The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 164: The Legacy at the Grammy Awards - "Chariot of Glory"

Some people appreciate Zhang Chen's songs, but some people are just looking in the mirror.

These people can always see their own shadows in Zhang Chen's songs.

After a year, Zhang Chen's fans finally ushered in half of spring.

It is called half because this time Zhang Chen has put all the songs together into one album for sale.

It includes three Chinese songs, three English songs, and a Chinese-Japanese cover version:

1. "Light"

This is already the first song that Zhang Chen's fans around the world know. It also lets them know that Zhang Chen's voice after his return can be so ethereal and beautiful. While being equally beautiful, it also adds a lot of story sense, allowing them to feel the strong historical atmosphere and power just by listening to the song.

2. Left Hand Pointing to the Moon

This song has a range of three octaves, from bass 4 to super high pitch 6. It combines opera and coloratura soprano singing. It is quite difficult to sing, but in Zhang Chen's interpretation, it feels quite effortless.

3. "Blue Bird" and the Japanese version of "ブルーバード"

This is another song that is quite difficult to extend, and it is also Zhang Chen’s first attempt to penetrate the Japanese market by singing in Japanese.

4. I'm Yours

It is the song by Zhang Chenji that has created the longest record on the Billboard Hot 100, and also won the singer Jason two Grammy nominations for "Best Male Pop Vocalist" and "Song of the Year".

5. Love Yourself

One of Justin Bieber's famous songs, and also a Billboard No. 1 single. Although its Grammy performance was not good, its sales were very impressive.

6. Shape of You

It was another Billboard Hot 12 number one single, staying at the top for a total of weeks, and also won the singer a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance.

The songs released by Zhang Chen this time are very targeted. The Chinese songs he used are basically those with strong Chinese characteristics and require extremely strong singing skills.

When it comes to the selection of English songs, they tend to focus on winning awards, having good sales, and being catchy, with the goal of making money and building up reputation.

After combining the two, he hopes that his Chinese songs can also make a name for themselves in the European and American music scene.

"Brother, am I seeing things right? The album that the head of the United States took from our envoy was your new album?"

Just after the New Year, Liu Yifei stayed at Zhang Chen's house again and refused to leave. Her reason was that she would take the art exam soon and she needed a bigger place to practice, and Zhang Chen's house was just enough for her.

"Maybe"

Zhang Chen had never expected that the signed album he had just sent out would appear on CCTV's news broadcast. This made him feel honored, but also felt a heavy pressure.

If the reputation and quality of this album are not good, wouldn't it not only be a loss of face for myself, but also a loss of face for...
"You still have the energy to watch TV. You have an art exam in two days."

"Arts exam? It's easy to pass. It's a piece of cake for me!"

Since appearing on the Spring Festival Gala, Liu Yifei's self-confidence has greatly improved.

Now, whenever she goes out, people block her and ask for her autograph. In the past, it was something she would have to walk at least ten blocks to encounter.

But now, as soon as she goes out, someone can recognize her immediately.

This made her very proud, thinking that she was a big star after all and didn't need to worry about a small art exam anymore.

"I'm warning you, if you lose the election, I won't help you."

"How can it be?!"

"Anyway, it's already a foregone conclusion that I'll go to Beijing Film Academy. It doesn't matter if you don't pass. I can save some trouble in college."

Sometimes when dealing with people with very strong self-esteem, you have to say the opposite words to encourage them.

"Hmph, I'll go practice now, and I'll get first place in the exam so you can see it."

"I bet you a dollar that you can't get first place."

"I bet one dollar that I can pass the exam."

"I helped you make tens of millions, and you're so stingy?"

By the way, the cash that Zhang Chen had in the United States has been put into operation again in the stock market. In addition to buying some technology stocks, William also helped him configure some short-term futures.

Since the amount was not large, he let William operate freely. Anyway, he did not understand the futures market. As long as the amount was not large, he allowed William to have his own ideas.

The most important thing is that he and Liu Yifei made a fortune because of NetEase's relisting.

Currently, NetEase’s stock price has risen from the lowest point of US$0.48 to one dollar.

Even though the stock price is still at the floor price, Liu Yifei spent 680 million RMB at the beginning. With the help of Zhang Chen's funding, she bought a total of 160 million shares. That means the total value of this batch of stocks has now reached 160 million US dollars.

