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

Chapter 608: The Strange New Year's War in 2004

As for Universal's big plan to spend 200 million...

This is normal, because the company is desperate to find a big brother who can write songs on his own. Although Pan Weibo, the young generation leader who is currently being promoted, claims to be a composer, in fact, all of his popular songs are covers and lyrics.

The audience may not know this, but Universal, as the provider of the music library, must be very clear about it.

This is also the reason why after Daolang became famous through releasing records through pirated channels and was ostracized by the mainland music circle, Universal Music signed him despite criticism, and even sent its old-school star Tan Yonglin to support Daolang.

Because Daolang is a big brother who can write his own songs, and Tan Yonglin is active in the Hong Kong music scene.

but……

Speaking of which, since "Mouse Loves Rice" has become popular, "The First Snow of 2002" should be popular soon too, right?
Stroking his chin, Zhou Yi began to recall the music scene in 04.

If I remember correctly, the album "The First Snow of 2002" should be released two days later?
Because he didn't want to sign with a traditional record company without any fame, Daolang directly chose to debut through pirated channels, a desperate strategy.

Many people in later generations have a different view of Daolang because they hate Nayoung. They almost worship him as a saint, saying that he was collectively suppressed by the mainland music scene headed by Nayoung and so on.

But in fact, the awards ceremony in the mainland music scene was very generous to Daolang, who immediately dressed himself up as a regular soldier as soon as he became famous. He has won many major awards. No matter whether they are valuable or not, at least he has never been wronged.

At that time, almost all the musicians who were originally creators in the mainland did not want to have any cooperation with Daolang, who was at the peak of his career at that time, so he could only rely on the Hong Kong circle.

For example, Daolang fans like to brag about Tan Yonglin asking him to write a song and Li Zongsheng being his producer. One is from Hong Kong, the other is from Taiwan, but there is no one from the mainland.

There was no other way. You have to know that Song Ke had tried to introduce Daolang at that time, but in the end only Li Zongsheng from Taiwan was willing to help, and Tan Yonglin was found by Universal Studios.

Even for someone like Da Zhangwei who was exposed as a blatant plagiarist, there were many mainland creators willing to lend a hand, but Daolang was the only one who didn't have any.

Because he debuted through pirated channels, he was actually digging up the grave of the already dilapidated mainland music scene, which can be seen from the legitimate sales of his album.

It was released in early January 04, and by July, it was extremely popular. However, in the actual six months, the legitimate sales were only 1 copies. This was used to boost his reputation, and the rest were eaten up by other pirated channels.

With such a successful experience, pirates who think the singer is just so-so have become more unscrupulous.

Daolang himself was not unaware that he would be excluded, so after his successful bet became famous, he quickly signed a contract with Universal Music who came to him in September 04, and transformed himself into a regular member of the army, attempting to enter the mainland music scene with this identity.

As a result, this offended the pirated channels, who believed that Daolang had betrayed the company and was running away.

We agreed that we would give you fame and you would give us profits. What about that?
Are you playing Infernal Affairs with us, you son of a bitch? Jumping back and forth?

So it becomes a situation where neither side pleases the other.

It's good enough that the singers in the mainland music scene don't add insult to injury, but the huge network of pirated channels over there is still trying to blackmail Daolang who ran away halfway.

Nayoung, who has always been criticized for bullying the weak and fawning on the strong, actually never said "Only farmers listen to Daolang's songs". This rumor was actually spread publicly by Dapeng on his own show and then attributed to Nayoung.

Yes, that’s right, it’s Dapeng who played the loser.

Daolang’s decline is not due to the so-called suppression or dislike from the mainland music scene, but simply because his style can only be fresh and popular for a while.

Once the novelty wore off, many listeners thought that the song styles in his albums were too homogeneous and lacked breakthroughs, so they naturally chose to abandon him, and he became a shooting star.

But a meteor is a meteor, and a shining star is indeed a shining star.

If he hadn't brought out "Blue and White Porcelain" and the limited-edition song "Gong Xi Fa Cai" this year, he might not have been able to suppress "Mouse Loves Rice" and "The First Snow of 2002". In fact, it was just as Zhou Yi expected -

A week later, under the stunned gaze of countless industry insiders, "Mouse Loves Rice" made its way into the top ten of several major authoritative charts in the mainland with unrivaled momentum.

On the weekly music chart of Light Media, "Mouse Loves Rice" not only completely killed A-Du who released a new album, but also kicked out Elva Hsiao's "Compromise".

Sun Yanzi's album song "I'm Not Sad" was about to enter the top ten, but now it was forced to drop one place.

Most importantly, the top ten songs are basically names that are familiar to fans:

Zhou Yi: The first on the list is "Blue and White Porcelain", the second on the list is "Seven-Li Fragrance", and the seventh on the list is "Writing Poems for You";
Sun Yanzi: "Meeting" ranked third on the list.

Jay Chou: "Sunny Day" ranked fifth;
Elva Hsiao: No. 8 on the list: “Rewind”.

Chen Yixun: No. 4 "Ten Years";
Pu Shu: List 6 "Live Like Summer Flowers"

Cai Yilin: No. 9 "Look at My 72 Transformations"

Yang Chenggang (Wang Qiwen): No. 10 on the list is "Mouse Loves Rice".

In addition to "Mouse Loves Rice", there is another song called "Lonely Northern Hemisphere" which is also rising rapidly through the spread of the Internet. It has now directly entered the top 2004. Its momentum is the same as "Loves Rice". They can be called the two Internet heroes at the beginning of .

They were all chopping melons and vegetables along the way.

"Fuck! Wait a minute! What's so magical about this "Mouse Loves Rice"? I didn't pay attention to its ranking on the charts, why is the growth so terrifying?"

"Sad, my Jiulin's "Look at My 72 Transformations" has been defeated."

"This song is very nice. I listen to it all the time. I can sing it after listening to it once. It's not surprising that it ranks high."

No. 13, "Mouse Loves Rice" defeated Cai Yilin and Xiao Yaxuan, and was only one step away from Pu Shu, who was ranked sixth.

On the 15th, "Mouse Loves Rice" officially surpassed "Birthday Summer Flowers" on the charts, and is getting closer to Jay Chou's "Sunny Day" Chrysanthemum...

Judging from the increase, it is only a matter of time before Jay Chou is surpassed.

The domestic record industry, which had never seen such a scene before, was shocked and hurried to study what was going on in this model and how Internet songs could beat out so many well-produced album songs.

At the same time, a number of local audio-visual stores had quietly put a batch of pirated discs on the shelves. The covers of the discs had titles such as "Liu Huan's New Song: The First Snow of 2002" and "Daolang's New Song: The First Snow of 2002" written on them.

In Jincheng, Shanxi, a director, screenwriter and musician named Niu Chaoyang had just returned to his hometown to prepare for the New Year when he saw this strange ranking situation. He rubbed his chin and fell into deep thought, then made a phone call -

"Old Zhou, I have an idea for the theme song for the TV series we're going to release after the New Year."

As a versatile creator, he has quite a few songs that he has created but not yet released.

Some of them he felt were rather tacky and didn't want to bring out, but given the current situation, it seems that it's not a bad idea to be tacky - no matter how tacky or bad it is, can it be worse than the popular "Mouse Loves Rice"?
"Have you thought of a new song?" Zhou Yaping, founder of Didu Birdman Art Promotion Co., Ltd., asked in confusion.

"No, no, no, use an old song that hasn't been released yet."

Niu Chaoyang shook his head: "The song is called "Two Butterflies". Please help me find a singer with a memorable voice."

(End of this chapter)