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Chapter 830 New Station 1
Chapter 830 New Station
Carrying the huge popularity and broad expectations of the EXO group, the sub-group CBX officially released the mini album "Hey, Mama!" at midnight, revealing five songs including the title song "Hey Mama!".
Fans have naturally been waiting for a long time, and so have many passers-by. Under the huge popularity, after the major rankings were refreshed an hour later, CBX's five new songs all entered the top ten of major real-time charts. The title song "hey mama!" also directly occupied the first place on five music charts including Melon, directly squeezing out the previously arrogant "TT".
It is hard to imagine other male groups, and even female groups only have two songs in a whole year to achieve Kong Yi's achievement. It does not seem to be a difficult task for a group with such a large number of fans as EXO, and the same seems to be true for EXO's sub-groups.
Seeing such outstanding airborne results, the Ailis were naturally overjoyed. As soon as the airborne rankings came out, they began to celebrate with gongs and drums.
Some fans are extremely excited to announce that from today Kpop will officially enter the era of EXO, because 'normally EXO only returns twice a year, and other groups only return twice, but now there are sub-groups, and other groups have to return from the beginning of the year to the end of the year for twelve months...'
Especially recently, Twice's "TT" has been a complete trend, and "hey mama!" directly squeezed "TT" out of the top spot, making many A.R.I.P.s who have always been unhappy with Twice, or mainly unhappy with Lim Nayeon, feel very happy, and they have been making sarcastic comments on forums and even under JYP's INS.
Comments like "bullying Lim Nayeon", "ugly girl drags down the grades", and "you can only act cute if you don't have any talent" are endless.
I don’t know if some people’s rabbit teeth were broken after seeing this.
However, before the fans could get excited for too long, the number of listeners of "Hey Mama!" began to drop significantly just over an hour after the chart was updated, and the rankings of the five songs in the entire album began to decline continuously on the music chart.
By dawn, "Hey Mama!" had dropped to fifth place.
The decline was so fast that people couldn't react. Some fans who went to bed after seeing the sudden drop in results thought they had seen it wrong when they woke up in the morning.
Why is it falling so fast?
what's the situation?
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"Naomu naomu naomu~ Naomu naomu naomu~"
A burst of out-of-tune laughter lingered in Twice's nanny car.
It is now the 27th and it is almost midnight. They have been busy all day, promoting their songs and recording variety shows. They just came out of KBS and now have to rush to another TV station to participate in the recording of a radio program.
Although they have been extremely busy every day since their comeback, the visible growth in popularity and the group's obvious momentum have made every member happy to do it. Although they are very tired, they are all very energetic.
Everyone was tired after a day's work and it was so late, but Lim Nayeon was still chattering energetically in the car. When she was chatting excitedly, she even hummed "Nao Mu Nao Mu Nao Mu". After she sang a few lines, Park Ji-hyo and a few others also followed her. Even Hirai Momo, who had a cold, followed with her hoarse and vague electronic music.
The noise caused the car to become chaotic in an instant, and it left behind a lot of noisy echoes as it whizzed past.
This is the title song of IOI, one of their biggest competitors now. The fact that they can sing this song, which was almost their title song, so nonchalantly and boldly shows that the Twcie members are in a really good mood at the moment.
After a burst of excitement, after all, it was a busy day. Several people were a little tired and became a little quieter. Park Ji Hyo seemed to remember something. She took out her phone and tapped it twice, then looked at the screen and clicked her tongue: "The source of "Hey, Mama!" has fallen back one place again. It's now 13th. It didn't even make the top ten on the first day's daily chart. Tsk tsk..."
She spoke very quickly, and her tone was obviously filled with joy.
In the past few days, many popular first-line groups in the music industry have returned, and the fans of each group have been fighting each other for a long time. Twice's fans and IOI's fans have been fighting each other for a long time, and some of the more radical ones are about to become new enemies.
