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

Chapter 713: The contract expires, please leave for another country
The two songs "24K Magic" and "That's What I Like" had the former peaking at number four on the Billboard charts, while the latter was a real Billboard champion.

Although he is facing serious internal friction now, if we really talk about potential, with the additional support and his current high popularity, at least one of these two songs can be pushed to the top of the list and will not be wasted.

In this way, if we count the current second-ranked "Sexy Back" and eleventh-ranked "Happy", these two songs are both at the level of consecutive championships - the former has been at the top for seven consecutive weeks, and the latter has been at the top for ten consecutive weeks.

In this way, including "boom boom pow" which has already become the number one single, this album will definitely produce 3-4 Billboard number one singles.

As for which songs to promote mainly and which ones to promote secondarily, Zhou Yi has no control over that and leaves it to Warner's marketing department. He doesn't have time to analyze the data performance of these songs one by one.

"Now that Michael Jackson has passed away, it will undoubtedly stimulate this wave of sales. It is also the best opportunity to narrow the sales gap between you two."

To be honest, Qian Jiang still has some admiration for Eminem, who has always been following Zhou Yi.

This title of the most popular American native is indeed well-deserved.

With no hope of making the Billboard charts, he still went to offline events to promote his album. It must be that Zhou Yi's album was much better than his, otherwise, the situation would be hard to predict.

Of course, Qian Jiang’s warning was just a warning. For Zhou Yi, it didn’t matter at all whether he publicly supported Michael Jackson or not.

The reason why he kept it to himself was simply to see if he could get any benefits in exchange.

Michael Jackson has such a keen sense of smell that it is impossible for him not to realize it. So after he touched the edge, this person also praised him after talking about Eminem.

Zhou Yi also received his signal - there might be a chance.

Therefore, when he appeared on "The David Letterman Show" again this time, he was still in a good mood.

This show is considered to be friendly to him among all the talk shows in the United States, and sits on the same table with "The Conan Show".

After the previous "The Spike Conan Show" became a huge hit across the United States, David Letterman had always wanted to invite him to do an episode with a similar effect, but Zhou Yi never had the time, and couldn't coordinate with other people's schedules, so he had to give up for the time being.

"Long time no see, Spike. I hope your music won't corrupt the children in my family. They are the hope for the future of this country."

David Letterman, dressed in a suit, came on stage and made a joke about the reason why Zhou Yi has been criticized since last month.

After appearing on the show, Zhou Yi, who was wearing an Armani suit, smiled and patted the table: "You can suggest that the US government ban me, David. As for the reason, I have already thought of it for you: endangering US national security."

The audience burst into laughter.

"Come on, don't be like that, I didn't say that, it was Dr. Dre who said that. You know, in your words, I'm just a repeater."

David Letterman deliberately mentioned the leader of the gangster rap on the West Coast of the United States. However, just when the fans in the audience were looking forward to what Zhou Yi would say to him, Zhou Yi's expression was very confused: "Who?"

what?
The audience was stunned, and David Letterman added: "Dr. Dre, Andre Romelle Young."

Zhou Yi still had a puzzled expression on his face as if he was wondering who the hell this person was: "Who?"

The audiences below also came to their senses. Doesn't this mean that they don't take this West Coast giant seriously at all?

"Ok, I think I understand what you mean. Let's skip this topic and move on to the next step."

Having achieved his goal, David Letterman smiled and stopped asking questions. Instead, he picked up a card and said, "As everyone knows, this is a healthy adult show that will be watched by many young people.

"So, Spike, if you were asked to give 10 pieces of advice to young Americans who might be influenced by you, what would you say?"

"Ten suggestions?"

"Yes."

David Letterman changed his sitting position, crossed his legs and added: "From lowest to highest, what would you choose as the number 10 suggestion?"

“Keep it real.”

Zhou Yi's answer stunned everyone in the audience -

What the hell?
Dude, it’s okay for others to say this, but isn’t it inappropriate for you to say this?

"What about the ninth?" David Letterman asked, trying not to laugh.

“Always purchase music through authorized retailers that pay royalties to the artists”

"The eighth."

"Don't get mixed up with drugs, gangs or oil executives."

"seven."

