China Entertainment 1997

Album sales reached 530,000 in the first week!

This data made the entire Chinese music world lose its voice.

"Modu Daily" was the first media to speak out. They printed a photo of "530,000" that took up half of the newspaper, and then wrote a headline.

"Who else can stop him?" ! 》

This report was like opening a Pandora's box. Almost all mainland entertainment media gave Cao Xuan their front page, and even many social, economic, and financial media also came to take advantage of the news.

Aside from the mainland, media in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea also made a lot of corresponding reports.

Following Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other countries, Japan's "Asahi Shimbun" added "Asian Pop Superstar" to the prefix of Cao Xuan for the first time.

The Korean media directly called Cao Xuan the "King of Asia" and randomly selected 100 passers-by on the street for spot checks.

Unexpectedly, more than a dozen people knew Cao Xuan or heard his songs, most of them were young people.

Apart from the big names from Hong Kong and Taiwan who have experienced the golden age of Hong Kong, he is currently the only new-generation artist with Cao Xuan's influence in Japan and South Korea.

On the evening and afternoon of October 30, Cao Xuan and his new album "Bright Stars" appeared twice on CCTV's news column.

The first time was to introduce the sales record breaking in the first week, and the second time was to provide feedback on foreign media reports on Cao Xuan.

Cao Xuan even felt that if he worked harder, he would be on the "News Network" not far away.

However, Cao Xuan doesn't have time to worry about the news right now. He has to start promoting his new album and rehearsing for concerts and related programs for this year's Spring Festival Gala.

Because the early sales were so explosive, the rankings were soaring, with all kinds of rankings being wiped out.

As a result, many of Warner's original publicity plans had to be changed. Warner simply took a safe route and arranged related variety shows for Cao Xuan. At the same time, it opened in several provinces and cities from south to north, including Heilongjiang Province, Shandong Province, Sichuan Province, and Guangdong Province. , holding a book signing.

The popularity of "Bright Stars" has given Warner Bros. unlimited ambitions. They have set a goal of earning 1.5 million or even 2 million before the end of the year.

If Cao Xuan does it, he will become the third consecutive album sales champion from 1998 to 2000.

Within three months, it hit the annual sales top spot.

If it was half a month ago, it would have attracted countless people to ridicule, but as soon as Cao Xuan's first week sales results came out, no one really dared to say this.

After all, according to the momentum shown by "Bright Stars", no one can guarantee that Cao Xuan will not be able to complete this miracle.

Warner has set a goal of "reaching the annual sales crown in three months" and is working hard with Cao Xuan to achieve it.

Among the fan base, a bigger goal is brewing.

………

On October 21st, "Bright Stars" was officially launched.

Before it went online, Cao Xuan basically occupied half of the top ten in major music charts, nicknamed Cao Laowu.

After the album is released and the rest of the song crew comes online, Cao Laowu's name will continue to change.

On the afternoon of October 22, "Ten Years" was the first to enter the top ten, and Cao Laoliu went online.

In the early morning of October 23, "Blue Lotus" and "Fireworks Get Cold" successively appeared on the list, and Cao Laoliu transformed into Cao Laoba.

But not long after, "Yellow Race" and "Absolute Infatuation" were squeezed out of the top ten.

On October 25, "Stubborn" and "Little Love Song" successively entered the top ten, but "Little Love Song" only stayed for a very short time before being overtaken.

For the next two days, Cao Xuan maintained his Cao Laoqi status. The latest edition of "Contemporary Music Circle" once again imitated the peak battle of "South Ren Bei Cao" in 1998, using the rankings as a cover.

First: Cao Xuan's "The Wind Rises"

Second: Cao Xuan's "Ten Years"

Third: Cao Xuan's "Blue Lotus"

Fourth: "Courage" by Liang Jingru

Fifth: Cao Xuan's "Fireworks Easily Cold"

Sixth: Cao Xuan's "Jiangnan"

Seventh: Cao Xuan's "Secret Fragrance"

Eighth: "Blowing Waves" by Ren Xianqi

Ninth: Cao Xuan's "Stubborn"

Tenth: "It's Dark" by Sun Yanzi

Those who knew it thought it was a popular music ranking, and those who didn’t knew it thought it was the top ten of the year selected by Cao Xuan’s die-hard fans.

What's more worth mentioning is that Cao Xuan's "Little Love Song" is ranked eleventh. With all the kings and queens and powerful singers, not to mention threatening the top ten, even the top eleven have to surpass "Little Love Song" This level.

The editor-in-chief of "Contemporary Music" personally wrote an article, saying that since he started working in the industry, he has never seen anyone have such terrifying dominance in the Chinese music scene.

Even if there is, it is combinations such as [Tan Zhang Zhenghe], [Four Heavenly Kings], [Nan Ren and Bei Cao] that dominate the list.

It is the only time in his life that people like Cao Xuan, who has single-handedly suppressed all the heroes in the Chinese music scene, bowed their heads.

Previously, Zhang Yadong and Wang Feiyan said that Cao Xuan would be the boss of the Chinese music scene. He originally thought it was a joke, but now it seems to be a prophecy.

"Contemporary Music" plays a very important role in the current Chinese music scene, especially the mainland music scene.

It was personally stamped and certified by the editor-in-chief, coupled with the astonishing sales and terrifying chart-topping results of "Bright Stars", many people recognized Cao Xuan's title as "the boss of the Chinese music scene".

But Cao Xuan's fans were not satisfied. Since they wanted to dominate the list, they occupied all the top ten in one go and only got seven spots, which was neither fish nor fowl.

