Chapter 183 (1/2)
Volume 5 / Chapter 183
TL: LightNovelCafe
[TN: This is 5 of 8! Inferno album and Amelia]
When the Inferno album was released in mid-June, another craze came and went. When it sold 400,000 in just 1 month, it was estimated that it would easily sell 2 million and could even go up to 4 million.
It is the result of hearing that it is an innovative song that opens the door to a new musical genre, even bringing in a customer base devoted to classical music.
Once there were only complaints in the Amazon reviews online however, it changed to an entirely different angle. The general view and anger that they had spent money to listen to noise started spreading through social media. Due to the severe criticism of the public, the sales graph plummeted starting with the 2nd month.
The classical single album with the highest recorded sales is Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, and Zubin Mehta’s live concert album, ‘The Three Tenors in Concert: Live in Rome, 1990’.
It reached 12 million in sales and people do not have to be classical fanciers to have heard the music at least once. These kinds of stars are necessary in making a classical album into a hit.
Even a person who has never listened to music conducted by Berlin Philharmonic’s Karajan can recognize a picture of him with a face full of anguish. With this level of awareness, he was able to record an incredible sale of 200,000 albums.
No matter how much critics give Inferno rave reviews, it could not win the one word ‘noise’ written on the internet and not even the jazz fans who had accepted Jun Hyuk were in favor of it.
The Inferno album was not able to surpass 1 million in the end, and was pushed to the corners of shopping malls.
Curiosity does not become a driving force for increasing sales. Inferno was forgotten by the public and was only discussed among maestros of their own league. The premiere is still left.
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Amelia returned in the middle of July and was so shocked when she saw Isaac Stern’s apartment that she yelled. The apartment she had heard about from Jun Hyuk was not so luxurious.
She had attended many banquets held for people in the music world, and could guess what this apartment was used for. This is not the kind of apartment that they lend to maestros who come from different areas.
It must be one of President Stern’s several houses in New York, and a place used to hold parties.
She could tell how much special treatment President Stern gives Jun Hyuk from the way he gave the whole apartment to him.
She was also surprised by the piece he would be submitting to the Queen Elisabeth Competition. She had the same reaction that everyone else had
“Jun, anyone who sees this is going to say that it’s crazy. You’re saying you want to compare with Beethoven?”
She saw the whole score and could not stop admiring with ‘Oh my God!’
“Really? It’s that bad?”
“No. It’s crazy because it’s comparable. It would be normal for someone not to match up to Beethoven.”
Amelia placed kisses all over Jun Hyuk’s face and took the piano part of the score. She played the 2nd and 3rd movements, and got up from the piano.
“They’ll have to change the finals calendar around a lot.”
“Why?”
“They always give 1 week to practice the finals song. But how can someone learn this in 1 week? There’s no way.”
It is not a known song. The 5 piano and violin finalists are going to receive a tremendous and large song, and are going to have to show their ability. Amelia counted on her fingers as she spoke.
“I recorded Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 with the BBC Orchestra this time. I had already memorized all of Brahm’s concerto, practiced it hundreds of times, and it’s been included in my performance repertoires dozens of times. On top of that, we still went into rehearsal 3 times.”
Amelia shook her head and asserted,
“1 week? Impossible. I’m positive they’ll completely change the competition schedule.”