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Chapter 462 What is an international superstar?

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“Counting Stars

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“One More Night

“We Are Young

“自3月1日专辑发售日开始算起，73天的时间，斯派克刷新了有史以来最快达成3、4、5冠单的时间记录……”

73 days.

When USA Today clearly listed this unprecedented and likely unparalleled time, many passers-by who were attracted by Microsoft's demise realized belatedly what kind of monster they had witnessed rising up.

The right time, the right place, and the right people: Sony, Microsoft, and Disney.

Together with Warner itself, four major international giants joined together to celebrate the great event in the hot land of North American music, which led to the miracle birth of Zhou Yi's "Five Billboard Title Singles in 73 Days".

Inexplicably, all those who participated in this "war" and chose to help Zhou Yi because his songs were nice and fresh, whether they were his fans or not, felt a sense of inexplicable pride when they saw this report.

I have a share of this military medal!
What? You said he was a foreigner?
Isn’t it freedom and equality?
Spike has always been fighting against the dark side.

May 5th, 14:19 pm, US time, The Ritz-Carlton, Central Park, New York.

Accompanied by another Guinness World Records recorder, a member of the board of directors of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the editor-in-chief of Billboard magazine, and Warner executives, Zhou Yi walked under the spotlight and raised the world record certification certificate and the honorary trophy symbolizing the diamond record.

The huge hotel venue has been generously booked by Warner, and flashes of light and shutter sounds are ringing one after another.

Warner, which had plans in place for everything, perfectly demonstrated the speed and connections that a large international company should have. It prepared all the processes early and was just waiting for the final results to come out before holding a celebration banquet.

All the celebrities from all walks of life who were friendly with Zhou Yi and Warner were present, and the red carpet was like the Oscars - star-studded.

Zhou Yi, who was wearing an Armani haute couture suit, did not choose a tie tonight to enhance his mature temperament. When the camera captured his spirited appearance, the feeling of a spoiled teenager holding a bottle of champagne in his hand almost overflowed from the camera——

"Well, yes, I like Spike's music, of course, he's just amazing. You know, I know a thing or two about music, and when I was 15 my teacher even suggested that since I was going to drop out of school I might as well go into the music industry."

As a highly-anticipated superstar, Johnny Depp's appearance naturally attracted many questions from reporters.

Depp, who has become acquainted with Zhou Yi because of the publicity mission, simply and clearly stated that he likes everything about Zhou Yi: "I have a very good relationship with Spike. We are very good friends. I have also exchanged guitar fingering with him and learned some very simple Chinese. It's very interesting."

"For example? John, can you show us?"

"Howling like a bitch."

Facing the camera, Johnny Depp, who seemed a little introverted, spoke seriously the tiger-wolf language he learned from Zhou Yi: "Spike told me that this means to praise someone as being very good and great."

A group of foreign reporters who had no understanding of Chinese suddenly realized what had happened. They took notes and muttered "What a joke" from time to time.

Chinese reporters from CCTV, Phoenix TV, and Sohu.com were still filming the celebrities at the banquet. After hearing this, they looked at each other with expressions as if they had seen a ghost...

"..."

God damn, you are so sexy!
Zhou Yi, is this how you promote Chinese?!
You two are truly masters in promoting Chinese language and literature.

With that in mind, several reporters' eyes drifted towards the man holding a glass of champagne and chatting with all kinds of people in a relaxed manner.

At today's celebration banquet, in addition to Mariah Carey, Johnny Depp, Scarlett Johansson, Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, Kylie Minogue and other people who were already on good terms with Zhou Yi, the appearance of another figure surprised all the reporters at the scene -

Janet Jackson.

One of the five great divas at the end of the last century, and Michael Jackson's younger sister.

This black pearl, which should have had no connection with Zhou Yi, suddenly appeared in the venue and had a pleasant conversation with the former.

At least that's what it looks like.

"Mike had a schedule and couldn't come to congratulate you. You know, he has always been passionate about charity."

Janet Jackson smiled and congratulated him after clinking glasses and taking a sip of champagne. "Still, welcome to the Hall of Legends, Spike. I don't think anyone will be able to break your 73-day record in the future."

"Thank you."

Zhou Yi accepted all the goodwill and temptations sent by Michael Jackson's team.

Obviously, the fact that former Sony president Tommy Mottola was screwed made Michael Jackson, who was under great pressure, feel relieved. It was reasonable to let his sister come over and say thank you on his behalf.

If he came here by himself, it would be hard to say whether some people would think that he had reached an alliance with them.

