China Entertainment 2000

Utada Hikaru's mood at the moment was somewhat complicated.

To be fair, she didn't pay much attention to Zhou Yi's seven consecutive weeks of success on the Oricon Chart. The single sales only exceeded one million, which didn't pose much of a threat to her.

Even the Japanese media has long created the concept of "old enemy" between the two of them, which is quite middle-class.

Having achieved unprecedented success in the Japanese market, she was focused on the album to be released in the US market next year, and then she was dragged out of the recording studio by her teacher today and found out about it.

Single CD sales more than tripled from more than 70,000 in the first week to 230,000 in the second week!

By December 16th, the sales of the single directly exceeded the thirty-seven mark.

20 days after its release, 370,000 copies were sold, and it was about to reach the threshold of 400,000 copies. Warner's eyes turned red as he looked up and down.

"Promote it! It must be promoted! Ayi, whatever you say this time, you have to go to the United States with me and go out and promote it."

Zhou Jianhui, who was somewhat familiar with the American music scene, just had to tie up Zhou Yi and take him on the plane to the United States.

This novel marketing method coupled with Warner's high-intensity spending can help Zhouyi reach No. 68 on the Billboard, which is almost the limit for making this song popular.

Needless to say how prosperous the American music scene is, dramas that have not appeared for a long time can still be marketed in the Japanese music scene. After all, the two countries are special here. Zhou Yi's popularity is unlikely to fade as long as the marketing can keep up.

But here, it's impossible.

Even if he wants to enter the top 20 or top 10 of the Billboard, Zhou Yi himself must go to the United States in person to participate in some radio stations and programs to promote his face.

Otherwise, so many popular songs at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 have been bombarded with promotions, and "The Lazy Song", which does not appear at all, will only continue to decline after the peak of popularity, until it falls off the list.

"...Can't Warner throw more money to buy me more space and exposure?"

Zhou Yi, who was snatched from home by the radiant Zhou Jianhui, rubbed his hands and asked tentatively: "This is the New Year, and I still have to rehearse the Spring Festival Gala solo "Yellow Race"."

"Stop farting!

"There is still more than a month until the Chinese New Year. February 11th is New Year's Eve, and today is only December 18th. Your family celebrates the New Year more than a month early, right?"

Zhou Jianhui almost lost his temper because of this reason.

He now understands a little bit about Chen Zeshan's feeling of being so angry with Stefanie Sun.

"Don't you want to be No. 1 on the Billboard? Do you know that the big names in Europe and America are very optimistic about your song?"

Until Zhou Yi was the master who refused to let go of the eagle when he saw the rabbit, Zhou Jianhui began to draw the pie: "Don't you want your single sales to exceed one million in the United States?

"Don't you want to overtake Hikaru Utada in single sales?"

There is no hope of surpassing Hikari Utada in album sales.

So far, Zhou Yi's second album "Gangnam" + EP "Graduation" have exceeded the 2.7 million mark in Asia combined, but they are still far behind Utada Hikari's album sales of nearly 4.42 million.

Not to mention that Utada Hikaru also has a single that has sold more than 1.4 million copies. Although Zhouyi's English single sales were released late, it has sold more than 1 million genuine copies in Asia.

"...Although, when it comes to singles, I'm almost overtaking it, right?"

Zhou Yi, who was drinking hot tea, counted carefully: There are now more than 370,000 in the United States, and over 100 in Asia. Together, there are almost 1.4 million. There is still half a month until 2002, and the remaining sales gap can be smoothed out no matter what.

"..."

Zhou Jianhui was speechless for a moment, and Stefanie Sun on the side was holding back her laughter, fearing that she would laugh out loud, and shrugged her shoulders.

"Okay, just kidding."

Zhou Yi, who knew that this trip was inevitable, put down his tea cup, smiled and gave the boss some reassurance.

He still understands the necessity of brushing his face, although it is a bit tiring.

"The relationship with Coca-Cola has also helped us connect with several channel programs, which is convenient for Ayi to promote in the past."

