The next day, while eating out with the members of Team K, Chi Jingyuan took out his vibrating phone and took a look at it just after ordering and waiting for the food to be served.
It was a message sent by Bae Zhuhyun. When I opened it, there were four words "Jeue" at the top.
Looking back, the following is a photo that was sent at the same time. On it, Bae Joo Hyun, Kang Seulgi, and Son Seungwan are all wearing loose sportswear, and each poses some of Ji Kyung Won's poses in the "dope" MV.
part action.
Bae Joo Hyun smiled and tilted her head, Kang Seulgi compared her hands to shooting a gun, and Son Seungwan was the funniest, with an exaggerated expression and a wrinkled face, and crossed his hands in front of his chest in a special rapper pose.
I knew he was imitating Chi Jingyuan's way of rapping.
I don’t know how many times they have watched the MV and stage of "Dope", but does Son Seungwan know that her expression is ugly...
The expressions of the three of them looking at the camera were all funny, but it seemed like they were all smiling happily. I just didn't know who took the photo of them.
"Haha..." Chi Jingyuan couldn't help laughing after seeing it.
Thinking of what Jiang Seulqi had told him about their recent situation, Chi Kyungwon raised his eyes and pondered for two seconds, stood up and said to the members, "Make a call, I'll be right back." Then he walked out of the box and dialed Bae Zhuhyun's number.
.
The phone clicked and was quickly connected.
"Hey..." Pei Zhuhyun's voice came from the phone, a little hoarse, and his voice didn't sound very energetic, but there was a hint of surprise.
"Zhu Hyun xi." Chi Jingyuan shouted.
"Within." Pei Zhuhyun made two twists in the pronunciation of the word "inside." She seemed to be in a good mood.
"I saw the photo you just sent me. Thank you for your support..."
After Chi Jingyuan came out of the box, he looked around and found an empty window. At the same time, he said to the phone: "It's just that you have some idol baggage. Why can such funny photos be taken so well?"
nice?"
"puff……"
A crisp laugh came, and after a dull moment, her tone became a little bit laughable: "Guess, there's a little bit, hahaha..."
She laughed to herself before she finished speaking, and she didn't know whether it was because she was really burdened or because she was happy to be praised.
Listening to the other party's smile, Chi Jingyuan also smiled and held the phone without speaking. He waited until her laughter subsided a little before asking: "Have you eaten?"
"Well, I just returned to the company after eating. After taking a rest, I will prepare to start the afternoon practice." Pei Zhuxuan replied briskly with a summary and a smile.
After exchanging a few simple greetings and looking at the street outside through the window, Chi Jingyuan thought for a while and then spoke softly:
"I heard from Seulgi that the preparatory team for the girl group project works hard every day and is under a lot of pressure... How are you, seniors?"
Hearing his question, Bae Zhuhyun seemed to be choked by something. There was obvious silence for a few seconds on the phone, as if he was hesitating.
"I feel... I'm a little guilty..." After a few seconds, she spoke slowly, and her relaxed tone unknowingly carried a touch of sourness.
"Yeah." Chi Jingyuan responded...
"..." After being quiet for a few seconds, as if she felt Chi Jingyuan's concern, and as if she really wanted to find someone to talk to, she pursed her lips and finally sighed, and began to ramble.
Got up:
"My ranking dropped in the end-of-month assessment last month. I have been practicing very hard and have to stay in the practice room for fifteen or six hours every day..."
"I am the oldest among all the trainees in the preparatory group, and some of them were actually born in 1999... I don't know how the company arranges this age difference. Can we really debut together when we are so much older? Sometimes
I felt quite awkward when practicing with them..."
"I'm very tired and stressed every day. Sometimes I wonder if it would be better to just relax a little bit..."
"..."
Pei Zhuhyun couldn't hold it in as soon as she opened her mouth. It was obvious that she had been very hard and depressed during this period. She had been depressed in her heart for a long time, and the suffocation was always held in her chest.
At this time, in the face of Chi Jingyuan's active questioning, I finally had a way to vent, and talked a lot.
She obviously hasn't organized her language well, her expression of meaning and word order are a bit messy, she seems to just say whatever comes to mind.
From her tone and somewhat agitated mood, it seemed that she was really under a lot of pressure.
After all, this is almost her last chance in SM. If she can't be selected for this girl group project, she will either choose another path, go back to school or become a backup dancer, manager, etc., or she will leave SM.
Try another company.
Chi Jingyuan didn't interrupt much, and responded from time to time to indicate that he was listening carefully, acting as a qualified observer.
After talking for a while, Pei Zhuxuan's mood seemed to gradually stabilize, and he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed after venting his worries.
At the same time, she realized that she had just thrown so much rubbish at the other party. She suddenly felt a little shy and hesitated: "I...did I say a little too much?"
