In February 2007, Cao Xuan was still very busy. He didn't rest at home for a few days before hurriedly flying to the UK.

On February 11, the Brit Awards were awarded in London, England.

Last year, "Legend" actually made a lot of noise in the UK, but it was overshadowed by the massive sales on Billboard in the US.

But in fact, the album "Legend" was the annual sales champion in four European countries, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands in 2006.

In fact, this is easy to understand. After all, the main language in these countries is English. In fact, the most terrifying thing is that the sales volume of "Legend" in non-English-speaking European countries is also very high.

France ranks fifth in annual sales, six countries including Spain, Turkey and Italy rank in the top ten in annual sales. Germany is the non-English speaking country with the highest sales, ranking second in annual sales.

Even in Russia, which has never been close to Europe and the United States, the album "Legend" has sold six figures, ranking among the top 30 Russian album sales of the year.

According to Warner, "Legend" has sold well in nearly 200 countries around the world, including 46 European countries that have purchased the album.

Regardless of whether you buy more or less, even if you only sell one piece, "all of Europe" will be lost.

Among them, Cao Xuan was already very influential in the UK, and now "Legend" has made him even more popular.

Many people only know that Cao Xuan has five number one singles on the US Billboard, but what some people don't know is that he also has four number one songs on the British pop music charts.

The then British Prime Minister Tony Blair's two public hobbies were tennis and pop music. In an interview with the media, he made it clear that he liked the Beatles the most, but now he also thinks Cao Xuan's songs are good.

In 2005, when the Fourth Generation visited the UK, one of the gifts he gave to Prime Minister Tony Blair was Cao Xuan's complete set of authentic Chinese and English albums.

And this is not the first time Cao Xuan’s album has been given as a gift during a foreign trip.

Since 1998 in Singapore, Cao Xuan's album has become one of the key gifts given to foreign heads of state or family members who love pop music.

It's just that in the early years, it was usually in Asia. After 2003, it gradually spread to the world. Maybe in two years, it is expected to become a regular gift.

This is the lineup of the world's pop king + the number one person in the Chinese music scene...

Even the Prime Minister was "captured", which shows Cao Xuan's popularity in the UK. Cao Xuan even strongly suspected that he was more popular in the UK than in the United States.

After all, the United States still has a bunch of Hollywood superstars and big names in the music industry, and the UK is less competitive.

Not counting the football, tennis, snooker and other sports stars, he is definitely at the top of the British literary and artistic circles, especially the music scene.

This can also be seen from the fact that Cao Xuan took the initiative to invite Cao Xuan to the Brit Awards in 2005 every other year. This year, due to the popularity of "Legend", Cao Xuan has reached a higher level.

The Brit Awards pay more attention to Cao Xuan, even if they are trying to be outshined by Grammy, they have announced multiple nominations for Cao Xuan.

Cao Xuan didn't go to the Billboard Awards and the American Music Awards before because something happened. He actually recorded a VCR specifically to express his gratitude to the organizing committee.

But because he was not present at the time, many people still had conspiracy theories, especially in Europe and the United States. There were many people who liked Cao Xuan, and there were also a lot of sunspots.

Especially at the American Music Awards, Cao Xuan was not awarded the award before. Many people made a big fuss and regarded Cao Xuan's failure to accept the award this time as revenge.

The domestic Golden Horse Awards are roughly the same. Before this, Cao Xuan had been nominated for Best Actor many times, but he had not won any awards. Many Cao Hei took the opportunity to claim that Cao Xuan was boycotting the Golden Horse Awards, creating conflicts between the two parties.

Cao Xuan has always ignored this, not only because he was not in the mood at the time, but also because they were young people who could not confuse right and wrong, so it was not a cause for concern.

However, in early January, 35 days after grandma left, the customs here in Zao City are still very important to Tou Qi and Wu Qi.

Cao Xuan accompanied his parents back to his hometown of Zao City to pay homage and burn paper. He was photographed by passers-by. Then the incident was exposed by the media. Although the deceased and Cao Xuan were taken into consideration, the specific relative was not named, but it can be seen that he was a close elder.

Afterwards, Fanxing also admitted the matter through the media, and the outside world learned that an important relative of Cao Xuan had passed away at that time, so he kept a low profile for several months, and even missed the Golden Horse and two important music awards.

The originally negative public opinion subsided instantly. After all, most people in the world are still kind-hearted and understand what this moment means.

Even if some unscrupulous people still want to set the pace, they will be frantically besieged by Cao Xuan fans and passers-by.

In life, don’t ask for more kindness, at least be a human being...

Now, two months have passed, and Cao Xuan has emerged from the gloom and returned to normal work. Naturally, he can no longer sell his face.

He has already agreed to attend the Grammys on February 14th, so he has no reason to refuse the Brit Festival on February 11th. He can only make one more trip to the UK.

This is not the first time for Cao Xuan to come to the Brit Awards. She is familiar with the music. Not only did she accept the award, but she also presented the award for "Best British Female Singer" to Amy Howe.

This female singer is not well-known in China, but her achievements are very good. If Cao Xuan was the most popular male singer in the UK last year, she was the most popular female singer.

Her albums have topped the music charts in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries, with global sales exceeding 12 million in 2006.

If "Legend" hadn't performed so well, it would have been hard to name Cao as the UK's annual sales champion in 2006.

However, this is not the pinnacle of this girl. Her album Yuan Shikong has also landed in the United States and achieved good results. In 2008, she won 5 important Grammy awards in one go, becoming the first person in history to win 5 Grammy awards in a single session.

British singer.

However, the girl's later life was not smooth, with negative news surrounding her. In 2011, she died at home due to excessive drinking at the age of only 27.

