Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

In March, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was directed by Chen Qiming. Although the film style received some criticism, the box office continued to rise.

The film was released for a total of one month.

It grossed 43 million at the box office in Hong Kong, winning the title of box office champion during this year’s Spring Festival.

However, Chen Qiming was not in the country during this time.

As early as a few days after the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he rushed to the United States to make his DJ record.

After a month of unremitting efforts.

In early April, the album was finally completed and released worldwide on April 20th.

In fact, this album attracted a lot of attention when it was first promoted.

Both at home and abroad, everyone is looking forward to this album.

Chen Qiming's last mixed album sold a total of more than 14 million copies worldwide, and it was very popular.

And because Michael Jackson's albums have continued to stretch his hips in the past few years, his reputation as the world's number one superstar is getting louder and louder.

Everyone thinks that the global sales of Chen Qiming's new album are expected to reach 15 million.

However, after the release of this record, although it has gained a lot of praise.

It was directly listed as the opening work of the new century by Time Magazine.

But in terms of sales, Chen Qiming suffered a setback.

Three months after its release, this English album had sold a total of seven million copies.

Some platforms estimate that the total sales of this album may only exceed 10 million, with no hope of exceeding 15 million.

In this regard, Chen Qiming is still a little disappointed personally.

Unexpectedly, his first shot in the new century actually misfired.

Well, it's just a misfire.

For someone who has never sold less than 12 million English albums, sales of 10 million are a misfire.

However, in fact, the reason why the sales of this album are not as good as those of Chen Qiming's previous albums is not that he is no longer popular.

On the contrary, he is still the most popular singer in the world.

In last year's list of the most influential people of the 90s selected by Time Magazine, he successfully made the list and achieved a very good position.

At the same time, during this year, he also received national honors from many European and Asian countries.

The Prime Minister of Thailand also personally received him and had dinner with him.

At the audience level, he continues to rank first on the just-announced Asian poster sales list.

All signs point to one thing, that is, he is still popular.

However, while he is popular and his records have a good reputation, why do his sales decline?
This is mainly due to the overall poor performance of the global record market last year.

Affected by piracy and the rise of the Internet, the global record market has been greatly affected in recent years.

It's not just Chen Qiming.

The record sales of all singers have dropped significantly compared with previous years. .

Asia and the Chinese music scene have been hardest hit.

Last year and the year before that, in Asia, there were less than ten records with a total sales volume of more than three million copies.

In the Chinese music scene, the number of songs with sales exceeding one million has dropped by nearly half compared to 98.

Smart people can see that the arrival of the new century and the emergence of DVD and the Internet have inevitably affected the recording industry.

In fact, dozens of record companies around the world collapsed due to poor sales.

Among them, the most shocking thing is undoubtedly the change of ownership of PolyGram and its acquisition by Universal.

The global record industry has been affected, but Chen Qiming can still hope to achieve annual sales of tens of millions, which fully demonstrates his strength.

However, it should be said that although the sales volume of this DJ record released by Chen Qiming is not as good as other English albums.

But the prestige it brought to him was no less. This album caused a huge stir among DJs around the world.

Especially some of the advanced DJ songs.

He was directly amazed by countless DJs and inspired countless DJs to make better albums.

Also, in the global DJ market.

For more than half a year, no matter which karaoke or nightclub you walk into, DJ songs produced by Chen Qiming are almost always playing.

Some people even jokingly called Chen Qiming the King of DJs.

The decline in album sales did not affect Chen Qiming's pace.

He continued what he was supposed to do.

In July, Pacific Entertainment announced a new project.

"fast and Furious".

The film will star Chen Qiming.

In addition, other cast members have also aroused heated discussions in the media.

Among the people who star in this film with Chen Qiming is Jackie Chan.

Yes, that's Jackie Chan.

Amid the expectations of countless audiences and media, Chen Qiming, China's first singer to break into the world, will finally collaborate with the country's current number one Kung Fu superstar Jackie Chan.

This collaboration between the two has not only aroused heated discussions in the Chinese-speaking region, but also attracted huge attention in Europe and the United States.

Of course, the reason why they paid attention was because of the other star of the film.

Pete Brad!
The European and American A-lister, who was listed as the world's most attractive man last year with Chen Qiming, joined the Fast and Furious franchise.

Along with him are Charlize Theron and Jennifer Aniston.

It can almost be called a huge lineup that combines Chinese and Western styles. If this doesn't attract the attention of Europe and the United States, then Chen Qiming's entire lineup will basically be in vain.

Of course, the Chinese lineup is not only Chen Qiming and Jackie Chan, but also stars such as Zhang Ziyi and Wu Mengda.

On July 2000, 7, the "Fast and Furious" press conference was held in Las Vegas, USA.

On the third day, the film started shooting in Hong Kong.

Because of the large cast of actors involved in this film, Chen Qiming made great changes to the plot.

First of all, he is definitely the first protagonist, and then the scenes between Jackie Chan and Pete Blood are not weak either, almost equal to him.

The general story of the movie is that Chen Qiming and Brad set up a speeding team to rob the rich and give to the poor, and compete with international criminal organizations and international police in a battle of wits and courage.

Among them, Jackie Chan is still doing his old job, playing the role of a policeman.

What can't be helped is that Jackie Chan has more idol baggage than Chen Qiming.

It has been said that the protagonist team is a team that robs the rich and helps the poor, but Jackie Chan is still worried about image issues, so Chen Qiming had to change the originally designed team of three people to two people.

Jackie Chan arranged for him to join the international police and compete with them in a battle of wits and courage.

Of course, since the name is "Fast and Furious", the theme of the movie must still be the same exciting and exciting racing as the original version.

Among them, he added every bit of the classic flying cars and street racing in the original version into the movie.

Because there are so many big scenes in the movie.

In addition to the huge lineup, Chen Qiming roped in China Film and Warner, and the three parties cooperated and spent 100 million US dollars to make this film.

Moreover, the shooting date is not generally long.

Used it directly for seven months.

It was not until March 2001 that the filming of this film was completed.

(End of this chapter)