China Entertainment 1997

The first conversation with Taylor was quite pleasant. Although this middle school girl was a bit arrogant, after being impressed by Cao Xuan's "talent", she really wanted to learn from him.

Cao Xuan didn't say whether he would accept her or not. After all, there were many people who wanted to be his apprentice.

50% of the new generation of Chinese and even Asian music circles are his fans. There are also many young singers in Europe and the United States who admire him.

Not to mention that Taylor is not yet the future number one queen of the United States, even Avril Lavigne, who has become the top queen in Europe and the United States, often said that she learned a lot from Cao Xuan.

If she hadn't recognized her god-sister, Avril would have been Cao Daguan's first disciple.

Liu Tianxian, Zhang Jie, Gu Miaomiao and others have been calling them teachers for several years, but Cao Xuan did not admit that they were direct disciples of the Cao family, so they were barely registered.

It's not that easy for Taylor to overtake in a corner in one go.

However, after all, after the first day in Future America, Cao Xuan still had some preferential treatment. Not only did he leave Taylor a personal phone number, he could ask her questions at any time.

The two also agreed that if Taylor's first album had a single that reached the top ten of the Billboard singles chart, he would accept her as his apprentice.

The condition for a proprietary song to enter the top ten is quite harsh for a new singer. Cao Xuan met this condition as a test to maintain his top performance.

Taylor was not afraid, but instead geared up to prove his talent to Cao Xuan.

She was determined to be the founding disciple of the Cao Sect!

Cao Xuan did not comment on this bet. Taylor's failure to complete his goal has no impact on him.

Accomplishing the goal means that Mars Records has created a cash cow, and it is not a shame for him to accept a future American as his apprentice.

Cao Xuan is personally quite optimistic about Taylor. Although his Golden Finger does not have specific performance data for Taylor's debut, his impression seems to be good.

You must know that the company Taylor originally joined was a small company. It is said that when the album was released, manpower was so tight that even Taylor and her mother went to help package the CD.

And now that we have the financial resources and resources of Mars Records and the sales channels of Warner, we can’t say that we will launch another top-notch Avril Lavigne in one go, but we are pretty sure that it will surpass the performance of Original Time and Space.

Putting this little girl behind, Cao Xuan is still paying more attention to the trends of his new album "Legend" at this time.

The audio and video distribution channels in the United States are relatively more developed than in China, but even so, the release of "Legend" still caused queues to buy the album in many areas, and some areas even experienced collective stock outs.

Similar situations are still relatively rare in the United States. Especially in recent years, audio and video channels have become more mature compared to the last century, and with the explosion of digital music, there have been almost no similar situations.

The Los Angeles Times published these two pictures on the front page of print media and online.

One of the pictures is a composite of several photos of people queuing up to buy Cao Xuan's album. The total number of people is hundreds of people. It looks very dense and very popular.

And the other picture is of a wooden sign hanging out of an audio store, with red letters on a white background and the words "Tsao, Sold out" eye-catchingly written on it.

Translated, it means [Cao's new album is sold out], which means the new album is out of stock in the store.

What's interesting is that Cao Xuan once wrote a theme song for "The Matrix" called "Sold out", and now it's used by him.

These two pictures undoubtedly illustrate the booming sales of the new album, and the title of the Los Angeles Times is also somewhat "sensational."

"Cao, let the whole United States go crazy for him!" ! ! 》

This news was once reprinted back home and promoted by Cao Xuan fans.

The Los Angeles Times is still very important in the American media industry. It is the second most authoritative urban newspaper in the country and the fourth largest newspaper in the country.

It is the third largest newspaper in the United States after the New York Times and the Washington Post.

However, the Los Angeles Times had an old grudge with Cao Xuan.

A few years ago, because of Avril Lavigne's scandal, he sued the Los Angeles Times and forced the Los Angeles Times to issue a public apology.

The two sides didn't have much interaction after that. Although the Los Angeles Times didn't deliberately criticize Cao Xuan, it didn't praise him either. It was indifferent and slightly conflicted.

Unexpectedly, he would take the lead in bragging this time, and he would brag so much that Cao Xuan himself was a little surprised.

However, he later figured out that his feud with the Los Angeles Times began before Ed Jr. joined Warner Bros.

Edgar Jr. has been in the media circle for many years and has a wide network of contacts. He has some personal relationships with the management of the Los Angeles Times. What was once an enemy has now become an ally.

Cao Xuan's new album "Legend" performed very well, and Little Ed spent a lot of money on public relations, trying to push Cao Xuan into the ranks of superstars.

Although American newspapers do not exclude some real reporters and media, most people still follow the capital. As long as the public relations fees are enough, they can turn your white into black.

What's more, Cao Xuan's new album has already achieved outstanding results. Although their description is a bit exaggerated, it is not unfounded.

