As the King of Pop, Michael Jackson's musical talent is top-notch. Even he praised "Set Fire To The Rain" highly, which proves that the overall level of this song is indeed very high.
Moreover, this song is highly consistent with the movie, and combined with the mixed editing, it gives people a stronger and deeper feeling.
At this time, music radio stations and rankings around the world are waiting for the authorization of this song. Once authorized, they will immediately use their own channels to play this amazing work to their audiences.
At first, Li Mu only released a mixed video of this song and "Flying Tigers" instead of releasing the song alone. After the video became popular, he officially released the song on YYtunes.
Although most people around the world agreed with Michael Jackson's inference that this song was sung by Du Wei, when YYtunes actually released the song in its entirety, Du Wei's name still shocked the world.
Immediately afterwards, Li Mu licensed the copyright of this song to all music radio stations and rankings around the world for free, and also licensed the song's movie mix-cut MV to all TV stations around the world.
In other words, any radio station can play the song at will without paying a penny; any TV station can play the MV without paying a penny.
There is even no need to sign a contract, because Li Mu directly stated that these platforms can be used at will.
As a result, "Set Fire To The Rain" quickly hit the music charts around the world.
In the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, countries with very strong pop music, it quickly reached the top.
As soon as Du Wei arrived in New York from Los Angeles, this song had already climbed to the top of the major music charts in the United States. The speed was so fast that everyone was stunned.
And the second place on many rankings is Du Wei's "21 Guns"!
Du Wei broke the records of Asian singers in Western Europe and the United States as soon as she debuted.
Before this, no Asian singer could top any authoritative European and American music charts with one song, and Du Wei did it with her first English song "21 Guns".
Du Wei's second English song immediately achieved even better results than the first song.
In fact, it was Du Wei's second song that pushed Du Wei's first song out of the top spot on many charts.
For a time, countless people were shocked.
In later generations, no one pays much attention to music rankings. Their market influence is far inferior to the so-called popular rankings on QQ Music or the music rankings on Baidu's trending charts.
But right now, music charts around the world are extremely valuable lists, which completely reflect the local popularity of a song.
In this era, there are two data to measure the strength of a singer, one is album sales, and the other is chart performance.
Du Wei hasn't released an album yet, but her chart performance has been extremely high.
However, only domestic musicians such as Li Mu, Du Wei and Zhang Yadong know that Du Wei has another killer song that she has not released yet. Compared with the killer song, these two songs can only be regarded as a warm-up!
But the two pre-heated songs have already won the championship. Once the movie is released and the killer song is fully released, the whole world will probably stop trembling!
Only Li Mu knows how popular the song "Rolling In The Deep" became in the world at that time. Almost the whole world was covering this song.
If this song is released again, Du Wei's three consecutive classic works will be enough to dominate the global music charts during this period.
Those professionals and media reporters who thought Du Wei must be just a short-lived hit with the song "21 Guns" all felt like a slap in the face.
Du Wei herself has also appeared in media reports around the world because of her two consecutive golden songs.
Not only the European and American media praised her, but the Chinese media regarded her as the glory of Chinese singers. As for Japan and South Korea, half of the media were full of praise, and half of the media were extremely bitter.
Especially Japan, their strength in pop music is indeed the number one in Asia. In the golden age of Hong Kong and Taiwan music, many familiar songs were covers of Japanese pop songs. However, even they did not Any singer can create such achievements in Europe and the United States.
It can be said that Du Wei alone has raised the highest achievement of Chinese pop music to the pinnacle of Asia.
Although the Chinese singers behind Du Wei are still far behind her, she is equivalent to the highest honor of Asian pop music's global performance, which is enough to crush the global achievements of any Asian singer.
If she waits for her first album to be released, she will probably set a record for global album sales by an Asian singer.
However, in addition to Du Wei, the author of the song "Set Fire To The Rain" has attracted great attention from the global media.
So far, the actual authors of Du Wei's two golden songs have not been announced to the public, which also surprised the media.
I have never heard of a song that chooses not to disclose the songwriter to the public. Everyone wants to write their own names everywhere in their works. Some singer-songwriters are even perverted about the exposure of their own names. The ultimate pursuit.
for example:
Singer: Zhang San;
Lyricist: Zhang San;
Composer: Zhang San;
Arranger: Zhang San;
Guitar: Zhang San;
Only for Du Wei's two songs, there is only one piece of information about the song: "Singer: Du Wei (Isabella·Du)"
Apart from this, there is no other information.
