1990: Starting from Baojia Street

On the morning after Valentine's Day, "All of Me" was played simultaneously on multiple radio stations, and listeners could also call in to request it.

On February 15th, "All of Me" topped the radio demand charts in many regions.

Some radio stations in some areas almost play "All of Me" on a loop from morning till night, because listeners are willing to call in to request it, and the hosts have also found that people are indeed willing to listen to this song.

This song has not been officially released, and neither tapes nor CDs are available for purchase. Fans who want to listen to it can only listen to it on TV and radio stations.

Obviously, radio is much more convenient than TV, and you can also play on demand.

Although Celine Dion had sung this song in a concert before, for most people, the melody of the song came out of nowhere and became popular all of a sudden.

Many people feel that after Valentine's Day, a love song suddenly appeared that is particularly beautiful and everyone can sing it.

As the song "All of Me" becomes more and more popular, more and more people know that this song comes from Zhou Yan's new movie "About Time", and people are paying more and more attention to this new movie.

At this time, Bantam Books Group suddenly announced that Y will have a novel published in April, the title of which is "Shutter Island".

Some fans who pay more attention to Zhou Yan's news, when they saw "Shutter Island", they remembered the news about the previous movie "Shutter Island". They didn't expect that this movie actually has an original novel.

Jessica and Hardison were very surprised when they saw the news. On Valentine's Day, they were still complaining that they couldn't read Y's novels in the United States. Unexpectedly, a few days later, they heard the news that Y's new book would be sold in the United States, as if someone had heard their complaints.

"Shutter Island, I think the director was Martin Scorsese, right?"

"Yes, it's him, and the cast seems to be quite impressive. I didn't expect this movie to have an original novel. This seems to be a suspense movie? Did Y also write a suspense novel?"

"I heard that Y is a traditional writer. Do you still remember "Tree Hole"?"

"Well, of course. Maybe his style is more varied. Bantam only said that the new book will be released in April, but he didn't say when. Can I buy it here in Los Angeles?"

"It should be possible. Bantam Group has promoted it so vigorously, so the first print run will definitely be large."

"That's true."

……

On the day when the news of the release of the novel "Shutter Island" was released, Bantam Group received many calls, all asking about the new book, asking them when the new book would be released and whether they would accept advance reservations.

In response to these inquiries, Bantam also gave unified responses through the media, announcing the specific release date as April 18th.

As for advance reservations, since not many people suggested it, we haven't opened an advance reservation channel. We just tell everyone that there are bookstores selling the book in all major cities.

The first print run of "Shutter Island" is one million copies. Are you still worried that the distribution is not comprehensive enough?
In addition to ordinary readers, some of the people who called were booksellers, and they naturally asked about purchasing goods.

Judging from the current news coverage, booksellers know that Shutter Island will definitely sell well.

For books that are destined to sell well, you must secure the stock in advance, so as not to miss the first wave of sales due to limited stock.

While Bantam is taking advantage of the popularity of "All of Me" to promote the novel "Shutter Island" in full swing, Warner Bros. naturally would not miss such a good opportunity and quickly promoted the movie "Shutter Island".

This time, Zhou Yan’s new movie was linked to the movie “Shutter Island” through the song “All of Me”.

Because of the popularity of "all of me", the publicity effect is very good.

Warner was also secretly happy. They didn't have much hope for the agreement they had made with Zhou Yan before, so it was like trying their best.

But they never expected that Zhou Yan would write the novel so quickly and negotiate the publishing matters. What surprised them even more was that the novel had received such high attention before it was even released.

Not to mention how the sales of the "Shutter Island" novel will be in the future, even the current wave of popularity has saved their company a lot of publicity costs.

If the novel of "Shutter Island" really sells well in the future, then it is basically a foregone conclusion that the movie will be a box office hit. Movie fans are particularly fond of movies adapted from such literary works.

It seems that the popularity that Y can bring is greater than they expected.

At least until now, the popularity that Zhou Yan has brought to the movie alone has surpassed that of the director and several leading actors.

