Chapter 282 Shocked My Friends! The Sweet Song that Became Popular All over the World

Chapter 282 Stunned my friends! The sweet song queen who became popular all over the world!

"This is a song about love at first sight. I think everyone may have had the experience of wanting to approach someone but stopping because of timidity. I have had it anyway."

Liu Yifei introduced: "So, there is this song that encourages everyone to bravely walk up to the boy they like and leave him their phone number."

Owen's radio show is not long, only 40 minutes in total, and he has to share five to eight songs in each show, and then make some jokes. In fact, Liu Yifei and him don't talk much.

The two talked about the interesting things about the recording of this song, the filming process of the MV, and mentioned that the ending of the MV was very reversed, and also mentioned "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

There is no way, Liu Yifei can't talk about much in the United States, and the American people have never paid attention to anyone or anything outside of North America, so she can only talk about "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

Liu Yifei is also proficient in English, and she is good at interviewing, so Owen's interview with her went smoothly. Although the program's ratings did not soar like those of famous singers, they were about the same as his ratings during the same period.

Her performance was beyond Owen's expectations. She was not as boring as he imagined Asians to be, but quite interesting.

At the end of the program, Owen played the source of "Call Me Maybe" again, which was considered to be a full promotion for her song.

"With Crystal's song "Call Me Maybe", our radio program today is over. Thank you for listening!"

"See you at this time tomorrow! Bye~"

Owen disconnected the radio's streaming, took off his headphones, and said easily: "Happy cooperation!"

"Crystal, I have a feeling that your song will definitely be a big hit in North America!"

Liu Yifei showed a bright smile on her face.

As a well-known music radio DJ in New York, Owen's music aesthetics are definitely more professional than most music critics.

Liu Yifei was of course very happy to receive his praise.

My senior is really amazing. He is not only good at making movies and writing scripts, but also good at writing songs!

After the radio program was recorded, Liu Yifei had to rush to the next program activity immediately.

Her schedule for the next week was very busy. Not only did she have to run four radio programs, but she also had to appear on a TV music program. She was very busy.

Of course, the record company also gave her enough money in other radio programs that she did not participate in.

Most of the radio programs in North America are private DJs, not the official TV stations in China, so it is easier to operate.

On average, a radio DJ can play "Call Me Maybe" once by giving them $3,000. The record company gave money to at least 120 well-known radio DJs across the United States.

Starting from March 3, from the West Coast to the East Coast, the song "Call Me Maybe" could be heard everywhere in private cars running on the streets.

On March 6, at 8 o'clock in the evening, Liu Yifei had just finished recording an evening music radio program.

Liu Yifei recorded the radio show under the praise of the DJ, and even the radio listening rate was the first in the same period.

The reason is nothing, just that the new week's list of Billboard has come out.

"Call Me Maybe" has landed on the 15th place of Billboard with 86,000 single sales.

A new singer, the first English single, directly landed on the 15th place of Billboard.

This result is undoubtedly extremely amazing.

Because in the B chart ranking formula, sales only account for 25%, and the majority is still radio.

With 86,000 singles, it landed on the 15th place of Billboard, which obviously shows that Liu Yifei's song has been played a lot by major radio stations across the United States in offline radio programs, and after it was played, it was also requested by many listeners again.

As a new singer, Liu Yifei does not have the bonus of past popularity and fame!

The fact that she was able to achieve such a good result in the first week of the release of her new song can only mean that the song "Call Me Maybe" is really popular with Americans. It is a song that suits their tastes and has strong strength.

The relaxed melody, simple lyrics, and Liu Yifei's sweet voice made the listeners addicted to this song as soon as they heard it on the radio.

Many listeners who turned on the radio halfway and only heard the second half of the song called the radio station to ask about the song as soon as they finished listening, or searched on the Internet according to the lyrics they wrote down.

The "Call Me Maybe" MV released on YouTube, after just one day of no one paying attention to it, the number of hits also skyrocketed rapidly. On the 3rd, it broke one million, on the 4th, it broke three million, and on the 5th, the number of views went straight to tens of millions.

Listening to this song with the MV is much more fun than listening to it alone.

The lyrics of this song tell the story of a woman who has a crush on a man and wants to confess but is too shy to say it. It sounds a bit cliché.

However, the MV breaks the routine of "girl and boy live happily ever after".

In the MV, Liu Yifei plays a girl who is obsessed with a handsome gardener.

Under the guidance of her friend, she sang this love confession song for him in the garage and successfully attracted the handsome man's attention.

Just when she was about to give her phone number to the handsome man, something bloody happened.

The gardener took the initiative and gave his phone number to—not Liu Yifei, but her band member, who was also a man.

So the MV of a young girl in love—turned into a passionate MV in a second.

The song was good enough to begin with, and the MV was so interesting, "Call Me Maybe" quickly became popular on YouTube, rushing into the top ten of the weekly video rankings and ranking first in the real-time click list.

Now, it's not just the listeners who are used to listening to the radio who know this song.

Young Americans who are used to surfing the Internet and watching YouTube videos have also known and liked this song.

Undoubtedly, "Call Me Maybe" is a light song suitable for all ages, and it has the characteristics of brainwashing.

