Chen Feng's English album "The Sound of Silence" has a total of 10 songs. It can be said that each one is a classic, and the main style is folk songs. It contains nine familiar lyrical ballads from the original time and space, only one of which is not jazz rock.
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The title song is the "Sound of Silence" with the same name as the album. In its original time and space, even after more than half a century, it is still a very listenable classic song and is still very popular. This is the charm of classic music.
The remaining eight ballads were also carefully selected by Chen Feng from the music library of the original time and space, and they are all classics. And that jazz rock song is also a representative work of a legendary band that has won many honors. Even in the original time and space, even in the past
It has been sung for decades and remains popular.
Therefore, Chen Feng is not worried at all about the performance of his album. Therefore, the printing volume of the first edition was as high as 3 million copies.
When he made this decision, Trelawen and Lisa were opposed to it, but after Chen Feng asked them to listen to the ten songs of his album, they no longer objected. And they all
I am very fond of this album of his.
Chen Feng doesn't care much about publicity, but they all care about it very much. This is not to flatter his boss, but they all know that after this album is released, it will be a hit sooner or later. But
They want to sell more based on the big sales.
Trelawen even suggested that the second edition of the album be printed immediately after the official release day, and at least 2 million additional records would be produced.
Otherwise, when Chen Feng's album becomes popular, 3 million copies will not be enough to sell. It may not be enough in North America alone, let alone other countries and regions.
From the beginning, Chen Feng planned to take a global route with this album, not only in North America, but also in Europe and Asia. Of course, the record market in Tang State is very important, because Chen Feng was already a well-known person in Tang State.
A big star, his first album in the Tang Dynasty is still selling well, and the number of fans and fans is very large.
However, Chen Feng was a little more cautious and said that he would wait for a week after the album was sold before deciding whether to reprint it immediately.
The result was that his album of English songs was already running out of sales within just three days of its release.
The reason is very simple. The quality of his album is too high. Not only the songs themselves are of high quality, but Chen Feng, the singer, can perform every song perfectly because of his singing proficiency.
So long as people with normal ears buy this album and listen to the songs on the album, they will immediately become obsessed with it and have to play it on loop all day long.
Of course? The reason why it sells so quickly? In addition to this reason, it is also because of the US$5 million in publicity expenses invested by the Beauty Beauty Company.
Advertisements on TV and broadcasts on radio stations are the two biggest reasons.
The TV station invested almost 3 million US dollars in promotional funds, including only a ten-second album promotion advertisement. The content of the advertisement was very simple. It was a singing clip of the chorus of "The Sound of Silence" plus a narration: Chen Feng's "
The "Sound of Silence" album is now on the market, welcome to listen and purchase.
It will be broadcast 10 times a day on three U.S. television networks for a month.
The radio station's promotional expenses were much cheaper? It only cost more than one million U.S. dollars. The main purpose was to get the more popular radio channels to play the songs from the "Sound of Silence" album.
Do these TV channels also have requirements for the number of plays per day? They are all written into the contract. Of course, there are also private cooperations that are not written into the contract. That is to pay those radio DJs and let them play the album songs of a certain singer. This kind of comparison
Save time and money. Many well-known singer companies do this.
In other words, the way that the United States provides money privately to help a singer sell records and hit the charts is already semi-public.
And in many cases, the propaganda effect of radio stations is no worse than that of TV stations. Because the United States is a car kingdom, and basically every driver has the habit of listening to the radio and listening to music while driving.
In addition to these two aspects of publicity strategies? Of course there are also publicity methods on the Internet. The first is on the day of the release of the "Sound of Silence" album, Chen Feng posted it on his personal Twitter and YouTube.
announced.
Then, Tina, Tiffany, Blainey, and Beyoncé, four popular female singers in the United States, all liked and forwarded Chen Feng's tweet and video, calling on their fans to support one or two
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As a result, the news that Boss Tina's personal album was released spread like wildfire on the Internet. Many people went to the music website to listen to it. Then they clicked to pay to download it without hesitation, or even directly purchased the entire digital album.
In fact, as long as people who listened to these ten songs couldn't help but buy the entire digital album, they also purchased the physical album offline.
As a result, the digital album reached an astonishing 1.8 million purchases in just three days. At first glance, this sales volume is completely inferior to Tina and Beyoncé.
But you must know that Chen Feng is a "pure newcomer" in the American music scene. His digital album sales on the first day were only over 200,000, but on the second day, it doubled to more than 500,000. On the third day,
That's almost one million.
The sales of physical albums were even more incredible to many people, including Chen Feng. By the third day, more than 2.4 million copies had been sold.
The sales volume on the first day was only a few hundred thousand copies, but on the second day it strangely increased to more than 800,000 copies, and on the third day it was even more praised as more than 1.4 million copies.
Such a blowout growth can be said to have had a huge impact on the entire American record market, and it even shattered people's glasses.
At first, when many people knew that Tina's boss had released his first album of English songs, and that it featured folk songs, they just treated it as a joke after dinner, and no one thought he would succeed.
Even most people think that Chen Feng is just playing for fun, and the quality of his album should not be very good.
It wasn't until TV commercials came out and radio stations started playing songs from Chen Feng's album that people suddenly realized that his album was of good quality. This time his album should not lose money, and might even make money.
I just didn't expect that the results would be so good, and that the album sales would reach such a terrifying level in just three days.
It's only been three days, and Chen Feng is just a native of Tang Dynasty. Even all the songs in his album have not been filmed yet.
The first online and offline sales of more than 100,000 or 200,000 were considered by many industry insiders to be the album's last single-day sales figure. But the next day, it doubled, or even grew almost geometrically, which was completely overturned.
