708 The first stop of the farewell concert, debut at Wembley
England, London, Wembley Stadium
The home stadium of the England national team and the venue for England's domestic cup finals, it was built in 1923 and rebuilt in 2007. It is the largest stadium in Europe, with a capacity of 90,000 people, and its peak capacity is 120,000 people.
In addition to football games, this stadium is also a venue for concerts by many superstars and super groups, the more famous ones include Queen, The Beatles, The Spice Girls, etc.
The most out-of-the-box concert held here was Michael Jackson's "Awesome" concert in 1988.
There were seven concerts in total, with an average audience of more than 70,000 at each concert, and the final total audience exceeded 500,000, setting a Guinness World Record.
Now, the first European stop of Cao Xuan's farewell concert is also scheduled to be the largest stadium in Europe, with an audience of 80,000.
Due to the development of the Internet, Cao Xuan has canceled offline ticket sales for most of Cao Xuan's concerts. For example, during this trip to Europe, more than 90% of the tickets were sold on several ticketing websites.
All 75,000 tickets for the Wembley online concert were sold out in less than four hours.
Among them, we also need to include nearly 20 minutes of maintenance time due to too many users logging in to the website, causing the website to be down.
The following three Cao Xuan concerts in the UK accumulated 140,000 tickets. Although the sales speed was not as exaggerated as this time, all the tickets were sold out quickly.
The British media "The Sun" spoke highly of Cao Xuan's influence.
"The only ticket sales that can compare with Cao Xuan's speed are the double red clubs of Manchester United and Liverpool and the England national team against the German team."
In order to prove that what he said is true, "The Sun" even revealed the record of Manchester United's home ticket sales for the Double Red Club on December 14, 2014.
Under the premise of a large number of season tickets, the online tickets for the Double Red Club sold out even slower than Cao Xuan's concert.
Although there is no comparison between the two sides, and there is no need to fight over who sells tickets faster, this example also more intuitively reflects Cao Xuan’s influence in the UK.
It was dusk, and there was still some time before the concert started, but a large number of fans had already gathered outside the stadium.
There are also many people who don’t have tickets, holding up pieces of paper saying “asking for votes with a lot of money” in their hands, looking for scalpers or people selling tickets for some reason.
In the northeastern part of the stadium, there was an Asian young man holding a selfie stick and shouting excitedly into his mobile phone.
"Dear friends, I am the anchor Sunshine Boy. Behind me is Wembley Stadium. Just two days ago, Chelsea just defeated Tottenham 2-0 and won the EFL Cup at this stadium."
The barrage in the live broadcast room on the mobile phone suddenly had a small climax.
[Blues fans strutting past]
[Arsenal fans like it]
[It means~The host’s name is so disgusting]
[Mourinho is awesome]
[Tottenham fans said they were shot innocently]
[???Tottenham actually has fans]
[Did the anchor go to the game? Envy]
[What is Chelsea? Isn’t this a live broadcast of Cao Xuan’s concert?]
【……】
The barrages are messy and messy, and they refresh quickly. Sunshine Boy has to take care of his selfie stick and lens, so he can't see all the barrages clearly.
However, the continuous number of comments and the rising popularity displayed in the live broadcast room all told him how popular this live broadcast was.
This made Sunshine Boy very excited, and he chatted for a while. After the popularity of the live broadcast room increased again, he talked about the draft he had prepared a long time ago.
"I've been a fan of Cao Xuan for ten years. I remember when I was in the second grade of junior high school in 2004, I started to like Cao Xuan's songs. I would buy every album and even listened to many songs hundreds of times.
During the high school entrance examination, college entrance examination, and when I was at a low point in my job just after graduating from college, Cao Xuan's songs were my spiritual food, accompanying and encouraging me to get through the difficulties again and again.
At that time, I made a wish that I would attend Cao Xuan's concert once in my lifetime.
During the global tour in 2007, I was still in high school and had no money or ability to go to the concert. Now Cao Xuan holds a farewell concert, which has become my last chance.
During the Spring Festival last year, I quit my job and used all my savings to prepare for a dream-chasing journey. When Cao Xuan held his global farewell concert, I followed Cao Xuan's footsteps as much as possible and listened to most of his performances.
Yes, whether it is Europe, America or Africa.
In order to commemorate this crazy experience and also want to alleviate the financial pressure, I will broadcast the entire dream pursuit process on Douyu Live.
Today is the first of Cao Xuan’s farewell concert, and also the first stop of my dream-chasing journey. Please stay tuned..."
Sunshine Boy's confession aroused countless barrages, including those who supported and encouraged him, but also many who ridiculed him.
