HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 380 [380] Terrifying album quality! Qi Yuan is wasting a treasure!
The album's fourth song, "7 Years," can be described as a life diary.

Little Jeremy fell in love with the song as soon as he heard the intro; the lyrics were very touching.

When I was seven years old, my mother told me to make some friends, otherwise I would be lonely.

When I was eleven, my father told me that I should find myself a wife in the future, otherwise I would feel empty and lonely.

These lyrics resonated particularly with Jeremy.

His mother really did say those things to him, also when he was seven years old.

His father had said something similar to him, but it was last year.

I made the man so happy when I wrote a letter once.

I hope my children will come and visit me once or twice a month.

"Soon I'll be 60 years old, I wonder if I'll still feel the world is cold."

……

The lyrics, which struck a chord with the listener, and Qi Yuan's emotional voice brought tears to the little boy's eyes and made them well up with tears.

Chris is such a jerk, why did he write such a touching song?
After graduating from university and starting work, he moved out of his family home and rarely went back to see his parents.

After listening to the song, he decided he should go home on Sunday.

The fifth song was "Perfect." The chubby boy listened to the music and watched the nearly eight-minute music video.

The chubby guy swore even more rudely, "Chris, are you even human?"
The last song was about touching family affection, and I hadn't even dried my tears when you turned around and fed me a mouthful of dog food?

In this song, the chubby boy heard the ultimate romance. The divine combination of Qi Yuan and Hathaway's looks made this bachelor incredibly envious. He would never find such a beautiful girlfriend in his entire life.

The chubby boy thought Hathaway in the music video was prettier than most Hollywood actresses.

Chris is such a lucky guy, he kissed her five or six times in this music video.

Wait a minute... the resort in the music video looks familiar. Is this the girl who spent the night in the same room with Chris? Damn! The chubby guy is even more jealous.

After listening to this song, the chubby boy lowered his expectations for the songs that followed.

The first five songs alone are enough to justify the price of $29.99.

Normally, top-tier singers in the American music scene will put 3 to 5 high-quality hit songs into an album. One or two will be released early to promote the album and generate buzz, while the rest will be kept in the album to maintain a sense of mystery and surprise the listeners.

Top-tier superstars operate in the same way; they might have ten hit songs but wouldn't cram them into one album.

Assuming an album with ten hit songs can sell 20 million copies, the profits would be better than splitting it into two albums, each selling 15 million copies.

Moreover, if it's split into two albums, given the frequency of American singers releasing an album every two to three years, the popularity can last for 3 to 5 years.

Linkin Park, Warner Music's top star, released a phenomenal album last year, and this year they've been running around doing gigs to rake in the cash. They absolutely won't release a second album until they've squeezed every last drop of potential out of it.

In the little fat boy's opinion, Qi Yuan's album already contains five good songs, which is already a very conscientious effort.

The standard version is priced at $18.99, which is incredibly reasonable.

But when the music of the sixth song came from the speakers and entered his ears, his eyes widened.

The sixth song, "Someone You Loved," is also of explosive quality, expressing heartbreak in the most direct and intense way, making it a tearjerker-level ballad.

This was just the beginning. The seventh song, "Take Me To Church," the eighth, "Somebody That I Used To Know," and the ninth, "That's What I Like," followed one after another, each song bombarding the little fat boy's soul with its notes!

The tenth song, "See You Again," was another killer performance to close the show. The moment the piano intro and Qi Yuan's voice filled the room, I got goosebumps. None of the ten songs were just filler? Is Chris planning to release only one album and then leave the Western music scene altogether?

Anyway, the chubby guy was completely blown away by this album, which was of such high quality.

……

Jeremy isn't the only one paying attention to this album.

In China, countless fans go to music stores to buy albums.

The cheapest standard edition sells for 150 RMB, the deluxe edition with all music videos is 185 RMB, and the luxury edition is even more outrageous, priced at 245 RMB.

Fans who asked about the price were already in pain: "Damn! It's so expensive? One of these is worth three of the old ones."

"Warner set a uniform global price. Qi Yuan is an international superstar now. Can international superstars be the same? Young man, if you want to buy it, I suggest you either buy the deluxe edition or the premium edition."

Both versions of the music video are complete, and include some rather explicit scenes of Qi wishing to win glory for the country and exchanging blows with a foreign woman.

Let me tell you a secret, that foreign girl is incredibly beautiful, even more so than many foreign movie stars.

You know Titanic, right? Rose or Rose, anyway, none of the female leads were as pretty as the foreign girls in the records.

The boss chuckled and began to try and fool the young man.

The young man was stunned: "Really?"

Ruth is exceptional in both looks and figure, and is the most beautiful European and American actress in his mind. Qi Yuan's MV female lead is prettier than Ruth.
The young man wanted to refute, but then he remembered the female lead in Qi Yuan's previous music video.

Okay, he admits that the female leads in Qi Yuan's music videos are all very beautiful.

Qi Yuan carefully selects beauties.

Driven by this, the young man reluctantly paid 185 yuan for a deluxe edition.

The boss gave the young man a few pirated DVDs that he couldn't sell, which made the young man praise the boss for his conscience.

The young man went back and watched it again, and sure enough, he saw a beautiful Western character in the "Perfect" music video.

The female lead in this music video is just as beautiful as Rose. If Rose in "The Big Ship" was stunningly gorgeous and full of fashionable flair, then the female lead in "Qi Yuan's" music video is both elegant and playful, both being top-tier Western beauties.

The young man gritted his teeth until they were shattered! Damn! Today is another day of envying Qi Yuan.

……

United States.

Li Wen, who stood on the Oscar stage with Qi Yuan half a month ago, is currently listening to Qi Yuan's new album "23" with her manager.

After some discussion, Li Wen and her agent remained silent for a long time.

“Coco, your friend is such a waste! He’s squandering his talent! Do you know what would happen if these songs were split into two or three albums? It could make him a king of the American music scene. He just puts these songs into one album. It’s such a waste.”

The agent was heartbroken by Qi Yuan's wasteful behavior.

If Qi Yuan were his artist, he would definitely stop Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan's agent is really incompetent.

And Warner Music, you're so busy fighting amongst yourselves, aren't you? You let Chris get this album approved? And you even let him release it? If you weren't so big, you'd be bankrupt by now.

(End of this chapter)