Fans of several groups that are about to make a comeback are constantly fanning the flames, while promoting and building momentum for their own idols. There is also AIRY who has always maintained an arrogant attitude, as if she looks down on everyone and as if as long as her own sub-group debuts there will be absolutely no rivals. The entire music industry seems very lively.
They actually know about the disputes between fans.
In fact, even if there is no quarrel between fans, the market of the Korean music industry is so small that releasing songs at the same time can be considered as competition.
The outside world predicts that during this period of time, Twice and IOI will be tied, and then EXO's sub-group will debut with the huge popularity of TOP boy group and crush everything.
Not only did many people predict this, but many people in Twice themselves actually thought so.
But now it seems that things are a little different from what I expected...
"Ah? Let me see."
When Lin Nayeon heard this, she immediately got an idea and took out her phone to log into Melon. When she found it, her eyes lit up: "Wow, another one has been eliminated, great!"
Her eyes were shining and her expression was as happy as if she had secretly eaten a mango two days ago.
Lim Nayeon doesn’t hate EXO, not to mention that this is the group that Di Guang is in... Just through two collaboration performances, she and several members of XO are acquainted, and as a junior, she actually admires this TOP group that everyone looks up to.
But she really hates EXO's fans. This group of people have been scolding her for who knows how long since that incident last year. They scolded her when she made a comeback and when she took a break. Whenever there is news about Twice, you can see EXO's team building in the comment section below.
In the past two days, she has seen countless messages from EXO fans asking for the sub-group to debut, "teaching Twice a lesson", "bullying Lim Nayeon", etc. As for other attacks on appearance and insults to personality, there are countless of them.
The A.R.M. group is now the biggest evil force in the Peninsula music scene, and they are rampant and overbearing. Even though Twice's popularity has skyrocketed and its number of fans has increased, compared with A.R.M.... Alas, they are still not in the same league.
She didn't know how angry she was when she saw those messages these past two days, but there was nothing she could do except keep it in her heart... and now that CBX's debut performance was not good, she instantly felt like she had slapped those black fans in the face.
"Wow, you have no idea how worried I was when I found out we were going to collide with EXO's sub-unit. I was distracted last night when I was recording the show because I wanted to see the response and source of the song after CBX released it..." Park Jihyo patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's finally getting better now."
"I listened to CBX's title song, and it didn't sound like anything special. It's still in the style of XO... but I feel it's much worse than EXO's title song."
"The reviews online are similar. I saw many XO fans saying it was average, and the look seemed to have been criticized as well."
"This XO team seems to be a bit of a failure... It feels a little different from what I imagined."
The members next to them also started discussing the group one after another, and it was obvious that they were all very concerned about CBX's debut.
"EXO's popularity and achievements are indeed amazing. They are undoubtedly the top boy group of this generation, and their achievements are far superior to all other boy and girl groups in the peninsula."
Hearing their discussion, the manager sitting in the passenger seat also became interested and turned around to join in, saying with a very understanding look: "But don't be fooled by XO's explosive popularity and huge fan base. In fact, this group is actually quite abnormal in terms of popularity."
"XO's popularity has been very uneven since their debut. At that time, they were divided into two teams, K and M. Yuan was the most popular in both the K team and the main team. This was actually completely beyond SM's expectations, because Yuan joined the group temporarily at that time, and SM didn't even want to promote him. The C position officially promoted by SM was actually Kai."
"However, EXO's debut was not smooth at the time and did not meet the initial expectations. Yuan was the only popular member of the K team, so SM just let it go."
As soon as the agent spoke, the girls quieted down and watched the agent talk with great interest:
"It was only after the success of Reply 1997 and Roar that Yuan's popularity grew and he became the most popular member of the team..."
"And the member Yuan..."
The agent hesitated for a moment, and said in a complicated tone, "You may have heard that some of the company's usual management methods are not very suitable for him...
Lin Nayeon and a few others blinked. Although the agent did not explain in detail, they certainly understood what it meant.