Everyone’s previous predictions on record sales trends.
In particular, the sales of more than 1.4 million physical records on the third antenna are really exaggerated. After all, he is just a newbie, and there are no special event bonuses, let alone the beautifully crafted MTV assists. That's it.
Suddenly sold out.
If I have to say the reason why this album has such a weird sales situation that it almost skyrockets, I can only say that every song on this album is a classic, you can never tire of listening to it, and the quality is really great.
Although this album only has 10 songs, it is not as good as the albums of most American singers that often have more than a dozen or even twenty or thirty songs, but if you pick one out at random, it can make any album a hit.
Hot-selling super songs and title songs.
Of course, everyone has to admit that Chen Feng, a native of the Tang Dynasty, is somewhat handsome and his singing skills are very good.
In the previous song "Love the Way You Lie", which was a collaboration with Tina and is still in the top ten of the B-chart, Chen Feng was responsible for the rap by himself, but it really didn't show how good his singing skills were.
But now the ten songs in this album can fully prove that his singing skills are very good, and every song is performed by him with full emotion and emotion, which is very powerful.
By the fourth day, all the major entertainment media had to start paying attention to Chen Feng, a foreign singer. Many media published reports on the hot sales of his new album in the entertainment section.
Among them, the one who praised the "Sound of Silence" album the most was the Los Angeles Times. This is a relatively influential newspaper in the United States. It published an article titled "American Music Scene" on the headline of the entertainment section.
Earthquake, He's Coming" signed article, which writes that as Tina's boss, Chen Feng, a musical genius who has always been underestimated by everyone, has now caused a stir in the American music scene with his first solo album of English songs.
Earthquake. Many local singers who released albums at the same time were left disgraced and vulnerable in front of his sincere album, which can be called a music classic.
Finally, this writer also boldly predicted that Chen Feng may become the future king of pop songs in the American music scene. And with the nine folk songs in his album, he has basically established himself as the king of folk songs in the American music scene.
status. The previous folk songs that were originally considered classics were obviously inferior to his nine folk songs.
The two most miserable local well-known folk singers were two days before and one day after Chen Feng's album was released. Originally they were full of confidence in their folk albums, and they began to promote their songs on major radio stations, even across the United States.
Tour concerts, book signings and promotions.
Then when the self-titled album "The Sound of Silence" came out, all their folk songs were immediately reduced to rubbish.
Such a ready-made comparison is too cruel and cruel for these two folk singers.
If you have not heard the nine folk songs in "The Sound of Silence", many people will agree that the songs in the new albums of these two well-known folk singers are still good to listen to.
Just wait until you listen to Chen Feng's nine ballads before listening to their ballads. It feels like eating boiled noodles after eating delicacies from the mountains and seas. The difference and gap between the two is really obvious.
It can only be said that these two folk singers are really very unlucky. The first one is pretty good, at least it was released two days ahead of Chen Feng's side. The combined sales volume in the first two days was more than 700,000 copies, which is good for their folk songs.
For a singer, this result is quite good.
But on the third day, Chen Feng's folk album was released, and his album sold only a few hundred thousand in a single day.
The second day was released a day later than Chen Feng, and the sales were even worse. On the first day, there were still hundreds of thousands of sales, but on the second day, there were only tens of thousands. So much so that the folk singer gave up on it.
All the promotional activities for the album. Because it is obvious that there can be no better results.
But the first folk singer was very unwilling. After all, the sales in the first two days were quite good, and he wanted to try to save it.
But obviously the effect is not great. Compared with the nine folk songs in Chen Feng's album, the quality of his folk songs seems too poor. Except for some die-hard fans who can buy his album, other fans have no idea.
Those in doubt will choose "The Sound of Silence".
The folk singer had never heard of Chen Feng's album at first, and he tried to get the company and team behind it to smear Chen Feng. However, when his suggestion was put forward, he was immediately opposed.
He couldn't understand it at first, until his manager got him an album of "Sounds of Silence" and played it to him, and he just sat there motionless for a long time like a dementia.
It wasn't until his manager pushed him to wake up that he sighed quietly and commented sincerely: "He is a genius, I am not as good as him."
Then the well-known folk singer, who was hit hard, also gave up the promotion of his new album.
Other folk singers who were originally going to release new albums in the near future have chosen to postpone their albums.
Even singers from other genres have postponed the release of their new albums due to the strong impact of Chen Feng's album.
Not to mention, the purchasing power of fans and music lovers is limited. Just look at the current horrifying sales situation of "Sound of Silence" and the praise of this album by countless fans, music critics, and media. If they release a new album in the near future,
How can the album be so popular?
Everyone is paying attention to "The Sound of Silence", who would be interested in other records of the same period.
It has to be said that these singers who delayed the release of their albums were wiser.
Because on the fourth day after the release of "The Sound of Silence", the B-list was finally updated, and then all five songs from Chen Feng's album landed in the top ten of the Billboard singles chart. The best result was the album's song of the same name, "The Sound of Silence"
"Voice", directly parachuted to the championship, the other two songs "Five Hundred Miles" were ranked 2nd, "Every Breath You Take" was parachuted to 4th, "I Swear" was ranked 5th, and "Country Road Take Me Home" was ranked 4th.
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What is more interesting is that the third place is the song "Love the Way You Lie" by Beyoncé and Chen Feng.
In the history of this time and space, it is not that there are no songs that have topped the Billboard singles chart, and there are more than a dozen songs so far, but the five songs that debuted at once are all from the same album, and they are all sung by the same singer.
first.
In other words, Chen Feng made history.
This situation is unique in the history of the American music scene. It can be seen from this that everyone loves Chen Feng's album.