Mika Hashizume (left) and Liu Yu are in the final of CHUANG2021. Photo: screenshot of video posted on Sina Weibo
Idol competition show CHUANG2021, which tried to stand out from similar series by recruiting some foreign trainees, came to an end on Saturday to applause and tears, and considerations on how an international boy band can promote the development of C-pop.
On the day of the variety show’s final, fan donations to their idols exceeded 40 million yuan ($6.16 million). The total number of views during the finals reached 4.77 billion on video platform Tencent, and the related hashtags on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo have earned more than 14.7 billion views as of Sunday, the Shanghai-based The Paper reported.
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