When I Opened My Eyes I Was A Superstar

Chapter 25

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Monday morning.

RDT Team Leader Im Sung Ahn was the first to arrive at the office again and opened the fortune cookie lid.

[Autumn is the season for harvest.]

Second week of March. It was definitely spring right now. There were absurd fortunes like these in the cookies once in a while.

'Either way, it must mean it'll bear fruit.'

Interpreting it however she wanted, Team Leader Im decided to start the day in a good mood.

More than anything, today was one week since KK's album was released in offline shops. It was the day the album's sales record since its release last week and the popular national chart, 'Cho Dong', was totaled. It was a good indicator to see where KK's starting line was.

Checking and analyzing this chart was RDT's last official KK-related task.

From here on out, designated people from the Album Production Team and Fan Marketing Team would be responsible for growing KK and the RDT would go back to focusing on finding and developing trainees.

"What is this?!"

Team Leader Im, who had gone to the national chart site and clicked on the menu, frowned.

After the album was released, Team Leader Im Sung Ahn sometimes looked at the daily chart and felt that the response was good, but she didn't know it was to this extent. She repeatedly checked the monitor and recounted the numbers several times.

'40,000 albums when they'd been going on only music broadcasts for a week?'

It would have been impossible to do so without gaining enough concrete fans to be called a 'fandom'. Team Leader Im Sung Ahn's thought was correct. It's now been a week since KK debuted, but they already had relatively set fans.

There were already lots of people who became fans of two of KK's members, Jung Yoon Ki and Kang Do Wook, through Student Rapper. There had not been any outstanding idol groups since M2M, so idol fans who had been wandering took an interest in KK, which also played a huge role.

The fans quickly attached to them because when they opened the lid of KK, the rookie they had high hopes for, they were better than expected.

At that moment, RDT's youngest member Ahn Young Mi entered the office and greeted Team Leader Im.

"Young Mi, have you seen KK's sales numbers?!"

"Did you check, Team leader? When I looked on Friday, it was around 20,000 copies..."

Considering that the music market was dead these days, 20,000 was already an amazing number. However, they had sold 10,000 copies a day over the span of the weekend for a total of 20,000 extra copies.

"It's 40,000."

"What?"

Ahn Young Mi also couldn't help but be surprised. The music chart ranking as of today was 2nd place.

"If it's to this extent..."

With a cautious tone, Ahn Young Mi started to speak. Team Leader Im caught on right away what Ahn Young Mi was going to say.

"That's right, at this rate 1st place is just around the corner."

***

Before the members could say anything about the surprising initial numbers they received, Oh Baek Ho also told them a new piece of information.

"I also have one more piece of news."

"What is it?"

"What is it?! Wow, now when you say you have something to tell us, I'm not worried at all; I get excited!"