Regarding such a tragedy, Cao Xuan could not persuade her, because as early as last year, her company had sent her to a rehabilitation center to give up drinking, but it had little effect. The girl was still an alcoholic. In addition, there were other

Bad habits.

To put it harshly, this person has played a trick of his own, and no one else can stop him...

Perhaps because he has always been overwhelmed by "Legend", this person didn't like Cao Xuan very much. He hugged him politely, took the trophy, and went to the stage to make a tearful speech.

Cao Xuan didn't care. He had no performance duties. He would get off the stage after awarding the award and wait for his own award.

What’s very interesting is that in 2005, Cao Xuan won the BRIT Awards [Best International Male Artist] and [Best International Album of the Year]. This year, Cao Xuan is considered a “re-winner of the old awards” and won these two awards again.

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However, unlike 2005, last time Cao Xuan regretfully missed out on [Best Single], but this year Cao Xuan got what he wanted with "Rolling in the Deep".

As mentioned before, most of the awards at the Brit Awards are divided into two categories: [British] and [International], and [Best Single] is one of the few awards that does not make a distinction. It can even be regarded as the most valuable of the Brit Awards.

Awards.

The Brit Awards have been held for nearly 30 years, and most of them are won by British singers. Few foreign singers have won. Cao Xuan, an Asian, is an unprecedented first.

Even Cao Xuan said jokingly when accepting the award that "Legend" made him completely numb to the words "refreshing history".

It is worth mentioning that the guest who presented the [Best Single] award to Cao Xuan was Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.

There was a break between the two last year due to the Super Bowl incident, and Jagger was deceived by Edgar Jr.

Don't underestimate the connections and abilities of a prestigious band that has been popular for half a century. Little Edgar's game was not a clever one. When Jagger realized it afterwards, he couldn't let it go.

Little Edgar later found the middleman, paid some price, and settled the matter. This guy made a lot of money from Cao Xuan and "Legend" and didn't care about the three melons and two dates at all, so he took the initiative to settle the matter.

Although it was little Edgar who did it, Jagger didn't get angry with Cao Xuan, but he didn't look good on him, and Cao Xuan didn't tolerate him.

The Rolling Stones are great, but they don't have the luxury of flattering them. If people respect me, I must respect them. If they don't respect me, I don't have to respect them either.

If Cao Xuan was the mastermind behind that incident, he would still be in the wrong, but since he didn't know about it beforehand, there's no way he was plotting against Jagger.

If Cao Xuan hadn't considered that he was the beneficiary after all, Cao Xuan would have wanted him to know what it means to push back the waves ahead and beat them to death on the beach...

The two of them were doing business, and there was almost no smile when handing over the trophy. Those who knew it was an award ceremony, but those who didn't know thought they were attending some serious occasion.

The organizing committee of the Brit Awards was so regretful that they slapped Jagger on the thigh. They only thought that Jagger was big, so they ended up attending the event as a surprise guest, but they didn't find out that there was a grudge between the two. Isn't this a trap?

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There will definitely be a lot of hype in the media tomorrow, and Jagger and Cao Xuan probably don't want to see them either.

It’s not their fault. This matter involves too much and is not very honorable. Both parties keep it secret and never interact with each other. So the outside world only knows that Cao Xuan replaced the Rolling Stones in the Super Bowl, but they don’t know that there is something fishy inside.

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After the award ceremony was over, the person in charge came over to apologize, saying it was their negligence.

It doesn't matter to Cao Xuan, he and Jagger have no big hatred, and as long as the other party doesn't come to pick a fight with him, he won't pay attention to the other party.

But before he finished speaking, Cao Xuan was slapped in the face.

When Jagger was interviewed the next day, he praised the songs of Amy Hornwith, who happened to be one of the nominees for Best Single. This obviously meant that Cao Xuan's award was controversial.

Cao Xuan has not been abroad for a long time and rarely has negative interactions with foreign artists.

Naturally, he would not care if a young star was flirting with someone. Well-known artists are all experienced and would not offend Cao Xuan, the popular king, for no reason.

Especially for singers, who wouldn't want to collaborate with Cao Xuan, an oriental music magician? Avril's duet with Cao Xuan directly led to her having a representative song in the top ten of the Billboard singles chart. Everyone likes such a win.

Creative kings and queens may not care, but most non-songwriter singers, especially those in the pop/rock genre, find it difficult to resist the temptation to collaborate with Cao Xuan.

So regardless of the fact that Cao Xuan is Chinese, he is actually very popular in the European and American music circles. How many friends he has put aside, there are very few who take the initiative to offend him.

Jagger is one of the few singers who dares to attack the popular Cao Xuan. Regardless of his qualifications, status, or number of fans, he is even worse than Cao Xuan.

To be honest, facing Jagger's attack, Cao Xuan felt a sense of freshness. After all, he had not talked to anyone for a long time.

Therefore, in an interview with the British BBC the next day, Cao Xuan responded unabashedly.

"...Of course I am a rock lover, and I like many bands, including China's Beyond, Tang Dynasty, and Black Panther, as well as America's Linkin Park, Britain's Coldplay, Queen, Ireland's U2, and me

The top 1 Beatles in my mind..."

Cao Xuan is an expert when it comes to yin and yang, and the BBC is not far behind. They highlighted this passage in this interview and summarized and refined two information points.

One of Cao Xuan’s favorite rock bands is the Rolling Stones.

②The best rock band in Cao Xuan’s opinion is the Beatles.

If the former is just a reply to Jagger, the latter is a bit heartbreaking.

No one can decide who is the greatest rock band in the world, but it is recognized that the two most qualified are the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

The Beatles have relatively more supporters, but the number of Rolling Stones fans cannot be underestimated.
To be continued...