Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 184: million on the first day, shocking the domestic entertainment industry
The performance lasted for an hour, with some talking sessions for interaction with fans and audiences inserted in the middle, so all 16 singles in the album were performed just right.

When Shen Juan finished his curtain call and turned to leave the stage, the entire place was in an uproar.

Just like the heart-stirring line “Lucas Graham!!!” at 7 minute and 1 seconds in Lucas Graham’s song “35 Years”, almost everyone at the scene was shouting Shen Juan’s name, and almost everyone was shouting and screaming hysterically for him.

So much so that after Shen Juan returned to the backstage, he was unable to calm down his excited emotions and kept muttering monotonous words like "crazy".

This feeling is so fucking wonderful!

The world's focus is on you, it's simply intoxicating!
At the same time, related hot search news and online discussions about #Shen Juan Coachella#, #Shen Juan's new album global debut# and #Shen Juan caused the audience to scream# are also sweeping the entire network at an astonishing speed.

[Maybe because he did so well, people forgot that Shen Juan has only been in the industry for a year.]

[It feels completely different from the live atmosphere on domestic stages (is this something I can say?), Shen Juan is very confident, not nervous at all, and I can feel his vigorous vitality through the screen. I can always be assured of Shen Juan's stage performance, a perfect Coachella debut! ]

[Infectiousness and vitality are truly magical things. I also want to be confident in my own field! ]

[I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but I always feel that I’m particularly charming when I speak English. His voice is really beautiful! I feel like he was born to be on the stage.]

[I have always been extremely disgusted with celebrities, especially traffic stars, and I am disgusted by those rappers, but Shen Juan is different. He is like the school idol who is excellent in both character and learning but chooses to be an art student. It cannot be said that he has achieved a state of purity, but his qualities, qualities and abilities in all aspects are really far beyond those of his peers.]

[Becoming SJ's dream girl is as easy as eating. 】

[With the release of his first album, Shen Juan has undoubtedly reached another peak in his career, and the Coachella stage is his coronation ceremony.]

[As an old fan who has been following Shen Juan since the Star Asia era, I sincerely don’t recommend young people who have just entered the fan circle to get involved in Shen Juan directly. Otherwise, their standards will be raised too high in the future, and I’m afraid even finding a boyfriend will be affected. ]

Alovers from China, South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, North America, and a small part of Latin America and Europe have expressed their thoughts and opinions on Shen Juan's Coachella stage on their respective social platforms.

As for topping the world's beauty trends and so on, there is actually no need to elaborate on it, because as of now, it has evolved into Shen Juan bringing popularity to Coachella, rather than Coachella providing traffic for Shen Juan to feed back to itself. He has completely reached the next level!
In addition, as the clock struck midnight, the 24-hour first-day sales data of Shen Juan’s first full-length album “Underrated” was also counted.

667321 sheets.

The album costs just over 100 Chinese Yuan.

This means total sales are close to 70 million.

(To prevent people from saying that the data is exaggerated, let me give you a simple example. Tudou’s “Light Spot” released in April 20, when traffic had not yet reached its peak, had 4 million on the first day. Then Kun Kun and Liu Yuxin’s subsequent albums also had first-day sales of million and million respectively.)
Where does this rank in the world?
Last year, Taylor Swift's world-famous album "Reputation" only sold 700,000 copies on the first day.

The total sales of the soundtrack of the movie "Mamma Mia!", which ranked tenth in the 2018 global album sales rankings, were only copies.

Shen Juan’s sales in just one day are almost equal to others’ efforts in a whole year, and the sales accumulated in just one year after debut are almost catching up with the sales of world-class queens.

It is really hard not to surprise and even shock music fans all over the world and the European and American music scene where Shen Juan is currently venturing.

Of course, even though East Asian singers like Shen Juan, whose main consumers of works are fans who only love to increase sales through data, the subsequent album sales growth will inevitably experience a cliff-like decline due to the lack of the "false prosperity" created by fans.

For example, the album sales data of BTS and other idol groups generally show that the first-day sales account for more than 50% of the first-week sales, the first-week sales account for more than 50% of the first-month sales, and the first-month sales account for more than 80% of the annual sales. There will be almost no significant growth in the next few years.

For them, the albums they release are just disposable items, and there is basically no such thing as a long-tail effect.

Anyway, their fan audience is just a fixed group of people. They focus their efforts on buying a wave of albums and boosting sales, but there will be no effective dissemination afterwards.

As a singer from the domestic entertainment industry whose fan circle attributes are the same as those of the neighboring K-pop, Shen Juan naturally cannot jump out of the framework.

However, his fans are more fanatical than the South Korean fans next door. They are more crazy about spending money, and the scale and number of people supporting him are also larger.

The album sales of 66 copies on the first day and sales of million Chinese dollars are the best proof of this.

So much so that when other artists and other capitals in the domestic entertainment industry saw this data, they were a little bit unbelievable.

Is this true? Is this 70 million really real?

Could it be that going to the United States to gild the gild is the answer?
After all, in this day and age, if an artist’s commercial magazine singles can sell millions a day, it is already a very good result.

But can 70 million be sold in one day?
Is there something wrong with Shen Juan’s fans?

Why aren't you guys so active when it comes to magazine sales and business sales? It seems like you're all saving money for the big release of Shen Juan's album, right?
Do you really not want to take on the fast-moving consumer goods endorsement that can earn you the most money?
You have to know that the album "Sheep" released by Lay last year has only sold more than 200,000 copies so far, which means sales of more than 20 million, and it has been praised to the sky by fans.

