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Chapter 282 I was shocked! The world-famous sweet song queen!

"This is a song about love at first sight. I think everyone may have had that experience of wanting to approach someone but stopping because of timidity. Anyway, I have."

Liu Yifei introduced: "So, this song was born to encourage everyone to bravely walk up to the boy they like and leave him his phone number."

Owen's radio show is not long, only 40 minutes in total. In addition, he has to share five to eight songs in each episode and make some jokes. In fact, Liu Yifei and he don't talk much.

The two of them chatted about interesting things about the recording of the song, the MV shooting process, and mentioned the twist in the ending of the MV. They also mentioned "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" by the way.

There is no way, there is really not much that Liu Yifei can talk about in the United States, and the American people have never paid attention to anyone and anything outside North America, so she can only talk about "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

Liu Yifei is also proficient in English, and she has a bad interview syndrome. The interview with Irving went smoothly. Although the listening rate of the program did not skyrocket like that of famous singers, it was similar to his listening rate during the same period.

Her performance has exceeded Owen's expectations. She is not as boring as he imagined Asians to be, but rather interesting.

At the end of the show, Owen played the sound source of "Call Me Maybe" again, which was enough to cheer her up.

"With the song "Call Me Maybe" by Crystal, our radio program ends here today. Thank you everyone for listening!"

"We will see you again at this time tomorrow! Bye~"

Irving disconnected the station's push stream, took off his headphones, and said relaxedly: "Happy cooperation!"

"Crystal, I have a hunch that your song will definitely become a hit in North America!"

A bright smile appeared on Liu Yifei's face.

As a well-known music radio DJ in New York, Owen's musical aesthetic vision is definitely more professional than most music critics.

Of course Liu Yifei was very happy to receive his praise.

Senior brother is really amazing. Not only is he great at making movies and writing scripts, but he is also great at writing songs!

After the recording of the radio program was completed, Liu Yifei was about to attend the next program event.

Her schedule for the next week is very busy. Not only does she have to run four radio programs, but she also has to appear on a TV music program. She is very busy.

Of course, in other radio programs that she did not participate in, the record company also stuffed enough money.

Most of the radio programs in North America are private DJs, not the state-run TV stations in China, so they are easier to operate.

On average, a radio DJ can spend $3,000 to play "Call Me Maybe" once. Record companies have given money to at least 120 well-known radio DJs in the United States.

Starting from March 3, from the West Coast to the East Coast, the singing of "Call Me Maybe" can be heard from private cars running on the streets.

On March 6, at eight o'clock in the evening, Liu Yifei had just finished recording an evening music radio program.

When participating in the radio program this time, Liu Yifei completed the entire recording with the DJ's praise. Even the radio listening rate ranked first in the same period.

The reason doesn't really matter, it's just that Billboard's new week's list has come out.

"Call Me Maybe" debuted at No. 15 on Billboard with 86,000 single sales.

A new singer, her first English single was directly ranked No. 15 on the Billboard.

This achievement is undoubtedly extremely incredible.

Because in the B list ranking formula, sales only account for 25%, and the majority is still radio.

With a record of 86,000 singles, it was ranked fifteenth on the Billboard. This obviously shows that Liu Yifei's song was heavily played by major radio stations in the United States in offline radio programs, and after it was played, , and was requested again by many listeners.

As a new singer, Liu Yifei has no previous popularity and popularity bonus!

The fact that her new song achieved such good results in the first week after it was released only shows that the song "Call Me Maybe" is really popular among Americans. It is a song that is very suitable for people's taste and is strong enough in itself.

With a relaxing melody, simple lyrics, and Liu Yifei's sweet voice, listeners fell in love with this song as soon as they heard it on the radio.

Many listeners who turned on the radio station in the middle and only heard the second half of the song immediately called the radio station to ask about the song after listening to it, or looked it up on the Internet based on the lyrics they wrote down.

The "Call Me Maybe" MV released on YouTube, after just one day without any attention, the number of views also skyrocketed, breaking one million on the 3rd, three million on the 4th, and the number of views on the 5th Go straight to Wanwan.

Listening to this song in conjunction with the MV is much more enjoyable than listening to the song alone.

The lyrics of this song tell a Huaichun story about a woman who has a crush on a man and wants to confess her love but is too shy to say it. It sounds a bit cliché.

However, the MV breaks away from the routine of "girls and boys living a happy life".

In the MV, Liu Yifei plays a girl who is obsessed with a handsome gardener.

Under the guidance of her friend, she sang this confession song for him in the garage, successfully attracting the handsome man's attention.

And just when she was about to give her phone number to the handsome man, something bloody happened.

The gardener took action first and gave her phone number to—not Liu Yifei, but her band member, who was also a man.

So the MV of Girl Huaichun became a passionate MV in seconds.

The song was originally good enough, and the MV was so funny. "Call Me Maybe" quickly became a hit on YouTube, breaking into the top ten of the weekly video rankings and ranking first in the real-time clicks list.

Now, now, it's not just the listeners who are used to listening to the radio who know this song.

Young Americans who are accustomed to surfing the Internet and watching YouTube videos also know and like this song.

