Korean Entertainment: Perfect Cheating Life

Kim So Min's comeback is on her birthday, March 3, which happens to be her adult birthday, making her 26 (20) years old.

Kim So Min has been very busy during this period. Her album is aimed at Europe and the United States, so she travels back and forth between the United States and France on a daily basis. She has not had the opportunity to promote her album on Al Jazeera.

Kim So Min shot new ads and stills for Dior. After the ads, she appeared on various radio programs and talk shows in the United States.

Dior advertisements were displayed all over the world on her birthday.

Kim So Min's return timing is just right. There have been no particularly famous European and American singers releasing new works in the European and American markets recently, which is a natural advantage for her album to come out.

Universal Music has put a lot of thought into Kim So Min's new album and has done a lot of promotional work.

The album released by Red Velvet is a Korean album. Korean albums have no radio channels to listen to, so naturally the performance cannot be recorded.

It’s different with Masquerade.

British singles have natural advantages. Kim So Min's album was promoted through various channels of Universal, including radio.

While the album was promoted through traditional channels, it also performed extremely well through various new-age channels.

The title song "Masquerade" quickly became popular with the help of TikTok.

With Kim So-min's previous classic "Cupid" and other excellent songs as a foundation, many people will naturally listen to her new song.

Her carefully produced song MV became an instant hit on YouTube and Tik Tok, and a craze for following the puppet dance swept the world.

Kim So Min had it all, with the right time, the right place and the right people. Multiple data improvements made "Masquerade" land directly at the 10th place on the B chart.

In just less than 24 hours, the album received nearly 2 million views, successfully breaking the single-day streaming music playback record.

Fans of Peninsula idols have a unique habit, which is "brushing the charts", that is, helping idols improve their music performance by "brushing data".

When fans found out about the title song’s unexpected success, they became more determined to get better results for Kim So Min.

Since the download volume of Chart B is also included in the ranking calculation, with the joint efforts of fans, the download volume of Kim So Min's album songs has skyrocketed.

The higher the download volume, the higher the ranking; the higher the ranking, the easier it is to attract more people to listen.

As the ranking on the charts continued to rise, the popularity of the ranking in turn promoted the spread of the song because the quality of the song itself was so outstanding and novel.

So, in the second week of the new song's release, Kim So Min's new song "Masquerade" topped the music charts in 35 countries including the Peninsula, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The album has been played over 10 billion times, successfully breaking the record for streaming music plays in the United States and firmly ranking first on the Billboard Hot 100.

When Kim So-min learned the good news, she was still immersed in a sweet dream and was awakened by the ringing of Lee Soo-man's phone.

Li Xiuman's voice was filled with uncontrollable excitement: "Somin! Congratulations! You have become a world-class superstar now!"

For Lee Soo-man, who has always had a strong desire to enter the US market, Kim So-min's outstanding performance is undoubtedly the realization of his lifelong dream.

Therefore, his tone when speaking to Kim So Min became particularly gentle.

"Somin, did you see that? Your title song has won the weekly championship on the B chart!"

However, Kim So Min had just returned from a promotional event in the United States and was suffering from jet lag. Plus, she had to get up early the next day to participate in a music show, so she had already fallen asleep.

She was very sleepy and still a little grumpy when she heard the exciting news.

After hearing the good news from Li Xiuman, Kim So-min's reaction was still a little slow.

She responded calmly: "Yeah, I understand."

Li Xiuman was a little confused: "Ah? Somin, this is the weekly champion of the B list?"

Jin Zhaomin's brain had not yet fully come to its senses, and his tone remained calm: "So what?"

Li Xiuman was a little confused: "B list? Shouldn't you be very happy?"

Kim So-min was already a little impatient at this time, and she replied: "Of course I am happy, but I need to have a good rest now."

After saying that, she hung up the phone without hesitation and fell down to continue sleeping.

Li Xiuman only heard a few "beep" sounds on the other end of the phone and then the call was hung up.

He felt extremely lost because he had no one to share his joy with.

Soon he thought again: Kim So-min is worthy of being the child of a four-star chaebol family. He is really used to big scenes. He can still be so calm after winning the weekly championship on the B list.

Then, as the general manager of SM company, shouldn't he be reserved and steady when he arrives at the company tomorrow?

It doesn’t seem to work, that’s the B list!

He is still very excited!

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After hanging up the phone, Kim So-min fell down and continued to sleep.

Not long after she closed her eyes, she suddenly woke up—she had become the weekly champion of Chart B!

B list! And it's the weekly champion!

Kim So-min suddenly opened his eyes and stood up, picked up a piece of chocolate from the bedside table and took a bite to relieve the hypoglycemia caused by suddenly getting up.

The words "Champion Zhou" kept echoing in her dull mind, and she suddenly became energetic.

“Weekly Champion… I’m the Weekly Champion of List B…?!”

That's the B list! She couldn't believe it.

She was confident that she would win the championship, but she didn't expect it to be so soon. This is her first solo album!

Kim So-min immediately searched the news.

This piece of news has become a hot topic since it came out. She doesn't even need to search it herself. As long as she opens her phone, she can see that major media outlets are constantly pushing news about her winning the championship.

The Peninsula media has always used exaggerated words. After Kim So-min actually achieved such exaggerated results, their words of praise became even more arrogant and endless.

According to the media in the Peninsula, her new song "has become as popular as the national anthem."

Her presence is that of a world-class star, "increasing the world's interest in the peninsula."

Her talent has surpassed Taylor Swift, punched Meng Long and a series of European and American superstars.

Kim So-min has evolved from "the pride of the Peninsula" and "the future of K-pop" to "every word and action represents the Peninsula."

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It is true that Kim So-min enjoys being praised by others, but when she saw those words of praise, it was like a bucket of cold water was poured on her, and her mind became much clearer.

She is arrogant enough, but she is not a fool. She respects many talented and good-hearted singers!

Who wrote such an outrageous headline, attracting hatred to her and trampling on her idol?

Kim So-min never agreed!

Many of the headlines with political implications made her even more irritated.

If she were to say, this bunch of politicians should be stopped!

The political situation on the peninsula is in such a mess now, why do you want to drag her into this mess?

She is a big star and has nothing to do with politics, let alone representing the entire peninsula.

Just take Kim So-min and Four Star, chaebols who occasionally make small moves to gain some advantages, if their private dealings were really exposed, would she be okay?

The higher you stand, the harder you fall.

The more popular Zhou Guan is this time, the harder it will be for Kim So Min to surpass him when he returns next time.

The media is now exaggeratedly happy, but after the audience's enthusiasm and novelty have passed, the public will naturally raise their expectations of Kim So Min, and some people may even become disgusted with her existence.

This is not a good thing to continue.

Kim So-min thought to herself - she is so young, and she will definitely do more things that will displease the public in the future.

She rolled her eyes and sent a message to Park Eun-jeong.

"Ouni, please help me control the public opinion. This excessive hype is not good for me. Try to avoid mentioning politics and national issues in the press release."

Park Eun-jeong, a Peninsular who doesn't need sleep, is still working at this time.

She replied immediately: "Received."

Kim So-min still felt that it was not safe enough, so she sent a message to Uncle Wen in the Blue House.

"Uncle, the recent news is too exaggerated. It's probably the work of Park Party, right? We need to teach them a lesson."

The next morning, the person with the note "Uncle Wen" replied to her.

"Congratulations on your good results. I will keep them in check."