“Oney doesn’t buy happyness, it doesn’t buys crazy-ass happyness.”

One serious answer after another - "Look at the zebra crossing when crossing the road", "Always say please, thank you and fuck you", "Don't sell my autograph on eBay" and so on, the audience was stunned.

"The last suggestion is also the number one suggestion."

“Don’t waste time watching this show.”

Depend on!
"No! God! Please!"

David Letterman laughed and cursed: "This is my show!"

"If you don't mind, I can take over and turn it into a children's show, like this."

As he said that, Zhou Yi really raised his hand with a bright expression: "Good morning, Children's Show."

Roll, roll, roll!
Amid the booing from the audience, David, who was trying to drive Zhou Yi off the stage, finally sat back in his seat. After the fun, he returned to the sales segment.

Frequently mention the inside story of the album shooting to satisfy the public's curiosity.

"I have a question Spike, did you have more fun filming 24K Magic or Sexy Back?"

"Neither. It feels best in private."

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As soon as these words were spoken, the already gossipy eyes in the audience suddenly lit up, and they cheered from time to time.

"Surrounded by beauties in private, Zhou Yi's private party is enviable!"

On August 8, after the show aired, Zhou Yi’s facial expression when talking about this incident was captured and went viral on the Internet.

The Victoria's Secret supermodels want to be exposed, and they all hype the popularity to death;
Scarlett Johansson was simple. She directly and boldly stated that she could have a baby for Zhou Yi.

In addition to the male stars who already support Zhou Yi, female supermodels and female stars boldly expressed their love one after another;
Eminem over there was like a stray dog ​​on the roadside. There wasn't a single beautiful female star or model with a hot body, just a bunch of hip-hop buddies laughing and shouting "Keep it real".

The contrast between the two is too tragic.

At the same time, after Michael Jackson himself came out, his friends such as Usher also began to stand with Zhou Yi. The huge number of fans completely cut off the hope of Universal to catch up.

On the 10th, the difference in album sales between the two parties was only 69 copies;

At nine o'clock in the morning on the 11th, data showed that the gap between the two sides had widened to 85 tickets.

On the 12th, Eminem, who slept only three hours a day and started taking drugs to keep up his energy, was already in a bad state, but fortunately the gap between the two sides narrowed back to 73;

But after No. 13, a large number of Michael Jackson fans called their friends and vowed to teach Eminem a lesson, the gap between the two sides began to widen.

Monday, October 8.

When the new data from the past week were once again placed on the desks of each company, everyone knew - it was over.

everything is over.

Zhou Yi's "Listen/Future Sounds", with sales of 5,476,844 copies in the United States;
Eminem's "Encore" only sold over 392 million copies in the United States.

The gap in album sales between the two sides exceeded 150 million, an insurmountable gap.

The most popular person in the United States lost to Zhou Yi, an outsider, in the United States.

No matter how hard Eminem tries, he can never catch up with Zhou Yi's sales in the United States. The sales war between the two sides directly drained the last bit of potential of their respective albums in the American market - it has reached the limit.

Not to mention that Zhouyi also added the purchase volume of some of Michael Jackson's core fans.

"If Eminem wants to make a comeback, he can only hope that his sales in other countries around the world will explode, and then he can defeat Spike.

“But obviously, that’s not possible.

“It is true that Eminem has considerable popularity and a lot of channels to promote his songs overseas, but don’t forget that Spike has a stage to promote his songs in the second half of this year that will attract the whole world’s attention – the eight-minute closing ceremony of the Athens Olympics.

"As a member of the Chinese delegation, he will go on stage to sing the song "Welcome To Beijing Jing" from his album. The signal will be broadcast to thousands of households through television, and this song and his album will reach the peak of sales..."

The United States hasn't had this kind of sales war for a long time. The last time was in the 1990s when the queens fought each other.

"It's hard to imagine where Spike's limit is, as he can both create a new trend in the music industry and win the sales war. I heard that his contract with Warner will expire in 2008, which means we will have to endure Spike's abuse for at least another three or four years.

"Here, I just hope that Spike can go to another country when his contract expires - please go to another country, please leave some hope for the American music scene."

On August 2004, 8, the editor-in-chief of Time magazine publicly expressed his surrender in his column.

(End of this chapter)