Peninsula Asteroid

"Nai, Jing Yuan, there is a collaboration stage that requires members of Team K to join, do you have time recently?"

Li Chenghuan got straight to the point and asked a question.

He is EXO's main manager, and he worked with Chi Kyung-won for a while before, but after Park Jae-hyun joined the job, he stopped following Chi Kyung-won. He is full-time in the management of the EXO team.

Now Chi Jingyuan's personal itinerary is directly connected between the company and Park Jae-hyun. Lee Seung-hwan is not very clear about Chi Jingyuan's schedule. He can definitely find out when he goes to the company to ask, but it is faster to call him directly.

"Uh... huh..."

Chi Jingyuan chewed a few times, swallowed the hamburger forcefully, and asked after a long sigh of relief: "What cooperation stage?"

"It's MBC's New Year's special on January 1 next year. The theme is romantic fantasy. There is a special stage for Girls' Generation's comeback. I want to cooperate with Team K. There will be three people on each side. The song has already been selected. "Marry you 》, I have communicated with my manager when I was young, and their first choice is you, the other two don’t matter whoever they are.”

Lee Seung-hwan gave a brief introduction, and then went on to say: "This stage needs to take three to four days to practice at night, because everyone is very busy at the end of the year, and there is no time at that time. When I was young, I only had time to practice in these few days. Have you been able to spare some time recently?"

Chi Kyung-won turned on the hands-free after Lee Seung-hwan finished speaking the first sentence, Park Jae-hyun put down the hamburger after listening, wiped his hands, picked up Chi Kyung-won's latest itinerary, looked at it carefully, and shook it at him Shake your head.

"Mi Ah Nei, brother Cheng Huan, I have already packed my schedule for the past few days. The evening is full of pictorial and advertisement shooting, so I may not have enough time for practice."

Chi Jingyuan sighed and refused.

"It's okay, it's fine if you can't spare time, I'll tell the other side, just let the other three children go."

Li Chenghuan didn't care, and finally said something concerned: "Jing Yuan, no matter how busy you are, you should pay attention to rest."

"Nai, I know Brother Chenghuan, Kang Sang Mita."

After exchanging a few casual greetings, the two hung up the phone. Chi Jingyuan took another hamburger and ate it, not taking the news just now seriously.

Of course, the main reason is that he doesn’t have time. On the other hand, he is not very interested in the collaboration stage with Girls’ Generation. Judging from the current popularity and status of both parties, it is a collaboration stage. I guess EXO members used to be backup dancers. of.

The boy's agent wanted him to go, naturally because of his recent popularity, which could raise the topic.

It's a pity that I didn't have the chance this time, but I will definitely next time.

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December 14th is the time for the Melon Music Awards Ceremony, or MMA for short.

MMA can be regarded as one of the four major awards ceremonies in the music industry, and the awards are relatively valuable, and are valued by many people in the music industry.

But this time, except for Chi Jingyuan, no one else from EXO came. The company knew in advance that XO would not win the award, and they couldn't even get the newcomer award, so they didn't let them attend.

And Ji Jingyuan attended the award ceremony with Zheng Eunji because he was shortlisted for the 'Best OST' again.

I have to say that "All for you" is really popular. After the re-arrangement, this song is very popular among young people, and it has also become the most popular OST and male-female duet song this year through the popularity of "Please Answer".

Basically, in the recent award ceremonies, as long as there is an award for the TV drama OST, "All for you" will definitely be shortlisted, and the shortlisted will definitely win the award

Since its release, this song has been at the forefront of the major music charts, and has never dropped out of the top ten on the Melon chart. According to this trend, when the time comes to count the rankings of the annual charts, it must be in the top five, or even the top ten. Possibly into the top three.

The first is hopeless, no one can beat "Gangnam Style" this year.

As expected this time, the 'Best OST Award' was firmly taken over by Chi Jingyuan and Zheng Endi.

The award acceptance speech is still the same thing. Chi Jingyuan has said it many times in the past two weeks, and every time he changes the soup, he does not change the medicine.

After receiving the award, Chi Jingyuan left the stage. This time, he didn't have a stage either, so he just watched the entire award ceremony.

Needless to say, the song of the year, one of the last big awards, was taken away by PSY. "Gangnam Style" is really popular this year, especially in Europe and America, which has led the trend for quite a while, and the peninsula is a relatively popular song. In European and American countries, it is unusual for PSY not to win an award.

The artist of the year was given to the boy group beast. They have won the MMA Artist of the Year Award for two consecutive years. They are one of the hottest boy groups in recent years with a large number of fans.

But there is a problem I have to say, beast, as the second consecutive MMA awards, the most popular top boy group in the past two years, their album sales are not as good as EXO.

Whether it was the first official album "Fiction and Fact" released last year and the hit song "fiction", or the fifth fan album "Midnight Sun" released in July this year, the sales of all of them were all surpassed by the rookie group EXO who just debuted this year. exploded.

As of December 2012, beast's two albums sold 150,000 and 140,000 copies respectively, while EXO's debut album "MAMA" has exceeded 230,000 copies.

Obviously the popularity of the two boy bands is quite different now, but this comparison in sales also reflects some very interesting questions.

At the same time, it also shows that among all EXO fans, the proportion of die-hard fans who are willing to spend money on their idols and buy albums with real money is much larger than that of other boy groups.

The purchasing power of these die-hard fans is too strong.

It is worth mentioning that this year’s MMA Newcomer Award was given to Ailee and B.A.P. The former is a solo female singer, and the latter B.A.P is a new boy group that debuted in January this year, which is barely in the same period as EXO, which debuted in April.

Chi Jingyuan remembers clearly that in the first few months when EXO debuted and were very unhappy and ridiculed by the crowd, he was the most scolded on the Internet and made all kinds of negative comments on the forum every day, except for those from his own company. In addition to the fans of several senior groups, the most fans are B.A.P and NU'EST, which debuted in March at the same time.

During that time, fans of these boy groups directly regarded EXO as soft persimmons. They would mock EXO when they had nothing to do, and scolded them with words such as "the ugliest group," the most money-losing boy group, "disband quickly," and so on. Very happy.

However, with the popularity of Chi Jingyuan in recent months, EXO has gradually gained momentum, and fewer people have criticized it.

By now, the situation of several boy groups that debuted this year has almost been determined. Let’s wait and see who wins and who loses next year.