China Entertainment 2000

Looking at the history of the Chinese music scene since its birth, leaving aside Teresa Teng, the sales leader who cannot be measured due to the factors of the times, from the 1980s and 1990s to the present, the number one album sales leader in the music scene has always been two people. In competition——

One is Zhang Xueyou and the other is Liu Dehua.

Since Zhang Xueyou's debut as of early 2003, he has released a total of 60 albums, including selected albums. The number announced by the company is more than 25 million;

Although Andy Lau has always been ridiculed by Liu Bantong, Liu Jundao, etc., he is the only one who can compete with Zhang Xueyu in terms of total album sales and single popularity since the 1990s.

Li Ming, the most popular among the Four Heavenly Kings, does not have many hit songs in Mandarin, so his total record sales outside Hong Kong and Macau are not as good as those of Zhang and Liu.

After entering the new century, Liu and Zhang can still produce hit songs such as "If This Is Not Love" and "Practice" that can compete on the charts, and there are also single albums that can barely sell in Asia. Crossing the million line, it became the last card in the era of the Four Kings of Hong Kong.

For so many years, although due to different statistical institutions and methods, these two companies have always said that the public is right and the mother-in-law is right. Both of them say that they are number one, but in the Hong Kong circle, this is actually harmless. .

After all, no matter how we fight, our own people come first.

But it's different now.

When Warner officially announced that Zhou Yi’s Chinese album sales had actually exceeded 10 million copies, they really felt desperate——

You must know that the year Zhou Yi debuted was 2000, a year when piracy was extremely rampant.

Starting from the second half of 2000, 2001, 2002.

In two and a half years, the Chinese-only album has sold over 10 million copies, and it is still blooming. Even if Zhang Xuet's friend Liu Dehua at his peak and Li Mingbang were taking drugs together, he couldn't reach it.

In this overall downward trend of the market, they are unable to determine how long this album record in Hong Kong, which they thought no one could touch, can be maintained.

"Zhou Yi is a monster. Before him, I had never seen Deng Lijun occupy so much market share by herself.

"I have no doubt that no matter how sluggish the domestic music market is in the future, Zhou Yi will still be able to maintain ultra-high sales, because his record base has far exceeded the list of top singers in the Chinese-speaking circle."

A fast-moving Hong Kong reporter interviewed Zheng Donghan, the president of EMI Records Asia. As the only two people in China who can hold the position of president of international record companies in Asia, Zheng Donghan was not as sour as other colleagues when he said this.

Isn't it a magic card? It sounds like no one has ever drawn it.

Back then, he also drew the magic card of Teresa Deng. Later, he also had two auxiliary cards, Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong. Li Ming, Zhang Xueyou, Liu Dehua, and Wang Fei were also under his command.

It can be said that at his peak, Zheng Donghan was the only one in the Chinese music industry. He handled more than half of the big-name singers. This is why his son Zheng Zhongji is called "Prince Ji" in the Hong Kong circle. "The reason is.

He is not very worried that Warner's market share will be so big that he can't survive. After all, Zhou Jianhui only got the magic card Zhou Yi, and the only one left is Sun Yanzi, who can be considered extremely talented, but he still has There is Elva Hsiao of a similar age who can compete against him.

In the Mainland, well-known singers such as Lao Lang, Pu Shu and others are already destined to leave Warner with the downfall of Song Ke.

"Old fox, if it weren't for Elva Hsiao, do you think he would still be so easy to talk to?"

Also on the 3rd, he took a flight back to the imperial capital and complained about Zheng Donghan's duplicity in the president's office.

Virgin Records is owned by EMI, and Elva Hsiao's teacher Yao Qian is the general manager.

It can be said that after renewing her contract, Elva Hsiao is no longer simply the first sister of Viking, but has begun to sprint towards the position of the first sister of EMI Greater China.

"It makes money, it's not shabby."

