China Entertainment 2000

The next day, Zhou Yi was woken up by Qian Jiang.

With his head slightly dizzy, he opened his eyes and looked up at him in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"It's 12 o'clock. How much did you drink last night?"

Qian Jiang flashed the Da Lao on his wrist and pointed at the pointer on it, dumbfounded: "Aren't you afraid of drinking him to death? If he really has a son or daughter, I'm afraid he will tear you alive."

"Oh, that's okay. His children were also at home last night, but they just didn't participate."

Zhou Yi, who struggled to get up from the bed, scratched his messy hair and added another message to him: "Oh, by the way, there will be a temporary program added to the concert, and Huang Zhan is going to be a guest."

"???"

For a moment, Qian Jiang even wondered if he had woken up too hard in the morning and had auditory hallucinations in his ears.

"Yes, you heard it right. He was drunk last night and pulled on my trouser legs, crying and asking me to take him to play, otherwise he would hit me to death."

"..."

I believe you!

Although he didn't know what was going on, Qian Jiang still faithfully recorded it in the memo: "By the way, there's one more thing. Your new album has been scolded, but its sales are increasing day by day. High, it's like seeing a ghost.

"As well as your song rankings, you have taken up all the authoritative rankings in the three places across the Taiwan Strait."

"How much?" Zhou Yi suddenly became interested when he heard that sales were increasing day by day.

"It has exceeded 1.3 million copies, which is an exaggeration, especially in this context where piracy is rampant."

Qian Jiang turned over the page that recorded the data.

Although he had already seen this number in the morning, even if he looked at it again, he couldn't help but take a breath——

On November 20, "Return to Tibet" was released.

In just one day, sales exceeded 140,000 copies in Taiwan, more than 30,000 copies in Hong Kong, and 210,000 copies in the mainland. To sum up, the first-day sales of "Gui Zang" nationwide directly exceeded 400,000 copies.

In one day, it directly sold the sales volume of veteran music industry singer and first-line singer Yu Chengqing for half a year.

This is an extremely scary number.

Before the release of "Gui Zang", not only Qianjiang was worried about MP3 piracy, but also Sony, Universal and other record companies that were troubled by piracy were also paying attention to Zhou Yi's sales.

Although everyone hates him for eating up so much of the market, it has to be admitted that Zhou Yi has now become the record sales ceiling in the Chinese music scene - if even he can't do it, it means that the market is really hopeless.

But when this battle report came out, Sony Universal's eyes almost turned green again.

Pan Weibo, who became famous last year with "Gecko Walking", received full support from Universal Music this year. His second music album "Microphone" released in September made people feel that it was copied from Zhou Yi's first album "My Microphone". Universal also took advantage of the situation and branded it as "Hip-Hop Little Zhouyi".

Although the title song "Microphone" of the same name is a cover of a Korean song, it also helped Wilber Pan attract a lot of new fans - but even so, this album with great momentum has only sold more than 330,000 copies so far. of sales.

Not to mention Sony.

Wang Lihong, the first brother they had high hopes for this year, obviously failed to live up to the expectations of the top management and sent him.

"Incredible" has a ridiculously high reputation in the industry. Li Zongsheng even personally praised it before, but the response in the market is that there is a lack of follow-up——

The main reason is that Baidu MP3 piracy data is not even available, and not a single song in the entire album has made it into the top twenty.

The only love song that is a bit of a splash, "You Are Not Here" ranks 27th on Baidu's monthly MP3 search list, not as high as the old songs "Dusk" and "Jiangnan". This is still achieved by popularity. The current search volume is rising extremely slowly, and it is only a matter of time before it falls into the top 30.

It's just embarrassing.

This is enough to show that the album "Incredible" has lost its subsequent market potential, and weak sales are a definite fact.

As a comparison, once Zhou Yi's new album "Gui Zang" was released, the search volume of MP3 skyrocketed. The top five songs on the search list were all Zhou Yi's songs - "Blue and White Porcelain" came from behind and soared to the first place, and "Qili Xiang" dropped to second place.

"Write Poems for You", "You Were a Boy" and "Forever Love" also entered the top five on the fifth day after the album was released.

Although "Meet" and "Sunny Day" are also not to be outdone and are likely to squeeze into the top five again, they are still suppressed by the search volume brought by Zhouyi's popularity.

Logically speaking, even for Zhouyi, after the initial sales date, the album's sales data will inevitably decline——

In fact, this is indeed the case.

The national sales of "Gui Zang" dropped sharply to 230,000 copies on the second day, and continued to decline on the third day, reaching 150,000 copies.

Although it is still a figure that is difficult for ordinary first-line singers to achieve, for Zhou Yi now, this speed is already a crash.

