Damn Idol - Chapter 197



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Fucking Idol Episode 197

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“what?”

Choi Dae-ho made a bewildered expression at the words of Team Leader Park, who was like his right-hand man.

It was because of the news that Team Leader Park brought.

“Why is Se-dal-baek-il clinging to us?”

“It seems like one of two things. Either he brought up Ryan Entertainment’s name to avoid pressure from the public, or he is really seeking revenge.”

“Is this revenge?”

“It depends on the nature of the revenge. Couldn’t something that even irritates the CEO be considered revenge?”

Choi Dae-ho frowned slightly at Team Leader Park’s words.

Team Leader Park is a good worker and uses precise wording to match his work, but sometimes it can be annoying.

But he can’t deny that Han Shi-on gets on his nerves.

It’s not just this one incident.

The more successful Se-dal-baek-il is, the more annoying it becomes.

Although it clashed with Sedalbaekil over the take-scene, the actual percentage of take-scenes in Ryan Entertainment’s total sales is small.

It wasn’t supposed to be small, but it became small.

However, Ryan Entertainment has many singers who are more important than Takeshi, and there were some who clashed head-on with Sedalbaekil at the beginning of the year.

Of course, the result was not a collision.

Because you can’t call it a collision when a passing truck runs over a patch of grass.

But Mixway, which will begin activities next week, is a little different.

Industry insiders are calling Mixway the ‘rival of Sedalbaekil’.

This is true even though Ryan Entertainment did not do the unfollowing.

However, if you look at it objectively, because the mountain is high, it felt like the issue was focused on mountaineers as well.

The mountain called Sedalbaekil is so high that one wonders who will conquer it.

The power of the Mixway fandom was also gathering, ready to support the activities.

So Ryan Entertainment’s marketing direction was in line with this.

It is clear that Sedalbaekil will achieve better results than Mixway in terms of records.

The music charts will be high, and physical album sales will be higher.

But you can’t have an advantage in everything.

Obviously, there are certain areas where Mixway will have the upper hand, and Ryan Entertainment’s PR team will focus on that.

This is done by using modifiers such as ‘Winning three months and a hundred days with ㅇㅇㅇ.’

The best case scenario here is that Mixway takes first place on a music show.

Because music shows don’t just give scores based on physical album sales.

It’s possible that this will change depending on how well Mixway’s albums sell and how well digital music does, but it’s not impossible.

Especially in cases where the broadcast activity score is low, such as Sedalbaekil.

but…….

‘If this is the case, is it impossible to compete in music shows?’

Han Si-on threw a dagger.

You have to choose between Sedalbaekil and Ryan Enter.

Of course it’s Ryan Enter.

This is the same no matter how great the musical achievement of Sedalbaekil may be.

But what’s important now is not the phenomenon.

That’s why.

Why is Sedalbaekil holding on to Ryan Entertainment?

“A business that was built by luck with a little talent and skill is what gets in the way of your goals.”

“How many albums do you think I lost because of you? Your patience that may end at any moment?”

“So just wait. When the time comes, I will take it down.”

Are you saying that what you said back then was true?

At that time, Choi Max-ho was overwhelmed by Han Si-on’s chilling momentum and panicked.

Han Si-on’s eyes were really looking down on Choi Dae-ho, and his attitude was filled with intimidation.

But looking back, it’s funny.

How successful Sedalbaekil is, how many albums it sells, what does that have to do with Ryan Entertainment’s business?

No matter how much money they make, they can’t bring down a major entertainment company.

Unless you really want to make a few billion and invest it all in the downfall of Ryan Entertainment.

“Team Leader Park.”

“yes.”

“What do you think? How should we respond?”

“I think we need to take a strong stance. We also need to strongly protest to M Show. I think that’s why the M Show music show schedule wasn’t released.”

“What, M-Show? I went all-in on the 3rd and 100th day. That’s funny too.”

“There seems to be a big political reason. The line that currently dominates the mainstream of M Show is in jeopardy.”

“It is history that revolutionary forces take unreasonable measures.”

CEO Choi Ma-ho became lost in thought after hearing Team Leader Park’s opinion.

Sedalbaekil was hanging on to Ryan Entertainment’s trouser legs.

The reason is either evasion or revenge.

Or it could be a combination of the two.

So what does Sedalbaekil hate the most these days?

The situation you most hope will never happen.

“hmm…….”

CEO Choi Ma-ho was deep in thought.

Then a good idea occurred to me.

“Team Leader Park. If you think about it, Sedalbaekil grew up eating up the buzz from the take scene.”

“Yes, that’s right. The color show teaser and the music video teaser were all aimed at the take scene.”

Team Leader Park answered with his mouth, but his feelings were different.

Sedal Baekil would have achieved the same success even without holding on to the take scene.

Their holding on to the take scene is not an act of efficiency, but rather an act of revenge.

However, CEO Choi Ma-ho’s vision becomes blurred when it comes to Se-dal-baek-il, or rather, Han-shi-on.

The reason the revolutionary army is making a fuss is because they are anxious.

And in Team Leader Park’s view, Choi Dae-ho is anxious.

But there are times when salaried workers have to nod their heads without saying anything.

“Then how about we do it the other way around this time?”

