China Entertainment 2000

For Zhou Yi, this is a result that is destined to happen.

The difference is that this time he became the man who stood in the wave of the times and reached out to pick the fruit, becoming the pig in the wind.

But for the European and American music scene, major record companies and even distributors, this result is tantamount to a sudden innovation - a knife cut into their arteries.

There is no middleman to make a difference in price, just sell whatever you want.

There are no vague physical store statistics or offline advertising and promotion data, and there are only Internet labels with clearly marked prices.

This result shocked everyone in this era.

Whether it’s the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, the white hip-hop god, Eminem, or the already infamous 50 Cent. Regardless of whether they had any quarrel with Zhou Yi, they all fell into silence after the result came out.

The amount should be sold, and the singer can estimate the sales amount by himself. There will never be a situation like Maverick Records, a company jointly owned by Madonna and Warner, which should have made a profit, but ended up losing money due to channel operation. More than sixty million dollars occurred.

This is undoubtedly a major benefit for singers, especially top singers like them.

Because this can increase their voice.

With the announcement of Apple's number, whether everyone accepts it or not, one thing is clear in their hearts at this moment -

The era of physical records is really over.

It ended on Apple's platform and in the hands of Zhou Yi.

After the results came out, countless record and channel business stakeholders cursed Zhou Yi on the Internet, using unprecedented intensity to smear this singer from the far East. However, they still could not stop this man from becoming the only representative of paid music on the Internet— - Become a god immediately!

His fans are no longer limited to obtaining songs from major traditional channels, and his income is no longer dependent on a dense network of upstream and downstream distributors.

He opened a new era for the United States, Europe, and even the entire world music scene - the Internet paid music system. Since then, it has been officially established.

No matter how it is smeared or viewed, the name Zhou Yi is firmly bound to the history of world pop music. Whenever the history of pop music is mentioned in the future, this man from China will be an unavoidable figure.

When the so-called traditional "god-making" channels and the right to speak were in the hands of traditional European and American old money, Zhou Yi, who took an unconventional path, directly used his influence to join forces with Apple to create a "god" channel that was completely independent of traditional record channels. "Becoming a God" route -

"Taking a bigger picture, from now on, everyone who can make money through the Internet paid music system will have a share of his contribution."

The king of the previous era and the representative of the last afterglow of the traditional record era, Michael Jackson sat on the chair. After the initial chaos, his mind finally returned to calm. He kept shaking his head and was filled with emotions in his heart.

If Zhou Yi can maintain a stable output of works in the future, at least it will be stable at about three best-selling albums in the world, which will take about six to seven years. Combined with this achievement that has opened up a new battlefield, he is truly the next generation king of pop——

No matter how much controversy there is, Warner will be able to market it, and there will be many people willing to admit it.

Not convinced?

If you don't accept it, hold it in.

Fans of Zhou Yi will naturally have a sense of superiority when they quarrel in the future. This is the biggest status advantage of Kaishan Monster.

As it turns out, Michael Jackson wasn't the only one who had this idea.

On the 25th, Zhou Yi and Apple’s behavior, which can be described as reshaping the country, was directly reported by the national media and swept the entire traditional media world at an extremely fast speed——

"Los Angeles Times": "The First Person in Paid Music on the Internet—Spike"

"The New York Times": "The collaboration between Spike and Steve Jobs, the new pattern of the music system in the 21st century"

26th, "Washington Post": "Precise vision, perfect cooperation"

"New York Post": "The Founder of a New Era in Music—Spike"

"..."

On the 27th, even the British newspapers such as "Mirror" and "Guardian" reported on this incident.

When Apple officially announced on the 29th that the number of paid downloads of Zhouyi songs had officially exceeded the 15 million mark, people in the entire European and American music market were already extremely numb.

In five days from 23 to 28, a total of 15 million songs were sold.

People who had never thought that Internet payment could burst out with such energy were all dumbfounded, including Jobs himself.

"God, Spike's songs are so popular on music software."

After reading the data every day for the past five days, he felt that he was almost like Zhou Yi.

It’s not that there are no other songs in the copyright library of the Apple Music Store. He has obtained most of the copyright libraries of several major record companies.

But even so, the light still belongs to Zhou Yi alone.

A swarm of scoldings coexisted with extremely complimentary words of praise. Zhou Yi's reputation in Europe and America was deeply embedded in people's minds through these strangleholds again and again - incidentally, there was also the extremely Dazzling list.

July 23-28, 2003, Apple Music Store paid download rankings:

No. 1: "Baby", number of paid downloads: 1.1077 million;

No. 2: "Viva La Vida", 1.0065 million

No. 3: "Yeah", 959,200

No. 4: "Counting Stars", 919,200

No. 5: "We Are Young", 819,200

hing Just Like This", 817,700

No. 7: "Apologize", 783,200

No. 8: "Natural", 772,600

ime", 770,300

No. 10: "Enemy", 757,700...

