The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 391: Four years ago, we formed a band to play
"I really didn't expect that there are people in my hometown who have been following us since we debuted, and this attention has lasted for almost ten years."

Zhang Chen did not tell Liu Yifei about what happened today immediately. Instead, he expressed his feelings about Liu Feng and his father.

"Are you talking about the father and son fans you met today?"

"Yes, that father, let's call him Lao Liu for now." Zhang Chen thought for a moment and continued, "Lao Liu is the owner of the small shop in front of our elementary school."

"Is it him?!" Liu Yifei sat up in shock.

"Yes!" Zhang Chen had the same reaction when he saw Lao Liu.

After all, that was where he had studied for six years. No matter how much he didn't want to play with those little kids, he would still pass by the store every day and see Lao Liu sitting in the store fiddling with his vinyl record player.

But he didn't expect that after he entered junior high school, this record player started playing only his songs.

"Then I can guess why you are so tired today." Liu Yifei nodded seriously, her tone extremely certain, as if she had guessed something.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Chen chatted with the girl for a while and recovered some strength. He stood up, picked up Liu Yifei and put her on his lap. He held her slender waist and said, "Then tell me why I am so tired today."

Liu Yifei first grabbed someone's hand that was gradually moving upwards, and then she stopped it from doing evil, and then she began to analyze with a smile: "He must have suddenly seen the big star he watched grow up, and he couldn't help himself~"

"Incredible! Incredible!" Zhang Chen was really surprised this time, "When did you become so smart?"

"When was I stupid?" Liu Yifei raised her head proudly, "So what did they do to you today to make a guy as energetic as you feel tired?"

When Zhang Chen heard the little girl say that he was "energetic", he felt a little proud at first, then he explained with lingering fear: "They..."

When Zhang Chen saw Lao Liu, he didn't recognize his identity at once.

After all, nearly ten years have passed and there has been no interaction between the two. At most, they have an impression of each other.

Just when Zhang Chen felt that Lao Liu's face looked familiar, Lao Liu trotted forward with unusual enthusiasm, took Zhang Chen's hand and didn't want to let go.

All he talked about was praising the honors that Chen had won at home and abroad over the years.

Sometimes we exaggerate that Chen is the pride of our country, and he has reached the pinnacle of the Western music scene.

It is said that Zhang Chen’s current achievements are comparable to those of creative figures like Elvis Presley.

Zhang Chen humbly said at the time that he could not compare with him.

But Lao Liu was a little unhappy.

He cares more about Zhang Chen's position in the world than Zhang Chen himself.

According to him, Zhang Chen's physical album sales of 3.78 million copies cannot compare to Elvis Presley's 15 billion copies and Michael Jackson's 10 billion copies. After all, there are limitations of the times.

When music was just emerging, Elvis Presley was one of the representatives of music. At that time, there were few singers, little competition, and fans had few choices.

With so many singers nowadays and with the updating and iteration of piracy technology, Zhang Chen's sales are naturally not as good as the previous two.

But if we include digital albums and the songs Zhang Chen wrote for other singers, the total sales would have already reached around 8 million. I believe it won't be long before it surpasses Michael Jackson.

When talking about this, Lao Liu vowed that in another five years, Zhang Chen would be able to rank second to first in album sales!

Zhang Chen listened to his analysis and almost believed it if he didn't have the specific sales data.

What Lao Liu said actually makes some sense.

According to the sales of digital albums and singles, plus Zhang Chen's physical albums, the total has actually exceeded 8 million, reaching about 8.23 million.

However, this data still mainly consists of singles.

For example, his current best-selling single, "Baby", has been released for eight years since 98, and its digital single sales on Morning Light Music have exceeded 8 million.

This song alone brought him $2 million in revenue.

Another one is the music "Victory" which was once performed on "The Voice of China Special Program". The single sales have already exceeded 100 million and it is currently the favorite background music for many Internet videos.

In general, Zhang Chen currently has 10 albums and 58 hit songs, plus 10 singles released by himself, OSTs for various film and television dramas, and songs written for Liu Yifei, Avril Lavigne, Taylor Swift and others. The total number of hit songs is approaching 100.

