Although Testar was doing well in Korea, it was only within Korea.
Just looking at the number of views on WeTube right now, it was also lagging behind the groups that were in the top 50 on the music chart.
This ant that compared to other large agency groups, we were relatively less recognized overseas.
‘But all of sudden, we’re on Billboard.’
On the world album chart?
I thought it was realistic.
But it wasn’t.
“Alternative Digital Song Sales Chart… is it?”
“Yes!”
I’d never heard of it before.
Everyone reflexively looked at Cha Eugene, who was a native.
Hmm, he also had an expression of hearing it for the first ti.
“Oops! Wait.”
The manager, who was supposed to explain, got a call from the company and ran out again.
‘How chaotic.’
As we headed back to the waiting room, we asked Cha Eugene a question.
“The chart ntioned before, do you know about it?”
“Alternative Songs Chart… I don’t.”
Except for Kim Raebin, everyone looked unsure.
“That…Alternate… What kind of chart is it…?
“There’s only Alternative Rock. I like that one!”
“Ah.”
It must be a kind of rock genre. The chart seed to be referred by the genre.
‘So the digital sales attached at the end… Does it an that it is a chart that purely asures the music sales?’
As soon as I found my smartphone in the waiting room, I checked what kind of chart it was.
…It was a sub-genre, sub-minor detailed chart that only showed up to 25th place.
‘It’s for paid mbers, too.’
Kim Raebin muttered next to with a vague face.
“There is no alternative rock in the title track…”
I first checked the previous chart using the saved page of the last search engine.
“Oh, how about this?”
Keun Sejin stepped in and swiped the screen down.
“Hey.”
“Haha! You can tell just by looking at the album here…?”
As a result of skimming down, Testar’s album cover… It wasn’t there.
“…?”
Hey.
“This!”
At that mont, Cha Eugene’s hand intruded on my smartphone screen. Then he moved it around and picked up a song.
[ Bonus book / TeSTAR]
“…!!”
“Heol.”
lіghtnоvеlwоrld․соm fоr а bеttеr uѕеr ехреrіеnсе
“Our ga song!”
Right.
The song of , the ga without dreams and hopes that we collaborated with when releasing our second album, had entered the charts.
I was automatically reminded of when I had to dress up as colleague characters who were massacred in Chapter 1.
“But it’s not our album, though?”.
As Keun Sejin said, the album cover was different.
I imdiately found the song on Spatify.
‘…It’s a ga OST album.’
The situation was cleared up only after we heard the news on the way to the car from the manager who had returned.
“Global launch of the ga?”
“Yeah! But it must have gone very well. They said it was a ss!”
had a global launch this ti, mainly in the UK and US, and it was a hit.
The manager chuckled.
“So they released an OST album, and your song is on the charts there! Hey, isn’t it because the song is good?”
“Right?”
“T-That’s great…!”
The mbers who roughly grasped the situation laughed and relaxed.
Because it was good news.
‘That’s why the news ca on Sunday out of the blue.’
The Billboard chart would have been updated on Wednesday.
Technically, it was the result of the ga’s performance, not Testar’s.
Whether it was the agency or the fans, it wasn’t a big and urgent matter, so it must have taken a few days for the news to reach the manager.
‘Must be nice for T1.’
They made a big hit with the small ga company they acquired. Of course, the capital would have been rcilessly poured in.
Anyway, it was good for us that the OST did well. It was a song that was connected to the album a lot.
‘Other than the verses, everything was in English, is that why it worked?’
It didn’t show any signs of appearing on the main chart and only appeared in the lower ranks of the minor chart, but it was still good news.
I shrugged my shoulders and put on my neck pillow, and suddenly I felt strange.
‘Sohow, the ga OST made it to the chart…?’
I thought it was possible because it was a minor chart, but it wasn’t even a movie OST, is it possible to do this with a ga OST? Of a mobile ga that just launched?
In addition, I wasn’t even sure what criteria it had that made it classified as an alternative rock. I thought it was just K-pop that borrowed only rock elents.
‘It’s a bit strange.’
I needed to check what the heck happened.
I went around ga communities on my smartphone for the first ti in a long ti.
And I figured it out.
‘Testar coback trailer was used as the ga again.’
seed to have carried out s on WeTube or billboards overseas in line with the global launch, and it seed our trailer video was actively used here.
‘The quality was so good.’
It was like a cinematic trailer.
The country would have recycled it, too.
Anyway, it seed the British and Arican foreigners who saw the thought that Testar in the trailer was just comrcial actors playing characters in the ga.
‘Because we didn’t dance, we didn’t sing, we just acted.’
lіghtnоvеlwоrld․соm fоr thе bеѕt nоvеl rеаdіng ехреrіеnсе
If you were a ga enthusiast who was not interested in K-pop, it was understandable you would think like that.
We were not as well-known overseas as VTIC.
Anyway, since the response to the trailer comrcial was good… the ga company took a step further.
In the global version of the ga, a part of the trailer was even inserted on the screen waiting for additional data to be downloaded within the app.
Thanks to this, overseas users seed to have naturally tasted the spiciness of the experience of ‘those who seem to be important are sohow being massacred as soon as chapter 1 is over’.
And it was said that it was a trend among ga strears to upload videos of being shocked after playing Chapter 1.
I searched for it and found videos with hundreds or even millions of views.
[Never play 127 Section… NEVER!]
[MY FIRST TI PLAYING 127 SECTION. (I hate it)]
The thumbnails were foreigners with headsets on, crying, shouting, or popping out their eyes.
‘It’s really a ss.’
