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

Chapter 576: Emperor Zhou is invincible.

The next day, Zhou Yi was awakened by Qian Jiang.

With a slightly dizzy head, he opened his eyes and looked up at him confusedly: "What's wrong?"

"It's 12 o'clock. How much did you drink last night?"

Qian Jiang showed the big Rolex on his wrist and pointed at the needle on it, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Aren't you afraid of drinking him to death? If something goes wrong, his children will probably tear you to pieces."

"Oh, that's okay. His children were also at home last night, but they didn't participate."

Zhou Yi struggled to get up from the bed, scratched his messy hair, and added another piece of news: "Oh, by the way, there will be an extra program at the concert, Huang Zhan will be the guest."

"???"

For a moment, Qian Jiang even wondered if he had gotten up too early in the morning and was hallucinating.

"Yes, you heard it right. He got drunk last night and grabbed my trouser legs, crying and shouting for me to play with him or he would hit his head against his head and die."

"..."

I believe you!
Although he didn’t know what was going on, Qian Jiang still faithfully wrote it down in his memo: “Oh, and one more thing, even though your new album has been criticized, its sales are getting higher day by day, it’s like seeing a ghost.

"As for your song rankings, you have already occupied all the major authoritative charts in Taiwan, Mainland China and Hong Kong."

"How much is it?" Zhou Yi became interested when he heard that the sales volume was getting higher day by day.

"It's over 130 million, which is ridiculous, especially in the context of rampant piracy."

Qian Jiang turned to the page that recorded the data.

Although he had seen this number in the morning, he couldn't help but take a deep breath even if he looked at it again.

On November 11, "Gui Zang" was released.

In just one day, sales in Taiwan exceeded 14 copies, in Hong Kong exceeded 3 copies, and in the Mainland reached 21 copies. In summary, the first-day sales of "Return to the Tibetan" nationwide directly exceeded 40 copies.

In one day, he sold as much as veteran and first-tier singer Harlem Yu would have sold in half a year.

This is an extremely scary number.

Before the release of "Gui Zang", not only Qian Jiang was worried about MP3 piracy, but even record companies such as Sony and Universal, which were plagued by piracy, were also paying attention to the sales of Zhouyi.

Although everyone hates him for eating up so much of the market, it has to be admitted that Zhou Yi has now become the ceiling of record sales in the Chinese music scene - if even he can't do it, then it means the market is really hopeless.

But when this battle report came out, Sony Universal's eyes almost turned green.

Pan Weibo, who rose to fame last year with the album "Gecko Walk", received strong support from Universal Music this year. His second solo album "Microphone" released in September made people think at first glance that it was a copy of Zhou Yi's first album song "My Microphone". Universal also took the opportunity to give him the title of "Hip-Hop Little Zhou Yi".

Although the album's title song "Microphone" is a cover of a Korean song, it also helped Pan Weibo attract a lot of trendy fans - but even so, this album with a strong momentum has only sold more than 33 copies so far.

Not to mention Sony.

Wang Lihong, the top player whom they had high hopes for this year, obviously failed to live up to the expectations of the top management.

The reputation of "Unbelievable" in the industry is ridiculously high, and Lee Jong-seong even came out to praise it personally before, but the reflection in the market is that the follow-up is weak.

The main thing is that even Baidu's MP3 piracy data is nothing to brag about, and not a single song in the entire album made it into the top .

The only love song that has made some splash, "You Are Not Here", ranks 3th on Baidu MP27 search monthly chart, which is lower than the old songs "Dusk" and "Jiangnan". It is still popular, and the search volume is growing very slowly, and it is expected to fall out of the top soon.

It's just embarrassing.

This is enough to show that the album "Incredible" has lost its subsequent market potential, and weak sales are an established fact.

In contrast, as soon as Zhou Yi's new album "Gui Zang" was released, the number of MP3 searches soared, and the top five searches were all Zhou Yi's songs - "Blue and White Porcelain" came from behind to soar to the first place, and "Qilixiang" fell to second place.

The three songs "Writing Poems for You", "You Were a Teenager" and "Forever Love" also entered the top five on the fifth day after the album was released.

Although "Meeting" and "Sunny Day" are equally unwilling to be outdone and are showing signs of re-entering the top five, they are currently being suppressed by the search volume brought about by Zhou Yi's popularity.

Logically speaking, even for Zhou Yi, after the initial release date, the album sales data will inevitably decline.

In fact, this is indeed the case. The national sales of "Return of the Tibetans" dropped sharply to 23 copies on the second day, and continued to decline on the third day, reaching 15 copies.

