China Entertainment 2000

“Being subject to completely unreasonable artificial restrictions in Taiwan, I have had no rivals in the mainland since I debuted;

"Internationally, it is tit-for-tat with the world's hip-hop king Eminem, but some people say that no one is the only one - English album sales have only maintained the top spot for four consecutive weeks, which is below the domestic standard.

"And this time in Hong Kong, he created an unprecedented legendary record, and single-handedly increased the market share of Hong Kong Metro Radio, surpassing Radio Television Hong Kong and Hong Kong Commercial Radio, ranking first in Hong Kong..."

As the most authoritative music magazine in the Mainland, "Contemporary Music" can almost be said to have declined along with the decline of the music scene.

The editor-in-chief is worried almost every day about whether to change the positioning of the magazine and add more film and television information. Otherwise, there will basically be nothing to write about in the mainland music scene. Zhouyi's dominance has long been inevitable. New singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan No one dared to challenge Zhou Yi, the god who came out of nowhere, in this regard, and another big news reporter, Xie Tingfeng, was in trouble.

Until Zhouyi's unprecedented commercial value display in the country - it was really unprecedented.

He single-handedly helped Metro Radio achieve a long-cherished wish that had not been realized for more than ten years - surpassing Radio Hong Kong and commercial radio and reaching the top of the list.

Although Wang Fei's fans also contributed a lot, they were the ones who persisted until the last moment.

But they failed in the end.

From the moment the right to speak is held by the winner, it is destined that this great achievement will only belong to Zhou Yi, and it is impossible for others to get involved.

"Contemporary Music" is the most typical example. It directly ignored Wang Fei, who was nominally from the mainland, and directly put the crown on Zhou Yi's head to thank him for saving the magazine's sales this month. ——

By constantly publishing news about Zhou Yi's tough battle, the sales volume of "Contemporary Music Circle" has come back to life. In this era where you can buy a magazine and pass it around to the whole class, it has even reached a new sales high since the turn of the millennium!

"Zhou Yi is so amazing! So many familiar Hong Kong singers have been defeated."

"Didn't Wang Fei say that she is the most powerful female singer after Teresa Teng? She has already lost..."

"..."

Shangrao, Zhoujia Village.

When Zhao Ping and his wife were still driving the supermarket together to avoid getting too bored and serving the folks in the countryside, the good news of "Contemporary Music Circle" had already spread here with the distribution of channels.

Neighbors who have watched Zhou Yi grow up from wearing crotchless pants and spraying water guns to becoming a big star when he was playing mahjong or washing clothes by the river will more or less talk about Zhou Yi's conquest of Hong Kong.

"Hua Zai is gone? Jacky Cheung also lost? And Wang Fei?"

"Oh my god, is that son of Lao Zhou's family so fierce? I thought he was popular among people of my son's age."

"..."

For these rural residents in remote small cities, their inherent impression of superstars is that of the previous group of people in Hong Kong - Zhou Yi, they actually have no specific concept of how popular Zhou Yi is.

If you tell them how awesome the American king Eminem is, they will just look confused; if you tell them Zhouyi is a global bestseller, they will only sincerely praise that this kid has talent and can make money from foreigners. , but I don’t have much idea about the so-called global bestseller.

He is very sensitive to the matter of making money. He knows that he has made a lot of money, and he will never be able to spend it all in his lifetime, hundreds of millions.

But those big stars in Hong Kong are different.

It’s not just Zhoujiacun, but also extends to rural areas in all provinces and cities across the country. The super stars in the impression of their parents are those from Hong Kong. Some people even recognize Li Zongsheng and Luo Dayou as Hong Kong people. ;

In the four first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, after Zhou Yi's shocking speech "I am the first, second and third in history" came out, it was inevitable that many middle-aged people who believed in the past and ignored the present frowned at this rampant boy.

But now, when the so-called holy land in their hearts is captured, some of them have to hold back even if they refuse to accept it.

As for the Internet, at this moment, it is the world where Zhou Yi fans are active. Anyone who is dissatisfied must kneel down!

"What the hell... Who can I ask to reason with? I'm convinced."

Shanghai, inside a hotel.

Sun Nan, who came to Shanghai to promote his new album, looked at the statistics handed over by his manager. A deep feeling of powerlessness suddenly came to his heart. He sat slumped on the sofa and took a sip of wine.

