Huayu: Starting from the top talent show

Chapter 291 All Added Up Are Not Enough
20:30 Eastern Time.

Shen Juan packed up and prepared to leave.

"It would be nice if you could stay in New York a few more days."

"I can't help it. There is still a lot of work waiting for me to deal with in China. After all, you know I won't be based in the United States permanently."

"All right."

If we say that before Shen Juan came to New York, Taylor's attitude towards him was that of a senior with curiosity and appreciation for a junior, he thought that maybe he could take this opportunity to make friends with some juniors with great potential and leave behind a good reputation of being willing to support juniors.

But after Shen Juan came to New York, the relationship completely changed to one of equal status and respect.

The feeling and experience Shen Juan gave her today was even more shocking and amazing than when she met Boss Huang in England!
They are equally young, equally gifted and talented, but they came into the public eye and entered the mainstream earlier.

Moreover, Shen Juan's music style is more versatile and he can handle more types of music. Needless to say, his singing ability and production level are also higher.

It's like he has mastered all the martial arts in the world. His attainments in music production are far beyond his age level.

So when they said goodbye formally, Taylor Swift gave him another warm hug that came from the heart.

“Alex, you are a really nice person. Today’s cooperation process was really pleasant and wonderful. I hope we can still communicate about music creation in a relaxed and happy manner like today in the future.”

"Taylor, you're a great person too!" Shen Juan gave him a nice guy card in return, then smiled and said, "I believe there will be many more opportunities like today in the future."

Although he did help Taylor change a lot of things today and greatly improved her album,

But to put it bluntly, he was just returning Taylor's own things to their original owners. At most, it greatly shortened the time to check for omissions and make up for the deficiencies, allowing her to get the finished product right at the beginning.

In this case, naturally one would not take too much credit.

Of course this did not prevent Taylor from giving the credit to Shen Juan and earnestly saying that he owed him a favor.

After all, in her opinion, Shen Juan is both powerful and humble, and is a model of a high-quality Sigma man.

So owing favors to others is actually a good thing.

Because favors are borrowed and returned in this way, the two people will have more exchanges and at the same time their relationship will be closer, thus establishing a more solid and reliable friendship.

For Shen Juan, building a good relationship with Taylor, the current top star and future "number one female star" will be of great benefit to his future development and income generation in the United States.

As an outsider, and an outsider from outside China who is likely to suffer losses in media opinion, if you want to open up the US market as much as possible and gain more attention and love from fans, then you must make yourself intersect and connect with this land and the people on this land.

Because only in this way can a wider range of ordinary people find a sense of affinity and identification with him, and further increase the possibility of becoming his fans or music lovers.

Unlike Anne Hathaway, whose established personality is too different from her actual image and actions, she is not as popular as her older cousin who takes the "true nature" approach.

Therefore, Shen Juan established connections with many well-known North American musicians, including Malone, through music.

Later, as her popularity grew and her status rose, she had direct contact with two top singers, Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift.

It can only be said that it was not until this time that he could be considered to have truly entered the core circle of the North American pop music scene.

His career in North America is booming.

On the way to JFK International Airport.

Shen Juan was finally able to calm down and carefully review the performance report of his Chinese album "Weixia" on the first day of its release.

The digital album, priced at 30 yuan per copy, went on sale simultaneously on multiple platforms including Penguin at 12:28 on December 0.

In 1 minute, sales exceeded 4000 million.

In 24 hours, sales exceeded 1.3 million.

A total of more than four million digital albums have been sold.

This is much more terrifying than the first-day sales of 7000 million for Shen Juan’s first English album “Underrated”.

Take this year’s digital album sales ranking as an example:
Previously ranked first was "Dream in the Rain Forest" released by Zhang Yixing in October.

In order to boost his statistics, this guy used every possible means to urge his fans to spend money, and in the end he even put the payment QR code on the big screen at the press conference, asking fans to pay on the spot. As a result, despite all these fancy moves, he only sold one million tickets, with total sales of less than 3000 million.

Ranked second is the idol boy group Nine Percent launched by Taoyuan Studio. Their new album released in November sold 1400 copies, with sales of million.

