1990: Starting from Baojia Street

After hanging up the phone with Mariah Carey, Zhou Yan didn't rest and started writing the score for "Bleeding Love".

This thing is really simple. It took Zhou Yan less than ten minutes to finish the score.

After writing it, he put the score aside and prepared to send it to Mariah Carey tomorrow.

Then he picked up the book and returned to the sofa to continue reading.

Zhou Yan waited until the Spring Festival Gala was over before washing up and going to bed.

In the next few days, he went with his family to visit relatives, just like in previous years, nothing special.

……

After Mariah Carey talked to Zhou Yan on the phone, she had been thinking about the new song.

Fortunately, Zhou Yan didn't let her wait too long. He sent her the score a day later.

After getting the score, she started sight-singing.

After singing it only once, she realized the excellence of the song and immediately called Walter Vansef.

Walter Yasif is one of the producers of the new album and also her old friend. They have produced many songs together before.

When he received the call from Mariah Carey, Walter knew it was about the new album, so he smiled and said, "Mariah, do you have any new ideas for the new album?"

The new album is progressing well. The twelve songs have basically been finalized and some have even started recording, so Walter is very relaxed now.

This album is probably the easiest one he has ever made.

Sometimes he secretly felt that it was a good thing that Maria got a divorce. After the divorce, Maria was full of energy to produce an album.

"I've got another new song," Mariah Carey said.

"New songs?" Huatia was very confused. "Hasn't the songs already been decided? Are you planning to increase the number of songs to thirteen?"

They had discussed the number of songs on the album before, and finally decided on twelve, but they might add more songs when it is released in other regions, and the songs added in other regions will all be old songs.

"The number remains the same. I want to replace one of the twelve songs."

"Change? Which song do you want to change?"

"I haven't thought about it yet, so I called you to discuss this matter."

"Are you sure you want to change?"

What Walter meant to ask was whether it was worth changing the songs now, after all, they had put a lot of thought into the previous twelve songs.

"Of course, this is Y-chou's new song." Mariah Carey laughed.

When he heard the name Y-chou, Huatiya said without hesitation, "Change it, it must be changed. So, let's change the song "The Beautiful Ones"."

"The Beautiful Ones" is not an original song, but a cover of Prince, so Walter thinks it can be replaced directly. No matter how good the cover is, it is not as good as the original.

"Well, that's fine. Let's add that song when it's released in other regions."

"That's settled then. Tell me quickly, what style of Y's new song is? Are the lyrics out?" Waltya asked eagerly.

"Let's go to the company this afternoon when we have time, and I'll sing it for you. Y has already written all the lyrics, and I don't have anything to change."

"Okay, see you this afternoon."

……

Mariah Carey is busy working on her new song, and Celine Dion and Sony have already negotiated with ABC for the concert broadcasting rights.

This matter was discussed a few days ago and now it has finally been settled.

Originally, ABC wanted to lower the price, but recently the news about the new song "All of Me" has been getting more and more popular, and they are afraid that if they don't reach an agreement, it will be snatched away by other TV companies.

In addition, although the box office of 80 million RMB for "Time Traveler" is not very impressive in Hollywood, it broke the box office record in mainland China after all, which is a small gimmick, and it also affected the progress of the negotiations.

One last thing, Valentine’s Day is coming on February 14th in a few days.

If they could get the first broadcast rights for the love song "All of Me" at this time, it would undoubtedly guarantee the channel's ratings.

After the cooperation was reached, ABC began to promote Celine Dion's concert and the news that "All of Me" would premiere on February 14th.

……

"You mean, ABC is promoting Celine Dion's concert right now?"

Dante Selfo of the Bantam Group looked at his assistant, Canpot, and said, "And the most popular song in this concert was written by Y?"

"Well, not only was it written by Y, but it's also the theme song for Y's new movie. After Celine Dion premiered it in New York a while ago, it attracted a lot of attention. However, because the song has not been officially released, only the audience at the concert has heard it. No one else has heard it."

Dante nodded, "So, how about everyone want to hear this song now?"

"Yes, so it's very popular. Billboard published an article before, which spoke highly of this song."

"Sure enough, our choice was right at that time."

Dante Selfo smiled and said, "Go and announce that Y's new book will be released soon."

“Should we bring forward the release date of the new book?”

“What date in April will Shutter Island be released?”

"It's April 18th."

"Just stick to the original schedule, no need to change it, and the publicity plan should also stick to the original schedule. By the way, when will Y's new movie "About Time" be released in the United States?"

"I've asked, but nothing has been decided yet."

"Follow up later."

"clear."

Under normal circumstances, Dante Selfo would not pay too much attention to the release of a novel. After all, their group is so large, and there are too many new books released every year. If he pays attention to every book, it would be too tiring.

But Y's situation is different. Although this is Y's first novel published in the United States, Dent always feels that this book will be a big seller, and Y's potential is definitely more than that.

Therefore, now whenever he has free time, he will pay attention to the situation of "Shutter Island".

Now it seems that his decision to use a first print run of one million copies for "Shutter Island" was a wise one. With the promotion of "All of Me" this time, plus the release of "About Time" and the movie "Shutter Island", the popularity will not be low throughout the year.

As long as the popularity can be maintained, even if the sales volume is not particularly high, the pressure to sell the first print of one million copies is not too great, and at least there will be no loss.

"And," Dante said again, "when is the premiere?" "It seems to be at 7 o'clock in the evening on February 14th."

"Oh, this is a good time. I'll go check it out later."

……

Time flies and it is February 14th.

Olivia and Salori were waiting in front of the TV early, waiting for the premiere of Celine Dion's concert.

