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

Chapter 868: The concert doesn't make money, it's just about making friends

Concerts have always been the best stage for singers to demonstrate their ability to create a lively atmosphere.

Many people buy tickets for the stands but actually only watch the big screen when they get to the venue, because the stage is too far away to be seen clearly. They just want to enjoy the atmosphere of the venue.

After all, the sound quality at a concert is far superior to that of a small home speaker. Combined with various visual effects, the atmosphere is instantly enhanced.

This is something that cannot be felt by just sitting in front of the TV or computer and watching the screen, commonly known as: the charm of the scene.

Of course, the premise of this charm is that the singer does not appear in a car accident and overturn the car.

Although many people were concerned about Zhou Yi's personal condition before the start, judging from this amazing opening, they were obviously worrying too much.

"Rebels, welcome to the land of monsters!"

At the end of the opening, Zhou Yi, standing at the forefront of the stage, opened one hand and made an invitation gesture to the audience - just a simple greeting, but it triggered thunderous cheers from 20,000 fans, and the sound waves that reached the sky and lasted for a long time!
"Spike!"

"Spike!!"

"Spike!!!"

"Spike!!!!"

Even the stars in the guest seats stood up and applauded the man on the stage, both Chinese and foreign.

"Four years ago, I entered the American music scene with my first English album. In that album, there is a song that I still cannot reproduce at a high cost. This song is probably the beginning of how most European and American fans got to know me—"

"Ahhhhh!!"

""The lazy song"! "The lazy song"!!!"

Before Zhou Yi could finish his words, he was interrupted by the enthusiastic nominations from the audience.

Fans who thought they had guessed correctly screamed wildly and shouted the name of the song in the hope of getting the attention of their idol or even the live director's camera.

"Yes, that's right, this song is——"

Zhou Yi wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead while talking, and stopped posing in a fixed position. Instead, he began to walk to the side of the stage and pointed at the people who guessed the wrong song, with a sly smile on his face: "Wavin Flag!"

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Grass!
There's really nothing wrong with saying that.

The 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup was indeed the key to helping Zhou Yi gain global fame. The cost of the song also included the football associations of Japan and South Korea...

There is nothing wrong in saying that it cannot be replicated.

Bruno Mars, who almost thought he would hear "The lazy song" in the second song, felt a little disappointed, but he immediately joined the chorus after setting up the DV on a tripod.

In a sense, "Wavin Flag" can indeed be regarded as Zhou Yi's most popular song in the world, especially when the stage setting was obviously a 1:1 reproduction of the relevant elements of the World Cup final stage that year.

As soon as Zhou Yi opened his mouth, he almost instantly brought the fans' memories back to the midsummer of 2002.

Although this song is not ranked high on the Billboard, it is only ranked low on the US Billboard. It does not mean that no one will watch the World Cup final.

Moreover, Bruno had seen the leaked clips of his idol’s concert in London.

That was the beginning of Zhou Yi's concert outside China. His cool 007-style appearance made many fans who didn't go there envious, including Bruno.

He thought he would be able to see a replica in New York this time. After all, as long as concerts are held under the same brand, there are actually traces to follow.

This is also the reason why it is said that "it is enough to just watch one world tour concert."

After all, the singing session of a concert actually has a theme, which is commonly known as a "session".

There is a framework for which songs should be sung in which session. When it comes to the actual implementation, even if the singer wants to keep it fresh, there will be at most two or three changes, and the order of songs in other sessions will basically remain unchanged. This is also the reason why so many singers hold multiple concert tours, but in the end they only release a dedicated concert album to sell on the market. The songs they sing are all similar, so they only need to pick out the best performances, the best condition, and the most talked-about performances, and edit them out to sell separately.

In Bruno's opinion, with the two performances at London's Highbury Stadium as a shining example, it makes no sense for Warner's stunning opening and subsequent arrangements to be "shelved" after only two performances in London.

But it turned out that he was wrong.

Take "Wavin Flag" which also appeared in London as an example. In terms of stage arrangement, the stage setting of tonight's New York station, which is almost a 1:1 replica of the World Cup final, is not available in the London venue.

"No, is that so extravagant, Spike?"

Singers such as Justin Timberlake and Avril Lavigne, who also noticed something was wrong at the first moment, frowned slightly, with a hint of surprise in their eyes.

Since there were no guests invited, they didn't know the arrangements for Zhou Yi's concert.

As is customary in the industry, they reviewed the videos of the London show that were circulating on the Internet before coming. Justin Timberlake, who has his own tricks, even figured out which part of the theme he would find a shot to interact with Zhou Yi at that time.

Show the "brotherly love" and get some popularity.

As a result, Zhou Yi's opening theme arrangement, which was completely different from the London show, confused Justin directly -

its not right?
How can this be completely different?

This is a concert tour. Shouldn't Warner Bros. try to use the same themes as much as possible to save (make as much money as possible) as possible?
If each round of concerts is different from the previous one, it means that the various packaging, visual effects and other materials prepared at great expense will become short-lived disposable items and be wasted, which is a sheer waste of money.

"Now I seem to understand why Spike has held many concerts in China but has yet to release a formal concert album."

Avril, who is well aware of the cost of top concerts, is holding concerts like crazy. She whispered to Shakira beside her: "If his concerts in China are also different every time, then it would be normal for Warner not to release the album..."

To put it nicely, a concert album is about preserving classic performances, but to put it bluntly, it is about "squeezing money."

First of all, the high frequency of concerts has already recovered the cost and made a lot of money - because the cost of stage design, lighting, sound, visual effects, etc. for each show is evenly distributed among the number of shows, the biggest cost of the concert album is the recording...

Because the equipment of that era was not clear enough, often only the cameras set up directly in the venue by record companies had high-definition resources, which made it easy to release concert albums.

Official high-definition resources.

But Zhou Yi is different——

Each round is different, which means that he has to change the theme after every one or two concerts - all the costs of stage design, lighting, etc. used previously are scrapped and have to be rearranged.

With such high costs, Warner would naturally strategically abandon the recording of concert albums, which already had low sales.

It's worth saving a little bit.

The songs are all in the album. Those who want to listen to them have already bought the album. Why bother re-recording and increasing costs?

"Incredible! If you calculate it this way, how much money does Warner lose after one concert?"

Bruno, who is now considered an expert, stared at the man on the stage with his eyes wide open. For a moment, he suddenly felt that the expensive ticket he bought seemed... a little worth it?

its not right!
Why didn't Warner say it before?
When the high-priced ticket scandal broke out, if Warner had stated this fact, no one would have said anything, right?

Damn Warner, can you do your job?!
Fans have to figure it out on their own...

As a small blogger who plans to open an account on YouTube, Bruno has already made up his mind to settle the account when he returns and then post it on his personal channel——

He wants to clear Spike's name!

(End of this chapter)