Friday, January 12, 2007, 10 o'clock in the morning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zheng Xiao stands on the 18th floor of Thang Long Plaza, in front of the window of his office.

The windows are open.

He could see through the window that there were about three or four hundred people gathered in the square downstairs, men and women, mostly young people, and some of them were older. The men were pulling at two huge red banners.

A banner read: Thank you, Zheng Xiao! You have won great glory for our country!

Another banner read: Zheng Xiao, you are the pride of the entire Chinese nation! We love you deeply and love you!

These people cheered and shouted slogans, and many of them talked loudly and in very excited tones.

"Zheng Xiao, we like you! Love you to death! ”

"Zheng Xiao, you are so good, you are the best! No one can compare to you! ”

"Zheng Xiao, you are a good son of the people of Xijing!"

"Zheng Xiao, good job! We're all so proud of you! ”

"After Bruce Lee, the sons and daughters of China once again shocked the United States! Once again, we will start the journey of infinite glory of the Chinese nation! Zheng Xiao, you have made the whole United States reacquaint themselves with China! ”

"The English album broke through platinum sales on the first day of release, who can beat such a result!? In addition to Zheng Xiao, has there been any Asian star who has had such an amazing performance in the United States before? ”

"He's really amazing!"

"Who says it isn't! Seriously, when I saw those news reports about Zheng Xiao, I was so excited that I burst into tears! ”

"Just someone said about Bruce Lee, here I have to correct, Bruce Lee was born in the United States, his nationality has always been American, he can only be said to be Chinese in the strict sense, not Chinese! I guess it's not an exaggeration to say that Zheng Xiao is the most famous Chinese in the United States! ”

"Yes! Many Americans may not know who China's leaders are, but they must know a little about Zheng Xiao. ”

"I have a friend in the United States, who called me yesterday and said that Americans are going crazy about Zheng Xiao, almost all newspapers, magazines, websites, and broadcasts have news about Zheng Xiao, and his songs are popular on the streets and alleys of the United States, and many Americans will hum a few words, and those Yankees say that Zheng Xiao's songs make them feel shocked."

"Look at today's reference news, right? There are three editions on it, all of which are excerpts from Zheng Xiao's news. ”

The Global Times also set up a special news page for Zheng Xiao. However, it seems that their own reporters did the interviews in the United States. ”

"I have a copy of the Global Times here! Do you want to read it to everyone? ”

……

Zheng Xiao stood by the window, looking down.

The 18th floor is more than 60 meters above the ground, and at this height, for ordinary people, they can't see or hear anything at all.

But Zheng Xiao's current eyesight and hearing are comparable to ordinary people?

He heard the discussion of these people clearly, and saw the excited expressions on their faces. He was also very excited at this time.

Seriously, he really didn't expect that he could become popular in the United States all of a sudden, so popular that he became a household name.

He didn't expect his first English album to sell so many copies at once. It can also be seen that although there will be certain cultural barriers and differences, in terms of artistic aesthetics, people's appreciation of beautiful things is much the same!

As long as the song is good, as long as the creativity is novel, as long as it can move people's hearts and cause people to think deeply, then it is also a very normal thing to be accepted and sought after.

Sony Records has already sent him the data.

On the 10th, a total of nearly 1.1 million records were sold, each with 15 dollars, and the sales on this day alone reached more than 16 million dollars.

After deducting half of the channel fees and other expenses, there is also a profit of 8 million dollars.

And he wants to share half of this profit, that is, 4 million dollars. Even after deducting taxes, there are nearly 3 million dollars.

And on the 11th, his album sold more than 300,000 copies again.

Mr. Chen, of Xinsuo, said that in a month's time, Zheng Xiao's English-language album sold at least four million copies in the United States alone.

And in the second month of the following, it will still generate more than one million sales.

Although the subsequent sales will drop sharply, it is still not a problem to sell tens of thousands of copies every month!

After the sales in the United States, Sony Records immediately began to strongly promote the release of this record to other European and American countries, and it should be very easy to sell another two or three million copies in these countries.

In a word, the album is likely to sell nearly 10 million diamonds in the first year of its release.

Zheng Xiao's album is only one step away from becoming a classic in music history!

If Zheng Xiao's income is calculated, his income will be at least around 16 million dollars. This is the income after excluding the 5 million signing fee paid by Sony to Zheng Xiao when Sony signed a contract with Zheng Xiao in 06 (the signing fee is only an income guarantee in advance, which is to be deducted from the singer's subsequent income).

That's really a huge amount of income.

It's no wonder that the top music superstars in the United States are local tyrants. The United States and the major developed countries in the West have better copyright protection, there is almost no piracy, the price of records is much higher than that of China, and the profits are much higher. If a top superstar releases a record and sells more than a million copies, he can earn millions of dollars, hold a concert, take over the brand endorsement, and earn tens of millions of dollars a year.

Let's take Taylor Swift, the little diva who became a mess in later generations, for example, when she was in 2014, her annual income had reached more than 100 million US dollars.

Zheng Xiao shook her head.

He felt a little cheesy.

Downstairs, the countrymen were cheering him on, excited by his success in the United States, and on the verge of making him a national hero of the country.

Tears welled up in their eyes.

Their pride and pride are palpable.

They gathered exclusively downstairs in his company to celebrate him.

I was almost on the verge of prostrating myself to him.

And he, standing by this window, was vulgarly thinking about calculating his monetary gains.

When you think about it, it's really embarrassing.

But Zheng Xiao really didn't think that he was calling it glory for the country, but he just released an album, which accidentally caught fire and sold more in the United States, the most developed country in the world.

After all, it's just a business, so what can it be counted?

Such a high-standard support, deserved!

On second thought, though, he seems to have underestimated the enormous role of cultural influence. He became popular in the United States and was sought after by Americans, in fact, he was imperceptibly spreading Chinese culture, and many Americans would go to in-depth study of Chinese culture because they liked him, and then they might be influenced by Chinese culture. From this point of view, I have actually made a little contribution to the country.

Thinking like this, he was a little relieved.

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