[It’s good to fight for your dreams and wishes]
[If you are not crazy, you will be old. If you are young, you will be "crazy".]
【Envy, I want to go too】
[Air tickets, hotels, concert tickets, this is not a small expense, you still have money]
[Chasing stars and chasing demons is so confusing, it’s great to buy a house and a car with this money, but today’s young people really don’t understand it]
[I don’t think it’s a waste of my own savings, so I don’t think it’s a big deal. There is such a thing in my ordinary life, and when I look back on it in my later years, my life has not been in vain]
[Yes, Zifei Yuan knows the joy of fish. You don’t have to understand it, but there is no need to ridicule it]
[I am also a fan of Cao Xuan, so I understand him. The anchor is chasing dreams, and it is also the last time to bid farewell to his departed youth. I don’t have the courage to risk everything like the anchor, but I will definitely go to a domestic concert. I hope to go there.
You can meet the anchor and have a drink together]
[You’re stupid, the anchor is just doing a gimmick to make a lot of money live. I really thought he was pursuing his dream]
[If you use conspiracy theories about everything, your life must be boring. Can’t you believe that there are some beautiful things in the world?]
[The anchor is only in his 20s, and he probably doesn’t have a family, so he will just treat it as a loss in business + take a year off to find a job and start over]
[Come on, anchor, small things mean no respect＊Rockets×2]
[I don’t care about the rest, I don’t have the chance to go abroad. I hope the host will stick to it and take us to experience Cao Xuan’s overseas concert * Airplane × 1]
【Ignore them and interview those fans＊Yacht×1】
【……】
The noisy and numerous barrage dazzled Sunshine Boy, but he did not take the ridicule and negative barrage to heart.
From the moment he decided to start the live broadcast, he was prepared for it. He directly skipped the voices he didn't want to watch, thanked the live broadcast viewers for their support and encouragement and gave gifts, and then followed the requests of the sponsor and some viewers.
Randomly interviewed a few fans waiting to enter the venue.
If you dare to go abroad to watch a concert alone, Sunshine Boy will naturally be proficient in English.
He even majored in foreign languages, was proficient in English, and knew a little bit of French and Arabic. After graduation, he also worked in foreign trade for several years and had rich experience in dealing with foreigners.
Although he is a novice anchor, he is not embarrassed at all. He directly stops people and asks if they want to interview. After receiving permission, he immediately talks to people enthusiastically.
A few years later, he will be a typical social arrogant person...
"Hello, I'm from China. Are you Cao's fans?"
"Of course, we all are."
Sunshine Boy is self-taught and knows very well what is the peak traffic point. The two fans who stopped him were good-looking British girls. As expected, he saw the barrage in the live broadcast room increase dramatically.
One of the British girls with a few freckles on her face was particularly excited when she learned that the Sunshine Boys were from China and were broadcasting live to China.
"Everyone, thank you (Chinese). My name is Susan and she is Lily. We like China, Cao's songs and movies."
Sunshine Boy asked: "Is Cao Xuan very popular in the UK?"
"He is the most famous foreign singer in the UK and a world superstar. There are many fans of his in our school, but we couldn't get tickets for Cao's concert. We are both very lucky."
"He is very handsome, full of the charm of a mature man and Eastern mystery. He is very popular among British girls."
The two girls chatted non-stop. Susan was obviously more like a fan, talking about the songs and Cao Xuan's influence in the UK. The brown-eyed Lily was more like a beauty fan, and she was full of compliments.
Cao Xuan is handsome and has a good temperament.
Sunshine Boy conducted one-on-one interviews while translating the conversations between the two parties for the audience in the live broadcast room.
The vast majority of the audience cannot understand the English dialogue. If they do not translate in real time, then there is no need for the live broadcast.
In addition to his own translation, some viewers also translated popular science in the barrage.
At the same time, Sunshine Boy also said that he will make a refined version of the clip for the live broadcast and send it to Weibo and other online platforms, and will add subtitles at that time.
Before the concert started, Sunshine Boy held interviews with more than a dozen audience members, including even a British scalper.
Through his translation of the interview, the audience in the live broadcast room intuitively felt Cao Xuan's popularity in the UK.
【What is a world-class superstar】
[Awesome, you have so many foreign fans, you must be the first in China]
【Asia’s first person】
[In addition to British fans, there are also German, Serbian, Moroccan, and an Egyptian. It’s an international people’s celebration]
[The anchor’s English is good, but he should look for less men and more girls]
[There are many female fans of Cao Zei abroad, ah ah, I wish I could replace them with my own body]
[That young woman just now was so big... no, she was so beautiful, so cute]
[Entering the venue, entering the venue]
【……】
While the interview was going on, the time was almost up at Wembley Stadium, and tickets were announced for entry. The Sunshine Boy temporarily took off his cell phone and secretly broadcast live.
