China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 657 The bulletin board is really opened by his family!

Charlie is a pop music lover and a loyal fan of Billboard. He usually likes to pay attention to Billboard charts, and even actively collects data for comparison.

There are quite a few people like him, and even formed a small coterie.

Don’t underestimate this circle, a lot of data about bulletin boards are calculated by them, even more accurate than the official ones, some media write bulletin board news or fans from other countries find materials, and they all come from Charlie’s circle Site forums.

In many people's minds, this small forum called "Billboard Home" is more reliable than the official website of the Bulletin Board.

Charlie himself is one of the administrators of [Bulletin Board House], and every week when the new issue of the bulletin board is released, it is also a busy time for him and some enthusiastic netizens.

Don't be in a hurry to make statistics, everyone will go through the list first, then chat and complain, and then work after talking.

"Unfortunately, "All Of Me" didn't win, it's still second."

"Cruise, don't you like Just Timberlake? It's a pity for Cao."

Just Timberlake, the King of Pop in the United States, is also Cao Xuan's famous "nemesis".

In fact, the two didn't have any intersection at all in the early years, but because Britney Spears was Jia's ex-girlfriend and had an affair with Cao Xuan, it happened that both of them were supernovas in the music industry, and the media deliberately hyped them up to set them against each other.

In the beginning, neither of them took it seriously, but as their careers continued to overlap, they bumped into each other repeatedly on Grammys, album sales, and billboards.

Now it's impossible not to argue, and the most important thing is that Jia always loses more than wins, and almost never wins head-on.

The Grammy Awards cannot be won, the album sales cannot be sold, the Billboard charts are firmly suppressed, and even the number of news exposures and scandals are not rivals.

But the media also likes to bring the two together.

After a long time, Cao Xuan, who had never suffered a loss, still had no idea. Just Timberlake wished to use Gatling to stun Cao Xuan.

The fans of both sides have also been in a state of hostility, so in the eyes of outsiders, the two are outright rivals.

But it's hard to say what Just Timberlake thinks. Cao Xuan really didn't take him seriously. He was a super idol in his peak years, not to mention that he has transformed into the film industry in the past two years, and he is already a little out of date.

In terms of popularity, fame, influence, and contribution to the music scene, Cao Xuan beats Just Timberlake in every aspect.

This is still only counting as a singer. If you compare them comprehensively and comprehensively, saying that the two of them are "rivals" is flattering Jia...

Cruise was considered a minor celebrity in the forum. As a fan of Just Timberlake, he was usually very hostile to Cao Xuan, but he turned his back this time, and the forum became lively now.

"Is it the end of the world? Cruise actually fell in love with Cao."

"It's long overdue to kick Jace's disgusting little boy, this executioner cost the music industry two queens."

"America, Jenny was killed by him, and now Britney also has his inescapable responsibility."

"Scumbag."

"Don't say that, isn't Cao a scumbag? He has more scandals than Jass. Shakira, Avril Lavigne, Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson, Victoria's Secret Supermodel, and Li Zi are all worthless. .”

"Little Lizi is busy researching fishery, otherwise he must be better than Cao."

"Although Cao is a scumbag, he doesn't hurt women, and he helps their careers. Shakira and Avril Lavigne have written songs by him, and several other actors have also collaborated. He and Jas, this disgusting thing, are heaven and earth."

"You guys are far away, shouldn't you ask Corus why he turned against the water?"

"I didn't turn my back on it, but I really liked "All Of Me". It's ethereal and sad, and the narration is beautiful. It's an absolute championship level. It's a pity that I didn't win the championship."

"I also think the song "All Of Me" is better, and it has been ranked in the second two weeks."

"'High Hopes' is not bad. Winning the championship depends on luck. Back then, Cao dominated the charts for a few months, and there were many songs that had the potential and capital to win the championship, but they could only finish second."

"It's okay to be ranked second. I remember that there was a song that airborne sixth at the beginning. Usually, it can at least enter the top three without any accidents. It has a high chance of winning the championship. However, because several songs of "Legend" dominated the charts, it was exhausted. For two months, I didn't even make it into the top five."

As soon as this matter was mentioned, the entire forum fell silent.

It was the worst song they had seen in the years since their website was established. It is said that the singer suffered from depression later on, and it took half a year to adjust before recovering.

But it's not just the singer who is autistic.

