China Entertainment 2000

"What time will Zhou Yi arrive, Lao Han?"

South Korea, inside a private room of a Chinese restaurant.

Han Hong, who has gradually become more like a big sister, returned to the box after finishing her ordering. Before she could close the door, a tall and beautiful woman with long legs asked curiously: "Is there no time to come? He Seems very busy.”

"It's coming soon, he said it's on the way."

Han Hong smiled and closed the door of the box. As she spoke, she turned her gaze to Sun Nan, who was somewhat silent. As she walked by, she unconsciously raised her hand and patted his shoulder to comfort him: "He was just dealing with the company's affairs. , as you also know, his songs have become popular again in the United States."

"Yeah, it's really a miracle."

There was clearly a hint of disbelief in Qu Ying's tone.

As the only one among the people present who has experience in trying to get into the United States, she is called China's number one supermodel by outside reporters. She knows very well how difficult it is for a Chinese to go out.

She has appeared in big-name magazines, endorsed major international brands such as Ericsson mobile phones and Longines watches, and even served as a judge in international modeling competitions. Qu Ying thought that she should have entered the international arena as a model, but the cruel reality finally let her down. Hitted all over the head.

Because of her age, she decided to quit her career and returned to China. With her still-unbroken supermodel aura, she began to look for opportunities for transformation while recuperating.

This year's China-Korean Song Festival has her name, and she came to it because of the transformation and qualifications.

"Judging from your qualifications, you two should have something in common. After all, you both have achieved success outside, even though she is in the modeling industry."

In front of the traffic light, Qian Jiang, who drove himself as a driver, glanced at Zhou Yi who was looking at the list of information, smiled and teased: "And Sun Nan is here tonight, I guess he plans to surrender to you personally."

As the former number one brother in Mainland China, he was able to participate in the China-Korean Song Concert this time thanks to his outstanding performance in the China-Japan Song Concert.

"Originally, he didn't really want to come, but he probably swayed under the advice of the agency behind him. After all, it's not shameful to bow to you now."

"What you are saying, do I look like the kind of person who cannibalize people? It's not like he and I have ever been together forever."

Zhou Yi glanced sideways at Qian Jiang: "You grabbed the resources for "Young Bao Qingtian" back then, not me, and I didn't take the initiative to get the first brother from the Mainland."

"...If I were Sun Nan, I would step on the accelerator right now and lead you to death together."

When the car started up again, accompanied by Qian Jiang's harsh words without any threat, the black Mercedes-Benz speeded past on the brightly lit street——

More than ten minutes later, Zhou Yi walked into the restaurant according to the address given by Han Hong under the delighted eyes of the proprietress of the Chinese restaurant. After signing the usual autographs and taking photos, he followed the boss who led the way and opened the door of the private room. ——

Han Hong, Sun Nan, Qu Ying, Zhou Hui, Mok Wenwei and Lingdian Band.

Except for Jing Gangshan and Sun Yue, two popular singers who debuted early, and Wu Bixia, a national team-level singer who is responsible for leading the group, all other participants of this China-Korea Song Festival came.

"Sorry, the company's affairs delayed a lot of time. I'm late. I'm late."

Zhou Yi, who came up to self-examine first, did not make the atmosphere in the box awkward. He sighed helplessly: "I have been squeezed by the company recently, and I have almost treated myself like a donkey."

"That's what I said. Come to Zhouyi and introduce to you. This is Qu Ying, the number one model in the country."

Sun Yue was not here, so Han Hong, who had known Zhou Yi for a long time, acted as the go-between and enthusiastically introduced to Zhou Yi the beauty who was tall, legs and nine heads tall. The latter also stretched out her hand to Zhou Yi at the right time: "Finally, meet her. Come to the real person, the real person is more handsome than the poster.

"Besides, don't believe what Lao Han said about the number one model. That's all just praise from the media."

"You're so humble, Sister Qu."

Zhou Yi shook hands with him cheerfully: "I have also photographed a magazine, but those models don't have your temperament."

"Harper's Bazaar, right? I even bought those issues. You are very classy. Hu Bin feels ashamed after reading it."

"I like to hear this. Say more."

Zhou Yi, who had a slight smile on his brow, immediately turned his attention to the other people in the venue - in addition to the two old acquaintances Sun Nan and Lingdian Band, the other two new faces were the female singer Zhou Hui who represented Taiwan to participate in the China-Korea Song Concert. And Mok Wenwei, who represented Hong Kong at the China-Korea Song Festival.

The former debuted in 1999 and is in the same group as Elva Hsiao, Cai Yilin, Liang Jingru and Sun Yanzi in terms of seniority. But compared to these four, her famous song, and the most well-known song so far, is a cover of Wang Fei's "Promise".

Although I have never seen Mok Wenwei before, she was once considered the top diva who fought with Zhou Yi on the ranking list.

"I finally met you. Ah Yi, you really don't give me any face in Hong Kong." Mok Wenwei teased the things Zhou Yi did in Hong Kong: "Moreover, you can win a Ferrari from Huang Zhan. Man, you are still the first.”

"Thank you, Sister Mo."

After exchanging contact information, Zhou Yi then turned to Zhou Hui. After leaving his contact information with her, his eyes turned to Sun Nan——

"Long time no see, Zhou Yi."

