China Entertainment’s rescue plan is hard to come by

Chapter 618: Once a woman becomes handsome, she has nothing to do with men.

In the North American music scene in 2010, record companies have long lost the pride they had in the film era.

The traditional music dissemination model is nothing more than the dissemination of media platforms such as radio and television, the public broadcasting of various interactions with fans through the release of albums, live performances, and the diffusion of spontaneous benefits among fans through small circles. spread.

With the rapid development of the Internet, the way music is spread is infinitely close to diversification.

In the Internet age, traditional communication media can be easily integrated with faster speeds, more efficient communication, and lower costs.

This forces record companies to embrace the Internet.

In North America, the five major record companies, including Sony, Warner, EMI, Universal and BMG, began exploring the Internet for music dissemination a few years ago. By this time in 2010, they were relatively mature.

It can be said that Liu Yifei also caught up with a good time.

Otherwise, in the early years, it would be difficult for a newcomer to get ahead as a foreigner.

Even with Sun Yi's connections, Warner Records probably wouldn't be able to take on this job.

Looking at it now, Warner Records still takes a fancy to Liu Yifei's future potential and Sun Yi behind him.

For Liu Yifei’s single, Warner Records chose to launch it simultaneously on its own music platform and its partner Apple’s iTunes streaming platform.

That morning, Liu Yifei got up early and stayed in front of the computer, refreshing the web page with great anticipation, wanting to see the sales performance of her first official English single in North America.

Sun Yi leaned on the sofa behind her and looked at Liu Yifei's back with a smile.

"It's online, it's online."

Liu Yifei let out a sweet cry, then bit her lip and stared at the sales figures without blinking.

Watching the number pause from 0 for just a moment, and then change rapidly and continue to climb upwards, Liu Yifei excitedly turned around and pushed Sun Yi.

"Brother, look, there are a lot of sales."

In just a few minutes, sales figures rose to four digits.

"I saw it, I saw it."

Sun Yi nodded nonchalantly, causing Liu Yifei to glare at him angrily.

He quickly sat upright for a moment and suppressed the smile on his face.

“I really saw it, it was great!”

"Humph~"

Liu Yifei let him go angrily and continued to stare at the sales data on the web page.

Needless to say, seeing the sales figures of my singles keep jumping up, I feel quite satisfied.

This is a completely different experience from when she released her album in China.

At that time, although we looked at sales data, they were all staged, such as one day or one week, and basically not real-time, and they were all offline physical album sales.

This is the first time that real-time sales can be viewed directly on a streaming media platform.

This has to be said about the different listening habits of fans on both sides.

It is not that there are no streaming media platforms similar to iTunes in China during this period, but there are many.

Various music platforms such as QQ Video, Qianqianjingting, Kugou, etc.

But except for die-hard fans, few people actually spend money to buy songs online.

During this period, the vast majority of fans in China were still relatively conservative in their views.

My idol has released an album. Buying one offline is not only a support for the idol, but also a kind of commemoration. After all, it has something physical.

As for online albums, what’s the point?
Why do I have to spend money to listen to music online?

If I can do this to you, it must be free.

It's different here in the United States. Their music streaming media developed much earlier than in China, and their legal system is relatively sound.

iTunes' streaming music platform has become the largest online paid music platform in North America and even the world.

Although Apple's iPod sells well in China, few people use iTunes to download songs.

Free mp3 resources can be found everywhere on the Internet, aren’t they great?

Even when iPhone smartphones became popular all over the country, there were only a few of them, and they all tried every means to jailbreak them. The main thing was to be a diligent and thrifty person.

"It's not going up any more."

After about 20 minutes of fussing, Liu Yifei clicked the mouse with some frustration and found that the increase in sales data had almost paused. It took a long time to go up a few times. It was completely different from the boom when it was first launched.

This time, Sun Yi became more energetic. He leaned forward and asked, "What is the current data?"

"More than eleven thousand."

"Hey, it's not bad. More than a thousand people bought it. It must be on the sales list during the new song period."

Liu Yifei operated the computer, switched pages, and found that her song was indeed on the sales list. Only then did she realize that what Sun Yi said was wrong, and retorted seriously.

"It's not more than a thousand, it's more than eleven thousand."

