Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 409 The Terrifying Concert Box Office Revenue

Compared to other singers, Wu Zhuo has always had a much easier time producing albums.

After all, copying songs doesn't require that much effort.

If it were any other singer, they would have started preparing for their new album at least last year.

Collecting songs and arranging them.

Even singers like Jay Chou, who write their own songs, will try to dedicate as much time as possible to their music because they need time to write songs.

Unlike Wu Zhuo, who not only releases albums but also acts in movies.

He happens to act in several films a year.

When he first started acting in movies, there was a lot of talk online saying that he wanted to do everything and might end up doing nothing well...

However, the production of this year's album was relatively more complicated.

Because Wu Zhuo travels all over the world.

Therefore, he needs to constantly change recording studios.

Today I might record a song in Canada, a few days later I'll be in Los Angeles, USA, and a few days after that, I'll be in New York.

This constant switching of recording studios for recording songs would be common in various countries if Wu Zhuo's records weren't profitable, and if Sony weren't so influential.

If they were to switch singers and record companies, the recording and production costs alone would likely be enormous.

Time flows by like water, rushing on and on.

Before we knew it, it was already mid-December.

With Wu Zhuo finishing his last concert here in the UK.

His tour, which lasted for nearly half a year, has officially come to an end.

Wu Zhuo had just returned to China after finishing his concert tour and hadn't even had a proper rest when news from a domestic statistics agency about his concert revenue caused a huge uproar in the media both in China and across Asia, like a meteorite falling into the sea.

Why did it cause such a big stir?

The reason is that Wu Zhuo's concert revenue is truly terrifying.

It's so terrifying that anyone who sees the news can't help but gasp in shock.

This year, Wu Zhuo will have a total of 37 concerts.

The total number of participants was approximately 110 million.

The average ticket price is 465 RMB.

The concert ticket sales alone amounted to 5.11 million RMB.

Including other miscellaneous revenue streams, this concert tour generated a staggering 9.35 million RMB.

Wu Zhuo will personally receive approximately 2.6 million yuan of this money.

2.6 million. Most people might think that celebrities make money, and Wu Zhuo is so popular, so it's perfectly reasonable for him to have so much income.

In fact, Wu Zhuo is doing very well in the country.

But his income is staggering, far exceeding that of other artists who are considered to be on the same level by outsiders.

To make a simple comparison, consider Jay Chou, one of the top singers in China.

They also held concerts between last year and this year.

His concert revenue was NT$2.3 million, which is equivalent to RMB 4800 million.

It's unbelievable that top-tier singers in China have such a huge income gap.

As a result, a census was quickly launched online.

Some knowledgeable individuals have shared their accurate understanding of this matter online.

"As I said before, domestic audiences are still unaware of how popular Wu Zhuo is overseas."

People only focus on the fact that Jay Chou and Wu Zhuo are both top singers in China, so why is Wu Zhuo's concert income so high?

However, no one really understands the difference between the two.

Here are some explanations.

First of all, although both are top singers in China, Wu Zhuo and Jay Chou are very different.

Jay Chou's songs are very popular in the country, but it is difficult for them to go global.

Unlike Wu Zhuo, although he has also been developing his career in China in recent years, his focus has long been on the global stage. He has considerable influence in Southeast Asia and Europe and America.

This can be seen from the fact that Wu Zhuo's albums always include songs in languages ​​such as English, Japanese, and Korean.

The overseas concert market is generally much larger than the domestic market.

Just like Wu Zhuo's concert series, he only had seven shows in China.

All other matches are held overseas, with the most in North America, totaling ten matches.

The ticket prices for these concerts abroad are completely different from those in China.

I know that the average price of Wu Zhuo's concert tickets abroad is $170.

And that's only one aspect.

Another aspect is the number of people.

Due to venue limitations, Jay Chou's concerts in China typically have a maximum attendance of 10,000 people per show.

But Wu Zhuo is different; some performance venues abroad are very large.

From what I understand, Wu Zhuoguang's concerts in Japan attracted around 6.5 attendees per show.

It's higher in North America.

Therefore, it is perfectly normal that Wu Zhuo held 37 concerts, but his concerts attracted millions of attendees.

As for Jay Chou, he obviously cannot reach that number at present.

"Yes, currently, apart from Wu Zhuo, there shouldn't be anyone in China who can reach that level."

With the explanations of some knowledgeable people, everyone finally understood why Wu Zhuo's concert income was so high.

Even so, the news that Wu Zhuo's concert revenue reached 2.6 million yuan was still frequently mentioned in China and Southeast Asia.

There's no way around it; the revenue from this concert is unparalleled in Southeast Asia.

Among current Southeast Asian singers, even those from Japan, which is known as the music center of Asia, have not achieved this level of success.

In fact, the media reports had no impact on Wu Zhuo.

However, because this matter has spread so widely online.

This led to his friends calling one by one to ask for the truth.

"Wu Zhuo, did you really earn 2.6 million from this concert tour?"

The first person to call was Jay Chou.

Jay Chou's concert revenue was already among the top in China, and he was still feeling smug about it not long ago, thinking that his concert ticket sales should be in a class of their own.

Unexpectedly, in such a short time, Wu Zhuo showed him what it meant to make big money.

"The media is talking nonsense, don't listen to them."

"I knew it! How could this be..."

“My revenue sharing model with the record company and the organizer is not what they say. In fact, my income is much higher. The actual revenue from this round of concerts should be around 3 million.”

"Get out of here..."

Before Wu Zhuo could finish speaking, Jay Chou on the other end of the phone hung up.

Besides Jay Chou, Wang Leehom, JJ Lin, and others also called Wu Zhuo.

Among them, Wang Leehom kept inquiring about how Wu Zhuo became popular overseas.

He was envious of Wu Zhuo's treatment abroad and wanted to try to break into the international music scene and become an international singer.

However, Wu Zhuo had little experience with this.

There are two reasons why he became popular internationally.

One is the record company's tireless promotion.

And most importantly, his songs are widely sung; his English songs were already wildly popular in his previous life.

The accumulation of a large number of classic songs is what made him stand out internationally.

Otherwise, he might not have been able to make a name for himself internationally with just one or two songs.

In fact, without a large number of good songs to back him up, foreigners might not even buy into his music.

(End of this chapter)