China Entertainment 2000

"In this pounding rain, can we still hug each other as tightly as before~

"Today, when all the sweet and crazy things are gone, can we still hug each other in the rain like yesterday~"

In the recording studio, Wang Feng was still singing without emotion. His abundant emotions paired with his rock-flavored voice made it a great listen.

The lyrics that he had already memorized came out of his mouth one word after another. Wang Feng, who was immersed in the emotion of the song, slowly opened his eyes——

Outside the window, the appearance of the true god Zhou Yi made Wang Feng's heart tighten. The emotional progression that had been brewing for most of the song suddenly broke down, and the atmosphere was completely destroyed in an instant.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry."

Wang Feng, who never expected Zhou Yi to appear here, quickly apologized.

"It's okay, you sang well, keep going."

Zhou Yi, who was standing behind Stefanie Sun, smiled and made an OK gesture towards him without any aggressive aura.

With Zhou Yi's "supervision", in the following time, Wang Feng, who was very energetic, forced himself to be in the best recording studio state since he created "In the Rain".

There is no way, the shadow of a person's famous tree.

In the past, Zhou Yi's two Chinese albums and an EP failed to conquer the entire Chinese music scene, but now he has conquered the world with an English album that has defeated all domestic opponents.

Originally, Zhou Jianhui didn't feel a lot of pressure when he asked Stefanie Sun to come over, but Zhou Yi's arrival was beyond his expectation.

Everyone now knows his transcendent status within Warner Records, but if Zhou Yi shows his disapproval of his album, it is undoubtedly a fantasy for his agent to apply for a large publicity budget from above.

"The name of this album is "Love is a Happy Bullet", and the theme concept is love. All 11 songs in the album are written and composed by Wang Feng himself. At the same time, he is also the producer of his own album."

Seeing that Zhou Yi was still very excited after listening, Stefanie Sun handed him the information at hand.

As a rare creative talent in the mainland music scene around the millennium, Warner also gave him great freedom when signing Wang Feng.

"Your "Lianshan" is tentatively scheduled to be released on October 1st, my album is released on November 1st, and his album is tentatively scheduled to be released on December 10th, so as to avoid a collision and lose the popularity to you and me."

As Warner Music's top-grossing male and female singers, it was impossible for other Warner artists to release albums in the same month that Zhou Yi and Stefanie Sun released their albums.

Zhang Huimei in September, Zhou Yi in October, Stefanie Sun in November, Wang Feng and Na Ying in December.

Basically, it can be said that the last four months of this year have been wrapped up. The ambitious Warner Records is bound to make a great name in the second half of 2002, and the leader is the diva Zhang Huimei, who has high hopes for the company.

Except for Zhou Yi who was still filming the MV and was not disturbed, other singers under Warner including Stefanie Sun promoted information about Zhang Huimei's album both in and out of their interviews.

"It's a good idea."

After glancing at the album track information, Zhou Yi's tone was somewhat playful.

With the failure of Zhang Huimei's upcoming album, Warner's famous Tianhou Palace is about to fall apart.

Stefanie Sun, who caught the change in Zhou Yi's expression, blinked subconsciously, but she also restrained her desire to ask what happened here.

"Brother Yi."

Although he was born in 1971 and is ten years older than Zhou Yi, Wang Feng still called him "Brother" very smoothly when he walked out of the recording studio.

"A Yi" is not a title he can call now, let alone his real name "Zhou Yi". Only Stefanie Sun in the entire company often calls Zhou Yi by his first name.

"You sing well. This song should be a hit. I wish your new album a big hit."

Wang Feng's face lit up: "Thank you, Brother Yi."

Although Zhou Yi seemed to be here to see Stefanie Sun, it was just an accident to see him recording a song. But I have to say that receiving encouragement from Zhou Yi is more effective than taking any reassurance pill.

"come on."

For this rare all-around creative talent in the mainland music scene, Zhou Yi generally likes some of his songs despite his colored glasses.

Everyone's private life is in a mess, and the eldest brother doesn't laugh at the second brother.

In terms of business capabilities, the phrase "the man who carved out half of the mainstream business market with rock and roll" is really not a boast. The rock album "Love is a Happy Bullet" can basically be said to be Wang Feng's entry into personal business value. The beginning of the peak.

