Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 433: A wildly successful performance begins; Show Lo, reminded by Wu Zhuo...

[60% of Wu Zhuo's concert attendees were foreigners]

A true international superstar

According to incomplete statistics, Wu Zhuo's first concert generated over 500 million yuan in economic benefits for Shanghai.

The concert in Shanghai immediately became a hot news story the next day after it ended.

No one expected that Wu Zhuo's concert would not only be a huge success, but also attract so many foreigners.

On the same day, the media contacted the Immigration Department for inquiries.

The final conclusion was even more startling.

According to incomplete statistics, the number of foreigners entering the country this month has increased several times compared to last month, starting a month ago.

Of these, nearly 100,000 are involved.

When these people filled out the form at immigration, they all wrote "to see Wu Zhuo's concert" in the section asking why they came to China.

So terrifying.

Wu Zhuo single-handedly caused a surge in the number of foreign tourists visiting China.

Reporters spent the next few days staking out several international airports.

The situation these past few days has truly surprised everyone.

Because almost all the people getting off planes from abroad are foreigners.

These reporters interviewed several people.

Aside from some who came for commercial purposes.

Everyone else was drawn here by Wu Zhuo's concert.

These people came to China because Wu Zhuo's concerts had the most shows in China and were relatively inexpensive.

Then, at Wu Zhuo's concert, a very strange phenomenon occurred.

That means that no matter which city the concert is held in, you can see a lot of foreigners in the audience.

They shouted Wu Zhuo's name loudly in broken Chinese, and joined the entire audience in singing Wu Zhuo's Chinese songs at the top of their lungs.

Because there were so many foreigners, Wu Zhuo specifically asked someone to do a count.

From late October to December, there were several concerts in China.

The number of foreigners who attended his concert was as high as 27.

This doesn't even include people from Japan and South Korea, because people from Japan and South Korea look similar to Chinese people, so it's difficult to count them.

If we include that, it could exceed 30.

Because this event was so unusual and inspiring.

Wu Zhuo's concert was featured for about ten seconds in the 12 PM news on December 26th.

"Wu Zhuo, a famous Chinese singer, recently embarked on his third global tour, attracting more than 30 foreign tourists to his performances in several cities across China."

It is understood that these foreign tourists all came to China specifically to see Wu Zhuo's concert.

Wu Zhuo's successful performance signifies a further step for Chinese culture onto the world stage.

The broadcast of the 7 o'clock news further boosted the popularity of Wu Zhuo's concert in China.

For the subsequent concerts, tickets went on sale each time.

Almost every ticket sold out in less than a minute.

Many people complained online that they couldn't get tickets because they were too slow.

"Does anyone have tickets for Wu Zhuo's Chengdu show? Regular tickets, I'm willing to pay extra to buy them."

"Price gouging? You're overthinking it. Scalpers have already driven up the prices to astronomical levels. The official price for a regular ticket is 179, but scalpers are selling it for 888."

The official price for the front row VIP seats is 1699 yuan, but scalpers are asking for 18888 yuan directly.

Of course, if you have plenty of money, you can also use a scalper.

"It's all those foreigners' fault. Instead of waiting in their own countries to see Wu Zhuo's concert, they came here to compete with us for tickets."

"If it weren't for them, ticket prices wouldn't have been inflated to such high levels."

"What I hate most are scalpers. They turn around and resell the goods at several times the price we pay, and Wu Zhuo's company doesn't do anything about it."

"How do you know they didn't manage it? Wu Zhuo's official ticket sales only allow a maximum of four tickets per person."

The reason for setting this up is to curb scalping.

Even so, it can't be stopped; scalpers have too many ways to operate.

Speaking of scalpers, Wu Zhuo also felt helpless.

He tried many methods.

For example, one person can only buy a maximum of four tickets, or they can firmly refuse to let the organizer hand over the tickets to scalpers.

His measures were somewhat effective at first, but over time, scalpers always found ways to circumvent them.

For example, there's a restriction that one person can only buy four tickets.

Although scalpers are prevented from buying too many tickets at once, they still have ways to do so.

They directly recruit ordinary people into the group and ask them to buy tickets for them. After buying the tickets, they buy them back at a premium of tens of yuan, and then resell them at a higher price.

For ordinary people who don't follow celebrities, simply grabbing tickets online can earn them tens to hundreds of yuan in pocket money for free, and no one would be unwilling to do that.

It can be said that the rampant scalping has directly and indirectly driven up the price of Wu Zhuo's concert tickets to a level that many ordinary people simply cannot afford.

