HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 404 [404] The Value of the Words "International Superstar"!
After the concert was finalized, Qi Yuan began rehearsing the program for the concert.

Tickets for the second additional concert are almost sold out.

Qi Yuan was helpless, while Warner and the Beijing Tourism Bureau were laughing heartily.

Both parties quickly reached an agreement and added a third concert for Qi Yuan on July 31.

Holding three concerts in the same city with 70,000 attendees, and with ridiculously high ticket prices, would really make all other domestic companies hesitate.

This time, not only the Chinese music scene, but the entire Chinese entertainment industry has gained a new understanding of the term "international superstar".

Previously, when international superstars were mentioned, only two names would immediately come to mind for Chinese people: Jackie Chan and Lim Kit.

As for Zhou Ruifa, only his own team boasts that he is an international superstar.

Go up to the streets of America and ask how many people know him, but no one says a word.

Cheng Long and Li Lianjie have not focused their careers in the country in recent years.

People feel distant from them; they only know that they are very capable, but they don't know exactly how capable they are.

Qi Yuan's three consecutive concerts in Beijing, each attracting 70,000 attendees, truly allowed the Chinese people to experience firsthand the significance of the title "international superstar."

Some media outlets estimated the box office revenue for Qi Yuan's single concert, arriving at a figure that left countless people across the country speechless.

Single-screening box office of 6000 million+.

This is how they calculated it: there are 1.8 VIP seats, but they don't have access to internal data, so they can only calculate it based on the lowest starting price of 1599 yuan.

These 1.8 VIP tickets alone are worth more than 2800 million yuan.

The total number of premium and mid-range tickets is approximately 2500, with a value of around 2.5 million.

Finally, there are the most numerous and cheapest low-end seats, totaling 2.8 tickets, worth less than 800 million.

Even after deducting the 12,000 tickets worth several million yuan given away at each show, the average box office per show can still be maintained at more than 50 million yuan.

This is just a conservative estimate from outsiders; the actual figure is likely much higher.

After all, the closer to the front of the VIP seats, the higher the price.

The actual figures are probably only known to a few people within Warner.

Nevertheless, people already find the conservative figures to be exaggerated.

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Feng Xiaogang's home.

The little gunman trembled.

He was really on the verge of a breakdown. He had worked hard for months to make a movie, but the box office was not as high as Qi Yuan's concert. Who could he complain to?

He was either too incompetent or the world was too crazy; he couldn't understand it anymore.

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Qin Lan, who was working in Beijing, was equally bewildered.

Last time, she invited Qi Yuan to dinner but was rejected. She was thinking that once she became famous, she would make it impossible for Qi Yuan to refuse her.

Now it seems she's become famous and reached the position of a top-tier actress in the television industry, but she's still just a nobody compared to Qi Yuan.

In the mainland television industry, very few people can earn ten million a year, and earning a few million is considered a superstar.

Qi Yuan can earn in one night what many top actors can't earn in one or two years, or even several years.

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Some media outlets were also confused, especially those that published articles a few days ago subtly criticizing Qi Yuan's greedy behavior and implying that tickets would definitely not sell out.

Their faces were slapped. Qi Yuan not only sold out the tickets for the first show, but the second show, which was added later, was also not sold out, and now a third show has been added.

However, these media outlets have always been shameless.

They've been proven wrong more than once or twice; they're used to it. To paraphrase a famous saying, for them, shamelessness actually earns them more money.

But their joy didn't last long, because Qi Yuan began to settle scores later.

Warner Music (USA) also sent lawyer's letters to hundreds of Taiwanese media outlets, arguing that they had defamed Qi Yuan's personal reputation.

Taiwanese media were both shocked and furious!
How dare he!

Does he really not understand what state he is in right now?

Unable to conduct promotional activities or business activities in Taiwan... his situation is practically the same as being soft-banned.

He's doing something this big; isn't he afraid that they'll get angry and won't let him sell records anymore?

According to their understanding, Qi Yuan should have given in.

Even if you don't back down, you should at least keep a low profile and absolutely not do anything provocative.

Qi Yuan deliberately provoked them and then launched a direct attack.

What alarmed these media outlets even more was that the small group of people who wanted to curb Qi Yuan's arrogance remained silent in the face of Qi Yuan's overbearing behavior.

The Meteor Garden incident has already taught them that Qi Yuan, who hasn't made any mistakes, cannot be touched; otherwise, they will definitely suffer greater losses.

They could only grit their teeth and swallow their anger, watching helplessly as Qi Yuan used court hearings and lawsuits to gain attention, popularity, and discussion among all the Taiwanese people.

They couldn't even do anything to Warner Music Taiwan and Zhou Jianhui; it was Warner Music (USA) that sued those media outlets.

They're only tough on their own. If you asked them to cause trouble for the Americans at China Record Corporation in the US, would they dare? They wouldn't dare even if you gave them a million times the courage.

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F4, who had just returned to Taiwan, suffered another major setback.

They thought that with Qi Yuan restricted, they could reclaim their own piece of sky once they returned to Taiwan.

As a result, Qi Yuan taught them another lesson: all the Taiwanese people were busy gossiping about Warner and the media lawsuit, so who cared about them?

They were all devastated.

During the month that "Meteor Garden" premiered in Taiwan, they were unmatched. Even Richie Jen and Jay Chou had to give way to the front page of the news.

When the show premiered in Hong Kong, Nicholas Tse's newspaper articles in Hong Kong were also suppressed by them.

Qi Yuan was the only mountain they couldn't overcome. Every time they encountered Qi Yuan, they felt suppressed and frustrated.

Qi Yuan, you bastard, can't you act like a human being for once?

We want to get more exposure and more visibility, so why is it so difficult?

The company behind these four people could only advise them: "Who can blame them? They are international superstars, and they have powerful backers. It just so happens that 'Meteor Garden' is airing in Japan, so why don't you go to Japan and make some appearances? When you come back next month, you can release your first album."

F4 could only swallow their dissatisfaction and board the plane to Japan.

Zhou Jielun was also not happy.

Jay Chou originally planned to be a guest performer at Qi Yuan's concert in Beijing. He is very smart; he knew that this incident would make the situation somewhat sensitive.

Some people within Taiwan are at a loss with Qi Yuan and Warner, and they're holding their breath. If he goes to Beijing to be a guest for Qi Yuan, he might become the one who gets punished for being the first to stick his neck out.

All Zhou Jielun could do was call Qi Yuan to express her regret!
Qi Yuan replied that there would be opportunities in the future, and reminded Zhou Jielun to study English well so that he could invite her to be a guest at his concerts abroad in the future.

After listening to the lecture, Zhou Jielun felt even more motivated to learn English, as he sincerely hoped to gain recognition from mainstream media in Europe and America.

To be honest, Qi Yuan is also quite optimistic about Zhou Jielun's foray into the European and American markets, at least she has more potential than the Tao-Wang duo.

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On July 26, while Qi Yuan was still preparing for his concert, a big news story came from the American film industry, and it was related to him.

(End of this chapter)