In mid-September, the first chart-topping song "Hello" from Cao Xuan's new album "Qing" was released online.
It debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard singles chart in its first week, second only to Britney Spears’ No. 1 single...
Fortunately, "Hello" defeated Britney the next week and officially topped the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart. It was also Cao Xuan's ninth Billboard No. 1 single.
At the end of September, the second chart-topping song of "Qing" was released online
"Coun Ting Sta", the title song of the 2013 album by the band Republic Era, can also be called "Counting Stars" when translated.
In the original time and space, this song has reached the top five in the music charts in the United States, Australia, Germany, Ireland and New Zealand, and has won the first place in the charts in the United Kingdom and Canada. The results are very impressive.
This is already Cao Xuanzao’s second classic masterpiece of the Republican era.
"Legend", released in 2006, included the representative song "Apologize" of the Republican era, and achieved outstanding results.
Now he has won this song (Coun Ting Sta). It can be said that he has taken most of the most famous songs in the Republican era, which is worse than Menglong and Adele.
Cao Xuan also realized his mistake and could not kill them all. He decided that this song would be his last song in the republican era of Xinjiang... maybe.
Cao Xuan went back to take stock of his inventory before making up his mind!
(Coun Ting Sta) has a tender and passionate melody. It can be said to be a pop-style rock song. It has a good rhythm in the chorus and has a good ability to mobilize emotions.
The lyrics of this song are also very meaningful. It is more of a reflection on some things in life. We should not pursue fame and wealth excessively. After going through difficulties and hardships, we must face the future more bravely and live after death.
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Or you can also paraphrase Nietzsche’s saying: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.
Generally speaking, "Coun Ting Sta" is a relatively inspirational song, and it is also the main theme of Cao Xuan's album. There is always no shortage of love songs and chicken soup.
Some North American independent singers even criticized him because of this, believing that the reason why Cao Xuan's album is popular is because the songs please the mainstream and have no ideas of their own.
Cao Xuan treated this statement as a jealous monster.
Just kidding, he is a Chinese and it is difficult to get along in North America. He can only sing a few anti-war and peace songs to express his connotation, write straightforward music to mock the authorities, and just wait to be targeted.
Besides, he didn’t see many North American musicians who dared to criticize American society.
Except for a very few who are admirable and really hard-core, the vast majority of so-called independent singers’ music works are nonsense, shameless, and even spread a lot of negative energy thoughts.
The songs on Cao Xuan's album at least include many songs that encourage people to be positive.
The music of these monsters is quite unique, but I don’t know how many American teenagers have become addicted to tea.
That is to say, in the United States, Cao Xuan is too lazy to care. If he were in China, he would have to find a way to ban these people.
When he, Vice Chairman Cao, was joking...
After "Coun Ting Sta" was released, its performance was also very good. In the first week, it ranked 13th on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.
Although it is much worse than "Hello", there are still a few songs that can reach the runner-up spot on the Billboard singles chart.
Ranked at number 13, it is very likely to reach the top ten of the singles chart. For many first-line singers, this is a pretty good result.
However, the overwhelming performance of 2006's "Legend" was so violent that many people couldn't help but have high expectations for Cao Xuan's new album.
Two songs hit the charts, one stayed at the top for 2 weeks and the other was ranked thirteenth. Even a top diva like Britney had to laugh out loud and gasp.
Many people just don’t think it’s true. You can’t go to the Chinese camp that amazed North America three years ago.
Until the beginning of October, the new album "Qing" was officially released. In the first week, a total of 6 songs were listed on the Billboard Hot 100.
Strong list.
Among them, 5 songs entered the top 25, and 3 songs entered the top ten.
"Coun Ting Sta", which was previously on the list, jumped from thirteenth to eighth, and "Hello", which had been champion for two weeks, dropped one place and became the runner-up.
The winner was no outsider, it was the first title song of Cao Xuan's new album, which was borrowed from Boss Huang's "Shape of Lure".
This song with a fresh and moving melody is refreshing to listen to. The revised lyrics are not as obscene as the original version, and are a bit more hazy and sweet.