In addition to the Los Angeles Times, other newspapers have also sent praises one after another. Edgar Jr. has also publicized other media. In addition, his popularity is enough for a large number of media reports, and the public relations fees only make the reports more positive.

However, except for a few such as the Los Angeles Times, most authoritative media are more restrained, while tabloids and online media are more crazy, with various exaggerated headlines one after another.

"Shocked, thousands of young men and women wandered the streets early in the morning just for..."

"The most awesome book in history, the one that made Elvis Presley ashamed and Michael Jackson inferior"

"This night, billions of people in the East and the West were obsessed with him because of him"

"Demand exceeds supply, almost paralyzing the U.S. recording industry"

"..."

All this is shocking. Those who knew it was Cao Xuan releasing a new album, but those who didn't knew thought Brother Deng had sent someone to travel again.

Cao Xuan was a little worried when he saw the news on the Internet. It would not cause fans of top singers such as Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson to come to massacre.

Just flatter, just flatter, what the hell is wrong!

However, Cao Xuan did not worry for too long, because the new week's Billboard chart was announced in less than two days.

He won the extremely rare No. 1 spot on both Billboard charts!

The album "Legend" successfully topped the Billboard Top 200 album list with crazy album sales of 1.1 million in half a week and only three days after its release.

This is also Cao Xuan’s second championship album.

As mentioned before, unlike the comprehensive calculation of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart sales and radio on-demand, the Billboard Album Chart does not consider anything else but only the sales volume. Whoever sells the most every week is the champion.

Cao Xuan's second album "Release" has won the Billboard album title for several weeks.

Although the total sales of the first EP album of the same name are not low, it has been unable to win the Billboard album album championship due to some combination of circumstances. The highest ranking is third on the weekly chart.

This has always been a regret in Cao Xuan's heart. He wonders if he will ever have the opportunity to fulfill his dream of having a Billboard No. 1 album Grand Slam in the future.

However, the gold content of the weekly number one on the Billboard album chart is lower. After all, it is only a week's sales. If you want to fake it, it is still very easy.

There is no need to cheat. For many popular or first-tier singers, as long as their albums are of good quality and their fans focus on them, it is not difficult to win the weekly chart championship.

Therefore, the weekly number one on the Billboard Album Chart is not that impressive; the ranking on the annual chart is the key.

If it tops the Billboard Album Chart for the year, it also means that the album is the best-selling album in the United States that year, which is a very remarkable achievement.

Cao Xuan's last album "Release" has a total sales volume of nearly 20 million, which is definitely the first echelon of album sales that year. In fact, it is very promising to win the top spot on the Billboard album chart.

It's a pity that Cao Xuan's album was released in early October 2003. It only took a few months to calculate, and it was definitely not as good as those albums that were on the list throughout the year.

Therefore, in the 2003 annual ranking of Billboard album charts, "Release" was only ranked seventh.

In 2004, "Release" was sold for a full year, and its stamina was not bad, and it often appeared on the charts. However, not counting the most aggressive months, it still suffered a big loss and ended up ranking third.

This year, Cao Xuan's new album "Legend" was released in mid-February. It has basically been on the list for the whole year, and it has strong momentum. It is very likely to compete for the annual championship on the Billboard album chart.

Cao Xuan is the annual album sales champion in the Chinese-speaking region. Basically, when he releases a new album, it will be him nine times out of ten.

He has also won the annual album sales championship in Asia once, with his last album "Release".

But he has never won the U.S. sales championship, and Cao Xuan is still looking forward to achieving a new wave of achievements.

When "Legend" topped the weekly album chart, after more than a month, Cao Xuan's first number one single from his new album was finally born.

"Rolling in the Deep"

Cao Xuan’s number of Billboard No. 1 singles has reached [3], and he has also achieved the rare achievement of No. 1 on both charts in a single week. The strength of the new album is evident.

However, compared to Cao Xuan winning the double crown, the outside world was actually more shocked by another achievement.

All 10 songs from "Legend" were on the Billboard Hot 100 this week.

Moreover, these 10 songs are all in the top 30, and a total of 7 songs have reached the top 10. Currently, 5 songs are in the top 10 at the same time.

In the past, it was a rare big news if all the songs from an album were on the Billboard charts.

The singers and albums that can achieve this are all phenomenal albums, and there are only a handful of them, but there are really not many. Many of them are masterpieces of top superstars or super dark horses that have gone down in the history of the music industry.

But today, the craziness of "Legend" has caused many people to ignore this achievement.

After all, instead of all the songs from a single album being on the charts, they care more about whether all the 10 songs in "Legend" can be in the top ten.

The answer is, very likely.

Currently, 7 of the 10 songs on the album have entered the top ten, and the remaining 3 have not entered the list because they have just been released.