This is exactly double the nearly 1300 million RMB.

"That's my little treasury. Didn't you say it would increase in value? Do you want me to take it out now?"

"I made tens of millions for you, but you are unwilling to give me even one dollar. People are not as honest as they used to be."

"Who said I don't want to? Wait, I haven't lost yet!"

Seeing that he failed to deceive the little girl, Zhang Chen shrugged helplessly. The older you get, the harder it is to deceive people. It was losing a lot of fun for him.

What Zhang Chen is most concerned about right now, apart from Xiao Liu's performance, is the album's first week data, especially the sales in Japan.

The album sales volume is related to the adjustment of his countermeasures.

Time passed quickly while waiting, and it was almost time to complete the first week data statistics of Zhang Chen's new album.

First of all, on Japan's Oricon chart, the Japanese version of "Blue Bird" successfully suppressed Ayumi Hamasaki, who had dominated the chart for a week, and landed at the top spot.

In addition, the results on the billboard are also very encouraging.

"I'm Yours" debuted at the top of the charts, followed by "Love Yourself" and "Shape of You" at No. 3 and No. 6 respectively.

What surprised Zhang Chen the most was that the two songs "Light" and "Left Hand Pointing to the Moon" were also on the Billboard, although the rankings were not high, only at 61 and 87.

But the fact that two Chinese songs could carve out a niche among the English songs in North America was enough to surprise Zhang Chen.

In addition, it goes without saying that Zhang Chen’s 6 and a half songs are all on the mainland rankings. Zhang Chen has proved with his strength countless times that as long as he releases an album, it will be a masterpiece.

So as his credibility grows every year, the on-demand rate and sales figures of his songs are also increasing year by year.

Although there is now another source of pirated copies on the Internet, it still cannot shake the terrifying dominance of Zhang Chen's albums.

Currently, the total global sales of this album in the first week have successfully exceeded 700 million, which is a number that countless singers around the world can only dream of. It is also the result of Zhang Chen's fans' retaliatory consumption after a year.

As some people have shouted, their wallets have long been hungry.

Many people not only buy one for themselves, but also start purchasing business on behalf of others, selling it to those who don't have time to go out but like to listen to music. These people can make a lot of money by reselling it.

Just as Zhang Chen was happily looking at the series of numbers on the report, a cell phone ring interrupted him from counting the money.

"Hey?"

"Zhang Chen, it's me, Pony."

"Is the player test completed?"

When Zhang Chen heard that it was Xiao Ma Ge calling, he jumped up from his chair.

It's no wonder he was so excited, it was mainly because he had waited for this moment for too long. "Yes, after testing, we have now been able to reduce the delay of online playback to milliseconds. As long as the song data is not too large, it can fully support netizens to listen to songs online."

"Can I help you with anything?"

"After such a long time of preparation, the database has been established. Customer service, technical personnel and all other necessary staff have been prepared according to your requirements. Now we just need you to choose an auspicious day to launch the software to the market."

"That's it."

Zhang Chen wanted to release it online right away, but after thinking about it, he felt it was not safe. Besides, his new album had just been released, so there was no reason to fight against himself.

"How about this, I'll go to Shenzhen in the next few days, and we'll discuss an auspicious date."

Finally, Zhang Chen and Xiao Ma Ge agreed to meet in early March. He still needed to finish the finishing work here in the capital before he could set off for Shenzhen.

Just as he hung up the phone, an overseas call came in.

"William?"

The person who would make a long-distance call should be the American pseudonym who often contacts me.

Shouldn't it be.
“Leon, the company you asked me to set up has now successfully produced the software. Do you want to come over and test it yourself?”

"You guys do the final test adjustments. I'll come find you after I finish my work in China. It will probably be after March 10th."

After finishing speaking, he asked about the situation of his investment company again. After confirming that everything was normal, he hung up the phone.

He also didn't expect that the news of Xiao Ma Ge and William's successful software development came one after another. It was really fate.

However, fate is not important. What is important is that the Internet cultural export plan he has been planning for a long time has finally reached the initial implementation stage.

At the beginning, he considered that if the real path was difficult, then he would take the virtual network path, and at the same time put on a vest for himself. William was his vest in the United States.

As long as he could hide deeply enough and let William act despicably enough, then as long as he took it step by step, one day he would be able to expose the group of guys hiding behind this world and influencing public opinion.

