China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 299 Meiyu - "Los Angeles 2002"

The results of Cao Xuan's "Chris Tsao" were better than everyone thought.

As of March 3th, "You're Beautiful" has entered the top five of the Los Angeles radio chart, and the seventh is the song "numb".

And not only in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other California stations, the three songs have also begun to spread their influence one after another.

And the song "Natural" didn't enter the top ten on the Los Angeles radio chart, but it became popular on Yahoo's blog site.

In the September 911 incident last year, before many media could react, someone took the lead in announcing the situation on the scene through blogs.

"Everyone can become a news source anytime, anywhere" has become synonymous with blogs, and this new thing has completely become popular in the United States.

People like to share their lives on blogs, make friends online, and talk about the world.

The lyrics of "Natural" are ambitious, the melody is explosive, and it is very popular among young people. They see it on the Internet, and recommend Amway everywhere through blogs, forums, and even chat rooms.

Let this song begin to circulate on the Internet in a very short period of time.

Perhaps in California, "Natural" is not as good as the first two songs, but in the entire United States, it is the first of the three songs to break out of the circle.

New York, Washington, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, Miami...

With the convenience of the Internet, "Natural" has been heard in big cities and small towns in the United States. Maybe it's not too popular yet, but the seeds have already been planted.

Frankly speaking, although Cao Xuan was promised to enter the European and American markets, some people in Warner didn't pay much attention to it.

This can be seen from their publicity plan, which basically only made corresponding arrangements in Los Angeles and a few surrounding cities.

As an important area where Chinese Americans live, San Francisco can be said to be one of Cao Xuan's best markets, but Warner didn't pay much attention to it at all. The largest radio station didn't even have a basic note. It can be seen that their minds are mostly perfunctory.

After dealing with the matter, dispel Cao Xuan's "unrealistic" fantasy of an international superstar, and go back to be his own Asian king in a down-to-earth manner.

This was Warner's original idea, but all this came after Cao Xuan's song reached the top of the Los Angeles radio charts, and is even expected to land on the Billboard Top [-] singles list.

Warner's mind has completely changed.

They found that they underestimated this Chinese person too much. With limited publicity resources, the quality of the songs alone was able to win out of the vast number of new songs in the same period.

Cao Xuan's musical talent is too good!
More importantly, his musical talent can not only be applied to Chinese music, but also to create excellent English songs.

Warner Records executives even held an internal meeting for this purpose, and Cao Xuan's value has attracted their attention.

Especially after they listened carefully to the three songs of "Chris Tsao", the music producers of several companies gave high praise, and the music director Mabelen even expressed it directly.

This is a Chinese version of Linkin Park!

Who is Linkin Park?Warner Records is now the top pillar.

In 2000, the sales of the first album in the United States exceeded 1000 million, and won the annual sales championship in the United States. Now the global sales have exceeded 1500 million.

It can be said that Linkin Park is the hottest band in the United States and one of the hottest bands in the world, and it is also the biggest cash cow of Warner Records.

Cao Xuan is the Chinese version of Linkin Park?

Warner Records executives felt that Mablen's brain was probably hurt by drinking last night. Even if he squeezed out water, as long as Cao Xuan could reach one-third of Linkin Park... no, one-fifth of the score, Warner would also earn.

More importantly, there is a vast Asian market behind Cao Xuan.

In the past, it was not that no record company released Asian singers to harvest the entire Asian market, but all the responses were mediocre.

Americans are not interested in Asian singers, and there are very few who can make it out of the circle. They want to fight against Asia, but they are not welcomed by Asians.

To put it bluntly, it is too difficult to find a singer who understands both Eastern and Western music cultures and is recognized.

But now they saw a faint hope in Cao Xuan,

Even if Cao Xuan is not very popular in the United States, if he packs it a little and takes it back to harvest the entire Asian market, even if it is not as good as Lincoln Park, it is still a low-profile version.

Realizing the value of Cao Xuan, Warner has made a 180-degree turn in its attitude towards Cao Xuan's entry into Europe and the United States.

Immediately invested a lot of money to start a publicity campaign, and repeatedly called Cao Xuan to urge Cao Xuan to come to the United States as soon as possible.

Cao Xuan's original plan was to fly to the United States at the end of early March, or even in the middle of March, but he couldn't stand Warner's constant urging and left early.

On March 3th, Cao Xuan flew for more than ten hours, and finally came to Los Angeles, the "paradise" in the hearts of countless Americans and people all over the world.

Los Angeles, located in California, the western United States, is the second largest city in the United States, second only to New York. Known as the City of Angels, it is an important center of American culture, science, technology, higher education, and international trade.