If these 10 songs from Cao Xuan's new album monopolize the top ten on the charts, it will truly create a historic achievement unprecedented in the Chinese music world.

Even if it only lasts for one day, even if someone else does it in the future, Cao Xuan will always be the first legend to dominate the top ten.

It is impossible to verify who first proposed this proposal. We only know that it was in Tianya, and it aroused widespread reaction in a very short period of time.

A large number of fans spontaneously signed up to participate, calling TV stations and radio stations to request songs and help make the charts.

It did play a part in the early stage, but because they were working independently and the staff were scattered, and only one "Dark Darkness" was squeezed in, the plan almost failed.

At the critical moment, a few fans took the initiative to stand up and make detailed and systematic chart-making plans online, and directly gathered forces and unified command on multiple platforms and public chat rooms such as Tianya, QQ, NetEase, and Sohu.

There were thousands of direct participants in this operation, and tens of thousands of indirect and responders.

So many people worked together to push "The Waves Blossoming" to the tenth place in a short period of time, and "Infatuated Absolutely" rushed to the twelfth place, and they are about to reach the unprecedented Cao Laojiu.

At this time, Ren Xianqi's fans quit.

[Nan Ren Bei Cao] is supposed to be mutually beneficial, and the two protagonists are also good friends, but after all, they are tied, and each other's fans will definitely want to decide the winner.

At first, Ren Xianqi's fans had a sense of superiority towards Cao Xuan. After all, Cao Xuan essentially started off by riding on Ren Xianqi's popularity and forcibly tied up the hype.

But as Cao Xuan became more and more powerful, especially from last year to this year, he almost saw all the mountains and small ones, and firmly suppressed Ren Xianqi.

This time it was the turn of Cao Xuan's fans to complain. Some radical fans even felt that "South Ren Bei Cao" was a thing of the past, and Ren Xianqi was no longer worthy of being ranked alongside Cao Xuan.

Ren Xianqi's fans are naturally dissatisfied. The conflict between the two parties is still very deep, and they often quarrel.

There is only one exception, and that is when Xie Feng fans enter.

Xie Feng has always wanted to be on top, and naturally his fans do too.

Cao Xuan's fans felt that Xie Feng kept flirting with Cao Xuan, and they were unhappy. Ren Xianqi's fans hated them even more.

Because Xie Feng could not threaten Cao Xuan in a short period of time, he planned to replace Ren Xianqi first, which directly touched the fundamental interests of Ren Xianqi's fans.

Whenever the fans of the three families met, they would start fighting if they disagreed, and they would often get into scuffles.

Today, the Cao and Ren families complained about Xie Feng's soft rice. Tomorrow, the Cao and Xie families scolded Ren Xianqi for being ugly. The day after tomorrow, the Ren and Xie families teamed up to attack Cao Xuan as a scumbag.

When the number of fans in mainland China was not enough to support large-scale quarrels, the three families of Cao, Ren, and Xie shared a considerable part of the traffic of the mainland Internet entertainment version.

In addition, the Four Heavenly Kings, Qingxia Manyu, Gong Lizuxian, Wang Feinaying, Zhang Huimei and others.

Who has good acting skills, who is good at singing, who is popular, who has more honors... these are also important topics of contention in the chat rooms of major forums.

Cao Xuan's fans want Cao Xuan to top the slaughter list, but Ren Xianqi's fans are definitely not willing to do so, let alone stepping on Ren Xianqi's head.

So they started causing trouble for Cao Xuan's fans, and Xie Feng's fans also followed suit. Although Cao Xuan has the largest fan base, the two of them are also very popular, plus some other people who want to take advantage of others.

Cao Xuan fans spent a long time and finally put "Infatuation Absolutely" into the top ten, but the potential was lost.

Liang Jingru's "Courage" was originally ranked high, but now it has become the only one. Many interested people have started to help with the rankings. It is difficult to squeeze this song down in one go.

Cao Xuan's wish to dominate the top ten of the charts was completely shattered. The last step was just this one song. Many fans were unwilling to accept it, but there was nothing they could do about it.

Just when everyone was about to give up, the paper media stopped and reported the incident first, and then pointedly mentioned Cao Xuan's mainland background.

This immediately attracted the crowd watching the show. Yes, Cao Xuan is one of our own, and our own people have to help.

Therefore, under the promotion of the media, many enthusiastic people began to participate in the ranking. These people may not be as united as Cao Xuan's fans, but they can't stand the crowd.

On the evening of November 12, "Courage" was successfully squeezed out of the top ten, and "Yellow Race", which ranked eleventh, took over.

At this moment, the top ten of the major music charts all have the same singer's name - Cao Xuan.

To be honest, if this conscious chart-killing behavior was initiated by the fans at the beginning, in the later stage it was actually fueled by Fanxing and Warner Bros.

In fact, not only Warner and Fanxing, but also some official backgrounds are helping, consciously promoting Cao Xuan, the representative of mainland pop music, otherwise the chart killing will not go so smoothly.

But it doesn’t matter whether it ends officially or not, and it doesn’t matter how many interests and deep considerations are behind it.

On November 13, 2000, Cao Xuan spent a full day in the top ten of major music charts.

On the same day, the 24th day after the release of "Bright Stars", the album's total sales exceeded 1.12 million.

The solo player dominated the top ten, the album sold over 1 million in the first month, and the sales on the list were double. Cao Xuan also officially reached the top of the Chinese music world on this day.

And this day is also Cao Xuan’s 25th birthday!

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