While Li Hyuk was working on the album, as the chief band under Fantasy Records, Guns N' Roses' first studio album "Girls in the Bloom" was officially released after half a year.
The first wave features "Your Smile", written and composed by Li Hyuk. It quickly topped the new song list on the first day it was released.
At 12 noon on May 31st, "Girls in the Flower Season" was officially launched. In less than two hours, the digital version of the album sold 200,000 copies.
At the same time, physical albums have also begun to be distributed in large quantities and are available in audio and video stores in major cities, and online shopping channels have also been opened.
Since Guns N' Roses came out last year, it has filled the void of a female band in China.
Girl groups are not considered bands, they are idols.
Because of the release of "Girls in the Flower Season", fans discovered for the first time that except for Li Hyuk, everyone had ignored such a great band.
That's right, Li Hyuk was in a band at the beginning, but later he developed independently.
With the release of the album, and with the help of Penguin's vast channel resources, Guns N' Roses began a plan to tour first-tier cities across the country.
In addition to offline tours, the band has also appeared in various variety shows, such as Lu Xiaohan inviting the band to "Run! Brothers", "Almighty Star Wars", "The Voice of Dreams" and other music variety shows.
In fact, I would rather invite Lee Hyuk to these programs, but after the incident in "I Am a Singer", Lee Hyuk is not interested in variety shows for the time being.
In addition to band development, the SHE trio who participated in "Create Girl Group" also passed all the tests and entered the final selection stage.
Yuan Hua originally wanted to cause trouble, but he didn't expect that the three girls not only had excellent professional skills, but were also very popular.
Especially the tomboy, with his straightforward and unpretentious character, is unique among the stereotyped assembly line female team players, becoming the first player to have more than one million fans.
The other two, Hebe and Selina, are also very popular. Hebe has a lot of fans because of her beautiful voice and sweet voice, and she doesn't have any trouble with a certain artist named Tian in this life.
Under such circumstances, even Yuan Hua cannot eliminate the three of them, because Yuan Hua cannot compete with capital flow, and he is also a product of capital flow.
The three girls are very popular. It is enough to get here. Next, Fantasy Records can officially launch SHE.
But at this point, Penguin has some objections.
We spent so much resources to help your people gain popularity, but in the end you just walked away. This is unethical.
Fan Nuoxuan thought about it. After all, Penguin is also the major shareholder and counts as one of its own.
So the two parties negotiated, and Penguin would ensure that all three of SHE would eventually join the women's group. When the group was limited to two years, SHE could act independently.
The conditions are also very simple. It requires technical support from Fantasy Records. As for technical support, it is naturally Li He.
In fact, the limited groups of many talent shows in the past two years are not memorable.
Once the popularity of the show is over, except for the top idol, the rest of the group will be forgotten.
Including the "Created Girl Group", the same is actually true. Many of these 108 contestants are talent show dupes and have participated in other talent shows.
So Penguin hopes that his limited-edition girl group will at least be memorable, and he wants Lee Hyuk to help compose one or two title songs.
The matter of writing songs was very simple for Li Hyuk. After fully soliciting Li Hyuk's opinions, Fan Noxuan agreed.
During the album production, Li Hyuk also took the time to compose a song, "Perfectionism", which was not included in the "Jay" album.
The original version of this song is amazing, Jay Chou sang his name into the song.
Li Hyuk didn't plan to make any changes. Anyway, when he first listened to it, he sounded like Qiu Qianren. He just sang in the same way as Jay Chou and let the fans guess!
It is actually a good thing for "Perfectionism" to be released independently of the album.
Because if it is included in the album, the light of this song will be overshadowed. If it is released as a single, fans' attention will be more focused on this song.
After thinking about it, it seemed that such sincerity was not enough, so Li Hyuk also recorded a studio version of "The Only One" that he sang on the stage of "I Am a Singer", shot the MV and then added it to form an EP.
In addition, the live version audio of all Li Hyuk's live performances is also included to maximize sincerity.
So twenty-four hours after the release of "Girls in Bloom", when the digital album exceeded 700,000 copies, Li Hyuk's "Perfectionism EP" was also officially launched, priced at three yuan.
The price of three yuan is the price of the single "Perfectionism", and other cities can only listen to it if they need VIP.
Because it is only a digital version, it is released on QQ Music.
The launch day happened to be Children's Day. After a dizzying morning of work, Zhou Yawen planned to go out with her colleagues to have something cool to celebrate her 27th birthday.
As a result, as soon as I turned on my phone, I found a big cover on the QQ Music homepage, which was actually Li Hyuk's.
Could it be that Lee Hyuk's new album is coming? Didn't it say November?
With a feeling of surprise, Zhou Yawen clicked in instantly. When she saw the price of three yuan, she knew it was not a new album.
There are also two songs in it, plus nine live versions of the songs, and one of the two songs is a new song.
Zhou Yawen couldn't wait to put on her headphones and planned to take a peek, but her brows furrowed when she heard it. The reason was simple, she couldn't understand "Perfectionism".
Continuing the style of the previous album, Li Hyuk still sings vaguely here, and it is impossible to understand what he is singing without looking at the lyrics.
Obviously Li He can sing very clearly, but Zhou Yawen, who is used to this kind of singing, didn't find it strange if he had to sing like this.
Although this song is strange, but with the even more strange "Lady" and "Indian Old Turtle Dove" in front, it is not so difficult to accept, and it is quite addictive after listening to it a lot.
The only thing that makes Zhou Yawen feel confused is what is Li He singing at the end? Is it Qiu Qianren? Or is it this outstanding person?
I don’t understand…
Not only Zhou Yawen couldn't figure it out, but the fans who bought the EP at the same time also couldn't figure out what Li Hyuk was singing at the end.
However, in the MV, Li Hyuk also showed off his ability to play two pianos, which made fans call him 666. The filming of the MV was also very weird, and it was completely unclear what story was being told, which made netizens look confused.
Compared with this song, "Only" seems much more normal. At least everyone can understand it, and the melody is also very beautiful. The live version performed by Li Hyuk is very moving, and the studio version is not bad either.
Although "Perfectionism" made many fans complain, after all, not everyone can accept this style of music.
But fans still give the greatest support to Li Hyuk’s EP, and three yuan is not expensive anyway.
After going online, EP sales exceeded one million in less than ten minutes and are still rising.
At first glance, it seems that Li Hyuk's EP is not as popular as Yuan Hua's single "Just Because You Are So Beautiful" released last year. After all, it sold more than 30 million.
But the sales data can be brushed, but Fantasy Records doesn't bother to brush the data.
Ask Yuan Hua, among the more than 30 million, apart from the fans and the ones purchased by the brokerage company for the purpose of data brushing, how many passers-by bought it?
Li Hyuk is different. He has fans, but fans call themselves fans. In addition, Li Hyuk's popularity with the public is also very good. Although he is not a fan of Li Hyuk, everyone still likes Li Hyuk's music.
Therefore, Li Hyuk’s EP sales data is very real, which is why no media makes an argument that the sales volume of the "Perfectionism" EP is not as good as that of "Just Because You Are So Beautiful".
There is no need to say anything that everyone already knows.