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

Chapter 561 Find a new way
"Dear listeners, I am your substitute DJ. I want you to chat with me about the world.
"Working all day repeats the same tiring scenes, numbing your senses~
“Listen up dear
"I just heard that hatred must be resolved with reason.

"Insults and bullets are flying all over the place~"

With extremely advanced arrangement, rhythmic drum beats and unique use of hip-hop elements, a song for world peace was born.

Wang Lihong, who fully demonstrated his superb skills in Western music, played extremely freely in the song "You and Me", telling the story of the world from his own perspective in a leisurely manner.

If the audience is knowledgeable, then even if they don't like the song, they will have to admit that it is powerful. But unfortunately, the so-called musicality is just a recognized musical aesthetic among people in the industry, nothing more.

Zhou Yi turned off the radio without even hearing half of it. Li Bingbin, who was not interested in the song at all, was sitting on a rocking chair in the crew to rest. Seeing his action, he couldn't help but be a little surprised: "You don't want to listen anymore?"

After all, he is a popular male singer who wrote the song "The Only One". How could Zhou Yi sentence him to death without even listening to his new song?
"It's too highbrow, the market performance won't be too explosive, there's no need to pay much attention to it."

Zhou Yi stood up from his chair, stretched himself, twisted his neck, and let out a long sound.

Qian Jiang, who dragged him to listen to the radio broadcast, was stunned - is Wang Lihong's song... so bad?
"This song is good, but it has no market. Wang Lihong chose it as the number one hit on the radio because he was obviously overconfident in himself." Zhou Yi gave the agent a reassurance.

In fact, looking at all of Wang Lihong's albums throughout his career, in terms of quality alone, "Incredible" is either in the second place or striving for the first place.

This is a work that he created after reflecting on his failure in the Japanese market. In a sense, it is an album that was honed and refined after experiencing hardships.

One album covers genres such as hip-hop, pop, jazz, r&b, and each type of song is performed to perfection - so perfect that even Wang Lihong in the future will not be able to surpass the production level of this album.

This album also marks Wang Lihong's official entry into the three pillars of the Chinese music scene in the new century.

The only regret is——

Jay Chou’s Ye Hui Mei has the hit song “Sunny Day”;
Tao Zhe's "Black Tangerine" has the hit song "Melody";
Wang Lihong's album "Incredible" does not have a hit song to support it.

If the song "The Only One" was included in "Incredible", this album would have no shortcomings.

Qian Jiang was thoughtful: "Sony has been supporting him all along. Isn't it possible to make him popular even if they throw resources at him? According to the company, pre-sales of this album in Taiwan exceeded 10 copies on the first day. It is very popular."

Judging from the sales data alone, this album "Incredible" can still pose a certain threat to Zhou Yi's dominance in Greater China.

In 2003, pre-sales of 10 albums in a single day in Taiwan were already considered top-tier. Even if Zhou Yi announced the pre-sale of his new album now, Qian Jiang estimated that the maximum pre-sales in Taiwan would only be around per day.

The limit of limits.

"It's just traffic. His popularity will at most send this album's sales into the top ten best-selling albums of the year, but it will only rank at the bottom."

Zhou Yi shook his head.

To be honest, if this album "Incredible" was not released by Wang Lihong and did not have the support of Sony's powerful publicity and distribution channels, it would probably have been a complete flop.

Word of mouth that is only visible to insiders and fans will not bring sales.

The quality is the quality, and sales are sales.

Wang Lihong also realized this after this album. In each album after "Incredible", he deliberately included several market songs that he carefully produced, thus evolving into the king of Chinese pop music.

Li Bingbin, who doesn't know much about the music industry, was somewhat shocked by Zhou Yi's confidence: "Really? Didn't you say there is no market? How come it's in the top ten of the annual sales chart? The album hasn't even been released yet, right?"

Even if it's just at the end, it's still among the top.

"You don't understand. A true professional should dare to make judgments."

Zhou Yi comfortably looked through the new endorsement that Qian Jiang had negotiated for him after arriving in the United States, and hummed a little tune - the sincere Apple board of directors approved a three-year laptop computer contract, $15 million per year, a total of $4 million for three years, just to invite Zhou Yi to endorse the -inch PowerBook G.

Zhou Yi's offer for endorsing the PowerBook G4 notebook is much higher than that of his compatriot Yao Ming, the little giant, who can only get about 130 million US dollars in endorsement fees from Apple every year.

Of course, as a byproduct of endorsement, shooting commercials is naturally indispensable.

Since Zhou Yi does not live in the United States, his first laptop commercial was filmed after he returned to the United States after shooting all the MVs for Side A.

"Oh, it's a life of hard work. I have to work during the National Day holiday."

Li Bingbin: “…”

She suddenly had the urge to strangle this man to death. He was really ungrateful for what he had.

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"You don't know how to appreciate your blessings?"

"Yes, I don't know how lucky I am."

October 10, Taiwan, Taipei Voice music promotion program.

Wang Lihong, who was a guest with his new album "Incredible", gave his own explanation when the host asked him why he chose "You and Me" as the main song of the radio station:

"Nowadays, society is developing too fast and conflicts are increasing. As I said, sometimes many conflicts are just the accumulation of small frictions, which is totally unnecessary.

"I used to live in the United States, and I also saw the news. Many places in the world are actually in turmoil, wars, and conflicts are intensifying..."

Wang Lihong was obviously very excited as he talked a lot about his creative ideas on the show. He really believed that his album would achieve excellent results, and he sincerely shared the music he thought was excellent with his fans.

However, when the host asked him whether he thought his album sales could surpass those of Jay Chou and Zhe Tao who have already released albums, as well as Zhou Yi who has yet to release an album, the excitement on his face suddenly faded.

"In fact, I think it's boring for the outside world to often compare us like this. We are all Chinese singers, and we all make Chinese music. We don't actually need to compete with each other to the death.

"We are actually friends. Friends, you know?"

Wang Lihong, who was wearing a plaid shirt and jeans, subconsciously turned his hands and emphasized his tone with his hands: "I think that for real Chinese singers, our opponents are actually those foreign singers, such as the Korean wave that is very popular now."

In 2003, the Korean Wave opened the door to the domestic market with its unique idol drama production, which frequently appeared on the televisions of thousands of households and became an indispensable backbone force on the screen.

Taiwan suffered from the impact of the Korean wave even earlier than the mainland, and Korean songs have repeatedly squeezed the already shrinking market for Chinese singers.

Starting from this aspect is actually the route that Sony has set for Wang Lihong.

Since Zhou Yi cannot be defeated at home or abroad, he decided to change the battlefield - directly target the Koreans entering the country, and the main battlefield would be set in China.

I can’t beat you Koreans in Korea, but this is China, we can beat you up in the Chinese market!

In this way, Wang Lihong can also reap the benefits of the so-called national self-esteem, although the effect is not as strong as Zhou Yi, and he can also avoid direct competition with Zhou Yi.

Although he himself does have the dream of overthrowing Zhou Yi.

Don’t say it’s unrealistic, people still have to have dreams, especially creative musicians like him.

(End of this chapter)