China Entertainment 2000

For the two songs "24K Magic" and "That's What I Like", the former peaked at No. 4 on Billboard, while the latter was a solid Billboard number one.

Although he is currently suffering from serious internal friction, if we really talk about potential, with additional power to boost his popularity at the moment, these two songs can at least be promoted to the top single, so it will not be wasted.

In this way, including "Sexy Back", which is currently ranked second, and "Happy", which is ranked eleventh, these two songs are both consecutive champions - the former has been crowned for seven consecutive weeks, and the latter has been crowned for ten consecutive weeks.

In this way, including "boom boom pow" which has become the number one single, this album can produce 3-4 Billboard number one singles.

As for which songs will be promoted as the main ones and which ones will be promoted as secondary ones, Zhouyi has no control over it and leaves it to Warner's marketing department. He doesn't have time to analyze the data performance of these songs one by one.

"Now Michael Jackson's retirement will undoubtedly stimulate this wave of sales, and it is also the best opportunity to widen the sales gap between you."

To be honest, Qian Jiang still admires Eminem, who has always been clinging to Zhou Yi.

The name of this popular American king is indeed not false.

With no hope visible on the Billboard charts, he kept running offline to promote the album. That is to say, the quality of Zhouyi's album is really superior to him. Otherwise, the situation is really hard to say.

Of course, Qian Jiang's warning is a warning. It doesn't matter to Zhou Yi whether he openly supports Michael Jackson or not.

The reason why he kept it without saying anything was simply to see if he could get any benefits in exchange.

It's impossible for someone with such a keen sense of smell to not be aware of Michael Jackson's sense of smell. So after he brushed aside, this person also praised him after talking about Eminem.

Zhou Yi also received his signal - there may be something going on.

Therefore, when he appeared on the "David Letterman Show" again this time, he was in a very happy mood.

This program is considered friendly to him among the talk shows in the United States, sitting at the same table as "The Conan Show".

After the previous "Conan and Spike Show" became a huge hit in the United States, David Letterman had always wanted to invite him to do an episode with similar effects, but Zhou Yi never had the time and could not coordinate other projects. People's schedules can only be temporarily suspended.

"Long time no see, Spike, I hope your music will not spoil the children in my family. They are the hope of this country's future."

David Letterman, dressed in a suit, first teased the reason why Zhou Yi has been scolded since last month.

After appearing on this program, Zhou Yi, who was wearing an Armani formal suit, smiled and patted the table: "You can suggest that the US government ban me, David. I have already thought of the reason for you: endangering US national security."

The audience burst into laughter.

"Come on, don't be like this, I didn't say this, it was Dr. Dre. You know, in your words, I'm just a repeater."

David Letterman made a deliberate reference to the West Coast gangsta rap leader. However, just when the fans in the audience were expecting what Zhou Yi would say to him, Zhou Yi's expression was very confused: "Who?"

ah?

The audience was stunned, and Letterman added: "Dr. Dre, Andre Romelle Young."

Zhou Yi still had a puzzled expression as to who the hell this was: "Who?"

The audience below also came to their senses. Does this mean they don't take this West Coast giant seriously at all?

"okok, I think I understand what you mean, let's skip this topic and move on to the next step."

Having achieved his goal, David Letterman smiled and stopped asking questions, and instead picked up a hand card: "As we all know, we are a healthy adult show that will be watched by many, many young people.

"So, Spike, if you were asked to give ten pieces of advice to these young Americans who might be influenced by you, what would you say?"

"Ten suggestions?"

"yes."

David Letterman changed his sitting posture, crossed his legs and added: "In order from lowest to highest, what would you choose as the tenth suggestion?"

"Keep it real."

Zhou Yi’s answer stunned the entire audience——

What the hell?

Brother, it’s okay for others to say this, but it’s inappropriate for you to say this, right?

"Where's the ninth one?" David Letterman asked, suppressing a smile.

“always purchase music through authorized retailers that pay royalties to the artists (always purchase genuine music from authorized dealers)”

"The eighth."

"Don't get mixed up with drugs, gangs or oil executives."

"seven."

"Oney doesn't buy happiness, it doesn't buy crazy-ass happiness (money doesn't buy happiness, but it can take you beyond happiness)."