Among them, the sales of singles of songs are basically over 1000 million, and the sales of singles of Chinese songs are about 300 million.

With nearly 100 hit songs, it is not surprising that the total sales volume has exceeded 8 million.

However, among these, twenty or thirty songs were for other singers. If we insist on counting them on his head, that's fine, but Zhang Chen himself doesn't want to do so.

However, it is true that his single sales will continue to increase steadily over time, especially with the popularization of the Internet, but the same is true for Elvis and Michael Jackson's songs.

Therefore, Zhang Chen did not have particularly high expectations for surpassing the sales records of Elvis and Michael Jackson and topping the world album sales chart.

Yes, best.

No, it doesn't matter.

At least he is richer than the first two, and much richer.

After Lao Liu finished talking about Zhang Chen's achievements in music, Zhang Chen took him to see the company's honors room. The trophies here are 1:1 replicas of the trophies in his collection room at home.

But ordinary people can't tell the difference at all.

Just like Lao Liu, after seeing the dazzling array of trophies in Zhang Chen’s exclusive collection room, he took out his camera and started taking pictures, and he wanted to get into the glass cabinet to have an intimate interaction with the trophies.

Finally, Lao Liu also said that he had listened to all of Zhang Chen’s songs, watched all of Zhang Chen’s TV series, and watched all of Zhang Chen’s movies.

After praising Zhang Chen, he shyly asked if they could take a photo together.

Zhang Chen naturally would not refuse such a simple request.

"So he took you a long time to take pictures?" Liu Yifei suddenly interrupted Zhang Chen's description and concluded that Zhang Chen must be so tired because of this.

"No." Zhang Chen tapped her nose and smiled, "It's still behind."

Liu Yifei puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction, but still listened patiently to what Zhang Chen had to say.

"I arranged a job for them." Zhang Chen smacked his lips, "But later I found out that he is actually the owner of the most famous supermarket chain in Jiangcheng."

"Ah?!" Liu Yifei's eyes widened. "Will he agree to the job you arranged for her?"

"I thought so at first." Zhang Chen was speechless, "But he is actually the 'leader' of my fan club in Jiangcheng."

"Him? The 'leader' of your fan club?" Liu Yifei was stunned, but she laughed out loud, "Hahahahahahaha, the leader of your fan club is actually a man in his forties?"

Liu Yifei doesn't think there is anything wrong with a man in his forties being a fan of Zhang Chen. The earliest generation of star-chasers are about the same age now.

But it is interesting that the leader of Zhang Chen’s fans, who is in his early twenties, is a man in his forties.

Zhang Chen smiled helplessly, not caring about the girl's thoughts, but continued: "In addition, the article on the blog was written by a female classmate of Lao Liu's son."

"Have you found her?!" Liu Yifei stood up and asked Zhang Chen by the shoulder, "What are you going to do with her?"

"I say." Zhang Chen looked as if he had eaten a dead fly, feeling very awkward, "Why do you always think I will do something bad?"

"Uh" Liu Yifei was also stunned and said subconsciously, "Isn't it?" In her eyes, Zhang Chen was very strong.

No matter who it is, if they make Zhang Chen unhappy, the end will not be good.

She also learned a little bit about Zhang Chen's methods from Shu Chang and others, and understood why the artists in the company and people in the domestic entertainment industry were so afraid of Zhang Chen.

Who would dare to mess with someone who always sends people to work on sewing machines?
"This time, that girl's article," Zhang Chen thought about the content, "Which point do you think can be refuted?"

"Hmm." Liu Yifei propped up her chin, her face wrinkled with worry, "It seems... not?"

She became famous because of Zhang Chen.

This is her own positioning in her heart.

Without Zhang Chen, she might be lying in some corner.

struggle?

It's impossible to struggle, it's too tiring.

Only now that she feels that the gap between her own strength and status and Zhang Chen's is too great, she has a little motivation to strive forward.

The idea of competing with Zhang Chen in the past was long gone.

