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Chapter 259 The Second Mini Series
"Where is Tao, where is Luhan?"

Lee Seung-hwan glanced at the members and suddenly found that two people were missing, so he couldn't help asking.The members also looked at each other, asking with their eyes if anyone knew where they had gone.

Before Li Chenghuan was ready to find someone, Luhan and Tao trotted over from the side. Seeing this posture, they quickly apologized and quickly stood in the queue.

Seeing this, Lee Seung-hwan didn't say anything, and then directed the members to stand up and prepare to take pictures.

It was a time for rest and celebration just now, and I just won a big award, so it's no big deal to play for a while.

Holding the trophy, the members stood in two rows and took several certification photos and celebration photos. Everyone was smiling happily in front of the camera, and the overflowing joy could completely infect all the audience who saw the photos.

Although I didn't have the excitement of winning the Grand Prix twice before, no one would think too much of the Grand Prix. It is still an extremely happy thing to get the Golden Disc Grand Prix. Chi Jingyuan, who has always been relatively calm In fact, I am very happy.

After taking photos, they packed up their things and prepared to leave. When walking out from the backstage, Chi Jingyuan saw Luhan walking next to him, glanced at him and asked casually: "Where did you run to play just now?" went."

"No fun..."

Luhan first denied it, then looked at Chi Jingyuan, he hesitated, and after two seconds, the voice came out: "I just saw it in the background... I saw Wu Saike, so we chatted with him, after all, we used to practice together It's been so long..."

Although Wu Sai Ke left the company, they have always been in contact with each other, but it has not been very frequent. Today, EXO just presented them with awards, and they chatted with each other when they met backstage.

Luhan knew that there was a conflict between Chi Jingyuan and that person, so he hesitated for a while, wondering whether he should say it or not.

"In this way...they are developing well..."

Chi Jingyuan didn't seem to care about that one at all, but nodded and praised sincerely.

"It's okay."

Luhan also nodded his approval.

"After that day, I thought I would never see him again, but I really didn't expect... To use Xia Wen's words, the world is unpredictable, white clouds and dogs, or another village with dark willows and bright flowers?"

Chi Jingyuan smiled and chatted about Wu, as if he was discussing a friend he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Something like that."

Luhan pursed his lips, and took a look at Chi Jingyuan: "It's fine that you speak well in Xia Wen, but you can even use this idiom?"

"I know more, brother, you just don't know."

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EXO won the Grand Prize in the Golden Disc category, and naturally made headlines on the entertainment page that night. Compared with them, PSY, who won the Music Source Grand Prize, was less popular and discussed.

But this time, apart from the fans still being excited and carnival, the reaction and attention of passers-by is much smaller. The big awards of the first two award ceremonies proved that although EXO is still very young, there are many passers-by in the peninsula. In the eyes of the audience, he was no longer a simple newcomer.

In other words, it won’t be surprising for them to win big awards. On the contrary, EXO’s winning these awards in 2013 will make people feel that it should be taken for granted.

From November last year to the present, among the four major award ceremonies in the peninsula music industry, EXO has won three awards in a row, which is enough to prove that they had great success last year.

However, compared to the explosion of Lin Yuner's relationship exposure, the news of EXO's gold record is still a lot worse.

A few days ago, many netizens watched those extremely attractive melon-eating scandals, and suddenly saw the orthodox entertainment news such as award-winning, and felt that it was not so interesting, and felt a little boring.

This kind of award-winning news is the most boring thing. Isn’t it normal for EXO to win awards?We want to see when XO will be the same as Girls’ Generation, and when popular members break out with love news or something, that will be called explosive.

This is the truest thought in some people's minds when they see EXO, which is trending in the headlines.

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"Don't tire me out."

"Tell me quickly."

"Say you love me."

In the recording studio, Ji Jingyuan and Pei Xiuzhi looked at each other sweetly, and sang the last line with full emotion. As the music gradually fell, Park Zhenying, the recording engineer and the vocal teacher outside the recording room all started to applaud.

