Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 308 Punch Michael and kick Madonna

Chen Qiming didn't care too much about whether Marshall, the father-in-law in his dream, would eventually come to Los Angeles to find him.

The main reason why he gave him a business card was because he loved talent.

He also wants the future media to say that he is the leader of a certain superstar and that he is a Bole.

However, the premise of all this is that others are willing.

Just like Jay Chou, Chen Qiming gave him the opportunity to join his own Qidian Records.

The choice has always been with Jay Chou. If he is willing, Chen Qiming will not mind investing resources to promote him in advance, but if he is not willing, then he will not force it.

The same is true for Marshall, but he is just playing a random game. In the final analysis, it will not affect Chen Qiming with or without him.

Therefore, after giving Marshall his business card, Chen Qiming stopped paying attention to him and instead focused on promoting his own records.

In the next few days, after Chen Qiming visited several cities in North America, he went to Canada, Australia, South America and other places for promotion under the arrangement of Warner Records.

The goals of Chen Qiming and Warner Records have always been clear. Their goal has always been the global market, not the single North American market.

To put it bluntly, in Warner and Chen Qiming's plan, his goal has always been to become a singer with huge influence around the world like Michael Jackson.

Although he is still some distance away from this goal, it is obviously not far away.

Last year's first EP album made Chen Qiming an instant hit in North America. Several songs in the EP have been sung to a certain extent around the world.

This gives Chen Qiming a good foundation, allowing his new album to have an impact on a global scale as quickly as possible.

During this period, Chen Qiming naturally needed to be present to promote the event.

In June, under the arrangement of Warner Records, Chen Qiming held several large-scale performances in Canada, Australia and even South America.

At every event, Chen Qiming was warmly welcomed by local fans.

The reason for all this is naturally that the sales and reputation of the album "Eternity" have exploded.

The album "Eternity" was released on May 810th. As of June 1995th, within one month, global sales reached a terrifying [-] million copies, allowing Chen Qiming to successfully lead the [-] annual sales list.

Crazy sales have brought Chen Qiming endless praise and reputation.

The album "Eternity" is only Chen Qiming's first album.

But the impact he made was absolutely huge.

On the US Billboard, the song "As Long As You Love Me" successfully topped the charts in the third week, bringing Chen Qiming his first Billboard number one.

"My Heart Will Go On" is not weak either. It made it into the top three and is expected to compete for the championship.

Other songs have also had a huge improvement on the Billboard. Among them, "What Are Words" has climbed the fastest, from the original more than 50 to [-], becoming the third most popular song of this album. .

In addition to the United States, this album is also a hit in other parts of the world.

It has topped the authoritative music charts in fifteen countries and regions including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and India.

In Europe, they also won championships in [-] countries.

Plus the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, South America...

In a word, flowers bloom on all sides.

Chen Qiming's album really blossomed in all directions.

Time Magazine said this about Chen Qiming.

"With an angelic face, a singing voice that the gods would envy, and amazing musical talent, this is a world-class musical genius..."

The terrifying sales and the blessing of championships in dozens of countries made Chen Qiming completely out of the circle.

At the same time, it also allowed Chen Qiming to completely get rid of the label of European and American newcomers and successfully join the ranks of first-line superstars.

This superstar is no longer the half-assed superstar he was before, but a real one.

It is more appropriate to describe it as a specialization to become a god.

Apart from anything else, during this period of June, absolutely no one in the world was as famous as Chen Qiming.

In fact, an incident that happened on the 23rd was that the media directly promoted that Chen Qiming's popularity has exploded to the point that even Michael Jackson had to avoid being aggressive when facing him.

On June 23, Chen Qiming and Michael Jackson represented Warner and Sony respectively to support "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Jumanji".

The two films are produced by Warner Bros. New Line Cinema and Sony respectively.

The two movies will be released on the same schedule and are the biggest rivals in this schedule.

In order to outshine its rivals in filmmaking capabilities, Warner Records arranged for Chen Qiming to attend the premiere of "Seven Deadly Sins", hoping to use Chen Qiming's recent crazy popularity in North America to boost the box office of "Seven Deadly Sins".