"That's more than a thousand." Sun Yi pursed his lips and smiled, then nodded and replied.

Seeing Sun Yi's secretive and uncontrollable smile, Liu Yifei, no matter how naive she was, came to her senses.

"Have you refreshed the data?"

Sun Yi nodded and pointed at himself, "I bought those ten thousand sheets."

Liu Yifei thought that Sun Yi was afraid that her single's online sales would be poor and it would look ugly and lose face, so she brushed up the data for herself. She felt a little moved in her heart, but she still felt that it was a bit inappropriate.

"Brother, there is no need for you to be like this. Although I don't have much money, I won't be sad because of this."

Sun Yi laughed dumbly. He knew that Xiao Nizi had misunderstood.

He shook his head and was not in a hurry to explain. Instead, he raised his hand to look at the time and said to her meaningfully: "Don't worry, let the bullets fly for a while."

As soon as she saw Sun Yi like this, Liu Yifei knew that he must have caused trouble again, and she quickly asked curiously:
"What did you do again?"

"Don't worry, you'll find out in the afternoon."

"No, tell me now."

"Now I'm telling you, that wouldn't be fun."

"Can you tell me?"

"Hey, take your hands away, Liu Qianqian, how dare you take off my pants in broad daylight, a good family woman like me?"

"Bah~"

At 10 a.m., Eric walked into his music studio on time.

This was his recording studio two years ago. It was much smaller than it is now. Sometimes he couldn't find a customer for a long time, but it's different now. Boys and girls from all over the country with music dreams come to his studio. Here, I hope I can realize my music dream.

Eric walked around downstairs as usual, and then went upstairs to his exclusive workroom.

First I logged into YouTube, then logged into iTunes, and took a look at today’s time slot sales list.

"Yes, right here."

He opened a confidential document marked Warner on his computer, and then uploaded a video he had made long ago to his YouTube account. In just a few seconds, a large number of comments appeared below the video.

"The master has released a new song again. Whose song is it today?"

"Wow, he's a newcomer. It's rare for a master to recommend a new artist and new songs. It can meet your standards. I can't wait."

Eric smiled slightly and typed a few lines in the comment.

"A treasured singer from China. He is not a newcomer. He has released "stay here forever" before. A few days ago, he even brought an electronic music song "Walk Thru Fire". I personally like it very much. I watched it today. When her new English single was released, it went directly onto the iTunes sales chart. After listening to it, I found it to be very good and very unique. I recommend everyone to give it a listen.”

Yes, Eric now has another identity. He is a music blogger with millions of fans on YouTube.

And we have an extraordinary cooperative relationship with Warner Records.

Sun Yi contacted him through Warner Records.

For 3 US dollars, a homepage video recommendation is guaranteed to have a click-through rate of more than .

Sun Yi found no less than ten music bloggers like Eric through Warner's relationship, each costing several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars.

This time, more than 200,000 US dollars were thrown out.

You know, the price of Liu Yifei's single on iTunes is only 2 US dollars. After taking into account the profit sharing from the platform, record companies and taxes, on average, one song is sold, and she only has the remaining For a $0.36 bet, if you want to earn back , this single must have at least one million sales.

For a newcomer to the music scene, this is almost an impossible task.

That's it, not counting Warner's cost of data brushing and other publicity channels.

But Sun Yi didn't care, he was not bad at all.

What he wants is to increase Liu Yifei's popularity and influence in the United States.

This little money doesn't matter.

If you have money, you are so willful.

Eric has completed the business after uploading the video. He is very confident about the click rate. He received the demo and the MV before the single was released.

To be honest, he really liked this song and admired this new singer named Crystal.

He is not the kind of person who recommends any song just for money. He has his own principles, otherwise he would not be able to achieve millions of fans.

Looking at the various responses below the video, he couldn't help but click on the video again.

What caught his eye was a pair of women's leather short boots, walking out of the convenience store.

The camera moved along with the short boots, and the owner of the short boots paused, as if he had discovered something, and then suddenly turned back.

When I stopped, I realized it was a vending machine.

As a few coins were put in, a long object fell at the exit with a snap.

In the first ten seconds of the entire video, the protagonist is not seen at all, which can be said to whet the audience's appetite.

