Chapter 78: Champion Single
The song "Billie Jean" alone is not enough for Zhao Zhenghao to accumulate enough loyal fans in the United States.
However, the super high quality of this song still attracts many simple fans to walk into video stores and buy its physical CD.
Especially those who have watched Cho Jung-ho's live performance at the Grammy Awards, or watched its live performance MV, even if they are not fans of Cho Jeong-ho, have been fascinated by his performance and become a staunch supporter of this song.
Moreover, fans in North America have been in the habit of buying single CDs for a long time, although in recent years, under the impact of emerging online sales, the sales of physical CDs have also deteriorated, but it is still much better than Dragon Country.
On the first day of its release, the physical CD of "Billie Jean" sold 300,000 copies.
The single-day sales on the second day reached an astonishing 500,000 copies, creating a single-day sales record for Dragon Country singers in North America!
Sales on the third day fell slightly, but still exceeded 400,000 and reached 430,000 copies.
The single CD of "Billie Jean" was released on Tuesday, and as of Thursday of this week, the total sales of 1.25 million copies in three days have been reached.
This kind of sales is enough to ensure that "Billie Jean" will be airborne on the next Billboard singles chart and can win the first place in one fell swoop!
The long-awaited first Billboard champion single by the Dragon Country music industry and Dragon Country singers was easily won by Cho Jung-ho's "Billie Jean"!
In the second week of "Billie Jean" on the market, although the daily sales volume has dropped significantly compared with the previous three days, it still sells an average of nearly 200,000 copies per day.
Ten days later, Billie Jean had sold more than 2.5 million copies.
With sales of 1.3 million in the second week, "Billie Jean" successfully defended the Billboard singles chart.
In the third week, Billie Jean's daily sales fell further, falling to an average of only about 100,000 per day.
However, with sales of more than 700,000 in the third week, "Billie Jean" still stubbornly achieved a triple hit on the Billboard singles chart!
In the fourth week, "Billie Jean", whose sales fell further, finally fell from the top of the Billboard singles chart, but it still lasted six weeks in the top 10.
This was followed by eight weeks in the first twenty, twenty-one weeks in the first fifty, and sixteen weeks in the first hundred.
Just when he was about to fall out of the top 100 on the Billboard singles chart, Zhao Zhenghao made another big news at the 55th Grammy Awards, which made the sales of "Billie Jean" buck the trend and return to the top 20, and stayed in the top 100 for 13 weeks.
All in all, "Billie Jean" stayed on the Billboard singles chart for a total of 67 weeks, creating an insurmountable record for the Dragon Country singers.
Even in the total number of weeks on the Billboard singles chart, "Billie Jean" can also rank in the top 10 for 67 weeks.
It can be said that Zhao Zhenghao has achieved the transformation from a second-rate singer in the Dragon Country to an international superstar with world influence with this song "Billie Jean" alone!
This "Billie Jean", with a series of records created, has also been forever engraved in the history of Dragon Music and has become a classic that is difficult to surpass.
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Not only "Billie Jean", but also the other two English songs included in Cho Jeong-ho's "No Place to Be Ashamed", "It's My Life" and "Dangerous", with the craze created by "Billie Jean", the sales curve has also rebounded against the trend.
Previously, "It's My Life" and "Dangerous" were both in the top 100 of the Billboard singles chart, but their positions have been hovering behind the top 50, and they are getting lower and lower, and they are about to drop off the charts.
But with "Billie Jean" on the way, "It's My Life" and "Dangerous" not only broke into the top 50 on the Billboard singles chart, but "It's My Life" even broke into the top 20 at one point, just one step away from the top 10.
And "Dangerous" also stayed for five weeks in the first fifty.
As a result, "It's My Life" topped the Billboard Rock Chart for two weeks, and "Dangerous" also topped the Billboard Dance Music Chart for a week.
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Since the Billboard singles chart does not include the sales of music sources for the time being, it still only counts the sales of physical CDs and the number of times the radio is on demand, making it relatively easy to win the championship here.
And Dragon Country's "Golden Song Chart", because it is included in the sales of music sources, makes it much more difficult for a single to win the championship here.
The sales of audio sources are explosive and unsustainable, and all the potential can be developed in three days to a week, so that the sales will fall like a cliff from the second week.
Of the ten songs included in Zhao Zhenghao's previous album, "No Place for Shame", only "Once You" won the top of the "Golden Song Chart" singles chart once.
Although the cumulative sales of "Those Flowers" also exceeded 100 million, due to the lack of explosiveness, the number of weeks in the top ten of the "Golden Melody Chart" was very long, reaching six weeks, but it never won a championship.
"Billie Jean" is Zhao Zhenghao's second single to win the "Golden Melody Chart", and due to the coincidental release time, he was lucky to achieve a championship and won two consecutive championships!
The "Golden Melody Chart" calculates sales from Tuesday to next Monday, and the release time of "Billie Jean" coincides with the Monday of Dragon Kingdom, catching up with the tail end of a cycle, and successfully landing on the "Golden Melody Chart" champion with more than 100 million downloads of music sources that exploded in that day.
In the second cycle, "Billie Jean" has accumulated more than 100 million downloads and nearly 5 million physical CD sales, making it the first single to win the "Golden Melody Chart" in 2012.
Such an achievement has already booked "Billie Jean" a position in the "Top Ten Golden Songs of the Year on the Golden Song Chart"!
In the upcoming 32nd Golden Melody Awards, the "Top Ten Golden Songs of the Year" were seized by the album "No Place for Self-Respect", namely "Once You" and "Those Flowers".
And, in the previously announced shortlist of the 32nd Golden Melody Awards "Best Rock Song", the album "No Place to Be Proud" was slaughtered, and the five shortlisted songs were "Once You", "Nothing", "Fly Higher", "No Place to Be Proud", and "It's My Life"!
Such a result has allowed Zhao Zhenghao to pocket the golden chime of the "Best Rock Song" at the 32nd Golden Melody Awards in advance.
And in the competition of "Best Rock Singer" and "Best Rock Album", Zhao Zhenghao and "No Place for Self-Respect" also have no opponents at all, and they will win ten prizes!