Damn Idol - Chapter 194



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Fucking Idol Episode 194

Album 18. Show biz

I don’t know about the past, but in modern times, the flow of society is ultimately the flow of money.

Perhaps the reason the devil chose Han Zion was because of his insight that transcended the times.

[The world is no longer a spinning wheel run by humans who are placed before and after death.]

[Those who cry out about the ups and downs of wealth are the windmills that shake.]

[Yeah, money.]

In that sense, it was natural for public broadcasting stations to boycott the show for three months and 100 days.

To be more precise, there will be no ‘total boycott’.

The broadcasting station is not an organization controlled by one person, and although the music industry and the entertainment industry are grouped into the same entertainment department, they are strangely different.

The three-month-long boycott was probably limited to music broadcasts.

The reason was really simple.

This was due to the money flow generated by the second regular album released in three months and three unit albums.

The more successful the four albums are, the more money Sedalbaekil makes.

Even Sedalbaekil is an independent label, so the singers get most of the pure profit after deducting expenses.

So where is the second highest paying place?

It’s Mshow.

When M Show first went all-in on Se Dal Baek Il, people in the industry tilted their heads.

“Wow, but what did Mshow believe to make such a bold bet?”

“So. They’re going to shoot the album as a TV commercial.”

“I think Mshow also occasionally rotates the outdoor billboards it manages?”

“Is M Show that hard these days?”

Of course I know you’re good at three months and one hundred days.

Of course the album will sell well.

Of course, it won’t be able to match the record of the first album that sold over 1.5 million copies, but if a Korean K-pop singer can sell even just 1/3 of that, it’s a big shot.

So people didn’t care that Mshow chose 3 months and 100 days, but the text is the scale of the investment.

At this point, it is no exaggeration to say that Mshow and Sedalbaekil are on the same boat.

If the album fails, M Show’s sales for the quarter will also fail.

A broadcasting station that is that obsessed with one album is not qualified to be a broadcasting station.

Even though M Show is a unique broadcasting station that has been revived with content related to singers.

So people thought that Mshow was under some kind of pressure from outside and was in a bad situation where he had to get results as quickly as possible.

Because, logically, you wouldn’t just bet on something like this.

But surprisingly, this situation was out of the ordinary.

To be precise, M Show had preempted the most important thing in show business.

It’s a ‘show’.

M Show holds the original video of Self Made, which recorded the highest viewership rating in the history of idol group content.

They saw the miracle that three months and a hundred days can create, and they saw how their second album was being prepared.

So, the entertainment director of M Show made a bet on Han Si-on, and Han Si-on steered the bet in a favorable direction.

Of course, there were political reasons behind it.

M Show was originally dominated by those who had joined hands with Ryan Entertainment, but their power has been greatly weakened since the Coming Up Next incident.

However, it did not disappear, but rather weakened, and it was making every effort to return to the line.

At this time, the most fatal blow to them is the ‘success of three months and one hundred days.’

If you look at the root of the Coming Up Next situation, it started with the conflict between Ryan Entertainment and Sedalbaekil.

Self-made has been successful, but it is only as successful as it can be seen.

From a company’s perspective, there are moments when invisible success is more important.

For this reason, the M Show betting was a huge success.

There was even talk of producing the next concert of Sedalbaekil together.

That’s right.

Mshow had a production stake in .

Of course, it wasn’t that Han Shi-on, who was good at this kind of thing, suffered a loss, and in a sense, he gave up his honor and gained something.

At this point, the public broadcasting stations were not feeling so good.

The drama department and the entertainment department are not only on bad terms, but also have different personalities.

The content of each drama department is individual.

Even if you’ve been releasing dramas with shitty viewership ratings for two years, if you just launch one drama with a 30% viewership rating, it’s game over.

Because the drama department was evaluated based on individual dramas.

In contrast, the entertainment department is a long-running team.

Unlike the drama department’s content production unit, which is comprised of directors and writers, the entertainment department is a production unit in its own right.

When a signature program is created, numerous new producers and writers emerge from it and share their experiences, which in turn become assets to the entertainment department.

In the past, this was such a strong line that even mentioning the names of other broadcasting stations on air was taboo.

Then, in the mid-2000s, they began to be referred to by pronouns such as M Company, S Company, and K Company, and in the mid-2010s, they began to be referred to by their exact names.

So, the reason why public broadcasting stations are boycotting for three months and 100 days is not because they ‘really hate it.’

As Han Si-on had noticed, this was not an area that Choi Dae-ho could wield his hands in.

Boycotting broadcasting stations is a secret and a trap.

We also want you to join our business.

We have this much power, so don’t act so arrogant.

It was exactly at this level.

Even from Sedalbaekil’s perspective, the solution was really simple.

What can we do together with the entertainment departments of each of the three public broadcasting companies?

That is, when we look back at the history we wrote a few years later, their names will be there too.

It’s not just Mshow’s name that’s mentioned.

This was an industry prediction that the success would be enormous, and it was a prediction that the current price of Sedalbaekil might be the lowest.

If it really becomes a big hit, there may not be another chance.

But there was something the broadcasting stations didn’t know.

It was said that Han Shion was a regressor.

* * *

“You like it?”

“yes.”

“No, why?”

I shrugged my shoulders at Chief Seo Seung-hyun’s words.

“I feel like this is my chance.”

“Opportunity? What opportunity?”

But I didn’t answer anymore.

It’s not that I don’t trust Chief Seo Seung-hyun, but I don’t trust him with all my heart.

I don’t suspect people easily.

