The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 507: To be a good person, you need background
"Zhou Yi won five Golden Melody Awards: he can do everything from composition to production!"

"The golden songs are unstoppable, Zhou Yi is on full fire!"

"The Supreme Emperor of Music Affirms the Correctness of the Golden Melody Awards"

Zhou Yi: Grand Slam winner of the Golden Melody Awards, the pride of mainland music

"Zhou Yi swept the Golden Melody Awards, creating a new legendary record in Chinese music!"

"Taiwanese musicians' night of shame!"

"Golden Melody Awards is a crime!"

"..."

Perhaps because it was too shocking, overnight, news about Zhou Yi sweeping this year's Golden Melody Awards spread everywhere across the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau - just like a stone that caused a thousand ripples, directly blowing people upside down!

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Macau——

All newspapers and magazines that have anything to do with entertainment gave their front-page headlines to this legendary young singer.

Even media in Asian countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, and European and American countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom that follow Zhou Yi chose to report on this event. Their people may not know what the Golden Melody Awards are, but it is enough for them to know Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi won the award → report Zhou Yi to death → sales came → performance bonus was guaranteed.

This is a perfect positive cycle.

Of course, in addition to the praise, there are also many doubts -

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

"Is the Golden Melody Awards crazy?!"

"Isn't this really just using foreign powers to bully others? The others don't deserve any awards at all?"

In Taiwan, when the result came out, apart from the fans of Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi, only the fans of Chen Yixun did not make a fuss.

Chen Yixun, who won the King of Singers trophy, became the only person in this year who could win the award under the pressure of Zhou Yi. His fans still recognize the fairness of the Golden Melody Awards.

"Just because an English album sells well around the world doesn't mean a Chinese album will win all the awards. I hope the Golden Melody Awards judges can understand this. Thank you."

"I advise the Golden Melody Awards judges to first understand the concept of the album. You gave all the awards to Zhou Yi. Isn't this a naked conspiracy? Warner has lost face!"

"I'm just a passerby. I think Zhou Yi deserves it. Just tell me who else can beat Zhou Yi's "Lian Shan" from last year."

"This is Warner's deification. The Golden Melody Awards are ruined! Ruined! Reduced to a background board for Warner's deification!"

"..."

As the base camp of the Golden Melody Awards audience, this year's Golden Melody Awards was originally criticized and criticized by many people in Taiwan because they did not like Tao Zhe's "Black Tangerine". Now, as soon as the results came out, all the judges, including Warner, attracted a large number of singers' fans.

Some people even uncovered the truth about Warner's "manipulation" of the Golden Melody Awards after careful analysis:

“I don’t know if you have noticed that the three winners of this year’s Golden Melody Awards’ pop music category are either from Warner or have a good cooperative relationship with Warner.

"Not to mention Zhou Yi who swept five trophies, Warner's unshakable emperor, and Sun Yanzi who won the Golden Melody Award is also from Warner;

"The only one who broke the blockade of Warner is Chen Yixun, who belongs to Yinghuang. You should know that he has a very good relationship with Zhou Yi in the past two years. Xie Tingfeng also specially thanked Zhou Yi at his comeback press conference..."

Those who benefit are either Warner or have a good relationship with Warner. Who would believe your mother when she says Warner did not manipulate the Golden Melody Awards?

Isn't this obviously creating a god?
When this idea was put forward, conspiracy theories about this year's Golden Melody Awards entered the fast lane of development, and Zhou Yi's originally excellent reputation in Taiwan showed signs of collapse.

Warner released an official announcement immediately, stating that the company had never interfered with the Golden Melody Awards in any way, but the result was still too shocking. Perhaps the only fans of Zhou Yi, Sun Yanzi, and Chen Yixun were willing to believe it.

"The problem is that the Golden Melody Awards already has a history of targeting Black Tangerine, which has already damaged their reputation. Now with this, you are directly being roasted on the fire."

Taiwan, Warner, conference room.

Winning an award is a great joy, but Zhou Jianhui's face was obviously not very good: "Yao Qian originally suggested that one or two of them should be sent out to avoid you from being criticized, but this was resisted by some people."

As the general manager of Viking Records, it was impossible for Yao Qian not to see the intention of this flattery.

Is Zhouyi suitable for taking?
In terms of quality, of course it is suitable.

But this kind of behavior of eating alone will cause great controversy no matter where it is.

As I said, the world of martial arts is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships and worldly wisdom.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but sneer as he twirled his pen. "It seems like I have a lot of face, right? In order to ruin my reputation in Taiwan, I'm willing to destroy the credibility of the Golden Melody Awards?"

This is an award that Taiwan has finally established, and its influence can be said to be the number one Chinese award nowadays.

Qian Jiang's face looked a little strange. "In fact, according to the information I found, the Golden Melody Awards did not intend to do this at first. They originally planned to let you run for multiple awards, but the pressure from their superiors forced them to choose to do this."

Anyway, I have already nominated "Black Tangerine", so no matter what, at most I will just give it an award, which is good enough.

Besides, the Golden Melody Awards also have legitimate reasons - who asked you, Zhou Yi, to disrespect the Golden Melody Awards? Last year, you even had a fight backstage and created the news of a three-stick guest, which made the Golden Melody Awards a joke for several months, and who knows how many years it will be criticized for in the future.