Coupled with the crazy momentum of the previous two songs, not only did Cao Xuan's number of singles exceed double digits, but also Cao Xuan made up for the regret of the previous "Hello" and successfully completed the first week of being ranked first on the Billboard singles chart.
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You must know that Billboard has decades of history. As of October 2009, there were only 16 number one singles on Billboard in the first week.
There is no doubt that this is another achievement that can be recorded in the history of Billboard.
Seeing this new achievement and the series of Cao Xuan's names on the bulletin board, many people couldn't help but nod.
This is right!
There are not 5 songs on the Billboard chart, why are you so embarrassed to call me the Magician of Oriental Music?
Cao Xuan himself said, "Hey guys, you are so crazy, why don't you come and compete in the rankings."
However, "Qing" did perform well enough, with not only good news on the bulletin boards, but also considerable offline physical and online digital sales.
When Cao Xuan flew to the United States, the upper limit for albums was almost 10 days. The number of offline physical albums in North America had exceeded 1 million, and the number of digital albums was 800,000. The number of the latter has even begun to significantly exceed that of physical albums.
With the booming development of digital music in recent years, the International Phonographic Association has officially included digital album or single sales in singer sales data.
Billboard also lists digital sales as sales data to calculate rankings, and is even now beginning to discuss introducing song streaming into the list calculation formula of [radio play volume + album/single sales].
What everyone must admit is that the trend of digital music is unstoppable and the era of streaming media is coming...
But this has nothing to do with Cao Xuan. He plans to have only one pure English album in the future. Maybe he will bid farewell to the music industry before the official arrival of streaming media.
Cao Xuan, who did not bother to worry about his future, took part in various promotional activities for the album under the arrangement of Warner.
On October 20, Cao Xuan appeared on the famous American program "Late Night with Conan".
Conan O'Brien, the host whose name is the same as that of the Grim Reaper primary school student, is a well-known American comedian, talk show host and television program producer.
Cao Xuan and he are old acquaintances. Careful calculation shows that this is the fourth time Cao Xuan has participated in the Conan show.
The program layout of "Late Night Conan" is not much different from most American talk shows, and it is not even much different from domestic talk shows.
The host and guests sat on the left and right respectively, and everyone chatted casually according to some script outlines that had been discussed.
"Cao, long time no see."
"haven't seen you for a long time."
Cao Xuan came on stage, took his seat amidst the applause of the audience, and greeted the host Conan familiarly.
Conan looked at the generous Cao Xuan and sighed with emotion: "I remember when you first came to my show, you were not well-known in the United States at that time. I kept you talking about Jack Cheng, and now you have become
The object of discussion by many celebrities and even the idol of many young singers."
"I'm not 40 years old yet, don't separate me from young singers."
Cao Xuan made a joke, and then followed Conan's words and recalled the original scene.
"Actually, I wasn't familiar with my eldest brother, Jack Cheng, at that time, and I didn't even talk to him much at that time.
But when you asked, I was too embarrassed to say that I wasn’t familiar with him. Fortunately, we were all talking about his movies at the time, otherwise the whole story would have been revealed by asking about him and me."
Conan nodded repeatedly: "I heard from Jack Cheng. He said that you are very smart and cunning. How is your relationship now?"
"Very good. Now if you ask us about interesting things, I can tell you about them for two hours at a stretch."
"Haha, I remembered what you said, now let's talk about your movies."
Conan is a professional host and will not get too entangled in Cheng Long's topic and quickly moves on to the next topic.
"Your two movies in Hollywood have done well at the box office. Many people say you should come to Hollywood to develop, but I see that you seem to be more willing to focus your career on China."
"Yes."
Cao Xuan answered happily: "I don't want to talk too much about metaphysics. Just from a practical business perspective, Chinese films are in a period of rapid development. This is an emerging and vast market.
I attach great importance to Hollywood and the North American market, and there will be works released in North America in the future, but there is no doubt that Chinese movies are my roots."
No matter what, a foreign artist loves his home market so much that there is nothing wrong with it, and Cao Xuan is not afraid of being picked on by these people.