The third place is Kris's English album "Antares", which caused controversy due to chart manipulation, with cumulative sales of 47.

Because fans had already switched to the US IP to boost sales in the US, the total domestic sales did not even exceed 10 million.

The total sales of the top three are only around 50 million.

This means that the first-day sales of Shen Juan's new album are more than twice the total of the top three, which is no longer something that can be simply described by the word "gap".

Even if there is a fracture, it can't be broken to this extent!
The English major was sold for several hundred million yuan in total.

The Japanese EP also sold over 100 million.

Now the Chinese album sells 1.3 million on the first day.

I'll throw you Rem!
No wonder he doesn’t accept endorsements for fast-moving consumer goods, no wonder he doesn’t start a trendy brand to reap fans, it turns out he just doesn’t care about those trivial things!

And this 1.3 million is just the pure album revenue.

Add to that the streaming media which accounts for the majority, and other miscellaneous supplementary profits, it’s hard to imagine how high Shen Juan’s pure music income will be this year.

Looking across the country, perhaps only Jay Chou can compete with Shen Juan in terms of music income.

So it is really hard not to make many senior capital executives in the domestic entertainment industry and other traffic and singer colleagues feel shocked and envious.

Ali: It seems we have to speed up the negotiations with ByteDance and strive to invest in Lehua as soon as possible to bring Shen Juan under our umbrella.

Taochang: This is the international top star that our Taochang rap program has cultivated! I want to ask if you have such an international top star? It is really international!
Tencent: Why can't we cultivate artists like Shen Juan? We have a lot of talent shows, right?

Mango TV: The first person who suggested that Shen Juan replace Liu Xianhua as a permanent guest on "Longing for Life" is truly a genius!

Blue Channel: Running Man will have a major change in MC next year, can we try to invite Shen Juan? Even if he doesn't have time to stay, it would be good to come and support the ratings for one episode.

Zhang Yixing: No way. The sales of the top ten Chinese digital albums this year added up to just over four million. You sold over four million on the first day, so what are we going to do?

Wu Jiaheng: He was born in 98, I can’t beat him.

Wang Jiaer: Brother Juan, fly without worry, Jiaer will always be with you.

Cai Xukun: Brother Juan has made the fan circle cake so big now, and I can also get a bigger piece of the cake. Those BYD drivers who turned their backs on us after eating everything are real swords. Don’t they know who is the driver and who is the passenger?
David Tao: He has reached the forefront of the times.

Jay Chou: First of all, I am not jealous. Anyway, I personally feel that Shen Juan’s achievements in Chinese music are far behind me. Although his sales data is indeed very good, it only shows that he is very popular, and it does not show how good his album is. I emphasize again: 1.3 million a day is not bad, I am not jealous.

Waizuigai: This is my brother!

Guli Nazha: This is my idol!
Hua Chenyu: His music is too commercial and lacks its own characteristics. I don’t really like musicians like him.

Because Mango TV’s New Year’s Eve concert this year is scheduled to be held in Guangzhou, and there are no direct flights from New York to Guangzhou.

So Shen Juan had to take a Singapore Airlines flight to Singapore first, and then transfer to Guangzhou.

After nearly nineteen hours of flight, Shen Juan landed safely at Singapore Changi Airport at six in the morning local time.

"Guangzhou will have white clouds and light rain during the day, with a maximum temperature of 10°C and a minimum temperature of 4°C."

In the Singapore Airlines VIP lounge at Terminal 3 of Changi Airport, the assistant was eating breakfast while checking the news on his mobile phone.

They would be catching a direct flight to Guangzhou at 8 o'clock, so there was no need for them to leave the airport and find a place to rest.

"It's OK. The lowest temperature is about the same as the highest temperature in New York. It's not too cold."

Shen Juan was also eating the shrimp dumplings and fish ball noodle soup provided free of charge in the Singapore Airlines lounge to fill his stomach. The taste was okay and suited to Asian tastes.

"Hey, how do your shrimp dumplings taste?" Yang Yang Jin was eating a sandwich, but she thought it tasted just average.

"It's OK, but I don't have the final say. You can only know how it tastes after you taste it yourself."