If it weren't for Zhang Chen, she might not have been able to make it, considering her face, the least attractive in the family, and the fact that she wouldn't choose a path that some female celebrities would choose for the sake of her family's reputation.

"So you can post a Weibo post to 'clarify' this later."

"'Clarify' I have achieved my current success because of you?" Liu Yifei glanced at Zhang Chen unhappily. "Although it is true, it is too embarrassing, isn't it?"

"You still underestimate yourself." Zhang Chen shook his head and denied it. "In fact, even without me, your current achievements would not be much worse."

Zhang Chen knew best about the achievements of the girl in front of him.

Even without his interference, she could have become the leader of this generation of female stars and approached the achievements of her predecessors.

There is no national goddess after Liu Yifei, but it is a label that many people recognize, even many celebrities have admitted this.

"I will ask Taylor Swift and her friends to post an update on their Weibo accounts in China."

"You mean"

"Just distracting them. After all, if you really think about it, they are also the singers I made famous." Zhang Chen shamelessly took all the credit for himself.

But this is the reality today.

Many well-known first-line singers today, including Liu Yifei, Taylor Swift, Zhang Shaohan, and Lin Junjie, all have one label - they debuted with a song written by Zhang Chen as their signature song.

This is a recognized fact.

Perhaps it won’t be long before the title of “Godfather of Female Singers in the World” will fall on Zhang Chen.

"Okay." Liu Yifei also knew that what the girl said was true, and she couldn't react too radically.

Now she just hopes that the recent public opinion will not be focused on her.

She doesn't have time to deal with the outside media now.

You know, Zhang Chen’s new movie will start shooting in a while, and she has to hurry up to go to her mother and Aunt Sun for tutoring.

If we also consider that this year is the graduation season for the 02nd grade class of Beijing Film Academy, she also has to write her graduation thesis.

When you think about it, there is a lot to do.

"Right!" Liu Yifei finished thinking about what she was going to do this year and suddenly realized, "Didn't you say you were going to arrange work for Lao Liu and the others? You haven't even said what the work is after all this time."

"Oh, yes!" Zhang Chen patted his forehead, "I arranged a public relations job for them."

"PR?" Liu Yifei was stunned. "Can they do it?"

"You must not have read the article carefully. The person who wrote it is a talented person." Zhang Chen said with some emotion, "Although he is still a little immature, he will become a good talent if he is trained."

“Is there anything special about the article?”

Zhang Chen did not hide it from the little girl. After he explained it to her, she opened her mouth wide and said, "That's amazing!"

"Besides, don't you want to play music?" Zhang Chen brought up another thing.

"Uh" Liu Yifei nodded a little embarrassedly, "Yes!"

"Do you still remember the two girls I brought back from South Korea a few years ago?"

When Liu Yifei suddenly heard Zhang Zhangchen talking about this, she didn't react immediately.

She looked up at the ceiling and tried to recall for a long time before she remembered: "Are you talking about Lin Yuna and Cui Xiuying?"

If Zhang Chen hadn't mentioned this matter, Liu Yifei really wouldn't have remembered these two people.

These two had served as backup dancers for Zhang Chen as early as the 02 World Cup in Japan and South Korea.

After that, she came to China as an international student, and a dance teacher from SM Entertainment came with her.

Now if you count it up, four years have passed.

At the beginning, because of Zhang Chen, Liu Yifei would play with the two little girls and learn modern dance from the dance teacher.

But when she officially entered the entertainment industry, she lost contact.

I don’t know how they are doing now.

"They have almost mastered Chinese now, and their accents are almost gone." Zhang Chen explained. "It seems they have passed the Mandarin Level 1 B exam?"

Zhang Chen was also a little surprised.

The average Chinese person's Mandarin is only at level 2B or level 2A.

It is very rare for two South Korean girls to be able to pass the Grade B exam.

After all, many professional hosts only have Grade 1B qualifications.

"You suddenly mentioned them?"

"Let's form a group." Zhang Chen suddenly laughed, "Not a South Korean girl group, that's too sexy, you guys should form a band."

"us?!"

　Wow, the foreshadowing is in more than 170 chapters. Friends who have forgotten can go back and take a look.

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