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Chapter 281 COLORS Teen Vogue and Vanity Fair
Madison Beer and Billie Eilish's Future Now: The Tour came to a successful conclusion on September 9.

The rising popularity of the two warm-up guests has put Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas's US tour into a rather embarrassing situation.

What kind of embarrassment?

When the main guest came on stage, the cheers he received were not as embarrassing as the opening artist.

With each performance, the embarrassment of gradually increasing numbers of fans holding up "Madison Beer" and "Billie Eilish" light signs will appear.

In order to stimulate sales, the performance venue made the posters of Tracy McGrady and Billie the same size as the two headliners, and posted them side by side in front of the ticket window. It was so embarrassing.

Especially the latter, it's really embarrassing.

Future Now: The Tour is not a tour that can be described as a success. 42 concerts in the United States and Canada have ended, and the highest box office for a single show so far was the one held at the Barclays Center in New York on July 2016, 7.A total of 8 tickets were available for sale, of which 12556 were actually sold, with total revenue of $11456.

With this kind of data, there is no way you can even hope to squeeze into Pollstar’s top [-] annual concerts.

Not even the taillights can be seen.

In 2016, Pollstar's annual top 200 concerts, No. 3, was Adele's concert held by C12711 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. All 1544312 tickets were sold out, with a single-day box office of US$[-].

Twice as much as Future Now: The Tour.

Even if you look at the overall performance without looking at a single show, the performance of the tour is not much better. 2016 is coming to an end. Future Now: The Tour is currently ranked 69th on the Pollstar Top 57.79 Tours in North America.The average ticket price is US$7002, the average single-game audience is 404651, the average single-game box office is US$301090, and a total of [-] tickets were sold.

Gross revenue – $1740 million.

This is an annual tour sponsored by Honda Civic.

You know, the One Direction tour sponsored by Honda last year had a total of 54 shows throughout the year, with an average ticket price of US$88.91, an average audience of 43785 per show, an average box office of US$3892782 per show, a total of 2364390 tickets sold, and a gross revenue of 2.102 million US dollars. US dollars, ranking second on the annual list, second only to Taylor Swift’s 2.504 million.

One in the sky and one in the ground.

The organizer was dissatisfied because it took a whole year from preparation to official performance. In the end, after deducting costs and taxes, and including Honda's sponsorship, the profit was only about US$300 million, which was far short of the expected target.

The sponsors were also dissatisfied. There were only 12 fewer games, but the number of ticket sales was actually 7.7 times worse. It can also be said that the publicity effect was 7.7 times weaker.

Then the artist should be satisfied, right?After all, Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas signed a guaranteed deal, and each can take home millions of dollars regardless of whether the tour itself is a loss or a profit.

This can be said in two ways.

In the short term, I am quite satisfied. I have held 42 concerts. With the help of publicity and promotion, I have appeared on all the talk shows that I should be on. I can also go home with a seven-figure check, at least in the future. You don’t have to worry about running out of food at home for two or three years – no matter how lavish a Hollywood star is with money, he or she will not be able to make millions of dollars in such a short period of time.

But in the long run, the situation is not optimistic for the two.

Future Now: The Tour completely and completely exposed the weak commercial appeal of Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas.A layman can see the excitement, but an insider can see the rules. Professionals in the music industry can roughly calculate the guaranteed amount of Demi and Nick for a single show, as well as the box office share they finally received, by just glancing at the data.

And this will seriously affect the subsequent bargaining power of the two musicians.

Musicians speak by record sales, streaming volume, and concert attendance.

From these three aspects, the current voices of Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas have dropped to a new low in their careers.

On the other hand, their two warm-up guests are currently in the most vigorous and vigorous stage of their acting careers.

Billie Eilish's second promotional single "Bellyache" has been steadily rising since it ranked 42nd on the Billboard singles chart at the end of July. On August 8, it ranked 6th, surpassing "Close" by Nick Jonas and Tove Lowe, and one place behind his brother Joe Jonas' band DNCE. On August 40, when "Close" dropped to No. 8, "Bellyache" remained strong, moving up two slots with "Cake By The Ocean" to No. 13.