“Mike loves your album.”

"I like his songs, too." "..."

After a brief chat, the two parties smiled at each other, having figured out each other's bottom line. Then Zhou Yi stood where he was, watching Janet Jackson go to chat with other people.

"Don't get too close to her. She has always supported Michael Jackson." Qian Jiang noticed this and came over. He came close to him and covered his mouth with his hand and whispered, "You don't have to get involved."

"Don't worry, I know what's going on."

Zhou Yi put one hand in his pocket and tilted his head slightly to take a sip of champagne. He took one last glance at Janet Jackson and then looked away.

There are also many people keeping an eye on Janet Jackson now. This is the most important reason why Janet Jackson will become the subject of negative news because of her bra ripped off by Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl next year - the issue has been taken advantage of and exaggerated.

It doesn't matter what Justin Timberlake did. What matters is that Janet Jackson happened to have such an incident, which was hyped up enough to cover up some other news and attack her at the same time.

The process of the two siblings being smeared by public opinion is almost identical. The difference is that Janet Jackson lay down before the other party could make a move, with an attitude of "I'm not going to play with you, so do as you please", while Michael Jackson was still fighting for himself until his death.

"One more thing, Chenglong is here too."

"Chenglong?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then cast his gaze in the direction where Qian Jiang was looking: "Didn't his agent say that he was filming a movie and didn't have time to come?"

In March of this year, Cheng Long, who had entered the 3 million US dollar club, officially joined Disney to shoot the comedy action movie "Around the World in 80 Days". This big production with a cost of over million US dollars can be said to have made Cheng Long very proud.

"I took time off specially to come here."

"...awesome."

Zhou Yi, who never expected that Chenglong would actually take time off to come and congratulate him, could only say these two words.

"Ayi! Congratulations! It's not easy. It's really not easy. I've been paying attention to the whole process. You are this."

Cheng Long, who was accompanied by a young man, patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder and gave him a thumbs up after seeing him: "Kill all those Americans."

"Uncle Long, why do you sound a little creepy?"

Zhou Yi smiled and said hello, and then his eyes fell on the young man following Chenglong——

"Come on, come on, Ayi. Let me introduce you to Wu Yanzu, a young man from my company who has great potential. He happens to be filming with me in the United States this time, so he's coming over to make a cameo appearance."

Chenglong patted Wu Yanzu's shoulder, and the latter came up and toasted Zhou Yi with a glass of wine.

"Brother Yi, it's our first meeting. You can call me Daniel, Xiao Wu, or A Zu."

Wu Yanzu from 1976 completely ignored the age difference between the two. Zhou Yi was somewhat uncomfortable with his respectful attitude.

It was the first time he met someone who was so...respectful to him?
If you don’t know, you might think he is already in his seventies or eighties and needs to be served tea.

Besides, Wu Yan’s group isn’t new, right?

Zhou Yi, who has gotten used to the wildness of the past two and a half months in the United States, is still somewhat clueless about how his status in China and the Chinese entertainment industry will improve.

In fact, when Wu Yanzu knew that his boss Chenglong was going to bring him to see Zhou Yi, he was so excited that he almost couldn't sleep all night, and then he was terrified.

After all, Zhou Yi is famous, and if he says something wrong, the show will be over.

The boss had to slap him a few times.

You have to know that in China, Zhou Yi is now a legitimate international superstar, a real popular figure, even Li Lianjie is a step behind him.

"Ayi, when will you return home?"

"The day after tomorrow, what's wrong, Uncle Long?"

"It's nothing big. I'm just looking for a theme song for the movie I'm currently filming, Around the World in 80 Days. I thought of you and wondered if you'd be interested in taking on another commission? Anyway, you've already collaborated with Disney on a theme song."

Chenglong, who likes to help his own people, does not shy away from the fact that he wants to form a "Chinese gang" in Hollywood.

Latin Americans can sign up for a group, Europeans and Americans can sign up for a group, so why can’t Chinese people?

Chenglong, who has already made a name for himself, is working towards this goal.

For this $100 million Disney production, he was given a certain degree of autonomy and even brought in his elder brother Hong Jinbao and his company's most promising male artist Wu Yanzu to help them improve their qualifications.

If it weren't possible to squeeze in more people, Zhou Yi even doubted whether two more of the original Seven Little Fortunes would be able to be squeezed in.

Of course, this group must revolve around Chenglong himself, which is why Li Lianjie and him have only been at the stage of verbally admiring each other.

(End of this chapter)