After the members took a day off, everyone felt a lot more energetic. After the vacation, they returned to the company to start the final preparations before their debut.
On March 31, SM Entertainment released the promotional video for their debut song "Mama" and held the "EXO Debut Showcase" at the Olympic Hall in Seoul Olympic Park on the peninsula. On that day, 3,000 people were selected from 10,000 applicants.
Fans participated, all EXO members appeared, and the host was SJ’s leader Lee Teuk.
3,000 people is already a lot, and many second- and third-tier idol groups in the peninsula may not be able to have so many people come to their concerts. It proves that the company’s early promotion of exo is really successful. A boy group that has not yet debuted has already
Has a lot of fans.
Of course, as a new generation boy group of SM company, it has its own traffic and attracts the attention of the people in the peninsula.
When Chi Jingyuan stood on the stage, he, who had always been calm, was really excited, and his heart was beating very fast.
The densely packed audience below sat together, and when he appeared on the stage, the cheers were deafening, reaching the highest level since the opening, and almost the entire hall echoed the name 'yuan'.
Judging from SM company's internal statistics and distribution of materials, about half of the audience here are his fans. The rest are usually group fans or fans of other members.
The entire showcase lasted about an hour. First, they performed the prelude song "History", then they went up in groups to sing a few songs, and then sat there for interviews. By the way, I watched the video. The process was very simple, but the response was quite good.
At least when Chi Jingyuan went on stage to sing and be interviewed, the shouts from the audience were really loud. The singing voice coming from the speakers was even covered up by the screams.
The atmosphere throughout the whole process was very warm and gave the members and the company a lot of confidence.
After the showcase ended, they had no time to rest at all. They went directly to the airport and took a flight to Xia Country, because there was another show waiting for them the next day.
On April 1st, they held their second "EXO Debut Showcase" in the lecture hall of the Library of Xia Guobj University of International Business and Economics.
The process this time was exactly the same as yesterday. Chi Jingyuan clearly felt that the cheers they received in Xia Kingdom were much warmer than yesterday in the mainland, and he was no longer the only one whose name was often screamed in the audience, m
Several members of the team have a lot of fans, especially Luhan. In this showcase, his number of fans was close to that of Chi Jingyuan.
In general, the response of the two showcases was very good. Both the company's publicity department and the planning department were very satisfied. Exo-m, which specializes in the Xiaguo market, received a warm welcome, and Luhan, the main promoter, was also very popular.
Gao, some of the resources and advertisements invested in Xia Guo have paid off, and many program invitations are pouring in.
The exo-k team, which specializes in the local market, has also received a lot of attention, but the problems are also obvious.
At present, most of the attention of the entire exo-k team is basically brought by Ji Kyung-won, and he has the most fans. The other five people combined are not as many as him. However, Kim Jong-in, the main promoter of the company,
Far from meeting the company's expectations, his exposure rate is much greater than that of others, but he has not received much attention. He is not popular among the team, and he has even been attacked by many fans of Chi Jingyuan because of his excessive debut videos.
However, these are all problems before their debut. The real results will have to wait until exo officially debuts and the title song "mama" is released to see how much help it can bring to the group.
No matter how much a group promotes, they must eventually return to the carrier of songs. Even if their personal charm is really strong, they must rely on carriers to spread their charm and let the audience feel it.
Time passed very quickly, and April 7th arrived in the blink of an eye.
Tomorrow is the day of debut, and the members didn’t have much time to practice today. Several members of the exo-k team were sitting in the practice room, chatting sporadically.
Team exo-m has left early and taken a flight to Xia Kingdom. They will officially debut at Xia Kingdom’s annual music chart ceremony tomorrow, while Team K will officially debut at SBS Inkigayo at the same time.
Two units of a group debuted at the same time, specializing in the markets of two countries. I have to say that this kind of initiative has really attracted a lot of attention to exo, and so far, the effect of this type of unit is also very good.
I have to say that because the debut is approaching, the atmosphere in the team has indeed improved a lot. Everyone's expectations are finally coming true. Even those who have always had conflicts can now talk and joke together.
Just like the NBA, as long as we can keep winning, no matter how big the conflict is, it can be alleviated.
After chatting happily for a few words, team leader Jin Junmian couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up and clapped his hands and asked everyone to continue practicing for tomorrow's stage. Everyone had nothing to say and got up to continue practicing.
There was no practice in the evening. After dinner, they returned to their newly moved dormitories.
Some time ago, they had moved out of the trainee dormitory and moved into a new dormitory. It was a large suite in an apartment building in Cheongdamdong near the company. There were five bedrooms in total, three people per room, and the remaining
One is a broker.
After the reassignment, Ji Kyung-won, Do Kyung-soo and Oh Se-hun lived in one room, while Kim Jun-myeon moved in with Kim Jong-in and Park Chan-yeol. Currently, the M team has gone to Ha country, so the dormitory seems quite spacious.
"Go to bed early today. Even if you have insomnia, you must let yourself rest. I will go to the beauty salon early tomorrow morning, and then I will go to SBS to record the program." Manager Lee Seung-hyun said about tomorrow's schedule, and finally clapped his hands and blessed with a smile:
"Okay, I wish you all a smooth debut tomorrow, exo will be great!"
"EXO Dafa!" several members shouted, thanked and saluted, and then dispersed.
Chi Jingyuan didn't know about the others, but he himself was really a little insomniac. He lay on the bed with his eyes open and kept looking at the moon outside the window, and his thoughts were disorganized.
Although he had the idea of becoming an artist very early on, due to his family's rejection, he didn't realize it until some time ago. To be honest, he was not mentally prepared to suddenly join SM and join a boy band.
However, he persevered and came to the eve of his debut. During this period, he was indeed very hard, and he, who has always been pampered, finally managed to resist.
But this is all his own choice, and the things he does are all of interest to him, and he enjoys them.
‘Hope everything goes well’.
He looked at the moon outside the window and made a wish in his heart.
