China Entertainment 2000

wild.

If one word must be used to describe Zhou Yi at this moment, then this is the first word that comes to mind among Fei Xiang, Lin Yilian, Cai Guoqing, Luo Zhixiang and others.

He is the president of Boardman Records, a true top tycoon in the recording industry. In terms of rank, he is on an equal footing with the CEOs of Sony, Warner, Universal, and EMI. The company itself is one of the five multinational giants in the global recording industry. one.

Having been in the industry for so many years, no one should be polite to anyone.

Everyone present is in the music industry and knows the status of these established manufacturers in the traditional record industry far better than anyone else. Zhou Yi's words seem a bit brave to them.

Although you are one of Warner's new shareholders, you really don't give Boardman any face.

You must know that Warner Records is no longer a behemoth backed by its parent company Time Warner. Although it is still one of the top five in the world, the media channels it completely controls are undoubtedly regressing compared to its peak period.

Many people in the industry are even more pessimistic and believe that after being acquired and independent by Edgar Jr., a prodigal son, Warner Records will most likely be swallowed up by Sony or Universal in the future.

However, now who would have thought that the first record to disappear in the long river of records would be the silent Boardman record.

In the future, Warner will even survive the dark winter on its own under the control of the prodigal son Edgar Jr. After the advent of the mobile Internet era, it will become the three undefeated giants along with Sony and Universal, which are acquiring and buying everywhere.

Therefore, for such a giant whose life span is less than a year, Zhou Yi feels that all he needs to do is to kick the cripple's bad leg: "The reason why Boardman Records has fallen to this point is because Their management is short-sighted, stubborn, and stuck in its ways.

"I think companies like this should close down as soon as possible. In this increasingly cruel market, they may not survive for more than a year. I suggest that their singers decide to end their contracts as soon as possible and switch to other companies, such as Warner Records."

In front of the camera, Zhou Yi looked extremely sincere and serious.

Boardman Records executives were collectively trembling with anger——

Damn you, business wars are business wars, why are you attacking them personally?

We haven’t disbanded yet, and you’re still poaching someone?

What makes them even more unbearable is that the sales of the single "Because of You" are really increasing day by day——

At 9 a.m. on the 21st, US time, amid the criticism from the paper media in the past few days, the paid sales of this song in the Apple Music Store officially exceeded the one million mark!

You know, the sales volume of this song yesterday was only a little over 700,000——

In less than 24 hours, the number of paid downloads surged again by more than 300,000, and the growth trend can be called Little Zhouyi!

Since the official release of the "Elva" album on the 17th, the song "Because of You" alone has generated more than three million US dollars in sales on the Apple Music Store so far!

In terms of physical albums, relying on the record-breaking ratings and replay rates of "The Conan Show and the Spike Show", the EP "Elva" has sold 88,000 in the United States in just a few days!

Correspondingly, the physical sales growth of Utada Hikaru's new album, which has not been released on the Apple Music Store, is obviously weak. Her peak was more than 30,000 copies on the first day, and sales continued to decline every day starting from the second day. ——

So far, the total sales volume is only over 70,000 copies.

reverse!

The situation is reversed!

A strong reversal!

The more you curse, the more albums you sell and the songs become more popular!

The album that Utada Hikari had high hopes for failed to produce a song that was as popular as "Because of You". It was a niche song that was only available to Japanese fans.

Holding high the banner of female power, Elva Hsiao successfully introduced the first impression of the "dashing lady" into the American market. Many people mentioned that she was no longer a wild dog on the roadside. The song "Because of You" directly detonated all the people of the same age who had the same experience. of people——

And these people, because they have experienced psychological trauma, will become more loyal when they are attracted to Elva Hsiao.

Because they will think that each other is the same kind of people from the bottom of their hearts, and their cohesion will be greatly enhanced compared to ordinary fans.

The well-known music critic RC, who once evaluated the song as empty and lacking in content, was somewhat unable to accept the result of coming from behind. When participating in a music program, he directly expressed his anger: "Obviously, we all know the reason for their sudden surge in sales. Something happened.

"All I can say is don't compete with Spike in marketing. We can't beat him."

This is already the second time he has failed in Zhouyi-related music. Because of the popularity of "Because of You" in the online world, his personal blog is now filled with all kinds of unsightly insults and ridicules.

This was unacceptable to him.

After all, he is also a well-known independent music critic. How did he get such anger in the print media era in the past?

Those are those who have countless followers as soon as they write in newspapers and magazines.

However, what he didn't expect was that after successfully becoming famous with his songs, in order to get rid of the situation of not being a popular singer, Elva Hsiao, who tried his best to get off the stage, also began to encounter a lot of media interviews -

Coincidentally, in today's interview, when asked about RC's comments, Xiao Yaxuan directly touched the fuse of public opinion: "I don't know why he has such great malice towards me. I am just a singer, a singer who conveys his beliefs with his singing.