Although it is still a number that ordinary first-line singers cannot reach, for Zhou Yi now, this speed can be regarded as a plane crash.

It was at this time that the debate about Zhou Yi's new album began to erupt online. Many people began to pay attention to this matter, which also attracted more people to pay attention to this album.

Especially the highly acclaimed "Blue and White Porcelain".

As he was cursing, Warner was surprised to find out: Eh? How come the sales are actually going up in points?

It climbed to 20 on the fourth day and returned to 21 on the fifth day?

"Gui Zang", which was supposed to miss the chance to break the one million mark in five days, reversed its trend with the help of the increasingly fierce debate, breaking the law of decline and re-reaching the one million mark in a way that shocked many industry insiders.

From the 20th to the 24th, the total sales volume nationwide exceeded 120 million in five days!
Jay Chou's "Ye Hui Mei" was released on July 7, and sold more than 31 million copies in more than four months;
Sun Yanzi's "Unfinished" was released on August 8, and sold more than 20 million copies in more than three months.

Xiao Yaxuan's "Fall in Love" was released ahead of schedule on September 9 due to a leak, and sales exceeded one million in more than two months;
Wang Lihong's "Incredible" was released on October 10th and sold 15 copies in just over a month.

Originally, these four people had already proved what it meant to be the top streamer in the Chinese music scene, but Zhou Yi's appearance told the whole country what it meant to be a top world superstar.

Although according to the rules of the record industry, sales in the first five to seven days can basically reach about 80% of the album's lifetime sales, the rest is just a matter of time. This is why Jay Chou and others' albums are so popular, but they only have this little sales after several months.

There is a high probability that Zhou Yi will not be able to escape either.

“Fuck! Who on earth is still buying that bastard Zhou Yi’s album?”

"It's not surprising. Zhou Yi has such a deep base. Every album has a hit song. People from first-tier cities to third-tier small towns and fifth-tier villages can hum a few lines. His audience is so broad."

"The main reason is that we often see him in the news. He is so invincible. He wins glory for the country and makes European and American singers run away in fear."

"To be honest, it is true, but this time it's mainly because Zhou Yi's song "Blue and White Porcelain" is too unreasonable. My dad is 67 years old this year. Can you believe that he actually listens to "Blue and White Porcelain" on repeat? In the past, when he listened to songs like "Dongfeng Po" and "Yanhua Yiliang", he only listened to them two or three times and then turned them off."

"We made 120 million in five days. This album is going to make - million."

"You forgot about overseas sales. Zhou Yi also has sales overseas. Although the sales are not much, they can at least add up to millions. Maybe this album "Return to Yi" can set a record by selling more than 4 million copies, breaking the record of Zhang Xueyou's "Kiss Goodbye."

"As expected of the Emperor of Music, he is the first in the world. Emperor Zhou is invincible, I am convinced!"

"What Emperor Zhou? His name is Emperor Yi!"

At a time when the Zhouyi public opinion environment has suddenly become bad, the release of Warner's battle report can be said to have greatly boosted the morale of the friendly forces.

I can’t call it “Blue and White Porcelain”, and I can’t call it “Gui Zang”!
"My 60-year-old grandma listens to Blue and White Porcelain and still praises it. Zhou Yi's song is really too invincible, too outrageous!"

"Thanks to that group of people's propaganda, if they hadn't been scolding me, Zhou Yi's "Blue and White Porcelain" probably wouldn't have been so widely circulated so quickly."

Of course, some discerning people have also seen the biggest reason why "Blue and White Porcelain" can quickly break the circle -

In addition to the excellent quality of the song and Zhou Yi's unique popularity, this war of words that swept the online world was of great significance. It directly attracted many people who were not originally interested in the song to hear it and buy the album at the first time.

This is the biggest reason for reversing the declining sales.

Yuan Li was numb.

No, what happened?
However, before she could figure out what was going on, Phoenix TV, eager to take advantage of this wave of traffic, worked overtime overnight to edit the video as planned. After finishing the recording on the morning of the 27th, they began all the preparations that had been made a week in advance.

At 29:10 am on the 05th, Phoenix TV's "A Date with Luyu: Special Topic on the Book of Changes" was broadcast as they had advertised a week ago.

The moment they finished watching it, everyone, whether enemy or friend, widened their eyes in disbelief.

Only the people who were jumping up and down for fun were delighted——

"It's just right! It's just right! This is the Zhou Yi I'm familiar with!"

"Zhou Yi is really good at talking. Did he create a new term?"

"Well, if you don't understand, just ask. Why did Zhou Yi call them colonizers? And why would he explain it that way? Aren't they talking about music and albums?"

(End of this chapter)