After Sony learned that "Seven Deadly Sins" had invited the most popular singer Chen Qiming to attend, it directly arranged for Michael Jackson from its record company Columbia to attend the premiere of "Jumanji".

On both sides, one is Chen Qiming, who is famous all over the world. The other is Michael Jackson, who has been popular for many years and has always been the king of pop music.

Before the premiere, major media outlets began to spontaneously build momentum for the collision of the two popular music superstars.

Of course, most people must be optimistic about Michael Jackson.

After all, this man is now at his peak and can be called a god in the American music scene.

But something unexpected happened.

On that day, outside the premiere of "Seven Deadly Sins", there were too many fans present to support Chen Qiming.

The two streets outside the hotel where the premiere was held were filled with Chen Qiming's fans, which completely blocked the traffic.

All the fans present held up posters of Chen Qiming to support him.

Compared with Chen Qiming's side, although Michael Jackson's side is equally popular, it is much worse than Chen Qiming's side.

Michael Jackson was originally the target of disparagement by the American media.

So, the next day, a strange phenomenon occurred.

A large number of media and newspapers began to promote that Chen Qiming was more popular than Michael Jackson, and they wildly promoted Chen Qiming and underestimated Michael Jackson.

After this news reached Hong Kong and Taiwan, the media in Hong Kong and Taiwan went crazy.

On the 25th, an article titled "Punched Michael, Kicked Madonna" was published by Baodao Daily, which made Chen Qiming's eyelids jump.

This article simply praises Chen Qiming to the heavens.

In the description of the article, Chen Qiming has already begun to slaughter gods and prove his religion.

International superstars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna are not his enemies at all.

This article made Chen Qiming himself embarrassed.

To be honest, he is indeed very popular recently, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is popular all over the world.

But it would be true to say that he punched Michael and kicked Madonna.

In a real sense, he has just stepped onto the front line.

Now his status in Europe and the United States is just like when he released "Fairy Tale", he became an instant hit and took the Chinese music world by storm.

Judging from the popularity, he seemed to be on par with the Four Heavenly Kings.

But the actual situation is that his status and popularity are very weak, and he cannot compare with the four kings at that time.

The same is true now. It seems that he is more popular than Michael Jackson, but this is all short-lived.

When the "Eternal" craze passes, his popularity will quickly retreat and return to the position he deserves now.

However, to be honest, Chen Qiming still quite likes his current state.

In Europe and the United States, wherever he goes, there will be countless fans chasing him crazily, just like when he first became famous in Asia.While Chen Qiming was all over the map promoting it, the miracles of "Eternity" were still continuing.

On June 29, the latest week's Billboard charts were released.

"As Long As You Love Me" continues to win the championship, this is its third championship.

"My Heart Will Go On" ranked second.

"What Are Words" has stabilized in the dozen, currently ranked No. 14.

"Lonely" is ranked at 25. This song, a duet with Madonna, has been hovering in the 40s. Last week, Madonna's tour concert returned to the United States. Chen Qiming was invited to attend one, and the two sang at the concert. This song was highly praised by the media.

Affected by this, the song's influence has expanded again, rising by more than a dozen places this week.

Then there is "One Love", this song ranked thirty.The song was very popular in Europe and even became the most popular song of the album in Europe on some charts.

After the news from Europe reached North America, the song climbed into the top fifty.

Then there are the World Championship theme song "Dream It Possible" and the red zone theme song "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark".

These two songs ranked 46th and 75th respectively.

In addition to these two songs, what surprised Chen Qiming was that the song "Bounce" he randomly selected from the album also entered the Billboard Hot [-] singles list this week.

The ranking is not high, only No. 90.

In addition, three songs from his EP released last year also made a rare return to the charts this week.

In this way, he created another miracle, that is, he had eleven songs on the chart at the same time.

Although this did not create history, it was a rare achievement in the American music scene.

Moreover, eight of his songs from a single album have charted at the same time, which also makes him one more place on the list of the number of songs from a single album to chart at the same time, ranking fourth in history.

"Asians are going crazy, and eleven songs are on the charts at the same time!"

"Superstar appeal! Influenced by Chen Qiming, a large number of people went to China just to learn the legendary martial arts!"

