Cao Xuan's "Chris Tsao" performed better than anyone thought.
As of March 4, "Lure're Beautiful" has entered the top five of the Los Angeles radio charts, and the seventh is "Numb".
And not only on radio stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other California states, the three songs also began to have an impact.
Although the song "Natural" did not enter the top ten on the Los Angeles radio chart, it became popular on the Yahoo blog site.
Last year, before many media outlets could react to the September 11 incident, someone took the lead in announcing the situation on the scene through a blog.
"Everyone can become a news source anytime and anywhere" has become synonymous with blogs, which has also made this new thing completely popular in the United States.
People like to share their lives, make friends online, and chat on blogs.
"Natural" has ambitious lyrics and explosive melody, which is very popular among young people. When they saw it online, they recommended Amway everywhere through blogs, forums and even chat rooms.
This song started to spread on the Internet in a very short period of time.
Perhaps in California, "Natural" is not as good as the first two songs, but in the entire United States, it is the first of the three songs to hit the charts.
New York, Washington, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, Miami...
With the convenience of the Internet, "Natural" has been heard in big cities and small towns in the United States. It may not be very popular yet, but the seeds have been planted.
Frankly speaking, although Cao Xuan was promised to enter the European and American markets, some people at Warner still didn't pay much attention to it.
This can be seen from their publicity plan, which basically only made corresponding arrangements in Los Angeles and a few surrounding cities.
San Francisco, as an important area where Chinese Americans live, can be said to be one of the best markets for Cao Xuan, but Warner didn't pay much attention to it at all. The largest radio station didn't even send a basic note, which shows that their thoughts are mostly perfunctory.
After dealing with the problem, he gave up Cao Xuan's "unrealistic" fantasy of being an international superstar, and went back to being his own Asian King in a down-to-earth manner.
This was Warner's initial idea, but all this happened after Cao Xuan's song reached the top of the Los Angeles radio charts and was even expected to land on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
Warner's mind completely changed.
They found that they had underestimated this Chinese person. With limited publicity resources, they could stand out from the vast number of new songs in the same period based on the quality of their songs alone.
Cao Xuan’s musical talent is so outstanding!
What's more important is that his musical talent can not only be applied to Chinese music, but can also create excellent English songs.
Warner Records executives even held an internal meeting specifically for this purpose, and Cao Xuan's value attracted their attention.
Especially after they listened carefully to the three songs of "Chris Tsao", music producers from several companies gave high praise, and music director Mai Bolan expressed it directly.
This is a Chinese version of Linkin Park!
Who is Linkin Park? The current top pillar of Warner Records.
In 2000, the sales of the first album in the United States exceeded 10 million, and it won the annual sales championship in the United States. Now the global sales have exceeded 15 million.
It can be said that Linkin Park is the most popular band in the United States and one of the most popular bands in the world. It is also the biggest cash cow for Warner Records.
Cao Xuan is the Chinese version of Linkin Park?
Warner Records executives felt that McBullen might have damaged his brain after drinking last night. Even if he squeezed out the water, as long as Cao Xuan could reach one-third... no, one-fifth of Linkin Park's performance, Warner would still make money.
What's more important is that Cao Xuan has a vast Asian market behind him.
In the past, record companies have launched Asian singers to capture the entire Asian market, but the response has been mediocre.
Americans are not interested in Asian singers. There are only a few who can make it out of the music industry. They want to fight against Asia but are not welcomed by Asians.
To put it bluntly, it is very difficult to find a singer who has a thorough understanding of both Eastern and Western music culture and is recognized.
But now they vaguely see hope in Cao Xuan,
Even if Cao Xuan is not very popular in the United States, if it is slightly packaged and taken back to harvest the entire Asian market, even if it is not as good as Linkin Park, it will still be a low-end version.
Warner, who had been aware of Cao Xuan's value, made a 180-degree turn towards Cao Xuan's entry into Europe and the United States.
He immediately invested heavily in publicity and publicity, and called repeatedly to urge Cao Xuan to come to the United States as soon as possible.
Cao Xuan's original plan was to fly to the United States in early or late March, or even in mid-March, but he couldn't resist Warner's urging and left early.
On March 4, Cao Xuan flew for more than ten hours and finally arrived in Los Angeles, the "paradise" in the hearts of countless Americans and even people around the world.
Los Angeles, located in California in the western United States, is the second largest city in the United States, second only to New York. It is known as the City of Angels and is an important city of culture, science, technology, higher education, and international trade in the United States.
