I started to become more self-disciplined at the age of 30

Even Yuan Caiyi, Chen Xun and others who came from China were confused when they saw the prices on the ticketing platform!
Chen Xun's eyes widened and he said, "Fuck, is the production team trying to make money?"

Yuan Caiyi also echoed: "This is worse than robbery! It's too expensive."

Of course they want to buy the front row tickets.

For the first three shows, they didn’t get front-row tickets and felt very disappointed and regretful. Later, the price of scalper tickets for the first row was a terrifying $100,000, and there were only a few of them, so they couldn’t buy them even if they wanted to.

At this time they looked directly at the tickets in the first row.

There were less than a hundred tickets for the first row, and the official selling price of each ticket was a staggering $80,000, which was only $20,000 lower than the $100,000 scalper price.

Just these less than 100 first-row tickets can be sold at an extremely high price of six or seven million.

The prices for the first few rows except the first row are a little cheaper, but they are still as high as 30,000 US dollars, and there are only a few hundred tickets!

Yuan Caiyi, Chen Xun and others hesitated for a moment, but still clicked to buy tickets for the first row.

Tens of thousands of dollars is indeed a sky-high price for ordinary people, but it is not too expensive for them. It is just that it is much more expensive than a normal concert, so they cannot accept it for a while.

However, thinking about being able to watch Jiang Chen's performance in the front row, interact with Jiang Chen, and let Jiang Chen see them, several people still felt that it was worth it.

but……

When they wanted to buy and pay, they were told that the first row of tickets was sold out.

The dozens of tickets, which cost a staggering $80,000, were sold out in less than a minute.

Chen Xun could only sigh: "There are still many rich people. Tens of thousands of dollars of tickets are nothing to the rich. We shouldn't hesitate."

He knew that many wealthy people and celebrity artists would scramble for front-row tickets to watch the show so that they could appear on camera in the front row. Considering the current popularity and ratings of the show, it was very cost-effective to spend tens of thousands of dollars to appear on camera.

Yuan Caiyi comforted him, "It's okay. The show crew sells tickets one by one. We won't hesitate for the next show. We can just buy the first row."

After hearing this, the few people could only comfort themselves in this way.

However, when they wanted to buy seats in the front rows, they found that they were sold out, and hundreds of tickets priced at $30,000 were also sold out.

This immediately made Yuan Caiyi, Chen Xun and others gasp, and they immediately realized that they had underestimated the popularity of the world competition performances and the degree of crazy pursuit by many people.

They rushed to buy tickets for the middle area, fearing that the tickets for the middle area would also be sold out.

Only then did I realize that the tickets for the middle area were priced at $10,000. There were a lot of tickets, thousands of them, and most of them had already been sold, with the good seats all taken.

The ticket prices for the tens of thousands of ordinary areas at the back also reached a terrifying $5,000, and the worst seats at the back cost as much as $2,000.

They did a rough calculation and found that the production team could earn over 100 million U.S. dollars from tickets for this show alone, which was more than the revenue from the previous three shows combined.

If the situation with every subsequent ticket sale is the same, the tickets alone will be able to bring the production team hundreds of millions, or even over a billion dollars in revenue.

Add to that income from advertising sponsorship and subsequent program broadcasting rights, and the total revenue in a short period of time may exceed US$3 billion, and the subsequent steady stream of copyright income will also be a stable and considerable income.

Now, all copyright holders participating in the World Championship will definitely make a lot of money.

Even the lowest-paid ones, who can only get less than 10% of the income, can still get a net income of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is much higher than their income in their own countries.

Only China and North America have higher income from singing competitions than this. The income from singing competitions in other places is far less than hundreds of millions of dollars.

…………

Haley and Oldman, Guo Haitao, and copyright representatives from other major competition areas were extremely excited to see that the tickets were sold out quickly at such an outrageous price, earning hundreds of millions of dollars in an instant!

This means that the tickets for the next few shows will have the same terrifying revenue.

What makes them regretful and helpless now is.

There aren’t many World Championship games left.

Because Jiang Chen's performance was too strong, the competition lacked competitiveness. A contestant withdrew last week. If this continues, there will be at most five performances left to decide the champion.