"It's true that there are quite a lot. I didn't expect that senior can really pretend to be something."
Chi Jingyuan chuckled and glanced at a flashy sports car speeding by on the road below. Without waiting for the other party to respond, he added in a relaxed tone: "But actually, I can say more next time..."
"Anyway, I happen to be free."
Hearing the smile in the other party's words, Pei Zhuxuan felt at ease. She felt that some emotions were constantly surging in her heart. She held the phone and didn't know how to reply.
She pursed her lips and said softly: "Guilty."
"Okay, senior, let's talk to you next time. I won't tell you. They should have already started. If we don't go back, the food will be eaten up..."
"We XO don't have the habit of waiting for people to eat. I have suffered losses several times..."
Chi Jingyuan laughed, closed the window and walked back, talking casually, and gave the other party a final cheer when he was approaching the door:
"Joohyunxi,fighitng!"
After he turned the doorknob, a soft but firm voice came from the phone:
"Hey, I can do it...and so can you."
hang up.
When he opened the door, Chi Jingyuan saw at a glance that the members were scrambling to eat the dishes that had not been served for a long time. Everyone moved so quickly.
"I told you I'd be back soon, just wait for me." Chi Jingyuan looked bitter and couldn't help but complain.
"Your 'immediately' is really fast..."
Wu Shixun puffed out his cheeks and hadn't yet swallowed the food in his mouth. He looked up at Chi Jingyuan and waved: "Come and eat quickly. Don't waste time. We have something to do later."
"I'll hold you to death." Chi Jingyuan quickly ran back to his seat and grabbed it with chopsticks.
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"The ranking of "dope" has begun to fall."
In the nanny's car, Do Kyung-soo, who was looking at the music charts on his mobile phone, frowned.
Today is May 10th, two days have passed since the release of the sound source and the first stage broadcast. After two days of fermentation, "dope"'s performance on the sound source chart was a bit unsatisfactory, and its ranking began to slowly decline.
"The prelude is a dance song, so it's normal."
Park Chanyeol glanced at him: "You don't expect us to win the championship first, do you?"
"That's not true... I just feel..." Do Kyung-soo shook his head, not knowing what to say.
The sound source performance of a song basically depends on two aspects, explosiveness and staying power.
The sound source of "dope" has exploded very fiercely, and the best proof is that it topped the real-time charts just after it was released.
But given EXO's current popularity and huge fan base, this is a very normal result and an expected situation.
After all, with their current popularity, even if they post a variation of the nursery rhyme "The Three Little Bears", they will probably be able to get away with it.
It would be abnormal for EXO to not be able to leave one song alone when releasing a song as a large group.
It's just similar to the previous "Wolf", but the sound source power of the lead song "Dope" began to show its shortcomings. On the third day, it had already fallen to fourth place, and looking at its daily listening and download trends
, if there are no accidents, it will continue to fall.
It is impossible to win the weekly top spot on the melon chart with this trend.
Judging from its stamina, "dope", which has been released for three days, cannot compare to "some", which has been released for more than two months.
"Some" just dropped from the number one spot on the weekly charts a few days ago. Before that, this song had already topped Melon for eight weeks, which is an astonishing music performance.
Melon ranked first for 51 consecutive days.
The genie ranking has been ranked first for 720 consecutive hours. Among all songs in the first half of the year, it is firmly ranked first in the comprehensive ranking that adds up the number of online plays and downloads.
The second after "some" is the theme song of the Hollywood cartoon "let it go", and the third is "Friday Meet" released by IU at the end of last year.
In addition to this data, "some" also has an interesting achievement.
It is the song that ranks first...second and third among all songs in "Music Bank" in the first half of this year.
It's all it.
The sound source of "some" is so excellent that even Chi Jingyuan himself did not expect it, which can be regarded as an unexpected surprise.
But there is nothing Chi Jingyuan can do about the current decline of "dope".
This is also a common feature of kpop dance music. Taking into account the rhythm and explosive power of the stage, it is difficult to ensure the popularity and popularity of the song. At the same time, it occasionally adds some new concepts or tries some unique styles.
Therefore, the male band's music performance has always been somewhat unsatisfactory. If it can take care of both, it can be called a divine song.
However, he didn’t expect the sound source of “dope” to be that good, and the song itself didn’t win with the sound source.
"Everyone expected that there would be nothing to say about the music source. It was a normal decline...but the YouTube views of our song MV were surprisingly high. It had already exceeded 10 million views in less than three days...jinjia's growth
Speed, is this a record?"
Kim Junmyeon was also browsing YouTube on his mobile phone. When he saw the number of clicks on the "dope" MV, he looked up in surprise and asked.