Fengshen's album "Legend" topped the charts for 16 weeks, accumulatively for nearly four months, and the fourth album "Qing" for another 16 weeks, accumulatively for nearly four months, plus Cao Xuan's second album "Release" won the championship for 11 consecutive weeks "Sugar".

Adding up the three albums, the cumulative length is almost a year.

This kind of long-term domination of the charts is bound to make many songs and singers who had the opportunity to compete can only "look at Cao Xing".

But considering this point, Cao Xuan actually has a lot of enemies, but with Warner's protection, the middle and lower levels dare not make trouble, and the high-level people know Cao Xuan's energy, and they don't want to make enemies easily, so Boss Cao has no scruples He is like a duck to water in the music scene.

It is precisely because of this that Cao Xuan's new album has received a lot of attention on the forums. Everyone wants to see how many songs Cao Xuan can win this time.

"I think there are three songs, "High Hopes" has already won the championship, "All Of Me" is very promising, no matter what Cao does, there must be a finale song.

"I think it's more, this is Cao's last English-only album, and he will definitely have a beautiful ending."

"Let's say 2 or 3 songs. In addition to the first five championships of the Fengshen Zhuan "Legend", there are 2 songs for the second and third specialties, plus 1 single with Mu Ye. The total number of songs before is only 10. It will not be an exaggeration. of."

"I think it's about the same. Billboard's top single is not a Chinese cabbage, 2-3 tops."

Netizens on the forum gave what they believed to be very objective predictions. Except for a small number of extreme fans of Cao Yuan who thought they were too conservative, most of them still agreed.

It seems that the forum seems to look down on Cao Xuan, but in fact, this is already very favorable to him.

The new albums of many Uranus superstars do not necessarily have a champion single.

For 99% of singers, it is already a very rare achievement for a new album to be expected to have one champion single. If there are more than two singles in a single album, it is a big hit.

Going further, many people dare not even dream about it.

To be honest, if other singers said that the album is expected to release 2~3 champion singles, they must be ridiculed to death, but Cao Xuan really has the confidence.

Except for the failure of the first EP to win the championship, each of the other three albums produced at least 2 championship singles, and the cumulative number of winning weeks was 10+ weeks.

It is common for Cao Xuan to achieve unattainable results for others. Coupled with the brilliant performance of two songs that hit the charts, the netizens on the forum are naturally bolder.

There are even supporters of Cao Xuan publicly clamoring: "I believe in Cao, it is absolutely impossible to only have 2 or 3 songs. I think he can still win one major and five championships at a time."

"Come on now, you."

Others sneered, Grammy decades, a total of five championships only three times.

Michael Jackson once, in 2006 Cao Xuan's "Legend" became a god once, and in 2010, the fruit sister broke out.

It is hard to say that the last two times did not rely on the power of the Internet, especially Sister Guo, who had a great streaming media bonus, and there was a certain amount of luck and surprise.

The so-called success is Xiao He, and failure is Xiao He. Because of the prosperity of streaming media, the exposure and popularity of the music scene have increased, but people have more channels to get information. With a large number of diversions, it is difficult for netizens to achieve all kinds of quality Consistently, the difficulty of one major and five championships has also increased to a certain extent.

Therefore, it is really very, very difficult to have one specialization and five specializations.

The right time, place and people are all available, coupled with the quality of the work itself, the fans' willingness to support and many other elements complement each other, and there is only a glimmer of hope for success.

Under such circumstances, if Cao Xuan can achieve it once, he is already blessed by his ancestors.
Again?
When Jesus is his uncle, or Allah is his second uncle, or.The Jade Emperor in the east is his relative, and he thinks of good things every day.

Charlie also thought this statement was ridiculous: "If Cao can win five championships in one major, I will introduce my sister to you."

Others also yelled and made bets. Some were eating shit, some were running naked, such as marathons, some were swimming in the cold winter, and some were thinking about going to a wild animal park to play with lions. The bets became more and more ruthless. Xuan, if this matter is not possible,
But soon, they stopped laughing.

On January 1, Cao Xuan's fourth week of charting singles was released——

"Closer".

The Chinese translation is "Closer". It is a song sung by Andrew Taggart, a member of the Chain Smokers, and the female singer Halsey in 2016. It once won the Billboard singles chart in the original time and space.

This song is also an extremely rare electronic music song by Cao Xuan. Cao Xuan once thought about leading the wave of electronic music and becoming a godfather of electronic music, but later found that the popularity of music fans today is not so high.

