Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 399 Pre-sale Results
While Wu Zhuo was busy rehearsing, pre-sales for his upcoming concert, titled "Shining Globally," had already begun in April.

In each country and region, the company has partnered with reputable local organizers to handle ticket sales.

Originally, HIM International Music planned 37 concerts, involving nearly a million people and tickets.

With so many tickets, they won't be sold out until at least before the concert starts.

HIM International Music and Sony Music even prepared for the possibility that the concert might not sell out in some regions.

But what actually happened was beyond everyone's expectations.

As of December 25.

In just one month, all the tickets for Wu Zhuo's concert were sold out.

Yes, it's sold out.

All 106 million tickets were sold out.

Of course, many of these tickets were actually bought by scalpers.

That's how scalpers operate; whichever singer is popular, they'll hoard large quantities of that singer's concert tickets.

Then they sold them to fans at a high price.

Unfortunately, the record companies couldn't do anything about it.

At this stage, online ticketing is not yet feasible.

If you don't rely on scalpers, you simply can't distribute tickets offline.

That might seem like overestimating scalpers.

But that's the way it is.

Without scalpers all over the country and even the world, it would be really hard for singers' concerts to sell tickets.

There's even a saying in the music industry.

You can tell how popular a singer is by whether there are scalpers hoarding tickets for their concerts.

This is no joke.

A singer whose concert tickets are so popular that even scalpers are unwilling to buy them.

Then, record companies, you'd better cut your losses as soon as possible.

Because scalpers know best whether you're popular in the market.

Scalpers know better than the singers themselves which concert tickets are in demand and which are not.

In fact, when Wu Zhuo announced the start of his global tour and even revealed that most of the shows would be held overseas, many domestic media outlets and so-called experts were pessimistic about his future.

“I believe Wu Zhuo’s songs have a good reputation abroad, but I think he has taken too big a step with this tour.”

If it were me, I would first try to test the market and see if foreign fans would accept my concert.

Wu Zhuo is preparing so many events right now, some of which even have a capacity of tens of thousands of people.

This behavior could very well cause the organizers to lose everything.

"Wu Zhuo is still too young. People in Europe and America have absolutely no interest in concerts by Asians."

Wu Zhuo was probably blinded by the media's praise and couldn't see the situation clearly.

I had the privilege of seeing a Japanese international singer in the UK before.

The other party is quite famous and has won many awards.

However, the concert they held in the UK had fewer than three thousand attendees.

……

In any case, these statements all boil down to one thing.

That means Wu Zhuo is holding concerts abroad, and such a large tour at that, with tens of thousands of people attending.

This is unreasonable.

Because they simply didn't believe that Wu Zhuo could have such a strong box office appeal for his concerts.

These comments became incredibly popular online when Wu Zhuo's tour tickets went on pre-sale.

Even many viewers felt that what he said made sense.

Many of Wu Zhuo's fans left messages on his blog because of these comments, telling him not to hold concerts abroad, but to hold more concerts in China, and that they would support him to prevent the concerts from being a flop.

And on May 25th.

When news broke that all tickets for Wu Zhuo's world tour were sold out, the entire internet erupted in excitement. "No way! Is Wu Zhuo really that popular overseas?"

"I always thought the media was exaggerating."

"Wu Zhuozhen has truly brought honor to the Chinese people. He's probably the first person to hold such a large-scale tour abroad!"

"Let me tell you this: a friend of mine abroad told me that tickets for Wu Zhuo's concert in the United States are extremely hard to come by, with front-row seats going up to $1300 each. Even so, many people still can't buy tickets."

Many fans overseas are already requesting additional shows.

"Yes, I've lived abroad. Wu Zhuo is really popular overseas. I ran into him at the airport once."

You can hardly imagine how many fans were at the airport to greet him.

The scene was much more spectacular than anything we see in China.

"Domestically, Wu Zhuo hasn't been overhyped this time."

In fact, they didn't report on many things.

For example, Wu Zhuo's new album has already sold 1500 million copies last month.

She is the most popular singer in the world.

His songs, such as "Baby," are very popular all over the world.

A Canadian kid named Justin Bieber even became an internet sensation by covering Wu Zhuo's song, and was subsequently signed by a record company.

To be honest, Wu Zhuo was also quite helpless.

Other singers can easily be reported as popular abroad by the media, and audiences will naively believe it.

But when it came to him, not only did the media report it this way, but even CCTV specially sent a team abroad to film his popular scenes and then broadcast them on CCTV's Channel 7.

But as a result, many people in China still don't believe he's very popular abroad.

However, this doesn't actually affect Wu Zhuo at all.

The domestic and international operating models are two separate systems and do not overlap.

Aside from increasing his status, it will have no other impact on him.

Even their status will no longer be affected.

Because most domestic celebrities already know that Wu Zhuo is very popular abroad.

It's just that the average viewer doesn't quite believe it yet.

……

The news that Wu Zhuo's tour tickets were sold out has caused a great stir online.

Offline, Wu Zhuo didn't pay much attention to it.

In early June, he briefly stopped his concert rehearsals and joined the cast of the film "The Founding of a Republic".

He was the only actor from Taiwan to join the cast.

He played Chiang Ching-kuo in it.

However, he is the only actor from Taiwan.

But the lineup for this project is by no means small.

A host of big-name actors from mainland China and Hong Kong have joined the cast.

Including Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, and a host of other big names.

In fact, he almost missed out on the role of Wu Zhuo.

According to the production team, all the main roles were originally intended to be played by actors from mainland China.

Hong Kong and Taiwanese actors only made cameo appearances.

Finally, Han Sanping personally made the decision, allowing Wu Zhuo to continue playing the role.

However, although Wu Zhuo's character is listed high in the cast.

But in reality, he didn't have many scenes.

This is, after all, an ensemble film, and he finished filming his few minutes of screen time in less than a day.

Because he was busy rehearsing for the concert, he didn't stay long after filming. After saying goodbye to his acquaintances in the crew, he went back to prepare for the concert.

(End of this chapter)