2012–14: Debut with EXO
See also: Exo (band) Following the release of the singles "What Is Love" and "History" in 2012, he and the other 11 members held their pre-debut showcase in Seoul's Olympic Stadium on March 31,[18] and a second showcase and press conference in Beijing in the Great Hall of the Beijing University of International Business and Economics.
[19] The group officially debuted on April 8, 2012 with their title song "Mama", and Exo M's first performance in China was publicly televised at the 12th Yinyue Fengyun Bang Awards. In December 2012, Lay was featured in S.M. Entertainment's project dance group S.M. The Performance featuring SM's best dancers, alongside fellow Exo member Kai and labelmates Yunho, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Minho and Taemin.
[20] On December 29, the group performed their single "Spectrum", which was released the following day, at the 2012 SBS Gayo Daejeon.[citation needed] As his group gained commercial success, EXO's studio album XOXO (album) became the first album to sell more than a million copies in South Korea in 12 years.[21] Their 2014 album Overdose (EP) had even entered US Billboard's 200 chart.
[22][23] Early in 2014, Lay composed and performed the song "I'm Lay" for his solo performance during Exo's first headlining concert tour The Lost Planet.[24] Later in 2014, he performed another self-composed song titled "I'm Coming" on a special year-end television program on Hunan TV.[citation needed]
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S.M. Entertainment announced that a personal studio had been established for Lay's activities in China.[citation needed] In May 2015, he became a regular cast member of the Chinese reality television show Go Fighting!.[citation needed] In June 2015, Lay composed the song "Promise" from the repackaged edition of Exo's second studio album, Love Me Right.
He also wrote the lyrics for the Chinese version of the song, while the Korean version was co-written by Chen and Chanyeol.[citation needed] On September 18, 2015, the limited edition of Lay's autobiography Standing Firm At 24 was published, while the standard edition became available on October 7.
[citation needed] The book documents important events throughout his life and broke several online sales records by selling 68,537 copies in the first 24 minutes of pre-sales.[citation needed] With less than 3 month sale of 1.4 million in royalties, he took the 4th place on 'The 10th Chinese Celebrity Writers List', released by China's 3 influential media outlets, WCC Daily (mainstream), Cover News (Digital) and Great Star Media, becoming the youngest celebrity author to enter the charts.
He was also the champion of the 2015 installment of the 'Annual Celebrity Book Sales', and took the top spot of 'Asia's Best Books', twice during its monthly ranking and six times for the weekly chart. He also locked in standings for Rakuten's listings, with 400,000 copies sold within 6 months, and has received much reader acclaim and praise.
[25] The same month, he was cast in the upcoming Indian-Chinese movie Kung Fu Yoga, starring Jackie Chan and directed by Stanley Tong,[3][26] and was later announced to be starring as the male lead alongside labelmate Krystal in the upcoming South Korean-Chinese movie Unexpected Love, which was postphoned for release in August 2017, the poster for which was revealed in the Cannes Film Festival.
[citation needed] In November 2015, Lay made his big screen debut with a supporting role in the Chinese movie Ex Files 2: The Backup Strikes Back, which was a box office hit, garnering 2 billion in sales within 10 days of its release. He later won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 2016 China Britain Film Festival for his performance.
[27] He also wrote and recorded an original soundtrack for the movie titled "Alone (One Person)", which reached number one on the Baidu Music Chart,[28] and later won Best Movie Original Soundtrack awards at the 16th Top Chinese Music Awards and 4th V-Chart Awards. Lay also starred in the Chinese movie Oh My God and collaborated with his co-stars Coco Jiang Wen and Li Xiaolu on an original soundtrack for the movie titled "Happy Youth",[29][30] which debuted at number 8 on the Billboard V Chart.[31]
2016: Rising popularity and solo debut In January 2016,
Lay and the other cast members of Go Fighting! appeared in the Chinese movie Royal Treasure. In April 2016, he received the Most Popular Newcomer award at the 16th Top Chinese Music Awards.
