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

Chapter 740: Embarrassment to CCTV

In fact, it’s not just Hugo.

As one of the parties involved, Yuan Hong fully demonstrated what a good brother is. When he was interviewed, he did not hesitate to expose Hu Ge's shortcomings, saying that Hu Ge regretted breaking his voice at that time: "He used to brag privately that he was Zhou Yi Shanghai Bund Yi, but he lost face when he sang "Mr. Lonely" that night.

“He never bragged about himself like that again after that, so you can imagine how much damage that night did to his heart.

“If he hadn’t saved some face when he sang “Dong Feng Po” with Brother Zhou Yi after “Mr. Lonely”, I’m afraid he would have wanted to jump into the river.”

As the heroine, Liu Yifei did not have such a legendary experience as these two brothers, but as the news that she wants to cross over into the music scene is currently spreading, she took this opportunity to express her yearning for Warner singers such as Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi.

Although her request to join was rejected by Zhou Jianhui, it does not mean that she does not know how to say nice things.

As the singer of the theme song of this TV series, Sun Yanzi, who has already prepared his new album of the same name "Stefanie", is also on the media's pursuit and blockade list -

However, this host obviously did not have much interest in the crew of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" and only said some official and polite words as a notice.

After all, she had never even met the person, and she had never even been to the crew. She had played the game before, but she couldn't really say that she liked it. It was just average, and there was nothing that fascinated her.

"Yanzi Yanzi, may I ask if Zhou Yi will participate in your new album?"

"Yes, he also rejected many of my songs. He almost even rejected the songs I wrote myself. That night, I almost challenged him to a duel in front of everyone." When Zhou Yi was mentioned, the woman raised her hand to touch the short hair that fell to her neck, and her smile was particularly unbridled.

"Then may I ask if you are bothered by the recent exposure of your residence?"

"Of course there will be, it's illegal, I don't understand why they would do it."

Faced with the newly exposed address, Sun Yanzi immediately stopped smiling, put on a cat-like face and said righteously: "This is a very dangerous behavior. They have lost all their bottom line for popularity."

Just, how should I put it.

Because of her accent, when she spoke these long sentences, although it was clear that she was angry, it did not sound like a warning, but rather had a babyish quality.

The reporter finally revealed the truth: "So, are you living together in Zhouyi?"

"He is my landlord. I don't have a house in the mainland, so I can only rent his house. He has been my landlord for a long time. Are you asking this question now too early?"

Sun Yanzi's self-righteous expression really confused the reporters.

Although what you said does make sense, why does it sound so weird?
After all, you are a top star. Rent a house?
"Because I need to travel around a lot, renting a house is not normal. After all, Zhou Yi and I know each other well, so I feel much more at ease renting his house. If it were in my hometown, I would have bought a house in Singapore and I'm still renovating it."

As for how long the renovation will take, don’t ask. The answer is that we are not in Singapore all year round and it is difficult to go back to supervise the work.

Perfect and impeccable!
"There are rumors that the pre-orders for your new album have exceeded 30. Is this true?"

"Yes, I have heard from my agent. I am very grateful for the support of my fans. I will continue to bring better music..."

The warm-up meeting for the new album was successfully completed, and the news about Sun Yanzi also began to be typeset overtime.

Apart from anything else, the fact that the new album has been pre-ordered in excess of 30 copies is worth mentioning. This is a unique appeal among Chinese female singers at the moment. Whether anyone can catch up with her depends on whether Elva Hsiao can do it after returning from the United States.

The market in 2004 was extremely depressed.

The streets were filled with slogans such as "The first snow of 2002 came later than usual" and "I love you, love you like a mouse loves rice", which basically dominated major hair salons, skating rinks and other places and occupied the online channels.

Even Jay Chou’s new album “Stranded” this year cannot shake the dominance of these two songs in terms of popularity.

It's just that in terms of sales, the man who has truly been promoted to Jay Chou this year has proved his strength as the number one in the Chinese music scene after Zhou Yi. The album's sales have been climbing since its release in August, and the title song "Stranded" has become a hit all over the country.

Songs in the album such as "Garden Party" and "Dancing in Spring and Autumn" are also extremely popular among young people.

Although Jay Chou himself was criticized by many music critics in Mainland China and Taiwan after the release of this album, and was accused by many people of "no progress", "no novelty", "bland", "perfunctory", etc., as of September 9, Sony has publicly announced that Jay Chou's new album "Stranded" has sold more than 13 million copies in Asia, of which more than 300 million copies have been sold in the Mainland.

"'Stranded' sold 300 million copies amid controversy, Jay Chou is full of confidence." This has basically been the headline of Internet entertainment news starting from September 9th, led by the four major portals Sina, Sohu, NetEase, and Tencent.