Undoubtedly, "Call Me Maybe" is a light song suitable for all ages, and it has the characteristics of brainwashing propaganda.

Even the MV male protagonist, who is only 23 years old, has been repeatedly asked online by a group of rotten girls, wanting to know who this handsome guy is and what his works are.

When it reaches this point, the explosion of "Call Me Maybe" on the Internet has become an established fact, and its momentum can no longer be stopped.

And because the MV of this song is so funny, almost every fan who listens to this song will watch the MV repeatedly.

As a result, Liu Yifei, a star who is very unfamiliar to most Americans, quickly entered the public eye.

Although many Asians think that Europeans and Americans look the same, many Europeans and Americans are also face-blind to Asians.

But this range does not include handsome men and beautiful women.

Eastern and Western aesthetics often have something in common.

For example, top European and American beauties such as Anne Hathaway, Audrey Hepburn, and Sophie Marceau are also very beautiful in the eyes of Asians, and there is no problem that face blindness cannot recognize them.

And Liu Yifei, a top oriental beauty with top-notch bones and skin, is also quite recognizable in the eyes of Europeans and Americans.

Liu Yifei, who sings, dances and smiles sweetly in the MV, has really become famous in North America this time.

The search volume of the terms "Crystal Wu" and "Liu YI FEI" on Google has also surged wildly.

Some online videos of clips from Chinese-language films that Liu Yifei had previously starred in were also transmitted from the Internet in mainland China to North America.

It was at this time that Filipino fans in mainland China learned that their idol had gone to the United States to release new songs in English, and the results were very good, triggering enthusiastic responses from European and American music fans.

Many music critics from mainstream North American music magazines also noticed this song and this newcomer to the North American music scene. They commented on "Call Me Maybe" in their columns.

The editor-in-chief of "American Music" commented: "Crystal's voice is slightly nasal, sweet but not greasy. The melody of "Call Me Maybe" is catchy and the arrangement is retro and playful. Once you listen to it, you will sing along. It’s a good pop love song.”

"Rolling Stone" describes the tone of this song as an absolute brainwashing masterpiece: "Can you imagine the refreshing Taylor Swift meeting the bad Robin?"

"This song is a folk tune with a touch of pop dance music and disco."

MTV commentator said: "I really can't tell you how many times this song has been repeated in my iTunes, but as soon as you press the play button, you can't stop it."

A great and easy-to-sing song may not necessarily be a hit.

But if there is enough publicity and exposure, it will definitely become a hit.

On the original track, when "Call Me Maybe" was first released in Canada on September 20, 2011, due to lack of sufficient publicity, the single sold only 604 copies.

So how did this song become a global hit?

This must be thanked to the fellow squatting girl, Justin Bieber, who is also from Canada.

In December 2011, Canadian superstar Justin Bieber walked into a coffee shop while dating his then-girlfriend.

The manager of this cafe happens to be a fan of squatting girls, and the song "Call Me Maybe" is playing in the shop.

When Bieber heard this song, he immediately thought it was a really good song. So he publicly stated on Twitter: "This may be the most catchy song I have ever heard."

It was such a coincidence that Justin Bieber, the world's most popular little king with few scandals at the time, heard this song and turned into tap water.

Bieber really likes this song. He not only tweeted about it, he also mentioned it in various public places as his favorite song recently, led his fans to sing along, and even showed up to squat. The show sings with her.

Thanks to Bieber's personal promotion, this song entered the public eye, and then it became an instant hit.

This time, Liu Yifei sang this song. Although there was no support from a little king like Bieber, Wu Yuan was willing to spend money and bought more than 100 radio stations in the United States to promote it. It can be said that he directly skipped the squatting girl encounter. The initial stage of arrival was difficult.

This viral song successfully ignited the entire North America and even the entire European and American world in March 2008.

Not just in the United States, "Call Me Maybe" has become a crazy hit all over the world.

Thanks to the now very developed Internet, although Liu Yifei is a newcomer, she has become famous across the country very quickly on the Internet.

In just its second week since the single was released, "Call Me Maybe" has already topped the singles charts in Australia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

On the bulletin board, after landing at No. 15, the rankings were released in the second week, and "Call Me Maybe" directly rushed into the second place, sitting back and watching!

Flowers bloom outside the wall, and the fragrance inside the wall is also fragrant.

The news that Liu Yifei and "Call Me Maybe" became popular has spread online.

In those mainstream music magazines in North America, the evaluations of the song and Liu Yifei by music critics and editors were translated into Chinese and posted back to major forums in the Mainland.

"Call Me Maybe" also quickly became popular in China and became very popular. It has become the most popular background music in major shopping malls across the country, and is played back and forth in various shops in the streets and alleys.

"Call Me Maybe" and Liang Jingru's "Breathing Pain" have become must-have playlists in the streets and alleys in March this year!

Liu Yifei, who was just playing for fun at first, has really established her identity as a singer this time.

Moreover, she immediately surpassed all kinds of domestic competition and became a supernova sweet song queen who is popular all over the world!

It's numb, it's really numb.

This time, not only the film industry, but also the music circles on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were shocked.

How could Wu Yuan, who was a director and played with cameras, create an international sweet song queen?

Is this justified? !