In May 2016, Lay made his small screen debut in the Chinese television series To Be A Better Man,[32][33] and released a Chinese song titled "Monodrama" as part of S.M. Entertainment's Station music project.[citation needed] Written by Lay and co-composed and arranged with Divine Channel,[34] "Monodrama" broke records by staying at number 1 on YinYueTai's VChart for 5 consecutive weeks.
[citation needed] In May 2016, Lay starred in the Chinese television drama The Mystic Nine, a prequel to The Lost Tomb. The series achieved unprecedented success, placing first in television ratings and setting a record for the most online views garnered in a day, and has accumulated over 10 billion views in total.
[citation needed] The television series went on to have a side story named The Mystic Nine Side Story: Flowers Bloom in February, which focused solely on Lay's character Er Yue Hong.[citation needed] In October 2016, Lay's career as a solo singer began with the release of "What U Need?" (stylized as "what U need?") as a surprise gift for his fans on his birthday.
[citation needed] The song hit the #4 spot on the China V Chart as well as on Billboard's World Digital Songs, and had made it to the top 60 on the US iTunes chart, historically making Lay the first Chinese artist to appear on the chart.
[35] He performed the song for the first time on October 10 at the 2016 Asia Song Festival in Busan, South Korea.[36][37] On October 28, one day after holding a press conference at Shanghai Town & Country Community, Lay released his debut extended play Lose Control, containing 6 Mandarin tracks, and the music video for the title song.[38] Lay was involved in much of the production of album as the producer, and was personally in charge of the composition, arrangement and writing the lyrics of every song – as well as translating the lyrics himself into three other languages other than Chinese including English, Korean and Japanese.[citation needed] The song "Lose Control" stayed as #1 on Billboard's China V Chart for 6 weeks in a row.
[39] Lose Control broke the record in South Korea for the most sales by a solo artist, with pre-orders surpassing 200,000 copies before the physical album was released, making the album No.1 in sales. Lay also became the first solo artist to sell more than 40,000 album copies within a day and 125,000 within a week from the album's release.[40] Over 1,000,000 copies of the digital album has been sold on Xiami.[41] He performed "Lose Control" for the first time on The Show on November 15.
[42] Lose Control was a commercial success peaking at number 1 on the Gaon Album Chart. His autobiography, Standing Firm at 24 charted a new sale record in the book community which surpassed all its proceeders as the autobiography sold more than 70 thousand copies online while charts indicated that the autobiography sold about 500 thousand in just a half years time.
[43] Later in November, Lay was announced to be starring in a Chinese remake of the hit Japanese drama TV series Operation Love (Chinese TV series)[44] which started airing on Dragon TV from April 24, 2017 with 32 episodes.
2017: Mainstream popularity On January 27,
Zhang Yixing made his maiden appearance on CCTV Spring Gala Festival and starred alongside Chinese actor Jing Boran.[45][46] On January 28, the screening premiere of Kung Fu Yoga directed by Stanley Tong showcased Lay acting alongside Jackie Chan, Aarif Lee and Indian actor Jackie Shroff.[47][48] He reportedly suffered minor injuries as per the action scenes required from his character.
[49] A post-release music video, "Goosebump" sung by Fazilpuria featured him and Jackie Chan together.[citation needed] In April, Lay starred in the Chinese historical film The Founding of an Army.[50] Later in April, his previously announced Chinese drama Operation Love (Chinese TV series) officially aired on Dragon TV.
He sang the OST for the drama.[51][52] In May, he attended the Huawei Nova 2 launching ceremony cum fan meeting at the Hunan International Conference & Exhibition Centre where he was expressed his gratitude for his continued appointment as the Huawei Nova series ambassador.[53][54] In July, his variety show, Go Fighting! Season 3, where he is starred as a main cast, began to air on Dragon TV.
[55] He was later revealed to be the voice actor of the Chinese dub for the main antagonist in Disney cartoon film Cars 3, alongside his cast mate of Go Fighting!, Huang Lei.[56] On September 17, he was confirmed to be starring as the main lead in the Chinese drama The Golden Eyes as announced in the pre-release conference.[57] On September 25, S.M. Entertainment released a music video for "I Need U", a pre-release track from his upcoming album Sheep, to be released on October 7, 2017.[58]
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