China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 462 Don't the Chinese have a creative bottleneck?

China, a middle school in a city
On Monday, the winter vacation ended early and the high school seniors who came to the classroom had just arrived in the classroom when several men and women got together.

"Have you read the news? Cao Xuan is in the Super Bowl."

"What is the Super Bowl?"

"I don't know either. I watched the news about what kind of finals it was. Anyway, it was very popular."

"Football, I used my brother's computer to look it up. This Super Bowl is very popular in the United States. If you can't explain it clearly in one or two sentences, you can understand it as the American Spring Festival Gala."

In China, if you want to give an example of an extremely influential foreign program, the Spring Festival Gala and "News Network" are the best references, and one set is accurate.

Many people don't know about football and the Super Bowl, but when it comes to the American Spring Festival Gala, they understand it immediately.

"It's awesome, it has to be Cao Xuan, the American Spring Festival Gala is on."

"Not only did he do it, he did it alone, does Michael Jackson know?"

"I've heard of it, but I'm not familiar with it."

"It's equivalent to Cao Xuan in China, no, it should be Cao Xuan in the European and American world, um, how can I explain it to you (scratches head)."

"It's equivalent to a foreigner who went to China to attend the Spring Festival Gala, which was still the finale."

"...Although there is a big discrepancy, this is probably what it means."

"I don't understand, anyway, it's over for Cao Xuan to be awesome!"

"..."

Just when a few knowledgeable students were unable to refute this simple induction, students from the class came to the class one after another, and some of them joined the discussion.

In the third year of senior high school, the study is tight and the tasks are heavy, but it does not mean that there is no entertainment. On the contrary, moderate entertainment can help students relax and balance work and rest.

However, the speed of this is difficult to grasp. If one can't help it, the combination of work and rest will become a mess.

Therefore, time-consuming entertainment methods such as TV dramas, novels, and games are not advisable. Listening to music, gossip, and watching movies are relatively suitable entertainment methods.

At any time, middle school, college students, and young people who have just entered society are important melon-eating groups and the main force of entertainment consumption.

With children's social animals, most of them are not so interested in entertainment news.

Unless some big news such as Shuangzi went crazy, Fanzi stepped on the sewing machine, Luzi made his hair, and Shishizhiguang disappeared, it would cause the whole people to eat melons.

Winter vacation is the last long vacation for most of the third-year senior high school students before the college entrance examination. Everyone is crazy and surfs the Internet intensively.

Coincidentally, Cao Xuan's landing in the Super Bowl was the last big news before school started, and many people paid great attention to it.

"Hey, hey, there is a video on the Internet now. I watched it. Although I can't understand it, the singing is very good. The person who reposted the video said that there were [-] Yankees at the scene. It was like crazy. It was very shocking."

"Where can I see it, I want to see it too."

"I have it on Qzone. I heard that there is also a high-definition version with subtitles, but I couldn't find it."

"Wait a minute, there are all kinds of Cao Xuan related in Lavender Flower Bar, there must be a website."

"It makes you feel itchy. I don't want to go to class anymore. I want to go online to watch videos."

"Go at noon, bring lunch, and play for almost an hour."

"Count me in."

Similar situations are relatively rare. After all, the real main force of students has not started school yet. They have more time than these senior high school students. As long as they read the news, they can easily find the video.

It is also very easy to know the news. The domestic paper media and online media have reported Cao Xuan's Super Bowl halftime performance on a large scale.

Even many Asian media followed suit, after all, this is the first time an Asian singer has appeared on this stage.

Prior to this, the singers of the Super Bowl halftime show were mainly Americans, followed by British and Canadians, as well as singers from other countries in South America and Europe.

These singers are white, black and Latino, but this is the first time that Asian yellow people.

Cao Xuan once again refreshed the new history of Asian singers in the world music scene!
Maybe many people don't care about this achievement, but many people think it is very meaningful.

