Information NCT Universe (mostly daily round-up) - Apr. 4, 2023 (1 Viewer)

[the101]

NCT Universe
April 4, 2023


A (mostly) daily round-up of everything happening in the NCT Universe.
What's included: tour news, appearances, cfs, performances, news.
What's not included: IG updates unless there's something highly pertinent, merch drops unless something highly pertinent like a new CF.​

Beyond the Kwangya (NEW! SM hijinks corner) :

• The SM battle made it to the New York Times now that it's over. LOL But they do talk about Korean fans feeling left out, which I thought was interesting as most Czennies think the label is highly focused on making the k-fans happy. *cough Neo City the Link tour placating cough*
• https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/04/business/sm-entertainment-kakao-hybe-kpop.html?smid=tw-share
• Kind of related: Disney, Microsoft and Tencent dissolved their metaverse teams - what does this mean for Kwangya, esp with LSM out?
• There's a new Hallyu visa for foreign students to come to be kpop trainees, including at SM.
• https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.co.../korea-SMUniverse-kpop/20230405112533496.html
• Contracts for SM artists as of Dec. 2022 - what I do think is interesting here is Lucas is still under contract (which isn't surprising, you can see in their notes that Zhoumi, Tao and even Kris Wu are still under contract, so being under contract doesn't mean you're working), but I did find it interesting the WayV members are signed to a separate contract to Label V, which seems to complete the suspicion that they all signed new contracts with WayV launch. So while all the NCT contracts are allegedly up this year, the WayV ones will not be for longer-time members like Ten, Winwin and Kun.

NCT Dream:

• NCT Dream wrapped up their European leg with a show in Berlin.

• Long thread

• NEW CLIP: cute Chenle, Jisung and Mark

• NCT Dream with a special interview on MTV Japan on April 9.

• NEW CF: Penshoppe

• NEW CF: Blancdiva

• NEW TEASERS: Mark's Golden Hour, thread here and here by @ManduBun

• NEW CONTENT: Jeno's Travel Plan and Jaemin's Travel Plan (CF with Teddy Island - no Eng subs)

• Chenle and Mark went to the Nets game.

• Mark and Jaemin were live on IG.

NCT 127:

• NEW PHOTOSHOOT: Yuta for Vogue Japan

WayV:

• NEW CF: Winwin for Monocler

• NEW CF: Hendery for Oxecure

NCT DoJaeJung:

• NEW TEASERS: Doyoung 😍, thread here by ManduBun
• NEW TEASERS: Jaehyun 🥵, thread here also by ManduBun, who's everywhere in Neo City
• Producer LDN Noise are calling this the sexiest album ever. help

Cross-Unit (including Rookies):

• New pop-up shop in Korea with NCT merch themed to a grocery store.

Biggest Hit on This Stage (Charts, Awards, Milestones):

• Melon daily: Candy is at #33 on Melon.
• Mark now has 11M followers on IG. 🍾
• Billboard:
  • Ay-Yo is on week 4, 2 Baddies on week 28
  • Top Album Sales: #26 Ay-yo
  • Top Current Album Sales: #23 Ay-Yo, #72 2 Baddies
  • World Albums: #10 Ay-Yo
  • Out of Independent and Artist 100 Chart
• ROAD TO 100M 🏃‍♂️ Hot Sauce 99.7M , Baby don't Stop 98.8M

Neo's Got My Fact:
NCT 127’s ‘Killing Voice’ video becomes the 7th most watched and 5th most liked ep of the series in just 6 months. The series has over 80 episodes.


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[the101]

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[Myth]

Omg I can’t believe dream is here and I’ll be seeing them soon! I’m hearing such good things!

 

[the101]

Omg I can’t believe dream is here and I’ll be seeing them soon! I’m hearing such good things!

I know! I'm looking forward to seeing them again for a full show!