The two songs "Salvation" and "Sky of Fate" in his new album are quite popular in the music industry, especially "Salvation", which is a complete golden song.

He knew that he would definitely not be able to beat Zhou Yi in terms of status now that he didn't have the grades from an English college, but at least he still had certain ambitions in a Chinese college -

Then Zhou Yi gave him a blow in the head.

In other words, he gave a blow to all those in the mainland music scene who were not optimistic about him.

Sun Nan made his debut in Hong Kong and then returned to the mainland to develop. He knows better than anyone else that the unspoken rules in that circle are to exclude mainlanders.

Mainland actors are a little better. In the past, they could at least play supporting roles in movies. In the past, mainland singers, even those with high status such as Cui Jian, Dou Wei and even Liu Huan, could not get enough of them.

This is also the reason why there are few public exchanges between the big guys in the mainland music scene and the Hong Kong music scene.

But now Zhou Yi has broken this damn unspoken rule and rubbed the face of the Hong Kong music circle on the ground.

As Zhou Yi's employer, the contracted singers under Warner Records also jumped out from top to bottom to congratulate Zhou Yi on this unprecedented achievement——

"Congratulations to Zhou Yi, this achievement is really not easy, really."

After debuting in the Mainland, Naying moved to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Naying, who also suffered discrimination in the process, said with emotion when being interviewed by reporters: "Before him, we never thought that a singer could be in the top ten of the radio station."

Sammi Cheng and Aaron Kwok, the two former brothers and sisters of Warner Bros., generously sent their blessings to Zhou Yi after the dust settled: "A Yi has a bright future. Our time in the music world has passed."

Other mainland musicians such as Wang Feng, Xu Wei, Pu Shu, Zhang Yadong, etc. also expressed their admiration for Zhou Yi through various media channels.

Bu Sheng Music, Hu Yanbing, who unexpectedly received an invitation from Zhou Jianhui to poach him, was so excited that he trembled all over. Even though Bu Sheng Music was about to merge with a large company, he was still attracted by the prospects described by Zhou Jianhui.

That's the Book of Changes!

In Hefei, Anhui, a high school student surnamed Xu listened to "Fireworks Easily Cold" from the Zhouyi "Lianshan" song tape, and silently wrote this unique, melodious and poignant lyrics on the blank page of his homework one stroke at a time - —

Everyone in the class loves "Fairy Tales", but he only loves "Fireworks Easily Cold". He even felt that in Zhouyi's album, the two songs with the best lyrics were "Fireworks Easily Cold" and "Mom and Dad".

"Xu Song, are you still copying lyrics? Do you want to play table tennis? The tables are all occupied."

"No, you go ahead."

Xu Song, who politely declined the kindness of his classmates, glanced at the "Contemporary Music Circle" placed in the upper left corner of the table. The cover with Zhou Yi raising his index finger and making a silent gesture towards the camera made him yearn for it——

He also really wants to engage in music!

But when he thought of home, Xu Song suddenly stopped.

Forget it, let’s study hard first and get admitted to college seriously. Didn’t Zhou Yi start his career in music after going to college?

Thinking of Zhou Yi's self-explosion experience before his debut on the show, Xu Song directly used it to encourage himself.

In Shenyang, when a boy named Wang from Northeast China was still a junior high school student, he encountered a teacher's explanation of Zhouyi fingering while studying classical music——

"As you can see, the classical music played by Zhou Yi for the heroine in the MV "In the Name of the Father" is the "Nocturne" I mentioned to you before. Obviously, the version Zhou Yi studied in the past was the piano master Rubinstein version, he is also called by the current classical music circle as the master who can best interpret Chopin's piano music..."

In this era where Zhou Yi is popular among junior, senior and college students, this teacher obviously chose the simplest way to make young children calm down and study classical music seriously: move out the Zhou Yi that the children are most interested in.

In Qingdao, a quasi-high school student surnamed Xu who likes to draw is drawing sketches of his idols based on the posters given when he buys the Zhouyi album. The more he practices, the more realistic he becomes. His classmates even exclaimed: "You are such a sketch." It's getting better and better, Xu Liang, the painting Zhou Yi painted for you this time is just like the real one."