8月20日，《Cake By The Ocean》后退到了第41位，而《Bellyache》竟然冲到第35位，上面就是卢卡斯-格雷厄姆正在快速褪去热度的《7 Years》。8月27日第33位、9月3日第30位、9月10日第25位、9月17日第23位、9月24日第22位，而在新鲜出炉的10月1日榜单里，则上榜以来首次显出下降态势，后退一步来到第23位。

Putting the chart performance of all singles in the past two months into a curve chart, it can be clearly seen that "Bellyache" is a rare dark horse that has no ups and downs and keeps charging forward all the way.Although it is not as popular as the peak of "Cold Water", on one side, Major Lazer + Justin Bieber join forces, and on the other side, newcomer Billie Eilish, who is still under 16 years old, performs a one-man show. Being able to achieve this level is already It's really valuable.

"Bellyache" is also a sudden rise. It is a collaboration between rapper Gnash and unknown singer Olivia O'Brien. "I Hate UI Love U" was released through Atlantic Records. It is called the most popular song of the summer. A surprising new work by a newcomer.The performance of the two singles is almost the same. The weekly Spotify play volume of "I Hate UI Love U" is 3573338 times, and "Bellyache" is 3734704 times, which is basically a tie.In terms of rankings on the list, the former was ranked 23rd last week and 22nd this week, which is exactly the same position as the latter.

In addition, "I Hate UI Love U" mainly adopts a dark and decadent style from lyrics, arrangement to vocal melody.Therefore, the two singles, which are very close in all aspects, began to be frequently compared and summarized by music magazines and critics.According to Teen Vogue, these two songs, which depict the despair of today’s teenagers from different aspects, are fresh variations of Emo culture in the 2010s.

Emo in the 2000s was Paramore and My Chemical Romance, rebellious and unyielding, struggling but fierce.But the Emo of the 2010s is Billie Eilish, Gnash, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, and XXXTentacion, who will not release his first album until April 2017.

The Emo of the 2010s was about lying down after recognizing the reality, about self-destruction after the social class gap in Europe and America was so huge that it was insurmountable, and about the rapid decline after the proliferation of drugs could not be suppressed.

Han Yi knew very well that Billie Eilish's success was inextricably linked to her and her brother's own musical talent, creative talent and pop acumen, but what played the most critical role was the mighty and forward-moving The tide of the times.

She is a lucky person who happens to be chosen by the times. Her musical style can just represent the next generation born with her.This is also the reason why Han Yi did not deliberately follow the historical trajectory and released songs according to the original "Ocean Eyes"-"Six Feet Under"-"Bellyache" route, allowing her to gradually enter the public eye in February next year.

The bell of dawn has already sounded. Whether she debuts in 2016 or 2017, whether she becomes famous at the age of 14 or 15, it will not have much impact on Billie.

If "Ocean Eyes" allowed music fans to hear Billie Eilish's voice for the first time, then "Bellyache" was the first time the world saw her true undertones.

Yellow, black and red.

Depressed black, crazy yellow.

Bring a little blood sacrifice red.

Just like the MV for this song, which was shot in the wilderness of the outer suburbs of Los Angeles.

A petite, silver-haired girl dressed in bright yellow was dragging a toy-like red car with several bulging black plastic bags piled haphazardly on it.

Like green Franklin, also like formalin wrapped in body parts.

She stared blankly at the camera with her white eyes, and sang expressionlessly: "Where did my sanity go? Maybe in the stinky ditch, where I also abandoned my lover's body." "

How can children who grew up on "The Walking Dead", "Shameless" and "Breaking Bad" resist this twisted dark beauty?
As a result, just three months after its release, the total number of streams of "Bellyache" exceeded 4496 million times. Together with the 5160 digital singles sold, the converted sales of "Bellyache" totaled 304893, which is a great contribution to Han Music. Bringing in revenue of $143870.32.

Although it is still a little short of the 50 sales standard for a gold single certified by the RIAA, it is undoubtedly only a matter of time before it exceeds this number.