Of course, the reason why the ticket price is so high is largely due to the concert's immense popularity.

There are so many people who want to see it, but so few tickets, that it's extremely difficult to get one.

This is why scalped tickets are being sold at exorbitant prices.

To be honest, Wu Zhuogang was shocked when he found out that a front-row ticket cost 1.8 yuan.

For a moment, he even considered becoming a scalper.

The profit margin is at least ten times!

"Sister Huiying, please keep a close eye on the organizers, especially those who resell tickets. Fire them if you find any."

Although most scalpers now rely on methods such as creating groups to grab tickets and then earn brokerage fees.

However, there are still people reselling tickets within the organizer's organization.

Internal staff would sell Wu Zhuo's tickets to scalpers from within the organization, making a profit in the process.

This method has been popular for several years now.

Wu Zhuo's current task is to crack down on this.

In the previous years, when he was still young and inexperienced, people might have turned a blind eye.

But now, he has become one of the top business leaders in the country.

In this regard, he must set an example.

Wu Zhuo was willing to earn less, but he would never allow his reputation to be ruined.

This kind of internal traitor is also the kind of person Wu Zhuo hates the most.

When his album was released in 08, the master tapes were leaked by an insider.

They copied the album master tapes and resold them to pirates.

The pirated version was released a day earlier than Wu Zhuo's official version.

That album was released ahead of schedule due to piracy.

This resulted in the lowest domestic sales figure among Wu Zhuo's many albums, with domestic sales of only 430 million.

If it hadn't been a huge success in overseas markets, he might have faced a severe decline in sales compared to the previous year.

Wu Zhuo eventually discovered that the employee was a deputy director at HIM International Music.

Not only were all the money he made from selling pirated goods confiscated, but he was also sent directly to prison.

"Don't worry, I've found a team to handle this, there won't be any problems."

After Chen Huiying finished speaking, she paused for a moment and said, "I think it would be best if our team were to be responsible for the tickets for our events in the future."

"Handing it over to outsiders is not only troublesome to investigate, but also requires a greater investment if we hire someone to supervise it."

"Okay, you can take charge of this. Just make sure there aren't too many scalped tickets circulating."

……

January arrived, and in the past two months, Wu Zhuo had finished his tour in mainland China and began his tour in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. First, Hong Kong.

He held three consecutive concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum.

Unfortunately, Hung Hom on the Hong Kong side can only accommodate a little over 10,000 people.

Wu Zhuo also has a large fan base in Hong Kong, and a concert with more than 10,000 people is not enough.

Therefore, he could only hold three events in a row.

Not only in Hong Kong, but also in many other cities with venues that can only accommodate 10,000 people, Wu Zhuo chose to hold several events in a row.

However, although the venue in Hong Kong is smaller, the level of excitement is in no way inferior.

Three consecutive concerts were sold out.

What excited the media even more was that the front row seats at all three concerts were filled with celebrities.

The first show featured Aaron Kwok, Simon Yam, Eason Chan, and Cecilia Cheung.

The second event featured a host of big names, including Xie Tingfeng, Jackie Chan, and Nick Cheung.

The third show featured Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Donnie Yen, and even Edison Chen, who had been missing for a long time, appeared in the front row.

These three concerts immediately ignited the Hong Kong media.

[A Star-Studded Concert: Wu Zhuo's Performance Rivals the Hong Kong Film Awards]

Jay Chou, Wang Leehom, and JJ Lin lend their support to Wu Zhuo's Hong Kong concert, bringing together the new "Four Heavenly Kings" on the same stage.

[After Wu Zhuo's concert ended, fans refused to leave, staying at the entrance of the Hung Hom Stadium until 1 a.m.]

To be fair, the new Four Heavenly Kings are quite a big gimmick.

The new Four Heavenly Kings in this life are much more powerful than in the previous life because of Wu Zhuo's presence.

In this period of the previous life, although the title of the new Four Heavenly Kings had begun to circulate, it was not recognized.

But in this life, Wu Zhuo's dominance in the global market has directly elevated the status of the new Four Heavenly Kings to a new level.

Not only in China, but also in Japan and South Korea, the other three Heavenly Kings have received considerable attention because of Wu Zhuo.

Wang Leehom also released an album in Japan under Sony's arrangement.

Sales were quite good, and a Japanese song specifically created for the Japanese market even made it onto the Oricon charts.

Meanwhile, although Jay Chou and JJ Lin did not release albums in Japan, their influence was still quite good.

Many of their songs have been adapted and covered in Japanese by Japanese singers...

