China Entertainment 2000

"Okay, I have no objection."

After reading all the contents, Zhou Yi handed the folder in his hand back to Zhou Jianhui. At the end, he did not forget to smile and tease: "Mr. Zhou, you have more or less confidence in me now."

Who is Eminem? In the hip-hop field dominated by black people, he, a white man, can break through the siege and reach the top. There is no doubt about his strength.

Although controversial, it is undeniable that his album did sell well.

The sales volume of the last album directly defeated all opponents in the same period, and swept to the top of the world's number one male singer sales championship.

The sales of the new album "The Eminem Show" have exceeded one million copies in just three days after its release, which made countless people exclaimed and incredible. Fans were reveling along with the song "Without Me" in the album, shouting that the king is back.

No matter how you look at it, Eminem is unstoppable this year.

"As long as you can have two more songs in your album that are as popular as your first single "The lazy song", then it won't be a loss if you spend money on it."

Zhou Jianhui, whose status within Warner has risen rapidly in the past two years, can be considered proud of his success. Naturally, he chooses to believe, believe, and believe again.

As for actually competing in a ring with Eminem, he wouldn't even dare to think about it.

"If there is a song that can reach the level of popularity of "Wavin Flag"... forget it, I won't force it, the World Cup will be a huge bonus."

Zhou Jianhui, who felt that he was somewhat whimsical, smiled and shook his head, and stopped thinking before he finished speaking.

As of May 29, the song "Wavin Flag" relied on the two major global promotion channels of Warner and Coca-Cola, directly leading a worldwide World Cup trend.

Except for Asia, where people can tell who is who, people in other continents who generally do not know much about relevant geographical knowledge are influenced by the atmosphere of the World Cup and will immediately remember "Wavin Flag" as soon as they hear this song. Understanding the official theme song for this World Cup——

The melody is catchy and the lyrics are sunny;

The MV is full of Asian city scenes, the singer is an Asian singer, and this World Cup is being held in Asia.

The most important thing is that in Japan and South Korea, the two countries hosting the World Cup, the most popular World Cup song is also the song "Wavin Flag".

Whether walking on the streets of Tokyo or walking in the alleys of Seoul, people can always hear "Wavin Flag", a song that almost makes their ears tingle.

If this isn't the theme song of this World Cup, what other song could it be?

"Sorry, this song really isn't."

South Korea, Seoul.

Facing the foreigners who came to watch the game, one Korean after another had no choice but to explain it over and over again.

The sweaty South Korean officials tried their best to refute the rumors before the upcoming opening ceremony of the World Cup and pushed the official theme song, but found that no one listened at all——

Whether it is the radio listening rate, on-demand rate, KTV karaoke count or even the paid on-demand MV music station, "Wavin Flag" is far ahead, and the three official theme songs bundled together cannot beat it.

Oh, no, I can’t say I can’t beat it. It should be that “Wavin Flag” has more fractions than these three official tracks.

There are even many foreign tourists who came to travel to the city based on the MVs shot by Zhou Yi. After arriving, they discovered that they had gone to the wrong place. Zhou Yi is Chinese and he shot advertisements for Chinese cities.

Those who have money and leisure will take advantage of the opening game of the World Cup to take a walk around China following Zhou Yi's song MV, since flying is fast anyway.

Foreigners who don't have much budget to travel to China can only mutter a few words: "Seoul, the capital of South Korea, is just like that, not as good as the cities that appear in the song "Wavin Flag"."

These remarks are quite popular on Internet websites such as Yahoo, and Koreans are very defensive about them.

Asiba!

"This is the World Cup in South Korea! This is our World Cup! What is he going to do? What is Warner going to do? What is Coca-Cola going to do?!"

The more tourists there are, the more this kind of talk becomes.

Jeong Mong, the chairman of the Korean Football Association, who had worked hard to win the co-organizing rights, was so angry that he smashed all the vases in his office.

Xiba!

Why don’t you talk about Tokyo? !

They are both the capitals of the countries hosting this World Cup. Is our Seoul worse than Tokyo? !

Zheng Mengzhun thought about many ways that Korea could lose its limelight to Japan before the opening ceremony, and took a lot of precautions for this.