"Zhou Yi is very optimistic about him?"

More than ten minutes later, the president's office.

Stefanie Sun, who came to deal with Zhou Jianhui, highlighted Zhou Yi's evaluation of Wang Feng's song "In the Rain" - "It's a hit", which immediately attracted Zhou Jianhui's attention, and he hurriedly asked.

"That's right. I heard him say before that the only new mainland male singer-songwriters he is optimistic about are Hu Yanbin and Wang Feng."

After completing the task, Stefanie Sun shrugged and then left with a smile: "If there is nothing else, I will leave first. Zhou Yi is still waiting for me to discuss the MV."

"Um."

Zhou Jianhui, who was obviously a little distracted, waved his hand, and Stefanie Sun disappeared in a flash, as fast as a rabbit running away.

"Hu Yanbin, is he a person who has been promoted to music..."

As a person who can be praised by Zhou Yi, Zhou Jianhui felt that if he didn't see it, he must be blind.

Facts have proved that Ayi has always succeeded and never failed.

"Song Ke..."

Closing his eyes, Zhou Jianhui rubbed his eyebrows and talked about the founder of Wheatfield Music who was acquired by Warner in the past.

I don’t know if it’s because of being tainted with Warner’s traditional entertainment industry, but Song Ke’s recent uneasy thoughts have been noticed by Xu Xiaofeng, the current person in charge of Warner Wheatfield, and his flirting with Taihe Media has also been reported. Zhou Jianhui is here.

It's clear that he is no longer content to develop under the Warner banner.

What's even worse is that according to the news from the insider he installed at Rolling Stone, Li Zongsheng, the deputy general manager of Rolling Stone Records and a generational music industry leader, also had a good chat with Song Ke. The mainland genius music producer Zhang Yadong also recently had a good chat with Song Ke. Ke walked very close.

It is obvious that Song Ke plans to reopen a "Little Warner" through the accumulated contacts and channels.

The key is that nowadays, except for Zhou Yi, who is considered a direct descendant of Warner's mainland artists, everyone else may leave with Song Ke.

This inevitably reminds Zhou Jianhui of Warner Records’ painful history of being tricked in Taiwan——

After spending a large sum of money to acquire Taiwanese local record company UFO Records, they were screwed. Most of its singers quit and did not renew their contracts, leaving Warner in Taiwan an empty shell with only Aaron Kwok and Sammi Cheng struggling to support it. .

It was against this chaotic and difficult background that he, Zhou Jianhui, was invited by Warner to be the general manager of Warner UFO Records, which had not yet been renamed Warner (China). He could say that this period of history was vivid and fresh in his mind.

He will never allow this to happen again during his term.

"Wang Feng can fight for it. Pu Shu will definitely follow Song Ke. Don't worry about this..."

Zhou Jianhui, who was scrolling through the names of the company's mainland artists one by one, thought for a moment and added one after Zhou Yi's name: Hu Yanbin.

Since Zhou Yi is so optimistic, he can try to poach a corner.

Of course, the most important thing is the contract with Zhou Yi.

"Zhou Yi signed a four-year contract with Warner, which means that his contract will expire in June 2004. I think we can give it a try. Warner has not been peaceful recently."

Almost at the same time, giant record companies such as Sony and EMI all sensed a new round of infighting crisis within Warner. Once the thoughts of poaching arose in their hearts, they spread like vines.

There are still four months to go until 2003. If you calculate it this way, it won't be long before Zhou Yi's contract expires. Two years is nothing for the record company.

What's more, for a superstar like Zhou Yi, contract negotiations alone may take several months, half a year or even a year.

Whether it's Warner who wants to renew the contract or other companies who want to poach people, they have to show enough sincerity to impress people.

Stefanie Sun, who knew all this well, did not intend to kidnap Zhou Yi in the name of Gemini. Instead, she continued to get along with him as if she didn't know anything. She joined the group and directly made a guest appearance in the MV of "Cheers", playing the role of Zhou Yi's daughter. Friend's identity.

"Is this the custom-made wedding dress for me?"

Stefanie Sun, who made a brief cameo appearance in "Cheers", where her girlfriend helped Zhou Yi go home and then called it a day, was immediately attracted by another scenery on the scene, with a look of surprise on her face——

Two pure white wedding dresses.