But for most people, the most famous places in Los Angeles are Hollywood, Disneyland, Beverly Hills...

This is when Cao Xuan came to the United States. The last time he was in Hawaii, the air there smelled like the sea. I thought the air in the United States would be better, but when I got off the plane, it was not as good as Hawaii.

"Chris, welcome to great America."

The Warner executive who came to pick him up was Mike, the director of Warner Cao Xuan had dealt with the most, and he was also the person in charge of Cao Xuan's trip to the United States.

刚一看到曹轩，这个有着1/8日耳曼血统、1/4俄罗斯血统、以及1/8北欧血统的白人就给了曹轩一个熊抱。

Cao Xuan was not used to hugging men, so after getting rid of him, he exchanged a simple greeting and went straight to the point.

"Can you tell me the specific data?"

"no problem."

Mike looks big and thick, and his personality seems carefree and unrestrained, but it is not a simple person to be an executive of the five major record companies.

Realizing that Cao Xuan was somewhat resistant to intimate contact with men, he immediately returned to normal and introduced him in a serious manner.

"According to our statistics, the sales volume of EP has approached 3 copies. This data is not good, but considering your popularity base in the United States, it is still very impressive.

The most important thing now is not the sales volume, but your radio demand rate is very high, even greatly exceeding your actual sales volume. If you want to top the list, the radio demand rate is very important. "

Mike’s words actually hide an important node, that is why there is a big gap between sales and radio demand.
It stands to reason that the two sides should complement each other. If one side has good data, the other side will not be worse.

In fact, the reason is very simple. Warner didn’t seriously stock up before, which led to the popularity of the song. The distribution channels have not yet been fully developed. Fans have nowhere to find it.

This led to a soaring radio demand rate for several songs of "Chris Tsao", but the sales data was mediocre.

Warner definitely couldn't tell Cao Xuan this kind of thing, but Cao Xuan was not stupid. He was not a rookie Xiaobai who had just debuted, and he could guess seven or eight points after thinking about it.

However, Cao Xuan didn't disclose it, and Warner still needs a lot of support in the follow-up, so there is no need to conflict over this trivial matter.

The main thing is that piracy in the United States is relatively not rampant, which can give genuine record companies a lot of leeway. As long as the song becomes popular, sales will definitely increase.

If in China, if such a big mistake occurs, this period of genuine gap period is enough for pirated versions to eat half or even more of the market.

Even if Cao Xuan didn't turn his back on him, Warner wouldn't expect to get a good look.

And now as long as Warner realizes the mistake now and arranges to make up for it later, Cao Xuan will not use this as an issue.

However, it was Warner's fault in this matter. Cao Xuan felt that this matter was in his hands. If the two parties had a dispute in the future, they would be able to embarrass them if they brought it out.

Cao Xuan left China on March 3th, and it was still March 4th when he came to the United States, but it was already night.

After sleeping on the plane for a long time plus the jet lag, Cao Xuan couldn't fall asleep around the hotel, so he simply turned on the TV, and "Friends" was playing on it, just watching it to relieve boredom.

But even though his eyes were on the TV, his mind was already far away.

Tomorrow, March 3th, is Tuesday, which is also the announcement time of last week's Billboard Top 5.

Whether the songs of "Chris Tsao" can be listed will depend on tomorrow's announcement.

The influence of Billboard is extremely strong. Once a song is on the list, it is essentially the number one music recommendation in the United States. It will continuously radiate in front of the United States and even all listeners who pay attention to Billboard, which can save Cao Xuan a lot of effort.

A song on the billboard, even if it ranks last, is fundamentally different from other songs.

Cao Xuan was in a daze that night until four o'clock in the morning before falling asleep. The next day he was woken up by Zhang Chong and Mike knocking on the door frantically.

Mike almost slapped the magazine on Cao Xuan's face, and shouted excitedly: "Three songs, all three songs are on the list."

Cao Xuan snatched the magazine, found the list, looked carefully, and finally found the positions of the three songs.

"Natural" - No.90 eighth place!

"numb" - No.90! !

"You're Beautiful" - No.80 [-]th place! ! !

Cao Xuan raised his arms happily. Although the rankings were not very high, it was undoubtedly a good start.

You must know that he is only a newcomer in the European and American music circles, and the EP has just been released for less than a week, and all three songs have airborne on the charts, which is already a great victory.

And Cao Xuan is very confident, as long as he is on the list, he can slowly climb up. Don't forget, these are three champion-level songs, and there is always a chance to reach the top.

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ps: The calculation time of the bulletin board is very complicated, the statistical time of the radio station and sales and the Internet are different, if it is written in detail, it will be too messy, and there is a conflict with the setting of the plot, I simply changed it, hope you understand

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