Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 205 The Most Popular Artist

On August 8, the second week sales data of the album "Grandma" was released.

In nine days, the album sold an astonishing 560,000 copies in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore.

Among them, sales data in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other places were 25.

Then, the most popular is the mainland.

In nine days, 31 tickets were sold.

This is absolutely a terrifying statistic.

Even though Jay Chou is known as the best-selling singer in the current Chinese music scene, he has only achieved this kind of data once, and that was in "Qilixiang".

The popularity of the new album, the blessing of the Olympic promotional song, the support of Baidu's Person of the Year, the surge in popularity of old songs, and the hit of "Magic Sword Life and Death Chess".

It immediately made Wu Zhuo extremely famous.

On the 20th, Wu Chao held a book signing event for "Grandma" in Shanghai.

On that day, there were more than 10,000 people at the event site and those who came to watch the fun, which directly disrupted the traffic near the event.

The Shanghai traffic police had to dispatch several teams to the scene to help maintain order.

This book signing event caused a huge response in mainland China.

During this period, exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau have reached an unprecedented level.

Because of their accumulation in the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong and Taiwan artists are generally more popular than mainland Chinese stars.

However, even most Hong Kong and Taiwan artists are popular in mainland China.

But the popularity gap is still obvious.

It is very popular and there are at least hundreds or even thousands of people to pick you up at the airport when you travel.

Those with average popularity are scattered around, ranging from dozens to hundreds.

Before, Wu Chao was already a very popular artist, and his number of fans ranked among the highest among all artists in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This time, a signing event directly attracted tens of thousands of people, making him the most popular artist among Hong Kong and Taiwan.

If you were to use a person as an analogy.

That should be Nicholas Tse around 2000.

At that time, Nicholas Tse was the most popular in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong.

Countless people became his fans.

At this time, Wu Chao has replaced and even surpassed him to become the most popular artist in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This is how Yangcheng Daily described Wu Zhuo.

"Wu Zhuo's popularity has been foreshadowed for a long time. His album "My Personal Style" is a record that is worthy of being called a masterpiece.

More importantly, he is a singer-songwriter.

Just as Taiwanese media said, at this time, if we were to select the most talented person in the music industry, Wu Chao would definitely be on the list.

Even in the hearts of some music critics and fans, Wu Chao is not inferior to Jay Chou at all.

He is not only a popular solo singer, but also a key member of the popular Asian band Fahrenheit.

When Flywheel was on Happy Camp on the Sea, they played a game about who was the face of the show, and it turned out that all four of them were the faces of the show.

However, in fact, Fahrenheit actually only had one front from the beginning to the end, and that was Wu Chao.

He not only undertook the creation of most of the group's popular works, whether it was "Only Feelings for You" and "Super Style" from the first album or the popular "sorry, sorry" from the second album.

Speaking of the song "Sorry, Sorry", it's really awesome.

Someone once said that the dance of this song has become so popular that dogs on the street will rub their hands after hearing the music.

Although this is a bit exaggerated, the popularity of this song is absolutely unquestionable.

Because of this song, Fahrenheit's popularity in Japan and South Korea is comparable to the most popular groups in those countries.

Even South Korea's KBS TV station said that Fahrenheit is the biggest stumbling block for Korean groups in Asia.

It is such a popular group. Wu Zhuo is responsible for the creation of most songs, and is also the lead dancer and lead singer. If Wu Zhuo, who has taken on so much, is not the face of Fahrenheit, then who is? "

Yangcheng Daily is one of the best-selling and most influential media in Guangdong and even in the South.

Once the article was published in this newspaper, it directly established and confirmed Wu Chao's current status.

He is undoubtedly one of the new Four Heavenly Kings.

He also deserves the title of the most popular artist.

Since mid-August, Wu Chao's name has frequently appeared on various variety shows and TV programs in mainland China.

The most exaggerated is Hunan Satellite TV.

This TV station has mastered the essence of riding on the popularity of others.

This year, Hunan Satellite TV launched the latest edition of the previously held "Super" series of events.

Hunan Satellite TV has hosted the "Super Boy" contest since the first one in 2003, and has broadcast three consecutive "Super Girl" series.

But this year, "Super Boy" was forced to change its name by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

The program team finally decided on "Happy Boys" as the name of the latest super event.

In mid-July, Happy Boy officially ended.

Chen Chusheng won the championship, Su Xing won the runner-up, and Wei Chen won the third place.

Zhang Jie also participated in this event and won the fourth place.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Wu Chao now.

What is relevant is that on August 8, Hunan Satellite TV recalled the top 18 contestants of Happy Boys and held a concert.

In this concert, the contestants of Super Boy sang a total of five songs by Wu Chao.

They are all relatively popular and top-ranked players.

Chen Chusheng sang Wu Zhuo's "Nuan Nuan".

Su Xing sang "Rice Fragrance".

Wei Chen sang "Addicted".

Zhang Jie sang "The Day After Tomorrow".

Yu Haoming sang "Thinking Too Much".

Hunan TV picked up almost all of Wu Zhuo’s popular songs and had the contestants perform them at the concert.

In fact, this wave of popularity is really amazing.

At that time, when the contestants sang these songs, the fans in the audience were boiling with excitement.

Many fans even sang along.

And the next day, the love version of this concert directly entered the top 100 of major music charts, and its popularity was explosive.

Because the song is really popular.

Hunan Satellite TV, which had originally only purchased the concert authorization from Wu Zhuo, directly sent people to contact Wu Zhuo's copyright management company, hoping to obtain the rights to re-record and release these songs.

Finally, after negotiations between the two parties, Hunan Satellite TV paid RMB 4.6 million and obtained the rights to cover and distribute the five songs mentioned above by Wu Chao.

In fact, Wu Zhuo didn't intend to authorize the distribution at the beginning.

But after thinking about it, I felt that even if it was covered, it wouldn't have much impact on me.

At this time, he was no longer a young singer, and most of the audience already knew that he sang these songs.

Even if the song is covered, even if the cover singer sings better than the original, it will not affect one's own interests.

Even more, if the cover versions sung by the Super Boy group are popular enough, they can also spread these songs and further enhance the fame and status of Wu Chao as the creator.

Therefore, he finally agreed to authorize Hunan Satellite TV to release the cover of his songs in its upcoming Super Boy joint album.

(End of this chapter)