……

Originally everyone thought that this wave of joint promotion would basically end with the movie, but what was unexpected was that just after Warner had just taken advantage of the wave of popularity, Mariah Carey also announced that she would add a new song by Y to her new album this year, and this new song is also from the new movie "About Time".

For a time, both the film and pop music industries became more lively, and everyone's attention was focused on the new movie.

"What kind of movie is this?"

“How many songs are there in this movie?”

Especially in the pop music industry, the attention paid to the movie "About Time" has reached an extremely high level.

Major music companies have begun to ask people how many songs there are in this movie and whether there are any songs that can be sung by their own singers.

……

Zhang Youan’s phone suddenly started ringing non-stop.

The first person to call him was Jeff Brown, the deputy general manager of Jive.

He was the one who brought up the Backstreet Boys, and he was also the one who facilitated the Houjie Boys to sing "Yellow".

It can be said that Jeff Brown was the first European and American musician to collaborate with Zhou Yan, and the relationship between the two sides has always been good.

After the call was connected, Jeff Brown quickly explained his purpose.

"Is there any song in the new movie that can be sung by these guys?"

Zhang Youan was not surprised to hear that Jeff Brown came for the interlude in the new movie. He smiled and said, "Jeff, there are indeed many songs in Y's new movie, but many of them have already been confirmed."

"A lot... That means not every song has been finalized. There are still some that haven't been confirmed."

"Yes, there are still some songs that have not been confirmed, but they may not be suitable for the boys to sing. You know, the songs written by Y will not be sold to singers easily. He will evaluate whether the singer is suitable."

"Of course I understand, so I called to ask if there are any suitable songs."

"You should ask Y himself about this, but don't bother him these days because he is spending the New Year in his hometown."

Jeff Brown could only sigh after hearing what Zhang Youan said. "Then please tell Y a Happy New Year for me. We can talk about the song in a few days."

"no problem."

……

Not long after hanging up the phone with Jeff Brown, Zhang Youan received another call from Warner Records. The caller's intention was exactly the same as Jeff Brown's, asking if there were any new songs in "About Time" and whether he could collaborate with their singers.

When Zhang Youan first received the call from Jeff Brown, he didn't think much about it and thought it was normal.

But when he received a call from Warner Records, he felt something was wrong.

He was in China these days and didn't pay much attention to the news from the United States, but he knew that "All of Me" would premiere on Valentine's Day, so he naturally thought that their invitation to sing a song was related to "All of Me". But he didn't know that although this matter was related to "All of Me", the main reason was that Mariah Carey's new album was going to add an interlude "About Time".

It was just that because it was the Chinese New Year during this period, Zhou Yan never told Zhang Youan about this.

Of course, as he received more and more calls, Zhang Youan also got the news from these callers and learned that Zhou Yan gave Mariah Carey a theme song for the movie.

……

The next morning, Zhang Youan called Zhou Yan.

When Zhou Yan received the call from Zhang Youan, he was accompanying Joey Wong shopping in Xinjiekou. Joey Wong came yesterday, which was the tenth day of the first lunar month. She planned to stay in Jinling until the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and then go to Yanjing with Zhou Yan for a while.

Zhou Yan rubbed the phone, exhaled, and answered the call.

"Are you busy?"

Hearing Zhang Youan's voice, Zhou Yan curled his lips and said, "I'm busy. What's the matter with you, Zhang?"

Zhang Youan smiled and said, "I'm reporting to you. Starting from 8 or 9 o'clock last night, I received calls for two or three hours. There were more than a dozen calls, all asking about the episodes in Time Traveler."

"Who asked these questions?" Zhou Yan asked.

“Some record companies over in the United States, including Jeff Brown, he was the first one.”

"Why are the calls coming in so quickly?" Zhou Yan was curious.

"Shouldn't I ask you this? All of Me premiered on Valentine's Day, and within two days Mariah Carey announced that she would add a song from your new movie to her new album. Now all the record companies are eyeing your new movie."