"Stop bragging and just draw whatever you want."

Xu Liang smiled, but when he raised his eyes and saw a girl walking past the window, he immediately put down his pen and paper, put on a box of Zhou Yi tapes and chased him out of the back door of the art classroom...

Zhou Yi, who is rumored everywhere, is his idol in life!

The idol said, if you like it, just confess it directly!

Xu Liang confidently went up to the A, and Xu Liang hit GG.

A few hours later, he learned a cruel truth from his friend - the girl felt that he was not good at singing, so a fairy tale full of energy suddenly sounded like a kidney deficiency.

"The fairy tale he sang was so unpleasant and weak..."

After experiencing the first crush in his life that died before it even started, Xu Liang felt hurt. But soon he was no longer discouraged. After all, his favorite male singer was Zhou Yi!

A guy who will never lack female friends——

"A fire in the harem?" Fan Bingbin arrived in Hong Kong overnight! 》

Bagua Weekly, which has always been so unique, even at this point in Zhou Yi's most prestigious period, is still obsessed with his lace, especially after Fan Bingbin arrived in Hong Kong and photographed her appearing downstairs at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel where Zhou Yi lived during this period. .

Of course, his agent Chen Shufen naturally denied it: "Bingbin just came to Hong Kong to attend the Metropolis Radio Celebration Ceremony. Please don't write nonsense."

As one of the biggest beneficiaries of this turmoil, Xincheng Radio is so happy that its noses are boiling with joy. This is a real win from its opponent's market share.

"Ayi, you will definitely be the biggest winner at next year's Xincheng Mandarin Proficiency Award Ceremony. I'll put my words here!"

Xincheng Radio senior management celebration meeting.

Kam Kwok-liang, one of the first people in the Hong Kong entertainment industry to go north, former director of Hong Kong TVB, and current director of Metro Radio, known as the most successful cross-media person in Hong Kong, patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder with a very kind smile: "Jianhui did not misjudge the person. I didn’t see the wrong person.”

"Uncle Gan, to be honest, I'm not very concerned about awards or anything like that. Of course, if you insist on giving it to me, there's nothing I can do about it." For this director who was under pressure to put the treasure on himself. , Zhou Yi was still very grateful, and his teasing tone made the whole audience laugh.

"Of course it's not forced on me. How could it be forced on me? Who has the nerve to say that?"

Gan Guoliang, who was born in 1950, is older than Zhou Yi's parents. When he smiles, there are more than one wrinkles at the corners of his eyes: "This time you have swollen the faces of those stubborn old people."

As someone who joined Xincheng Radio as the director in 1998, Gan Guoliang has tried a variety of methods, but has never been able to increase Xincheng Radio's market share. At the same time, as one of the first veterans of the Hong Kong circle to go north, he was also one of those who actively established ties with the mainland——

It is precisely because of this that after seeing Zhou Jianhui's experience, he, who was also trapped in the quagmire of internal strife, simply did not stop and introduced Zhou Yi, who was already invincible in the mainland, to improve Xincheng's popularity at the expense of "defeating the Hong Kong music scene". Radio market share.

This was a desperate gamble he made after suppressing opposition.

Fortunately, like Zhou Jianhui, he won the bet.

"Whether it is the listening rate, frequency of playing songs, or the number of calls, advertising and other indicators, in the past five days, Metro Radio has firmly ranked first in Hong Kong, and is far behind the second-ranked Radio Hong Kong 13- 16 percentage points.

"Ayi, come on, I'll toast you with this drink."

Gan Guoliang raised his wine glass very solemnly: "If you encounter any problems in Hong Kong in the future, you can come to me. Although there are not many places in the mainland where I can help, there are great directors from the mainland like Zhang Yimou and Gong Li. , I am familiar with all the actors.

"I don't know if you have heard of the movie "Ancient and Modern Battle of Qin Terracotta Warriors" starring Yimou and Gong Li. I am the producer of the movie directed by Cheng Xiaodong."

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Zhou Yi was really surprised this time. Brother, you are really quite senior.

Here, the executives of Metro Radio are happily holding a celebration party. On the other side, the executives of Hong Kong Commercial Radio and Radio Hong Kong are collectively breaking the defense——

Especially Hong Kong Commercial Radio, which fell to third place.