Today is Valentine's Day, but both of them are single, so they didn't go out on a date and just watched TV at home.

Although they had both attended the concert live, after learning about the premiere, they decided without hesitation to watch it again.

After listening to "all of me" last time, they have been thinking about this song. Unfortunately, this song has not been released and they can't hear it normally. Today they can finally listen to it again.

Like them, there were many people waiting in front of the TV for the concert to start, including many couples, Jessica and Hardison being one of them.

Today, on Valentine's Day, the two of them did not go out to play, but chose to watch TV at home and wait to listen to "All of Me".

Valentine's Day comes every year, and as long as two people love each other, every day is Valentine's Day.

But Y’s new song is premiering, so if you miss it you’ll miss it.

The two of them have been waiting for this song for a long time. Some time ago, they even went to the same record store and asked if they could find a record from China, but they were told that there was none. Even in the movie "Time Traveler", there was no complete version of this song.

When it comes to "Time Traveler", they feel unhappy again.

Not to mention "Time Traveler", even "The Chorus" has not been officially released in the United States.

Why does it take so long for each new Y movie to be released in the United States?
Can't China release it at the same time as the US? What's the technical difficulty? Isn't it just a matter of getting the subtitles? The censorship in the US shouldn't be very strict.

Is there no company willing to represent Y’s movie?

This shouldn't be the case. After all, Y has already proven his box office ability. The box office of "The Sixth Sense" was very good before.

Now they can only hope that "Time Traveler" can be released in the United States as soon as possible. Even if it is not released, they have to make the video tape as soon as possible. Otherwise, they have to go through special channels to watch it.

Don't be like "The Chorus", which was neither released in theaters nor sold on video.

Sometimes Jessica and the others feel that it is too difficult to be Y's fans in the United States. Even if they are not compared with the fans in China, they are still very miserable compared with the fans in Japan.

They are particularly envious of Y's fans in Japan, because Y's works spread the fastest in Japan except in China.

In Neon, you can see almost all of Y's works.

Let’s talk about movies first. Y’s movies are usually released in China first and then in Japan soon after, so fans in Japan don’t have to wait too long.

Speaking of music, although Y's albums are released in the United States and Japan at basically the same time, Japanese fans can still get more than European and American fans. For example, the song "Snow Flower" which was very popular in Japan last year, and the songs sung by Shizuka Kudo before, these are difficult for European and American fans to hear, and the key is that there is no English version.

Finally, there is literature, which is what European and American fans lack the most.

Y has published novels in Japan, so Japanese fans basically know that Y is also a novelist, but many European and American fans don’t know this. They only know that Y is a musician and director. Yes, most of them don’t even know that Y is also an actor. They have not seen "Raise the Red Lantern" and "Green Snake".

Of course, Jessica and the others can understand it. After all, China is the origin and center of East Asian culture, and Neon is so close to China. These are all normal.

They just feel a little regretful that it would be better if the United States were closer to China.

"It's about to begin."

Hardison's voice rang in her ears, and Jessica looked up at the TV.

Without any preparation, Celine Dion's concert started playing directly on TV.

They actually already knew that "All of Me" would only appear at the end of the concert, but they still listened carefully to the songs at the beginning of the concert. Celine Dion's performance in this concert was indeed very good.

At the end of the concert, Celine Dion returned in her best attire and said with a smile, "Next, I'm going to sing a new song that you haven't heard before."

Hearing this, Jessica and Hardison's expressions brightened up. They knew that "All of Me" was coming.

Sure enough, Celine Dion on TV began to introduce the song, "This song is called "All of Me", it's the interlude in "About Time"..."

Hardison smiled. Celine Dion was such a good friend that she promoted Y's new movie so hard at the concert. But after her promotion, they wanted to watch it even more.

I believe that after today’s concert is broadcast, more people will want to watch “About Time”.

After the introduction, Celine Dion began to hum a song that sounded like heavenly music.

Hearing this humming, Jessica closed her eyes and immersed herself in this heavenly sound.

The melody is so good and Celine Dion's voice is so beautiful.

After the humming ended, Celine Dion began to sing.

"what would i do without your smart mouth."

……

After the first sentence of "All of Me" came out, Harry Kane felt goose bumps all over his body. He expected the song to be good, but he didn't expect it to be so catchy and moving right from the start.

He usually doesn't watch TV, but today, for Y's new song, he stayed in front of the TV and watched the concert for more than an hour.

And at this moment, when he heard the first sentence, he understood that all the waiting before was worth it.

And the surprise is yet to come, this song is impeccable from section A to section C.

After listening to the whole song, Harry Kane smiled and said that ABC chose to premiere this song at a perfect time, which was Valentine's Day.

"All of Me" is indeed very suitable for Valentine's Day, especially the chorus "'Cause all of meLoves all of you" is so memorable that I can't forget it after listening to it.

Even Harry Kane couldn't help but want to sing a line.

From this sentence to the following paragraphs, it is especially suitable to sing to a lover or to express love.

In fact, Harry Kane was right. After the song was played on TV, the chorus quickly spread, and countless people sang the song to their loved ones that day.

They may not remember how to sing the whole song, but they can remember the chorus.

ABC was also very thoughtful. Not long after the concert ended, it played "All of Me" again separately.

In fact, Sony did not authorize ABC to play singles, but ABC had the right to play highlights, which was considered a borderline act. Sony naturally knew about it and turned a blind eye to it.

In addition to TV broadcasts, there will also be radio broadcasts, and Sony will definitely charge for this part.

For Sony and Celine Dion, this is like releasing a new single. (End of this chapter)