There are many ways for a company to balance the popularity of team members, such as not giving you parts in songs, or giving you very few parts, your makeup and styling are not as good as other members', your stage costumes are not as eye-catching as others, not giving you personal exposure resources, etc.
And Chi Jingyuan...
"So the popularity of EXO as a whole is somewhat out of SM's control."
The manager shrugged and sighed, "At this point, with the majority of fans being only one member, according to our estimates, more than one-third to nearly half of the fans and popularity of the entire EXO group are on Yuan alone. You have to know that EXO is a TOP group with such a huge fan base and it's a nine-member group, so this is an exaggerated proportion.
But it is unhealthy for a group to have most of its popularity concentrated on one member, especially when the disparity is so great.”
“So CBX is called EXO’s sub-group. If Yuan didn’t participate in the abnormal distribution of the group’s popularity, then they would just be using the name of XO. It looks like they have a lot of momentum, but in fact, the fans of other members don’t really support them. Their songs aren’t very good either, so it’s natural that their performance is not good… If the sub-group changes a few people, such as those in the XO popular line, or if Yuan is still there, then you can see what happens.”
The agent, who had been in the industry for many years and was already familiar with many things, shook his head, clicked his tongue, and said something back:
“If you ask me, even though SM doesn’t seem to care much about it, the performance of CBX may not be as good as Jeongyeon and Yuanxi’s subway song… The song is actually not very important. After all, most fans are still chasing after the person~”
The agent's words made the nanny car a little quiet. What he said about EXO's situation did make Twice feel very interesting, but as they listened, some members inexplicably associated it with themselves.
It might be true that EXO’s popularity distribution is very distorted... but Twice’s wealth gap is actually quite large.
“By the way, Jeongyeon, is your collaboration song going to be announced tomorrow?”
Lin Nayeon suddenly remembered something and broke the quiet atmosphere to look at Yu Jeongyeon who was playing with her phone and didn't say much.
As soon as she spoke, several people nearby also looked over...
Since the news was made public, many members of Twice have been paying close attention to this collaboration with Jeongyeon. Firstly, Jeongyeon is the first member of Twice to collaborate with idols from other companies, and secondly, the partner is Ji Kyung-won...
In addition, after Yu Jeongyeon came back, she often talked about some interesting things during the collaboration in private, and many members were curious about what this collaboration song would be like...
There are also some special reasons... Yu Jeongyeon's popularity in the Twice team has always been average. She can't be considered very popular, but she is also in the lower middle circle. Some kids want to see if there will be any changes in her popularity after this collaboration.
No one who debuts as an idol wants to remain unpopular and be content to be a backup dancer for their teammates.
"Yes."
Yu Jeongyeon looked up from her phone, and no one knew what she was looking at, but a smile still remained on her face.
She looked at Lin Nayeon, nodded, and replied:
"It was originally supposed to be released a few days ago, but Jingyuan Oppa said there was a problem with the advertising company, so it was postponed for three days."
After thinking for a moment, she added, "But it's not the midnight release that the group usually does when they come back. For SM's subway songs, they usually won't be released until 6pm."
"Hmm, I see..."
Lin Nayeon responded first, then saw Yu Jeongyeon lower her head to look at her phone after she finished speaking. She rolled her eyes and leaned over: "What are you doing? You keep looking at it..."
"I'm chatting with Jingyuan Oppa and the others."
Yu Jeongyeon typed quickly on the screen with both hands, and after sending it out, she chuckled and moved the screen to Lin Nayeon: "The four of us who participated in the collaboration have a chat group created by Seulgi, and we all happen to be here right now...ha~"
"What are you so happy talking about?"
Lin Nayeon muttered and turned her head to look over, and even Park Ji-hyo in the back seat stood up and poked her head out of curiosity.
"It's just a chat. Jingyuan Oppa asked me when I would be free. If the collaboration song performs well, we can go out and have some fun together, sing a song together or something..."
