Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 137 Good news keeps coming

On the first day of the release of the "Pray For Me" MV, the number of YouTube views finally remained at 630 million.

Although this is a discontinuity in the domestic data: the person with the best data in the country is Wu Jiaheng, whose album "July" released in 16 had 24 million YouTube views in 173 hours.

But compared with the top European and American celebrities and those K-pop idol groups that are addicted to water injection, it is not that good.

(According to statistics from mid-18, among the top ten songs in terms of the number of YouTube views within 24 hours of their release, seven had million views, one had million views, and two had million views.)
After all, Kpop is the entertainment industry in the world that is most capable of inflating its reputation, deceiving netizens, and creating false prosperity.

Except for the young and fearless people in the domestic entertainment industry who dared to buy 100 million Weibo reposts and were named by CCTV, no one is braver than them, and no one dares to buy water from them like this.

(YouTube costs $1600 to buy million views. You can calculate how much those K-pop idol groups spend on buying YouTube views for each song they release.

Add to that the marketing costs on other platforms, and the cost of releasing each song is basically sky-high, so they usually only release singles or promote only one title song, because the cost of promoting the entire album is too high. If they are not first-tier boy bands or girl bands, it is probably difficult to recover the cost.)
Even Wang Jiaer, who was originally an idol in a K-pop boy group, was involved in a running incident with an internet celebrity, and his fans who were angry and unfollowed him revealed that the proportion of his YouTube views was inflated by as much as 69%.

He also said that most of the funds previously raised by fans were spent on buying likes and YouTube views for him.

Let me tell you something a little bit funny.

At the beginning, Kris was mocked by domestic netizens for over-doing the iTunes charts, but in fact, Jackson's new songs at that time were also done so, but his fans were not as powerful as Kris', and he couldn't get his songs ranked higher, so he was stepped on by Kris. So the fans simply took the lead in spending money to step on Kris' new song MV on YouTube, trying to vent their anger in this way.

Then something even more bizarre happened.

Because the number of likes and dislikes was too high, YouTube officials detected that there were anomalies in the data of Kris's YouTube MV. In other words, the malicious likes and dislikes were discovered by the officials, so YouTube simply locked the number of likes and dislikes of Kris's YouTube video at 0.

The original intention was to prevent him from being maliciously criticized, but unexpectedly it ended up allowing other domestic fans to find evidence that Wu Jiaheng paid to falsify data.

Kris was like a mute who couldn't express his pain in words.

He did spend money to make fake data, but who would be stupid enough to reset their own negative likes to zero when making fake data?
Isn't this pure sapi? I'm confused.
As for the story between Jackson and 88rising, there is no need to go into details. As long as he is on the right track, everything else is trivial.

I can only say that confusion is the best protective color.

Whenever Jackson wants to make a living in the domestic entertainment industry, whenever he becomes a little famous in the domestic entertainment industry, his rivals who are always keeping a close eye on him will take action to detonate these negative news and bring down his reputation.

Some celebrities who are very popular with the public really cannot withstand in-depth digging, while the reason why some celebrities are very popular with the public is purely because they are too obscure and there is no value in exposing their negative information.

So let’s get back to the topic. Anyway, there is only one sentence: it is impossible for artists who come out of the K-pop environment where fan culture has developed to the extreme to not be inflated.

After all, everyone buys water, and if you don’t, your playback volume and popularity ranking will be very low. You won’t have enough voice to attract other fans, and naturally you will become more and more obscure.

In a sense, rather than viewing water injection as a black spot, it is better to say that it is the unspoken rule of the entire industry.

Just go with the flow, it’s good for you, for me, and for everyone.

Being unique and untainted by the mud?
The only one who will suffer is yourself.

2 month 3 day.

After landing safely in Minnesota, Shen Juan only felt that the place was bitterly cold and the climate was extremely unsuitable for human habitation. No wonder so many NBA stars were unwilling to come here to play.

Fortunately, I listened to my agent and brought a few more clothes with me, otherwise I would have returned home with a cold.

After arriving at the performance venue, there was no rehearsal arranged. Instead, we met directly with the organizer's staff to confirm the specific procedures and precautions for tonight's stage performance.

Although this Super Bowl pre-music festival was an all-open-mic stage and it was also his first live performance in the United States, Shen Juan did not feel very nervous.

On the one hand, it is because in the past six months since I returned to China to develop my career, I have seen almost all kinds of large occasions.

Therefore, he has rich stage experience and solid on-site ability, so he naturally has enough confidence when facing challenges.

On the other hand, it was because he took time out in the afternoon to go to the music festival to watch the performances of the guest performers on stage.

With the reminder from the accompanying staff, Shen Juan learned the singer's name and identity: Bob Mould, a veteran of the band with gray hair.

It is said that he is very experienced and influential in the American band circle, but to be honest, his live performance is not very stable.

This also made Shen Juan feel a lot more relieved.

In addition, there was another piece of good news when I came out of Sao Paulo International Airport this morning:

Those selfies wearing Off-White that I posted on Instagram at Yangyangjin’s request finally paid off.

