Chapter 274 Change Lyrics

The schedule was very tight. There was only one week of promotion time from the prelude song to the title song, and there was not enough buffer when the album pre-sales started. Everything seemed a bit urgent.

But there is no way, no one can predict the unexpected situation.

Moreover, the comeback date really cannot be postponed any further. If it is delayed for a few days in late May, EXO will officially launch the concert plan. At that time, it will start a devilish schedule of singing + ordinary activities + variety shows + concerts.

Even an iron man may not be able to bear it.

Therefore, the time finally determined is already the best return date that can be obtained.

Even this date actually has many shortcomings. For example, the company obviously has no intention of letting the prelude song "dope" become a song, because according to announcements from major TV stations, on May 8, the week when "dope" was released, except for "

Except for "m!c", the singing programs of the other three major TV stations have not been resumed and are still suspended.

When the show resumes next week, EXO will start the singing stage of "overdose".

In other words, there was only one singing stage for the lead song "dope", which was "m!c" on the day it was released, which was extremely pitiful.

And "overdose" probably won't last for a month, because if there is a conflict in schedule, the concert will be more important.

It can only be said that a month was left in vain, which disrupted many plans and preparations in advance.

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JYP building practice room.

"Is it open?"

"There are still a few minutes until the ticket sales start... You must have opened it long ago after you have been urging me for a long time, then."

As Minazaki Saka spoke, she waved her cell phone to Nai Minami and asked her to look at the Gmaket web page that was open on the screen, indicating that she was working hard.

After seeing it, Mingjing Nan smiled sweetly at her and expressed her heart.

After she joined JYP as a trainee at the beginning of the year, she was very confused and uneasy for a few days as she was not familiar with the place and was not proficient in Korean, but fortunately, she quickly found her own organization.

JYP's foreign trainees all stick together in a group. Several senior Neon trainees also welcomed the arrival of Najing Minami and decisively brought her into their own small group.

The peninsula is a relatively exclusive place. They are all tourists from the same country who came here to work hard and join a group to keep warm. They naturally have a feeling of closeness to each other. They hang out together basically every day. After getting along for a few months, they are already very familiar with each other.

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"Mina, you are really a fan of EXO. You have been urging me since just now. Didn't you say you like 2PM's seniors? Why haven't you ever snatched their concert tickets?"

Saka Minatozaki was sitting there with her cell phone in her hand, a little bored, and looked at Nai Minami curiously, and asked with a smile.

"That's not the case anymore... I just like their stage better and think it's very beautiful."

Nai Minami shook her hand, hesitated and pointed to Hirai Momo next to her, dragging her down: "Didn't Momo-chan also say that she likes EXO and want to buy tickets to go to the concert together?"

"yes."

Hearing that she was being called, she raised her eyes from the phone. Momo Hirai looked at them and blinked, and said in a matter-of-fact tone: "They are the most popular boy group in the peninsula right now. Of course I like EXO because they are so handsome. I am eu-reu

-reong eu-reu-reong eu-reu-reong you..."

While talking, Momo Hirai, who was sitting on the floor, took the initiative to sing a line. At the same time, she twisted her upper body to cover the dance of "Roar" and made a signature hammering movement, which looked impressive.

"Right."

Nai Minami's eyes turned into crescent moons and she smiled at Minatozaki Saka with her upper gums exposed. Then she waved her hands and followed Hirai Momo to cover her for a while, but after a few twists, she couldn't jump and became a mess.

"All right."

Saka Minatozaki sighed softly and sat there with a smile watching the dance of the two. After a while, after they calmed down, they mentioned something: "By the way, I heard about the MV for the title song of senior Lee Junho's new album.

We are selecting actors among the trainees, let’s go try it out together.”

"Senior Li Junhao?" Mingjing Nan looked at her.

"Yes, I heard that this is Neon's solo album. We are all Neon people, so we have great advantages."

Saka Minatozaki is the more cheerful girl in their neon line, who likes to socialize very much, has a more likable personality, and is the most well-informed.

"Okay, let's go try it together."

Hirai Momo nodded, looking forward to it.

Being able to star in and show your face in the MV of your debut senior is something that most trainees are willing to do. Not only can they accumulate experience in performing in front of the camera, but they can also show their face after the broadcast, and maybe they can attract some fans and increase their popularity.

Increase the chance of debut.

They can also establish a good relationship with those seniors online, whether it is vanity or improving their connections, it is very helpful to them in some aspects.

For example, Jiang Seulgi and Son Seungwan are just two ordinary trainees who have not debuted, but they are related to Ji Kyungwon. I don’t know how many female trainees are envious and jealous of them, and after the news spread, the former bullies and bullies in person

Ling disappeared in an instant... Of course, there must have been more gossip and weirdness behind his back.

And even the head of the trainee room has a better attitude towards them.

These are real benefits.