Yu Jeongyeon scrolled up the chat history: "Then Sehun oppa asked, 'What if the grades are not good? What if I can't even see the taillights of the car that Jeongyeon and her friends Twice's "TT" are outdone?'"
"So what did he say?" Lin Nayeon stared at the screen and asked.
“Kyungwon oppa didn’t say anything…” Yu Jeongyeon couldn’t help but laugh: “He secretly asked Seulgi unni for permission and directly banned Sehun oppa and changed his label. Look…”
Lin Nayeon looked at where Yu Jeongyeon pointed and read it out loud. As she read it, she burst into laughter: "Betrayer/Twice's tenth member, hahahaha..."
“How can you be so childish~” After collapsing on Yu Jeongyeon’s body with laughter, Lin Nayeon finally stood up and patted her little sister gently, laughing and complaining.
"Now we are guessing what position Melon will be in after the subway song is released tomorrow, and what position it will be in the daily chart on the first day," said Yu Jeongyeon, pulling the chat interface back.
"How much did you all guess?"
Park Ji-hyo who was behind took a few glances and asked curiously.
“Seulgi unnie guessed the top ten, Kyungwon oppa guessed third, and Sehun oppa guessed not in, haha…” Yu Jeongyeon said and couldn’t help laughing again. She felt that it was really fun to be friends and chat with these oppa unnies.
"What's your guess?"
"I guess it's the first place~" Yu Jeongyeon pursed her lips and said, "After all, it's a collaboration between the four of us. Jingyuan Oppa, Sehun Oppa and they are really popular... and the quality of this song is really good. I really, really like it.
She used the word "qingjia" several times in a row, and the importance she expressed in her tone was evident.
“Oh…” Lim Nayeon nodded in approval at first, then seemed to remember something, her expression immediately changed, her eyes widened, and she looked over angrily: “Okay, Yu Jeongyeon, if your collaboration song is number one on the daily chart, then our “TT” will be squeezed out, right? Ah, so you’re a traitor too!”
"Ah ah ah..."
Lin Nayeon frowned, her hands clawed at Yu Jeongyeon, scratching her to punish her, and angrily uttered a soul-searching complaint: "Traitor! XO the tenth person!"
"Hahaha……"
With laughter all around, after Yu Jeongyeon couldn't match her childishness and begged for mercy, Lin Nayeon generously let him go, and then continued to look at her chat interface while humming twice: "Didn't you say before that you looked very handsome in the MV of the collaboration song?"
"I want to see how handsome he is..."
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EXO-CBX's performance on the first day of debut was not good. The bad reviews of the songs caught many people off guard. Being directly bullied and crushed by the audio source of the younger girl group "TT" really made many A.R.I.S. feel a little embarrassed, not to mention the fans of Bian Baekhyun and the other two.
However, a split has formed within EXO's huge fan base. Some fans are extremely anxious and keep promoting the group online to help the group improve its stats. But there are also many fans of other members who originally had no feelings about the group because their own favorite members did not make the group. When they saw that CBX did poorly, they not only did not help, but instead watched the fun and made sarcastic remarks.
When it comes to quarrels, Aeryn, as the most powerful fan group in Kpop today, of course quarrels a lot with fans of other groups, and they quarrel all the time.
But the degree of internal division is actually just as great, and may even be worse.
Just when there was a lot of discussion about CBX on the Internet, on the afternoon of October 28th, Peninsula Mercedes @ed Chi Jingyuan's account on its official INS, officially announcing that Yuan became the image ambassador of its AMG series, and also attached a new pictorial and a matching advertising song.
At the same time, SM also announced on its official account that this week's subway song has moved to a new station led by EXO.Yuan. While announcing the information of this week's subway song, it also uploaded the official MV on YouTube.
Many fans heard the news and clicked on the press release. When they saw the song information, their eyes lit up instantly:
"really really" - Yuan, Sehun, SeulGi, JeongYeon
Tomorrow afternoon update
(End of this chapter)