Anyway, based on its popularity, had received great reviews for its story performance and UI, and was doing quite well in the UK and US… That was the summary.
‘I thought with that kind of ga UI and visuals, it would be like that.’
It seed to be compared to so famous indie gas that were recognized for their workmanship and worldview. The topic of GOTY[1]I looked it up and GOTY is apparently an acronym of the Ga of the Year was already ntioned.
However, unlike the booming global market, the dostic ga community was in a ss with this.
Once you searched on an anonymous site…
“…Hmm.”
This… wasn’t going to work. It was so bad that Seon Ahyeon or Bae Sejin would faint if they saw it.
‘It’s a bit creepy.’
So I looked for a community that was less energetic but very mild.
There were traces of controversy in so posts on the bulletin board with suggestions to the production team.
[Let’s stop using idols as promotion]
: Let’s say there’s nothing we can do about advertising. That’s how it is these days.
But when the ga keeps reminding you of the real celebrities, it’s a different case. I hope it doesn’t happen anymore.
I thought it would be okay because all the collab characters died in the first chapter, but there is a significant nuance that they would co back again.
Recently, the image of idols has been erased, so I tried to only see them as characters in gas, but the idols appeared again in global s.
It’s fine if you don’t know the idol well, but that’s not the case with us.
I’m worried that they’re going to do another stupid thing again after seeing the success of the global version.
Please, end it with the launching .
(I feel sorry for the idols.)
– That’s right, I hope they enjoy it in the beginning and don’t bring it back when it’s over
– I thought it was because they had to promote it at the launch, but I’m a bit worried now. The dostic update period is getting longer… Abandoned Factory, can’t you keep it together?
– First of all, this isn’t so kind of otaku ga. When T-One took over, they made a lot of efforts to grow
└Male idols attract otaku, though…?
└It was ant to be a female-oriented otaku ga
└Are you crazy? I hate it too
– I like itㅠㅠ Wasn’t the trailer cool?
– I like the trailer, too. Testar is fine, but they seem to be overreacting… There’s no talk about a new collaboration.
└You have to act like this from now on so that they notice and won’t let it happen. Let’s get the mood
– What’s this, why do yous switch up? Weren’t they originally Godstar
└It’s been a month since it ended, when did we talk about it?ㅋㅋ
└There were a lot of idol fans back thenㅎㅎ
lіghtnоvеlwоrld․соm fоr а bеttеr uѕеr ехреrіеnсе
└This sounds a bit malicious. At that ti, it was just launching and everyone was so excited. The idols also promoted a lot of things through collaboration.
– I think it’s good that the global launch was advertised using that video, but it’s disgusting because the fanart shows the idols. It’s bearable. Just don’t do it again.
“Mmm.”
After looking at a few more articles and the flow of popular articles, I understood roughly.
‘It cooled down.’
To put it bluntly, the interest was gone.
At first, capital and awareness were invested into the new ga of a ga company that might go bankrupt, so they showed favorability. Because it urgently needed to be a hit.
‘They must have been heated up because the results were really good.’
Besides, the shock from having the initial colleagues killed must have made them more excited.
Since there were many Testar’s fans that had flown in through Testar’s promotion, the atmosphere must have proceeded like that to so extent.
But the characters were already dead and left. Naturally, Testar’s fans didn’t feel the incentive to continue, so they must have dropped it in no ti.
In this way, the story of the massacre of the initial colleagues beca public, and the proportion of people who flowed into the ‘exciting mobile ga’ increased, and the normal flow was set again.
‘That’s why they’re not interested in the idols.’
It ant they didn’t want to have interesting and disparate guys in their favorite ga content.
In addition, since the reaction to the initial colleagues at the ga company was so intense, it seed they continued to sprinkle content about the initial colleagues even in the updated content.
However, with Testar’s appearing in this global version as well, it was understandable that they would be worried about having another collaboration.
‘Then there’s only one way.’
Do not get tied up with them. I turned off my smartphone and sorted it all out.
Because I saw the group’s na on the billboard out of the blue, let’s end it with sothing fun.
And sure enough, it wasn’t long before a subtle inquiry ca in from the company.
“Guys, by any chance, about the ga collaboration…”
“No, I don’t think so.”
“We have to prepare for the next album~”
“…?? Guys?”
The manager was taken aback by the neat refusal.
‘I knew this would happen, so I gathered the kids together and briefed them.’
– T-The collaboration was fun…
– Haha, so you want to leave after the applause~
So of them were a little disappointed, but everyone agreed anyway. Also, the fact that doing it would only make them tired seed to have struck a chord in their hearts.
From to the controversy over the Rookie of the Year award, it was tiring to beco a controversial topic on the Internet.
So, for the first ti since the group’s decision, a project refusal occurred.
‘Have I been too obedient?’
The company tried to persuade us a few tis, but the group’s right to speak had beco stronger due to Testar’s recent performance, so it was safely dispelled.
And one day while preparing for the new album and the festival schedule in May.
This ti a different topic ca out.
“Perform in Arica?”
“Yes! And it’s a popular program these days! It’s a little small and mainly on WeTube, but the viewer base is also certain…”
The company employee talked excitedly, then he slightly cleared his throat.
‘…Are you trying to read the room?’
I had a bad feeling.
“But… Um, they want you to sing the ga collaboration song?”
Ah, as expected.
lіghtnоvеlwоrld․соm fоr а bеttеr uѕеr ехреrіеnсе
1. I looked it up and GOTY is apparently an acronym of the Ga of the Year
Reviews
All reviews (0)