The next day, the news that Chen Qiming had eleven songs on the Billboard at the same time was reported by the media.

At the same time, a photo of a group of Americans wearing Shaolin monk and Taoist uniforms was widely circulated.

This matter was very popular in the United States. It is said that a group of Americans came up with the idea of ​​learning martial arts after seeing the MV of Chen Qiming's "What Are Words" song. Then a group of people made an appointment and flew directly to China.

After this group of people arrived in China, they split up. One wave went to Shaolin Temple, and the other ran to Wudang Mountain.

By the way, in the MV for the album "Eternity", in order to promote Chinese culture, Chen Qiming added Chinese cultural color differences into several MVs.

For example, in "What Are Words", in this song, he added a scene of Taoist priests practicing on Wudang Mountain.

In fact, this only appeared on location.

Unexpectedly, these foreigners actually noticed the group of Taoists practicing martial arts.

Looking at the foreigners wearing Taoist robes and smiling brightly in the newspaper, Chen Qiming's eyes moved slightly.

Perhaps, I can add more Chinese culture to my future MVs...

When the time came to July, Chen Qiming's record promotion plan came to an end, and Chen Qiming could have some free time.

However, just when Chen Qiming wanted to rest in the United States for a few days, a call came on the [-]rd, forcing him to come to Qidian Records in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles-based Qidian Records had just formed.

This record production company was established by Chen Qiming with the help of Warner Records. Its main function is to make it easier for Chen Qiming to produce English records in the future.

Of course, as a record production company, the company cannot only focus its business on Chen Qiming.

When signing new people to produce records, self-sufficiency is definitely needed.

That's why Chen Qiming gave Marshall his business card last time in Detroit and asked him to come to Los Angeles to find him.

Today, it was Marshall who called Chen Qiming.

The future rap king known as Mu Ye has arrived in Los Angeles and is now at Qidian Records.

"Mr. Chen!"

The location of Qidian Records is not large, because it was established not long ago, and there are not many employees in the company. Apart from some clerks, there are only some less important employees.

Arriving at the reception room, Chen Qiming saw Marshall as soon as he entered the door.

He was sitting on the sofa stiffly.

Seeing Chen Qiming come in, he stood up immediately.

"I thought you wouldn't come!"

Chen Qiming said with a smile.

It was a month ago when he gave this guy his business card.

For such a long time, he had thought that this guy would never come.

"I believe Mr. Chen. I decided to come after I got your business card. However, Detroit is too far away from here and I don't have travel expenses, so I worked for a while and collected enough money before I came!"

Marshall bent over and said restrainedly.

"OK! Since you are here, it means you believe in my newly established company.

So, take a look at your contract!If you think it's okay, let's sign a contract! "

Chen Qiming took out a contract for the company's new recruits from the drawer and handed it to Marshall.

"If you are worried, there is a law firm downstairs. You can ask a lawyer to come and take a look.

Of course, you can also take it back to the hotel to have a look, and then come and see Jester from the company after you decide. "

"I'll just take a look here!"

Marshall took the contract, took a deep breath, opened it and began to read.

When he was reading the contract, Chen Qiming didn't speak. Instead, he sat on a chair and began to think deeply.

He was thinking about how to use Marshall and Chester.

Chester was the lead singer of the band Gray Smoke.

Recently, a lot of English rock music has appeared in his dreams, and a lot of this information also appeared in it.

This information also allowed Chen Qiming to finally know who Chester was.

Lead singer of Linkin Park.

Yes, this guy is the lead singer of Linkin Park, one of the greatest rock bands of the 21st century.

After learning the news, Chen Qiming immediately signed this guy to the company after the establishment of the American branch of Qidian Records.

A rock legend and a rap king, Chen Qiming was thinking about how he should use them to bring him the greatest benefit.

Of course, these two guys are too young now, and it is definitely impossible to let them debut now. They need to be given a chance to temper themselves before they can fly solo.

As for how to train, Chen Qiming has already made a decision in his mind.

"Mr. Chen, I'm optimistic about it. I agree with most of the terms here, but there is one that I think needs to be changed."

At this time, Marshall read the contract, raised his head and looked at Chen Qiming and said.

(End of this chapter)