"As long as one person is encouraged by my singing, then I think it is worth it.

"As for him, I don't care. Why should I care about the comments made by a guy who is full of malice towards women?"

The song is popular, so naturally it has confidence. In a few words, a hat of "discrimination against women" was put on RC-

RC, who has been in the industry for more than 20 years and used to be a rock singer, has never seen such a scene. His past remarks were directly dug up by some unknown enthusiastic netizens-thank you for the era of paper media, as long as there is a record, you can buy the real thing.

RC exploded.

The media matrix headed by The Washington Post was also blown up--

In the description of EMI Records, Xiao Yaxuan, an independent woman who grew up in a broken family, was arbitrarily suppressed by the stinky old white men headed by RC just because she sang a good song. This undoubtedly aroused the empathy of countless American journalists.

There were also many comments such as "I am a man, so am I...", which seemed to appear out of thin air in the Internet world as if organized, directly stepping on the heads of these media people and outputting in the face.

RC wanted to sue, but before they could collect evidence, the person's account was cancelled.

Some even spent money to collect information and locate the IP, but when your mother went to the scene to check, it turned out that it was sent from an Internet cafe, and the specific location in the Internet cafe was not monitored...

RC was numb.

Damn!

Can the Internet be so slanderous?

Are you so shameless? !

If you have the guts, you can publish an advertisement to compete with me!

This man who was used to scolding each other in the newspapers in the era of paper media drew his sword and looked around in confusion. There were enemies all around him, but he couldn't find anyone to attack. Instead, he was scolded every day...

Even personal attacks and death threats were more than what he received in the past in the era of paper media.

Once Pandora's box is opened, it can never be stopped.

In this era when the Internet water army has not yet been fully formed, Taylor Swift's tactics, which have been leading the industry for more than ten years, have obviously achieved miraculous results in the first expedition to the American music scene.

That is to say, there is no concept of lgbtq+ yet, otherwise Zhou Yi would have to let Xiao Yaxuan give herself a layer of "childless cat-loving lady" Buff.

The marketing departments of major companies in the industry were dumbfounded.

No, buddy, can the concept of independent women be played like this?

Does anyone really believe this?

It is obvious that with the "progress" of the so-called quality education and happy education generation, this new tree has finally blossomed and borne fruit in the hot land of the United States.

For the first time, many old antiques who are still stuck in the "old" concepts of the last century feel that they don't understand this world.

"The world shouldn't be like this, and music shouldn't be like this either."

They muttered to themselves, watching Xiao Yaxuan's album sales rise day by day---

In the early morning of the 22nd, less than 24 hours later.

"Because of You" once again led the daily download charts on the Apple Music Store, with total sales exceeding 1.7 million, and the violent killing momentum is unstoppable!

The paid purchase volume of the "Elva" EP album reached 200,000 copies, and the offline physical disc with MV directly exceeded 150,000 copies, breaking the weekly sales record of Asian female singers in the American music scene!

It even directly entered the top 60 on the B chart!

Li Wen's title as an international queen was punctured in a week.

Just like many male singers like to brag about their album sales records in Japan, but in fact, the best-selling male singer in the Japanese album market in the past was actually Cheng Long---

Yes, it may be beyond many people's expectations, but this is the fact.

Chenglong has officially released an album, and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. He is the sales record holder for Chinese male singers in the Japanese music scene - until Zhou Yi appeared.

And Utada Hikaru's actual sales in the United States are only more than 87,000 copies. Unless she uses her money, her decline is obvious, and she is totally unable to compete with Xiao Yaxuan who came from behind.

The originally lively Japanese music scene was instantly silenced...

At this moment of the Sino-Japanese Song Festival, I thought I could count on Utada Hikaru to make a move and increase his prestige, but why can't you stand up?

From leading by more than three times on the first day to being killed by more than three times, do you know how to play? !

Utada Hikaru himself was a little desperate looking at this curve...

The song "Because of You" seems to be a bit too unethical. According to this trend, it is probably going to win the championship.

She won the championship right away?

At this moment, countless singers' eyes were red - especially female singers.

Qian Jiang's phone was almost blown up by calls inviting him to collaborate!

On the evening of the 22nd, Asia time, at the China-Japan Song Festival.

All the singers in the Japanese music scene were still talking and laughing, privately discussing this open "exchange" between Chinese and Japanese singers.

The entrance of top Chinese singers such as Fei Xiang and Lin Yilian only made them nod politely and say hello.

Only when Zhou Yi, dressed in a suit and tie, walked into the NHK theater as the main performer, did the Japanese singers who were originally making noises suddenly lose their slightly noisy voices, and many people's expressions and tones even showed respect -

"Yi-kun."

"Zhou Yi-san."

"Zhou Yi-kun."

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