But for most people, the most famous places in Los Angeles are Hollywood, Disneyland, and Beverly Hills...
This is when Cao Xuan came to the United States. The last time he came was in Hawaii. The air there smelled of sea. I thought the air in the United States would be better, but when I got off the plane and smelled it, it was not as good as Hawaii.
"Chris, welcome to the great America."
The Warner executive who came to pick him up was Mike, the Warner director with whom Cao Xuan had the most dealings. He was also the person in charge of Cao Xuan's trip to the United States.
As soon as he saw Cao Xuan, this white man with 1/8 Germanic ancestry, 1/4 Russian ancestry, and 1/8 Nordic ancestry gave Cao Xuan a bear hug.
Cao Xuan was not used to hugging men. After getting rid of him, he exchanged a brief greeting and got straight to the point.
"Can you tell me the specific data?"
"no problem."
Mike looks tall and thick, and seems to have a carefree and wild personality, but to be an executive of one of the five major record companies, he is no ordinary person.
Realizing that Cao Xuan was a little resistant to close contact with men, he immediately returned to normal and introduced him seriously.
"According to our statistics, EP sales have approached 30,000 copies. This data is not good, but considering your popularity in the United States, it is still very impressive.
The most important thing now is not the sales volume, but that your radio station's on-demand rate is very high, which may even exceed your actual sales by a large margin. If you want to hit the charts, the radio on-demand rate is very important."
Mike's words actually hide an important point, which is why there is a big gap between sales and radio on-demand.
It stands to reason that the two sides should complement each other. If one side has good data, the other side will not be far behind.
In fact, the reason is very simple. Warner did not prepare the goods seriously before, which caused the song to become popular. The distribution channel has not yet been fully developed. Fans who want to buy it have no place to look for it. If they want to listen, they can only go to the radio station to play on-demand or find resources online.
This resulted in the radio playback rates of several songs of "Chris Tsao" soaring, but sales figures were mediocre.
Warner certainly couldn't say this to Cao Xuan, but Cao Xuan was not stupid, and he was not a newcomer who had just debuted. He could guess 70% or 80% of it after just thinking about it.
However, Cao Xuan did not expose it. There will be a lot of support from Warner in the follow-up, so there is no need to conflict over this trivial matter.
The main reason is that piracy is relatively not rampant in the United States, which gives genuine record companies a lot of leeway. As long as the song becomes popular, sales will definitely increase.
If such a big mistake were made in China, this period of gap between genuine products would be enough for pirated products to take over half or even more of the market.
Even if Cao Xuan doesn't fall out, Warner can't even hope to get a good look.
And now as long as Warner can realize the mistake now and make follow-up arrangements to remedy it, Cao Xuan will not use this as an excuse.
However, this matter is ultimately Warner's fault. Cao Xuan feels that he has this matter in his hands. If the two parties have a dispute in the future, it will make them look stupid.
Cao Xuan left China on March 4th, and it was still March 4th when he arrived in the United States, but it was already evening.
After sleeping for a long time on the plane and the time difference, Cao Xuan couldn't sleep in the hotel, so he simply turned on the TV, which was playing "Friends", and watched it to relieve his boredom.
But although my eyes were watching the TV, my mind had long been far away.
Tomorrow, March 5th, is Tuesday, which is also the time when last week’s Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart was released.
Whether the songs from "Ch Ris Tsao" will be on the list depends on the announcement tomorrow.
Billboard has a strong influence. Once a song is on the list, it is essentially the number one music recommendation in the United States. It will be continuously radiated in front of the United States and even all listeners who follow Billboard, which can save Cao Xuan a lot of effort.
A song on the Billboard charts, even if it is ranked last, is fundamentally different from other songs.
Cao Xuan stayed in a daze that night until four o'clock in the morning before falling asleep. The next day, he was awakened by Zhang Chong and Mike's frantic knocking on the door.
Mike almost threw the magazine in Cao Xuan's face and shouted excitedly: "Three songs, all three songs are on the list."
Cao Xuan grabbed the magazine, found the list, looked carefully, and finally found the positions of three songs.
"Natural" No. 98.
"Numb" No. 91.
"Lure're Beautiful" ranked 87th.
Cao Xuan cheered up. Although his ranking was not very high, it was undoubtedly a good start.
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ps: The calculation time of the bulletin board is very complicated. The statistical time of the radio station, sales volume and the Internet are different. If you write it in detail, it will be too messy, and it will conflict with the plot setting. I simply changed it, hope you understand.
