Chapter 163: Earth Song

The arrangement of "They Don't Care About Us", especially the intense, South American drumbeat, still sounds quite passionate and very popular with fans.

After the launch, in Dragon Country, the sales of music sources in a week exceeded 200 million, and the sales of physical CDs also exceeded 5 million, successfully parachuting into the champion of the golden song chart.

In the U.S., it sold equally well, selling 50 million audio sources and more than 1 million physical CDs in a week, and successfully parachuted into the top spot on the Billboard singles chart.

In addition, in the United Kingdom, RB, Australia, Brazil and other places, the song "They Don't Care About Us" has also achieved very good sales results, winning the weekly sales championship in many countries.

If it weren't for the release time of Cho Jeong-ho's other new song, the sales of this song "They Don't Care About Us" might have been even better!

Ten days after the release of "They Don't Care About Us", Cho Jung-ho released his second single of the year, "Earth Song".

This song was originally a bargaining chip for Zhao Zhenghao to shoot the opening film of the "Dangerous Journey" world tour in Brazil and the Brazilian government, and it was decided long ago that all its proceeds would be used for the protection and restoration of the Amazon rainforest.

Originally, it was intended to be released as a promotional song during the first round of the "Dangerous Journey" world tour, but due to the serious delay in the filming of the MV, it was not until the end of the first round that the MV was completed, which caused its release to be delayed again and again, and it has not been released until now.

The title of this song is called "Earth Song", and it is indeed sung in the name of the earth, and the lyrics unfold in the form of questions, showing the creator's reflection on environmental pollution, ecological destruction, and frequent wars in the current world.

The MV for this song was completed by shooting and producing a reverse shot, and a dream that was impossible to achieve in reality was completed with a camera!

At the beginning of the MV, it is a quiet tropical rainforest, with birds singing and flowers, lush branches and leaves, and various animals living in it carefree and free, but then the logging machine symbolizing industrial civilization drove in, the giant trees fell, the primitive ecological environment was destroyed, and the earth lost its last peaceful home.

Then, Zhao Zhenghao appears as a savior who has failed to save the world, staggering through the deforested rainforest, singing a sad song.

Subsequently, the MV shows the world devastated by war, as well as the innocent slaughtered wild animals on the African savannah, showing the scars that can be seen everywhere on the earth in the way of white drawing.

Finally, in Cho Jeong-ho's mournful singing, people from all over the world join Cho Jeong-ho in calling for divine power in a peculiar way on the scorched earth of the earth, and Mother Earth seems to sense people's longing and responds with strong winds and lightning flashes.

At the end of the MV, accompanied by Cho Jung-ho's high-pitched and screaming chorus, the tribulation that the earth once suffered was saved in a rewinding way, all things were reborn, and the dead were resurrected!

This slightly naïve, but extremely sensational MV, after its release, aroused a strong resonance among fans, spontaneously promoted and promoted, and even the official mouthpieces of various countries also made special reports on it, and vigorously promoted it as a public welfare song of great practical significance.

In just one week, the total global sales of the music source reached an astonishing 500 million! The global sales of physical CDs also reached 15 million, becoming the best-selling single in 2014!

Not only did it win the championship on the Dragon Country Golden Song Chart and the Billboard in the United States, but it also won the sales championship in more than 50 countries around the world, becoming Cho Jung-ho's most widely sold song, and in this regard, surpassing "Billie Jean", "Thriller" and "Smooth Criminal"!

In the end, "Earth Song" won the top spot on the Dragon Country's Golden Song Chart for two weeks, and on the US Billboard Singles Chart, it achieved five consecutive titles!

Just as "Earth Song" fell from the top spot on the Billboard singles chart, the second phase of the second round of Cho Jeong-ho's "Dangerous Journey" world tour also took a break from workout.

This stage, which lasted for a total of one and a half months, repeated the trajectory taken in the first round, starting from South America, from south to north, all the way through Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and other Central and South American countries, and landing in the United States.

This time, Zhao Zhenghao did not go to Canada again, but held a few concerts in several large cities in the central United States, and after achieving quite satisfactory results, he ended this stage of the trip.

Next, Zhao Zhenghao will have a month-long rest adjustment period to complete the post-production of "A Chinese Ghost Story".

At this time, the special effects production part of "A Chinese Ghost Story", after more than three months of intense production, has been completely completed, and the effect that Zhao Zhenghao wants has been successfully achieved.

All that's left to do is the editing and soundtrack.

The editing work of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is very simple, because when shooting, Zhao Zhenghao has a finished film from his previous life for reference, and the setting of the lens is very targeted, minimizing the number of useless shots, which is one of the reasons why the filming time is so short.

In terms of soundtrack, there is no difficulty, the two main interludes, Zhao Zhenghao has taken them directly from the original version in his previous life, and has completed the corresponding recording.

For other aspects of the soundtrack, Zhao Zhenghao has already asked someone to produce it, and he handed over this aspect of the work to Wang Yulan, and he is very relieved.

Wang Yulan did not disappoint him, when he returned to the capital from the United States, the materials needed for the soundtrack had been prepared.

Editors and soundtrack artists have also been hired for a long time and are on standby at any time.

After Zhao Zhenghao came back, he didn't rest much, went directly into the editing room, and spent five days editing out the final version of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and worked with the soundtrack artist in the soundtrack room for a week to complete all the soundtrack work of the film.

At this point, the finished film of Zhao Zhenghao's first theatrical film has been produced, and all that remains is to accept review, apply for a screening permit, find a distributor, determine the release time, and wait for it to meet the audience in the cinema.

When Zhao Zhenghao was auditing the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy, he deliberately had an in-depth understanding of the current review standards of Longguo cinema films, and paid special attention to this aspect when filming "A Chinese Ghost Story", so that its review and bid application went very smoothly.