"Duelei Laomu! Zhouyi is on the street!"

Yu Zheng, now the CEO of a commercial radio station and once known as one of Hong Kong's talented women, watched his unfinished business being overtaken by Metro Radio's Kam Kwok-liang. After all, he couldn't help but cursed: "What does the board of directors do for a living? "

After entering the new millennium, due to personal reasons, she gradually faded away from the management of commercial radio stations. As a result, her subordinates gave her such a big job.

"Who would have thought that Zhou Yi, a mainland boy, could bring such a huge market value? This has never happened before."

My subordinates were also aggrieved, but they couldn't say it.

It would be impossible for anyone else to accomplish this kind of miracle, so we really can’t blame them for losing.

Yes, a miracle.

Miracles were no longer enough to explain the situation.

In the eyes of all radio practitioners across the country, Xincheng Radio really should kneel down and kowtow to Zhou Yi this time.

Whether it is marketing, attracting or dividing fan groups, Warner and Metro Radio have achieved the ultimate in cooperation. Coupled with Zhou Yi's excellent album quality and Hong Kong people not only do not reject English songs, but also like them very much, this has created The birth of this carnival.

Take a look at the current real-time rankings——

First: "Fairy Tale"

Second: "Dimple"

Third: "Today you will marry me"

Fourth: "BaBy"

Fifth: "Mr. Lonely"

Sixth: "Mom and Dad"

Seventh: "Good Time"

Eighth: "Fireworks Easily Cold"

Ninth: "Cheers"

Tenth: "Yeah"

There are a total of ten songs, lyrics, music, arrangement, and singing all written with the word "Book of Changes" written all over them. This is simply unprecedented!

Without Zhou Yi's high-quality English album, his "Lianshan" would not have been able to dominate the charts no matter how high its quality was. The three songs from his English album, except for "Yeah", were only popular in Europe and the United States. In addition, "BaBy" and "Good Time" can even be said to be popular in countries all over the world——

Next door, Japan and South Korea have both dominated the rankings for a long time, making Hikaru Utada, who has not yet graduated from the British Academy, even more embarrassed by comparison.

As of 11:08 a.m. on the 12th, this new Hong Kong radio music chart dominated by Zhou Yi still has no challengers. The record of more than 24 hours is still being extended. Zhou Jianhui was even more excited and started to connect directly. I have been preparing to apply for the Guinness World Records for a long time.

Don't ask, just ask because Zhouyi was so awesome that it was recorded!

This is the gold content of Zhouyi!

This is Warner!

At the same time, Zhou Jianhui, who also used Zhou Yi's Hong Kong Massacre to flex his muscles in Warner, can be said to have gone directly to Oita this time. The number of musicians submitting to Warner doubled every few hours, hoping to be selected by Warner——

It would be best to be favored by Zhou Yi.

Because the last composer chosen by Zhouyi was a Singaporean named Lin Junjie. He has followed Adu everywhere for promotions in the past few months and has accumulated a lot of popularity. It is reported that Haidie is already considering letting him familiarize himself with the business and prepare for it. Debuted.

And while Zhou Jianhui was still busy setting up the Guinness World Records for Zhou Yi and preparing to present them at the New City Radio Festival, Qian Jiang, Zhou Yi's agent, was not idle either, and was still draining "Lianshan" all the time. 》The sales potential of the album.

"As of yesterday, the 11th, Zhou Yi's "Lian Shan" has sold 416,861 copies in Hong Kong! It has exceeded 8 platinum prices!"

When Warner Records officially teamed up with the Hong Kong Recording Industry Association to announce the results of this chart domination battle, the entire Hong Kong industry was shocked!

How many years, how many years has passed before an eight-platinum album appeared in Hong Kong? !

In Hong Kong, due to market reasons, the standard for platinum albums is 50,000. Even in the Hong Kong Philharmonic's peak era, eight platinum albums were not available all at once.

And after the Hong Kong music scene gradually declined, not to mention eight platinums, being able to sell three or four platinums like Nicholas Tse is considered a big hit worth burning. Occasionally, you can even touch the threshold of five platinums. This is why There is a reason why Xie Tingfeng is proud of his capital.