One serious answer and another unserious answer——

Comments such as "Look at the zebra crossing when crossing the road", "Always say please, thank you and fuck you", "Don't sell my autograph on eBay", etc. made the audience stunned for a moment.

"The last tip is the number one tip."

"on't waste time watching this show (don't waste your youth watching this crappy show)."

Depend on!

"no! god! please!"

David Letterman laughed and cursed: "This is my show!"

"If you don't mind, I could take over and turn it into a children's show, like this."

After saying that, Zhou Yi actually raised his hand with a bright expression: "Good morning, children's show."

Roll, roll, roll!

Amidst the booing in the audience, David, who was trying to force Zhou Yi to step down, sat back down. After the fun, it’s time to return to the delivery process——

Frequently mentioning the behind-the-scenes of album shooting and the like to satisfy public curiosity.

"I have a question Spike, were you more comfortable doing 24K Magic or Sexy Back?"

"No, it's best in private."

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As soon as these words came out, the eyes of those in the audience who were already gossiping suddenly brightened up - and cheers came from their mouths from time to time.

"Surrounded by so many beauties in private, Zhou Yi's private party is the envy of everyone!" 》

On August 8, after the program was aired, Zhou Yi’s expression when talking about this incident was directly screenshotted and went viral on the Internet——

The Victoria's Secret supermodel group originally wanted to be exposed, and the heat from the sky blew all of them to death;

Scarlett Johansson was simple, she directly and fiercely stated that she could give birth to a child for Zhou Yi.

In addition to the male celebrities who already support Zhou Yi, female supermodels and celebrities boldly expressed their love one after another;

Eminem is like a wild dog on the roadside over there. There are no beautiful actresses or models with half-hot figures. There are only a group of hip-hop buddies there laughing and joking. Keep it real.

The comparison between the two is too tragic.

At the same time, after Michael Jackson himself left the game, his friends such as Usher also began to take sides with Zhouyi. The huge number of fans completely cut off the hope of the world to catch up——

On the 10th, the album sales gap between the two parties was only 690,000;

At 9 a.m. on the 11th, data already showed that the gap between the two sides had widened to 850,000.

On the 12th, Eminem, who only slept three hours a day and started taking drugs to maintain energy to fight for his life, was already in a bad state, but fortunately the gap between the two sides shrank back to 730,000;

But on the 13th, as a large number of Michael Jackson fans called out to their friends and vowed to give Eminem a bit of sex, the gap between the two sides began to widen -

Monday, August 16th.

When the new data from the past week were once again placed on the desks of their respective companies, everyone knew that it was over.

it's all over.

"Listen/Future Sounds" by Zhou Yi, sold 5,476,844 copies in the United States;

Eminem's "Encore" sold just over 3.92 million copies in the United States.

The album sales gap between the two parties exceeds 1.5 million copies, an insurmountable gap.

The popularity king in the United States lost to the outsider Zhou Yi in the United States.

No matter how hard Eminem pursues, it is impossible to catch up with Zhou Yi's sales in the United States. The sales war between the two parties has directly drained the last bit of potential of their respective albums in the American market - they have reached their limits.

Not to mention that Zhouyi also added purchases from some of Michael Jackson’s core fans.

"If Eminem wants to make a comeback, he can only count on his sales in other countries around the world to explode, which together can kill Spike.

“But obviously that’s not possible anymore.

"It is true that Eminem also has great popularity and a large number of singing channels overseas, but don't forget that Spike has a singing stage that will attract the attention of the world in the second half of this year - the eight-minute closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics .

"As a member of the Chinese delegation, he will take the stage to sing the song "Welcome To Bei Jing" from his album. He will broadcast the signal to thousands of households through television broadcasts, sending this song and his album to the peak of sales. …”

The United States has not had this kind of sales war for a long time. The last time it was the divas fighting each other in the 1990s.

"Being able to create a new trend in the music world and win a sales war, it's hard to imagine where Spike's limit is. I heard that his contract with Warner will expire in 2008, which means that we at least have to bear Spike's It took three or four years of ravage.

"Here, I just hope that Spike can go to other countries when his contract expires - please go to other countries, and please leave some hope for the American music scene."

On August 17, 2004, the editor-in-chief of Time magazine publicly shouted in his column and raised the flag of surrender.