China Entertainment 1997

Near noon on November 12, Cao Xuan finally reached the grand occasion of one person dominating the top ten.

Then the fans and the media went crazy, especially November 13th, which coincided with Cao Xuan's birthday, which brought a certain level of legend to this day.

Fans tried their best to play the song crazily in order to stay on the charts, and reporters also reported extensively, bringing great heat to the matter.

The top ten on the list is not easy to occupy. Not to mention popular songs such as "Courage" and "Dark Days", even rivals and competitors such as Xie Feng, Naying, and Ren Xianqi cannot just watch Cao Xuan show off his power.

Even fans like the Four Heavenly Kings, Wang Fei, and Zhang Huimei, who had nothing to do with Cao Xuan, silently left to cause trouble.

The entertainment industry is so big, and if Cao Xuan takes over, someone has to step down. Maybe the singers don't care, but fans still don't want anyone to replace or surpass their idol.

Therefore, although there is official support and a large number of enthusiastic people to help, there are also many people who are holding back.

This chart-killing battle seems to be stable. The 10 songs of "Bright Stars" dominated the charts for a whole day, and "Courage" remained at the eleventh position.

But in fact, the fighting behind the scenes was extremely fierce, and even Warner Bros. and Fanxing invested a certain amount of money in the later period to ensure that this historical achievement was preserved.

Fortunately, although the process was difficult, on November 13, 2000, 10 of Cao Xuan's songs remained in the top ten.

Although the internal rankings have changed, "Courage" has never been able to overtake it.

Even this record was maintained until around 1:00 noon on November 14th, and the total time of dominating the rankings before and after exceeded 50 hours before it was broken.

Many fans and even the industry consider November 13, 2000 as Cao Xuan's apotheosis day.

Jay Chou and Wang Toutiao are known as half of the Chinese music scene, while Cao Xuan is directly the whole group. From now on, his nickname can be called "Cao Bi".

Uh, let’s call him Cao Quanbi... or say goodbye to Cao...

The media on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places vigorously publicized it, and various media in Asia also reprinted this grand event, and even related reports were reported in Europe and the United States.

After all, it is indeed difficult to imagine a singer achieving such dominance on the pop charts in his country.

Those who can do this are all "national treasure" singers of the country, such as Michael Jackson from the United States, The Beatles from the United Kingdom, and Teresa Teng from China...

Cao Xuan may not be able to rank with these music legends yet, but he is still qualified to mention them.

In fact, Cao Xuan had three consecutive hit albums from 1998 to 2000, each one becoming more popular than the last.

Nowadays, Cao Xuan has broken away from the concept of the new generation of kings and has begun to rank among the top kings and queens such as Zhang Guorong, Zhang Tianwang, Wang Fei and Liu Tianwang.

When it comes to performance and sales in the music industry, Cao Xuan is not inferior to them at all. The only thing worse than them is that he became popular too quickly, resulting in insufficient background, qualifications, influence and nationality.

This is Cao Xuan's most troublesome weakness at the moment. Everything else is easy to deal with, but these aspects can only be solved bit by bit with time.

But there are advantages to this, that is, those few have basically touched or are close to the ceiling, while Cao Xuan is still on the rise and still has a lot of potential to tap.

A few years later, when Cao Xuan had accumulated enough experience, influence and nationality, it was time for him to overtake others.

In November, the cumulative sales of Stars Trilogy have exceeded 7 million+, and looking at the momentum of Stars, there is great hope that the three albums will break into the 10 million sales club.

Even if you can't reach three, it won't be too far away. It's only a matter of time before you reach tens of millions.

Putting aside those albums whose promotional nature and associated pirated sales are included in the calculation, only the genuine sales data disclosed by authoritative organizations.

You can count the number of Chinese music singers with album sales reaching tens of millions on both hands.

It can be said that no matter what happens in the future, Cao Xuan is already an unavoidable name when it comes to the Chinese music scene.

"Contemporary Music" published a special issue for the second time within a month around Cao Xuan.

The cover of this special issue of "Contemporary Music" is the cover of Cao Xuan's "Bright Stars". Cao Xuan is alone with his back to the camera and facing the starry sky, looking at the stars in the sky, among which one is the most shining.

And the title of this special issue also fits the cover——

"Among the Chinese stars, I am the only one who shines brightly. The era that belongs to Cao Xuan has come"

………

When the media industry was crazily praising Cao Xuan, Cao Xuan put an end to his own ranking incident.

He sincerely expressed his gratitude to his fans and all those who helped him reach the list through multiple platforms such as print media, three major portals, QQ, Tianya Forum, etc.

At the same time, it is also stated that everyone can calm down, do not rush to the list, and let the list return to its normal state.

To put it bluntly, just give up when you are ready.

The Gods Day has been successfully achieved, the momentum has been picked up, and the album has no shortage of sales, so there is no need to cling to the charts and not let go, leaving a way for other singers and avoiding continuing to be the target of public criticism.

After all, Cao Xuan has also seen that with this huge victory in the battle for dominance, coupled with the album's good performance and the media's promotion, everyone is a little inferior, looking down on this one and looking down on that one.

If he continued playing like this, he might arouse public outrage, so Cao Xuan took the initiative to pour cold water on him to cool him down, and then retired.

This not only prevents fans from losing control and causing large-scale conflicts with other people, but also gives them a reputation of being humble and sensible, achieving multiple goals with one stone.