The native Asian singer once again defeated those European and American singers and "show off his power" in the center of the world music scene.

Cool!
On the night of February 2th, "News Lianbo" also mentioned this matter. Although the news mainly introduced this year's Super Bowl champion, it also secretly added a sentence.

"...In the Super Bowl halftime show known as the American Spring Festival Gala, Chinese singer Cao Xuan sang three songs alone, and the audience was mesmerized, bringing a touch of music magic to this sports feast..."

Accompanied by the news introduction, there was a live clip of about a few seconds. Cao Xuan was full of passion on the stage, and countless American audiences shouted and jumped wildly.

For Chinese people, this kind of scene is definitely impressive, and pride emerges from their hearts irresistibly.

Dare to love these foreign devils, even jumping up and down after listening to Cao Xuan's song!

.........

Compared with domestic and Asian countries, I am simply proud of Cao Xuan's stunning performance in breaking history and on stage.

The United States and the countries that pay attention to the Super Bowl are more complicated, and the repercussions are even greater.

The "Washington Post" directly stated publicly that this is an unparalleled audio-visual feast.

Chris Cho eclipsed even the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers with his musical talents and stunning stage presence.

Local media in Detroit reported on the amusing incident after the halftime show.

After Cao Xuan’s performance, he changed his performance costume to watch the game, but the staff was too sloppy, and all the original performance costume, microphone and some unimportant personal items he left in the dressing room were stolen.

Soon after, it appeared on a website for sale.

The slim suit with bright white and dark gold double dragon embroidery on a black background was specially designed by Cao Xuan and then hand-made.

The person who stole the suit probably knew his stuff, or had someone appraised it. He knew that the material and workmanship of this suit were excellent. In addition, the design of the suit was already cool enough, as well as the halo of the original Super Bowl halftime show costume.

This suit, called "Cao's War Suit", was initially priced at US$5 on the Internet.

2006年2月的美元和人民币汇率约是8.04，这5万美元相当于40万人民币，在国内小城市都够全款买一套房子了。

But even so, this [Cao's battle suit] was still snapped up by many second-hand dealers, collectors and Cao Xuan fans.

Fans can understand that these second-hand dealers and collectors are eyeing the collection value of this suit.

In European and American countries, this kind of celebrity special items collection market is relatively mature.

Like Cao Xuan's performance, many people think that it will become a classic, and its influence may continue to expand in the future, plus the prospect of Cao Xuan himself.

Just imagine, if Michael Jackson's 1993 Super Bowl costume is put up for auction, many people would be willing to pay hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to bid for it.

Therefore, many people think that Cao Xuan's suit has a very high appreciation space and the price is right, so many people are willing to take a gamble.

This set of [Cao's battle suit] was sold from 5 US dollars to 12.5 US dollars, or 100 million yuan, and was finally won by a second-hand dealer.

However, it didn't take long for the thief to be caught by the police, and the suit became the recovered stolen goods.

Cao Xuan also did not have cheap police, and Tojuana held a charity sale with the suit and other recovered items.

In the end, nearly $30 was raised and donated to UNICEF to help disadvantaged children and youth.

But this is a story for later, and now it is just being treated as an interesting story by the local media, to feel sorry for Cao Xuan, and to blackmail Detroit's law and order by the way.

In addition to paying attention to Super Wrist itself, more media and industry insiders were surprised by the two new songs that Cao Xuan presented.

"Roar"

"Something just like this"

Not only the quality is extremely high, but judging from the performance on the stage, it is very easy to spread and well recognized by the public, and its potential is probably not inferior to the three top ten songs on the Billboard Singles Chart.

Now the people in the industry are really confused.

Many European and American singers and musicians who claim to be creative geniuses can't help but fall into deep thought.

This kind of hit songs that are at least the top [-] on the billboard don’t cost money, and they are thrown out one by one. Doesn’t this Chinese person have a creative bottleneck?

The most violent reaction than Aurangdon.

