Chapter 84

Yin Xian's comeback stage came to a close amidst applause.

The live broadcast had just ended, and as a keyword, Yin Xian and his album immediately topped the search charts.

Especially the passionate moment when Yin Xian tore open the envelope, which immediately caught everyone's attention, and the eight-pack abs also became a keyword...

Yin Xian's first full-length album, and his second album "In My Voice," officially kicked off his comeback.

The next day, Yin Xian's album was officially released.

If January 28th was the day when Girls' Generation blew the horn of attack with their first-day sales of 120,000 copies, then February 1st was the day when Yin Xian, like an elder patting a playful little girl on the head and telling her to stop being naughty, reigned over the Korean music industry.

First-day sales of 350,000 copies.

Yes, more than twice that of Girls' Generation. And this number did not change over the next two days.

Three days of sales, 350,000 copies.

Although it was an extremely impressive number, it was strange, wasn't it?

Not at all. Because LOEN Entertainment thought their album was priced too high and wouldn't sell well, so they only printed 350,000 copies for the first batch.

On the third night, a new batch of 500,000 albums was rushed to the market.

Then, on the fourth day, Yin Xian's total album sales skyrocketed to 850,000 copies.

This not only shocked LOEN Entertainment but also the entire Korean music industry and the entertainment world.

What was going on? Did we return to the 1990s when album sales could easily reach hundreds of thousands or even millions?

However, the second-place album by Girls' Generation, with sales of 180,000 copies, brutally reminded everyone that this was just an exception.

LOEN Entertainment, stunned by this magnificent scene, printed one million copies in one go.

This time, they were not swept away again.

But some stores with fewer supplies still reported to LOEN, "I still need more..."

When Yin Xian appeared on KBS's Music Bank as a performer, his album had already sold an astonishing 1.6 million copies and was still steadily increasing. Meanwhile, due to the two English songs on his album, his album was also selling well in the United States, although this part of the data was not reflected in the timely statistics.

Just based on this album sales, Girls' Generation had already lost the courage to compete with Yin Xian.

Yu Yong-jin also personally visited Yin Xian's studio, and the two had a drink together.

The two major producers, who were now on good terms and had put aside their past grievances, could be seen as a reenactment of a scene from a crime drama where the police chief and the gang boss have a hotpot together...

In any case, this somewhat absurd dispute came to an end.

However, the nine members of Girls' Generation looked at Yin Xian with increasingly bitter and resentful eyes...

Naturally, in the first week of the official ranking battle, he easily won his first No. 1 on Music Bank, his first show after his comeback.

Then, "In My Voice" began its consecutive wins on Music Bank and People's Song.

After successfully achieving two three-peat victories, his second lead single, "What Makes You Beautiful," which had already won two consecutive weeks on the Billboard chart, made a strong comeback.

Another three-peat followed, during which "Hoot" barely managed to win one No. 1.

Before Yin Xian's third lead single, "You Are Not Truly Happy," Girls' Generation finally managed to win three No. 1s, saving face, and then withdrew. They would either start their second round of promotions after Yin Xian's third three-peat or simply stop promoting altogether...

After all three lead singles won two three-peat victories on two major TV stations, Yin Xian stopped his promotional activities. Although his fans petitioned for him to continue using his other songs to dominate the entire year's music shows...

On the one hand, he himself felt a bit embarrassed, and on the other hand, the shooting schedule for the drama "Dae Jang Geum" was much heavier than he had imagined, and he was too lazy to go to music shows every week.

So, he left "You Are Not Truly Happy" to continue its dominance on KBS and dove into the whirlpool of MBC's drama.

But what Yin Xian did not expect was that this song, which he had left behind like an unwanted child on KBS, would write a legend...

This all started with the release of the MV on January 31st.

Actually, when shooting the MV that day, the MCs were more playful than serious.

Since this was a special episode of "Infinite Challenge," the theme of humor was always present throughout the filming process, whether in their conversations or actions.

So, although Yin Xian's final song made them all cry, it only made them look forward to the song, not the MV.

After all, they knew how they had performed, and with Yin Xian's shooting style, everyone only saw a glimpse of the whole picture.

But the final product shocked the five MCs, who were already considered top-tier hosts in the Korean entertainment industry.

Especially the main MC, Yoo Jae-suk, known as the National MC, when he saw his smiling face from almost every moment that changed his life since his debut, and the tired face captured in the car, even the slightly ugly and funny face after taking off his glasses, and the moment when he couldn't hold back his tears while listening to a part of the song, he felt a sense of recognition and warmth.

This feeling resonated with everyone who knew Yoo Jae-suk.

Adding to this, the recent incident involving Lu Hongzhe, although it didn't cause a huge wave, it didn't mean no one was paying attention or feeling sad.

Among them, their juniors, who were walking the same "unknown" path that Yoo Jae-suk and Lu Hongzhe had once walked, and those of their generation, or even their seniors, when they saw the smiling face of Lu Hongzhe in the MV edited by Yin Xian, who could not feel worried and sad?

This song was almost written for every comedian.

This is why, that day in the KTV, even the usually stoic Park Myung-soo shed tears.

Thus, this already excellent song, with the addition of the MV, which was both meticulously produced and a bit rough under Yin Xian's supervision, became a sensation in the entire entertainment industry.

After all, not only Yoo Jae-suk and Kang Ho-dong, but also Jin Je-dong, who had faded from the public eye, and Kim Goo-ra and Kim Gu-jun, among many other talk show hosts, were all originally comedians.

When they saw an MV that described the life of comedians, who laugh in front of the audience but are sad behind the scenes, how could they not be moved?

Thus, when "You Are Not Truly Happy" started to chart, almost every day, whenever you turned on any TV channel broadcasting entertainment shows, you could hear the song in various forms from the hosts, whether it was a funny performance, a recitation of the lyrics, or a poem using the song title...

Thus, under such attention, the song ultimately won ten consecutive No. 1s on KBS's Music Bank, breaking the record held by Girls' Generation for over a year, which many people thought would never be broken.

If Yin Xian hadn't announced that the song would officially exit the charts when he personally received the award for the tenth No. 1, it might have continued...

Yin Xian's "You Are Not Truly Happy" became a unique and unreplicable success.

Some people said this was the entire nation making up for the great record that "Gangnam Style" would never have, which was the most mainstream view in the media and online.

But others said this was a miracle created by ordinary people using their own strength, belonging to this era.

Yin Xian himself preferred the latter explanation.