Chapter 451 450. The dizzying weekly sales charts, the deliberate suppression by European and American media (please subscribe)

The official program team tried every means to create an atmosphere of a strong confrontation.

but……

This is according to the poll results of some media on social platforms.

Most people still choose to support Wang Qian because they like Wang Qian's works more and they cannot refuse Wang Qian's works.

A small number of people supported Sophie and expressed their appreciation for her work and talent!

but……

On social platforms, more and more people choose to support Sophie.

Because many media have started to set the pace.

"We should keep the championship in the European and American music scene instead of letting Wang Qian bring it back to the Chinese music scene!"

"Although Sophie is a French contestant, she is also a talented singer in Europe and America. She should win the championship..."

"Sophie's strength and talent are no less than Wang Qian's. What she lacks is just time to accumulate experience. She deserves to win the championship..."

"Do you want to see a Chinese singer take the world championship? I don't want to, so I support Sophie..."

"How to choose between Wang Qian and Sophie? I choose Sophie, because Sophie is just too perfect. She is the perfect combination of talent and beauty."

…

Many gossip media, as well as small and medium-sized media and many self-media, have begun to publish headlines like these, attracting many people to click and watch, and influencing many people.

The big media and big-name singers and stars have not yet come out to explicitly support Sophie, but there is some implicit support.

For example, the Los Angeles Times said yesterday: "Adam has failed. We should place our hopes on Sophie. Sophie deserves more from us than Wang Qian..."

The voices supporting Wang Qian are much smaller. Apart from the official publicity from the program team, there are only some die-hard fans of Wang Qian and people like Robert who publicly support Wang Qian. Compared with the increasing number of voices supporting Sophie, Wang Qian seems to be becoming weaker.

The contrast became even more obvious on the weekend, when the competition and performance were about to begin.

Many mainstream media in Europe and the United States have begun to support Sophie.

Although the Chinese media is also trying hard to speak out, the voice is only spread within China and will not cause much response internationally.

and……

Compared to last week.

This week, fewer and fewer media outlets were hyping up the pop music sales charts. By the weekend, everyone even tacitly agreed not to mention it.

Whether it is the media or big-name singers and stars, they all have a tacit understanding not to talk about this week's pop music sales charts.

seem.

The many singers and works that have set new sales records this week are no longer so important.

Even the competition between Sophie and Kristen for the second place in the weekly chart became much calmer, and it even stopped on Friday. Neither of them appeared on social media again, and they both began to concentrate on their own works.

Many media outlets did not even mention or hype the fact that Sophie's sales have consistently exceeded Kristen's by millions. Also, not many people mentioned the fact that Kristen was surpassed by someone in the European and American music scene for the first time.

Even though this almost symbolizes an epochal change in the European and American music scene, no one hypes up such a major event in the pop music scene.

This can be seen!

Professionals and media in the European and American music scene really don't want to contribute any traffic or popularity to Wang Qian.

because……

If one wants to hype up the sales performance between Sophie and Christine, one cannot ignore Wang Qian, who topped the list and broke the weekly sales record again.

Well, then no one should report it, and let’s all forget about it!

To this.

Wang Qian didn't pay much attention to it.

He has been busy rehearsing and working with his band members.

I also have to take time out every day to do a live broadcast on Feiyue, and occasionally do a live broadcast on Douyue and Weishi to earn some extra money.

The time passed compactly and fulfillingly.

It's the weekend.

In the morning, Wang Qian left the hotel with Jiang Yu, Murong Yue, Juliet, Zhao Wei, He Fulin, and Qin Xuerong, just like he did in the previous few days, and went to the recording studio to practice.

Qin Xuerong suggested, "We're going to perform tonight, why don't we practice in the morning and rest in the afternoon?"

Wang Qian looked at the few people and nodded: "Okay, let's go to the venue for a walk in the afternoon and then rest."

Jiang Yu flipped through his phone and muttered, "This time, the European and American media are openly targeting us. They are everywhere calling on everyone to support Sophie, and they are suppressing Professor Wang in various ways."

Wang Qian looked out the window at the many media outlets that were gathered near the hotel. He held Qin Xuerong's hand tightly and said with a smile, "This is their normal operation. It doesn't matter! We just need to do our own thing. Even if we lost to Sophie, it's because we were not prepared."

