The battle for traffic in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 184 The fight is over

5 month 11 day.

Xu Xing took leave from the crew again and went to Las Vegas, USA to attend the Billboard Music Awards.

That is the official awards ceremony held by Billboard.

BMA, AMA (American Music Awards), Grammy and a VMA for music videos are some of the most famous awards in the American pop music industry.

Among them, the Grammy Awards have the highest gold content and are also the most closed.

BMA mainly looks at the results of the B chart, highlighting that as long as you come, you can get a prize. It has a variety of titles and takes care of every famous singer who attends.

Xu Xing also won an award this time. Although "Love Yourself" was officially released in the United States in January this year and the three English singles will participate in the BMA next year, she was still scheduled to win the International Pop Musician Award.

——Xu Xing specifically asked Interscope to confirm that she could go on stage to receive the award before she agreed to accept it, otherwise she would not want it.

However, even if BMA does not give Xu Xing the award, Xu Xing still has to come and perform, mainly to give face to Billboard officials.

After all, the authorities had already given face to Xu Xing by promoting the two songs on the charts, which was tantamount to turning a blind eye.

The world is so big, but the official one is the biggest on someone else’s list.

In his previous life, after Chris Wu ranked 18rd on the B chart with "Like That" in May 5, he felt that he had mastered the code to topping the charts. When he released his album in November, he toppled the charts even more.

Then he was named in an official statement by B List, saying that they would review his sales.

In the end, the album was sold directly to 100 people.

The atmosphere was relaxed throughout the award ceremony and all the guests present were very excited.

Unlike the Grammys, at this kind of award ceremony, no one cares about gain or loss; the whole thing is just a pure music party.

When Xu Xing went on stage to perform, the singers in the audience were also very excited, and everyone in the front row sang along.

When they sang “Oh i oh i oh i…”, the whole audience sang along.

The quality of "Shape of You" itself means that Xu Xing is qualified to enjoy the cheers at this moment.

In addition, Scooter also arranged for BTS to attend this year's BMA, and they were nominated for the Best Social Award...

It’s actually almost the same as Zhang Jie going to receive the Grammy Award.

Then BTS also came to take a photo with Heo Xing, and I don’t know if it was instructed.

Xu Xing also chatted with them for a while. BTS debuted in 2013, and at that time Xu Xing had just been a trainee at SM for a year.

If Heo Xing was now a member of SM's new boy group NCT, in South Korea's entertainment culture, they would still be called seniors, but now it was the captain of BTS who took the initiative to call Heo Xing senior.

...Maybe it’s calculated based on the time of debut in the United States?

After BMA ended, Xu Xing politely attended the after party and then boarded a plane to Los Angeles.

The latest issue of the list will be announced soon. This is the first issue of the list after the B list modified the rules. Everyone is paying attention to whether the Latin singer's "Take It Slowly" can knock the Chinese singer's "Shape" off the top of the list.

——The quality of the single and Interscope’s contribution made the B chart so respectable, allowing Xu Xing to still be the champion when she participated in the BMA.

"Everyone has noticed the skyrocketing order statistics from your official website from Nielsen. It is now generally believed that even if we lose the championship for a week, your Asian team can still help us regain the top spot next week."

John smiled very happily.

I knew they wouldn't cut the official website now, now Interscope is back to its glory days!

What is rare is that Xu Xing himself is not a selfish person.

The label had previously signed a new singer named Billie Eilish. Xu Xing also expressed her appreciation for her music and invited her to collaborate on a remix of "Shape of You".

A singer who takes the initiative to help promote the label.

John recently learned about the Chinese tradition of patriarchy through some strange popular science. This sense of responsibility is something that managers really want to see.

If another big-name singer were to come up with a collaboration, I don’t know how much effort would be put into it.

In order to get Lady Gaga to agree to tweet to promote Xu Xing's "Love Yourself", he almost broke his mouth. If Xu Xing's Asian team can be so powerful in the future, maybe Lady Gaga's agent will take the initiative to ask him to help contact Xu Xing for cooperation next year or the year after.

“But Shape of You has almost reached its peak.”

Xu Xing asked.

There is no need to ask fans to spend too much money on downloads on the official website just to barely keep "Despatico" at the top for a week; that song is going to be the winner anyway.

Before, 100,000 or 200,000 downloads per week was enough.

"..."

John smiled but said nothing.

“I’ll be able to see the data when it comes out.”

Xu Xing shrugged.

"But based on the previous download volume, we can still hold the championship for two weeks."

John spread his hands.

"Including this week?"

Xu Xing asked.

"If you can get it."

John nodded. Xu Xing laughed and gave him a fist bump.