Of course, getting to know other debut artists will not have the immediate benefits of meeting Chi Jingyuan, but it will definitely bring some help.

After chatting for a few words, they looked at the time and quickly took out their mobile phones:

"It's about to start, it's about to start!"

"The time is coming, get ready to start grabbing tickets."

Several Neon Line trainees were holding mobile phones with web pages that had been open for a long time. Everyone was waiting nervously.

At eight o'clock in the evening exactly, the ticket window for EXO's concert immediately appeared on Gmarket. At that moment, countless clicks poured in, and the line was immediately overcrowded.

"Did you grab it?" Hirai Momo's phone was a little stuck. After clicking on the link for a long time, there was no response. She looked up anxiously and asked her friend next to her.

"I didn't...I ran out of tickets in just a few seconds?"

"I grabbed one..."

"Me neither..." Najing Nan looked at the word 'sold out' on the screen, her voice was a little low.

"It took several of us to grab a concert ticket. SM is going too far. Is it really so popular?"

A friend said something unhappily.

"There are no tickets for the two days of 24 and 25..."

Saka Minatozaki saw that Nai Minami was a little disappointed, and after thinking about it, she comforted her: "The tickets are selling so hotly, I guess their company will add another show, and we will grab it together then."

"OK……"

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The news came out the next day. EXO's first concert tour, two concerts in Seoul on May 24th and 25th, had a total of 36,000 tickets. After being put on sale at the ticket window, it was announced that all tickets were sold out in just 1.1 seconds.

1.1 seconds. If you have slower hands, you may not even click on the link.

Countless fans who had been waiting eagerly with their mobile phones for a long time had already lost their tickets before they even realized it.

Some were just stunned for a second, or the mobile phone network was stuck for a while, and when they turned around, they were immediately declared to have lost the opportunity.

This feeling of having been looking forward to and preparing for a long time but not being able to get a ticket at all naturally makes people full of unwillingness and irritation. Some very angry fans even smashed their mobile phones in anger.

Naturally, SM was once again attacked by countless fans who couldn't get tickets.

"Death to SM! SM is out of business!"

"If you don't know how to plan, can you get out of here? You've been looking forward to something like this for a long time?"

"Don't you know how popular oppas are or what? Can't you rent a bigger venue? Is there enough space for your whole family to fit in this venue with more than 10,000 people?"

"Is EXO a boy band from our peninsula, and is SM a company from our country? Why do EXO only have these two concerts in the peninsula during this tour? But there are more than ten concerts in Xiaguo? Thailand in Xiba

Both times,%...&SM apologizes to all the people!"

"Additional performance! Additional performance!"

The official website and SNS were flooded with the anger of Planet fans, some simply venting their anger and cursing, while others were urgently requesting to join the show.

Seeing this situation, SM's department responsible for planning EXO's concert tour also felt that they seemed a bit too conservative.

EXO's last regular album "XOXO" sold nearly 1.5 million copies, and sales volume is the best data to measure the number of die-hard fans an idol group has who are willing to spend money for them.

It is also the most intuitive data for evaluating tour box office and mobilization numbers.

Many idol groups sound very popular and well-known, but there are not many die-hard fans who are really willing to spend money on them. Those passers-by are usually very noisy on the Internet, and they seem to like this group very much.

But when it came time to buy tickets and albums with real money, they all disappeared.

As for EXO's millions of sales, even excluding the number of Xiawen versions and the fact that many fans bought many copies individually, there are at least hundreds of thousands of die-hard fans in the peninsula who are willing to spend money on XO.

Under the influence of star-chasing culture, tickets for Peninsula’s concerts are not expensive to begin with, and many fans have developed the habit of going to concerts. The 35,000 tickets for these two games are really a drop in the bucket compared to the huge number of XO fans.

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The scolded staff of SM's planning department, whose whole family wanted to go to the concert together, quickly held a meeting to discuss. After a series of discussions and communications, the company issued an announcement, admitting that the previous planning was somewhat conservative, and expressed its sincere wishes to the majority of XO fans.

apology.

At the same time, it was announced that in response to fans' requests, the first tour, which was originally scheduled to have only two concerts in Seoul, will add one more concert on May 23. Ticket sales for this concert will open at 8 o'clock in the evening a week later, also at Gmarket

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Although the extra concerts made some fans feel relieved, there were still many people who kept criticizing SM for having too few local concerts. Even if they were extra concerts, there would only be three concerts in total.

And even if 18,000 tickets are added for one game, it still cannot satisfy the huge demand of EXO's fan base.

But there is no other way. The overall planning has been done a long time ago, and the venue is rented about half a year in advance. It takes a lot of time and energy just to renovate the venue, and adding a temporary venue already requires a lot of coordination.

, the overall planning process is indeed difficult to change.

Faced with the torrent of accusations, these concert planners shrank their heads and pretended not to hear them.
To be continued...