Chapter 376: Something Went Wrong with the Billboard Leaderboard
He sat in his office, waiting for the data to come together after the various record store chains closed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The wait was a bit long.
It wasn't until almost seven o'clock in the evening that HMV and Virgin Records threw him a statistic: Zheng Xiao's album sold 183,600 copies in the United States on HMV's side that day, while Virgin Records' data was more than 156,200 copies.
Combined, sales exceeded 300,000 on January 9!
Plus 700,000 tickets for pre-sale.
On the first day of the official release, the two totaled more than one million! In other words, Zheng Xiao's album reached platinum sales in just one day.
This has never happened before in the history of the United States.
A newcomer, a foreigner, has reached such heights all at once.
It's just so rare.
Stringer's heart was pounding violently. He was so excited, when he signed Zheng Xiao's English album distribution rights, he insisted on signing Zheng Xiao at all costs and offered Zheng Xiao a signing fee of 5 million dollars.
He withstood the pressure and insisted on signing Zheng Xiao.
Now, he's been rewarded handsomely!
Millions of copies sold on the first day, such a result will be a sensation in the world, will drive the explosive sales of the album even more, maybe it won't be too long, the sales of the album "Existence" can reach the height of Diamond Records! A superstar is rising, and his brilliant light will illuminate the entire world music scene!
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It is not only Sony Records' own people who are paying attention to the sales of Zheng Xiao's album.
Many media and insiders are also paying attention to Zheng Xiao's performance on the first day of this album.
When the day of January 9th was about to pass, reporters began to drill into the camp one after another, and got the sales data of Zheng Xiao's album from different channels.
And when they got this data, they were shocked.
Oh, my God! On the first day of sale, the new sales exceeded 300,000! Coupled with the number of pre-sales, Zheng Xiao really achieved a single-day sales of more than one million!
The reporters were excited.
They realized that it was going to be big news.
They began to dig deep into everything about Zheng Xiao, got the story about Zheng Xiao through various channels, and then, combined this amazing data, it became a big news.
In the reporters' reports, Zheng Xiao's Chinese identity was highlighted.
Of course, the big newspapers will try to make the news as rigorous as possible, while the many lace tabloids will start to make up some shocking news in order to gain people's attention.
One of them, a newspaper called the International Entertainment Morning Post, reported such a sensational news.
They said that their reporter interviewed Mr. D, a very good friend of Zheng Xiao, who told the reporter of the International Entertainment Morning Post that Zheng Xiao has longed for the United States since he was a child, loves the United States, and longs to become a citizen of the stars and stripes one day, and he works so hard to get the opportunity to immigrate to the United States. Mr. D also said that Zheng Xiao had already obtained a green card and that he had reneged from Chinese nationality......
The name of "National Entertainment Morning Post" sounds very loud, but in fact, it is just a regional tabloid with a circulation of just over 10,000 copies.
The impact of this newspaper is minimal.
However, this report was discovered by someone with a heart and uploaded to the Internet, and suddenly became a big hot news on the Internet.
This news later caused a huge trouble for Zheng Xiao.
Of course, that's another story.
The Billboard Music Charts are published by Billboard Music Magazine. The magazine, also in New York, was founded very early, at the end of the 19th century.
By the early 50s of the 20th century, Billboard magazine had taken control of the publishing rights of the most authoritative music charts.
The leaderboard changes every Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 10.
It is also the second day of the official release of Zheng Xiao's new album.
Many people are keeping an eye on Billboard's change of rankings, although many things have been decided, but before the results come out, everything is still uncertain.
When Stringer got to work, he turned on his computer during the office week and logged on to the billboard website.
He took a look and found that the list was still last week's, and it hadn't changed yet.
Stringer is a little strange: Billboard has always been very punctual in changing the charts, what happened today?
He personally called one of the top lists in Billboard magazine: "Hey! Jim! Good morning! My man! ”
"Good morning, Mr. Stringer!"
"I want to ask you one thing, why hasn't this week's list been changed yet?" Stringer asked.
Jim said: "Mr. Stringer, it's not because of the Chinese wonder boy Zheng Xiao in your company, his performance is really shocking, he occupies the champion position in several of our lists, which makes our boss a little uncertain about this, he has to check it himself, so there is a phenomenon of postponement of the change of lists." ”
When Stringer heard Jim say this, he was overjoyed: it seems that his guess was not wrong, and Zheng Xiao started the mode of dominating the list of billboards.
"Mr. Jim, what is there to verify this, Zheng Xiao's popularity is obvious to all, and it is normal for him to occupy a good position on the billboard list, right?" Stringer said with some dissatisfaction.
However, Mr. Stringer, some singers have expressed disagreement with this, and they suspect that Zheng Xiao's results are fraudulent! They say that the Chinese are a people accustomed to deception! Don't be gullible to everyone of this nation! Zheng Xiao's new album data is too incredible, it is very likely that he used some unfair competition methods! Of course, this is the suspicion of a few people, and the vast majority of people are convinced of Zheng Xiao's achievements! Sales figures can't be faked! Unless you hire someone to go to the major chain record stores to queue up to buy Zheng Xiao's albums, creating a false illusion of hot sales. However, I think it's just a fantasy! Ahaha! Jim said.
Stringer's face suddenly became serious.
It turns out that prejudice is still at work!
Some people even suspect that Zheng Xiao's album is a fraud because of its popularity? That's a strange idea. Who can buy so many Americans with money?
Is this realistic?
Stringer said with some anger: "Mr. Jim, this joke is not funny at all! If you billboard can't uphold true fairness, but listen to some people's rumors and engage in the outdated trick of racism, I think there will soon be a new and fairer list to replace you! ”
When Jim heard this, Stringer was a little angry, and hurriedly said, "Mr. Stringer, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" I just wanted to tell a joke, seriously! I'm also disgusted by the ghosts of some guys. I'm sure my boss will be able to withstand the pressure! ”
"Well, I'll wait and see the results." Stringer said, "Goodbye, Mr. Jim!" ”
"Goodbye, Mr. Stringer!" (To be continued.) )