The longer Cao Xuan has been in the entertainment industry, the more he feels that being sharp is not necessarily a good thing. Leaving two points of leeway in everything can avoid a lot of trouble for him.

But then again, the entertainment industry is a vanity fair. You can leave room for it, but you must not hide your clumsiness. You will get the limelight when you deserve it.

Stealing all the limelight and then giving up some of it, people say you are fastidious and know how to behave.

But in the face of the limelight, if you have the strength but take the initiative to avoid it, people will not accept your affection. Instead, they will take it for granted and think you are weak or stupid.

There are a lot of detailed operations in this process, and Cao Xuan doesn't know if he is doing it right or not, so he can only fumble around bit by bit.

Fortunately, the results were good, at least in this matter. Some people may say that he is just trying to gain fame, but they will never say that he is stupid, and they also recognize Cao Xuan's strength.

However, although Cao Xuan issued a statement calling on fans not to deliberately rush to the charts, the quality of "Bright Stars" is at stake here.

"The Wind Rises", "Ten Years", "Fireworks Easily Cold", "Blue Lotus", "Secret Fragrance", "Jiangnan", "Stubborn", "Little Love Song", "Yellow Race" and "Absolute Infatuation"

All of them are popular and high-quality hits, and some of them are even king-level ones. Coupled with Cao Xuan's popularity and the influence of media massacres.

Even if Cao Xuan takes the initiative to withdraw and fans no longer deliberately chart, there are still few songs that can threaten the status of "Bright Stars".

On November 14, "Courage" returned to the top ten.

It took two full days for "The Sky is Dark" to turn Cao Laojiu into Cao Laoba again, and another week later, "Little Love Song" was squeezed out of the top ten.

But the remaining seven songs still stayed firmly on the list until the end of November. No song could push them out. Over time, everyone got used to it.

At least seven out of ten, which is much better than Cao Xuan taking all the top ten by himself, is barely within the tolerance range.

………

Throughout November 2000, there was no artist more popular than Cao Xuan in the Chinese music scene and even in the entire entertainment industry.

It was so popular that even the Spring Festival Gala director team couldn't help but take advantage of the popularity and revealed the news that Cao Xuan participated in this Spring Festival Gala.

Although many people guessed that Cao Xuan would participate in the Spring Festival Gala based on his performance in the previous two years and his popularity this year, the speculation was just a guess after all, and everyone was still excited after receiving the accurate confirmation.

Compared with his first appearance in the Spring Festival Gala two years ago, Cao Xuan now has a certain audience appeal in the Spring Festival Gala, and is one of the few non-verbal programs that is widely anticipated by the outside world.

Even Cao Xuan, who had seen many big scenes, felt a bit pressured.

This is different from the pressure of performing live on stage, which is the fear of embarrassing the performance and the public's expectations. In addition to the fear of making mistakes in the performance, there is also the fear that the program will not be effective and cause everyone's disappointment. It can be said to be double pressure.

Just like Lao Zhao, hundreds of millions of people stare at him every Spring Festival. Not only must he not make mistakes in his performance, but he must also perform well. You can imagine how much psychological quality is tested in this.

Song Dandan, Fan Wei and other sketch stars have withdrawn from the Spring Festival Gala one after another. On the one hand, they have become famous and there is no need to work so hard. On the other hand, they really can't stand it anymore.

In contrast, Cao Xuan has Lao Zhao in front of him and language programs, and his singing has not changed much, and the rehearsal and modification intensity is not high.

So although there was pressure, it was still within Cao Xuan's tolerance.

On November 18, Cao Xuan directly advanced to the fourth round of rehearsals of the Spring Festival Gala. He discussed with the program team for a long time and finally chose the new song that Cao Xuan came up with.

In the first two Spring Festival Galas, Cao Xuan used all new songs. He is one of the few singers who dares to perform new songs on the Spring Festival Gala. He has already made a name for himself.

Many people are looking forward to what new works he will present at this Spring Festival Gala. It can even be said to be his biggest selling point of this Spring Festival Gala.

At this time, if Cao Xuan uses old songs that have already been released, the performance may not be bad, but it will violate public expectations to a certain extent, and the influence of the program will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, Cao Xuan and the program team tend to continue to follow the Spring Festival Gala + new song route, but new songs represent risks.

It was okay in the first two years. After all, Cao Xuan's role in the Spring Festival Gala was not particularly important, but this year he is already one of the most watched programs in the Spring Festival Gala.

The outside world's attention has increased sharply, and the program team has become more cautious.

Although the new songs were finalized in the final three rounds of rehearsals, old songs were not abandoned as alternatives.

The currently popular "Blue Lotus", "The Wind Rises" and "Stubborn" are all included in Cao Xuan's program options. If you feel there is something wrong with the new songs, just change to the old songs.

With a total of four songs to choose from, it is basically certain that Cao Xuan will participate in this Spring Festival Gala. Even if these four songs are all failed, he still has songs such as "Fireworks Easily Cold" and "Jiangnan" to make up for it.

Let's put it this way, even the Spring Festival Gala program team was jealous of Cao Xuan's inventory of program options.

If Cao Xuan hadn't participated in the Spring Festival Gala himself and put all his songs on the stage, which seemed to have too many personal elements, otherwise they would have had to create a "Cao Xuan Song Collection", and the ratings would have been quite good...

Well, there’s only one more update (Crazy escape)