If you don't respect me, then I won't respect you either. What's wrong with reciprocity?
After receiving pressure from above, the Golden Melody Awards jury came to this conclusion and reason after discussion. "Yao Qian opposed, but his opposition was invalid. The number of people supporting him was not enough to vote through."

Zhou Jianhui tapped the table with his right index finger, his eyes narrowed slightly: "Then, the mainland intervened."

"Mainland?" Zhou Yi, who had never expected that there was something going on here, raised his eyebrows, looking slightly surprised.

He hadn't heard of this either.

"Do you remember that last year, because of you, the mainland banned the broadcast of Meteor Garden?" Zhou Jianhui asked back.

Zhou Yi nodded.

Originally, in his memory, "Meteor Garden" should have been banned after being broadcast for a period of time. This is also the reason why F4 is also very popular in the mainland. All kinds of peripheral products are selling like hot cakes, and posters are pasted on wall after wall.

But the reality is, after he was severely restricted by Taiwan when he was at the peak of his career, the mainland quietly banned the show "Garden of Pop" at the beginning of its broadcast, making F4, which was popular in the mainland at that time, not get the biggest piece of the pie.

They had been living in peace with each other, but Zhou Yi's global popularity this year was unstoppable.

The restrictions on him were increased, and it was an obvious attempt to suppress him.

We were originally thinking that it's all good for you, me, and everyone, so don't go too far, but now we can't sit still any longer——

There was no choice in the past, because there was no way to find a leader in mainland pop music, so we could only pick the tallest one from the short ones.

Now the appearance of Zhou Yi not only fills this gap perfectly, but he has even become popular all over the world.

If I lose face under your suppression, where will I put my face?
"You know the third part of My Fair Princess? It was supposed to be released in July, but it hasn't been released yet. It's stuck."

Qian Jiang pushed a document in front of Zhou Yi and said, "There are also idol dramas like Lavender and Dolphin Bay Lovers that are very popular in Taiwan. They were originally under negotiation for introduction and were all scheduled to be broadcast in the mainland this year, but in the end, they were all blocked."

All Taiwanese idol dramas, even the old Taiwanese dramas including the golden signboard of Qiong Yao, are all stuck - there is no mention of any changes, just a sentence that it is still under review, blocking all stakeholders in the mainland, Taiwan and even Hong Kong.

If you continue to ask questions, the mainland will occasionally say something in official language, saying "Don't worry, we just need time to go through the procedures", which will choke everyone.

Anyone with a decent brain can basically tell what the mainland means.

The toughness the mainland showed on Zhou Yi exceeded Taiwan's imagination.

You have to know that nowadays, the sales of Taiwan's film and television dramas are completely dependent on mainland channels. Otherwise, the output value would not have rebounded from the trough and would have continued to rise year by year.

Compared to the music industry, whose market has been gradually undermined by piracy, the film and television industry is a more important piece of fat that can create more economic value. The new idol drama category is even more of a money-making tool, constantly cultivating Taiwan's popular male and female stars to make money.

Either you treat Zhou Yi fairly or don't come here to make money. If Qiong Yao comes, just go away.

Can you, Qiong Yao, be more authentic than me, Zhou Yi?

The mainland, which completely ignored Nayoung and others, strongly supported Zhou Yi.

After being rejected in the mainland, the major Taiwanese companies immediately united their own interest groups to lobby, especially when the Hong Kong entertainment industry, led by Ying Huang, collectively went north.

They were anxious.

If we don't hurry up, all the money in the mainland will be taken away by those Hong Kong people.

Under the unexpected pressure from the mainland, the restricted package that had just been arranged for Zhou Yi had to be cancelled, and the Golden Melody Awards was able to treat Zhou Yi fairly.

"I am so proud of myself?"

Zhou Yi was shocked after hearing what Qian Jiang said.

My goodness, the mainland is not a monolithic entity. It is really tough to suppress the strong support that others have secretly expressed for him.

"You are China's external face for eight minutes at the Athens Olympics next year. Who else should we support if not you?"

Zhou Jianhui, who is in charge of Warner, has a lot of contacts in related fields and knows Zhou Yi's current status in the mainland better than he does. "How do you think Naying got on the 98 Spring Festival Gala and sang with Wang Fei, and then her status soared?"

Tian Zhen and Sun Le bought a lot of press releases to express their dissatisfaction. When asked, they said that "Su Rui" was not worthy of the name because of her background, that the bar singer was just a flatterer and had no brains, etc.

But the key problem is that at that time only Nayoung was able to compete with Hong Kong and Taiwan singers in the fields of pop music and album sales. Sun Nan was not very good and had not yet figured it out.

Even Nayoung can handle it, let alone Zhou Yi, who has already made a name for himself by going abroad.

However, this fairness was eventually exaggerated due to the ulterior motives of some people on the judging panel...

Don’t you want fairness? Don’t you want Zhou Yi to get the honor he deserves?
Then I'll give it all to him!

Don’t say I’m unfair, I am very fair because the quality of Zhou Yi’s album last year was indeed worthy of these trophies.

Chen Yixun's winning directly became a fig leaf to cover up the manipulation of certain people, and also became a window to show the fairness and justice of the Golden Melody Awards - last year he was indeed able to beat Zhang Xueyou who was in a trough period. Giving the King of Singers trophy to the young Chen Yixun just shows that we are authoritative and knowledgeable, and we don't give trophies based on fame.

Don’t ask. The answer is that we value fairness and full compliance. We just ask you whether this is fair.

Yao Qian resigned in anger...

(End of this chapter)