And their rankings are not low. The closest one is at No. 14, and the one farthest from the top ten is only No. 26. According to the current popularity of "Legend", these three songs have a high chance of making the list.

If once the chart is completed, "Legend" will achieve an unprecedented achievement in Billboard history.

All the songs from the same album have reached the top ten of the Billboard!

Even Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, The Beatles and other legendary superstars have never had such a grand event with their albums.

The American music scene is completely crazy!

From the previous series of events, any fool would know that Cao Xuan's album is extraordinary and a phenomenon-level album that has been rare in more than ten years.

But even so, they still didn't expect this album to be so exaggerated, and many music critics did not dare to make judgments easily.

Because this kind of unparalleled specialization can achieve too many brilliant achievements, some of which are even difficult for ordinary people to understand. They dare not, and their judgment is not accurate.

The only thing he could do was to sit back and watch how far this divine specialization could fly.

Little Edgar was completely crazy with joy.

This "Legend" and Cao Xuan's surprises come one after another, and each one is bigger than the last.

Prior to this, Warner Music Group had spent a lot of money to support, but when seeing this scene, Edgar Jr. held an emergency board meeting overnight.

With the support of Cao Xuan and several close shareholders, Edgar Jr. convinced other shareholders to continue to increase their bargaining chips, and even spent all the group's bottom-line resources and funds to build public relations for Cao Xuan and "Legend".

Within Warner Music Group, it is even called the "God-making" plan.

In order to prevent other record companies and related forces from causing trouble, Edgar Jr. and Cao Xuan even used the method of "seeking enemies in the void" after discussing it.

In interviews with the media, senior executives such as Edgar Jr. and Mike publicly accused Cao Xuan of being suppressed and excluded from many aspects after his album became popular.

As the vice chairman of Warner Music Group, Mike himself even ignored his manners, like an angry fat groundhog, roaring hysterically at the camera.

"Those shameful rats, despicable scum, they want to "destroy" Cao Xuan, they want to "destroy" a genius, they want to "destroy" the hope of the world's pop music scene."

In short, he stood on the moral high ground, criticized those opponents who targeted or even resisted Cao Xuan, and gave them various so-called shackles and titles.

As long as these people attack Cao Xuan, they are destroying the freedom of the United States, destroying the openness of the United States, and even destroying the entire world's popular music scene.

The speeches of Warner and others "made up" an extremely despicable and shameless huge opponent to Cao Xuan.

Frankly speaking, this opponent actually existed, but he didn't have time to take action, or he just tried to test him. Before he could kill him, Cao Xuan lay down, wailing miserably and loudly, as if he was being abused inhumanely.

This aroused the sympathy of many onlookers, who easily believed what Cao Xuan and Warner said without any doubt, because this matter was so normal in the United States.

If no one dealt with Cao Xuan, everyone would feel strange.

Therefore, Cao Xuan's fans were angry at the rhythm of Warner's side, and countless neutral melon-eating people also joined in and began to follow the "void line".

"Don't kill a future music legend!"

"Music has no borders, art has no borders!"

“Chinese people’s songs are also songs!”

"Cao Gegui!"

"..."

After Warner successfully set the pace, supporting Cao Xuan became politically correct in a sense.

Otherwise you're a racist and you're a music-killing bastard.

Many celebrities and public figures either felt the same way, supported Cao Xuan, were deceived, or simply took advantage of the popularity, and they also came out to express support for Cao Xuan.

Michael Jackson: I understand what Cao is going through now and feel the same way. I have talked with him. He is a mentally strong person and will definitely be able to get through this.

Avril Lavigne: Music should be inclusive and open, rather than filled with all kinds of barriers and prejudices. I will always support Chris, you are the best

Britney: I just had a phone call with Chris. He comforted me optimistically. Support him. He is a good person.

Eminem: Disgusting suppression, this is tainting music, come on, Cao

A real estate owner: a beautiful scenery [with picture of Cao Xuan’s supporters marching on a certain street]

Cao Xuan: "..."

There are too many shortcomings to talk about.

One thing is that although this plan was jointly formulated by him and little Edgar, the development of things still exceeded his expectations.

Looking at the fans and fans who supported him, Cao Xuan even felt a little guilty.

But fortunately, this was not a complete fabrication. If he hadn't taken action first, it would have probably happened, which more or less allowed him to offset some of his guilt.

At the same time, this wave of preemptive attacks has really opened the eyes of the record companies and related forces.

But I have to say that this trick is really useful. It seizes the moral high ground and drives public opinion. Whoever takes the lead will easily become a target and be madly targeted.

If they unite, control the mouthpieces of public opinion, and suppress them in all directions, Cao Xuan and Warner will be able to withstand it.