"Very good, the effect sounds really good."

After Chi Jingyuan and Pei Xiuzhi came out, Park Zhenying clapped her hands and walked up, her eyes slit into a smile, and she kept nodding to the two.

Chi Jingyuan saluted back, then walked to the side of the sound engineer, picked up the earphones and put them on his head, and began to listen to their recording just now.

He is also a half-producer. Every time the recording comes out, he has to listen to the effect in its entirety. Where it is done well and where there are problems, he has to point out and improve it. Sit like a normal person.

Park Zhenying didn't bother him either, and whispered something to the music teacher next to him, while Pei Xiuzhi sat on the sofa, as if worried that her makeup was a bit messy, holding the black phone screen as a mirror, facing The face and bangs are constantly being photographed.

After listening to it carefully, Chi Jingyuan couldn't help but nodded, the effect was really great, and it had met the requirements in his heart.

"Jing Yuan, how's it going, isn't it good?"

Park Zhenying looked at Chi Jingyuan who put down his earphones and asked.

"Brother Zhenying said that the effect is very good, so it is naturally great. :"

Chi Jingyuan squinted his eyes and praised him.

"Ha ha……"

Park Zhenying pointed at him and shook his head, and started to talk about business: "Even if the recording of the song "Some" is completed, other post-production work will start immediately. The process has been given to your agent, and you can start shooting tomorrow."

"Jing Yuan, are you alright?"

"Of course it's okay, don't worry Jinyoung, I read the MV shooting plan, it fits the concept and characteristics of the song very well."

"That's fine."

When Park Zhenying smiled and was about to exchange some pleasantries, she suddenly remembered something and patted Chi Jingyuan on the shoulder: "By the way, I haven't congratulated you EXO for winning the Golden Disk Award yesterday."

"EXO is really a big trend, it's been more than a year since its debut, and it's the first awards...

""Roar" is really nothing to say, it's too popular, and our company's trainees have been dancing to this song some time ago."

"Jing Yuan, congratulations!"

As soon as Park Zhenying said, the sound engineer and music teacher next to him also took advantage of the opportunity to discuss yesterday's golden record, and they were amazed at how popular EXO is now.

Pei Xiuzhi also leaned over and gave Chi Jingyuan a wink with a smile.

"Kangsang Mita." Chi Jingyuan smiled and thanked these people with a slight salute.

"Sigh, I don't know when got7 will be able to reach the level of your EXO, even if it's a little bit close, I'm actually satisfied." Park Zhenying smiled, somehow thinking of got7, and slowly couldn't laugh.

"Didn't their debut go smoothly?" Chi Jingyuan asked tentatively.

"The performance of the music source and the degree of discussion on the Internet have not met the company's expectations. I recorded the first stage of M! Countdown yesterday. After the broadcast, there was not much enthusiasm. Recently, big news in the industry has followed one after another. It's really..."

Park Zhenying shook her head, and briefly described the situation of Got7.

"Actually... when we debuted XO, it was also miserable. At that time, the ugliest combination and the most money-losing combination were all put on the head. It took more than a year since our debut to get the first place. It was also one point one. Get over it."

Chi Jingyuan smiled lightly, shrugged and said,

Park Zhenying didn't know what to say when he heard the words. He knew that what the other party said was the truth, so he could only smile dumbly.

"Brother Zhenying, I will take my leave first."

Chi Jingyuan saluted and said goodbye to several teachers, and left the music room with his bag on his back. Pei Xiuzhi even ran out to see him off.

After practicing together for such a long time, the two of them are quite familiar with each other. They chatted casually about their respective affairs, and soon reached the elevator entrance.

"Want to have dinner tonight?"

After the elevator door opened, Chi Jingyuan didn't go in directly, but turned his head to look at Pei Xiuzhi who initiated the invitation.

