China Entertainment 2000

"I don't understand, why? Why?? How did he do it?"

More than a month and a half of hard work was easily "obliterated" by someone who also just released a new album. Avril held her head in her hands and found it difficult to accept it for a while.

This is just one day that has passed, only one day has passed.

Forget about European countries, this man named Spike has indeed become popular through the World Cup, but why is the United States so scary?

As the most difficult list to conquer in the world music scene, if a song can reach the top 30 on Billboard, it basically means that the song has been widely spread in the United States and its surrounding areas.

If you can break into the top twenty, you can basically say that you have the ability to go global——

To reach the top ten, as long as you don't risk your life and touch things you shouldn't touch, the money you earn from copyrights and commercial performances can support the singer and creative team to spend their whole life living and drinking.

Avril Lavigne is very confident in her single. The reason why she works so hard to promote it is to reach the top ten as soon as possible.

In the past month or so, as the single's performance has improved by leaps and bounds, she and the company feel that this song "Complicated" definitely has the hope of entering the top ten of the Billboard singles chart, thereby driving the sales of her album.

As a result, after only a few days of happiness, the ranking started to fall? ? ?

"Don't be in a hurry, just keep your rhythm. No matter how strong Spike is, he can only do two songs. Being airdropped into the list only shows that he is very popular now. It is most likely due to marketing."

The manager who was more anxious than Avril Lavigne stepped forward to stabilize the morale of the army - it was just two songs, nothing to be afraid of! He sings his, we sing ours!

As long as our own publicity is in place, everything will be fine!

As for Warner, Qian Jiang was so excited that he felt like he was on adrenaline. After getting the data, he immediately found Zhou Yi who was catching up on his sleep——

"Ayi! Ayi! You succeeded! You succeeded!!!"

Qian Jiang never thought that one day the artists he led would be able to make a name for themselves in the European and American music circles with English albums. Now Qian Jiang felt that he was so excited that he could eat a cow in one bite.

Even though Zhou Yi's previous singles had exploded, he still didn't dare to open the champagne until everything was settled.

But it's different now.

"The first-day sales volume in the United States was 177,143 copies, and the first-day sales volume in the United Kingdom was 239,418 copies, directly ranking third on the British Album Chart Weekly Chart!"

France has more than 30,000, Germany has 27,000, Spain has 16,000, Italy has 16,000, plus Iceland, Greece, Denmark, Belgium and other European countries have scattered thousands of sheets, hundreds of sheets, hundreds of sheets. The sheets are stacked together.

Not counting the domestic market, "The Attitude Show" sold more than 600,000 copies in one day in the European and American markets alone.

Even if Zhou Yi's album cannot be sold from today on, this sales volume alone is enough to keep Warner (China) in high and low for a lifetime.

What's more, this is only the first day after the album is released!

Qianjiang was rarely excited to the point of red temperature.

The global sales of nearly 700,000 copies a day directly beat the actual total of all singers in the Chinese music world who have released English albums in the past!

"That's all?"

Because he participated in a late-night radio promotion last night, Zhou Yi, who had been squinting for a while during the day today, rubbed his eyes and muttered subconsciously when he heard Qian Jiang coming to announce the good news, and immediately stopped Qian Jiang.

Big brother - ah no, ancestor, do you know what you are talking about, ancestor? !

"Do you care what it's called?"

"It's really a bit less."

Zhou Yi rubbed his face to cheer himself up: "I thought it would be at least a million a day."

"Then when you become a global superstar, millions a day will no longer be a dream."

You sell well and everything you say is right.

Speechless, Qian Jiang simply resorted to coaxing the child, then took Zhou Yi, who was still yawning, into the car, and rushed to the radio station and program promotion where he was going today with the accompanying Warner headquarters team.

In the United States, if you want to hit the charts and increase sales, radio promotion is an absolutely indispensable part.

Although Zhou Yi himself is not very interested in these radio programs.

"There are still many programs on the TV stations owned by Time Warner, the parent company. You don't have to be on them all, but my suggestion is that you should seize such a good opportunity."

In the car heading to the radio program, Qian Jiang Yiwu introduced to Zhou Yi the large number of publicity channels arranged for him.

Warner Records, which is not in decline at the moment, is also considered very important within Time Warner. The various resources available to outstanding singers during the promotion period are simply overwhelming.

