The car does not stop, the horse does not stop.

After the final battle video in Mexico City ended, most of the staff of the program team and 10 groups of stars flew back to China on a night flight, preparing to participate in the large-scale program press conference held by Starfish Satellite TV on the afternoon of the 12th.

Two weeks ago, when the 10 groups of stars flew to South America, they were in high spirits, and when they flew back to China two weeks later, they were already tired and exhausted.

The two-week trip to Latin America was a challenge for the stars, some of whom were amazing, while others were slightly disappointing.

Among them, the most disappointing is the cross-border friend group that has been given high hopes by the program team.

Other groups have passed through this journey, and the relationship between the members has become stronger and closer, but the relationship between Ren Qiang and Guo Xiaoxia is getting more and more broken. On the final return trip, the two stopped talking, which gave the program team a headache.

If this development continues, the combination of Ren Qiang and Guo Xiaoxia, which is quite interesting, is likely to be eliminated in the next stage of recording.

Lin Zaishan has learned a lot from this journey, not only has he had first-hand contact with the music of Latin America in this plane, but he has also gained a deeper understanding of his body in the fierce competition.

He was indeed an extraordinary person, and his physical qualities were more exaggerated than he had imagined.

With his physical fitness, let alone participating in variety shows, even if he goes to the Olympics, he has the possibility of winning gold in some events.

However, he is not very interested in things like winning gold medals, and he prefers to make achievements in the field of music.

Lee Hyo-ni is very satisfied with this journey. Compared with her previous work, this journey is not easy at all, but it is more tiring, but being able to work with the person she loves, and being able to steal joy at night XX, this feeling of intimacy, even if she is tired, Li Xiaoni feels that it is happy and worthwhile.

It's a pity that the two-week journey was too short, and it passed in the blink of an eye.

Later, she and Lin Zaishan will be separated for another week. They weren't together again until April 19.

She is not the kind of clingy character, but she has been separated from Lin Zaishan for too long, and she has been lonely for too long, and now she finally has the opportunity to get together with Lin Zaishan, she really wants to stay with Lin Zaishan for a while.

But the tight work schedule made it impossible for her to stay with Lin Zaishan for more, not even for an extra day.

Their flight will arrive in the East China Sea on the evening of April 11, domestic time, and after a night's rest, Li Xiaoni will go to work in national entertainment the next morning, participate in the promotion of Haixing's new program in the afternoon, and in the evening, she will be a trapeze again, fly directly to Los Angeles, and go to the United States to do a week-long new single release and promotional activities.

On the evening of April 19th, she will travel north to Toronto from the United States to meet with the program team of "Extreme World" to continue the recording of the second phase of "Extreme World". Only then will she be able to meet Lin Zaishan again.

The first single that Lee Hyo-ni will release in the United States this time is "If-i-were-a-boy", of course, it is still written by Lin Zaishan.

However, continuing the lyrics and singing of "Roar" and "Bleeding-love" to make Western musicians born a little amazing, this "If-i-were-a-boy" national entertainment claims to be a work by Li Xiaoni.

Lee Hyo-ni's first European and American album released on the British Peninsula on Valentine's Day did not cause any sensation and repercussions in the UK, and various charts did not make it. "Roar" and "Bleeding-love" failed to break through the shackles of the overall level of the album and stood out, and they were relatively bland.

But gold, it will definitely shine.

Although Lee Hyo-ni's British album suffered a cold snap in the UK, it caused a small boom in China, especially the two songs "Roar" and "Bleeding-love", which were very popular in China.

With the fermentation of time, these two songs have gained a very good reputation in the entire overseas Chinese world.

The number of Chinese in Britain is relatively small, and there are not too many Chinese in Europe, but the number of Chinese in the United States is quite large, and the influence of the Chinese community in the United States is much higher than that in the United Kingdom.

Although Li Xiaoni has never released an album in the United States, she will tour the United States every year and participate in the Chinese Spring Festival Gala in the United States.

She is currently the most popular Chinese singer in the Chinese American community.

Her own identity shaped by Guoyu is also Chinese-American.

