Chapter 45 Debut Documentary The trainees of BD Entertainment have been taking a look at the charts of major music websites during their daily practice breaks. "Spring Love Sakura" is still killing! After becoming completely well-known, even though there are no more data contributed by mainland fans, the song still shows extremely strong staying power and continues to dominate all charts. Unsurprisingly, "Spring Love Sakura" won its first weekly championship on all major music platforms and achieved the PAK achievement. Since the music website was restructured in 2010 and the first PAK song in KPOP history, "Nagging", was born, there are only a handful of songs that have achieved this achievement. IU alone took up nearly half of the songs, and traditional singers also made up the majority of the remaining songs. Among idol groups, the only ones that have achieved PAK so far are 2NE1, a major music source group, and miss A, who reached the peak right after their debut. Even as strong as Girls' Generation who reached the top, the title song of their new album failed to achieve the same success as PAK! From this we can see how popular "Spring Love Sakura" is in the peninsula recently. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a phenomenon. What’s quite funny is that Jin Shiming’s debut album, which no one cared about at the time, was dug out by listeners many years later, and the audio source even returned to the charts.
Among them, the highest ranking has to be Jin Shiming’s self-composed song "Shower", this non-main song quietly made its way into the inner circle! "Sing 'Shower' for me! Sing a few more and push BIGBANG's 'Blue' down!" After Ding Enfei contributed her share of playbacks for today, she began to imagine the close-up scenes of "Showers" and "Spring Love Sakura". “Ouni, ‘Blue’ is actually quite enjoyable to listen to. It shouldn’t be squeezed out of the second place on the daily chart in a short time.” Huang Enfei said casually. "Ah! You are a trainee of BD Entertainment now. How can you not stand on the side of our company's president, but speak for outsiders? It's so disheartening!" Ding Enfei put her hands on her hips and tried to act like an older sister. "No, I help contribute data every day, so why don't I support President Nim?" Huang Enfei was not intimidated by the pretentious unnie in front of her, and rolled her eyes speechlessly. She has been subjected to a lot of nagging from this sister recently because she is a fan of BIGBANG and a potential "enemy"! "President Nim has really become famous this time. When I returned home yesterday, my oppa and unnies asked me to ask President Nim for an autograph!" Kim Ye-won said with a smile. "My mom hardly listens to KPOP songs, but now she can actually hum a few lines of 'Spring Love Sakura'. In her own words, now no matter where you go, you can hear roadside businesses playing this song." Zheng Yilin nodded continuously. "The song 'Spring Love Sakura' is so appropriate to listen to in spring. I always listen to it twice when I take the bus or subway recently." Choi Yuna said with emotion. "This is a good thing! President Nim has become famous, and BD Entertainment will benefit from it. We will have more opportunities to make progress in the future!" said Li LUDA. She really wants to make progress. Everyone was chatting when Jin Shaoqing suddenly pushed the door and walked in hurriedly. "Kids, we just received a notice from Director Jin that the president-nim will be observing the entire monthly assessment!" Jin Shaoqing said to everyone. When everyone heard this, their faces changed drastically. Even trainees like Kim Sejeong, Choi Yuna, and Hwang Eunbi, who usually perform well, looked nervous as if they were facing a formidable enemy. Although they often complain that their director Kim Hyung-eun is a devil, when it comes to pressure, it has to be the company president Kim Se-myung. Jin Shiming is a modest gentleman in his daily life. He is very kind and gentle to everyone, without any airs at all, just like an older brother next door. However, whenever it comes to classes, practice, assessments, and work, Jin Shiming becomes particularly strict and serious. In a dance class a few days ago, even his beloved sister Shizheng was almost questioned and broke down on the spot. As for little crybabies like Zheng Yilin and Ding Enfei, let alone them, they drop little pearls every day. However, although Jin Shiming was strict, he was by no means unreasonable or deliberately making things difficult for them.
What is even more commendable is that Jin Shiming rarely brings up personal emotions during communication. He almost never uses bad words, and he never relies on his status and position to verbally abuse or suppress or punish others. As trainees of Peninsula, they have learned through what they have seen and heard that many company executives in the industry do not treat trainees as human beings at all. People like Jin Shiming who have extremely high moral standards are considered outliers. It is precisely for this reason that even though they are often made to cry by Jin Shiming, they feel more self-blame and shame than sadness and grievance. Perhaps they had some reservations in their hearts before, thinking that BD Entertainment was a small company with no future, but now they have completely regarded themselves as members of BD Entertainment and vowed to stand by the company through thick and thin. …… Jin Shiming came to the practice room and all the trainees present stood up to greet him. "I'm here today not only for the monthly assessment, but also to announce something that is closely related to you!" Jin Shiming waved his hand and announced solemnly, "For the next year, the company will comprehensively consider your performance and select a group of trainees above level B to enter the closed training phase!" Upon hearing this, the trainees exclaimed in surprise. They all understood what Jin Shiming meant. BD Entertainment was planning a new girl group and started selecting members from the trainees! If you want to enter the next round of closed practice, the hard condition is to be promoted to level B or above, otherwise you will not even be qualified to enter. Obviously, every assessment result in the following year will become more and more important. "Also, the company has specially assigned two photographers to follow your daily life and training, which will be used as material for your future debut documentary." Jin Shiming introduced the two staff members beside him. BD Entertainment has limited funds and certain unnecessary expenses must be controlled. If it were any other small company, they would definitely not hire a photography team and spend a lot of time and money to shoot a debut documentary. However, in Jin Shiming's opinion, an excellent debut documentary can have an immediate effect in enhancing the artist's brand value, increasing fan cohesion, and even shaping the company's image. Even though the initial investment will be large, Jin Shiming is confident that he can create greater profits in the future. When the trainees heard that the company was planning to shoot a debut documentary, their eyes lit up and they were filled with enthusiasm as if they had been injected with chicken blood. The bigger the investment Jin Shiming makes, the more it shows how much he values the new group. Faced with this opportunity which may be the only one in a lifetime, shouldn't the trainees try their best to seize it? Nowadays, even for the three major bands launched by Peninsula, there are few serious debut documentaries. They organized a debut variety show and filmed an extra video introducing the members, which was enough to praise the company for being willing to invest the money. For example, some new groups from small companies basically just take a few personal makeup photos and randomly piece together some materials from their early auditions and assessments. As for the debut documentary, that’s just wishful thinking! (End of this chapter)