The last time the other party asked him to have dinner, Chi Jingyuan rejected him because he had an appointment with Zhou Ziyu, so he just wanted to make up for it because he had a little time tonight, which can be regarded as reciprocity.

Pei Xiuzhi smiled and winked at Chi Jingyuan, and tilted his head. The intimacy during the chat just now disappeared without a trace, and his tone seemed a little cold: "Next time, I just happened to have an appointment today."

"Inside."

Chi Jingyuan glanced at her, nodded with a smile, didn't say much, walked into the elevator and shook his hand gently at Pei Xiuzhi, and as the elevator door closed, the sight of the two of them was interrupted.

Seeing the closed elevator doors, feeling the weightlessness of the elevator descending, Chi Jingyuan remembered the conversation between the two just now, and suddenly couldn't help laughing, shaking his head slightly.

He couldn't help sighing in his heart:
"It's really skilled enough."

"really interesting……"

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"The company has confirmed that EXO's second mini-album is officially named "overdose/addicted". The album contains a total of 6 songs, the title song "overdose" with the same name, and the first song is "dope" composed by Yuan."

"The comeback date is tentatively scheduled to be April 4th, and the prelude song will be released about half a month earlier."

In the large conference room on the fourth floor of the SM building, an announcement meeting about EXO’s upcoming comeback project is being held. In addition to all EXO staff and managers, the company’s record planning department, artist management department and many other departments are present, but Li Xiuman is not there today. Come.

The person who is announcing the plan is Li Changcan, a manager of the record department.

Regarding EXO’s comeback this year, the whole company also pays great attention to it. It has been in the preliminary preparations since November last year. Later, due to the arrangement of the title song, Chi Jingyuan’s submission of the song, and other related reasons, there was a slight delay. for a few days.

However, the company has already made a complete plan at this time, and today is the day to officially announce it with EXO and related departments.

The [-] members of EXO sat in two rows on the left and listened carefully to Li Changcan's words. Everyone was looking forward to the upcoming comeback plan.

Chi Jingyuan also attaches great importance to it, and the cooperation with Pei Xiuzhi is just an attempt in his personal capacity, and his real roots are still on XO's side.

After last year's big explosion, whether this year's comeback can continue last year's popularity and reach a higher level is a matter of great concern to every member and fans.

Lee Changchan took a look at everyone and got to the point: "This time EXO's 12nd mini-album comeback is no longer in the form of [-] members like last year's regular [-]st album, but with EXO-K and EXO-M when they returned to debut. Activities in the form of detachments."

"Team K focuses on the peninsula market, and team M still focuses on the Xiaguo market. They also participate in song shows and normal schedules in the form of sub-teams, each participating in their own, without interfering with each other."

Hearing this passage, the members couldn't help looking at each other and exchanging glances.

When I debuted, the K and M teams and the simultaneous activities of the two countries were really an innovation. At that time, it attracted a lot of attention, and this type of activities also paid off very well.

At that time, when the K team peninsula was in the cold, the M team was not affected. It was very popular in Xiaguo, which created a lot of benefits for the company, and also accumulated a considerable Xiaguo fan base for the entire EXO team.

It was only because of the failure of the peninsula that the company canceled the setting of separate activities in the regular first series last year, and changed it to a 12-member combination in order to make progress in the peninsula market and change the muddled dilemma when they debuted.

This goal has been achieved. The explosion of "Roar" and the popularity of Chi Jingyuan's TV series made the entire EXO popular in the peninsula, Xiaguo, and even Asia. Seeing this situation, the company decided to come back In the former team activity mode, both sides attract fans and make money at the same time, in order to maximize profits.

This model has a lot of benefits, but in fact there are also many hidden dangers, at least in terms of team atmosphere.

The two teams of the first sub-unit have not seen each other for a long time, and it is easy to cause conflicts when there is a difference in popularity. In the year of debut, the members fought because of this.