After finishing his concert in Hong Kong, Wu Zhuo will immediately head to Taiwan to begin his concert there.

If we say that Wu Zhuo is popular in Hong Kong, he is at the level of a superstar.

Then he would be an emperor in Taiwan.

The other three of the new Four Heavenly Kings were completely humiliated by him in Taiwan.

On Taiwanese music platforms, his songs have consistently occupied the top ten spots on the charts.

Throughout the year, he has at least four songs on the charts.

At his peak, he even set a record where all ten of the top ten songs on the charts were his songs.

The song's popularity translated into offline support.

After investigation, due to the large number of fans, Wu Zhuo had no choice but to perform five consecutive shows at the Taipei Arena.

All five performances were sold out.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that Sony did not invite the other three members of the new Four Heavenly Kings to perform at the concert in Taiwan.

Instead, they only invited Show Lo and Jolin Tsai.

Then Wu Zhuo arranged the arrangements for the other guests.

Ultimately, one spot was given to Fahrenheit, and Fahrenheit reunited.

The other two spots were given to Cyndi Wang and Spexial, a new group from Comic Productions.

It's the same group that starred alongside Jiro Wang in KO One 2.

Speaking of "KO One Re-act 2", Wu Zhuo was speechless.

He made a cameo appearance for Comic Productions in this show.

Several hours of footage he filmed were all edited into the series by Comic Productions.

When the show aired, Comic Productions heavily promoted that Wu Zhuo was the lead actor.

As a result, Wu Zhuo appeared in five episodes and then disappeared.

This almost led to netizens criticizing Comic Bookstore to death.

Even Wu Zhuo himself was affected by netizens, who asked him why he didn't finish filming.

Yes, it's not that they don't want him to act, but rather they're asking him why he didn't finish filming.

In fact, the quality of Comic's "KO One Re-act" is quite good.

At the same time, because it represents the youth of many people, the viewership ratings are very high.

It was the top-rated show in Taiwan this year.

After its broadcast in mainland China, it also held the number one spot on Youku Video's most popular streaming chart for a whole month.

Back to the concert.

As mentioned before, Sony Music has been dominating the Chinese market in recent years, outperforming other international record companies.

This can be seen from the lineup of singers.

The new "Four Heavenly Kings" are all from Sony, and others in a lower tier, such as Show Lo and Jolin Tsai, are also under Sony.

These factors directly put immense pressure on the other two record labels in the Chinese market, making it difficult for them to breathe.

As for Stefanie Sun?
To be honest, she was quite formidable in the first few years of the new century.

But the title of "unpopular singer" is really true.

Her current popularity surpasses not only that of Wu Zhuo and others, but even that of Jolin Tsai and Show Lo.

Even in terms of popularity, she is not as popular as Angela Chang and Cyndi Wang now.

Then, it's worth mentioning Show Lo.

Show Lo has been incredibly popular in recent years.

To some extent, he could even be considered on par with the new Four Heavenly Kings.

His title as the King of Asian Dance is well-deserved.

After Wu Zhuo cautiously explored and successfully entered the Japanese and South Korean markets, he found a way to succeed.

He directly followed Wu Zhuo's lead and successfully entered the Japanese and South Korean markets.

In both countries, he is the second most popular Chinese singer after Wu Zhuo.

After Fahrenheit disbanded, he even surpassed Wu Zun and others.

It's also very popular in the Japanese and Korean markets.

He has mainly focused on developing his business in the Japanese and South Korean markets in recent years.

Although he is inferior to the new Four Heavenly Kings in the mainland market, he dominates everyone else in the Asian market except for Wu Zhuo.

He even topped the lists in both Japan and South Korea.

Yes, his song was written by Wu Zhuo; it was originally an EXO song called "HISTORY".

Wu Zhuo wrote this song for him afterward.

Sony used this song as the main track and created an album for him.

After its release, the album sold 75 copies in Japan and 39 copies in South Korea.

This made him a huge hit in Japan and South Korea.

Because of his popularity in Japan and South Korea, after the news spread back to China, he was called the King of Asian Dance and was the second most popular person in China after Wu Zhuo.

At the same time, his singing and dancing skills are very attractive to fans, which makes him very popular in Taiwan, comparable to Jay Chou and others.

Therefore, Sony invited him to perform at their concert in Taiwan.

Of course, this isn't the only time; Show Lo will also attend Wu Zhuo's concerts in Japan and Korea.

Sony has made it clear that it wants to promote Show Lo and make him another top star in the Japanese and Korean markets.

(End of this chapter)