He was watching the Super Bowl halftime show at home, and seeing Cao Xuan come up with two wonderful new songs, he was so enraged on the spot that he almost smashed the TV.

After the rage, there was a deep fear, the Chinese people have come up with 5 songs, if Cao Xuan's new album is really better than the last one, it is hard for me to go to the TV live broadcast of Sun Pig.

In his mind, he imagined that he couldn't bear to look directly at the picture, and Aurangdon couldn't help shivering.

He forced himself to calm down, convincing himself over and over again in his heart that it is impossible for all of Cao Xuan's songs to reach the top ten of the billboard, and the Chinese are at the end of their rope.

U2, Madonna, Britney Spears, Eminem, Coldplay, Shakira, and Linkin Park, who are now on the list, are not for nothing. They will not let the Chinese dominate the top [-] Billboard singles so easily. list.

Aurondon convinced himself that he got a good night's sleep, but when the new Billboard singles chart came out on Tuesday, he panicked.

The rankings of "Monsters" and "We Don't Talk Anymore" seem to have no changes, but there are differences, because they both have a new song on them.

In the case of two new songs airborne earlier, the ranking has not changed, which means that two songs that were originally ranked in front of them have been squeezed out. In other words, the two have actually advanced one place.

And these two airborne new songs are naturally the two songs that Cao Xuan sang at the Super Bowl halftime show.

With the huge popularity of the Super Bowl halftime show, the two songs directly surpassed many old songs and won an extremely impressive ranking.

"Something just like this" ranked seventh.

"Roar" airborne at No. [-], only one step away from the top three. The momentum of being on the list in the first week is terrifying, and it is extremely rare in the history of Billboard.

But it's okay, "Roar" is already very fierce. It was originally on the list for three weeks and won the championship. Now, with the hot momentum of the Super Bowl halftime show, it is not impossible to rush to the championship in one fell swoop.

"Roar" won the fourth place, while "Rolling in the deep", which was originally ranked fourth, did not drop in the ranking.

On the contrary, it has risen two places, and has already reached the second place in the list. It is very close to winning the championship, and it didn't take much time for this song to complete this result. It only took three weeks from the song's launch to the second place in the list.

In addition, the old song "Natural" that Cao Xuan sang in the Super Bowl also became popular and did not appear on the bulletin board.

Billboard has rules. If you want to return to the Billboard list for an old song like this that has been off the list for many years, the ranking must be higher than the highest ranking in the history of the previous song on the list. This is to take more care of new songs and maintain Freshness and popularity of the list.

"Natural" was not weak that year, and it was firmly in the top ten of the Billboard Top [-] singles chart, and it was still in the top ten. It was too difficult to re-enter the list.

It might be possible if Cao Xuan only sang one of it, but two new songs diverted the popularity, which eventually led to "Natural" not being on the list for the second time.

But it doesn't matter anymore, at this time, Cao Xuan already has 5 songs that are in the top ten of the Billboard singles chart at the same time.

In the entire American music scene, there are not many singers who can have such a grand occasion.

Cao Xuan didn't check it carefully, but in his impression, it seems that there is only one album by Michael Jackson, which has 7 songs in the top ten at the same time, but this record does not seem to be officially recognized.

After the new century, the same album has 5 top [-] singles on the Billboard Top [-], and both hands can count them.

In Cao Xuan's impression, the top ten songs on the bulletin board should be Aubrey Drake Graham at most, nicknamed "Drake", that is, the old man who put chili sauce on the cover.

This buddy is known as the king of streaming media, with a high traffic rate, and the list is also very popular. He has 40+ Billboard top ten songs under his name, followed by Madonna, who is probably 40+, slightly inferior to Drake. Michael Jackson is 30 songs.

After the new century, the album with the most top ten songs on the Billboard is also Drake's. Some say it has 7 songs, and some say it has 8 songs.

It is rumored that there is also a female singer's album, with 10 songs entering the top ten of the billboard, but there is no definite information.