You can't be impatient about this matter, as it will easily reveal your true colors if you are impatient.

It is only right to take things step by step.

When Zhang Chen focused his attention on his own Internet company and ignored the news in the entertainment industry.

On February 2, the annual Grammy Awards ceremony officially came to an end.

Logically speaking, Zhang Chen did not release any albums in 01, and that advertising single was not included in the Grammy selection process.

So there shouldn't be any news about Zhang Chen.

However, the photo of Alicia, the biggest winner of this year's Grammy Awards, pulling five Grammy trophies with the "chariot" that Zhang Chen used last year, was published in music magazines of various countries.

“Although Zhang Chen is not at the Grammys, his heroic deeds have been emulated by this year’s winners.”

"Zhang Chen's Grammy 'handcart' may truly become the 'glory chariot' for the singer with the most Grammy awards at each session."

Zhang Chen was also at the gate of Beijing Film Academy and took over the report from Xue Yining.

"You see, even though I am not seen in the martial arts world, my legend is everywhere."

"Yes, the boss is awesome."

"I love to listen. Tell me more."

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Xue Yining looked straight ahead expressionlessly, ignoring her boss's unreasonable demands.

Zhang Chen shrugged indifferently. He just felt that waiting for people to take the exam was too boring and wanted to have some fun.

"Do you think Sissi will fail the exam?"

"Boss, usually people will ask, 'Will so-and-so pass the exam?'"

"I was worried that she would get excited and introduce her name in front of the examiner."

There is a regulation for art examinations, or rather, there are similar regulations for all examinations across the country.

That is, candidates cannot let the examiner know their names.

This is to prevent examiners from giving certain candidates backdoor access.

Although Liu Yifei's reputation is big enough that almost all examiners know her, rules are rules and cannot be easily violated.

Time slowly slipped away as Zhang Chen waited.

During this period, Liu Xiaoli and Sun Fangping, who had been waiting at the door, also returned to Zhang Chen's nanny car many times to warm themselves.

But not long after, she was worried that Liu Yifei would not be able to see them when she came out, so she quickly returned to the door.

Only Zhang Chen stayed in the car with peace of mind. Even Xue Yining went in and out several times to help Sun Fangping get the hot water bottle.

It’s not that he doesn’t want to wait at the school gate, but reality doesn’t allow it.

As soon as he appears in the crowd, it might turn into a "Zhang Chen fan meeting". If the order of the art exam is disrupted, he will have nowhere to seek justice.

Finally, after leaning against the window and looking out countless times, Zhang Chen saw Liu Yifei walking out of the campus.

Zhang Chen was about to open the car door, but after thinking it over, he held back.

In the end, he could only watch Liu Yifei slowly and with difficulty squeeze into the car from the crowd that was rushing towards her.

Someone with sharp eyes saw Zhang Chen sitting in the car and shouted loudly: "Zhang Chen?!"

This shout was like stirring up a hornet's nest. Parents who were anxiously waiting in the distance and candidates who had already finished the exam all swarmed towards Zhang Chen's nanny car.

"Brother Wang, the wind is blowing!"

At this moment, he couldn't care less about the fact that his mother and Liu Xiaoli hadn't gotten into the car yet. The most important thing was to flee the scene as soon as possible.

After Zhang Chen's exclamation, Brother Wang turned flexibly and drove away from the crowd quickly before the crowd surrounded the other side of the car.

"Phew, that's terrible. Fortunately, you reacted quickly."

Liu Yifei patted her chest and said with lingering fear.

Her heart almost stopped when she heard the crowd shouting Zhang Chen's name. She didn't want to disrupt the order outside the examination room.

"I told you I shouldn't come, but you insisted on bringing me here."

"This is my most important life event, are you sure you don't want to get involved?"

"Haha, of course I want to participate, but I think your most important event in life is when you get married."

"Get married. Ugh! Shame on you!"

I don’t know what Liu Yifei was thinking, but she just cursed Zhang Chen.

"No, I just wanted to attend your wedding, why are you scolding me?"

"that is."

　Oh my god, I actually managed to write it out. I haven't stopped writing today's 10,000-word update, which is cause for celebration.

　　The plot will become richer in the future, and the Japanese branch will be opened soon!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)