HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 467 [467] US Media: Chris Will Stop Acting to Make Money?

"You can look forward to it, the answer is in one of the music videos for my new album, Britney Spears will be the female lead in my music video."

Qi Yuan smiled and deliberately kept everyone in suspense.

Justin's many actions are simply to generate buzz for his first solo album.

If he can do it, so can Qi Yuan. Qi Yuan's second major in English has gained another gimmick.

The reporters were in a terrible mood. They swore that if it weren't for the tall and imposing bodyguards standing behind Qi Yuan, they would have pried open Qi Yuan's mouth and forced him to finish speaking.

Soon, sharp-eyed reporters noticed that Britney was holding a record, and they immediately pressed her for more information, intending to dig deeper into the subject.

Britney didn't think much of it and showed the record to the reporters. It was Norah Jones' jazz masterpiece "Come Away With Me," released on February 26.

However, no one would recognize this as a masterpiece now.

To be precise, very few Americans have even heard of this album.

The album only sold 10,000 copies in its first week of release, which is considered a flop in the US record market. The record company will not invest any more promotional resources in the album afterward.

Britney said seriously, "This is a gift from Chris to me. He said this album is pretty good and recommended that I listen to it."

This is just a small matter in itself.

It's standard practice for singers to give each other records when they meet.

Most of the time, it's about giving away your own records, but it's not unusual to give away others' records as well.

This was a private meeting, not a public occasion. Does that mean people aren't allowed to recommend good records to their friends in the industry?
However, being associated with both Qi Yuan and Britney Spears at the same time can turn a small matter into a big one. These two have been the focus of American entertainment news for the past two days, and the center of discussion among the entire American media and ordinary people.

Afterwards, Qi Yuan invited Britney Spears to star in the music video, and Qi Yuan gifted Britney a record by an unknown singer, which was reported by many media outlets.

[Chris: The answer you want to know is hidden in my music video]

[A victor's boast? Is Chris Pratt going to announce his relationship with Britney Spears in the music video?]

[Chris Lee has no bottom line when it comes to promoting his new album. Poor Britney Spears, she's been branded as unfaithful because of him and used as a tool for publicity!]

[The album Chris gifted Britney was Norah Jones's relatively obscure album "Come Away With Me," released in February. It's a new album with a jazz core, blending pop, folk, country, and blues styles!]

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This is the first time Qi Yuan has announced information about her second English-language album in the United States, which has also added to the popularity of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.

Qi Yuan's second English album immediately attracted the attention of American music industry figures and some music review media.

American singers were speechless!

Dude, do you even know the rules of the American music scene?
Your first album, "23," is already incredibly successful, selling over 2000 million copies worldwide and achieving four number one hits, including four Grammy Awards.

If you're shameless enough, you can totally take the really good songs from "23" and re-release them as singles.

Releasing one song every six months to maintain popularity, with the quality of those four chart-topping singles, each song can easily sell two or three million copies, enough to live comfortably for two years.

They then intersperse these events with numerous commercial performances and tours to rake in money, completely squeezing out all the album's profits.

This is how a mature industrial system in the American music scene operates.

Isn't this risk-free money appealing?
Many in the industry suspect that Qi Yuan has either lost his mind or doesn't understand how the American music scene works, deliberately pushing himself too hard. Which singer can guarantee that their next album will be more popular than the last? It's the norm for one album to be less successful than the last.

American record labels are also complaining, but they're targeting Warner Music.

Warner is good at internal strife, but clearly an amateur at everything else.

If Chris were an artist under their company, which bastard would dare approve Chris's album? That unprofessional bastard would definitely be fired.

If these singers and record company executives only cursed each other in private...

Then some American music critics known for their sharp and incisive reviews wouldn't be so polite.

The newly launched Blnder magazine directly challenged the authority of Rolling Stone magazine at the beginning of the year, criticizing the music magazine.

They certainly won't let go of any opportunity they get to gain exposure and attract attention.

Mike, the editor-in-chief of *Blnder*, personally penned a lengthy article denouncing Qi Yuan, with a striking title: "An Eastern genius who disrespects the American music scene and audiences is destined to fail!"

In the article, Mike said, "I think our musical genius Chris from the East has been blinded by victory after victory."

His album "23" last year was a huge success, selling well worldwide and winning four Grammy Awards, bringing him both fame and fortune!
From the moment Chris set foot on American soil, we saw his arrogance and conceit.

This arrogance has now escalated to the point of blind madness; he takes the American music scene and American audiences far too lightly.

Our singers have a long creative cycle, and high-quality songwriting requires drawing inspiration from life.

Arranging, recording, mixing, and mastering require a significant amount of time.

To ensure the consistency of the album concept, our singers need to spend two or three years, or even longer, conceiving an album.

Chris, who had made a splash at the Grammys and won the heart of his sweetheart, became too proud and complacent, less than a year after the release of his first album.

I can't imagine how perfunctory an album he would deliver in less than a year.

He'd only been famous in the US for a year, and he couldn't wait to show his true colors—his only goal was to make money!

In Mike's writing, Qi Yuan's second album "24" became a tool for him to harvest American fans and make money.

Mike's article was a huge success, causing sales of the latest issue of Blnder to skyrocket several times over.

Many people think his criticism is reasonable. Compared with singers in the American music scene, Qi Yuan's rate of releasing an album every year is really like an anomaly.

There are very few American singers who can release an album every year and still maintain quality, so they naturally assume that Qi Yuan can't do it either.

As the article's influence spread rapidly, more and more netizens and media outlets began to question whether Qi Yuan was only interested in making money by not actually acting.

It's not all bad; Qi Yuan's second English major is gaining more and more attention and popularity.

This is a double-edged sword. If Qi Yuan's second album is of high quality, he can capitalize on this wave of popularity.

Conversely, he will be negatively impacted by this surge in traffic.

While Qi Yuan was busy filming the music video.

On March 13th, a wildly popular American superstar personally joined the fray, further fueling the hype.

(End of this chapter)