N-M Chapter 968 Hot and Preview
Chapter 968 Hot and Preview
Chapter 968 Hot and Preview
Chi Jingyuan's personal variety show lasted only about thirty minutes in total. Soon, the video, which attracted much more attention than ordinary idol personal variety shows, ended.
However, the reviews of this highly anticipated variety show were not all positive. Some passers-by who had not watched idols’ personal variety shows before but came because of Chi Jingyuan’s name were a little disappointed.
It's not that it's boring...it's just that the expectations were too high, and there weren't many surprises despite its great reputation.
"I'm just a passerby. Why do I feel like it looks a bit ordinary? Nothing exciting. Only the meeting in front is more novel."
"Also, Yuan's solo appearance at the end was quite interesting. People say he doesn't have much variety sense, but I think his words are quite interesting."
"But I have to say that Yuan's status in SM is really high. You can see it from the way other people stopped moving as soon as he started talking during the meeting. Wow, it's really amazing for an idol to be able to do this."
However, there are also many people, especially fans who are very happy to watch:
"Oppa is so handsome, Producer Chi deserves the title."
"Aren't all personal variety shows like this? And isn't it interesting to show you the behind-the-scenes production process? This is much more interesting than those boy bands playing games and acting silly in group variety shows. At the same time, this also proves that this solo album was really made by Yuan himself, and it's not like what those haters said about 'naming it'."
"Although the title song is about a failed relationship, it is a song that makes people want to fall in love? Wow, the suspense Yuan mentioned at the end really touched me, it suits my taste, I really want to listen to the source code right away."
"It was very interesting to watch in the beginning, but at the very end, I suddenly felt a pang in my heart and suddenly got the inspiration to write a song. This was quite sudden. I was worried that Yuan might be in love?"
"How is that possible? I've already said this is a song about a failed love relationship. Given Yuan's conditions, he's going to fail in love? Why do you have to link songwriting to real life experiences? Yuan also wrote 'Cheer Up'. Did he really get the inspiration by yelling 'Cheer Up Baby!' to someone? Can you please stop making random associations?"
After the first episode of the personal variety show was broadcast, the comment section was instantly flooded with good and average reviews. Some liked it and found it very interesting, while others found it boring and the content was the same in a different name.
However, the popularity is clearly increasing. Just two hours after it was aired, the number of clicks exceeded three million... This is terrifying for a 30-minute personal variety show.
Moreover, as time goes by, the number of clicks increases instead of decreases. Because some people praise him while others criticize him, the popularity and discussion are getting higher and higher. As a result, these days, the Peninsula forum is full of discussions about Chi Jingyuan's solo debut, variety shows, and title songs.
There are all kinds of topics, such as "Is this first episode of the variety show not worthy of its name?", "What is Ji Kyung-won's position in SM?", "Is the inspiration for the title song due to a breakup?", "Don't mention that Kenzie is pretty good-looking?", "How much money did Yuan make for Lee Soo-man that he has to lick him like this?"
There are even various eye-catching topics such as "I feel that his face has changed a little, did Yuan have plastic surgery?", "I heard that the pre-sale is very high, so I'm guessing how much Yuan's solo will sell this time", "Predict whether the sales volume can exceed the group", "Will CBX be jealous of him, I'm Bian Baekhyun, I'm vomiting", etc.
No matter what the topic is, as long as it revolves around Chi Jingyuan, there will always be a bunch of people discussing it with great interest, serious or not.
It's fire anyway.
But those idol groups that released songs and returned at the same time were in a miserable situation. Apart from their own fans, almost no one discussed them.
Some fans of returning idols want to chat about their idols' comebacks online, their new songs, new variety shows, their latest fight scenes, and their amazing ending poses, but no one is interested. Even if there are replies, they are all very blunt and mean, making people feel uncomfortable:
"Now everyone is chatting about Yuan. No matter how good or bad the results are, there will be fun to watch. Who has time to pay attention to you XXX?"
"Can you please stop trying to get on the front page? You don't have any sense at all."
'Nobody cares'
These fans who have worked hard for their idols to get more screen time and popularity are now trembling with anger, yet they are powerless to do anything. In the end, they can only complain that the agency is crazy and has to choose this time to let their idols return.
After the first episode of the variety show was broadcast, with the excitement on the Internet and SM releasing some concept photos and photo materials, the effect of publicity and hype was very obvious. The original pre-sale of 150 million in three days had already amazed SM, and after that, the pre-sale orders received by the company continued to grow day by day.
On February 2, it reached 4 million.
On February 2, it reached 5 million.
On February 2, it reached 6 million.
The number of sales is increasing at a rate of hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands almost every day, and the number of pre-sale orders placed every day is a number that other idol groups may not be able to sell in an entire comeback period... or even in their entire idol career.
This growth rate even made some SM employees a little uneasy... Even though they expected Chi Jingyuan's solo to sell well, the hot market was still unexpected. They were worried that something might have gone wrong.
Because the current market size of the peninsula is so small, there has never been a Kpop in history that has sold so many pre-sales. Ji Jingyuan is the first one who can sell this number.
What’s more important is that it’s only pre-sale at the moment, and the sales have reached so high before the song has even been heard, even surpassing the data of the EXO group.
However, as pre-sales increased day by day, as investigations discovered the hot potential of the market, and after checking the order source statistics and finding that more and more orders came from the mainland and overseas, some SM elites finally breathed a sigh of relief and enjoyed the psychological enjoyment brought by the daily surge in numbers.
In addition to the sales in mainland China, which have already somewhat surpassed those in the mainland, the sales in Japan have actually increased a lot in the past few days. After investigation by the marketing staff of SM, it was found that the fans of Japan are now popular with such a statement:
"…The reason why there are Chinese and Korean versions but no Japanese version must be that we did not support Chi-kun enough."
EXO and Ji Jingyuan are not attending Japanese events now and cannot show up. What should they do if they don’t get enough support?
Buy the album. Within a few days, Neon's sales increased by tens of thousands, and even some of its previously released peripheral products and photo albums sold a lot of new products.
The employees at SM looked at each other in bewilderment, and at the same time lamented in their hearts how terrifying Ji Jingyuan was, a member of the disjointed boy group EXO.
Amid such heated discussions and expectations, February 2th arrived in the blink of an eye.
Three days before the official release, SM, like other idols, released a teaser video of the title song "Love Senario" on its official YouTube account as usual.
(End of this chapter)