“Are you saying that we should make Mixway share the same amount of buzz with Sedalbaekil?”

“that’s right.”

“It’s going to be a bit messy dribbling public opinion. The Mixway fandom might not like it. Especially since Mixway’s latest album didn’t go down well, right?”

In Team Leader Park’s view, Sedalbaekil is not a company that can be dealt with through marketing.

The 3-month-100-day market does not overlap with Mixway.

To be more precise, the market for Sedalbaekil is so huge that it can be considered the ‘general public’.

So, the best way to do Mixway is to do it the right way.

But it seemed like Choi Max-ho was already caught up in his own thoughts.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that CEO Choi’s ideas were completely baseless or bad.

He is a successful businessman in the K-pop market and a smart guy.

“There are many K-pop fans who dislike Sedalbaekil. Do you know why?”

“Yes. Because it is changing the color of idol culture. There are many cases where the public mocks them by holding them as a comparison group for three months and a hundred days.”

“Yeah. Who are the guys that came out with a band concept a while ago?”

“This is Bluesome.”

“Yeah. They got cursed at for nothing. The fandom started to hate them for three months and a hundred days. The enemy of my enemy is my comrade.”

Choi Ma-ho continued speaking excitedly.

“If you put Mixway and Sedalbaekil in the same ring, neutral fans or fandoms of competing groups will stick to Mixway.”

“I think it is definitely possible, since Mixway’s recent individual activities have raised his profile.”

“Yeah. The dramas were huge hits. Two of them, too. The basic favorability ratings will be pretty high.”

The pictures that Choi Max-ho draws are simple.

Mixway started their activities and held on for three months and a hundred days, making people see the two groups as one.

I wonder who will achieve greater results in which area.

Of course, they won’t fight fair and square, and Mixway will be under the protection of Ryan Entertainment’s public relations team.

Here, Mixway only needs to win in one or two areas.

Then Ryan Entertainment will mobilize every media outlet it can to discuss Mixway’s success.

Those who like classic K-pop will side with Mixway.

Then Mixway’s weight class will go up one level.

The advantage of Mixway is that the members’ individual activities are successful, but the disadvantage is that the proportion of individual activities is too large.

It is also a great opportunity to unite the team and the fandom.

“how is it?”

“Okay, but my concern is that the risk is too great.”

“Risk?”

“If you’re not careful, you could end up giving up everything you could have gained by doing it the right way.”

Because in Team Leader Park’s opinion, there was no group that looked good when linked to Sedalbaekil.

But Choi Max-ho was clearly impressed.

Because he had the stubbornness and tenacity typical of a middle-aged man who had succeeded in his own way.

“Let’s proceed.”

“……All right.”

Team Leader Park could only nod his head.

After all, Choi Max-ho was the one who paid his salary.

“Isn’t today the last day of the first count of the three months?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“If you sell the unit album and the second album together, the initial sales won’t be that bad, right?”

Team Leader Park immediately understood what Choi Ma-ho was saying.

“We will try to hold as many fan signing events as possible to get through the first week as soon as possible.”

Of course, it cannot exceed the initial sales of the three unit albums of Sedalbaekil and the second album combined.

Second album, just one more is enough.

A little later, Team Leader Park found out that the initial sales of Sedalbaekil’s second regular album was 680,000 copies.

Combined with unit album sales, the total is over 1.2 million copies.

‘These guys are crazy.’

Team Leader Park, who is not a regressor, may not know this, but the initial sales of K-pop groups have been increasing year after year.

And the year that singularity was reached was 2018.

Because 2018 was the first year that initial sales surpassed 1 million copies.

In fact, to be exact, the initial sales of Sedalbaekil were 680,000 copies.

Because the initial sales figures are not included in Billboard’s remix tally, and unit album sales cannot be included in the record as well.

Even if that unit album was derived from the second album.

But what’s surprising is that the initial sales of 680,000 copies of “Sedal Baekil” had nothing to do with the fan signing event.

No one bought 100, 150, or 200 fan signing cuts.

Even TT 2nd and 3rd generations did not purchase large quantities of the album this time.

It was something I definitely realized at the previous fan signing event.

If you do it for three months and one day, you will be successful.

So, those 680,000 copies were purchased because they truly ‘wanted to hear it.’

It’s not that there weren’t people who bought multiple copies, but even those were bought willingly.

Buy 5 copies, open 1, keep 1, and give 3 as gifts.

And the devil who threw someone’s life into a closed timeline counted all these records.

But it had nothing to do with Team Leader Park.

“Oh, Mr. Kim. Are you free this evening?”

All he had to do was tie the mixway to the three-month-old.

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“Zion. Did you see this article?”

I checked the article on the smartphone that Samiro brought.

There was talk about whether Mixway’s initial sales would surpass that of Sedalbaekil.

Of course, most of the comments were mocking, asking if that would work, but it’s not like it wouldn’t work.

It looks like there are about 150 fan signing cuts for this mixway, and they’ve set up a huge fan signing event.

Plus, since Mixway is being ridiculed for being linked to us, you can see that Mixway’s fandom is becoming more and more united.

but…….

“You’re an idiot.”

I had anticipated several possible moves that Max Ho could make, but I didn’t know he would choose the worst move like this.

I’m so grateful that I feel like sending a text message to say hello.