China Entertainment 2000

"I'm John, I'm the guy who's been talked about in the news lately, and I'd like to sing "The Lazy Song" to my boss and all my former colleagues.

“I want to tell them that I don’t regret anything I’ve done. I’m resting at home every day now, and I don’t know how damn happy my life is!

"Also, I love Spike Zhou, he gave me the courage to embrace a beautiful new life again!"

Tejano Music Radio (WURA), Washington, USA.

In the radio station staff's almost numb mood, John, known as the "initiator", called in, and the content directly shocked the operator——

What the hell?

"Hey Jesse, what's up?"

"Victor, it seems that the call was from the guy on the news, and he requested the same song from Spike Zhou."

"What did you say?"

The director named Victor was stunned for a moment. Looking at the young Hispanic guy in front of him, he wished he could break his thigh——

Fuck!

What a great opportunity!

The demand for Spike's songs on major radio stations in the United States skyrocketed, and John, who fired the first shot of resignation, was indispensable.

If we could get someone to come to the radio station for a guest interview, how much would the listening rate be increased?

"Okay, let's hear the next one..."

Jimmy, the radio host in charge of the broadcast, looked at the on-demand order that was pushed in again, then took a deep breath, and slumped backwards in his chair——

Why is it this song again? !

You guys should order some other songs!

Where's Britney's?

Britney's song currently ranks at No. 30 on Billboard. Don't Britney's fans want to help her rank higher?

Are you satisfied with high album sales? !

He listened to this song every day for three consecutive days. When he closed his eyes at night, he heard the sound of Zhou Yi singing and rocking in his ears. In his dreams, he could hear Zhou Yi and the group of orangutan-clad men behind him chasing him around.

He doesn't understand.

How could a song sung by an Asian—a Chinese to be precise—suddenly become so popular?

This fucking thing has made it the number one radio play-by-play rate this week, and it’s still a cliff-shattering lead in second place!

Why?

Who is this Chinese guy?

Eminem? Or Usher?

Or maybe Justin Timberlake?

Jimmy, whose names of three male singers suddenly came to mind, was obviously dissatisfied with the appearance of the Chinese "Spike Zhou", but it was during working hours, so he could only hold it all in.

After get off work, he had time to complain to his friends: "Is this singer from Warner? Warner's marketing efforts are too great. I feel that news about his song is everywhere these days, which is terrible.

"And the singing is not good. I don't even know what the music video is about. Just dancing with a few orangutans in a room?

"The concept of the song is so vulgar that it's a complete mess. It's just a saliva song. How can it be a hit? I don't understand..."

"Don't be jealous, Jimmy, isn't it because the new song you made hasn't been released yet?"

A friend who had dinner and drank some wine with him after get off work pointed at him and smiled: "Besides, no one listens to the songs you make that talk about your intentions.

"This Spike Week song has already reached the top 70 of the Billboard singles chart. If you don't think it sounds good, that's your own problem."

As the most authoritative list in the American music scene, thanks to the strict entry mechanism, the Billboard Top 100 Singles Chart, which can only be entered after comprehensive radio and sales data, is in a sense better than the Billboard Singles Chart that only counts sales. The top 200 brand albums are more valuable.

It is precisely because of this that what most singer fans and even the singer himself usually talk about when they are arguing is how many number one singles they have.

This champion single refers to the weekly champion of the top 100 singles on the B list.

Generally speaking, the songs ranking 90-100 on the singles chart are a mixed bag. Some of them are indeed of low quality and rely solely on marketing and lack of gold content. However, these types of songs usually fall off the charts in about one to two weeks, and this person is never found again.

You can say you don't like the songs starting from No. 89, but you can never say they are not popular - even if they are popular, they are also popular.

As for the songs starting from the 70th position and upwards, it can be said that they have the ability to leave the circle or have already left the circle.

For an ordinary singer, once his song enters the top 50 or above of the Billboard singles chart, it is an undoubted fire, the kind of fire that smokes from ancestral graves.

Because this also means commercial performance, fame and even various channels for royalties. If a singer-songwriter writes and sings his own songs and enters this range, it can basically be called a pension insurance.

As long as you don't play around, not only will you not starve to death, but you can also live in a mansion and drive a luxury car.

And now, for the first time, a Chinese singer has broken into the top 70 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles list——

From the official release on November 26th to today, December 12th, in half a month, it went from being unpopular to ranking 68th.

If many American record companies had previously regarded Warner's laughable hype and the Chinese singer named Zhou Yi as a joke, now it is Warner's turn to regard them as a joke.

The famous American magazine "Entertainment Weekly" rarely published such a news on its official page: "Spike tore Tom and Jerry apart!" 》

As a classic animation of the United States and even the world, Tom and Jerry’s popularity goes without saying.

Zhou Yi's unexpected appearance made many people murmur in their hearts, and at the same time, they began to investigate his related information.

Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner, was even more shocked when it discovered that Zhou Yi was one of its own: "He's actually from Asia?"

"Chinese?"

At this time, Atlantic Records was no stranger to the Asian market, especially the Chinese market——

Because their company's two-person female music group M2M is very popular in Taiwan, Atlantic Records even asked M2M to record a Chinese version of the song to thank the fans in order to further expand the market.

Because of his rare status, the name Zhou Yi has been noticed by almost all the singers competing in the American music scene - especially when they estimate that the potential of Zhou Yi's song has obviously not been exhausted.

"The song "The lazy song" should hit the top 20, or even the top 10."

The white hip-hop king Eminem, who is preparing a new album next year, commented after listening to the single after being notified by his manager: "His voice is very infectious."

As a person with a background in hip-hop, he was able to single-handedly compete with the Teep pop song genre headed by Britney Spears at the beginning of the millennium without losing. He relied on the appeal of his voice.

"Spike Zhou?"

Within the Destiny's Child group, Beyoncé, who was preparing to go solo, thought this face looked familiar, so she asked her manager: "Is this Chinese singer, like us, also a finalist for the 2002 World Music Awards?" On the list?”

"Let me take a look...yes, they look exactly the same, it's him."

In New York, Alicia Keys, who just debuted this year, was busy promoting, trying to help her second single on the annual chart surpass the first one, but her manager suddenly brought her a piece of news——

"Ellie, a singer from China knocked another song from your album out of the top 70 on Billboard."

"Spike zhou? Who is Zhou?"

Alicia Keys was confused, but fell into silence after listening to the song.

As time went by, as Zhou Yina's offensive became more and more fierce, more and more pairs of eyes were watching his journey.

Usher, who has become so popular this year, even saw a hint of his friend Michael Jackson in the dance moves in the Zhouyi MV, and immediately shared it with him——

"Mike, there's a singer here who has a song that's very interesting."

In Japan, Utada Hikaru, who plans to officially enter the US market next year, is even more stunned -

I haven't even gone yet, why did you take off to the United States?