China Entertainment 2000

"Dear listeners, I am your substitute DJ, and I want you to accompany me to talk about the world.

“Repeating tired images all day long at work will numb your feelings~

“Listen up dear

“I just heard that hatred must be resolved rationally

"The abuse and bullets are over there, flying all over the sky~"

With an extremely advanced arrangement, extremely rhythmic drum beats, and unique use of hip-hop elements, a song for world peace was born.

Wang Lihong, who has fully demonstrated his superb Western music skills, plays extremely freely and freely in this song "You and Me", telling the world from his own perspective in a eloquent way.

If the audience is knowledgeable, then even if they don't like this song, they will have to hold their noses and admit how powerful this song is. But unfortunately, the so-called musicality is actually just a recognized music aesthetic among insiders, nothing more.

Zhou Yi, who didn't even hear half of it, raised his hand and turned off the radio. Li Bingbin, who was not interested in the song at all, sat on the crew's rocking chair to rest. Seeing his action, he couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Aren't you going to listen? "

After all, he is also the popular male singer who wrote "Only", right? Zhou Yi sentenced him to death without even listening to his new song?

"The market performance will not be too explosive, so there is no need to pay attention to it."

Zhou Yi stood up from the chair and stretched his waist, twisting his neck and making a long sound in his mouth.

Qian Jiang was confused when he pulled him to listen to the radio broadcast - Is Wang Lihong's song... so bad?

"This song is very good, but it has no market. Wang Lihong chose it as the number one hit on the radio station because he was obviously too confident in himself." Zhou Yi reassured his manager.

In fact, looking at all the albums in Wang Lihong's career, in terms of quality alone, "Incredible" is one of the best.

This is a work that he reflected on after his failure in the Japanese market. In a sense, it is an album that was tempered and precipitated after going through hardships.

An album spans hip-hop, pop, jazz, R\u0026B and other genres, and the songs in each genre are to the extreme - so extreme that even Wang Lihong in the future will never be able to produce a production level that can surpass this album.

This album is also a sign that Wang Lihong has officially entered the troika of the Chinese music scene in the new century.

The only regret is——

Jay Chou's "Ye Huimei" has the hit song "Sunny Day";

Tao Zhe's "Black Willow" has the hit song "Melody";

Wang Lihong's "Incredible" doesn't have a big hit song to back it up.

As long as the song "Only" is included in "Unbelievable", then this album will have no shortcomings.

Qian Jiang thoughtfully said: "Sony has always been praising him, can't it just throw away resources? According to the company's news, the pre-sales of this album in Taiwan exceeded 100,000 on the first day, and it is very popular. "

Judging from the sales data alone, "Incredible" can still pose a certain threat to Zhou Yi's dominance in Greater China.

In 2003, 100,000 albums were pre-sold in Taiwan in a single day, which was already top-notch. Even if Zhou Yi now announces the opening of pre-sales for the new album, Qian Jiang estimates that the maximum one-day pre-sales volume in Taiwan will only be around 200,000.

The limit of limits.

"It's just traffic. His popularity will at best put the album sales into this year's top ten sales album list, but it can only be ranked at the bottom."

Zhou Yi shook his head.

To be honest, if this "Incredible" album had not been released by Wang Lihong and had not been backed by Sony's powerful publicity channels, I am afraid it would have disappeared from the public.

Word-of-mouth that is only visible to insiders and fans will not bring sales.

The quality is the style, and the sales volume is the sales volume.

Wang Lihong also realized this after this album. In the subsequent albums of "Incredible", each album deliberately included a few market songs carefully produced by himself, and thus evolved into the king of Chinese.

Li Bingbin, who didn't know much about the music scene, was somewhat stunned when Zhou Yi said so confidently: "Really or not? Didn't you say there is no market? How can it be in the top ten of the annual sales list? The album hasn't been released yet, right? "

Even if it is only at the bottom, it is still among the top ranks.

"You don't understand. A true professional must dare to make judgments."

Zhou Yi happily looked through the new endorsements that Qian Jiang had negotiated for him after arriving in the United States, and hummed a little tune——

The sincere Apple board of directors approved a three-year notebook computer contract worth US$5 million per year, a total of US$15 million in three years, just to invite Zhou Yilai to endorse the 15-inch PowerBook G4.

Also for the endorsement of the PowerBook G4 notebook, Zhou Yi's offer is much higher than that of his compatriot Yao Ming, who only gets about US$1.3 million in endorsement fees from Apple every year.

Of course, as an accessory to endorsements, shooting advertisements is naturally indispensable.

Since Zhou Yi does not live in the United States, he started shooting his first laptop commercial after he returned to the United States after filming all the MVs for Side A.

"Oh, it's such a hard life. I have to work during the National Day holiday."

Li Bingbin: "..."

She suddenly had the urge to strangle this man to death. This was too much for her.

…………………………

“You are surrounded by blessings and don’t know how blessed you are?”

“Yes, I don’t know how lucky I am.”

On October 2, Taiwan, Taipei Voice’s music promotion program.

When Wang Lihong, who was a guest with his new album “Incredible”, was asked by the host why he chose “You and Me” as the main song of the radio station, he gave his own explanation:

“Nowadays, society is developing too fast, and there are more and more contradictions. As I said, sometimes many contradictions are just accumulated from some small frictions, which is completely unnecessary.

“I used to live in the United States, and I also saw the news. In fact, many places in the world are in turmoil, wars, and conflicts are intensifying...”

Wang Lihong, who talked about his creative ideas on the show, was obviously very Excited, he really believes that this album will definitely achieve excellent results, and he sincerely shares his excellent music with fans.

However, when the host asked him whether he thought his album sales could surpass Jay Chou, Zhe Tao, who have already released albums, and Zhou Yi, who has not yet released an album, the excitement on his face suddenly faded-

"In fact, I think it's boring for the outside world to compare us like this. We are all Chinese singers, and we all make Chinese music. We don't actually need to fight to the death.

"We are actually friends, friends, you know?"

Wang Lihong, who was wearing a plaid shirt and jeans, subconsciously turned his hands and emphasized with his hand movements: "I think that for real Chinese singers, our opponents are actually those foreign singers, such as the popular Korean wave now."

In the domestic market in 2003, the Korean wave directly opened the door with its unique idol drama production, and frequently appeared on the TVs of thousands of households, becoming a backbone force that cannot be ignored on the screen.

Taiwan even suffered from the troubles of the Korean Wave earlier than the mainland, and Korean songs have repeatedly squeezed the already shrinking market of Chinese singers.

Starting from this aspect, Sony actually set the route for Wang Lihong.

Since Zhou Yi cannot be defeated at home and abroad, change the battlefield - directly target Koreans entering the country, and the main battlefield is set in China.

I can't beat you Koreans in Korea, but this is China, and I can beat you up in the Chinese market!

In this way, Wang Lihong can also enjoy the so-called national self-esteem dividend, although it is not as strong as Zhou Yi, and he can also avoid direct competition with Zhou Yi.

Although he himself does have the dream of defeating Zhou Yi.

Don't say it's unrealistic, people still have to have dreams, especially creative musicians like him.