Chapter 333: Far ahead

After following Chen Chufan's advice, the originally arranged publicity activities ended a little hasty.

Mrs. Chen simply revised Chen Chufan's itinerary, except for the signing ceremony with Pepsi in Pearl that had already been arranged, and the interview with Pearl TV, all other promotional activities were suspended. gave Chen Chufan plenty of time to prepare for his new album.

And when these two things are completed, Chen Chufan's propaganda work will also be over. He can devote himself wholeheartedly to his full-time work.

"Okay, now you're satisfied, right? After the signing ceremony this afternoon, by the way, we will accept an exclusive interview, and our inland trip will be completely over. You can also concentrate on making your music. The next day, Mrs. Chen came to Chen Chufan's room and handed Chen Chufan a copy of today's schedule.

"Thank you, Mrs. Chen!" Chen Chufan looked at the two simple items on the schedule and sighed. Satisfied, he thanked Mrs. Chen.

"Don't thank me, this is the result of my communication with the company, I can only say that you have a good boss who maintains great tolerance for your willfulness! But since you're asking for less commercial promotion and more energy to make music, you have to show results, so release a new album as soon as possible! Mrs. Chen shrugged her shoulders, not greedy.

"Of course, I have to make more time, it's for my music!" Chen Chufan nodded and said in agreement.

"Okay, Kalman. Mr. Walter has been re-appointed by the company as the producer of your new album, and I heard that he has now started collecting songs for you. When this is done, you can head back to Hong Kong Island and work on your new album! Mrs. Chen was not satisfied with Chen Chufan's statement, and informed.

"Oh? Started collecting songs? The company's actions are also quite fast, and it seems that my side is also going to step up, and there is no song of my own creation in an album. I always feel that it is too perfunctory! Chen Chufan scratched his head, obviously a little surprised that Universal Company had begun to collect songs for himself.

"Well, that's what I just knew, so be it! Don't think about it now, and prepare for the signing ceremony in the afternoon. All the contracts Miss Su has already helped to get them, and they have all been done under your entrustment, and the signing ceremony in the afternoon is a passing scene. Among them, the Q&A session of the reporter, given that it is the first time you have participated in this kind of activity in the mainland, it is relatively long. The initial arrangement is half an hour, and it may be extended depending on the situation. Don't talk nonsense! Mrs. Chen advised.

"Yes, I know!" Chen Chufan nodded undeniably, although this was the first time to face the media interview in the mainland, but in country M, Chen Chufan had experienced this more than once on Hong Kong Island, and he had already passed the initial nervousness and excitement, in his opinion, the signing ceremony in the afternoon was actually very simple.

"By the way, your Ms. Han is still your girlfriend, right?" Mrs. Chen suddenly opened her mouth and asked about Chen Chufan's private affairs. made Chen Chufan feel puzzled. The two have not been working together for a day or two, and Mrs. Chen has never cared about this.

"Well, of course. Is there anything wrong with this? Chen Chufan asked.

"It is estimated that many reporters will ask this question in the afternoon, and I suggest that you better deal with this kind of problem by watering it down. Well, don't say it too clearly, and it's better not to answer too coldly, you know what I mean? Mrs. Chen gave her own advice.

Chen Chufan naturally knew that with the spread of the video he once had at the school party. Now how exposed is Han Xiaoxi's relationship with him, this problem must be an unavoidable hurdle. But it wasn't a problem for him, and he never intended to hide it. Anyway, he and Han Xiaoxi were originally in a relationship, so it was enough to make it clear, but he didn't expect Mrs. Chen to suddenly bring up this issue.

"I don't really understand, but I was going to tell the truth!" Chen Chufan shook his head and replied incomprehensibly.

"Hey, okay, whatever! I can't hide it anyway. Seeing Chen Chufan's completely new attitude, Mrs. Chen finally shook her head indifferently, let him go, anyway, he didn't plan to mix in this circle for long.

"By the way, there is also good news for you, your album was scored 8.6 points by the famous music critic Huang Yuesheng, which is the first time I have seen Huang Lao give such a high score to a newcomer. So work hard for the next album. Mrs. Chen was already about to turn around and leave, but before leaving, she suddenly thought of this matter again and turned around to congratulate her

In fact, Chen Chufan didn't have much feeling about Mrs. Chen's congratulations, because his album has received too much praise since it was officially launched. So much so that he already felt a little numb.