The rosy-faced Zhou Jianhui looked happily at Zhou Yi, who was sitting beside him: "Ayi, the company will hold a big celebration for you when the time comes, and the schedule will be expanded. Also, when are you planning to release your English song?"

"Before the Grammy Awards ceremony begins, release it as a single. On the one hand, it will facilitate hype, and on the other hand, it can also tap into the popularity of the Grammy Awards."

Zhou Yi, who stayed in Korea for several more days because of the accident involving the little princess, yawned sleepily. When asked about the English song, he thought about it and set a time: "However, the premise is that I have Being nominated for a Grammy can only increase the popularity.”

"Don't worry, the company will do its best to help you operate it."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Jianhui immediately patted his chest and said, "It's hard to say what the Four Major Awards are like. Those old-timers in the European and American music industry are still very discriminatory towards Chinese people, but for other awards, you can still compete."

The four categories of Grammy Awards refer to the four categories of Song of the Year, Production of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist.

There are no restrictions on musical genres and musicians from all branches of music compete. It is precisely for this reason that those old antiques guard these four awards much more strictly than other awards.

Zhou Jianhui was also afraid that Zhou Yi would feel dissatisfied when the time came, so he got vaccinated in advance.

"Don't worry, I have an average impression of the award. Whether it is awarded to me or not, it doesn't matter. I don't lack that piece of meat." Zhou Yi waved his hand nonchalantly: "If it is not awarded to me, I can continue to speculate and sell. album."

A trophy is not as valuable as real dollars. He doesn't belong to the European and American music circles, so he doesn't need a Grammy to promote himself.

When he has no desires and desires, the Grammy trophy is no different to him than a pebble on the roadside.

The little stone might still be worthless.

"Okay, just be mentally prepared and leave the rest to the company."

Zhou Jianhui immediately opened the drawer and handed him a brand new contract document: "This is the Global Communications endorsement that Mobile came to talk to me about when you went to South Korea. Ayi, let's see how it goes. "

Global Communication is one of China Mobile's most distinguished and most widely used services.

Even Zhou Yi himself uses this because he needs to travel around the world.

"China Mobile is currently making aggressive acquisitions and integrating internal resources. They won't be able to spend much money to sign you for a while, so they are willing to use resources to replace you."

"Replacement?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows and opened the contract in hand——

The money was indeed not much as Zhou Jianhui said, "only" 35 million, and the contract was for four years. However, China Mobile is willing to use its own global communication business resources to promote Zhouyi, and even comes with a profit-sharing ring tone clause.

"Mobile companies only charge... 5% per song?"

When he saw this number, Zhou Yi almost thought he had seen it wrong.

"You have also been to South Korea, and I believe you also know how popular CRBT is there. If China Mobile can successfully replicate it, it will be just this profit transfer, and a conservative estimate will be enough for you to earn tens of millions more."

"..."

"It's true. China Mobile takes this project very seriously, and Song Ke broke up with the company because of this."

Seeing Zhou Yi fell into silence, Zhou Jianhui, who thought he didn't understand the distribution method, carefully explained: "According to the contract originally given to Song Ke by China Mobile, they planned to charge 15%."

"...Really, that's no problem, but the legal details of the ringtone terms still need to be improved to prevent China Mobile from acting rogue."

Zhou Yi, who suppressed his surprise, looked very cautious when dealing with this endorsement contract and the profit-sharing clauses that Mobile was eager to recruit talent——

The degree of caution even exceeded Zhou Jianhui and Qian Jiang's expectations.

He called.

For the first time since graduating from school, Zhou Yi called his teacher with great solemnity.

When the contact person on the mobile side received Warner's intention to negotiate, he came with great interest, but everyone was dumbfounded——

The person in charge even felt that he had made a mistake. Why was the leader actually a legal expert from Peking University? ? ?

Taking another look at the lawyers’ opinions under the new version of the contract submitted by Warner, all of them came from Peking University Law...