At 5:59 p.m. on the 19th of this month, I sat in front of a laptop I didn't use and cleared my breath. I put up the Melon website, a soundtrack site, and entered the keyword Wanna One in the search window so that I can search immediately at 6 pm. Next to the melon window, another soundtrack sites, Ginny, Bugs, Mnet, and Naver Music, were also displayed. It is a waiting area for the gun ball (gun attack). For today, I paid all the streaming rights of the music source site that I do not usually use well, and I even practiced streaming rehearsal the night before the 'Comeback Eve' because I wanted to make a mistake. “Do we have to do this?” asked Muggles (a term for someone who isn’t an Idol Fan), not a Fan of anyone, as if he couldn’t understand. I’m making money for this.” I heard a tongue clicking over my cell phone. I don’t care. This is the day when Idol Wanna One, my Best Affection (the best end of affection), will release a full-length album ahead of the end of its activities.
At 06:00 p.m., as soon as the clock number at the bottom of the laptop changed, he entered the melon and clicked on Wanna One's new title song Spring Wind play button. In five months, we made a playlist that will follow the Spring Wind according to the recommended streaming list (recommended sming list) that was guided by the Fan club without any time to chew on the thrill of Wanna One comeback. The recommended sming list is a list that I hope Fans will stream in this order at the Idol Fan club level. The sming list has a new song and an old title song evenly, which is the result of a 'scientific design' to keep both the new song's ranking and the previous release songs above a certain rank.
The recommended sming list is a system created because most music sites recognize only one playback time per hour. In other words, playing a certain song 10 times an hour is not recognized as 10 times, but only one playback is recognized even if 10 times is heard. So most Fan clubs make a sming list by mixing the current soundtrack with the previously released soundtrack so that all the songs of the newly released album for one hour enter once. It is the most efficient way to raise the ranking.
After admiring the detailed design of the recommended sming list, he attacked the melon and went to another soundtrack site sequentially and repeated similar work. In fact, I wanted to listen to the songs of Wanna One's comeback album in order. However, once I entered the comeback album title song on various music sites, I decided to leave all my personal greed in the judgment that it is more important to expose all the songs to the top.
After 10 minutes of such busyness, I had time to read the lyrics of the title song "Spring Wind". “I can’t do better/I regret it/I don’t like it/I always want to be with you.” The sad lyrics made me feel more combative about having to work harder on Sming. The other Fans' minds were probably the same, so is that why? Spring Wind took first place on the 7 o'clock chart of major music sites such as Melon, Bugs, Mnet, Naver Music, and Soribada, which were counted one hour after the release of the soundtrack. "Warner One sound charts" and "Warner One's solo continues" were poured out. Most Idol Fans, as well as Wanna One Fans like me, do 'Sming General' in this grammar on the day their favorite Idol announces the soundtrack.
Breathing streaming, Fans aren't happy either
'Shush' and 'Shush'. Breath and breathing are short for 'streaming like breathing'. Idol Fans play their favorite singer's songs on various music sites as if they are breathing. Music videos and Naver TV (TV) casts posted on YouTube should be streamed whenever they can, for high music scores and the number of music video views.
I didn't know until I fell in Wanna One. There's so many different lines of streaming... ...that there's so many ways to rank music and recordings. For example, even if you look at a music source site called Melon, you can measure not only real-time rankings but also the rankings of music sources entering the charts, the rankings of 5-minute charts rankings of market share in 5-minute units, and the rankings of 24-hour users of the soundtracks. Even the 5-minute charts have a “rank forecast” five minutes later, and if the difference between the first and second places is narrowed, they also have a “racing system” that they call “competition.”
Considering the other major music sites, YouTube viewing rankings, the first record (the sales volume for a week after the release), the total sales volume of the album, the music broadcasting ranking, and various awards awards, the word 'war on ranking' and 'war on sming' is not too bad. Sometimes I want to repeat the song I want to keep listening to, but I think I can not do it soon. Because we know that repeating a song does not help much in the ranking of the soundtrack, one side of the head is instructed to repeat it in the order of the set. So Sming was more of a means of ranking than a means of listening to a soundtrack.
As the situation suggests, the comeback of my favorite Idol group is stressing my Fans. It's so nice to see my Idol, because even when you see them, streaming has to go back. “Sming was more like a shackle than to enjoy music,” said Jeon (29), a Fan of the group Big Bang since high school. “When the music source was released, I kept turning the sming without listening to the music because I was afraid that my favorite singer would be told that it was not popular. “I thought, ‘What’s different from Nogada?’” he said. A (28), a Fan of Wanna One, said, "I was burdened by the fact that Sming is basic if I am a Fan. But people often think of rankings as important, so there were times when they were stressed and turned their smings. " There were many angry articles on SNS that I looked for tired of sming. "There were many articles such as stress, stress, etc.
Fandom's sming obsession, is it a problem for Fans only?
It is hard to explain in a word why Fans need to turn their streaming around under this stress. In order to show my Idol's robustness, to show the power of Fandom, for the first place in music broadcasting that reflects the music record and the number of views on YouTube music videos in the rankings, for the year-end awards ceremony, I want others to listen to this song a lot, and there are various reasons that it is difficult to define 'my baby' as one.
When we watched Mnet 'Produce 101 Season 2' last year, we asked those who contributed to Wanna One's birth: What is the reason for sming under this stress? “I’m sad because it’s the last time,” said a late 20-year-old Fan who is usually trying to stream melons as a Wanna One Fan. “It’s the last album Wanna One has ever done. I used to be annoyed and not actively sming with the idea of 'I am one', but now I think it's the last time. “I’m not going all in because of the “current work.”
Another Wanna One Fan, C, in his late twenties, said in a wet voice, “I don’t know if my “best” will be as popular as it is now, even after Warner One’s activities are over. The members of Io Ai (the group that debuted with Produce 101 Season 1) are not very strong. Of course, even if Choi is in another group, I will cheer hard, but I want to enjoy everything I can while I am working as a Wanna One. "
The problem is that Fans who are doing the Sming gunslinger in stress should endure social criticism. Idol Fans are the most vulnerable targets in the issue of "unification of the soundtrack chart." Some media and experts complain that the music charts are dominated by Fandom's 'Sming General', and that the soundtrack ranking is distorted by Fandom.
“It is natural for a Fan to feel like helping when his favorite star makes a sound recording,” said Jeong Deok-hyun, a popular music critic. “The problem is that the soundtrack chart is weak enough to be dominated by Fandom, so it does not reflect the actual public’s desires or tastes.” “When a singer like Drake gets a new album on the Billboard charts in the U.S., he sweeps the charts,” said Im Jin-mo, a music critic. "It is an inevitable phenomenon due to moving from music to music," he said. "If this situation continues, producers who have difficulties in terms of capital will not be able to produce (music). It is a problem of the current music chart that it is getting farther away from equality and fairness. "
So, was it better to be in the 'Muggle' days when I thought the Melon 'Top 100' chart ranking and music broadcasting ranking were all?