China Entertainment 2000

"If she hears this, I'm afraid she will be very sad."

Zhou Yi, who was not drinking, simply took a sip of boiled water and joked about Zhou Jianhui's rare display of true feelings: "She has always respected you."

If it weren't for Zhou Jianhui's kindness to Bole, how could Stefanie Sun in the original timeline have released seven albums in three years in a row, and also held two rounds of concerts, and she would have given up her career long ago.

Without his appearance, after Zhou Jianhui was forced to leave Warner Bros. due to infighting in 2005, Stefanie Sun would also leave Warner Bros. in 2006 and join EMI at the invitation of her former agent Chen Zeshan.

After this, the biggest manifestation of Zhou Jianhui and Chen Zeshan’s different influence on Stefanie Sun——

Without the love of Zhou Jianhui, Chen Zeshan offended Stefanie Sun because of the bottomless hype of the "Backlight" album, which caused her to stop releasing records for four years in anger, which cost her until the contract expired, but Chen Zeshan had nothing to do with it. Method.

"That's not the case. I think she will nod along and praise you when she hears me praising you like this."

Zhou Jianhui, who put down his wine glass, raised his head slightly, looked at the magnificent ceiling in the private living room, raised his hand and said firmly: "As a Singaporean, she knows better than anyone else how extraordinary it is for a Chinese singer to sing English songs and go abroad." achievements.

"English songs for China, and even for Chinese singers, are not just about singing skills. The most important thing is whether the song itself can hit the sweet spot in the hearts of foreign listeners.

"If good singing skills are enough to sell well, the sales of Jacky Cheung's English albums will not be Waterloo."

Zhou Yi was stunned when he heard this: "Jacky Cheung's English album?"

This is not because he is ignorant, but in fact, he has never heard of the English songs in Jacky Cheung's English album in his previous life, and he does not have this memory in his mind.

"Yes, it's normal that you don't know. I guess Qian Jiang didn't take the album seriously, so he didn't tell you."

Zhou Jianhui, who was particularly happy tonight, also cheerfully revealed Jacky Cheung's failure last year: "After PolyGram was acquired by Universal, Jacky Cheung didn't stay at Universal for long, and soon went to Shanghua Records.

"In December last year, an English album was released called "Touch Of Love". Shanghua said that sales have exceeded 600,000 so far, and the total sales within the one-year sales period can exceed 700,000, but In fact, they are just trying to make a fool of themselves."

When Zhou Jianhui said this, he was somewhat flattering: "Apart from the fact that the audience is basically Chinese, Shanghua himself also bought back a lot of records to increase sales."

That's why he was so happy tonight.

A top singer like Jacky Cheung, whose singing skills are beyond words, sells English songs so poorly, which is enough to illustrate the difficult situation of Chinese singers in the Asian music world and even the world music market.

"When it comes to Jacky Cheung's singing skills, he's not bad even in Europe and the United States. What's missing about him? It's the English songs that can make him popular.

"Some musicians in the European and American music circles will not give out the best songs even if they are paid, and some people will even give them a perfunctory song and give them a rubbish song."

The popularity of Zhou Yi's "The Lazy Song" can be said to have perfectly circumvented this point: for singers of this level, the creative type is the most popular. If others don't give you good songs, then write them yourself.

Considering Zhou Yi's consistent style and the lazy song, Zhou Jianhui has no doubts about his ability to produce an entire English album.

The only thing he worried about was Zhou Yi's unyielding temper. If anything happened to him, it would most likely cause him a lot of controversy.

After all, Zhou Yi's unruly behavior in front of the media was very much like that of a European and American hip-hop star, and the famous Eminem in the United States was also showing off his face every day.

Oh, no.

Compared with him, Zhou Yi should be classified into the categories of civilization, harmony, humility and friendliness.

