"I'm still the same boy as before, nothing has changed..."
Cao Xuan was driving the car, occasionally looking at the rearview mirror with a smile. Cao Li was sitting in the back seat with his younger brother, humming and shaking his head, just going back and forth with a few refrains, and the rest of them couldn't remember the lyrics, so they could only blindly sing.
Hum hum.
The song "Youth" has had a greater impact than Cao Xuan imagined.
The first is its popularity. The impressive and learned songs made this song popular all over the Internet and in the streets in a short period of time.
Even Cao Li and his school had many children singing along, and Cao Li asked Cao Xuan, the original singer, to tutor him personally.
Another reason for its popularity is the meaning of the song itself.
As the title song of Cao Xuan's closing album, the lyrics of "Youth" are very close to Cao Xuan's thoughts, and have also aroused the nostalgia and nostalgia of many fans.
Weibo even launched the "My Story with Cao Xuan" event, attracting a large number of Cao Xuan's fans and passers-by who have favorable impressions to tell about their "social interactions" with Cao Xuan over the years.
There are some very sincere confessions among them. Cao Xuan himself felt sore after reading a few of them.
Cao Xuan always likes to write songs using the word "young man", and has countless masterpieces.
The more representative ones include "Proud Boy", "Young China Talk", "You Were a Boy", etc. Although they are all named after "Youth", the meanings of the lyrics are mostly different.
The song "Youth" is not of the highest quality among them, but it writes about Cao Xuan's own state of mind and expresses his aspirations in song.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo Reading recently to catch up on books, change sources, and read aloud with many sounds, and it can be used on both Android and Apple.]
Especially at this moment, the song has gained a three-point halo, and a song with a score of 75 has become a score of 120...
After more than ten years in the music industry, Cao Xuan knew that he had always been extremely popular, but he still underestimated his influence, and also underestimated what his announcement of retirement would mean to the outside world and his fans.
The previous noise and turmoil was just brewing, after the first chart-topping song "Cao Xuan" appeared.
The volcano begins to erupt!
On December 18, Cao Xuan's Chinese fan club officially announced that it would launch a series of promotional and support activities for Cao Xuan's last album.
The first support event was for "Youth". They called on Cao Xuan fans to upload videos of themselves singing "Youth" + [favorite Cao Xuan songs] on Weibo and other platforms to spontaneously build momentum for the song and album.
In the beginning, although this event was officially run by the Chinese Cao Xuan fan group, there were actually many stars behind it.
This is also normal. As mentioned before, many official fan groups of Cao Xuan and even Fanxing artists have Fanxing's participation and operation, or even direct management.
It is certainly impossible for Fanxing to watch this kind of organization of support activities. Many of the planning and event arrangements are even done internally by Fanxing, and they also help promote it through Penguin and Fanxing media channels.
It's the same this time, jointly formulated by the Fanxing Cao Xuan team and some big fans of the fan club.
There have been similar activities before, but this time it was because of Cao Xuan's retirement, and the momentum was even greater.
But even so, they did not expect that this event would become popular all over the world.
At first in China, this event quickly gained momentum under the publicity and momentum of Fanxing Resources, and there were many people who responded. Soon the number of uploaded videos every day increased from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands.
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For the event held on December 18, the number of videos uploaded to the entire network platform exceeded 1 million+ on the 22nd.
This data has greatly satisfied Fanxing's previous publicity plan, but I didn't expect that this was just the beginning.
Because of the huge momentum of the domestic Internet, media from other countries have also followed suit and reported on it.
In fact, Fanxing also contacted fan groups in other countries to participate in this event.
But after all, "Youth" is a Chinese song, so the main battlefield is in China. Fan groups from other countries just arranged some die-hard fans to wave the flag and cheer, without making too much noise.
Unexpectedly, the media created such a sensation. Many foreign fans thought this event was very good, and they also wanted to follow the trend, so they took pictures and uploaded them on their own Internet.
Originally it was only available in East Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, but soon spread throughout Asia, and then was transmitted to Europe and the United States through external networks.
It must be noted that many of these people are just following the trend to join in the fun, just like when Douyin videos became popular later, a large group of people followed the trend and filmed them.
But there are also a large number of Cao Xuan fans who participate sincerely. Many foreign fans learned the Chinese lyrics of "Youth" and contributed to Cao Xuan's last album.
It's actually easy to tell whether you are a fan of Cao Xuan. You may not be able to sing "Youth" in Chinese well, but your favorite Cao Xuan song later on will definitely be sung more skillfully and more melodiously.
Being able to sing Cao Xuan's songs skillfully and melodiously will make people favor him even if he is not a fan.
The sudden popularity of "Youth" on the Internet was something no one expected.
Videos of foreigners struggling to sing "Youth" were also transmitted back to China via the Internet. While netizens were laughing and laughing, they were also deeply shocked by Cao Xuan's international influence.
As of the end of December, the number of videos participating in this event worldwide has exceeded 10 million, and this number is still rising rapidly.
Thanks to this popular style, "Youth" also became a global hit.
It has appeared on charts in more than 40 countries around the world, including the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 24.
Cao Xuan is killing everyone on the Billboard, winning the championship for dozens of weeks, but this is the first time a Chinese song is among them.
Of course, there were great surprises and special reasons, which were enough to make Cao Xuan happy and the domestic media crazy and excited.
The title of "Light of Chinese" was slapped on the head of "Youth"!
"Youth", which originally had gimmicks and a special aura, has added countless filters. It may not be ranked first among Cao Xuan's songs in terms of quality, but it is definitely one of the songs with the greatest influence.
During this period, Cao Xuan's two other chart-topping songs, "Xiaochou" and "Love is Gone", were also released one after another.
Riding on the momentum of "Youth", the former became the second most popular song in China, while the latter appeared in the top 20 of the Billboard in its first week.
Cao Xuan's album pre-sale volume also accumulated an astonishing 4 million copies before the album was released at the end of December.
4 million pictures!
What kind of concept is this? In the current market situation, many popular international singers only have this much sales data for their entire albums. However, this is only Cao Xuan's pre-sale volume.
A well-known marketing account on Weibo made a rare push!
This year, several players terminated their contracts and returned to China. Teammates Huang Zitao and Lu Han also chose to return to China to develop their careers. They are known as the four returning players. They are very popular and aim at the top.
A group of fans also followed suit, with the attitude that Cao Zhou is old and a newcomer is on his way.
But this time he is telling everyone that Cao Xuan is Cao Xuan. As long as he is in the entertainment industry for one day, others will automatically be in a lower bracket.
The so-called ceiling of other artists is that they can only reach that place, but Cao Xuan's ceiling is himself.
This statement was taken seriously by many netizens, and they also mocked the new fans who have been jumping around in the past two years. Only Cao Xuan couldn't laugh or cry when he learned about it.
It has been almost 20 years since I debuted, and now I am still being used to suppress the younger generation. Isn’t this bullying of newcomers?
What, there is an "international friend" who was sentenced to 13 years in it, so that's fine...