However, the company may not care about this kind of estrangement among members, and revenue is the most important thing.

After waiting for a few seconds to give the members time to accept, Lee Changchan continued: "Multiple versions of the MV for the title song "Overdose" will be filmed, including the 12-member Korean version, the 12-member Hawen version, and the K team 6-member MV. The Korean version and the M team 6-member Xia Wen version, each version of the MV has a different emphasis on the performance of the members."

"In addition to the title song, for other included songs that require MV shooting, including the prelude song "dope", only the K and M versions will be shot, and there is no need to shoot the 12-member version."

"Do you understand?" Li Changcan asked.

"Director nim." Chi Jingyuan raised his hand to say hello, and Li Changcan smiled and nodded in response, and said: "The company means that except for the title song, all other songs will not be a combination of 12 people, only K, or the six-man version of M?"

"Yes."

"The choreography is also the same, except "overdose" has 12 choreographers, and the rest are 6 people?"

"Currently, this is the plan in advance. In the future, for some songs on special stages, we may add 12 stage choreographers.""

"I understand."

Chi Jingyuan nodded to show that he understood, pursed his lips and sat down.

Once this plan comes out, Chi Jingyuan won't have to worry about the troubled things before.

The choreography of the two songs "dope" and "I NEED U" he submitted, if there is no accident, must be the same as "Roar", he brought the company's dance teacher to do it together.

But he has no idea about the 12-person choreography of these two songs, because the number of people on the stage for the best effect of the two songs will be less.

Now I only need to do the choreography of the 6-person version, so it is naturally much easier.

Except for the title song, there is no 12-person combined version for all other songs. This time the company separates activities and the intention to develop two markets at the same time is really urgent.

"The choreography of the title song in the album has been completed. As for the choreography of the two songs "dope" and "I NEED U", Jing Yuan, you still do it, and you still cooperate with the company's dance teacher."

Sure enough, Li Changcan immediately handed over this task to Chi Jingyuan.

After seeing Chi Jingyuan nodding his head to confirm, he continued: "It's already January 1th. Excluding the post-production and promotion time, we only have about two months of preparation time. Although it is a mini-album with six songs, but This time is also very tight, I hope that we at XO can devote ourselves wholeheartedly to prepare for this comeback with our own efforts and enthusiasm."

"Guess, we will work hard."

The members responded together, expressing their attitude.

"Very well, the preliminary work for the album has been completed. After this meeting is over, the planning will officially start. I hope you hurry up."

Li Changcan nodded in satisfaction, finished talking about returning to the album, and mentioned another important point:
"In addition, the company has confirmed that after you come back and play songs, EXO's first Asian tour concert will be officially launched in May this year. It is expected to hold at least [-] concerts in six countries in Asia. The company has already advanced Preparations have begun, and the venue has already been booked in advance.”

"At that time, there will be professional concert stage design and dance teachers to teach you about the concert's stage practice, but it's still early, I just tell you in advance, the most important task now is the comeback of this mini album. "

Upon hearing the news of the concert, all the members' eyes lit up, and their interest was obviously aroused.

Whether the concert can be held and how much box office it can get are very important indicators to measure whether a peninsula idol group is hot or not.

Especially concerts with more than [-] people and large venues can only be held when the artist's popularity and popularity are high, and there are also a large number of diehard fans who are willing to spend money for you.

This is really not an easy thing to do, because many combinations seem to be very popular, but when it comes time to pay real money for support, those passerby fans who made a fuss before disappeared in an instant.

For example, sistar, which has become popular in the past two years, has a very good sound source, popularity and fans, but their sales have not been high, and they can't hold a big concert because they have too few diehard fans. Few fans are willing to pay.

As for a peninsula idol group, the real money-making places are concerts and overseas trips.