After all, he didn't use any curse words when he scolded Chow Yun-fat. "Stubborn" is still a very inspirational and positive song. Nowadays, you can still hear it played on the radio from time to time on campuses in the three places across the Taiwan Strait. It has almost become a favorite among primary and secondary school students. The second, third and fourth school songs.

"Coco Lee's experience is a little better than that of Jacky Cheung, but not much better, so she invited many big names in the music industry to participate in this album this year.

"Jackie Chou's creative team has been invited by Coco Li: Lyricist Fang Wenshan, composer Jay Chou, arranger Michael Lin..."

Unlike Zhou Yi, who is a one-man army, with the popularity of the "Fantasy" album, Fang Wenshan and Michael Lin have officially established their core positions in Jay Chou's team.

Coco Lee, who has played abroad, knows the importance of arrangement. When she invited Jay Chou, she directly recruited the three of them and made the song "Dao Ma Dan".

And, just today, Coco Lee's team officially released this new song to promote the charts, paving the way for the new album "Promise" to be released on October 22.

"Sony also specially held a new song press conference for Coco Lee today, and also invited Jay Chou to sing the song "Dao Ma Dan" with her live. She is determined not to move the schedule."

Talking about Stefanie Sun's biggest opponent this month, Zhou Jianhui, who regarded Coco Lee as a stepping stone for Stefanie Sun to ascend to the position of queen, obviously did not take it lightly.

He has never despised Coco Lee. On the contrary, he admires Coco Lee very much.

Based on his understanding of Coco Lee, if she didn't have absolute confidence in "Daoma Dan", she would never have released it with such fanfare at the new song press conference.

Listening to Zhou Jianhui's various predictions after drinking, Zhou Yi couldn't help but nodded secretly.

From the perspective of a latecomer like him, the quality of "Daoma Dan" is definitely good enough. Whether it is in terms of ranking or popularity, this song is Coco Lee's final peak.

The next day, when all the major entertainment newspapers in Taipei were reporting on Coco Lee's new song conference on the 12th of Baodao, when Jay Chou and Coco Lee, who were jumping up and down, had an intimate interaction on the stage, the song "Dao Ma Dan" was also superimposed With its terrifying popularity, it landed at No. 7 on the radio chart’s weekly chart on the day it debuted——

The song ranked in front of "Daoma Dan" is precisely the song written, composed and arranged by Zhou Yi and sung by Stefanie Sun: "Your Smile".

This very rhythmic pop rock song has become popular after many days of fermentation, and it has become popular all over the country due to its high reputation and popularity.

The bright row of Zhou Yi reminds many fans of other Taiwanese singers to recall the "difficult" days a few months ago when the weekly charts of major radio stations were bombarded by Zhou Yi himself.

"I don't know if "Your Smile" can be compared to "Dao Ma Dan"..."

Even Zhou Yi didn't dare to make a sure decision when looking at the relevant information on hand. However, just when his eyes were still on Coco Lee, the return of two old singers in the music scene caught him off guard——

On October 14th, Jacky Cheung of Shanghua Records released the album song "If This Is Not Love" on September 26th. After a long period of grinding on the charts, he re-established himself as a singer in the 1990s. With dignity, he reached the top ten in one fell swoop;

On October 16, Zhou Huajian of Rolling Stone Records released his solo album "Wangyoucao". The album's lead song "Is there a song that will remind you of me" also joined the battlefield with its sincere lyrics -

This man who was known as the "King of Killers" in the past seemed to have not given up yet. After entering the new century with his head held high, facing the new generation of singers headed by Zhou Yi, he regained his true qualities as a killer.

On October 16, top diva Faye Wong released her self-titled album "Faye Wong", which also topped the charts with extremely high popularity.

At this moment, the three singers who have all experienced the confusion of the end of the century invariably bloomed the afterglow of their era. Together with Yu Chengqing, who also represents the older generation of singers, and the new generation of musicians on the list, Zhou Yi, Jay Chou, Stefanie Sun, and Leehom Wang , Dai Penni, and SHE are fighting hand to hand, determined to defend their last glory!