But the key point is that these people cannot be single-minded, and many people are not particularly interested in suppressing Cao Xuan, especially those record companies.

A top superstar will indeed grab a lot of shares, but he can also revitalize a lot of markets. Everyone hopes to reach cooperation. If you can't eat meat, you can also drink soup.

Moreover, many people only pay attention to Cao Xuan's entire album being on the Billboard charts, but ignore these 10 songs, all of which were created by "Cao Xuan" alone.

If you can get a few high-quality songs from Cao Xuan, you can directly create a famous singer.

This is not a living money tree, this is the Midas touch that turns stone into gold...

If it weren't for Warner's tight hiding, and little Edgar was like a mad dog, biting anyone whoever reached out, otherwise everyone's first reaction would not be to suppress, but to rob people.

But now that the suppression fails, let's take it easy first. Although Cao Xuan is a shareholder of Warner, he is not necessarily bound to Warner.

As long as you dance well with the hoe, you can dig out any corner. The major record companies have been poaching each other for decades, so they have rich experience.

The withdrawal of the record company, coupled with the turbulent public opinion, discouraged many other forces, creating a relatively comfortable publicity environment for Cao Xuan.

With this enthusiasm, Cao Xuan went crazy for promotion in the United States and parts of North America.

I had interviews with well-known radio stations, TV interviews, facial recognition in variety shows, and even went to a music festival.

On March 5, Oscar even took a fancy to Cao Xuan's popularity, and temporarily added Cao Xuan to perform a song "Skin" that had just won the championship.

It's a pity that Cao Xuan waited for several hours in the audience, but he didn't wait for any host to be mean to him.

Otherwise, go up and slap her. The next day there will be headlines on the front page of the world...

The week after the Oscar performance ended, three weeks had passed since "Rolling in the Deep" won the championship.

In the past two weeks, Cao Xuan has been monopolizing the Billboard double charts.

Among them, "Rolling in the Deep" topped the Hot 100 singles list for another week. Afterwards, under the arrangement of Warner, media resources and fans began to tilt the list.

Last week, "Skin" topped the Billboard singles chart, becoming the second song from the "Legend" album and Cao Xuan's fourth No. 1 single.

Now another week has passed, "Legend" is still firmly ranked on the Billboard album chart, while the singles chart has completed a new transition.

From "Skin" to another song by Cao Xuan, "Roar"

Three crowns in one specialty!

It broke Cao Xuan's personal best. What's even more frightening is that at this time, 4 songs in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 were attributed to Cao Xuan.

It broke last year's 50-cent record, and is only one step away from the 1964 Beatles record of a single album occupying the top five at the same time.

Many websites even publicly "opened the market" in newspapers, calling on netizens to vote and speculate on whether Cao Xuan could achieve this achievement.

At the same time, there is another terrible record that Cao Xuan is also expected to hit, that is, the most number one singles from a single album.

Prior to this, the record with the most Billboard number one singles for a single album was Michael Jackson's "Bad", which had five Billboard number one singles.

This record has not been repeated since 1987.

Not to mention five albums in one album, there are only a handful of albums that have four crowns in one album, and the total does not exceed double digits. After the 1990s, there are only two albums to this day.

One is Sister Niu’s debut album, which started at its peak and won four titles in one album.

One is the 2004 award-winning Usher's masterpiece "Confessions", which has 4 number one hits.

Even in later generations, except for the 2010 album "Teenage Dream" by Sister Fruit, it produced an unprecedented 5 number one singles, becoming the only two albums in the history of Billboard to achieve "five crowns in one album".

In addition, there is no record of four championships in one specialty, which shows how difficult this record is to break.

Cao Xuan currently has three championships in one specialty, and his song "What are words" ranks in the top five. He is very hopeful of becoming a champion.

In addition, "Monsters" and two other songs have also been in the top ten for a long time. If they sprint hard, they may not have no chance.

Fruit Sister is now unknown, and the outside world is very concerned about whether Cao Xuan can catch up with the Beatles and rival Michael Jackson.

Even the people who eat melons are very excited.

After all, in a sense, it is still very satisfying to witness the rise of a generation of legendary superstars.

But what’s more impressive is Olondon. With Cao Xuan’s 10 top ten songs and 3 number one singles, the performance of the new album has completely surpassed that of the previous “Release”, which also means that it is his turn to fulfill his promise.

Many TV stations sent live broadcast invitations to this journalist, and one even rushed directly to his home to express his support for home live broadcast.

A well-known local farmer has also publicly stated that he is willing to provide sows to Olondon for free, including boars and wild boars. Even if it is a porcupine, he will find a way to get it.

Olondon, who died in society, hid at home for three days. Seeing himself becoming a celebrity in the United States, he decisively chose to immigrate to Mexico...

It’s doubled. I’d rather ask for a monthly pass.