Zhou Yi's past albums, even the most popular "Jiangnan", did not reach the eight-platinum level in Hong Kong.

But his song "Lian Shan" this year has made countless people dream back to the golden age of Hong Kong's music scene - an era when the older generation said that the music scene was full of gold, and you could pick up money by bending down and lowering your head!

"Wang Fei, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Hacken Lee... I feel like I have seen the glorious era in the past, but this time I am competing with a kid who is only 21 years old."

Huang Zhan, a master figure in the Hong Kong entertainment industry who shaved his head because of cancer, was quite unscrupulous in an interview: "But times are different from those days. To be honest, I used to dislike Yi's music. .

"I think Chinese people shouldn't play music like pure foreigners. We have to have our own innovation and our own culture. Just like his previous hip-hop, I really don't like it at all, fusion drama They also play nondescript, so someone like Chen Long who has been in the United States for a long time might listen to it.

"But from the beginning of "East Wind Break" to this time "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold", I think this person is a bit interesting. It is obvious that he has also realized the limitations and began to consciously adjust his music style.

"But I still feel that his current songs are not atmospheric enough. He should be more atmospheric."

The famous martial arts novelist Jin Yong said in an interview that he regretted that Zhou Yi could not play Duan Yu: "I think this is a pity. He has a natural nobility in him, which is rare. .”

In "Dragon" which has already started filming, Lin Zhiying, who had previously wanted to raise the price, was so frightened when she heard that Zhang Beard wanted to invite Zhou Yi to play Duan Yu that she lowered the price overnight and agreed to play Duan Yu. A joke.

As an unavoidable figure in Hong Kong's entertainment industry, a large number of elderly people, including Huang Zhan, were also invited by Metro Radio to the celebration ceremony on the 15th. Especially Huang Zhan, an old man who doesn't practice, has wanted to meet Zhou Yi, the legendary hooligan, for a long time.

On the 13th, Zhou Yi's record of dominating the chart, which lasted for 48 hours, five minutes and eight seconds, came to an end. What ended his record was not Chen Yixun nor anyone else, but another song created by Zhou Yi——

"Prague Square" by Elva Hsiao.

With Sun Yanzi's new album not yet released in Hong Kong, Elva Hsiao's "4U" has become the only choice to break the Zhouyi chart dominance record.

After all, Zhou Yi is the only one who dares to release albums at the same time across the country these days.

Anyway, they are all Zhou Yi's songs, and the relationship between the two is so good, which is better than being broken by others.

With Zhou Yi's golden status on the charts broken, Warner also officially announced the Guinness World Records and album sales on the morning of the 14th——

"As of 23:59 on November 13, 2002, the total national genuine sales of Zhouyi's "Lianshan" album have officially exceeded the 2.25 million mark! Among them, eight platinum copies in Hong Kong, 1,327,407 copies in the Mainland, and 1,327,407 copies in Taiwan 400,700 tickets, 110,000 tickets in Macau!

"Created a new Guinness World Record, with ten songs dominating Hong Kong's Radio 1 Metro Music Chart for more than 48 hours! At the same time, Zhou Yi is also the only person in the world so far who has achieved the top spot in the music chart by one person. There is no one out of ten singers!”

Because the influence of the ranking incident was too sensational in the country, it was reported by the media every day. Affected by this, people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, who actively and passively receive various information from Zhou Yi every day or every two or three days, directly pushed Zhou Yi's new album to an unprecedented sales peak!

43 days after release, total sales exceeded 2.25 million!

At the same time, the total sales of Zhou Yi's Chinese albums in Asia also exceeded 7.8 million, and the total global sales reached 8.04 million, becoming the fastest Chinese singer in history to exceed the 8 million mark in total Chinese album sales!

"Chinese music scene, welcome your king!" 》

On the 15th, the day that Metro Radio and Warner Records started celebrating, a series of newspapers in Hong Kong all used the same headline, whether it was through consultation, telepathy, or superpowers -

The accompanying pictures are basically handsome photos of Zhou Yi standing on a landmark building in Hong Kong——

A typical example is Zhou Yi standing on the clock tower in Tsim Sha Tsui and looking out over the mountains. With one hand in his pocket, Zhou Yi raised his right index finger to his lips at the same time, signaling everyone at his feet to shut up!