They can only accept tickets for six shows at most.

of course……

It is also because Jiang Chen's performance is so wonderful and powerful that it can attract so many people to go crazy and be willing to spend such a high price to buy tickets.

Therefore, they were somewhat worried about gains and losses, but they did not think about adding uncertainty to the game, nor did they think about making any arrangements against Jiang Chen.

Haili glanced at Guo Haitao and said regretfully, "It's a pity that Jiang Chen didn't accept our interview. Otherwise, if we hyped it up, the popularity would be even higher later."

The others looked at Guo Haitao expectantly, hoping that Guo Haitao could once again persuade Jiang Chen to cooperate with the program team in interviews and publicity.

However, Guo Haitao simply shook his head and said, "It is impossible for Jiang Chen to agree to something that he has refused, so we don't need to worry about it."

Rambo's assistant came to Guo Haitao and whispered, "Director Guo, have you asked Jiang Chen about the song invitation? If 50 million is not enough, we can discuss the specific price."

Rambo's assistant represents Rambo, and also the agency behind him, wants to try whether they can buy Jiang Chen's works.

However, no normal person would sell the chickens that lay eggs.

but……

What if, what if Jiang Chen is willing to sell?

The sales of The Sound of Silence had exceeded 230 million at this time, and Jiang Chen earned over 100 million US dollars from this song in just five days.

The sales of We Will Rock You, the original song, have exceeded 280 million, and Stairway to Heaven has also caught up with sales of 270 million, both heading towards a total sales of 300 million.

It seems that people who like to listen to music all over the world are downloading this song. The increase in sales has not slowed down over time, but has become more and more terrifying.

Maybe in a month, the sales volume will exceed 500 million!
Each song has brought Jiang Chen an income of 140 million US dollars, plus the sound of silence just now.

Jiang Chen released only three songs in North America, but he earned nearly $400 million in net income.

This income figure already ranks first among all star singers in the world!
It is impossible for all other stars and singers to earn more than this figure simply through the income from the entertainment industry. Only through income from business and investment can it exceed the figure of 400 million US dollars. Simply relying on film pay, income from the release of works, and advertising endorsements, the annual income of the biggest stars and singers in Hollywood is only more than 200 million US dollars, which is already the ceiling level.

Jiang Chen has earned $400 million by releasing only three songs in just three weeks, and he will continue to have a steady stream of income in the future.

How could this not make everyone in the entertainment industry jealous?

Guo Haitao directly said to Rambo's assistant: "I asked, Jiang Chen refused, and seriously said that he would never sell his own works. So, you should stop thinking about buying songs from him, it's impossible."

Rambo's assistant and other executives from the production team were slightly disappointed after hearing this.

If Jiang Chen is willing to sell his own songs, then the rest of them will also spend a huge amount of money to buy one.

With Jiang Chen's level, any song he writes will probably have good sales. Even if it can't reach the level of the three songs he has already released, as long as it's similar, he will definitely make money.

If you can’t make 100 million on the first day, then make it in the first week. If you can’t make it in the first week, then make it in the first month…

As long as the sales volume exceeds 100 million, the cost can be recovered!
Of course, before this, it was an arduous task for their works to sell over 100 million copies, but for Jiang Chen, it was an extremely easy goal.

Since it is impossible to buy songs from Jiang Chen, many other music creators have become very popular and have received invitations to collaborate with many big-name singers, and the prices are one level higher than usual.

…………

Time quickly came to the weekend again.

Jiang Chen still didn't come to the show to practice, but the other six contestants came very diligently, almost every day, and made their presence felt in front of the media every day.

There was no other way. Since he couldn't win on the stage, he could only put in some effort off the stage. Otherwise, he would be completely crushed by Jiang Chen and forgotten by the audience.

Half an hour before the live broadcast, Jiang Chen arrived at the scene again on time.

Haley, Oldman, Guo Haitao and other senior executives of the program team still came outside to greet Jiang Chen.

Dozens of bodyguards surrounded Jiang Chen and walked in, ignoring the many crazy media reporters around them.

