Producer Michaels doesn't know what the ratings will be when this season of "Saturday Night Live" is announced to return to a live broadcast format.

After worrying all night, after receiving the results early that morning, he jumped up!

"Highest 12.2!!"

The ace show that dominates the late-night file is back! That NBC's chief ace show is back!

The highest point of the last season was only 7.5!

"What unit is the highest point in?" Michaels hurriedly checked the time carefully!

"Oh! Oh, God! It's actually ALok Band's Live! ”

Li Lecheng's performance on "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast live to every corner of the United States in real time and synchronously that night!

Not only the audience, but also the NBC executives are paying special attention to the opening episode of this season!

"Saturday Night Live" called the staff of the annunciation, and the first step was NFL Major League Football!

The new season is just around the corner! They're asking the band for permission to play the final countdown as the "Song of the Season" for the season as the NFL's unofficial theme song!

NFL！ The world's largest professional rugby league and the world's most commercially valuable sports league! Its annual championship game is also known as the "Super Bowl"! The Super Bowl halftime show, the famous "Amerika Spring Festival Gala", is the most grand and most anticipated live performance stage in the United States! If it weren't for the Super Bowl halftime show, which only began to introduce pop music stars in 1991, Li Lecheng really wanted to fight for it, whether he could be on the stage of a Super Bowl performance once!

Li Lecheng was also extremely excited when he heard the news! They caught up with a good time slot! It just so happens that the new NFL season is coming!

Then half a day later, the other party informed them that the contract had to be renewed, and they and NBC jointly decided to enable the Final countdown as the official NFL theme song for the next five years!

Because NBC has the rights to broadcast the NFL, their packaging and promotion of the NFL has always been very systematic, and since the 80s, NBC has interspersed sports music that they have selected for the NFL when broadcasting programs, which will be the feature of their programs for decades to come. The executives of both sides watched this episode last night and liked the song very much, and NBC had the intention of choosing a fixed track as the actual official theme song since the 85 season, but the NFL originally only allowed their TV broadcasts to have a "program-limited theme song", and did not want to directly choose a song as the official theme song of the league game.

Theme song?!

Sports game theme song?!

In this year's large-scale international events, there are usually only solemn and solemn race songs that have been passed down from generation to generation.

Even the World Cup, the world's most influential single sport, has no theme song for each tournament. Just two years before the Olympics, there was this new thing.

But the final countdown has appeared!

It is a global phenomenon-level hit new song! But it has not yet been a complete explosion in North America, it still has great freshness and potential, and it is the strongest sports song after the theme song of "Rocky 3" Eye of the Tiger (Tiger Eye), without the blessing of the movie, its popularity is no weaker than the tiger's eye back then! In addition, it is more common than Tiger's Eye to kill countries and regions of different cultures around the world, which is also of great help to the NFL to expand its influence in the world, especially in Europe and Asia. At the same time, it is loved by the top executives of both NBC and NFL! Everything is so just right!

Well? Say it's not a song by a North American band? Please, the NFL claims to be an "international event", although it is not recognized in other places except North America, but it is not recognized, so it is necessary for them to do publicity work! It is precisely because this song is not a North American song, or even from Europe and the United States, that it seems international! And the NFL is the No. 1 commercial league in sports, they are naturally shrewd, if the theme song is just the league's official high-level want to be happy, they will not spend this money, what they want is its cultural leapfrog ability! In this way, there is news explosion and eye-catching!

Li Lecheng soon realized that as long as the song was broadcast for one season during the NFL game, the national population of North America would have to go against the sky! Broadcast for five years! I'm afraid it will become an eternal memory engraved in the DNA of the whole people, just like it is in Europe!

The three parties signed the contract very quickly, and at the same time, the band also received a super big job!

A week later, the NFL season opener will be performed!

"Fortunately, the pop music scene in this era has not yet focused on NFL drainage, although the NFL has been very commercialized, but it has not yet been commercialized to the depth of cooperation with the entertainment industry." Li Lecheng picked up the big leak by chance, and happily secretly rejoiced.

The contract is officially signed, and for the next five years, the band will receive 2 million US dollars per year for the use of the band!

Although it is not much, it is more generous than what authorized movies to use, and now it is not the future, and generally online hit songs are authorized to Hollywood movies to be used as interludes or theme songs, and it is only 3 to 50,000 US dollars, and the Big Bang Divine Comedy cannot break one million.

Moreover, it can dramatically expand the song's reach and sales in North America!

Moreover, everyone's pension insurance is also stronger and richer!

Robert of Atlantic Records watched the whole process and was dumbfounded!

"Oh! In other words, we can print the NFL theme song on the cover and sell this single for five years just by selling it?! ”

He began to regret why he didn't apply to the ministry to sell out the band's sky-high record contract, even if it was worth buying the label!

Even Warner Records, which usually doesn't interfere in the operation of Atlantic Records, couldn't sit still: "Damn it! Why didn't they buy! Why didn't you win the global market in the first place! Do you know what you're up against! Based on its previous sales trend, it is likely to be the highest-selling single released this year in the world except for We Are the World! But from now on! Its influence in North America, no, the global will definitely be greater than the theme song of last year's Los Angeles Olympics, "Sprint"! ”

"Sprint" was not mentioned after the Olympics, even if it was fanfare and crazy publicity at that time, it could not be sold locally in North America at that time, although it was sung by superstar Leon Richie, but the highest weekly ranking of Billboard was only 81st! In terms of the true classicity, it will be beaten by the "Hand in Hand" of the next 88 Peninsula Hancheng Olympics in the future. The main reason is that the song itself is a burning electronic music fast song, which is suitable for disco, but for the global prosperity, it will be mediocre. The energy contained in such a song is not majestic enough! The melody is not very catchy, and there are no memory points.

And what song is The Final Countdown, it is the global number one in the original history for 86 years!

I have to admit that they have the power to dominate the world's popular culture! Li Lecheng and they can be regarded as eye-opening, and they have seen the powerful, efficient and giant super system network of the media industry here!

They didn't think they had done anything, they just went on a show, performed for five or six minutes, and then, magazine interviews, TV interviews flocked to them, and as soon as the news was hyped by the media, the single sold out of stock!

The band has group interviews and interviews every day, today "Rolling Stone Magazine" did an exclusive interview and took a cover photo, "Cow Times" entertainment edition report, tomorrow "Time" magazine interview and cover shooting, and MTV channel specials, the day after tomorrow, European and Asian media also flew over to join in the fun...... Because this is the first time that the Asian music scene has had such a big impact in the Western world!

It's crazy!