Cao Xuan's concerts have formal broadcast platforms, such as the domestic copyright holder is Penguin Star Video.
Some important performances of this global concert will be online on the website. Most of them are recorded and broadcast, and a few of them are live broadcasts, satellite transmissions, with clear picture and sound quality, and shooting from multiple angles.
Because of this, in principle, fans and audience members of Cao Xuan's concerts are prohibited from bringing photography equipment to shoot the concert scenes and programs, let alone live broadcasts on the Internet.
But having said that, nowadays, with the reach of smartphone networks and tens of thousands of spectators at the scene, it is difficult to supervise.
So in most cases, we just turn a blind eye. As long as the noise is not excessive, it will not affect the official, and no one will stop it.
More importantly, for concerts and ball games like this, tens of thousands of people are crowded into a stadium, and each person has a mobile phone. The telecommunications facilities on site cannot support it at all. It is normal for the mobile phone signal network to be stuck or even disappear.
Even if there are places where mobile phones can use some functions normally, it is still quite difficult to live broadcast on mobile phones for a long time.
After Sunshine Boy sneaked in, he was lucky. The location not only had a wide field of view, but also had a good signal strength. In addition, he brought some instruments with him. After adjusting for a while, although the live broadcast room was a bit laggy, he could still manage to hold on to the live broadcast.
Come down.
"call…"
The sunshine boy breathed a sigh of relief. Although his luck would not always be so good, this time he had a bad start and wasted the momentum he had accumulated before.
However, he also began to think that if the subsequent live broadcast did not go well, he would change it to a mobile phone to shoot in the venue, and then cut it into a Vlog video to see if he could monetize the advertising + traffic.
This was something he had planned before, with live broadcast as the main focus and video as the supplement. However, the current situation may have to be reversed.
Sunshine Boy interacted with the audience in the live broadcast room and introduced the layout of the concert venue.
In the oval-shaped stadium, one of the stands on the wide side has been transformed into a stage, and there are two huge display screens on the upper side.
The other three stands are all auditoriums, and the lawn in the middle is also densely packed with fans. 80,000 people packed the entire Wembley to capacity.
Sunshine Boy deliberately pointed his cell phone at all the fans slowly. They were so densely packed and crowded that they looked extremely shocked.
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Sunshine Boy was very excited and shouted into the live broadcast room: "This is Cao Xuan's concert, an international concert by the world's top singers."
[Damn, it’s so sour]
[You can’t see it from the outside, but when you enter the venue, it’s really spectacular.]
【How much is the ticket price】
[The anchor just introduced that he grabbed the tickets himself and did not buy scalpers. The location is not the best, it is above average. The ticket price is 75 pounds, plus miscellaneous expenses, it is about 90 pounds, which is RMB 850+]
[Hey, dear, it’s so expensive]
[This price is not bad, some domestic singers are even better]
[The ticket prices for Cao Xuan’s 2007 concert were not too exorbitant. Prices in the UK are on the high side. It may be cheaper in China, but it’s hard to say. The schedule should be fixed. I’m afraid I won’t be able to grab tickets when the time comes.]
[Buddha bless, Thief Cao must come to Chengdu, even if he skips class, he must come to see it]
【Hangzhou +1】
[Su City +1, I bribed the counselor]
【……】
Despite the lively discussion on the barrage, Sunshine Boy no longer paid attention to the live broadcast room at this time.
As time entered the countdown, the venue lights dimmed, bunches of fireworks shot into the sky from the stage, the brilliant lights began to flash at the venue, countless balloons slowly fell from above Wembley, and the prelude of Cao Xuan's classic song "Numb" sounded.
In the colorful Wembley Stadium with fireworks, lights, balloons, Cao Xuan slowly walked onto the stage, and his low and slightly rough voice echoed throughout the stadium.
“I'm tired of being what you wao be
I'm tired of chasing what you ask for all day long
Feeling so faithless lost uhe surface
That feeling is so hypocritical and I lose myself
…”
When the 80,000 people at the scene saw the familiar face on the big screen, cheers and applause resounded throughout almost half of London.
The Sunshine Boy, who had been calm and gentle just now, no longer suppressed his inner emotions due to the fiery atmosphere at the scene. He danced his hands crazily, cheered and roared loudly at Cao Xuan, venting all his emotions.