Not to mention the miracle of Hong Kong Island's first-day sales, Taiwan's leading music magazine, Rolling Stone, introduced Chen Chufan's album at great length. Of the ten songs on Chen Chufan's album, there are as many as eight songs rated as excellent by Rolling Stone, and only two songs have not been rated as high-quality, but the evaluation given is not too low.

This is already very rare. The average album has always been two or three high-quality songs, paired with seven or eight relatively average songs, pieced together. Otherwise, every album is the first good, which is a huge waste in the eyes of the record company. As a record company, it is more willing to split a bunch of excellent songs into multiple albums and release two or three albums, as long as the title song and follow-up title song are good enough, then sales are definitely not a problem. Therefore, it is very, very difficult for the album to be the first good.

However, Chen Chufan's singing obviously broke this unwritten rule in the record industry. There are two songs that have been sung by others, but the singles with mediocre response have also been rated among the best at this time. This shows the singer's skills very much.

Strictly speaking, as a newcomer who is new to the music scene, Chen Chufan's performance is enough to make the entire Chinese music scene feel amazing. What's more, this is just a review of the magazine "Rolling Stone".

In fact, after Chen Chufan's performance at the Lantern Festival Gala, his album page has completely opened up sales in the mainland, and there are at least more than 50 media in the inland that have made music reviews on Chen Chufan's album or the single "Jialan Night Rain".

Even Chen Chufan's performance of "Jialan Night Rain" at the Lantern Festival Gala was evaluated by many media as a magic song, because the song itself contains the magic power that people can't help but immerse themselves in.

Or these evaluations can't make people intuitively realize how popular the public is for Chen Chufan's first album, but the album's sales statistics cannot be faked.

First of all, the sales data of Hong Kong Island, after setting a sales miracle on the first day, the stamina is still full, from the first day to now a full 20 days have passed, and the sales in Hong Kong Island have exceeded 700,000 copies, and are moving towards the goal of one million copies that feels a little unachievable, which can definitely be said to be a miracle. If you add the sales on Taiwan Island, then the record has already exceeded 1 million copies, approaching 1.2 million copies.

So for three consecutive weeks, Chen Chufan's record has been firmly dominating the Hong Kong New Town chart, looking at this posture, he even has to stay at the top of the list for four consecutive weeks. Because the gap between the second place and him is more than 100,000 tickets, it is enough to make people feel desperate.

In just one week of inland release, sales of genuine records have exceeded 150,000 copies, while genuine cassette tapes have exceeded 600,000 copies, and according to the company's statistics, the sales of pirated records and cassette tapes are about five times that number, which is simply unimaginable. From the results of this week alone, some people assert that this year's record sales champion in the inland region is already in Chen Chufan's bag and cannot be surpassed.

Some media even directly boldly predicted that Chen Chufan would be the first super newcomer to set foot in the Chinese music scene as a newcomer and was expected to exceed 10 million in record sales that year.

Or these achievements obtained by Chen Chufan are also the backing of Mrs. Chen and the company to let him do whatever he wants. After all, for this genius singer, too many constraints may restrict his development. And Universal Music's new vice president of media in Asia, Tom Brown. Mr. Jackson has already begun to consider renewing his contract with Chen Chufan at this time.

Looking at the sales report of Chen Chufan's records counted by the marketing department, Tom. Mr. Jackson regretted it greatly. If it weren't for his strong request at that time, the contract was only signed for two years, and he wouldn't have to worry about renewing the contract with Chen Chufan now. Even if it was an extra year at the time, it would have been fine.

Yesterday, when he was on the phone with Chen Chufan's current agent, Mrs. Chen, he probably asked the question of contract renewal, but the answer he got was a little ambiguous. Jackson had a sense of foreboding.

Chen Chufan's contract with Universal is unimaginably rich. Of course Tom. Jackson did not deny that Chen Chufan's achievements were definitely worthy of his generous contract. But in any case, it was also a contract that was too generous for him to call the shots.

And after the expiration of two years, according to Chen Chufan's current achievements, even Tom. Jackson himself was not sure what kind of heights Chen Chufan could reach. Because Chen Chufan had already made him feel too many miracles, he didn't dare to predict it.

This is where the problem arises. When the contract expires, what if Chen Chufan refuses to renew the contract? It is said that now Chen Chufan is the ace singer of Universal Music Company, Tom. Jackson didn't think he could find a replacement.

After all, genius can never be mass-produced! (To be continued......)