During the road show that followed, Du Wei suddenly became the focus of all reporters.
She even began to have a large number of fans around the world, so much so that wherever she went on road shows, her fans would come to the scene to cheer her on.
Whenever the test screening is over and there is a question-and-answer session, reporters will ask Du Wei questions and ask her any questions.
For example, whether you have a boyfriend, whether you will enter Hollywood, whether you plan to enter the European and American pop music scene...
In addition, there is another question that is often mentioned: "Who is the author of "21 Guns" and "Set Fire To The Rain"?"
However, whenever faced with such a question, Du Wei's answer is still the same as before. The author of these two songs is the same "He".
Du Wei also revealed: "He also wrote a song for me. This song will be played at the end of the officially released version of the movie. At that time, everyone can see the author's name through the final subtitles of the movie!"
Du Wei even threw out a little Easter egg: "The author is not an American, or even a European or American, but a Chinese."
Now the media is completely in a rage.
First of all, the author of the two songs is the same person;
Secondly, there is a third song, which is placed at the end of the officially released version of the movie in theaters. The preview version you are watching is not yet available;
Finally, the mysterious person who wrote these two songs and even the third mysterious song turned out to be a Chinese...
This is really a bit magical.
Before, everyone always thought that the person who could write these two songs should be a certain European and American pop music master, or two masters.
But I didn’t expect that they were not European or American at all…
As a result, the media paid more attention to who the author was, and also paid attention to the song that was regarded as an easter egg.
It seems that everything will have to wait until the official release date on July 7th!
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As the road shows come one after another, coupled with Li Mu's crazy promotion of "Flying Tigers" through various channels, "Flying Tigers" has become the most watched work in the global cultural and entertainment industry.
Many Hollywood media have begun to speculate that the unprecedented promotion of "Flying Tigers" may create a god-level movie with a box office explosion, and may even surpass the box office record of "Titanic" of US$1.8 billion.
From 1997 until now, "Titanic" has been the box office champion in film history. This record was not broken until 2010 by the same director, Cameron's "Avatar."
However, now, Li Mu has a great chance to end the record of "Titanic". After all, even "Titanic" has not enjoyed such a trinity of publicity offensive.
With powerful online and offline promotion resources, a huge lineup of celebrity directors, personal investment by the world's richest man, and two chart-topping songs, it is simply the most luxurious team in the history of movies.
After the road show in Europe and the United States, Du Wei returned to China with Spielberg and Leonardo. Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway and Liu Ye, who were also on road shows in other Asian countries, also ended their road shows and returned to Yan. Beijing.
Next, will be the final highlight, which is the road show in mainland China.
This is a film that describes the Chinese people's war of resistance. It is a film that belongs to the Chinese people and Chinese history. Therefore, the most grand road show must be reserved here.
This is also a full-line road show with all the creative staff gathered together.
There are a total of ten cities in the road show.
The sequence of these ten cities is almost the same as the route of the Japanese invasion of China.
The first stop of the roadshow was Yanjing, the place where the Marco Polo Bridge Incident took place and the current capital of China;
The second stop of the roadshow, the place where the Battle of Songhu took place, the current financial capital of China, the Shanghai Stock Exchange;
The third stop of the roadshow is Jinling, the place where the Battle of Jinling and the Massacre took place, and the capital of China during World War II;
The fourth stop of the road show, the main battlefield of the Battle of Pengcheng, Pengcheng;
The fifth stop of the roadshow is Taierzhuang, the site of the Chinese army’s first great victory in the Battle of Pengcheng;
The sixth stop of the road show, the main battlefield of the Battle of Jiangcheng, Jiangcheng;
The seventh stop of the roadshow is Guangcheng, the capital of Guangdong Province;
The eighth stop of the roadshow, Xiangdu, the provincial capital of Southern Hunan;
The ninth stop of the road show is Spring City, the former base of the Flying Tigers;
The tenth stop of the roadshow is Fengtian in Northeast China, where the earliest National Day of Humiliation and the September 18th Incident took place.
The reason why Li Mu formulated such a roadshow route was to allow the people to review the war of aggression and have a deeper memory of the actions of the invaders and the damage they caused to China.
Moreover, this movie is now attracting global attention, and I want to do the largest road show in China. When the time comes, the road show will definitely be reported by global media.
Once the selection of these ten cities is announced, it will immediately be reported around the world. By then, discerning people, or people familiar with China's World War II history, will see Li Mu's ulterior motives.
(End of chapter)