At this time, the owner of the short boots bent down to retrieve them, finally letting the audience get a glimpse.

Even though she still hasn't seen her appearance, her graceful figure, her exposed waist without a trace of fat, and her tight and slender legs wrapped in jeans are enough to make everyone think.

A passionate prelude to the marriage proposal sounded, making people want to shake their bodies along unconsciously.

Finally, the owner of the video appeared, opened the door and got into an old Ford Mustang with no logo.

The camera first showed Liu Yifei a side face, a high bridge of nose, a clear mandible line, a few strands of naturally hanging hair on her forehead, and the back of her neck, which looked as refreshing as a wolf's tail, whether it was long or short. Short hair makes people feel heroic in an instant.

I saw her put down the paper bag, unpacked the package in her hand, and put a lollipop in her mouth. Then he pulled down the sunglasses stuck on his forehead, inserted the key, nodded, put the gear in gear, and stepped on the accelerator, all in one movement.

The tires rubbed tightly against the ground a few times, and the car rushed out at high speed.

At this time, the music finally started.

"Uh, oh"

"I got breaking news and it's not about you~oh, oh"

I just saw a breaking news, but you were not in it
"Uh, oh"

"I've been breaking hearts too and I learned it all from you~oh, oh"

I've been heartbroken since I learned all this from you."

Just these first two lyrics are full of movement and power.

The brisk melody and sweet vocals immediately attracted countless North American fans who were watching the video.

"who is she?"

"So handsome~"

"The title of the song is "salt", salt, why is it called this?"

While countless fans were curious, Liu Yifei, who was in her villa in Los Angeles, was also browsing YouTube. She had just finally revealed his so-called plan from Sun Yi.

At this moment, I am taking a quick look at the effect.

When seeing her new image in the MV, Liu Yifei couldn't help but stroke the little wolf tail behind her neck with her hand.

The corners of his mouth curved slightly.

I didn’t expect it, it’s quite beautiful~
During the previous MV shooting, when Sun Yi told her that in order to achieve the best effect, she needed to cut her hair short, she was unhappy for a while.

Waist-length hair is every girl’s dream.

Finally, under Sun Yi's various instigations, he reluctantly agreed.

Now it looks pretty good.

Liu Yifei couldn't help but feel secretly happy, and Sun Yi who was watching on the side laughed.

It doesn't look good, this is the "celestial attack" that fans have longed for in the future. He transformed it for Xiao Nizi years in advance.

Don't talk about it, the effect is really explosive. Don't talk about others, just talk about himself.

Last night, after Xiao Nizi took a shower, she was wearing only a large T-shirt and a pair of bare pink and smooth legs. She was wiping the little wolf tail on the back of her head and walked towards him. Hold it and stand.

I can't control it at all.

Liu Yifei's eyes turned to Sun Yi. When she saw his evil smile, she knew that he had no bad intentions. She raised her fist at him and then turned her eyes back to the screen.

"I'm all out of salt"

But I'm exhausted
"I'm not gonna cry won't give you what you want"

I won't cry anymore 'cause you'll never get me

“Cause I look way too good tonight”

Lying alone makes me feel good
"I'm all out of salt"

I am so tired

"Tears art running dry won't give you what you want"

Even if my tears dry up, I won't let you get what you want

“Cause I look way too good tonight”

Because being alone makes me feel good
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh~~
The car was really like a wild horse, running recklessly on the road.

While twisting her body to the rhythm of the music, Liu Yifei gently sucked the lollipop in her hand with her tongue, dyeing her lilac uvula a sultry blue, making people unable to help but think about it.

The car drove to the gas station, and the climax of the music came.

A very dynamic drum beat sounded.

In the video, Liu Yifei opened the car door gracefully, kicked off her shoes, and danced to the music with her bare feet.

First, he walked a few emotional catwalks beside the car, and then swayed his body.

There are no deliberate dance steps or particular dance postures, it is all about twisting casually to the rhythm of the music.

However, the seemingly random raising of hands and shaking of the head are all perfectly placed on the drumbeat of the music, making people unable to help but sway along with it.

Just these few seconds of dancing made the eyes of those watching in front of the computer widen.