And Cao Xuan really thinks the same way in his heart. No matter how hard he tries in Hollywood, he can't beat the six giants and major media groups, so he basically has the mentality of making extra money and gaining fame. The most important thing in his heart is the mainland market.
This is a movie market that is expected to grow into the world's largest box office.
Fanxing was already the leader in the industry and had the upper hand. As long as he worked hard, fame and fortune would come like waves. Fei Xuan was so full that he came over to fight with the six giants of Hollywood.
If there was truly fair business competition, Bran wouldn't dare to come and give it a try. Even if he couldn't defeat the six giants, it wouldn't be a problem for a first-tier film company to win.
But Bran is afraid that the old American is not particular. He is doing business. If they impose sanctions, he will knock down all the six giants and swallow them in his stomach. In the end, he will be in vain.
Therefore, no matter how Hollywood develops, Weng Dong will never give up on the domestic film market. The latter is indeed, as he said, the foundation of him and Fanxing.
"Do you think you're an action star?"
"That's right, but I hate people calling me an actor even more."
"Which profession do you hate more, acting or music?"
"Performing, the fun of becoming another person makes me feel lost in it, which is better than the feeling of being on stage."
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Weng Dong talked a lot in "Late Night Cao Xuanxin", about daily life, some thoughts and opinions on career and life, as well as the creative concept of the new album and so on
Finally, they also talked about Michael Jack, who passed away a few months ago. This was also Bran's first public interview to talk about it.
this matter.
"Michael's departure is a loss to the world's pop music scene. It's a pity that he left everyone so early. We had many exchanges and I learned a lot from him, which may benefit me throughout my life.
When I came to the United States this time, I also saw many people making various speculations, questioning and even slandering him. I don't hate this kind of behavior.
There is a saying in China that [the deceased is the greatest], I hope everyone can keep insulting the deceased and let the legend leave quietly."
Taylor asked out of curiosity: "I have a vague question, Jenny (Michael Jackson's sister) once said that you and Michael were close friends and confidants. Will you write a song to commemorate this friendship in the future?"
"Maybe."
Bran did not answer directly, but said: "This person has passed away, and I don't want to be thought that I am using the person who left to increase my popularity.
If there is such a song in the future, it would be best for everyone to listen quietly and feel the emotions in it. If not, even if it is a personal commemoration, I will not explain or introduce it except for the song itself."
Taylor mouthed: "I understand your thoughts, and I'm also looking forward to your new song."
The two chatted for more than half an hour, which exceeded the duration of the abnormal program, but Taylor didn't care. The two chatted happily, and the program's effect satisfied the program team.
After the interview started, Bran sang a song to end the interview and to promote the new album.
"That Girl" is the fourth excellent song on Bran's new album. The title of the song can be translated as "That Girl".
It can also be divided into "that girl" and "hot woman".
The title song of the album released by British singer Olly Morse in 2016 had its best result of being number one in the British music charts. However, this song is very popular on Internet streaming media and can be regarded as a worldwide hit.
The lyrics and melody are not really standard European and American pop love songs. They can even be said to be saliva songs. The advantage is that the melody is beautiful and fresh, and the chorus is easy to sing.
Each of Bran's albums has songs with similar attributes and positioning, but many of the songs have experienced a double-bloom in word-of-mouth popularity, making such songs less prominent.
"There's girlbutllethergetaway
The girl I once loved, I let her pass by
It'sallmyfaultaucolorpthdegotinthemay
My pride is at work. Everything is my fault.
AndI'dbelyingifIsaidImasok
If you say nothing happened, it's just an unexplored lie
A waveutthatgirltheonelletgetaray
That girl we passed by once
The image of Bran playing the guitar and singing softly spread throughout North America on "Late Night with Taylor".
The popularity of "That Girl" soared, and it reached the top five on Billboard the next week, and successfully had Bran's name on 4 of the top ten songs on Billboard.
However, at present, it seems that "That Girl" and "Coun Sta" are unlikely to hit the top singles.