To use an analogy, it is like the hip-hop craze that became popular later in China. Many young singers like to rap a few words, and many people seem to know how to sing without saying a few raps.

But now and in the past few years, hip-hop is really not popular. Even Xiao Zhou and Wilber Pan’s songs are not all pure hip-hop, but more popular and fast songs. There are not many elements.

If Cao Xuan really came up with a purely electronic song, it might not hit the street, but the possibility of becoming popular is really not high.

He wasn't the only one who wanted to play electronic music. Other singers like Britney Spears also tried electronic music. Except for a few songs that were not bad, the others died very badly.

Cao Xuan himself does not have a special love for electronic music, nor is he very good at it, so he does not produce too much.

But even so, as the last album, he still produced electronic songs like "Closer", and several other songs, which also have certain electronic elements.

Cao Xuan didn't particularly care about how much he could play a leading role in catching up with the trend.

Anyway, Cao Xuan is about to retreat, and with his status, he is no less than a godfather of electronic music.

It is worth mentioning that the melody of the song "Closer" sounds very fresh, and it has now become the BGM of many positive energy videos.

But in fact, this song can be regarded as a little yellow song, and the general idea of ​​the lyrics is that two men and women in love are deeply in love, so what.

For this reason, Cao Xuan once again used the method of changing words to modify the lyrics.

The original song is about lovers reunited after a long absence, burning with passion, now it has become two people reunited after a long absence, talking about the original story, crying and laughing, and slowly getting closer again.

In fact, the meaning is still the same, but it is more subtle, at most there is a little hint, unlike the original version, which is a Land Rover and a mattress. Even if Cao Datian sang the lyrics without shame, he would have to be approved when he returned to China.

This is also not in line with Boss Cao's tone of positive energy.

Even though Cao Xuan is known as the king of love songs, he has composed not one hundred love songs, but dozens of them, but most of them are very pure. As far as I can tell, at most they are kisses, and there are very few other deeper lyrics.

Not to mention the United States, which is often scolded by words such as Bichi FXXX in songs, even in China, it is pure and outrageous.

Even his fans ridiculed, Cao Zeige's pure song, scumbag's, completely two lines...

However, purity also has its advantages, allowing most of Cao Xuan's songs to enter the campus without hindrance, killing elementary school students, middle school students, and college students.

Not only in China, Cao Xuan's songs are also very popular in schools abroad.

Inspirational + love songs have always been the favorite of students, schools and teachers also welcome them, it is healthier than listening to those dirty-mouthed hip-hop or all kinds of lingering yellow songs.

The song "Closer" is a duet, a man and a woman, the man is Cao Xuan, and the woman is Taylor.

This is also the first collaboration between the master and the apprentice, and the gimmick is quite enough, which also makes the song's performance outstanding, and it airborne the No. [-] bulletin board in the first week.

This is already the third song in Cao Xuan's new album that airborne into the top ten.

Of course, there are reasons for the quality of the songs. Cao Xuan's popularity and the attention of the entire album are the most critical factors. Now many people in the outside world are directly guarding this album. The huge popularity of passersby alone can make the song easy to enter list.

However, compared to the outside world, more attention is paid to the joint efforts of master and apprentice, the combination of Chinese superstar + American queen.

[Billboard Home] The forum is more focused on the fact that "All Of Me" defeated "High Hopes" which had dominated the chart for 3 weeks, and successfully won the championship, becoming Cao Xuan's 12th Billboard No. [-] single.

Although this guess had already been expected by many people, they couldn't help being shocked to see that Cao Xuan had already won two championships before the main dish started.

The bulletin board is really opened by his family!

Charlie and the others intensified the discussion, not only betting on winning the championship with a few songs, but also began to extend their attention to the number of weeks of winning the championship.

At present, regardless of the new album, Cao Xuan has won the championship for a total of 45 weeks.

Among them, the two albums "Legend" and "Qing" have won the championship for 16 weeks, and the new album is now 4 weeks. Everyone guesses whether it has a chance to surpass the previous two albums.

Charlie thinks the possibility is not high, "Legend" and "Qing" are completely phenomenal albums.

"Legend" has five crowns in one album and is known as the first album of the new century. Although many songs have joined forces to suppress other singers and not show up, but to some extent, it has also formed a certain degree of internal friction.

Some people think that "Legend" would not last for 16 weeks if it weren't for the five championships in one major, but many people think that if it weren't for each other's restraint and diversion, it might take longer to dominate the list.

