name for me."
He placed several albums in his hand in front of Wu Shixun and gestured with his fingers.
"oh."
Wu Shixun, who was already signing his album, nodded, picked up the oil-based pen and signed the album without asking.
"Sign it smaller, there are others." Seeing Wu Shixun carelessly drawing a long black line on the cover, Chi Jingyuan immediately reminded him.
"Does everyone sign autographs? What do you want to do?" Wu Shixun asked casually after signing all the albums.
"Giving it away."
Chi Jingyuan responded with a roar and picked up the album, patted him on the shoulder and walked to the next member's seat. After walking around and getting all the other members' signatures, he returned to his seat and spoke again. I took two of my own envelopes and started to sign my name.
Then he found a bag and wrapped all the albums. When he was stuffing all the albums into the bag, he stopped. After thinking about it for two seconds, he took out a piece of note paper from the side and started writing with an oil-based pen. stand up:
"to. Seo-yeon
Everything will be fine. I wish you find the light in your heart, or try to be the light to illuminate others, fighting! (come on)"
When it came time to write the signature, Chi Jingyuan had just written a 'y', but he quickly crossed out the letter and added his own name, 'Chi Jingyuan'.
After putting the signature on the album and wrapping it, Chi Jingyuan took a long breath, put the package next to him, and started to sign other albums.
If the number of autographs is small, it is quite enjoyable. It gives me a sense of accomplishment that I have become a star and is sought after by others.
But if you sign too many albums, like this table full of albums, it will be a torture.
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"We all know that as of noon, the number of pre-sales for exo's regular second album "exo-l" has reached nearly 800,000. Yuan, what do you think of this number?"
Because of EXO's current popularity, a lot of people took note of this album launch. After the members introduced the content of this official album, the style of the songs, and some of their experiences and difficulties in preparing the album, It was time for questions, and there were many people in the audience asking various questions about this album to the Nine Lives members on the stage.
"I was actually very surprised when I saw it."
The person who was asked, Chi Jingyuan, sat a little to the left of the center, held a microphone and answered with a smile on the camera, with a flattered expression on his face: "Actually, I, including the members, never thought that I could achieve this. Numbers, after all, we have released several singles before, and the sound sources of the songs have been made public... I really appreciate fans’ support for xo. We will work harder to become a better exo, Kang Sang Mida.”
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Chi Jingyuan said it very sincerely, and he was indeed very surprised by the sales volume.
Since the pre-sale channel was opened a few days ago, in just over three days, the pre-sale figures for all versions combined have been close to 800,000. There are still nearly ten hours until the official release, and there will definitely be more sales by then. Go up a little.
This number also shocked countless people who were watching in the circle. They must know that this is a regular album, and it is a regular album in which most of the songs have been released long ago.
"So what are your expectations for this sales volume now?"
"Well, I have no expectations. It's already great."
Chi Jingyuan waved his hands with a smile, not craving for more.
In fact, when their members saw this pre-sale figure and discussed it privately, they very much hoped to achieve sales of more than one million single album this time.
Although EXO has achieved this achievement in the past two years, it has only reached this number through the accumulation of the first and the subsequent. Although it is still considered a million, the gold content will appear to be slightly weaker.
They have really never achieved a million-dollar single album, and the rest of the music industry need not even think about it. Now only EXO can even hope to achieve this achievement.
"Among the ten songs on this album, which one do the members like the most?"
""Boy with luv", because it's very popular, haha..."
"I like "Call Me Baby", I especially love the styling in it."
"..."
"What about Yuan?"
"As for me, I like them all, haha... If I have to choose one, then I would choose "If You" which has not been released yet. I like the melody, atmosphere and feeling of this song very much."
"Hahaha, then I choose "exodus". Everyone must remember to listen to it tonight."
"Please look forward to exo's album released tonight, "exo-l", Kang Sang Mita!"
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At 12 o'clock in the evening, SM released the ten songs from EXO's regular second album on time, including all the sound sources, including the remix versions of several of them. Those songs that had previously dropped in ranking or dropped out of the list have all returned to the list. Looking at most of the music charts from top to bottom, the singer's column is particularly eye-catching.
