Why is Lin Yingxiong so popular? As long as he appears in variety shows, the ratings will directly show his power.

Why is Lin Yingxiong so popular? As long as he appears in variety shows, the ratings will directly show his power.
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Lin Yingxiong’s power is not only reflected in the music world, but also in the variety show industry.

Lin Yingxiong, known as the “National Singer”, is not a K-POP idol that makes countless boys and girls crazy, but a Trot singer. He is the favorite singer of South Korean mothers-in-law, uncles and other elders. The 32-year-old has many fans. Compared to other non-idol groups, there is also a famous saying that “Giving tickets to Lin Yingxiong’s concert is the greatest filial piety to your parents.”

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The most direct manifestation of Lin Yingxiong’s super popular phenomenon in South Korea is that in addition to the sold-out concerts and explosive music performance, “M Countdown”directly caused the ratings that originally remained around 0.192% to soar to 0.587%, and the ratings directly doubled. More than 3 times! The ratings of another show, “Music Bank”, which originally remained around 0.5%, soared to 1.2%, another doubling of ratings!

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Don’t think that Lin Yingxiong can only make the ratings of music programs soar to the sky. In fact, he can also boost the ratings of ordinary variety shows. For example, the ratings of “Amazing Saturday”broadcast on October 14, which had been hovering at 2%, jumped directly to 3.9%, an increase of 2.1% from the previous week. Another example is “My Little Kid”, which he appeared on on September 17. The ratings from less than 13% suddenly rose to 16.1%, and then fell back to the usual level again in the next episode. Both programs achieved their highest ratings this year.

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(Source: NATE TV screenshot)
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(Source: NATE TV screenshot)

Netizens highly recognized the “Hero Lin effect”. Regarding this phenomenon, everyone left messages saying: “Because Hero Lin appeared in these two programs, I watched both of them”, “The ratings of the music broadcast where Hero Lin starred this time were also higher than Weekly increase nearly doubled”, “KING is not called for nothing”, etc.

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