The top ten paid downloads alone have directly sold a total of 8.7133 million songs. The 11th to 20th ones are also songs from Zhou Yi's two English albums, and the total sales have exceeded 6.3 million. The sum of 1-20 exceeded 15 million...

In a music store, the top 20 paid downloads were directly dominated by the same singer - Spike Chou almost blinded everyone!

Under this list, all doubts are worthless and all insults are not worth mentioning!

This is simply a miracle - no, this is a miracle!

It is true that Apple’s cover was recommended at the beginning, but to be able to sell such a number, it can only be said that everyone, including Warner, underestimated the popularity of Zhou Yi’s two songs from the British album——

"Attitude Show" has eleven songs, and "Forever Young" has ten songs, totaling 21 songs. Only one reggae song "Rude" did not make it into the top 50, while the remaining 20 songs occupied the top 20, ranking No. 1 on the list. One time, he beat himself up and lost 20 places.

"Two albums, 21 songs, 20 Internet hits..."

FUCK GOD JESUS ​​MARIA!

Is your mother a human being? !

If the previous sale of these songs in the album just made people think that Zhouyi was squandering everything and it was a waste, then when the Apple five-day chart came out, many executives within Warner alone wanted to kneel down. I kowtow to Zhou Yi.

What's more, they want to strangle Zhou Yi for his extravagance and waste.

Dad - no, grandpa, please grandpa!

If these 20 hits could be taken apart, they would be the main hits of seven to eight albums.

You just gave out two fucking copies, you are really not hiding anything!

Knock it inside!

Also on the 29th, "Bild", one of the daily newspapers with the largest circulation in Germany and even Europe, rarely published a pop music column, adding another fire to Zhouyi's deeds. With the British " The Guardian, The Sun and other newspapers together made Zhouyi's reputation once again resound throughout Europe——

"Bild": Chinese singer Spike leads a new era of Internet music!

The Sun: The King of Internet Pop! A roundup of Spike’s rumored girlfriends! All of them are extremely hot! Who can become the queen?

"..."

This issue, The Sun is selling the best.

Even Shakira was included. When the latter was interviewed, she made some ambiguous comments and did not give a clear answer...

And it was also through the consistent exaggerated style of "The Sun" that people remembered that the Zhouyi data was only data from the US region. With the subsequent spread of Ipod around the world, the sales of these classic Zhouyi songs will undoubtedly increase several times on this basis...

That is to say...

"F*ck! Can you make hundreds of millions?! Or dollars?!"

Domestic, Hong Kong Airport, VIP lounge.

After finishing the recording of "Meet", Sun Yanzi packed his luggage and bought the same flight as Zhou Yi, preparing to fly to Taiwan to participate in this Golden Melody Award, which the media called "the least suspenseful".

This can be regarded as Zhou Yi’s annual trip to Taiwan.

It's just that after participating in the least suspenseful Golden Melody Awards this time, he will fly directly from Taiwan to Japan instead of returning to the mainland as before.

She was just reading the newspaper, but when she saw the reminder from "The Sun", she counted on her fingers, her eyes suddenly widened, and she looked at Zhou Yi with a dull expression, as if nothing happened.

"Not only that, Apple won't charge me any money because my total sales have exceeded 3 million songs."

Zhou Yi took a bite of the apple and flicked the woman's smooth face with his fingers in a funny way: "Not only that, for any song that exceeds 3 million, they will also give me 40% of the sales as an incentive. "

"Wouldn't the blood of the apple be lost to grandma's house?" Sun Yanzi opened his mouth to bite, but ended up biting an empty apple, pretending to grind his teeth.

"How is that possible? At most, he doesn't make any money from me and just gives me some subsidies."

Zhou Yi chuckled, feeling very satisfied.

These songs of his have been in the top, second, third and even top ten sales charts over the years. In the recording era, the impression of cramming them into one record is not obvious, but once logged on to the Internet music website, the influence of these songs will explode. Start.

Calling it a sweep is an understatement.

The Apple Music Store has just started, but next year's revenue will reach more than 4.3 billion US dollars, directly accounting for half of Apple's total annual revenue. This is the power of paid downloads in the Ipod+ Music Store.

As of 2016, the Apple Music Store has sold more than 25 billion paid download songs.

You can imagine how fat this mouthful of meat is.

The Internet is where the winner takes all.

Once it takes off, the rate of making money will be far beyond anyone's imagination in this era, including Steve Jobs himself, who proposed the idea.

Never mind whether Lao Qiao’s goals of 1 million or 3 million songs now seem like a fool giving away money. At least at the time, more than 99% of people thought he was a lunatic.

In the Mainland, an Internet practitioner named Xie Zhenyu also saw the business opportunities of building a music platform in various reports, which further strengthened his belief——

As long as you do a good job with the project at hand, your future financial prospects will be bright!

Xie Zhenyu, who saw the future from the Apple Music Store model, was extremely excited and continued to lead the team into research and development work wholeheartedly——

The project they are currently developing is a music software called Kugou Music...