Virgil Abloh, the founder of Off-White and the incoming artistic director of LV menswear, took the initiative to send a private message to thank him for the free publicity and promotion.

Shen Juan also took this opportunity to ask for his contact information, and then asked the team to communicate with him about the possibility of Shen Juan changing his allegiance and joining the LV camp.

Perhaps they were attracted by Shen Juan's good development prospects and the Chinese market with amazing potential behind him.

Or maybe he felt that supporting Shen Juan, a newcomer with considerable strength, to take the position was, to some extent, a necessary step for a new official to cultivate confidants and build power, which would make it easier for him to carry out his subsequent work.

Anyway, Virgil Abloh made a verbal promise after thinking about the pros and cons again and again:

As long as Shen Juan's contract with Dior expires naturally in half a year, and no scandal occurs during this period that would affect the artist's image and brand style, he can decide to let Shen Juan join LV's endorsement camp.

Of course, the specific title and resources will depend on Shen Juan's development in half a year. This is what he, the prospective menswear director, meant.

Although it was just a vague verbal promise, Shen Juan was actually very satisfied.

After all, in the original time and space, even Kris, who kept flopped, could become the spokesperson for LV, so there is no reason why he can't.

By then, he will not be like he is now, with a mediocre status in the fashion circle due to his short debut time and the luxury brands his public relations are in contact with being too conservative.

Another thing is that Shen Juan’s endorsement fees and the business resources he has access to have also seen a surge in recent times.

Because his traffic and popularity continue to increase, and because he has initially established influence overseas.

Many foreign brands trying to enter the Chinese market and seize more market share have set their sights on Shen Juan.

They believe that his popularity and traffic in China can help them expand their territory and generate considerable revenue.

Moreover, as his popularity overseas grows, he may even play a certain role in promotion in Europe, America and Southeast Asia. Signing him can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

However, Shen Juan did convince Sister Hua and was not in a hurry to let the company take over all these high-quality businesses.

It’s not that I don’t want money, but that I want more money.

He feels that this year's Spring Festival Gala stage may help him gain a certain degree of popularity among the middle-aged and elderly groups in China, and further evolve into the national popularity he needs to break out of the circle.

Then the album he is producing will help him enter the public eye and become mainstream abroad.

Domestic and international development are progressing in parallel and both are flourishing.

Therefore, it is better to postpone the endorsement. If you sign the contract early, you will get less money.

As a person, you cannot just focus on immediate interests.

"Wow! Today's finale is an Asian!"

Super Bowl staff member, Metz saw Shen Juan's photo on the news cover pushed by the official website.

Then the following related news headlines are.
【Alex Shen to be Super Bowl LII Ambassador for NFL China.】

Wait Alex?!
Is this the Alex I know?
Mes narrowed his eyes again and carefully observed Shen Juan's facial features, and finally overlapped the image of the Asian young man in front of him with his stern and noble face and high-end style, and the boy in his memory who carried a guitar and sang love songs passionately on the Victoria's Secret stage, with a sunny and healing smile that was like a California summer.

Well, he was right.

The Chinese singer who is talented, gifted and has an impressive handsome face.

"Asian? BTS?"

In fact, BTS is not particularly famous in Europe and the United States at the moment, but are there any Asian artists and singers active in the United States?
Sorry, Luca had only really heard of them.

"Of course not. Alex and BTS are totally different types of artists. He is a real singer!"

Hearing this, Luca instantly became excited.

"Wait, Alex? Don't tell me it's the Alex who walked in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and sang the Black Panther promotional song!"

"Who else could he be?"

“Holyshxt! I really like his song “Pray For Me”! Whether it’s the singing part or the rap part in the middle, he is so damn good!”

"I absolutely agree with you." Mace shrugged and smiled. "He is even the creator. All the songs he is singing now were written by him alone."

"Wardfa! Are you kidding me, man?"

It’s really hard to believe that a singer who is only 19 years old can independently produce such mature songs in all aspects.

"I wish I was joking, but that's the truth. Although neither you nor I are geniuses, Luca, you have to believe that there are geniuses in this world."

Luca resisted the urge to swear again, staring in amazement for a moment, then asked again:
"Metz, do you think he can become famous?"

"I don't know, but if I have to answer, it depends on your definition of red."

"Justin Bieber-like?"

When it comes to the story of a young man who became famous all over the world, Luca can only think of this bad boy who has a bad image in the minds of most North American people.

"Come on, why is it that when we mention Alex, we always mention Justin Bieber? In my opinion, Bieber's success cannot be replicated. Even if you let a 16-year-old Bieber debut now, I'm afraid he won't reach the same heights as he did. But I believe Alex will forge his own path, because his songs are good, he looks good, he will definitely be liked by young girls, and he will have a lot of influence among the youth group, it's that simple."

In the era of streaming media, whoever can grasp the teenagers who are most closely connected with the Internet will become famous.

And Shen Juan is obviously the type of sunny, cheerful, bold and confident high-quality idol that American teenagers like.

So he believed in Shen Juan, and at the same time he believed that his own experience and aesthetics would not lead to a wrong judgment.

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(End of this chapter)