Juliet shook her head: "As long as the teacher performs normally, there is no way she will lose. Even if these media help Sophie so much, she is the most intuitive choice on the sales list. The teacher's sales are still much higher than Sophie's. This further proves that the market recognizes the teacher the most."

Sales ranking? Wang Qian then picked it up and took a look.

The week is almost over.

If it were a few weeks ago, there would definitely be a lot of media and industry insiders hyping up sales charts today.

However, today, unusually, I didn't see any media reports.

Wang Qian doesn't care about this, as long as it doesn't affect sales, it doesn't matter.

The sales volume of We will rock you is definitely ranked first. The cumulative sales volume has exceeded 680 million so far, and there is still a possibility of weekly sales volume exceeding 700 million.

This sales volume is absolutely an incredible result, even more incredible than Wang Qian’s record-breaking sales volume last week. Miracles happen to Wang Qian every week.

In any country, this matter would be hyped up.

But now, in North America, few people care and few media mention it.

The targeting is very obvious.

Wang Qian smiled faintly and looked at the rankings behind.

Sophie has been standing at the second place with sales of more than 380 million. Although it is a close call, it has only surpassed Christine by less than 2 million, but it has firmly held this position. It is estimated that by the end of this week tonight, it will still be firmly in the position. Christine has no hope of surpassing her.

Sophie is the first singer, besides Wang Qian, to directly defeat Christine in the sales market.

Because Wang Qian is a foreign Chinese singer who will eventually return to China to develop his career, Sophie's victory over Christine is even more significant in the European and American music scene, as it represents the end of Christine's era of dominating the European and American music scene.

However, this incident was still not hyped up by the media, as if the change of dynasties in the European and American music scene was no longer important.

Christine ranked third, with sales of more than 380 million, and she also secured fourth place, with sales of 360 million! Sophie ranked fifth, with sales of 340 million. Miyuki Nakamori ranked sixth, which surprised many people. Her sales were also as high as 320 million, entering the super club of weekly sales of over 300 million, becoming the fourth person in the history of world pop music to achieve this achievement, with only Wang Qian, Christine and Sophie ahead of her.

The seventh place is still Sophie's work, with sales just over 300 million, reaching more than 305 million. Following closely behind are Miyuki Nakamori in eighth and ninth place, with sales of more than 280 million. I wonder if it can exceed 300 million after this week. If the sales of these two works also exceed 300 million, then Miyuki Nakamori will really establish her status as a god, and can be compared with Sophie and Christine.

However, now Miyuki Nakamori's fame and status in the world music scene have risen a lot. After all, one of her works has sold over 300 million copies in the first week. There are only four people in the world who have achieved this, which is definitely an amazing achievement.

Many people also felt terrified when they saw this list.

Even the sales of the eighth and ninth places reached more than 280 million, which is unimaginable for any person working in the pop music industry. No matter whether they are newcomers who have just entered the industry or the older generation who have been in the industry for decades, they all feel dizzy when seeing these numbers.

What surprised many people even more was that Wang Qian's guzheng music actually stayed at the tenth place until the weekend, with cumulative sales reaching 250 million. Although it is impossible to exceed 300 million sales, such weekly sales are already a record-breaking sales performance in the field of classical music, which shocked the entire world classical music community.

All the classical music performers are eager to try, as if they see a bright future for making money.

A Chinese classical instrument performance can earn hundreds of millions of dollars in a week...

Well, even if they are not as good as Wang Qian, it should not be difficult for them to make tens of millions of dollars a week, right? Many world-class musicians in the world have never made tens of millions of dollars in their entire lives. Seeing Wang Qian making so much money with just one guzheng piece, how can they sit still? Many classical music artists have announced news about the release of their works in the near future, but not many people are paying attention.

After all, people don’t pay attention to or have any interest in the field of classical music, especially now that pop music is so eye-catching, even fewer people pay attention to classical music!

In addition to the top ten sales lists, the following rankings are also very popular, which is what is different now from before.

In the past sales charts, only the top ten were the most eye-catching, and after the top ten, people paid less attention.

However, on this list, after the top ten, the sales are still incredibly high, and there are countless big-name singers and super newcomers.

Adam, who ranked 11th, still had sales of over 210 million, and Elizabeth, who ranked 12th, also had sales of just over 200 million. Most of the works of the other world championship contestants also had sales of over 100 million, with only a few having sales hovering around 70 or 80 million, and their rankings dropped below the 20th place.

Green's work ranked sixteenth, with sales of over 150 million, once again a huge success. Ellie's sales also reached over 140 million, further consolidating her position!

