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Chapter 478 "EXO-L"

It is very gratifying that Kim Taeyeon's solo title song has progressed, and her solo has already started preparations a few months ago.It took so long before Chi Jingyuan himself was quite anxious. Although there are still a few months before the expected return time in the plan, the production of a mini album requires many aspects of work.

Style and theme setting, song selection, lyrics, recording, MV and pictorial shooting, album production, pre-publicity and other complicated matters take a lot of time, and Chi Jingyuan himself is also very busy with work and schedule, at least not recently. You can't put all your energy on it.

So it’s better to prepare an album sooner rather than later.

After the title song is produced, the progress can be accelerated at once. After recording the demo, let Li Xiuman listen to it and discuss and confirm it in the meeting. If there is no problem, wait until Kim Taeyeon's lyrics are produced, and then perfect the arrangement. It's time to start recording.

Speaking of which, Chi Jingyuan originally wanted to try some songs about "Infinite Challenge Song Festival" today, but he didn't expect that the original purpose did not make any progress, but he accidentally got half of Kim Taeyeon's title song, which is also an accident. hi it.

After all, the songs of the Ballad Festival are not in a hurry now, and the quality requirements of the songs in this kind of variety show are actually not very high, and the style doesn't matter, and the arrangement is not so demanding.

In order to participate in this infinite challenge, Chi Jingyuan also specifically watched the song festivals of the past few years. Although many of the songs in it are not lacking in brilliant works, but to be honest, many of them are quite ordinary. There is no time to carve out the songs that are produced within a short period of time.

Being able to occupy the forefront of the list and cause such a big response is more due to the popularity of the show itself and the popularity of the guests.

In comparison, for Chi Kyung Won, the song of Gayo Festival is far less important than Kim Taeyeon’s solo title song. After all, this is the first time he has tried to create a title song for someone other than EXO and served as the producer. .

Moreover, as a close relative of Noona, Kim Taeyeon's optimism and trust in him also moved Chi Jingyuan. As a relative and producer, he naturally wanted to hand in a satisfactory answer and try his best to make this sister His first solo performance in eight years since his debut was big.

After making a breakthrough, Chi Jingyuan put his energy into completing the song and arrangement. As for the song festival, let's see what to say when their group records next time.

The style is still undecided.

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Today is June 6th, at the moment all members of EXO are in the lounge at the backstage of SM town COEX center, wait a minute, there will be a press conference about EXO's official second album "EXO-L" in the auditorium at the front held in.

EXO's official second album includes all eight songs in the four single albums "E", "X", "O" and "L" that have been released before, and also added two new tracks, which are more lyrical "if you" and the rhythmic dance song "EXODUS".

A total of ten songs make up the official second album "EXO-L" that has not yet been released, but has already been classified as a god by many insiders, professional musicians, fans and passer-by listeners.

The song configuration of this album is extremely luxurious, and the four singles have four title songs in themselves.

The first "call me baby" swept across January, and the popularity exploded. Many of the members' styles are still talked about by fans. This song will really become popular in addition to the melody, and it is the most important thing for idols. Handsome and stylish to the extreme.

The sound source of "Spring Day" has been unexpectedly strong after the counterattack. It has still been at the forefront of the sound source list for several months. Up to now, the number of independent listeners per day is much higher than those of the recently returned boy groups. It has greatly improved EXO's reputation as a boy group in the hearts of the public.

"love me right" is slightly weaker than the other title songs, but it has a novel and strong rhythm dance music and pleasing choreography, full of youthful feeling, passionate stage shape and style, and an eye-catching American college style And the concept of rugby is still a popular song above the level.

"Orientation Sniper", which was included at the same time, completely overwhelmed the title song with its non-main title in terms of popularity and performance. It was extremely popular among the audience mainly composed of students and young people, and its sound source performance was unexpectedly good. At the same time, it also created the hot word 'orientation sniper' which is very popular among young couples today.

This month's "boy with luv" is not to mention, the popularity and popularity of the previous few times can be called explosive, and it has almost broken all the data records of the boy group within a day of its release, and the music list is also on the list. He firmly suppressed the equally excellent "bangbangbang".

It also made a breakthrough in the top [-] singles on the US B chart, creating the best record of the Peninsula Idol Group. The various influences have gradually surpassed the song itself, and it has also made onlookers and even bigbang's own fans think about it. This time the battle between the two top men's teams has a concept of victory or defeat.

How many people in the peninsula, and even many people who like Kpop in Asia, will not hum "oh mymymy" when they hear the music?

Other recorded songs including "El Dorado" and "butterfly" are also well-produced, high-quality tracks that many people like, their respective sound sources are very good, and there are also live stages that go out of the circle. These songs are placed in some songs In a group with less resources, it is definitely more than enough to play the title song.

The two newly added songs, "if you" is a lyrical song that Chi Jingyuan likes very much, and it sounds very emotional under the interpretation of the four lead singers.