This is not without reason. The overall quality of "Qing" is obviously not as good as "Legend". Only "Shape of You" and "Hello" won the championship.

But "Qing" focuses on quality rather than quantity. Although both are two songs, they are both hits, and because of the quantity, they can form complementary alliances without too much mutual restraint and internal friction.

In the end, "Shape of You" won the championship for 10 weeks, and "Hello" won the championship for 6 weeks. The two songs equaled the number of weeks that "Legend" won five championships in one special.

But no matter what, these two albums are among the most famous in the history of Billboard, and he doesn't believe that Cao Xuan can break the record.

But at this time, people like Charlie who thought it impossible had become a minority, and more people chose to believe that Cao Xuan could break the record.

Among them are people like Crusu who are hostile to Cao Xuan, in his words.

"There are too many miracles in this Chinese person, it is simply subverting cognition, I think he can do it."

Not only the [Bulletin Board House] forum, but even many American media outlets followed suit, exporting tainted milk to Cao Xuan.

"Representative Words of Miracles - Chinese Cao"

"The swan song of the magician of oriental music?
"Billboard Records and Others"

"Double Crowns, Already Completed, Below is the Triple Crown"

"Is it Arrogance or Confidence to hit the number of weeks to win the championship in 17 weeks?"

"..."

When ordinary people encounter this kind of poisonous milk, they will either be coaxed out of their hearts, or avoid it to save their character.

Cao Xuan was very calm, and expressed it directly in the interview.

"If I say I'm satisfied now, it's definitely not in my heart, but now I have reached my passing line. For the rest, I will do my best and depend on the destiny. All I can do is wait for an ending."

Cao Xuan's response caused turmoil among many fans. Although Cao Xuan said that there should be English songs in the last album, no one can guarantee how many songs there will be and what the quality will be.

So this album is likely to be Cao Xuan's true "swan song" in the European and American music scene.

For the vast majority of fans, Cao Xuan has an extraordinary status and significance to them. Now that Cao Xuan is about to retire, they are sad and reluctant, but they still have not changed Cao Xuan's decision.

If that's the case, let's say goodbye!
And they have prepared a lot of parting gifts, the first one is the list on the bulletin board.

On January 1, the official organization of Cao Xuan in the United States issued a statement to participate in the battle.

In the past, when Cao Xuan's album needed to hit the charts, some official time-sharing groups would also make announcements, but never on such a large scale as this time.

Not only the American media was extremely active, but fans from Canada, Mexico, and South America also joined in one after another. Afterwards, fans in Asia and Europe, after ensuring their own country's list, also tried their best to support their American comrades-in-arms.

Currently, Billboard charts are composed of radio demand, digital album sales and streams, and physical album sales.

So the rest is simple, those who have money buy albums, those who have no money, the United States is responsible for the radio bombing, and the network playback volume is handed over to the coalition forces of various countries.

On January 1th, a new issue of Billboard Weekly was released, and No.29 in the top 1 singles list has become "Closer".

"All Of Me" was squeezed out after only a week.

It was hard, but there was really nothing to do. Not only did Cao Xuan's fans go crazy, but Taylor's fans also joined in the fun.

Tyler is miserable.

Billboards are not missing, and the album chart has won several championships, but only the singles chart has been runner-up twice, and it was not until last year that it tasted the first time to win.

Among the popular female singers at the same level, she can't say that she has the least number of champion singles, but she really doesn't have much success.

After finally cooperating with Master, I must not risk my life to help.

And Cao Xuan did not disappoint her and her fans, he managed to get Taylor to hug her thigh, followed by whoring a championship single for nothing.

Taylor looked at his joint name on the leaderboard and almost cried, both happy and wronged.

I have worked tirelessly for several years, worked hard to get a champion single, went to China for a few days, ate roast duck and sang, and suddenly had a champion single under my name.

If I knew it was so easy, why did I put so much effort into it, how about hugging my thighs earlier...

However, neither Cao Xuan nor the outside world paid much attention to Taylor at this time.

At the end of January, after releasing four chart-topping songs, Cao Xuan chose to officially release a new album instead of delaying it.

Almost as soon as the album was released, all the people who had paid attention to it started to act one after another. Four of the songs hit the charts, and three of them won the championship. This ratio can no longer be described in words.

They are eager to see how good the remaining songs in the new album are, and there will be a few songs with championship potential...

(End of this chapter)