This will be Billie Eilish's first gold album.

The second single was able to achieve such an achievement. Even before the first EP was released, almost half of the advance payment was paid back. You can imagine Bili's joy and pride.

Although she still lives in Highland Park, during this time, Billie's favorite entertainment activity when she has free time is to let her brother Phineas drive her Hellcat to go shopping in Century City's West Park Shopping Center.

It doesn't matter what her brother wants to do next, as long as he can take her there without getting her driver's license.Anyway, Billie will stay there for the whole day. If Maddie is in Los Angeles, she will ask Maddie to wear sunglasses and walk in the Nordstorm department store, enjoying the sideways glances of the clerks, the whispers of the customers, and the attention of fans who occasionally come up to ask for photos.If Maddie wasn't there, she would buy a cup of Vegan Fro-Yo by herself, eat and shop leisurely, and slowly walk to the Star Tower across the street.

Billie Eilish appears in room 1001 and always gets a warm welcome from Han Music employees.

"Hey, Billie, congratulations, your ranking has risen again!"

"Billy, I just watched the documentary filmed by Apple Music on you last night. You looked very cute when you were a child... No, it seems like you are a child now."

"When does your tour start? Remember to save two tickets for me!"

Bi Li especially liked the feeling of being pampered in the palm of everyone's hands.

Everyone has been working hard day and night for her career, and caring for her with professionalism and enthusiasm.

If given a choice, Billie would go to get off work with them every day. The energy in Room 1001 was the energy she had dreamed of.

Unfortunately, in the past month or two, Billie has rarely had the opportunity to visit Han Music's office. Her schedule has been filled to the brim with various announcements.

The performance schedule is very small, because after joint research and judgment by Zhao Youzhen, Karen Guo and Celine Joshua, Billie Eilish's behind-the-scenes team unanimously agreed that she is not suitable to continue to perform live. exposure.

Future Now: The Tour gave Billie an opportunity to get familiar with the stage. The 15-minute performance time and the content of three songs were exactly the limit of the girl's current song reserve.

Yes, unlike Madison Beal, who has been under Scooter Braun for two or three years, Billie Eilish is a genuine newcomer. Before signing with Han Music, she had not released a single. However, so far, including "Six Feet Under" which has not yet been officially announced, there are only three songs that can be sung.Other songs from the first EP are still in the demo stage and are not available for release at the moment.

In other words, Billie simply cannot create a music festival set that lasts at least half an hour, let alone a livehouse tour.

Without seven or eight songs and a performance lasting more than an hour, who would buy a ticket to see you?

Therefore, Han Live directly set the schedule for Billie Eilish's first livehouse tour in April 2017 - the EP is expected to be released in March, leaving a month of media promotion time before embarking on the tour. Touring roads are the most suitable.

As for whether to partner up with other artists under Han Music and do a joint tour like Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas, all parties are still debating.Manager Zhao of Renyu Management hopes that Billie can be tied up with Khalid, who will also release his first album in March next year, to achieve the effect of 1+1>2, but Celine at Han Live is obviously more willing to let the two People separated, and according to the popularity statistics of the streaming media platform, they toured in different regions, helping Han Yi's live performance company to gain more box office.

But these are all plans that need to be put into practice after the New Year. Now, Billie's focus is to use "Ocean Eyes" as the fulcrum and "Bellyache" as the fulcrum to continue to inspire people. curiosity and expectation, paving the way for the next new music.

So, from August to September, Billie Eilish bounced between various media non-stop - from small online media with only tens of thousands of fans like umusicNZ and P8 Sveriges Radio to clear-themed media like COLORS. From a top-notch YouTube channel with over a million followers to "Teen Vogue" and "Vanity Fair", two first-line magazines with huge voices in both the online world and the real world, Billie Eilish's figure began to appear frequently. In people’s screens of different specifications and sizes.

Among them, the most worthy of celebration and pride for the Han Music Promotion Team is undoubtedly the favor of the latter three.

(End of this chapter)