"Oh, I see." Zhou Yan didn't expect that this would attract major record companies to inquire about the new movie.

"Which song did you give to Mariah Carey? And when did you give it to her and I don't know about it?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "You're still asking me? Didn't you give her your phone number? On New Year's Eve, she got the number from you and called me. She said she was missing two songs from her new album, so I gave her "Bleeding Love". I didn't tell you because I thought I was busy during this period and didn't want to delay your vacation, right?"

"I think you're afraid of delaying your vacation."

"Both. Anyway, we have been working together for a long time with Maria, so there is no need to discuss the details. We can just sign a contract later."

"Maria asked me for my number and just said Happy New Year to you. That's all. I'll have someone take care of the contract. But you're so nice to Maria. How many songs have you given her?"

"It's not bad, there aren't that many songs."

"Not that many. There shouldn't be any other singer who has sung more of your songs than her, right? Not only have you written many songs for her, but each of them has become a huge hit."

Zhang Youan's words left Zhou Yan with no room for rebuttal. He did indeed only write a few songs for Mariah Carey, but this was already more than for other singers.

Apart from Mariah Carey, there are Anita Mui, Shizuka Kudo, Backstreet Boys and Akina Nakamori.

Celine Dion also has two songs, but only one has been released so far.

"I felt that this song was quite suitable for her, and since she called me during the Chinese New Year, it was hard to refuse."

Zhang Youan pondered for a moment on the other end of the phone and asked, "There shouldn't be any special relationship between you and her, right?"

He emphasized the word "special" and his meaning was very clear.

Zhou Yan glanced at Wang Zuxian next to him and raised his lips, "What are you guessing? I have only met her a few times in total. How can there be any special relationship between us? Besides, others may not know, but how can you not know?"

On the other end of the phone, Zhang Youan curled his lips, thinking that he didn't know.

Now he and Zhou Yan spend very little time together, and he doesn't know much about Zhou Yan's private life, which means he doesn't know which actress or singer Zhou Yan is with.

"That's good. You should keep some distance from her. Her affairs with Motorola are a mess. If you get involved, you will definitely get into trouble. Of course, there's no problem writing songs for her normally, but don't write for her alone."

Zhou Yan curled his lips, "I wrote for her because she is so popular. If I changed someone else, would my songs be so popular?"

Although the songs Zhou Yan sang for Mariah Carey are all very good, they would probably become popular even if they were sung by others, but it is unlikely to become as popular as this.

Mariah Carey is in her prime and is at the peak in all aspects. It can be said that her songs bring their own traffic.

The success of those songs was also due to their mutual achievement.

"I'm not asking you not to write for her. Take some time to write a few songs for other people, like some new generation female singers. It would sound better if there were rumors about them. At least they wouldn't say you're stealing her girl."

"What about spreading rumors, stealing girls, and all that nonsense." Zhou Yan said with a serious expression.

Zhang Youan said with a smile, "It's normal to have rumors..."

Zhou Yan interrupted him quickly, "Okay, I'm busy here, is there anything else?"

"Nothing else, that's all. What do you say when they ask about the movie's interlude?"

"Leave it alone for now, and I'll talk about it when I officially start working."

"alright."

……

After Zhou Yan hung up the phone, Wang Zuxian looked at him with a half-smile, "Mariah Carey called you alone on New Year's Eve. Was it before or after me?"

"after."

"That hit the old house?"

"Ah."

"She even has the old house phone number."

"Didn't I just say that it was this guy Zhang Youan who gave it to her?"

"It seems like you had a good chat with her and even gave her a song."

"Ahem, she called just to invite me to sing a song, nothing else. We chatted for a while and then hung up."

"We only talked for a while, and you gave her the song. That's nice of her."

"..."

"Haha, I'm just kidding. I'm not jealous of her."

Joey Wong smiled and hugged Zhou Yan's arm tighter, and the two walked into the mall. Her suitcase was filled with gifts for Zhou's family, and there was no room for clothes.

Today they went shopping, and their main purpose was to buy her some clothes. (End of this chapter)