As he said that, Shen Juan picked up his chopsticks and picked up a shrimp dumpling and put it towards Yang Yangjin's mouth. "Come on, open your mouth."

Yang Yangjin was a little embarrassed, "I can do it myself."

"You're shy?"

"I'm not shy!"

"Then open your mouth."

"This action is too intimate. Usually only couples or lovers with a very close relationship would feed each other."

Having said that, under Shen Juan's serious and gentle gaze, Yang Yangjin still put on a helpless attitude as if there was nothing he could do to her, and opened his mouth obediently, allowing Shen Juan to feed him his big shrimp dumplings, filling his mouth full.

“In fact, parents often feed their children.”

"You want to be my dad?" Yang Yangjin was a little dissatisfied.

"You want to be my daughter?" Shen Juan asked with a smile.

"In no mood!"

"Is that so? But you also said that only couples and lovers feed each other." Shen Juan took out a tissue and gently wiped the corners of the mouth of the manager sister who looked particularly serious and stiff at the moment. Then he blinked at her and asked innocently, "So, are we a couple or a lover?"

Not daring to look directly at this flawless handsome face, Yang Yangjin lowered his head in a panic and subconsciously focused his eyes on the half-eaten sandwich in his hand. After a moment of silence, he tried to keep his voice as calm and steady as possible: "Did you get the title of the world's most handsome man with this scumbag appearance?"

"World's first commander? When?"

Yangyangjin swallowed and said, "It was just yesterday."

"Let me see." Shen Juan immediately broke away from the ambiguous atmosphere and smoothly switched to spectator mode.

The feeling of sudden entry and quick withdrawal made Yang Yangjin feel dazed and unsatisfied, but she couldn't do anything about Shen Juan. She couldn't just pull his arm and say loudly, "You can't just come and go as you please!"
So I could only watch with a resentful look on my face as he took out his cell phone and enthusiastically read the news comments.

"They were named the top 2018 most handsome men in the world in 10. The first place is unsurprising. Do you agree?"

This year's top ten are:
Shen Juan, Aquaman Jason Momoa, BTS Jeon Jungkook, Idris Elba, a Swedish internet celebrity, BTS Kim Taehyung, Mende, a Brazilian mixed-race supermodel, an Italian model, and "Soldier Boy" Jensen Ackles.

Although this kind of list has no authority and relies entirely on fan voting, hundreds of similar rankings emerge almost every year to harvest fan traffic and netizen attention.

However, the "World's Most Handsome Faces" organized by TC Candle is the largest ranking with the most voting participants, so it is still worth talking about when fans are bored.

What's more, Shen Juan is the first Chinese to top the list since its inception, so he naturally attracted a lot of attention and discussion from the outside world. Even Le Hua used the title of "the world's most handsome man" in recent marketing to help Shen Juan promote his newly released Chinese album "Weisha".

[The consistency of appearance, temperament and inner superiority, the charm of such a person is naturally self-evident. I think I am lucky to be slept with such a man. 】

Shen Juan’s inner thoughts: That depends on whether the fish is good-looking enough, because my fish pond is limited in appearance and I can’t raise all kinds of fish.

[This is the official list, folks. The value of TC Candle is not comparable to those fake lists.]

Ever since Jiang Tao was able to rank third on the main list, Shen Juan no longer had any expectations for the value of this list.

[Is this the world's chief commander who is called by foreigners as "God created the world, and the world created Shen Juan to give back to God"? 】

【Last year, the top coach in the world was Kim Taehyung. I feel like he is not at the same level as me. The South Koreans are so different.】

[V is handsome, but unfortunately his opponent is Shen Juan. ]

It is known that Shen Juan>BTS, and Kim Taehyung<BTS, so Shen Juan>>Kim Taehyung.

The value of the law that 1 Chinese man > 7 Korean men is still rising!

【Neighboring South Korea also recognized this year's ranking. 】

[Some sour chickens say that this list is ranked by popularity, then thank you for admitting that my Shen Juan is the top in the world! ]

Shen Juan's votes this year are indeed far ahead of second place Jason Momoa and third place Jeon Jungkook.

After all, he has never lost in his life when it comes to popularity voting.

