The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 16 The youngest singer on Billboard (signed, please give me some monthly tickets)
Thursday, August 8th in the United States is the day when the Billboard Hot 6 is updated.

A newcomer who just debuted, with three songs in an EP, made musicians all over North America remember a 13-year-old Asian boy named Leon Zhang.

Because this extremely young new musician, the first song released in North America, broke into the Billboard Singles Top 100, "Try Everything", "Dream It Possible", "Something just like this"

They ranked 34th, 49th and 86th respectively, which is neither high nor low, but who can blame him for being so dazzling at his age? Moreover, it is even more rare that three songs are on the list at the same time.

Many media, including but not limited to music, began to frantically search for this newcomer in the music industry.

Because for the North American music scene, the influence of the Billboard Hot 100 is unparalleled.

More than 90% of singers will never have the chance to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart even if they work hard all their lives. Therefore, some musicians jokingly say that as long as they can appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, they can retire.

Because for a singer, the most important thing about releasing a song is to sell the album. If your song is successfully listed on the Billboard, then when your song is introduced, it will have an additional Billboard song title.

This title is better than countless other introductions.

So at this point, Warner no longer needs to spend as much effort on promotion as it did in the early days.

Three Billboard songs, 13 years old, newcomer, these keywords have already prompted the media to report spontaneously.

That's how the media works. When you're not famous, you have to pay them to promote you, but when you become famous, they will beg you to report on you.

After all, the former makes money from you, while the latter makes money from the public, the essence is the same.

Being on the billboard means being famous; being famous means being sought after by the media, and being sought after by the media means greatly increased exposure; greatly increased exposure means that you become more famous.

This is why celebrities flock to many influential rankings in the industry.

With media coverage and radio recommendations, these three songs have been played more and more frequently.

After all, he is too young among all the singers. The media always mention him when reporting to attract the audience.

At around 9 p.m. North American time, according to Warner statistics, Zhang Chen's three songs will have a huge improvement when the charts are updated next week.

At the same time, the song’s popularity also successfully boosted the album’s sales.

According to statistics, from the release of the album to the release on Billboard, which took less than a week, the sales of "Dream" were over 200000.

Today, after the Billboard chart was updated, the sales of "Dream" increased by last week's amount in one go, and this number will rise rapidly as time goes by.

Since albums are burned into CDs, cassettes, vinyl and other forms for sale, the prices are also different. According to the current sales data of various albums, Zhang Chen can get about 2 US dollars for each album sold.

It may not seem like much, but remember that this is US dollars and it is global.

If I remember correctly, in the original time and space, there was an album called "Come on Over" released by Shania Twain in 1997. This album ranked among the top ten in sales history, reaching a terrifying 4110 million copies.

Although Billboard's Hot 100 chart is not directly linked to sales data, being on the chart can boost album sales.

Zhang Chen did not seek to be in the top ten in sales history, but still wanted to pursue an "X-Star Platinum Record" certification, that is, one star would be added for every 100 million album sales. Unfortunately, the Recording Industry Association of the United States did not launch the "Diamond Award" until 99, that is, the diamond record requires sales of more than 1000 million copies.

After Warner informed Zhang Chen of the album's performance on the Billboard charts and sales data, he was invited to visit the United States again.

This time, Zhang Chen needed to accept media interviews and record a TV program. The time was scheduled for this weekend. He did not expect that his first screen show would be abroad. But who can blame the fact that there are too few TV promotion channels in China? Even the popular "Happy Camp" has only been in production for a few months. You know, this is the first choice for celebrities to promote their works.

Fortunately, Zhang Chen has completed the creation of all the music for next year's album in the past few days. Now, as long as he sends it to Warner, he can complete the accompaniment production of the song. Of course, Zhang Chen also listed the detailed requirements for the arrangement. After all, without the original production team to take charge, there may be discrepancies in the music arrangement. In order to be on the safe side, Zhang Chen can only give a detailed explanation and ask the other party to be a tool.

"Xixi, I'm going to the beautiful country this weekend, you..." After arranging everything, Zhang Chen came to Liu Xixi and told her about his upcoming itinerary.

In fact, Zhang Chen himself was also quite embarrassed. After all, he had just promised Aunt Liu and now he had to go on a long journey.

"Can I go with Brother Chen?" Liu Qianqian asked pitifully.

"It shouldn't be possible, right?" Zhang Chen remembered that minors traveling abroad needed to be accompanied by a guardian to obtain a visa, or to obtain a written authorization from the guardian. However, it was unlikely that Liu Xiaoli would agree to Liu Qianqian traveling abroad with him.

"I'd better ask your mother."

Afterwards, Zhang Chen called Liu Xiaoli to ask for her opinion. Liu Xiaoli did not agree to let Liu Qianqian go to the United States.

"Then I'm going to go find my dad!" Liu Qianqian shouted loudly on purpose.

It was obvious that the little girl was angry with her mother. Zhang Chen had no choice but to put the phone close to Liu Qianqian's ear.

Zhang Chen could vaguely hear Liu Xiaoli's voice: "I really love you for nothing! If you want to go, just go!"

Well, it looks like I have to carry the autographed album for my dad myself.

After the mother and daughter had a few words, Zhang Chen took the phone and said, "Aunt Liu, look..."

"Chenchen, you are busy with work and I can't spare the time. Why don't you send her to her father? She hasn't seen her father for a long time."

"Don't worry, Aunt Liu. My dad asked me to find someone to send a batch of signed albums to him a few days ago. This is a good opportunity to send them to him."

After Liu Xiaoli gave some more instructions, the two hung up the phone.

"Xixi, get ready. I'll take you to find your father."

After hearing this, Liu Qianqian was not happy and did not say anything. She just looked at Zhang Chen in silence for a while and then walked towards her room.

"Ugh"

In fact, Zhang Chen also felt quite guilty. It was he who suggested his mother to sign Liu Xiaoli, but the An family had originally disagreed with Liu Xiaoli being active in front of the stage. He didn't know how An Shaokang would react when he found out that Liu Xiaoli had joined the crew to film a movie and planned to enter the entertainment industry after returning to his hometown this time.

It was as if he had dealt another heavy blow to the already broken relationship between An and Liu.

But Zhang Chen seemed to have forgotten something.

Xiaohua:.
　I have signed the contract! I am now fully confident.

　　The updates will not stop in the next few days. I've been working hard to sort out the outline.

　　I can finally ask you to vote for me!
　　I'm begging for monthly tickets, for follow-up reading, for investment, and for rewards!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)