Even the 23-year-old MV male protagonist was repeatedly asked by a group of rotten girls online, wanting to know who this handsome guy is and what works he has.

When it came to this step, the explosion of "Call Me Maybe" on the Internet had become an established fact, and the momentum could no longer be stopped.

And because the MV of this song is so interesting, almost every fan who listens to this song will watch the MV repeatedly.

As a result, Liu Yifei, a star who is very unfamiliar to most Americans, quickly came into the public eye.

Although many Asians feel that Europeans and Americans look the same, many Europeans and Americans are also face-blind to Asians.

But this range does not include handsome men and beautiful women.

Eastern and Western aesthetics often have something in common.

For example, top European and American beauties such as Anne Hathaway, Audrey Hepburn, and Sophie Marceau are also very beautiful in the eyes of Asians, and there is no problem of face blindness.

And Liu Yifei, a top oriental beauty with top bone structure and skin, is also quite recognizable in the eyes of Europeans and Americans.

Liu Yifei, who sings and dances in the MV and has a sweet smile, has really become more famous in North America this time.

The search volume of the two words "Crystal Wu" and "Liu YI FEI" on Google has also increased wildly.

Some online videos of clips from Chinese-language movies that Liu Yifei had starred in were also spread from the Internet in mainland China to North America.

It was at this time that Liu Yifei's fans in mainland China learned that their idol had gone to the United States to release a new English song, and the results were very good, which aroused enthusiastic responses from European and American music fans.

Many music critics from mainstream North American music magazines have also noticed this song and this newcomer in the North American music scene. They commented on "Call Me Maybe" in their columns.

The editor-in-chief of "American Music" commented: "Crystal's voice is slightly nasal, sweet but not greasy. The melody of "Call Me Maybe" is catchy, and the arrangement is retro and playful. You will sing along with it repeatedly. It is a good pop love song."

"Rolling Stone" described the tune of this song as an absolute brainwashing masterpiece: "Can you imagine the fresh Taylor Swift meeting the bad Robyn?"

"This song is a folk tune with pop dance music and disco."

The commentator of MTV said: "I really can't tell you how many times this song has been repeated in my iTunes, but you can't stop listening to it as soon as you press the play button."

An excellent and easy-to-sing song may not necessarily become a big hit.

But if there is enough publicity exposure, it will definitely become a big hit.

Originally, when "Call Me Maybe" was first released in Canada on September 20, 2011, due to the lack of sufficient publicity, the single only sold 604 copies.

So how did this song become popular all over the world?

This is thanks to Justin Bieber, a fellow countryman of Dunmei, who is also from Canada.

In December 2011, Canadian pop star Justin Bieber walked into a cafe while dating his girlfriend at the time.

The manager of this cafe happened to be a fan of Dunmei, and the song "Call Me Maybe" was playing in the store.

When Bieber heard the song, he immediately thought it was really good. So he publicly stated on Twitter: "This may be the most attractive song I have ever heard."

It was such a coincidence that Justin Bieber, the world's top pop star at the time and who had not had many scandals, heard this song and turned into tap water.

Bieber really likes this song. He not only tweeted about it, but also mentioned it in various public occasions as his favorite song recently, led his fans to sing along, and even appeared at Dunmei's performance to sing with her.

With Bieber's personal promotion, this song came into the public eye and then became a huge hit.

This time, Liu Yifei sang this song. Although she didn't have the support of a little king like Bieber, Wu Yuan was willing to spend money and bought more than 100 radio stations across the United States for promotion. It can be said that he directly skipped the initial difficulties encountered by Dunmei.

This viral divine song successfully ignited the entire North America and even the entire European and American world in March 2008.

Not only in the United States, "Call Me Maybe" has become a hot seller all over the world.

Thanks to the Internet, which has now developed very well, although Liu Yifei is a newcomer, she has become popular on the Internet very quickly.

In just the second week after the single was released, "Call Me Maybe" has won the singles charts in Australia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, Sweden, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

On the Billboard, after landing at No. 15, the second week ranking was released, and "Call Me Maybe" directly rushed into the second place, sitting second and looking forward to No. 1!

Flowers bloom outside the wall, and they are also fragrant inside the wall.

When the news of Liu Yifei and "Call Me Maybe" becoming popular on the foreign Internet came back.

After the comments of music critics and editors on this song and Liu Yifei on those mainstream music magazines in North America were translated into Chinese and posted back to major forums in the mainland.

"Call Me Maybe" also quickly became popular in China and was very popular. In major shopping malls across the country, this song has become the most popular background music, and various stores in the streets and alleys play this song back and forth.

"Call Me Maybe" and Liang Jingru's "Breathing Pain" have become the must-have songs in the streets and alleys in March this year!

Liu Yifei, who was originally just playing around, has really established her identity as a singer this time.

And she directly surpassed all kinds of domestic competition and became a supernova sweet song queen that is popular all over the world!

It's numb, it's really numb.

This time, not only the film industry, but also the music industry in both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong was shocked.

How did Wu Yuan, a director and camera operator, manage to create an international sweet song queen!

Is there any justice in this? !