Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 455 Rapid Pursuit Begins Promotion

Although Wu Zhuo's current fame makes publicity almost unnecessary.

But the necessary procedures still apply.

Especially for fans, many of them look forward to meeting their idols at autograph sessions.

Therefore, after his new album "The Only Wu Zhuo" was officially released on May 25, Wu Zhuo still held many autograph sessions around the world.

As for its popularity...

To be honest, Wu Zhuo is already immune to this.

As one of the most popular superstars in the world today.

Every event he attended was packed with people.

Therefore, he no longer deliberately pursues whether something becomes popular or not.

Although Wu Zhuo didn't plan to hold too many autograph sessions.

However, Wu Zhuo had too many things to take care of.

Even if there's only one event in one or two countries, Wu Zhuo would still have to organize around twenty events in total.

Then, the time span becomes quite large.

He spent more than a month flying around the world.

His album signing event didn't end until late June.

Stimulated by numerous autograph sessions, the album "The Only Wu Zhuo" also achieved remarkable sales.

More than a month after its release, and including pre-sale data, total sales reached 21 million copies.

Undoubtedly, this data has once again sparked heated discussions both domestically and globally.

This is Wu Zhuo's fifth consecutive album to sell over 20 million copies.

His current total sales worldwide are 2.8 million.

This sales figure ranks sixth in the global sales chart.

First is Michael Jackson, whose total sales are approximately 5 million, ranking first.

However, some people say it's Elvis Presley, claiming his sales exceed one billion.

However, this data lacks actual evidence.

This is similar to how some people in China say that the song "Kiss Goodbye" only needs to sell more than 2500 million copies.

It's not that it's wrong, but this data might be an estimate, or even include piracy.

The data showing Michael in first place and Wu Zhuo in fifth place comes from statistics from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

Speaking of which, Wu Zhuo is quite a remarkable person.

He is the only person to have achieved such high sales in less than ten years.

In fact, if he hadn't lived through an era of the demise of traditional records, he might have achieved even greater success.

Even so.

He is also the singer with the highest sales among those who debuted in the new century.

You can't compare him to Michael Jackson, because he was a traditional singer.

The two are no longer comparable. Although they are both singers, they come from different eras and have different record formats.

However, it is undeniable that many people around the world consider Wu Zhuo to be one of the greatest singers of the new century.

……

The new album continues to sell well.

Wu Zhuo returned to China in July and began promoting "John Wick".

As mentioned before, this is different from the previous promotion that was only conducted domestically.

Wu Zhuo's promotion of this film will be expanded globally.

"Mr. Wu Zhuo, could you tell us what the movie 'John Wick' is mainly about?"

July 12th, two weeks before the movie's release.

Wu Zhuo has been promoting "John Wick" for several days now.

Today will be his last promotional event in China. After that, he will head abroad for promotional activities. The program he is participating in this time is "A Date with Luyu".

In fact, Wu Zhuo appeared on this show once in 08.

But he wasn't like he is now back then.

At that time, his primary identity was that of a singer.

Now, besides being a singer, he is also an actor, the owner of a listed company, and a well-known billionaire in China.

With so many identities attached to him, even Lu Yu, who loves to get to the bottom of things, couldn't help but lower her tone and didn't dare to call him by his name directly because of his young age, but instead added "Mr."

"Actually, the plot of this drama is quite simple. The character I play is a retired assassin."

A gang was hunted down in retaliation because of a dog.

"A dog? What kind of dog? Is it made of gold?"

“Just an ordinary dog.” Wu Zhuo glanced at her.

Although Lu Yu respected Wu Zhuo, she still asked very sharp questions.

"So do you think your movie is good? Just because of a dog, you launch a revenge against a criminal gang. Isn't that too unrealistic?"

"That dog was the only thing my wife gave me. It wasn't an accidental killing; someone broke into my house, robbed me, and then died right in front of me."

Put yourself in their shoes: if someone broke into your home and robbed you, and then killed your family members, and you had the ability to fight back, what would you do?

"Haha, dogs are different from people!"

"How is it different? For the protagonist, that dog is his family."

Legendary Pictures takes the promotion of "John Wick" very seriously.

In addition to Wu Zhuo personally participating in the roadshow promotion.

The company also released a lot of related news online.

Of course, the trailer was also released.

The trailer edited by Legendary focuses entirely on Wu Zhuo.

Various cool action shots are interspersed throughout.

The trailer immediately attracted the attention of a large number of viewers upon its release.

"Wow, Wu Zhuo's movie is so cool!"

"The shooting action was awesome! It reminded me of the first time I watched A Better Tomorrow."

"I saw in the promotional materials that this movie was comparable to Hollywood blockbusters, and after watching this trailer, it looks really exciting and explosive."

"I can't wait! When Wu Zhuo was promoting the movie, he said that it would be a non-stop action film, and that I love watching this kind of movie."

"Compared to those films that cater to artsy young people, I still prefer Wu Zhuo's films. Commercial films are commercial films, and they are never pretentious."

In fact, Wu Zhuo personally participated in the editing of the trailer for "John Wick".

He edited it based on a very good short video he had seen on Douyin in his previous life.

There isn't much fighting in the trailer; it's mostly Wu Zhuo's scenes.

However, just a few lines of dialogue, along with the accompaniment melody specially composed by Wu Zhuo, made this trailer an instant favorite among netizens as soon as it was released.

Especially the instrumental piece "Time to Pretend"

Wu Zhuo turned this instrumental piece into an accompaniment and used it as the theme song for the movie.

Combined with the protagonist's cool scenes, it's simply perfect.

Speaking of instrumental music, Wu Zhuo has actually produced quite a few instrumental pieces in recent years.

He created many classic battle songs from his previous life, as well as sad instrumental pieces.

Some of his work has been used in his own or his company's films and television dramas, while others have not yet been released.

Wu Zhuo plans to release two dedicated instrumental albums after some time has passed.

A battle song, a sorrowful one.

Okay, then I won't charge you.

(End of this chapter)