It was also at this time that debates about Zhou Yi's new album began to erupt online. Many people began to pay attention to this matter, which attracted more people to pay attention to this album——

Especially the well-received song "Blue and White Porcelain".

After cursing, Warner was surprised to find: Eh? Why is this sales going up in reverse?

It climbed to 200,000 on the fourth day, and returned to 210,000 on the fifth day?

"Gui Zang", which was supposed to miss the statistic of breaking one million in five days, reversed its score increase with the help of increasingly fierce arguments, broke the law of decline, and hit the million mark again in a posture that shocked many people in the industry. Ozeki——

From the 20th to the 24th, the total sales nationwide exceeded 1.2 million in five days!

Jay Chou's "Ye Huimei" was released on July 31 and sold more than 1.2 million copies in more than four months;

Sun Yanzi's "Unfinished" was released on August 20 and sold more than 1.1 million copies in more than three months.

Elva Hsiao's "Falling in Love" was released ahead of schedule to September 15 due to leaks, and sold over one million copies in more than two months;

Wang Lihong's "Incredible" was released on October 15 and sold 890,000 copies in just over a month.

Originally, these four people had already proven what it means to be the top in the Chinese music scene, but Zhou Yi's appearance told the whole country what it means to be a top world superstar——

Although according to the laws of the record industry, the sales volume in the first five to seven days can basically reach about 80% of the album's career sales, and the rest is just grinding. This is also the reason why Jay Chou's album is so popular, and it took several months to achieve this level of sales. .

There is a high probability that Zhou Yi will not be able to escape.

"Fuck! Who on earth is still buying this piece of shit's album Zhou Yi!"

"It's not surprising. Zhouyi's base is too deep. Every album has a hit song that can be hummed by people from first-tier cities to third-tier towns and fifth-tier villages. The audience is too wide."

"The main reason is that you often see him in the news. He is so invincible. He is out there trying to win glory for the country, and even the European and American singers are scared to fight."

"One thing to say, yes, but this time the main thing is that the song "Blue and White Porcelain" by Zhou Yi is so unreasonable. My dad is 67 this year, can you believe that he is listening to "Blue and White Porcelain" on a loop? He used to listen to "Dongfeng Po", "Dongfeng Po" When I listen to songs like "Fireworks Easily Cold", I only listen to them two or three times and then turn them off."

"We made 1.2 million in five days, and this album is aiming for two to three million."

"You missed it abroad. There are also copies of Zhouyi that have been sold abroad. Although they are not many, together they can at least make up a million copies. Maybe this "Guiyi" can actually set a record and sell more than 4 million copies, breaking "Kiss Goodbye" record by Zhang Xueyou.

"As expected of the Emperor of Music, let the world be the first. Emperor Zhou is invincible, I am convinced!"

"What Emperor Zhou is called Emperor Yi!"

At a time when the public opinion environment in the Zhouyi has suddenly become worse, the announcement of Warner's battle report can be said to have greatly boosted the arrogance of the friendly forces——

I can’t call it “Blue and White Porcelain”, I can’t call it “Gui Zang”!

"My 60-year-old grandma can listen to "Blue and White Porcelain" and still praises it. This song by Zhou Yi is really invincible and outrageous!"

"Thanks to the publicity of that group of people. Without their constant scolding, Zhou Yi's "Blue and White Porcelain" probably wouldn't have been widely circulated so quickly."

Of course, there are also discerning people who see the biggest reason why "Blue and White Porcelain" can quickly break through the circle -

In addition to its excellent quality and Zhou Yi's unique popularity, this scolding war that swept the Internet world can be said to have taken the greatest credit, attracting many people who were originally not interested to hear the song in the first place. So go buy the album.

This is the biggest reason for the reversal of declining sales.

Yuan Li was numb.

No, what's going on?

However, before she could think about what was going on, Phoenix TV, which was eager to get this wave of traffic, worked overtime to edit as planned. On the morning of the 27th, after recording, various preparations that had been made a week in advance began.

At 10:05 a.m. on the 29th, Phoenix Satellite TV's "A Date with Luyu·Zhouyi Special Topic" was broadcast at the time they promoted a week ago.

At the moment when they saw it, everyone, whether they were enemies or friends, their eyes widened in disbelief.

Only the melon-eaters who were jumping up and down were overjoyed——

"It's right! It's right! This is the Zhou Yi that I am familiar with!"

"Zhou Yi's mouth is really awesome. Did he create a new term?"

"What's that? If you don't understand, just ask, why did Zhou Yi call them colonizers? And explain it like that? Weren't they talking about music and albums?"