"Thank you, John. We will have more chances to win the singles in the future. Fans are not machines, and their enthusiasm can be overdrawn."

"Okay," John smiled and shook his head, "Look, there's plenty of time later."

……

5 month 13 day.

On the plane that Xu Xing took back to China, the official website of Billboard updated the latest charts.

To everyone's surprise, "Shape of You" still ranks first, winning the championship for the eighth consecutive week!

According to the data released on the official website, after the rules for downloading were modified, the number of downloads of "Shape of You" this week reached 30!
This is the highest number of downloads since the single was released!

It is also the highest record of all songs so far this year!
According to unofficial point calculations, "Shape of You" also reached the highest point this week, even surpassing all the champion singles last year!

Even on Chinese and American social media, groups led by Xu Xing's haters and JB fans respectively seized on the fact that 75% of downloads came from Xu Xing's official website to criticize the official B list for just being a show and not really intending to solve the behavior that disrupts the market order.

But Xu Xing's fans still fought back by using the "fact" that the download volume of "Shape of You" was calculated based on the 22 downloads of "Despacito", and that "Shape of You" was still the champion.

——Based on the same downloads, "Shape of You" is only 10 points ahead of "Despacito".

Yes, overseas Beliebers also officially launched a download rush last week, which caused the download volume of "Despacito" to surge by 120%, but it still did not exceed "Shape of You".

Fortunately, he did not fall down in the face of suppression from the dark capital of the United States!

He's still winning!
As for... that corner that no one cares about, even those who want to care don’t know how to care, the single of the leader Huahua got a good result of 71st place!
Following Xu Xing (Legal Cafe’s “July” was actively filtered), he became the second Chinese singer to get a result on the B chart!

Huahua broke through himself and made history. He proved to everyone that what Xu Xing could do (not everything), he could do too!

How come the only two Chinese singers with B-chart results are not the two prides?

And I haven’t thought about being suppressed or having the rules changed to crack down on me… Never mind, the main thing is that I’m lucky enough to be on the official website that cheats, so Huahua doesn’t have any!

So Huahua really didn’t lose!

In the second most searched topic square, it was full of Martians (Huachenyu fans) celebrating, encouraging, defending, and cheering.

Netizens don’t know how to comment on it for now. Occasionally, some stars step in to criticize it, and the response is: “We are all Chinese singers, and we are going to the United States together. Is it necessary to do this?”

Then--

"I heard that Hua Chenyu returned to China in economy class. His fans initially said that he was going to release an English album, but it seems that he will only release this single. And they don't have any plans to release a single next week."

Sun Man told Xu Xing the latest information she had obtained.

"..." Xu Xing thought for a moment, "If it's economy class, his height might be okay?"

In fact, this kind of gossip also shows that the new generation of singers can endure hardships and do not seek enjoyment.

Sun Man laughed for a long time.

Wait until you catch your breath.

"It's over by next week?"

She asked.

If we win the championship next week, it will be our ninth consecutive championship, and the tenth consecutive championship will be even more symbolic.

"Yeah," Xu Xing nodded, "The number of views for 'Shape of You' has reached its peak this week and has begun to decline. The peak for 'Despacito' is coming soon. There's no need to waste too much money."

On the second day after BMA ended, the increase in the number of views of "Despacito" was much higher than that of "Shape of You", which is a very obvious trend.

For ordinary fans, the two singles with the same rhythm style, "Shape of You" are already boring, and it's time to switch to the more powerful "Despacito".

They can barely hold on by boosting downloads next week, but to win the championship the week after next will be too much pressure for fans who have already lasted eight weeks and had a huge explosion last week.

Either a new round of fundraising will be carried out within the fan club, or Xu Xing will pay for it himself and let fans download it.

There is no need.

……

5 month 20 day.

"Shape of you" once again won the championship for the ninth week with 18 downloads, but the gap with "despacito" with 12 downloads is already very close.

People both at home and abroad started to complain that Xu Xing's fans had accurately calculated the points of "Despacito" and just kept downloading it to overwhelm their opponents.

They are extremely confident that the Chinese, who have been the champions for nine weeks, will continue to do so forever and remain at the top of the B list.

There was a lot of wailing.

There are also rumors that the B chart officials are about to modify the rules regarding downloads from singers' official websites in an effort to crack down on chart-stuffing offenders once again.

However, on May 5, when the new list was announced, they did not check the list immediately. Only after being told by their friends did they see with some disbelief that "Shape of You" had slipped to second place, ending its dominance in the American music industry for the past two months.

The consecutive championship of "Shape of you" stayed in the ninth week. It is said that the meaning of nine in China is endless.

"Despacito" won the championship.

The Chinese people’s order is over.

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