Unlike others, Sun Nan gave him a friendly hug as soon as he came up, and the smile on his face looked extremely sincere.

Several people with different thoughts at the scene were quietly relieved after seeing this.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Seeing Sun Nan take the initiative to bow his head to him, showing his kindness in admitting defeat, the smile on Zhou Yi's lips gradually became more real.

This man who still wanted to regain the throne of the first brother with his new album "The Sky of Fate" finally gave up - Zhou Yi was too strong, and he had no hope of winning.

Upon seeing this, Han Hong immediately called everyone to sit down and chatted while eating the appetizers brought by the shop owner. Most of the conversation was about the changes that had taken place in the domestic music scene in recent times.

"To be honest, if I were Haidie, I would probably call the police."

Han Hong, who was chewing peanuts, was smiling so hard that he could hardly see his eyes when talking about a big melee in the music industry that broke out at the end of this year: "Adu, do you remember, Zhou Yi? Haidie knows that you won't release an album at the end of the year. Plan, so I planned to build momentum for him, but then I ran into you again, and the funds were wasted again. "

"Adu?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise when he heard the name. Then, he figured out what was going on from the chatter of these people——

The reason is that Haidie wanted to build momentum for Adu and try to help him win the first place in Baidu's annual singer search list.

Throughout 2002, there were only two people who truly established themselves as top male singers - one was Zhou Yi and the other was Adu.

Although there is a big gap between the two.

Therefore, at a time when both album competition and song rankings have been completely defeated, while Zhou Yi himself is abroad, Haidie wants to take the opportunity to catch up with Zhou Yi in terms of popularity and Internet search volume——

On November 29, Haidie's Adu officially released his second album "Hold to the End".

The title song "Hold On to the End" was marketed by Haidie and started to be prepared when Zhou Yi had just left China. Until last week, after Zhou Yi's popularity dropped a lot, this song once again sang the song all over the country. Adu seems to be proving to the outside world that he is not a flash in the pan.

On December 18th, a singer named Xu Wei gradually came out of the haze of depression and released a new album "Time Walking" in Mainland China's Busheng Music. This album gave birth to a song that can almost be said to be It is the song that swept the mainland music charts in a short period of time - "Blue Lotus".

On December 20, Pan Weibo, a new singer owned by Universal Music Group, officially debuted under the name "Hip-Hop Little Zhouyi" and released his debut album "Gecko Walking". The title song of the same name in the album "Gecko Walking" and the male-female duet song "Tell Me" also gained momentum once they were released, and have become famous in Taiwan.

For a time, it seemed that at the end of the year, there was someone emerging in the music scene on both sides of the Taiwan Strait who could knock Zhou Yi down on the charts, who was at the end of a period of sluggish album sales.

Haidie was caught off guard and was forced to shift her focus to fighting against them. After all, Zhou Yi will not release an album this year, so there is no need to worry too much.

Then, they all became stupid.

In other words, the senior executives of these companies were all stupid - when the news of "In the Name of the Father" began to be reported in China, it was a little difficult for them to understand.

No, bro, we are about to fight with real swords and guns. Why are you still playing with cannons?

Can Chinese songs enter foreign markets?

Why don't you skyrocket to 90,000 miles?

And it is precisely because of this sudden popularity that all the song and promotion funds prepared by the three record companies, Haidie, Universal, and Bu Sheng for their singers were in vain!

Warner, which is sitting firmly on Diaoyutai, only needs to take advantage of this wave of popularity and spend a little bit of marketing funds to help Zhou Yi return to the top of the major charts - and bring back many songs to reach the top of the charts again. ten.

On the music charts, "Fairy Tale", which had already lost its championship spot, had slipped to third place, but it suddenly shot back to first place like a rocket due to this wave of popularity. What surprised the major record companies even more was that the song "In the Name of the Father" actually became a hit in China...

"Heizi speak!"

On the domestic Internet, because of "In the Name of the Father", which can be said to have broken the language barrier in songs, some crystal fans who have been suppressed by the marketing expenses of Universal, Haidie and Bu Sheng during this period have spoken out, and even There are people who arrogantly go to major forums and chat rooms to provide cross-regional guidance——

Including but not limited to going to the fan club of the corresponding singer to despise them and asking them to come out to see the emperor; popularizing the achievements of Zhouyi to those people, absorbing and transforming those unsteady passerby fans, etc.

It is precisely for this reason that the China-Korean Song Concert that Zhou Yi is about to participate in will immediately attract more people’s attention——

According to online voting, on January 3 next year, the number of domestic viewers who want to watch the China-Korean Song Concert on time in front of the TV has increased by 325% compared to the previous China-Korean Song Concert!

And this was all because of Zhou Yi who came here to watch.

This directly caused great psychological pressure on the pop singers who participated in this concert.

After all, according to common sense, this kind of gala is not the Spring Festival Gala, and the number of people who are really willing to stare is actually not too many. This can be seen from the last China-Korean Song Concert.

And it is precisely because of this that when the recording of the China-Korea Song Concert officially started on December 27, everyone on the Chinese side, except Zhou Yi and the leading singer, looked serious.

Sun Nan and Han Hong's auras with serious faces looked quite scary, leaving Han Fang confused.

Those who knew it thought they were going to sing, and those who didn’t know thought they were coming to Seoul to fight...