The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 173 goodbye happiness
"It was originally estimated that around 18 unfiltered downloads would secure the top spot, and the fan club's initial plan was based on this data.

"However, those controversies attracted a lot of passers-by to the venue, and a large number of Chinese and Asian people were stimulated to buy it. There should also be a lot of domestic netizens who came out to buy it. So, although the fan club only bought 10, the final unfiltered sales volume also reached 25.

“If the subsequent competitors are not too strong, the money saved in the first week can at least help us maintain the championship for one to two more weeks.

"The first week's data is confusing, and there are sites that don't follow the action and call on passers-by to download from the official website, so it's hard to say what the specific effective rate is."

Sun Man reported on the first week's battle situation and then asked.

“Are you going to tell the label everything?”

"Just tell him we can last about ten weeks."

Xu Xing said.

"Ten consecutive championships?"

Sun Man's eyes lit up.

"It shouldn't be that simple."

Xu Xing shook his head.

……

"I have warned Scooter. If he does it again, I will make him pay the price. We welcome free competition, but there must be boundaries."

Interscope CEO John Janick said seriously.

After getting the information that Xu Xing could support ten weeks of downloads, he sighed in his heart at the organization of Chinese fans, and felt that he should also express his support to Xu Xing.

"next time."

Xu Xing repeated it with a smile.

Meaning, forget it this time.

Perhaps hearing the sarcasm in Xu Xing's tone, John added further explanation.

"You know Sexy, I'm under a lot of pressure. Scooter is just the one who was stupid enough to take action directly. There are many big names in this circle who think that Asians and Chinese people are not born to create music.

“But I told them that the surge in listening volume in Asia on streaming platforms such as Spotify and AM means you are helping the music industry expand its influence in Asia.

"I tried hard to convince them that "Shape of You" would be a great work written in music history by Asian musicians."

Sexy refers to Xu Xing. Originally, Xu Xing introduced the name Xing as Lucky.

This nickname spread in Europe and the United States after Xu Xing's team issued a counterattack denial of plagiarism and Spotify re-listed "Shape of You".

There is a very famous YouTuber who introduced in her latest video the cross-language meme that Xu Xing's "Xing" has the same pronunciation as the Chinese translation of "sexy". She also claimed that Xu Xing's Chinese fans often call him "Sexy god".

——A friend of the Billboard bar posted a message to show off that he was the one who introduced it to the up-loader.

At the beginning of the video, she played a clip of Justin Timberlake's hit dance song "Sexyback" to celebrate Xu Xing's "return of the king". She also imitated JT's classic black bar and shaved head single cover and photoshopped a similar photo of Xu Xing as the video cover.

The video itself was of very entertaining quality, and coupled with the extremely high attention paid to "Shape of You", this meme quickly became popular online in Europe and the United States as the song became a hit.

When I met John today, he jokingly suggested that Xu Xing should just change her name to Sexy.

John was really annoyed with Scooter.

"Shape of you" received over 25 downloads last week!

The song was a worldwide success.

He originally thought that Scooter was just so bored that it hurt, but it could also increase the popularity of the song and stimulate Xu Xing's fans to spend more money to buy downloads.

Unexpectedly, the other party actually wanted to expel Xu Xing from the United States.

But no matter how angry he was, he couldn't really do anything to Scooter, so he could only warn him. The other party had offended many people in the music industry, but he was still very successful in the circle.

Moreover, Xu Xing easily defeated Scooter's attack and directly named him, making the other party lose face. It also caused JB to have more controversy for discriminating against Asians, which can be considered as paying back.

The encouragement to remove songs also made Spotify’s management begin to dislike Scooter.

Scooter only owns a small portion of Spotify's shares, but Xu Xing's "Shape of You" has increased Spotify's new members in Asia by more than 200 million in just one week!

——Spotify issued a long press release today touting the huge influence of "Shape of You", which is also a small compensation for the song it had previously removed from its shelves.

After the fight with Scooter, many European and American music fans began to think that Xu Xing is quite unique.

Before, Xu Xing was only labeled as an Asian in the European and American circles, which was really boring. Now Xu Xing has at least won the love of fans who hate Scooter. Some American fans tweeted that Xu Xing would not force them to watch the funny horse dance, but was making music seriously. Many people agreed with her below.

Xu Xing did not comment on what John said, but just shrugged and told him that she did not like the nickname "sexy".

John had no choice but to apologize, then changed the subject and started asking about Xu Xing's album plans.

He knew that Xu Xing would return to China to film in a month, and would spend the next six months on the crew.

But "Shape of You" was a huge hit beyond expectations, and it would have been a shame not to take the opportunity to release an album to make some money.

It doesn't matter if Xu Xing is too busy to write songs. Intetscope is still a first-tier label, and it can find the best musicians in the industry to make an entire album for Xu Xing, and Xu Xing only needs to be responsible for recording the vocals.

But Xu Xing still shook his head.

“I haven’t even released an album in Chinese.”

It takes too much energy to make a good album. As long as you don't release an album, you can always be the king of singles.

"You don't have any plans to come to the United States to develop next year?" John said incredulously, "You have already made history for the Chinese! You can definitely achieve extraordinary success in the United States!"

"This week I received endorsement offers from more than 200 advertisers, but except for multinational companies that want to expand their influence in China, none of them are from the United States.

“Even if I come to the United States to develop next year, in two or five years, the best endorsements will still only come to me because of the Chinese market. So the focus of my career will only be in China.

"We are now in the best possible way of cooperation, John. I am very grateful to Interscope for helping me promote my music. If I tell you seriously that I will focus on developing in the United States and I want to dominate the American music scene, you will probably just laugh."

Xu Xing was not overwhelmed by the results.

I just stocked up some popular songs in advance.

John, who was about to laugh out loud with a smile on his face, immediately put away his smile out of embarrassment.

"Well," John sighed, "you're being sincere."

In terms of input-output ratio, it might be a thankless task for Xu Xingzhen to release an English album.

...Anyway, with the fame that Xu Xing has created, many Asians have approached Interscope to make albums.

The leeks of those people's fans can also be harvested.

……

Return to the villa.

Xu Xing found Zhang Junning on the balcony, who was looking at the starry sky outside the window.

She was barefoot and wearing a long white skirt, which, along with her hair, fluttered in the night wind.

Last night she said that since Xu Xing had won the championship, it was time for her to leave.

Xu Xing will also be returning to China soon to record a program.

Zhang Junning was wearing headphones, so she waited until Xu Xing walked over to her before she came to her senses.

After seeing Xu Xing, Zhang Junning smiled, took off her headphones and was about to say something when Xu Xing took the headphones.

Xu Xing put on headphones.

【So goodbye happiness，何も知らずにはしゃいでた，あの瀻へはもう戻れないね，それでもいいの……】

"Goodbye Happiness" was the song that Utada Hikaru sang when she temporarily left the music scene.

Xu Xing looked at her.

She looked at Xu Xing and spoke a few words.

Xu Xing understood, but still shook his head and hugged her in his arms.

Zhang Junning raised her head helplessly and took the initiative to kiss Xu Xing.

Then Xu Xing put the headphones back on her and let her listen to this light but sad song, while holding on to the railing on the balcony, she entered the communication mode.

Although Teacher Zhang is very ordinary, she is from an island province and studied law...Xu Xing likes her very much.

　Just because I have played this song many times recently and I like it very much, so I recommend it.

(End of this chapter)