As long as the album is good enough, it doesn't matter even if the single performance is not high. Linkin Park, the current mainstay of Warner Records, has given everyone a try.

Zhou Jianhui used his personal connections to personally accompany the people from Warner Records to the Time Warner headquarters to negotiate this.

Thanks to Zhou Yi's outstanding performance in the past, Time Warner directly arranged for him to be a donkey. The first-day sales also proved Zhou Yi's strength. He did not let anyone down.

"In addition, Zhou Jianhui means that you should be busy in the past half month. He is now fighting for you to be on the cover of the US main page of Time Magazine.

"If your grades explode, that'll be useful for him to rip off a cover for you."

"Main American Journal?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise.

As one of the three major current affairs weekly magazines in the United States, Time Magazine has an undoubted influence in the United States and even around the world, with many sub-magazines.

What kind of Asian version, European version, clones are everywhere.

But the most influential and difficult thing to get on is the main publication of the American edition.

The simplest point: the US edition is distributed globally.

"Yes, your Chinese identity is too unfamiliar to Americans when combined with your achievements. This is an advantage. They now know a Bruce Lee, a Jackie Chan, and half Jet Li to top it off."

Qian Jiang nodded.

Zhou Yi, who had psychological expectations for his short life as a donkey, didn't say much, but also started to explode——

If the publicity program allowed for drama, he would have liked to have had more than a dozen programs a day, and each program would have taken turns for about ten minutes.

Facts have proved that his liver-blasting is effective.

On July 4, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other more populous and wealthier places, the real-time radio ranking of Zhou Yi's new album "The Attitude Show" almost doubled compared to two days ago.

The two songs "baby" and "Yeah" are almost rushing upward at a cutting-edge speed.

On July 6, after these two songs, the reputation of other songs in the album also began to spread, and the data rushed up one by one:

In the second tier, "Because of you" took the lead in reaching the third position on major radio stations in Los Angeles;

"What makes You Beautiful" and "Good Time" followed, reaching the top five on the radio charts in five states in the United States.

Three songs have achieved the status of the second tier in the album, and the growth rate of "Good Time" has even caught up with the two songs in the first tier. As of July 7, it has topped the radio charts in 18 states. Entered the top ten!

"How long" and "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" are the leaders in the third tier of increases.

This is actually a very abnormal thing.

Generally speaking, if an album is to be ranked on the charts, the allocation of resources must be focused, which is why it is called the title song.

But now, when the first-week sales of Zhou Yi's album were released on July 8, a bunch of people in the internal meeting of Warner Records looked at the red data, and everyone from top to bottom was stunned like a lightning strike - —That expression is either happy or unhappy. What stands out is that it is weird and awkward.

father! You are such a living dad!

Can you stop being so extravagant with your next album? !

Your mother Zhou Yi's album can at least produce enough lead singles for five albums!

What kind of family does this? !

Looking at the radio charts in dozens of states in the United States, I can see Zhou Yi beating himself from time to time, and the heart of Warner's board of directors is bleeding——

Money, that’s all money!

Those are all delicious US dollars!

"Which bastard passed Spike's album review?! Don't you know how to persuade him to hide a few songs for the next album?!"

"Mr. President, it's you. You took one look and approved it. I guess you didn't take it seriously at the time."

"..."

As a professional manager, the CEO of Warner Records saw the woman making fun of him and wanted to kick her out on the spot.

If her last name wasn't Warner.

At a time when everyone at Warner Records was in pain and happiness, the marketing department also announced the first week sales of Zhou Yi's "The Attitude Show" in North America——

It broke the first-week sales record of foreign singers’ records in the United States with 1.063 million copies!

July 9, 2002, Tuesday, is the day of ranking change.

After the first week of settlement, "The Attitude Show" took the number one spot on the B-chart's Top 200 Album Weekly Chart. It shocked the entire American music scene and topped the weekly album chart one week after its release!

All eleven songs from the album entered the top 50 on the B-chart, and six songs entered the top 30, making him the first person in Billboard history!

"I came here just to win first place."

This day coincides with the broadcast of the "Conan Show" Zhouyi special program——

The man's confidently raised right index finger on the show became a depth bomb that detonated music fans and media across the United States!

ps: Yangjian!

There is one more chapter~