Huayu: The Unbelievable Matching Mechanism of Jay Chou's Love Songs

In the fourth week, the fourth episode of "Meteor Garden" achieved a viewership rating of 7.09%!

Achieving a 7% viewership rating in the late-night slot is unprecedented. In just one week, "Meteor Garden" achieved the feat of being watched by "all age groups." In night markets, teahouses, and streets and alleys, television sets everywhere were tuned to CTS (China Television System). During reruns, the streets were packed with viewers, and students recorded and shared the episodes.

CTS (China Television System) has also abandoned its stubbornness and lowered its proud head, moving the premiere date of "Meteor Garden" from the fifth episode next week to Saturday nights at 8 pm, a prime time slot.

The episode length has also been extended from 90 minutes to 120 minutes.

From that day on, Meteor Garden began to be replayed on a loop from 3 pm to 5 pm, Monday to Friday!

Before "Meteor Garden," "re-broadcasting" in Taiwan was a "destination for obscure dramas," and generally only obscure dramas were re-broadcast to make a profit...

After "Meteor Garden", all TV stations began to pay attention to "rebroadcasts", especially the afternoon and midday slots. Some new dramas even scheduled "premiere + rebroadcast double time slots" as soon as they premiered.

It was precisely this frenzied, intensive, multi-time, and multi-channel bombardment that made "Meteor Garden" a hit across Taiwan!

That year in Taiwan, it wasn't just "many people" watching "Meteor Garden," but "everyone" of all ages was watching it!

Even Taiwanese media outlets, known for their outrageous claims even more absurd than UC News's "Shocking News Department," couldn't help but offer this assessment:

"Meteor Garden, the Unrivaled Swordsman!"

The popularity of the series has brought obvious benefits, and the main actors have all benefited, especially Yan Chengxu, the male lead, and Zhou Yumin, one of the F4 members. These two have gained a lot of exposure. Zhou Yumin is doing well, but Yan Chengxu has to look at people with his nose and eyes when he goes out these days.

Even with his arrogant demeanor, he dared not underestimate Feng Zheng...

Why?

nonsense!

The two OSTs for "Meteor Garden" were written by Feng Zheng!

He also received a share of the profits from the "Meteor Garden" program!

As the drama series became a hit, the OSTs in the series also became popular. The popularity of the two OSTs, "Meteor Shower" and "Can't Help Falling in Love", soared. In particular, "Meteor Shower" is so popular that if you go to a KTV now, you will find that 8 out of 10 private rooms are filled with people singing "I'll take you to see the meteor shower falling on this earth"!

The two songs sold very well, and Feng Zheng received a lot of "license fees". Because the "profit-sharing agreement" was signed with the Meteor Garden production team, Feng Zheng has already received tens of thousands of yuan from the recent rounds of sponsorships for GG!

On the other hand, what about Yan Chengxu and his group?

Despite being a lead actor and very popular, he only received a fixed income of 1 New Taiwan Dollars.

In this respect, the other three were extremely envious of Feng Zheng!

Wu Jianhao and Zhou Yumin were alright, but Yan Chengxu already had a grudge against Feng Zheng. When he saw that he, as the lead actor, didn't earn much profit while Feng Zheng made a fortune, jealousy overwhelmed him.

There's something else interesting happening these past few days: Jay Chou released an album!

Actually, Feng Zheng and Jay Chou were originally supposed to release their albums at the same time, but Feng Zheng was busy filming and couldn't manage it all, and Wu Zongxian also provided him with a lot of promotional material, so it was delayed and Jay Chou released his album first.

The album's sales in its first week of release weren't particularly impressive, around 5000 copies, which was just average.

Only 1.2 tickets were sold in a month.

It wasn't until the second month, when Wu Zongxian started promoting his product on campus and word-of-mouth continued to spread, that sales began to reverse the decline!

Sales exceeded 10 units in the second month!

Sales continued to rise afterward. If it weren't for the recent popularity of "Meteor Garden" and the strong performances of "Meteor Shower" and "Can't Help Falling in Love", Jay Chou would probably be the headline in the entertainment section recently.

"Is Jay Chou...with the same company as Feng Zheng?"

Yan Chengxu has also been listening to Jay Chou's songs recently. Jay Chou's first album includes ten songs such as "Lovely Woman", "Perfectionism", "Starry Sky", "Black Humor", "Tornado", "Clock in the Opposite Direction", "Indian Old Turtle"... All of the songs mentioned above are very good, and Yan Chengxu also feels a lot when listening to them.

"Yes, they're all from Brother Xian's company," the assistant replied.

"Heh~"

Yan Chengxu scoffed upon hearing this, saying, "They're all from the same company. His record sales keep rising, and I heard he's busy recording songs all day long. I wonder what he's busy with all this time."

"Well, it's not certain whether Brother Xian's small studio can produce albums for two people at the same time," the assistant replied. "I heard from the rumors that Brother Xian has invested a lot of money in Jay Chou and values ​​him very much. Feng Zheng is just lucky to have been in 'Meteor Garden'; otherwise, he would have been sidelined in Brother Xian's company."

Yan Chengxu was quite pleased with this, and he was too lazy to deal with Feng Zheng's mess anymore. He turned to his assistant and asked, "Has the company given a reply? Have they agreed to give part of the contract to Sister Chai's company?"

"We've replied," the assistant nodded. "The company offers unconditional support."

"Very good."

Yan Chengxu was quite happy to hear this. Recently, because of the huge popularity of "Meteor Garden", F4 also became a hit. Chai Zhiping, the producer behind the scenes, recently came up with a good idea. She plans to let Yan Chengxu, Zhou Yumin, Wu Jianhao and Feng Zheng "debut as a group"!

The four of them joined forces to take on endorsements, produce merchandise, and hold tours, seizing this wave of immense wealth and maximizing their profits!

This is also a complete "industrial chain" that their company started developing this year, officially ushering in the "idol industrial revolution era" in the entertainment industry!

"Um... don't get too excited yet..."

But at that moment, the assistant suddenly stammered, "Feng Zheng's company hasn't replied yet."

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Upon hearing this, Yan Chengxu's lips twitched, and he couldn't help but say, "What's so great about him not replying?!"

Chai Zhiping's plan is to package Feng Zheng and the other three into a group to debut and make money. Since she is in charge of the main operations, they certainly can't work for free.

So her plan is to sign all four contracts to her company and then split the profits with their companies, thus achieving a "win-win" situation.

This model was even used in the later era of boy groups and girl groups, which was very ahead of its time.

Wu Jianhao and Zhou Yumin are both amateurs without a company, so it's easy to talk about them.

Yan Chengxu's company is a modeling agency, and he had never seen such extravagant wealth before, so he naturally expressed his approval wholeheartedly.

Only Feng Zheng's side has yet to reply!

Yan Chengxu was baffled. What? Did Feng Zheng have a better way to make money than even F4?

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