Fans of Taylor, Adele, and Rihanna, European and American female singers, are fighting each other fiercely in order to compete for historical status. A lot of relevant data is embellished, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

Not only these female singers, fans of European and American male singers and those ancient singers, but also all kinds of nonsense,
Platforms such as Douban, Bilibili, Tieba, Zhihu, and Baidu all have different data at all. They all claim to be real data from official translations, but the result is a huge discrepancy.

These fans only care about praising their idols, and they don't know how troublesome it is for the author to search for information (slapping the table furiously)...

So Cao Xuan only knows that this achievement is amazing, but it is not very clear where it ranks in the history of the bulletin board and how many people have achieved it.

Don't think that it's just domestic fans messing around, and foreign fans are also crazy about changing.

Even the official website is often corrected, and some relatively unpopular records are difficult to find out.

After all, except for some fans, people who eat melons don't care how many top ten songs a singer has in an album. Even if they care about statistics, they can only look at the overall list at most.

But for the singer himself, this kind of data also means Cao Xuan's ranking in the overall list.

Number of Billboard No. [-] singles!
The number of Billboard top ten singles!
Number of Billboard singles!
Billboard Week Numbers!
Billboard Championship Week!
...!
And some other miscellaneous data will have an impact on the singer's position on the Billboard overall list, and it will also greatly promote the sales of the album.

The more songs on the chart, the longer the number of weeks, and the higher the ranking, the greater the influence of the album, and the sales will rise steadily, and Cao Xuan's fame, money, and achievements will also increase accordingly.

Otherwise, Cao Xuan wouldn't work hard to make it to the charts, and the outside world wouldn't value the charts so much. This will directly determine the performance of this album and Cao Xuan's next step in the music world.

But for Aurangdon, he has no control over Cao Xuan's next move.

But Cao Xuan's new album now has 5 top ten songs, officially surpassing the previous album "Release" which only had 4 top ten songs on the billboard.

According to the previous oath, if Cao Xuan's new album surpasses the previous one.

He's going to broadcast Sunpig live on TV!
Aurondon took out the pistol from the drawer, thinking whether to hit the temple or swallow it. Anyway, other people can die, but they must not die.

But soon, he still found a loophole. Even if the new album's 5 top ten songs won 4 of the previous album, but the last album still had two champion singles.

Aurondon couldn't believe it.

He knew that Cao Xuan was awesome, and he also believed that "Rolling in the deep" had more than 90% hope of winning the championship, and even "Roar" had a certain chance of winning the championship.

But apart from these two songs, other songs still have a certain distance from the championship.

For example, "Monsters", although it is currently ranked No. [-], had a fierce momentum before, and it seems promising.

But don’t forget, to win the championship, it not only has to surpass other songs, but also beat the two king bombs of "Roar" and "Rolling in the deep", which is twice as difficult.

Not to mention this song, it's hard to say whether "Roar" can overtake "Rolling in the deep".

Aurangdon is very proud, he admits that Cao Xuan is a genius, and this new album is destined to become a classic.

But it is a pity that Cao Xuan made a fatal mistake, that is, he ignored the crowding of so many high-quality hit songs, which would cause internal friction, and for no reason made many songs that were expected to reach the top become cannon fodder for better songs.

Originally, among the 5 songs, at least 3 were able to reach the top, but now only 1 is stable, and the other 1 or [-], and has established layers of obstacles for other songs.

And Cao Xuan's new album only has 2 championship songs, so it doesn't count as surpassing the previous album, and he doesn't have to become a pig-riding warrior.

Therefore, facing the hostile reporters who came to the door again, Aurangdon laughed triumphantly.

The reporter was puzzled and looked at each other. Maybe this guy wanted to pretend to be mentally ill to avoid the limelight.

"Mr. Aurangdon, why are you laughing?"

"I don't laugh at others, I only laugh at the Chinese people who are useless, and the Warner Group is less intelligent..."