Hailey walked beside Jiang Chen and whispered, "Mr. Jiang Chen, you will be the third to appear today. If you need to adjust your appearance time, you can contact us at any time. We will definitely satisfy you."

Trins didn't come today because he was afraid that Jiang Chen would be angry, but he privately told Haley to make Jiang Chen satisfied and agree to all of Jiang Chen's requests.

Therefore, Haley's attitude became even more humble.

Not only does the program team rely on Jiang Chen to increase ratings and sell tickets, but it is also because of the instructions from the boss above.

Jiang Chen shook his head: "No need, let's just go with the third one, that's good!"

As long as it doesn't delay his return to Zhuangyuan to rest and he can go to bed on time, Jiang Chen doesn't care.

Rambo, Nakajima Sane, Diana and the other six contestants were standing not far away, looking at Jiang Chen, their eyes filled with envy and complicated emotions.

This time, Rambo brought his new attempt - singing a new song!
After two weeks, Rambo worked with two creators and top producers and finally brought out a relatively satisfactory new song to sing on stage. Then he uploaded and released it immediately after the performance, following the same route and rhythm as Jiang Chen.

However, Rambo was a little bit nervous and expectant. He was nervous about whether his new song would be successful, but he was expecting to be as successful as Jiang Chen.

The sales of Jiang Chen's The Sound of Silence last week have officially surpassed 250 million, which scared everyone in the European and American entertainment circles.

Rambo does not expect to have such exaggerated sales, it would be satisfied if the weekly sales could exceed 50 million.

Before Jiang Chen, weekly sales of 50 million was a super sales volume that the European and American music circles could not even imagine...

Now with Jiang Chen’s super sales in the past, the music circles in Europe and the United States feel that the music market is recovering and dare to imagine higher sales figures.

Jiang Chen glanced at Rambo and the others, nodded to Nakajima Sane and Diana, the two girls who greeted him for the first time, then turned and walked into his lounge.

Nakajima Sane and Diana both smiled and waved to Jiang Chen, but Jiang Chen had already entered the lounge, so he naturally didn't see them waving and greeting.

And outside.

The live host interview and interactive session has started live.

Tens of thousands of spectators have arrived at the scene.

Although the ticket price for this performance almost set the highest ticket price ever in North America, it was still sold out in a short time, which shows how popular this performance is.

Those sitting in the front row are, without exception, some familiar big names in the European and American entertainment circles, as well as some wealthy people who like to increase their exposure.

Qin Xuerong, Li Wenjun and others sat in the fourth row, in the front but not too conspicuous.

Alan found Tony sitting in the first row again and said with a smile, "Hi, Tony!"

Tony waved to the camera: "Hi, Alan, Jenna..."

Jenna asked curiously, "Tony, you didn't buy scalper tickets this time, did you?"

Tony couldn't help but complain to the camera: "Yes, I didn't buy scalper tickets. But your official selling price is almost the same as the scalper tickets. You are simply robbing people."

Jenna laughed and said, "No, this is not robbery, this is better than robbery! You will pay the money willingly, right?"

Tony said to the camera: "Yes, I paid for it willingly. I have been listening to three songs this week, Sound of Silence, Stairway to Heaven, and We Will Rock You! After listening to Mr. Jiang Chen's songs, I can no longer listen to other people's songs. So, I must come to see Jiang Chen's live performance..."

"So, even if you sell the first-row tickets for $500,000 each, I will buy them without hesitation!"

For Tony, there is no difference between $80,000 and $500,000. They are both just pocket money.

His annual income from film salaries and advertising endorsements is about $200 million, and with other fixed investments, his assets increase in value by about $300 to $400 million each year.

The maintenance costs of his several luxury homes in North America and Europe alone amount to millions of dollars each year, and his overall living expenses amount to tens of millions of dollars a year.

Therefore, for a top star like him, as long as he is happy, he is very willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make himself happy.

Allen jokingly said, "Okay, Tony, I'm going to suggest that we set the price of the first row tickets at $500,000 next week, and you'll buy them, right?"

Tony was speechless. (End of this chapter)