Zhongzhong Qianjiang took out his notepad as soon as Zhou Yi let go: "As well as Warner's own relationship, he has also contacted a lot of radio stations.

"Of course, since your schedule is less than a month away, I will try my best to arrange for you to run promotions on major radio stations and programs this time."

Qian Jiang gave a long list of destinations and divided these programs into three, six or nine grades. Among them, in addition to several major radio stations, there was also a program that Zhou Yi was familiar with——

"The Conan Show".

It's not a death-like elementary school student who has been repeating a grade for ten thousand years, but a late-night talk show that even though it just started airing this year, the ratings are quite good.

Of course, the current host of this show is not Jimmy, who later missed Nicole Kidman because of playing games, but Conan Christopher O'Brien.

"If you are lazy, why can't you just imitate me and run around doing propaganda?"

Stefanie Sun, who finally saw Zhou Yi getting out of bed to do business, bared her teeth and smiled extremely happily.

Heaven and earth, she finally no longer has to watch Zhou Yi dangling in front of her eyes every day to anger her.

She has to promote her new album "Kite" and practice the Spring Festival Gala song "Network with the World" to prepare for the second round of rehearsals. She is as busy as a spinning top all day long and can't stop. She wishes she could work 24 hours a day. Used on the road.

Zhou Yi, who has no album or singles and only rehearses for the Spring Festival Gala, spends his free time either playing games at home or going out to play with friends. He also calls it "picking up the wind" to find inspiration, and after finishing his work, he comes to her from time to time to show off.

Who can bear this?

She had done her best to resist the urge to reveal to Zhouyi fans that this man was actually playing around all day long.

Zhou Yi gave her a last glance: "I'll just run away for a month."

"Tch, whoever said the same thing is different."

Stefanie Sun, who directly cut off the promotional activities before today, also started to tremble. It will be the Chinese New Year in just one month, and she doesn't have to do any promotional work.

"Are you going to America?"

Chen Haojia.

After returning from get off work, Chen Hao saw Zhou Yi packing his suitcase across the door and was stunned for a moment: "Is it publicity?"

"Yes, I'll probably go there for about a month."

Zhou Yi threw the house key to Chen Hao and stood up from the ground with a smile: "If I don't go, Zhou Jianhui may have to kneel down and kowtow to me."

Chen Hao, who subconsciously thought about that scene, couldn't help laughing: "I heard it's a bit chaotic over there at night, please remember to pay attention to your safety."

"Don't worry, the place where I live should be very safe."

After finishing packing, Zhou Yi patted the suitcase with a smile. Just as he was about to leave, Chen Hao called out: "Wait a moment, I will pack something for you to eat on the way."

It's a long way to the United States, so what if I want to eat some snacks along the way?

"Okay, then I'm leaving."

Zhou Yi stuffed the food into his backpack, picked up a suitcase, said goodbye to Chen Hao, who had been sent all the way downstairs to the community, and went straight to the airport.

"The first stop you go to the United States is New York. You will first participate in the promotion of two major radio stations, and then appear on "The Conan Show." Don't underestimate this talk show column. Its influence is no less than that of major music radio stations.

"And I think this form of talk-talk should be easier for you to deal with than a radio interview."

Considering Zhou Yi's rhetoric skills, Qian Jiang is very optimistic about this trip to the United States——

As long as Zhou Yi doesn't have too much personality to criticize Americans.

After all, judging from Zhou Yi's daily speech, there is a high probability that his talk show will be very effective.

"Have you ever seen a show like this before?"

"I've seen it, don't worry."

Zhou Yi gave Qian Jiang a reassurance, and Qian Jiang felt relieved.

Then……

“How to make a good self-introduction?”

On December 20, the "Conan Show" recording scene.

When Zhou Yi, who was on the talk show stage for the first time, repeated host Conan's question, he said without hesitation: "No, no, no, I don't think it is necessary at all."

"Why?"

"Because the world will eventually tell you my name."

It's a little late, it's not a big problem