"Is it so fast? I remember that the MV for "Wolf" I watched last month had more than 30 million views, and the most popular "Roar" only had more than 50 million views. This is already the highest number of views among all our MVs.
One."
Park Chanyeol was very surprised when he heard this. He quickly took out his mobile phone and checked while saying: "And "Roar" has been released for 8 months, right? "Dope" has sold 10 million in less than three days?"
I hadn't paid much attention to these other data before and had been staring at the music charts. Hearing this, Chi Jingyuan also took out his phone and browsed YouTube.
Most of the MV videos of Kpop idols are uploaded to YouTube, that is, YouTube. The number of MV or stage video clicks on YouTube, although not as important and critical as the two indicators of sales and audio source, is also a measure of an idol group.
A relatively intuitive data of pan-popularity.
Currently, among all the idol groups in Peninsula, the single MV has the highest number of views on YouTube, which is over 100 million. There are very few idols at this level, basically only Girls' Generation's "Gee" and Big Bang's "Pokémon".
Let’s not talk about the vague ones. The number of MV views of most other popular idols remains at the level of tens of millions.
EXO's currently most viewed song "Roar" has reached 56 million as of yesterday, followed by "Wolf" with 35 million.
Their YouTube data is not vague, but it cannot be said to be very good. At least compared to EXO's popularity and other data, it can be said that there are some shortcomings, and it is still a little behind the top groups.
Among idols, the fastest MV to hit 10 million views was Girls' Generation's "The Boys" in 2011, which took 110 hours.
This record remained for two years, and two years later, Girls' Generation broke their own record with "I Got a Boy" reaching 10 million views in 55 hours.
This speed has not been surpassed by idols so far, but Chi Jingyuan feels that based on the current situation, the speed of "dope" does not seem to be much weaker than the former, but it is still necessary to make detailed statistics on the time.
"It really broke the record for the fastest 10 million clicks."
At this time, Li Chenghuan, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, heard the discussion and turned around to join in: "The company made statistics in the morning. It took a total of 51 hours for the "dope" MV to reach 10 million views on YouTube, which is a breakthrough
It broke Girls’ Generation’s record of 55 hours.”
"The number of clicks on this song's MV is still growing very fast, which proves that we shot the MV for "dope" really well."
"jinjia?"
Although it is not a very important record, it still makes the members feel a lot better.
"Inside……"
Li Chenghuan nodded and added with some confusion:
"And according to the data on YouTube and the company's statistics, a considerable part of the MV clicks for the song "Dope" on YouTube are not contributed by local people in the peninsula, nor are they from Xiaguo Southeast Asia, where we often work.
Audiences from Asian countries, many of whom come from overseas, Europe and the United States, account for at least one-third of the 10 million clicks."
"Brother, aren't we EXO also famous in Europe and the United States? Ha, don't you consider holding two shows in LA for that tour?" After hearing this, Park Chanyeol laughed cheerfully and made a joke,
"Hahaha..." The members laughed one after another, and Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but shake his head.
None of them took it seriously and did not pay too much attention to this information.
The data of YouTube clicks is not important, but in fact it is not bad. It is a place to show yourself to fans and audiences in many other countries overseas. It reflects the popularity and popularity of an idol. Since 2013, it has been
Some singing programs use YouTube data as a reference indicator when making ratings.
But speaking of importance, in fact, few current idols, including economic companies, really value this data too much. After all, it is not like sales and music sources, which can directly bring a lot of revenue, and can intuitively reflect a combination.
Good or bad grades.
However, it is obvious that the weight of oil pipeline data has obviously become higher and higher in recent years, especially with the popularity of smartphones, it will definitely become more important by then.
"Ha... it's possible." Li Chenghuan looked back with a smile: "Maybe because "Dope" has become popular overseas, the company will send you to the United States next year."
"And then take the caravan all the way to the road show?"
"Hahaha……"
Kim Jong-in's answer caused everyone to laugh, and everyone could tell who he meant.
So far, among all the Kpop idols, no one has been very successful in becoming a beauty, so they just teased her casually and didn't care.
"That's right, brother."
After laughing for a while, Jin Junmian looked at Li Chenghuan.
"What's wrong?"
"The speed at which "Dope" has exceeded 10 million clicks is considered a record among idols. Where does it rank among all the artists on the Peninsula? Is it still No. 1?" He asked curiously.
"hehe……"
Li Chenghuan smiled helplessly and looked at Kim Junmyeon with a strange look: "I won't mention the number of hits on "Gangnam Style". Suho, go and see for yourself."
"psy's "gentleman" hit 10 million hits in 16 hours and 100 million hits in 80 hours."
He sighed and sighed:
"The reason why the data competition is limited to idols is because this guy is too outrageous."