You only have 24 million in hours a day, do you still need other traffic to survive? What are we competing for?
Anyway, when Wu Jiaheng woke up and saw the news, he felt dizzy again for no apparent reason, as if he was back in the Staples Center where the floor was extremely cold and he felt sad and upset.

It is true that since life is constant, why should we get tired?
The "aftereffects" of the concussion caused by the dunk on that gray winter night in Los Angeles seemed to be something that would never be healed.

Of course, the 70 million is not entirely due to the efforts of Huaguo Xiaochunjuan. Alovers in North America, East Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America have also contributed a lot.

After all, the biggest difference between Shen Juan and the Kpop idol group next door is that the works he produces can fully meet the musical aesthetic needs of the European and American people.

Therefore, it is natural that he can gain the love of ordinary listeners other than fans in a relatively gentle and subtle way that does not cause people to feel resistance.

On the morning of the 14th, US time, Shen Juan welcomed his first radio event to promote "Underrated".

There are actually only a few main activities for European and American singers to promote their albums, such as appearing on the radio, on stage and on TV shows.

In the afternoon, he received his first invitation to record a mainstream show, James Corden's "Carpool Karaoke".

Simply put, it is a talk show where the host Corden invites celebrities to sing and chat in the car.

In recent years, almost all big-name singers and rising stars have appeared on this show during their album promotions. The show itself has considerable ratings and online popularity, so it is a very good job offer.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, everything was ready.

Host James Corden and this episode's guest Shen Juan got in the car and began the official recording of this episode.

"Ok, Let's do it!"

The engine started and the car drove on the road.

"Who named your fan club Alovers? Was it you, or did your fans name it Alovers?" Corden started the conversation using Shen Juan's fan name.

"As far as I know, my fans listed many fan names online, and finally used the one with the highest number of votes, Alovers. Frankly speaking, I didn't participate in the voting process at all, but I really like the fan name that was finally decided, Alovers, which means Alex's lovers."

"Wait, Alex, do you treat your fans as your lovers?" Corden laughed. As a host, he loves this kind of answer that can be marketed as a hot spot.

"I have to correct you. To be precise, they regard me as their lover, but I don't reject this feeling. After all, you know, I bet that most men in this world have dreamed of becoming a national idol and a public lover when they were young." Shen Juan turned his head and smiled at Corden.

"Hahaha, I think for others, this may be a dream, but for you, it has become a reality." Corden laughed, "Do you know that words like Alex fever or Ainsanity are popular on the Internet recently?"

"Of course." Shen Juan shrugged.

"How do you feel?"

"Cool." Shen Juan's words were concise and to the point, and they were indeed very cool.

"So do you think being handsome will cause you trouble? For example, when you walk on the street, people will chat with you and stare at you, you will have no privacy, and you will also have the image of being an idol."

"Come on, what's the problem with being handsome? I wish I could be more handsome!" Shen Juan smiled and replied, "No one knows better than me how much convenience a good-looking face can bring to oneself, no one!"

"Hahahaha I love your honesty so much."

"Thank you. I like your honesty, too."

"So Alex, you know, my show has an audience of 200 to 300 people every night, and at least 60 to 70 percent of them want a name." Corden continued the conversation, "You know, fan names like yours, as an expert in this area, do you have any suggestions for me?"

"Clovers or Corlovers, it's up to you."

"Yes, your fans are called Alovers, and mine are called Clovers. This way, we can cross-pollinate." Corden rubbed his hands, looking very excited.

"Yeah, I like this name, it feels cool." Shen Juan saw that the car was waiting for the traffic light, so he simply shook hands with Corden in the main driver's seat, "Let's make the gang bigger and stronger together."

"Exactly what I want!"

Then we chatted about random things for a while, and then entered the essential karaoke session of the show.

“Are you ready to relive the classics?”

"Classic? Which of my songs can be called a classic?"

“Your first English single, of course!”

"Okay, "If I Can't Have You." Shen Juan smiled and no longer worried about whether these popular hits of his could be called "classics."

Then Corden turned on the car music that had been prepared in advance, and the two of them started singing together.

“I can’t write one song that’s not about you.”

“Can't drink without thinking about you.” I drink because I miss you.

Honestly speaking, even though Shen Juan had already sung this song on the Coachella stage yesterday, I still felt a lot of emotion when I sang his North American debut single "If I Can't Have You" again on the show.

I remember that in order to catch up with the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, he worked overtime on this song for a long time.

I was really tired at that time.

But now it seems that everything is worth it.

The first single successfully gained popularity in North America by leveraging the traffic generated by the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

The subsequent release of the second single "In My Blood", the movie theme song "Pray For Me", and the Pokémon Day theme song "Celestial" continued this rapidly rising momentum.

So much so that he received an olive branch from Universal, and the third single "Seven" released last month almost naturally broke into the top ten of the Hot 100.

In May last year, he withdrew from a South Korean talent show as the center of the competition and returned to China. In September, he was crowned the champion of the first year of Hip-Hop. In November, he released an English single and made his debut in Europe and the United States.

In April this year, he released his first full-length album, which quickly broke many records at home and abroad, becoming the most popular, most successful, most globally renowned and most influential solo singer in Asia at this stage.

It can be said that Shen Juan enters a new stage and arrives at a new field almost every six months of hard work. The speed of his development and his leap in status are so fast that sometimes he even feels that the achievements he has made are not so real.

Therefore, when you stop, calm down and look back on this past experience, it is really hard not to feel emotional: the gurgling water finally flows through the mountains.

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