But what he never expected was that in the end, an uninvited Chinese singer would come over with a knife and openly cut off a large piece of it from under the noses of Japan and South Korea without spending a penny. cake--

The food tastes pretty damn good!

China spends money and you eat it? !

This is something we, the Republic of Korea, spent money to do!

Also breaking the defense was the chairman of the Japan Football Association.

I was already feeling aggrieved by being overpowered by South Korea and being ridiculed by Zheng Mongzhun himself in writing a book. But in the end, a Chinese city that didn't spend a dime was able to take advantage of the World Cup to increase its popularity?

Isn’t that a bit outrageous?

Some Chinese associations in Japan have even begun to print travel guides to Chinese cities and distribute them to foreigners who have money to travel. They made them in the order in which the cities appeared in the Zhouyi MV, a detailed batch.

If there was no one here to add fuel to the flames, he would commit suicide by committing seppuku!

It just so happens that there are many fans of Zhou Yi in Japan, and these people enthusiastically educated foreigners about Zhou Yi's past achievements and songs.

Riding on this trend, on May 30, more than a month after the song was released, Zhou Yi almost completed global dominance——

It goes up to England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia; down to Iceland, Peru, Portugal, Ecuador and Gambia.

Even in the United States, where the football atmosphere is average, you can hear Zhou Yi's singing, see Zhou Yi's face and his carefully produced MV.

Although the sales of the single were only 6.34 million copies, for Zhou Yi, this time it was a real global hit——

Wherever there is football, there is Zhou Yi Song!

According to Warner's official statistics, so far, Zhou Yi's "Wavin Flag" has been listened to more than 2.5 billion times globally.

The Chinese city MV promotional video for "Wavin Flag" is conservatively estimated to have been viewed about 300 million times.

Currently, it is second only to the 1994 World Cup theme song "We Will Rock You" and the 1998 World Cup theme song "Cup of Life".

Chinese officials were confused at first, and then became ecstatic.

This song by Zhouyi performed really well under the protection of the World Cup. It completely suppressed all other sports songs and still took the lead!

Under the strong shadow brought by Zhouyi, on May 31st, despite the huge pressure brought by "Wavin Flag", the official theme song of the World Cup in Korea and Japan, which had not gained even a little bit of popularity, only gained sparse attention at the opening ceremony. A round of friendly applause.

The level of support was not even as good as the cheers given to the French team by the audience after the opening game.

"What? "Wavin Flag" is not the theme song? Then why is this song every day?"

"Didn't you watch the news on Korean TV? Spike who sang is Chinese. The Chinese did not host the World Cup. The theme song was certainly not his."

"Of course I know he is Chinese, and I also know his Chinese name is Zhou Yi. I mean why didn't Korea and Japan accept this song as the theme song for the World Cup? Aren't they all Asians? What's more, the Chinese team also Participated in the World Cup.”

"Who knows..."

After the World Cup started, Zhou Yi, who returned to the mainland and started filming the MV for his English album, lived a low-key life without fighting against the world, but he became a trend-setter.

The rosy-faced Zhou Jianhui walks like a charm and speaks to FIFA President Sepp Blatter every now and then.

If Zhou Yi's status improves this week, he will be confident enough to quarrel with Eminem's marketing in the future.

However, just as the World Cup is in full swing, and the whole of China is immersed in the dream of "scoring a goal, winning a point, and winning a game" to qualify for the World Cup——

However, the national football team poured cold water on the whole country by losing to Costa Rica 0:2, Brazil 0:4, and Turkey 0:3.

Lost all three games, scoring 0 goals and conceding 9 goals.

As fierce as the domestic football atmosphere was before the World Cup, now the anger of domestic fans, even fake fans and passers-by is so strong.

As a well-known fan among celebrities, Zhou Yi, who returned to Bar Street to shoot the "Yeah" MV on location, was also crouched down by reporters, who asked him what he thought of the Chinese team's trip to the World Cup. .

"Well...in other words, the Chinese team is one of the teams that can prepare for the next World Cup in advance."

Facing the camera, Zhou Yi scratched his temples. Considering the national football team's subsequent record, he searched for a relatively peaceful explanation.

He can't be allowed to say depressing words to the camera. Nowadays, Chinese football fans are very angry. If he says depressing words, he will be scolded too.