It’s not because we believe in the theory of human nature or because we feel that people are born with good intentions.

Because humans can become evil at any time, and they can also become good at any time.

Among the people I met during my countless regressions, there was not a single person who was one-dimensional.

Everyone is two-faced.

The person who helped me at the expense of sacrificing himself in my first encounter may become someone who refuses to give me even a single dollar in my next life.

So what I have to do is to lead the situation so that Chief Seo Seung-hyun can maintain the current status.

I don’t know what it will be like in the next life, but in this life, please share the glory with us.

Depending on the success of the second album, stock options are also being considered.

Only then, even if the world I disappear in comes back, the members of Sedalbaekil will live well.

To be honest, none of our members have any business sense.

If there’s anyone who has any potential, it’s Choi Jae-seong?

Koo Tae-hwan is quick-witted, but he doesn’t know how to use that quick-wittedness well, so he’s the type that’s easily fooled by experienced businessmen.

“I’ll plan this out a bit more and then let you know.”

“No, why?”

“Because it was obvious you would object.”

“You’re not thinking of going against the public broadcasting system, are you?”

“Hey, I’m not even in puberty.”

After saying that, he changed the topic of conversation.

I don’t intend to go into detail, but the reason I started talking here is because I didn’t want Chief Seo Seung-hyun to feel ignored later on.

“Okay, then let’s talk about our second album. I think it’ll sell better, right?”

“We have to make it sell more.”

So we talked about the sales strategy for the second album.

A particular focus was the timing of the release of the sound source.

The sound source was originally scheduled to be released next week, but I’m not sure if that was the right decision.

A trend that I couldn’t understand (though I understood it rationally) blew in.

A strange authentication method that is popular among people is buying our physical albums and playing them together.

There will definitely be a sense of pride in it, thinking, ‘You haven’t heard this yet, have you?’

But the moment the song is released for streaming, that feeling disappears.

However, there are many things on my mind that make it difficult to further postpone the release of the sound source.

I don’t know which is bigger, the pie created by the trend or the pie created by the release of the music.

“I’ll look into that. I’ll do some research.”

“Please.”

“Oh, and I got a call from HR Corporation… … .”

Some time passed and the meeting ended.

As he left the conference room, Chief Seo Seung-hyun tapped his smartphone so that only I could see it.

The text that arrived a little while later.

[If there is something you need to reach an agreement with the members, please do so quickly.]

[Quickly?]

[Isn’t the reason why boycott is actually good because of the evaluation of the unit album?]

I wondered what he meant, but then I realized that Chief Seo Seung-hyun had misunderstood.

This is something we discussed with M Show a while ago, and we had a lot of trouble deciding between the unit + 2nd album music show format and the solo 2nd album music show format.

If we include all the units, the broadcast volume will increase too much, but if we exclude them, they are too popular.

But what Mshow couldn’t say here is Choi Jae-seong.

Choi Jae-sung’s unit album does not go well with Sedalbaekil’s regular album.

So, the ending is very different.

Choi Jae-sung’s album is synth pop, but its usage is closer to party tunes, which is quite far from a party tune.

That’s right, Choi Jae-seong’s album is where I took the strong lines from and changed them into something exciting.

Because intensity and excitement are completely different realms.

So, M Show wanted to make a unit without Choi Jae Sung on stage, even though he couldn’t speak, but I refused.

There is no need to do that.

However, unlike M Show, public broadcasting is more likely to force this, and Chief Seo Seung-hyun misunderstood that I was acting calm because of that.

But this is 100% a misunderstanding.

I’m not really interested in the stage of the unit album.

If Choi Jae-sung says he wants to do something, I will make sure he does it no matter what, and if Choi Jae-sung says he doesn’t want to do it, I will make sure he doesn’t do it.

“What are you doing?”

While I was thinking about that, the members of Sedalbaekil tilted their heads.

“Let’s go, Zion.”

“Sit down for a moment. I have something to say.”

Lee Ion, who was quietly sitting down, said something I never expected.

“Are you dating?”

“yes?”

“No, you’ve been playing with your phone too much since earlier. You’re not usually like that.”

“If you’re in love, your album won’t sell. It’s banned until you’ve sold 200 million copies.”

“… … .”

The members seemed a little embarrassed, but didn’t say much.

Since it was time to bring up an important topic, I set the mood and then opened my mouth.

“Do you remember what I said earlier that I liked it?”

“Boycott the public broadcasting?”

“yes.”

“What are you thinking?”

But it’s a bit strange.

The public broadcasting stations are boycotting the show, but why are the members so calm?

“Doesn’t it matter to you all? You’re so calm.”

“So what, we made a good album. We’ve made a lot of money, so we need to find a better way to communicate with our fans than through music shows.”

Of course, Choi Jae-sung further explained that it is impossible to completely replace them because fans love winning first place on music shows so much.

“But why is it better?”

He shrugged his shoulders at Koo Tae-hwan’s question.

Originally, I was planning to wait until the corona period.

It was a time of great upheaval in show business, and the power of individual singers grew as much as that of entertainment.

Because of Corona, personal broadcasting and personal content are gaining tremendous power and opportunities are also increasing.

But I don’t think that will be necessary.

“I’m going to try to line up a bit.”

“Line? What line?”

“Leave Choi Ma-ho and us behind.”

“what?”

Max Ho Choi has given me the white flag, but I have no intention of ending the war with that.

You’re right, you have to pay it back.

Otherwise, this is a place that is looked down upon.

That’s right.

For me, this boycott was an opportunity for revenge.