The first contract signed with the company after the debut of the idol group is very harsh, especially for the local itinerary on the peninsula. After deducting the company's expenses and costs, and then dividing them equally among the large number of members, everyone will get nothing at all. money.

However, for activities such as overseas concerts, the income sharing is different from that of local activities on the peninsula. Compared with the local activities on the peninsula, it will be significantly improved by several levels.

As soon as idols become popular, as long as they can drive, the first thing most groups do is to hold tours and concerts, because they can really make money from this.

And the company is also happy, because idols have made money, and the company's income will only be higher.

The performance fees for local trips and album sales only account for a small part of the revenue of most idol groups. The real big part is advertising endorsements and overseas tours.

Hearing that EXO will hold a tour this year, the members are naturally very excited. This is not only a reflection of their popularity, but also because no one wants to make money.

Chi Jingyuan may not care much about the income, but he is also very interested in the concert. This kind of scene where tens of thousands of fans stare at him performing on the stage, standing in the center of the stage and listening to countless people shouting his name It feels like he's always wanted to try it.

After talking about some other precautions, Li Changcan sorted out the manuscript, and after whispering a few words with other managers, he looked at this side of EXO and finally asked: "That's about what I want to talk about in today's meeting. Documentation and travel schedules will be handed over to your agents after the meeting."

"Do you have any other questions?"

Most of the members shook their heads and said no. Basically, they would not say anything in this kind of meeting. At present, they are still in a situation where the company says what they say, and they do what they do.

Even if they have any questions, they can just ask the agent in private.

At this time, Chi Jingyuan remembered something, he glanced to the side, raised his hand: "Nim, head of the office."

"Jing Yuanxi, tell me." Li Changcan smiled at him.

"When I was visiting our fanclub some time ago, I found that our fans don't have an official name. Fans from different fanclubs call themselves differently, and fans from the peninsula and Xiaguo have different names."

"Many of our fans call themselves 'Planet Rice'. This is a name they came up with based on our EXO's setting and concept, but there are also many fans who don't like this name."

"This situation is inconvenient whether it is support or ordinary communication. Does the company have any arrangements?"

Chi Jingyuan asked a question he discovered a few days ago.

As a tradition in the peninsula music industry, all idol groups with names and surnames will determine their fan names, supporting colors, and supporting objects when they debut, or after a period of time.

Because the idol group fights for fans, these things can greatly increase the cohesion and loyalty of fans.And the company can also take advantage of the trend to launch support peripherals and make another fortune.

For example, those seniors from the same company as SM, TVXQ fans are called 'Cassy Queen', which is quite famous, SJ's 'ELF' and Girls' Generation's sone are very famous in the fan circle.

However, there are also those who have debuted for many years without an official fan name, such as FX, and I don’t know what SM company thinks.

They EXO have debuted for almost two years. Except for the silver-white support color, they have not had an official fan name so far. Chi Jingyuan has seen all kinds of self-proclaimed names in the Peninsula fan club, and Xia Guo is currently the most popular. The recognized name is 'Planet Rice'.

As soon as Chi Jingyuan's words came out, the members next to him also nodded immediately. Many members would often communicate with their big fans, Sister Zhan, and they all knew about this problem.

"Jingyuan, the company has also noticed what you said. Because of the popularity of your EXO, we are discussing the establishment of an official XO fan station, but the name of XO fans is still under discussion. You members can discuss it yourself after you go back. I think If it’s appropriate, let us know through your agent.”

SM obviously also understands this matter, and Lee Changchan also assigned them the job of thinking up the name.

There was no problem after that, and the other party announced the end of the meeting after a few more words of encouragement.

After the meeting was over, the manager went to meet with the company, and the members returned to the practice room, sat on the sofa and the floor, and discussed enthusiastically there:

"Isn't our slogan 'we are one', our fans just call it 'Xone', what do you think?"

　It's been a bit of a calvin these two days
　　Thanks bro for the reward

　　
　
(End of this chapter)