It can be said that this trend of counterfeiting has been pushed to a new peak.

Of course, many people also ridiculed Sony for wanting to benchmark Zhouyi, saying that it was crazy. If the English album cannot benchmark, then it can benchmark the Chinese one.

Sun Yanzi himself was scratching his head after seeing this.

To be honest, she also suspected so.

In the entire Chinese-speaking world, Zhou Yi is the only one who has sold 300 million Chinese albums since the new millennium. And this is still comparable to the results of Japan and South Korea, the two major East Asian voting bases, especially Japan.

If we rely solely on the Chinese-speaking market, even if we sell the Zhouyi, we won’t be able to achieve this number.

"Isn't this sales volume inflated a bit too much?"

October 10, Warner, in the rest area outside the recording studio. Sun Yanzi, who had just finished his new album press conference, sipped pure milk, leaving a row of tooth marks on the straw, and ate food to soothe his hungry stomach while muttering to himself.

She came to help Zhou Yi make songs, and to eat and drink in front of him to satisfy her lust for this bitch.

"There are 700,000 or 800,000 copies. It's normal for Sony to brag about it."

Zhou Yi, who was indeed disturbed by the aroma of the food, smacked his lips and came over to concentrate on his afternoon tea (lunch).

Seventy or eighty thousand copies in 2004 were enough to brag about.

After "Seven Miles of Fragrance" and "Sorrow of Ending the War" were gone, Jay Chou put two new songs in this album, "Rainbow in the Heart" and "War". "Grandma" is still there, but it no longer has the part about anger towards the Golden Melody Awards, and has become a pure song about caring for the elderly.

The title song also became "Stranded".

I have to say that you have to grab it. Some of the new songs are pretty good, better than the shitty Christmas Star.

In Zhou Yi's impression, Jay Chou did reach the top in 04. He first sang "Dragon Fist" on the Spring Festival Gala to increase his popularity, and then relied on "Seven Miles of Fragrance" to achieve the highest album sales in the physical album era.

In the 2004 IFPI Global Album Annual Sales Chart, Jay Chou made it into the top 42 in the world sales for the first and only time in his record era, ranking nd.

However, the sales statistics are still inflated - because this refers to the shipment volume, not the actual sales volume.

In other words, this is equivalent to including those records that have not yet been sold in the hands of legitimate channel dealers.

In the 2004 World Record Sales Chart, the last number on the list, which was No. 50, had sales of over 180 million, but there was no such person on Jay Chou's "Qilixiang".

Corresponding to this——

Utada Hikaru from Japan is ranked 19th on the FPI Global Chart with Jay Chou on it, and 28th on the World Album Sales Chart without Jay Chou. Utada Hikaru ranks first in Asia on both charts.

More than 140 million and less than 180 million is roughly the actual sales range of Jay Chou's album "Qilixiang" in Asia between 04 and 05.

Of course, now with the emperor weighing down his head, Zhou Yi estimates that Jay Chou's album "Stranded" should be able to barely reach the one million mark within a year. There is definitely no hope of selling it for 140 million or 180 million.

"They boast so high, aren't they afraid of being exposed for not paying taxes according to this amount?" Sun Yanzi pondered and asked a soul-stirring question.

You should know that this is the number that Sony announced personally when it held a celebration party for Jay Chou in mainland China.

"Then we will definitely not let the media get involved in this aspect."

Zhou Yi shook his head.

This is considered an unspoken rule in the record industry, and no one is willing to expose it at the moment.

False prosperity is still prosperity after all. If everyone is doing it, it is the same as no one is doing it.

While Sun Yanzi was still chewing, there was a sudden knock on the door from behind, which made her turn her head subconsciously. She immediately stood up with the dishes in her hand and opened the door.

She was close to the door.

"who--"

? !
When the people who appeared in front of her were carrying cameras with CCTV logos on their equipment, Sun Yanzi was stunned, especially when the camera, which she couldn't tell whether it was turned on or not, was still facing her.

"Hello, Miss Sun. We are CCTV's interview staff. I am Kang Hui. We were invited to shoot a documentary..."

There was still a half piece of spicy and sour potato shreds hanging from the corner of Sun Yanzi's mouth.

After a "slurp", she sucked it into her mouth and gave a polite yet embarrassed smile.

The moment he turned his head to look at Zhou Yi, his facial features winked at him wildly.

I rely on!

It's a disgrace to CCTV!

"You didn't tell me this would happen today."

"Didn't you say that?"

"Did you say that?"

"Maybe I was so busy reading those cool little magazines like Bigstar that I forgot to tell you."

Sun Yanzi: "..."

(End of this chapter)