Guoyu has always wanted to promote Li Xiaoni in the United States and make Li Xiaoni a more gold-attracting international superstar.

But the attitude of the bigwigs in the music industry in the United States towards Li Xiaoni is more arrogant than that of the British. They really can't see the bright spots in Li Xiaoni, an older Asian female singer, that she can integrate into the mainstream music market in North America.

In this plane, the record industry is the most developed in the United States. Like the film industry, the record industry in this plane of the United States has been leading the world for many years.

Previously, Lee Hyo-ni's music, including her singing skills, was not worth mentioning in the eyes of American producers.

Negotiations between China Entertainment and the big music companies in the United States have not been going well. That's why they will settle for the next best thing, spend a lot of money to push Li Xiaoni from the British Peninsula first, and then let Li Xiaoni enter the world's largest North American record market after making Li Xiaoni famous in the Western music circle.

This time, Li Xiaoni's first shot in the British Peninsula was not very successful, but the two songs "Roar" and "Bleeding-love", whether they were sung or written, amazed European and American musicians a little.

In the record market, if you come up with a very good work, it's very convincing.

This time, Guoyu didn't go to the American record company to talk about cooperation, but people came to Guoyu instead.

Guoyu has been talking about it before, and Universal Records, a super record industry giant that ranks among the top three record companies in the United States, has taken a fancy to Lee Hyo-ni's "Roar" and "Bleeding-love".

A month ago, Universal Music bought out the distribution rights of the two songs in the United States, and they took the initiative to help Lee Hyo-ni release the singles of the two songs.

Unlike the rest of the world, in the North American record market, record companies send singers singles first, single by single, and then they synthesize albums and send them out. The reason for this is due to the influence of the Internet.

The U.S. record industry has also been hit hard by online music piracy, but they are very strict about protecting intellectual property rights and cracking down on piracy. However, the emergence of online music has still had an irreversible impact on the traditional record market in the United States.

In this plane, in the past 10 years, the traditional record industry in the United States has basically been washed away by Internet music, and Internet digital music has now occupied a dominant position in the American music market.

But people don't download music for free, and music fans have to buy any song they like by single, or buy digital music albums.

It is precisely because of the fundamental change in the way of buying that the way record companies and artists release albums has also changed completely.

Now the record companies in North America send new songs to the singers, and they all send them on a single-track basis.

They have to sell one round of singles first, and when they are almost sold, they will combine the singles into digital albums, and then sell another round of digital albums.

Universal Records' fancy this time is "Roar" and "Bleeding-love" from Lee Hyo-ni's British album, and they didn't buy the other songs, so they bought the distribution rights of these two songs.

Although these two songs are very international, because in the North American music market, no Asian singer has ever stood out, so Universal's investment in Li Xiaoni this time is still more cautious.

They bought these two songs mainly for the Chinese market in North America, hoping to sell well among Chinese Americans first, and then gradually promote these two songs to the attention of mainstream music fans in North America.

Although there are many Chinese in the United States, the number of Chinese Americans in the United States is only 2% of the total population, which is far from the mainstream.

Lee Hyoni enjoys a high reputation and audience among the Chinese American community in the United States, and even the entire Asian American community, but the goal of Universal and Guoyu is to push Lee Hyoni to the mainstream music market in North America, and only when they push to the mainstream can they really make a lot of money.

Three weeks ago, Universal Music released digital music versions of "Roar" and "Bleeding-love" to Lee Hyo-ni, and made a series of promotions. Lee also traveled to the United States at the time and participated in two events in the Chinese area to promote the two new songs.

There are many people who buy these two new songs in the digital music market, which makes these two songs hit the HOT100 weekly chart of the US Billboard music chart in the first week of release.

Like the other plane, this plane is one of the most influential and market-oriented charts in the United States.

There are many types of charts on Billboard, the most important of which are the Billboard-Hot-100 (singles) and Billboard-200 (albums).

In the last decade, with the popularity of digital music in North America and the transformation of the way artists release new songs, the Billboard-Hot-100 has become the most important selection of all charts.