At that time, "EXODUS" competed with "call me baby" to release the title song of "E" album.

There are [-] songs in the whole album, more than half of them are standard-level high-quality songs. The other songs are not inferior to the main songs, but they also have their own characteristics. The music quality of this album is seen by other boy groups. I don’t know. How envious and jealous you should be, you must know that among Kpop idol groups, among all the resources for each comeback, the most important thing is the song resource.

It's not just those small groups, even within SM, like SJ, Shinee, and even Girls' Generation, they will be very jealous after seeing it, and they don't know how to discuss it in private.

If we want to talk about the shortcomings, it should be to complete the return mode of releasing songs month by month for four months, which leads to the different styles of songs in the entire album, which can be said to be a bit mixed.

This may have some impact on some listeners, but most fans and passers-by don't care about these things, most people only care about whether the song is good or not.

Now there is still one day before the official release of the second album and the release of the sound source, but the first four single albums have made enough preparations. EXO's current popularity and fans' expectations for their album can be said to be the same for a while. In terms of publicity, there is no need to do too much. This time, the company puts more energy on promoting sales.

After all, although the quality of the album is against the sky, most of the songs in it have already been released, and the freshness is much lower in comparison.

Chi Jingyuan was sitting in the corner of the lounge at this time, casually took out one of the albums piled up on the table in front of him, and looked at it in his hand.

Although the official second album has not been officially released yet, these insiders have already received the goods, because in the past few days there will be many activities such as lucky draws and autographs to give back to fans and promote sales. They just took the time to sign their names on the album and give it to fans as a gift.

This time EXO's official [-]nd album has changed the way of previous comebacks, except for the same team cover as before, it released the 'single cover' of all members for the first time.

The so-called 'single cover' means that the member's own photo is printed on the cover of the physical album, which is the 'single cover version'.

The cover of the "EXO-L" album this time is gold and silver as the theme. It has a Chinese version and a Korean version. The Chinese version has a silver cover, and the Korean version has a gold cover. Each of the nine members of EXO has a single cover and a group cover. All the different versions of the album add up to a total of twenty.

According to the development law of most idol groups in the peninsula, as the group becomes more and more popular and popular, the number of member fans will also increase. Compared with the entire group, many fans are more willing to follow for their own fans. That idol spends money.

A long time ago, fans of EXO, or the only fans of those members who are more popular, have been calling for SM to release a single-cover album, but SM has never released a single-cover album before, and this time it is finally smooth. According to the fan's wishes, the album single cover was released. When the pre-sale channel was opened a few days ago, many fans cheered. Zhang's buying, that enthusiasm almost scared everyone in SM.

Although the opening of the single cover will promote the sales of the album to a certain extent, but to be honest, it is not all good. The first thing that bears the brunt is that the popularity gap within the team has become more intuitive.

EXO is not a male group with relatively average popularity. Its popularity and popularity can be as high as the top of the team like Ji Jingyuan, and there are also popular lines composed of such popular members as Oh Sehun and Park Chanyeol.

But again, there are back and bottom members, and they are very different from the top members.

As before, although each person's personal resources are more or less, the gap is not very large, and popularity is relatively abstract, even if the difference is huge, it cannot be seen without looking for some relevant data.

But once this kind of single album is opened, who sells more and who sells less will become particularly clear, intuitive, and cruel.

Since the pre-sale was opened, except for the group envelopes that still account for the bulk, the sales gap between No.1 and the following ones is several times or even dozens of times. ', that is, the cover is personal, but the small card is not there, otherwise the gap may be even greater.

Although on the surface many members are already used to the level of popularity, such a huge gap will inevitably make these less popular members panic and feel very uncomfortable.

But there is no way, the competition in the peninsula music industry is so fierce, in addition to the competition with the outside world, the same is true within the group.

In the past two days, after the pre-sale data came out, Chi Jingyuan had faintly felt that the atmosphere in the team had changed. Although no one would take the initiative to bring it up to show off or be jealous, sometimes the words and eyes still became subtle. stand up.

When he thought of this, while feeling helpless, he couldn't help admiring Senior Yun'er.

Girls' Generation is also a group with a big gap in popularity between the head and the tail.

Senior Yoona was not only one of the most popular TOPs in the team during his most popular years, but also had a huge gap with the backs at the end of several cranes. At the same time, he also had various film and television resources. Some envy.

And in those two years, every time she was interviewed and participated in the program, when she talked about her popular topics and problems, she was always very humble and embarrassed, and she always talked about it. The most frequently said sentence was:

'Popularity has seasons'.

Tsk tsk, this EQ.

Although the back sisters will not increase their popularity because of this, at least they will feel better.

Chi Jingyuan is about to start learning from Senior Yun'er now.

Dispelling some complicated thoughts in his heart, Chi Jingyuan shook his head and looked at his own single album in his hand.