Whether it is the very first "Star Asia" or the subsequent "Produce 202" and "Hip Hop China", he is the undisputed popular king in the show!

[Whose husband will this handsome guy be? ]

[He should be the husband of many people. 】

[Be careful not to be caught by Tian Jie's fans if you say that. They like to patrol and put your ID in their anti-black group to gather people to beat you to death! ]

[Are Tian Jie’s fans so cruel? ]

[I hope you understand why the rice is steamed. 】

Just when Shen Juan was about to take screenshots of these comments and send them to Xiaotian, Yang Yangjin, who had finally calmed down, started talking to him about work again.

"I'll briefly tell you about my work arrangements after the New Year's Day holiday. On the 9th, I will be shooting Xiaomi's official endorsement materials in Beijing. In order to accommodate your schedule, Xiaomi has simply moved up the launch time of the new model by one month, so you have to attend the Xiaomi 30 press conference in Beijing on the 9th of next month."

"I'm fine." Thank you Mr. Lei for your trust.

"Then we stayed in Beijing on the 10th to shoot the cover of the February issue of Harper's Bazaar, attended Sina Weibo Night on the 11th, and flew to Paris on the 17th to attend Louis Vuitton's 2019 Fall/Winter Men's Fashion Show. We also shot the new season global advertising for Louis Vuitton and Yves Saint Laurent and the cover of the March issue of French VOGUE in Paris."

Shen Juan’s current position is actually very special.

There are many singers and artists at his level who don’t have such a good image and fashion temperament as him, such as Bieber Taylor.

Artists with outstanding fashion temperament do not have such high global fame as him, such as those supermodels.

Therefore, LV and the LVMH Group behind LV now attach great importance to Shen Juan and are eager to feed all resources to him, and then use his fame and influence to stimulate LV's sales growth globally, especially in East Asia.

"I suddenly remembered something. I took leave and missed so many classes this year. The school should not have failed me, right?" Shen Juan has not been to school this semester, which is even worse than last year.

"You didn't fail in your freshman and sophomore years, so how could you still fail now that you're a junior?" Yang Yangjin glanced at Shen Juan and thought that the image of a world-famous pop star like him worrying about failing a course due to absence was a bit abstract and funny.

"And you have to consider that some rules and regulations only apply to ordinary artists, but they don't apply to you."

Shen Juan smiled and shrugged, "So I have become the most privileged person in the domestic entertainment industry!"

Yangyang Jin nodded slightly: "To use your fans' words, because you are worthy, your current value and significance that is gradually transcending that of an artist deserves the relevant departments to give you the green light."

"It's good to go through the back door. I like to go through the back door."

Yangyang Jin took a sip of coffee and continued, "And there is one last thing. Didn't you prepare any new songs for this year's Spring Festival Gala? So they plan to have you and Cheng Long on the same stage. In a sense, it can be regarded as the inheritance of the old and new torches."

"What inheritance? Brother Cheng Long hasn't retired yet! He's still making movies without a break."

To be honest, Shen Juan has never really liked things like inheritance, representation and leadership. At this stage he just wants to do his best, but there are always people who want him to represent China, and there are always people who want him to shout slogans, which puts him under a lot of pressure.

"Why do you care so much? The higher-ups have given you so many privileges, and you're not even willing to cooperate with them?"

Shen Juan chuckled and said, "It's just talk."

Not to mention anything else, if it weren't for the help from above to suppress it, the news of him being a sea king and raising fish would have been exposed long ago.

Although he really doesn't care, his scumbag personality doesn't affect his success overseas, and his overseas popularity is the cornerstone for him to establish a transcendent status in the domestic entertainment industry.

But just because he doesn't care doesn't mean that Xiaotian, Xiaoye, Xiaoxiao and the other fish fry in the pond don't care.

After all, they are just ordinary people now, and it is impossible for ordinary people to be completely unaffected by public opinion.

So even though Shen Juan said that he didn't care about scandals and other people's teasing and insults, he still didn't dare to make these things public and be a scumbag.

Because most of the fry are very fragile.

It needs to be cared for with care.

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　　I am busy with daily work on Monday, so I will make up for the 1k words I owe later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)