The Hot-100 is ranked based on the actual sales of singles per week and the on-demand rate of 40 major North American radio stations. Nowadays, the influence of the on-demand rate of radio stations is very small, so the sales of singles in this account for the main consideration criterion.

This chart is basically the list of singles sales in the North American market, which is also the ultimate measure of a song's commercial value.

The U.S. record market is huge, and the rebirth of the music market after the arrival of digital music has made the overall income of North American singers higher than that of other professional artists in the entertainment industry.

In the United States, singers are the most gold-absorbing profession among all sports stars, which is in huge contrast with China.

In this plane of the Chinese Empire, singers are all existences that can't eat, and they have changed careers to do other things.

There are very few pure singers in the Chinese music scene now.

But in Western countries where intellectual property protection is very good, singers are the most popular profession, but they are also the most competitive professions.

Lin Zaishan believes that after the protection of intellectual property rights in this plane of China, singers will also gain higher social recognition.

After all, there are many more people listening to songs in the world than people reading novels, watching movies, and watching sports, as long as everyone recognizes the intellectual property rights of music, and after forming the habit of paying to listen to songs like music fans in North America, the life and creative environment of singers will definitely be immediately improved. The vitality of Chinese music will definitely slowly recover. The lives of the singers are guaranteed, and they will naturally output a steady stream of creativity to make the industry more and more vibrant.

Today, the record industry in the United States is leading the world faster and faster in this virtuous circle.

The huge music market has created a huge group of singers.

In this highly competitive environment, you can imagine how difficult it is for an Oriental singer to win the recognition of the mainstream music market in the United States.

But unlike British music fans, who are as stubborn and biased as British music fans, American music fans are still very willing to accept and recognize good music, which can be seen from the results of the two new songs released by Universal to Li Xiaoni.

Lee Hyo-ni's British album has been sold in the British Peninsula for more than two months, and it didn't make it to any of the charts. But after her two new songs landed in North America, they all hit the weekly chart of Billboard-Hot-100 for three consecutive weeks.

Among them, "Roar" ranked 97th, 75th and 79th on the Hot100 weekly list in the past three weeks with sales of 106,000, 251,000 and 248,000 in a single week.

With 125,000, 232,000 and 185,000 weekly sales, "Bleeding-love" ranked 92nd, 81st and 87th on the Hot 100 weekly list in the past three weeks.

This ranking is a very remarkable achievement for a Chinese singer who is trying the North American market for the first time.

If Li Xiaoni is a contracted singer of a big American record company, and there is a big record company behind her to support and promote her, with the strength of her two songs, the results will definitely be better.

But after all, she is a singer of a Chinese music company, and Guoyu is just talking about cooperation with Universal, and it is impossible for Universal to push Li Xiaoni like their own singers, which also greatly affects Li Xiaoni's new song results.

When Universal released the single to Lee Hyo-ni, it deliberately chose a few days later, and the sales of her single in the first week were only counted for 3 days.

And it can enter the Hot-100 weekly list in 3 days, which has attracted great attention from the world.

At that time, they had already made an appointment with Li Xiaoni, hoping that Li Xiaoni would soon release another single, and continue to impact the billboard while the iron was hot.

Guoyu attaches great importance to this opportunity to cooperate with Universal Music, and the focus of their recent work for Li Xiaoni is biased towards the United States, in addition to participating in the long-scheduled "Extreme World" recording, her main publicity work during this period is focused on the United States.

Li Xiaoni herself also attaches more importance to this opportunity to try her skills in the United States, selling records in the United States, making 10 times or even 100 times more money than in China.

If she can make a difference in the North American market, she will really establish herself as a world-class singer.

In the history of the Chinese music scene, no singer can be called a world-class singer and recognized by the world.

Lee Hyo-ni wants to be the first person like this.

And if she wants to become a world-class singer, she must have the help of Lin Zaishan behind her.

Li Xiaoni herself knows very well that the most important reason why those big music names in Europe and the United States pay attention to her is not because of her singing skills and outstanding appearance, but because of her creative talent. (To be continued.) )