On the cover, he is wearing a pure white plain shirt, with calm eyes and a calm expression. Facing the camera, he tilts his head slightly to the left. The overall black and white color scheme and the silver coating of the album make the whole cover photo very natural and handsome, but also It's very textured and compelling, and it looks very emotional.

Below the cover are the characters 'EXO-L' written in a matchstick-like font, and the back is covered with a large, well-designed EXO logo, which constitutes the official website one after the other. The cover of the second volume.

Chi Jingyuan's Chinese and Korean versions of the single cover are the best-selling of all the pre-sale versions, except for the group cover.

Holding his single album and looking at it for a while, looking at Chi Jingyuan, he remembered something, he glanced around, and then picked out a few from the pile of albums in front of him, left and right After looking around, he took out four group albums and stood up from the stool.

"Sign it for me."

He placed the albums in his hand in front of Wu Shixun, and gestured with his fingers.

"Oh."

Wu Shixun, who was already signing his album, nodded, picked up the oil-based pen and signed the album without asking.

"The signature is smaller, there are other people's." Seeing Wu Shixun carelessly drawing a long black line on the cover, Chi Jingyuan immediately reminded him.

"Does everyone sign? What do you want?" Wu Shixun asked casually after signing all the albums.

"Send someone."

Chi Jingyuan responded with a roar, picked up the album, patted him on the shoulder, walked to the next member's seat, walked around in turn to get the other members' signatures, returned to his seat, and I took two of my own single envelopes and started to sign my own name.

Then he found a bag to wrap all the albums, and stopped when he stuffed all the albums into the bag. After thinking about it for two seconds, he pulled out a note paper from the side, and started writing with an oil-based pen. stand up:
"TO. Seo Yeon
Everything will be fine, I wish you to find the light in your heart, or try to be the light to illuminate others, Fighting! (come on)"

When it was time to write the signature, Chi Jingyuan had just written a 'Y', but quickly crossed out the letter and added his own name 'Chi Jingyuan'.

After sticking the TO sign on the album and wrapping it up, everything was done. After taking a long breath, Chi Jingyuan put the package beside him, and started to sign other albums.

If the number of signatures is small, I can enjoy it. I have a sense of accomplishment that I have become a star and is sought after by others.

But if you sign too many, like this pile of albums full of tables, it will be a kind of suffering.

……

"We all know that as of noon, the number of pre-sales for EXO's official second album "EXO-L" has reached nearly 80. Yuan, what do you think of this number?"

Because of EXO's current popularity and popularity, this album conference has brought a lot of memories. After the members introduced the content of the regular album, the style of the songs, and some experiences and difficulties in preparing the album It was time for questioning, and there were many people in the audience asking various questions about the album to the Nine Lives members on stage.

"I was actually very surprised when I saw it."

Chi Jingyuan who was asked was sitting in the middle to the left, holding a microphone and facing the camera, smiling and answering, with a flattered expression on his face: "Actually, I myself, including the members, did not expect to be able to reach this level. Numbers, after all, several singles have been released before, and the sound sources of the songs have also been released... I really appreciate the fans' support for XO, we will work harder to become a better EXO, Kang Sang Mita."

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Chi Jingyuan said it sincerely, and he was really surprised by the sales volume
Since the opening of the pre-sale channel a few days ago, in just over three days, the total number of pre-sales for all versions has reached nearly 80. There are still nearly ten hours until the official release, and it will definitely increase by then a little.

This number also shocked countless people who stared in the circle. You must know that this is an official album, and it is an official album that most of the songs have already been released.

"Then what are your expectations for this sales volume now?"

"Well, I'm not looking forward to it anymore, it's already great."

Chi Jingyuan waved his hands with a smile, not asking for more.

In fact, when their members saw this pre-sale number and discussed privately, they very much hoped that this time the sales of a single album would exceed 100 million.

Although EXO has achieved this achievement in the past two years, they have reached this number through the accumulation of the first and the later. Although it is still a million, the gold content will appear to be a little weaker.

They really haven't achieved a million dollars alone, let alone other things in the music industry, and now only EXO can look forward to accomplishing this achievement a little bit.

"Of the ten songs in this album, which one do the members like the most?"

""boy with luv", because it's very popular, haha..."

"I like "call me baby", I especially love the styling inside."

"..."

"What about Yuan?"

"For me, I like both of them, haha... If I have to choose one, then I will choose "if you", which has not been released yet. I really like the melody, atmosphere and feeling of this song."

"Hahaha, then I will choose "EXODUS", everyone must remember to listen to it tonight."

"Please look forward to EXO's album released tonight, "EXO-L", Kang Sang Mita!"

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At twelve o'clock in the evening, SM released the ten songs of EXO's official second album on time, including all the music sources including several remix versions. Looking at most music source lists from top to bottom, the column of singers is all about 'EXO', which is particularly eye-catching.

(End of this chapter)