The performance of "Hello" and "Shape of Lure" is so stable. They have won the championship for 4 consecutive weeks, each of the two songs accounts for half, and they have monopolized the first and second place for two consecutive weeks. The stability is simply terrifying.
If it were just one song, there is still the possibility of a dark horse counterattack, but if the two songs are blocked together, the hope of a string of two songs is very small.
As for the last high-quality song "Fire", the Chinese translation of "Fire" has little chance of reaching the top spot.
To be honest, in terms of pure performance, this song can be said to be the worst of the five excellent songs in this album. It does not have very conspicuous data or achievements, but it has good influence, the melody is exciting and passionate, and it is also very suitable.
Sports events.
When the English promotional song for the Beijing Olympics was released, Bran considered using this song, but later felt that "Hall of Fame" was more classic.
After all, it is a single, and it needs to make a name for itself, and there are several songs on the album, so it doesn't matter if the quality is a little weaker.
Before this, Bran had expected the next three songs to take the top spot, but with "Hello" being the winner, Weng Dong was also very satisfied.
And looking at this posture, I'm afraid there will be a fight for a month or two. Although it is not as strong and domineering as (Legend) three years ago, it has not lost his reputation as Chris Cao.
The North American music scene also breathed a sigh of relief. With another song (Lerend), they might lose all their energy.
Although "Qing" now knocks everyone to the ground and beats them up, at least it doesn't have the helpless, almost suffocating despair of three years ago.
There are even American media taking the lead, talking about China's Cao Cao's "magical halo disappearing" and that he is slowly becoming "outstanding".
Unfortunately, the two songs "Shape of Temptation" (Hello) still dominate the Billboard Conan Show charts. The two songs jointly topped the charts for a whole month.
The album "Qing" also topped the Billboard album chart for two weeks.
The sales volume of physical and digital albums in North America for most of the month has been close to 3 million. Counting sales in Asia and Europe, it is expected to reach 5 million.
With such an achievement, there were still people who made accusations. The media was almost sprayed to death by Bran's foreign fans. Even Fan Xuan, who was accompanied by many other singers, was too angry to attack him.
Just kidding, Bran's data is so "outstanding", who is their current singer?
Waste?
But even so, the magnanimous Cao Tianwang still took out a small book and wrote it down for these media.
Waiting for the next pure English album, I have to put together 10 excellent songs to create a "Legend" album, so that they can see what true "outstanding" means.
The success of the new album was surprisingly smooth, which made Weng Dong's promotional tour a lot more stressful. He also had time to have a meal with his apprentice Cao Xuan.
Cao Xuan's performance this year was outstanding, and he even reached the runner-up spot on Billboard's Conan Show, and almost got his first Billboard No. 1 single in his career.
However, with this runner-up finish, he will have a better chance of winning the championship next time. Bran also specially asked Cao Xuan to send him some demos of next year's new album, intending to help polish it.
Having been in the music industry for many years, Bran may not have the ability to create independently. After all, this stuff is more about talent, but his music theory literacy and professional vision are definitely at the top level in the industry.
And although he is not good at independent creation, he is good at adapting songs, so he will definitely have no problem helping Cao Xuan find out and fill in the gaps.
If he really didn't have any real skills, Bran wouldn't dare to be called master. He would have shown his timidity a long time ago. If he can open his mouth to teach a talented singer like Cao Xuan, he is naturally confident.
After staying in the United States for two weeks, Weng Dong watched the "Qing" album fall in love and kill each other.
In the seventh week on the album's list, "Hello" defeated "Shape of Lure", which had topped the list for three consecutive weeks, and also won the top spot for three weeks.
The two songs have become really popular and have enhanced each other's influence. At one time, it was like the boss and the second brother were fighting, and the third brother was killed by his help. The dominance of the two songs will not be threatened in a short time.
As long as his family won the championship, no song would be good for Bran. He watched the infighting drama happily, and Bran took a plane back to China.
Several days after the filming of "Let the Bullets Fly" started, Bran, the villain, was still not in place. The impatient Jiang kept calling to urge him...
