EXO Defeated BTS From The Poll World Cup Provided…Will EXO Get to Perform 'Power' in the Semi Final?

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Fans are having heightened expectations on EXO's performance at the stadium of 2018 Russia World Cup Semi-final game. The first game of the quarter-final will begin on July 6, 11 pm at the Nizhni Novgorod stadium between Uruguay and France. And the first semi-final game will be held on July 11.

These two groups defeated Billboard record-charting tracks!

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FIFA through its official Twitter asked for a ballot, releasing 4 track lists with the question "Which song would like to hear at the stadium on the semi-final?" Including two K-Pop songs EXO's Power and BTS' FAKE LOVE, last year Billboard Hot 100's third-rank J. Balvin's Mi Gente and this year Hot 100's fifth-rank Zedd's The Middle (Feat. Maren Morris and Grey) were listed.

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Among these four, EXO's Power and BTS' FAKE LOVE had a keen competition. While having a neck-and-neck race, they recorded a tie (48%) at the time when the poll was closed. But this morning, EXO's Power got a bold blue line, implicitly conveying EXO's triumph in the competition. While BTS had a fractional lead over EXO until the afternoon of July 5, EXO fans overturned the result at the very last. According to the fans, EXO won the vote with a slim majority of 0.3%(8500 votes) while there were over 3.3 million participants in the poll.

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EXO performed Power at 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic closing ceremony on Feb 25. As FIFA mentioned EXO's Power in the poll, the official Twitter account of Olympic attached a video link of EXO's performance in the closing ceremony. If EXO is confirmed to perform Power in the semi-final, the song becomes an enormous track for the grand finale of big sports events: Olympics and World Cup.

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