China Entertainment 2000

"The King of Sales!" The myth of the God of Song is no more! 》

"The Sales Myth of Going Against the Current: In 2001, Zhouyi's total album and single sales exceeded seven million copies!" 》

"Beyond Jacky Cheung!" Chinese singer's sales record in Asia has been refreshed again! 》

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On the morning of March 8, almost all entertainment newspapers and weekly magazines in the country immediately reported the historic moment of Zhou Yi's final conclusion.

However, compared to the more exaggerated headlines in Hong Kong newspapers, the mainland media, who are obviously still embarrassed to spread the word to the headlines, obviously need to learn more.

But it was those strings of cold and unreasonable numbers that made the entire mainland music scene feel proud and proud——

Jacky Cheung, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, has officially fallen from the throne starting today, losing the album sales record of Chinese singers that should have been a hit for more than ten or twenty years.

In 1993, "Kiss Goodbye" was released, which was the year Jacky Cheung reached his peak. In just one year, Taiwan's genuine market alone has achieved a brilliant record of more than one million copies, and it is still the record holder for annual album sales by Hong Kong singers in Taiwan.

In one year, almost three million genuine albums were sold throughout Asia, and countless pirated albums were sold.

Also in this year, riding on the momentum of "Kiss Goodbye", Jacky Cheung released an additional Cantonese album, a greatest hits album, and another Mandarin album.

The sales of four albums in a year were added together, and he reached a sales peak that even he himself could no longer surpass. He won the World Music Award for the highest sales volume in Asia for the first time in his life, and stood with European and American big names such as Michael Jackson. Went on the same stage to receive the award.

When he sang Chinese songs on stage, Michael Jackson sat in the audience and applauded.

This scene was reported by countless gossip media, and the title of the God of Song was justified, completely widening the gap with the other three kings in the field of singing.

Originally, as the record market declined year by year, people thought that the sales record he set in 1993 would no longer be broken.

As a result, this record, which was thought to be unbreakable, was smashed to pieces by Zhou Yi who came out of nowhere just seven years later!

"Wait a minute, I took a look. Warner's total sales certified by the International Phonographic Association were 7 million. Isn't it too outrageous that it didn't even get the highest number in Asia?"

"Yes, even though more than half of the sales are from English singles, why can't this figure still rank first?"

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After the sales of Zhouyi spread to the north and south of the motherland with newspapers, leaving aside the mainland where Utada Hikaru was basically ignored, fans of Zhouyi in Hong Kong and Taiwan expressed doubts about the Japanese singer.

In 2001, Zhou Yi's second album "Jiangnan" + EP album "Graduation" sold 3.268 million copies in Asia due to the superposition of various factors.

The English single sold 360,000 copies in Taiwan, 103,000 copies in Hong Kong, 260,000 copies in the Mainland, and 46,000 copies in Macau;

Won the annual title in Japan, selling 1.507 million copies, just over 20,000 copies of Utada Hikaru's runner-up single;

More than 390,000 were sold in all Asian countries except Japan, including South Korea.

In the United States, as of December 31, 2001, the English single had sold 750,000 copies.

Because the DVD of the China-Korea Song Concert focuses on the yellow race of the Zhouyi, the sales of more than 310,000 were also included in the sales statistics of the Zhouyi in 2001 by Warner Chicken Thief.

In this way, Zhouyi's annual sales in 2001 totaled 7 million copies. Warner rounded up the number when it certified.

Shouldn't this number be able to win the championship even if it were compared to the Japanese music scene in the past?

This is seven million! Even though the English single is a bit watery, it’s still a real sales volume!

Who are you, Hikaru Utada? !

Many fans of Zhou Yi who didn't know the singer began to feel angry, but in the end they fell silent in front of the Japanese singer's equally abnormal sales volume——

An album that sold more than 4.41 million, a runner-up single that sold more than 1.48 million, and two hit singles that together sold more than 1.2 million;

and two DVDs with sales of 300,000 and 180,000 copies respectively.

The total sales volume was just over 7.6 million copies, which was rounded up to 7.6 million.

"Fuck! If it hadn't been for the pervert Utada Hikaru, Zhou Yi's sales would have surely made him the highest-selling singer in Asia. What a pity."

"No way, according to the official introduction of the World Music Awards, the Japanese female singer actually lost to Zhou Yi in the decisive battle for the top and runner-up of the singles chart in Japan.

"But comparing the total sales for the whole year, Zhouyi's Chinese album sales suffered too much."

Faced with the real sales gap, some Zhouyi fans who are used to surfing the Internet were a little confused about what to say.

"I checked and found out that Hikaru Utada is not the norm in the Japanese music scene. Her sales volume in Japan is actually at the level of a historical monster. Like Zhou Yi, she created a sales myth when she debuted. Last year, Hamasaki lost to Ayumi in a head-to-head duel. She did."

"Zhouyi should release an English single this year. Coca-Cola has officially announced that it will be their World Cup promotion song. Let's wait until this year to play again."

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After confirming that Utada Hikari's sales were indeed not fraudulent, all Zhouyi fans who did not fight against this headwind tacitly forgot about Utada Hikari and began to "dominate" domestically.

If the wind and waves are smooth, wouldn't it be a fair wind? !

Seven million, even if Warner removed a fraction of the sales, who is the opponent in the Chinese music world?

What's even worse is that on March 10, under the official arrangement of Warner, Zhou Yi, who left Monaco, even took the time to go and collect a genuine Guinness World Record——

"Breaking Guinness World Records!" The youngest Mr. Seven Million in the history of the Chinese music industry! 》

Zhou Yi held the World Music Award trophy in one hand and the Guinness-certified photo in the other hand, and also made a lot of media popularize the so-called status of Guinness World Records.

In March 2002, Zhou Yi's reputation was booming, and in terms of popularity, he completely surpassed Xie Tingfeng, who had been the double arrogant with him since the beginning of the millennium!

"Is this a Guinness World Records certificate? It doesn't look like anything special."

March 11, Singapore.

After winning the award, Zhou Yi was invited to Singapore to participate in the show. He met Stefanie Sun who drove to pick her up at the airport wearing sunglasses. The latter was obviously in a very happy mood and picked up his trophy and certificate as soon as he arrived——

After playing with it carefully, he reluctantly returned the trophy and certificate to him, saying that he was actually fine.

"Really, I'm not envious at all."

"Take off your sunglasses first and let me see if you are jealous enough to shed tears."

With Chen Zeshan driving and Qian Jiang sitting in the passenger seat, Zhou Yi, who was sitting in the back seat, smiled wickedly and raised his hand to take off her sunglasses.

Stefanie Sun, who was still pretending to be cool, lost her sunglasses a second later and was about to snatch them back with her hands. However, just as she was about to stand up, Zhou Yi held her head firmly down——

Stefanie Sun, whose thin arms and legs couldn't hold Zhou Yi apart, gritted her teeth between her grins, and her crunching voice was extremely clear: "Zhou Yi, this is Singapore, be careful I won't let you go back."

"That's what I said, wait until I go to Uncle Sun to file a complaint first."

In the driver's seat, Chen Zeshan, who was driving, had long been accustomed to the noise of the two in the back seat, and was completely unaffected by his conversation with Qian Jiang——

“Where is Elva Hsiao?”

"The awards were over. She played for two more days before being called back to Viking by Yao Qian to prepare a new album."

One more update~

Stefanie at the New Year's Eve party is so handsome!

Everyone in the group is going "crazy", Le.