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Even Robert, who was ranked around 20th, had sales of over 100 million. Robert's reputation soared, and he gained both fame and fortune. For this reason, he publicly supported Wang Qian many times...

Yunna, who ranked 23rd, had sales of just over 100 million. Following her were some big-name singers whose sales did not exceed 100 million, but also exceeded 90 million.

Looking down, there are more than 30 rankings, with sales of more than 30 million... In the past, this could have competed for the top spot in the week, but now it can only rank in the 30th place.

The prosperity of pop music has attracted the attention of the whole world!

But the focus of everyone's attention is still on the World Championship.

This is also one of the reasons why Wang Qian did not care and remained calm after knowing that those media outlets were deliberately suppressing him.

As long as he performs normally in the World Championship, and as long as the World Championship is broadcast live to the world, these little tricks now will be of no use.

In the end, everything depends on the work and strength.

Wang Qian knew that if he performed as well as Sophie, he would lose, because Sophie would naturally receive some irrational support from European and American audiences, just like the support he received in China.

Only if his performance is better than Sophie's can he attract everyone's support.

This is also the fundamental reason why he has come this far.

He is able to surpass his opponents by one level in every competition and performance.

The audiences in person and in front of the TV could not refuse his performance and works and could only support him.

"Wow... these people are crazy!"

Murong Yue exclaimed again.

Jiang Yu asked curiously: "What's wrong?"

Murong Yue said quickly: "The tickets for the finals have been sold out. The first row of tickets cost more than two million US dollars and were sold out within a minute. Now, someone is buying the first row of tickets and asking for five million US dollars, but he didn't buy them... There are so many rich people in the United States..."

Juliet smiled and said, "This is the last official World Championship. The worldwide attention has reached an incredible level. No one would refuse such a performance. Therefore, no one would sell their tickets."

Murong Yue continued, "The last row of tickets are priced at 50,000 US dollars, which is amazing. The ticket revenue of this show is terrifying, it must be more than 2 billion US dollars! Wow, 7% of it is the championship prize..."

Everyone looked at Wang Qian and felt that the championship prize was already in Wang Qian's pocket.

Wang Qian said softly, "You guys are already thinking about the prize money before the competition even starts. You should prepare well and get in shape, and don't let down on stage."

After hearing this, several people quickly calmed down.

Murong Yue also put away her phone, curled her lips at Wang Qian, and then closed her eyes to rest and get into shape for the evening's performance.

Jiang Yu, Juliet, Zhao Wei, He Fulin and others were also on high alert.

No one wants to make a mistake on this final stage, because it will definitely go down in history! No matter how long it takes, someone will see who made the mistake from this performance...

That would truly be a disgrace for eternity.

Wang Qian looked out the window.

The car had been on the road for more than ten minutes, but many media reporters could still be seen taking pictures of the car they were riding in.

It seemed that these media reporters could stretch all the way from the hotel to the recording studio without interruption.

After so long, the media already knew where Wang Qian was practicing, so it was not surprising that they could follow him to the recording studio.

Fortunately, everyone is used to it and doesn't care about it.

When the car arrives, just go in and practice as usual!

I had lunch at noon and took a good nap to rest.

Then we gathered and headed to the performance venue.

Staples Center!

And at this moment.

There were already crowds of people outside the Staples Center.

Looking from a high place, there were so many people that you couldn't see the end of the crowd. There were at least tens of thousands of people gathered outside, so densely packed that the nearby roads were completely blocked.

There were far more people gathered than last week, and uniformed Los Angeles officers maintaining order could be seen everywhere, as well as many ambulances parked nearby.

The media from all over the world seemed inconspicuous among such a large crowd, and were overshadowed by the support banners erected everywhere.

Words supporting Sophie and Wang Qian can be seen everywhere.

In the afternoon, when Wang Qian's car arrived at the venue, he could see dense crowds of people even from a few kilometers away.

Many people recognized Wang Qian's car at a glance.

so……

Rhythmic applause quickly broke out among the crowd on the roadside.

Snap…

Snap...

Snap… Snap…

The sounds became louder and more uniform.

It soon took the whole place by storm.

All media were extremely excited to record this scene.

Because every time Wang Qian came to the venue, he would cause a sensation among the audience.

Therefore, the media was better prepared this time, and wanted to capture this scene more clearly that would go down in history...

(End of this chapter)