Aurangdon expounded his point of view, seeing the thoughtful expressions of the reporters, he could not stop smiling brightly on his face. One of the reporters was a fan of Cao Xuan and couldn't understand his expression.

"All of this is just your imagination, and it's just based on the current situation on the list. Is there a possibility that there will be a better song under Cao."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible."

Aurangdon originally wanted to yell that Cao Xuan couldn't have a better song, but thinking about being beaten in the face repeatedly before, he swallowed the words again.

"Even if he still has good songs, under internal friction, it will be difficult to win the championship."

The reporter smiled, and cruelly added another knife: "Let's just ask if there is another possibility. Multiple songs of Cao Xuan were on the charts at the same time, forming a huge popularity far exceeding that of ordinary albums, offsetting the internal loss of the album.

Moreover, the list competition you just imagined is two different singers, ranking high and low, you will die.

But if two songs are from the same singer, then resource offset can be formed. For example, the song that hedges the list increases publicity and calls on fans to accurately hit the list.

One is deliberately rushing, and the other is deliberately letting go. I think the difficulty you mentioned is a good thing. "

Aurangdon was dumbfounded, and stood there in a daze, his eyes were empty, and he just murmured.

"Impossible, impossible..."

On the way back, a reporter colleague asked him about the feasibility of the operation he just mentioned, and the reporter was stunned.

"It's feasible, it's feasible, but Cao has to form an unshakable dominance on the bulletin board list before he can give in internally. If he doesn't reach that strong point, playing like this is an opportunity for competitors to take advantage of."

"Then how can this dominance be formed?"

"At least two more songs that are not inferior to "Roar", and then dominate the top three, or even top five, of the Billboard singles chart at the same time."

"This is too exaggerated. I have never heard of a singer who has dominated the top five of the Billboard singles chart at the same time."

"Actually, there were. The Beatles seemed to have one, but it was 40 years ago."

After returning home, my colleagues went to check the information. On April 1964, 4, five songs from The Beatles' new album swept the top five on the Billboard Top 4 singles list in a single week, creating Billboard history. And it hasn't been refreshed yet.

The closest to this historical record is the American rapper 50 Cent. Last year, in March 2005, he had three songs in the top five of the billboard at the same time in a single week.

Cao Xuan's last album "Release" also had 3 songs in the top five.

But the times are different, the most time is only two songs in the top five at the same time, far from forming the so-called dominance.

When my colleague saw this, he put the matter behind him. He didn't believe that a Chinese could rival the Beatles on the Billboard singles chart.

But soon, he felt that he had underestimated this great singer who has been called by the American media to have changed the world's impression of Asia.

On February 2th, Cao Xuan participated in the 9th Grammy, serving as the award presenter and guest performer at the awards ceremony.

After the awards ceremony, in addition to the shady controversy caused by the failure of the big hit Niu Jie in the general category, Cao Xuan released a new song at the Grammys, which also attracted the attention of countless people.

"Apologize"

The Chinese translation is called "Sorry", a masterpiece of the well-known American Republican era.

This song was launched at the end of 2007 and won the top spot in the music charts of 47 European countries, and it was on the Billboard Top [-] Singles Chart for [-] consecutive weeks. It is definitely the longest time in the history of Billboard. song.

Even if it may be slightly inferior to "Roar" and other two king bombs, it is definitely a quasi-wang bomb.

It is worth mentioning that there is a saying that this song was written very early, but Cao Xuan went to some copyright databases to check the score, and even asked the relationship to test the Republican era and related producers, and found nothing about this song. There is physical evidence.

After several checks, Cao Xuan finally took it out with confidence. Even if the republican era could produce the score, the copyright had already been applied for, and it would not be considered plagiarism by Cao Daguan.

Maybe Boss Cao will sue Republic Times for tampering with his lyrics and songs at will, adding to the liking, trying to catch his popularity, and kicking him when he encounters it...

(End of this chapter)