The next second, her body leaned forward slightly, and her two lotus-like arms were raised above her head wantonly, and began to swing wildly to the rhythm of the music.

Clenched fists, sky blue nails.

Paired with an expression of letting go and enjoying everything, plus the lollipop that spits out twice from time to time in the mouth, it is sexy with a hint of freedom and ease, which is simply adorable.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Yifei's dancing posture began to change.

Turning her hips sideways, she moved her hands up little by little along the curves of her slender legs, crossing her perky buttocks and towering chest, showing off her curvy figure without reservation.

It makes people's blood rush.

Finally, she leaned against the gas pump, spread her legs and squatted down, unscrupulously revealing a small white waist, shaking her legs while swinging her hips.

The movements are bold and sultry.

He still had the lollipop in his mouth, licking it while dancing.

The flowing curves of her body showed endless charm, and she imitated Sun Yi with a bad smile on her lips, carrying an unspeakable wildness.

It can be either sweet or salty, pure and lusty.

It vividly explains what it means to be a beauty in the world.

Liu Yifei herself couldn't help but look at Xiafei's cheeks, and turned around to give Sun Yi angrily.

"Hey, don't say you weren't happy about it. I think you were in the mood at that time."

Sun Yi didn't take the blame. Xiao Nizi was obviously embarrassed, and she looked embarrassed on the surface, but she didn't know how happy she was on the inside.

This dance is very aggressive, completely releasing the wildness in her heart.

You know, Sun Yi may have borrowed this handsome dance step in the MV from the famous "human spanner" K, that is, the Twilight Girl, Kristen Stewart.

In his previous life, Sun Yi felt that Xiao Nizi and Christine were very similar in some temperaments, equally chic and handsome.

This is indeed the case. This dance was used for Xiao Nizi without any violation.

Not to mention, my little girl has a waist-to-hip ratio that is twice as strong as Kristen's flat figure, and she can hit her hard with both hands.

During the filming of the scene, even Sun Yi, who had eaten it, got drunk, let alone other people who saw the video.

“Not gonna cc-cry”

Do not cry

“Not gonna cc-cry”

Do not cry

“Not gonna cc-cry”

I won’t cry for you anymore
Not only the dance, but also the lyrics are optimistic and self-reliant, with strong emotional resonance.

Using "salt" as a metaphor for tears means that she has gotten rid of the pain of the past and will no longer be emotionally hurt. From now on, she will be the most perfect woman, expressing the strength and resilience of a girl.

After the mv was played, tens of thousands of comments appeared below, all of which were exclamation points.

"It's so cool. I never thought a woman could be so handsome."

"Oh my god, I like her so much, I want to find an Asian girlfriend."

"Like a sexy little wildcat, can anyone tell me more about her?"

In less than an hour, the song's mv video reached the top of YouTube's hot video list that day. Liu Yifei in turn went to iTunes to check the song's sales data.

Compared with the morning, there is one more zero.

"Yeah, it's over one hundred thousand."

Liu Yifei jumped up happily, stood up, looked down at Sun Yi, and raised her pink fist at him.

"How dare you mock me again? Have you ever seen a fist as big as a sandbag?"

Xu changed her hairstyle and saw the success of the song, which made Xiao Nizi feel better.

Not to mention, paired with her neat short wolf tail hair, she looks quite like that.

"Hey, Heroine, spare your life."

Sun Yi happily cooperated.

"It's too late, this heroine will do justice for heaven today~"

With that said, Liu Yifei jumped directly onto Sun Yi.

"Oh, you are serious!"

"I don't need a man anymore~"

"Hey, I turned against you."

If you say you don't need another man, Sun Yi can still accept it. This means that you don't need a man anymore. How can Sun Yi endure it?

Then, he gently stroked her sensitive areas a few times, causing her to gasp repeatedly.

"You, you don't act according to the script."

"I'm the director, I have the final say."

Seeing Sun Yi acting rogue, Liu Yifei's face turned red. She could only put one hand against his chest and the other hand to grab his wrist to prevent him from continuing to act mischievously, begging for mercy again and again.

"Brother, I was wrong. Wrong, husband~"

"It's too late. Today, it's you, the heroine, who is trying to destroy the flower!"

(End of this chapter)