"I'm John, I'm the one who's been talked about in the newspapers lately, and now I'm ordering a song called 'The lazy song' to give to my boss and all my former colleagues.

"I want to tell them that I don't regret what I've done, I don't know how fucking cool it is to rest at home every day!

"Also, I love Spike Week, he gave me the courage to embrace a beautiful new life again!"

Tejano Music Radio (WURA), Washington, USA.

In the almost numb mood of the radio staff, John, who is known as the "initiator", made a phone call, and the content directly made the operator excited-

What's that?

"Hey, Jesse, what's wrong?"

"Victor, it seems that the person on the news called, and the order was still Spike Zhou's song."

"What did you say?"

The director named Victor was stunned for a moment, looking at the young Latino guy in front of him, and he wanted to break his thigh-

Fuck！

What an opportunity!

Spike's songs have skyrocketed in the on-demand rate of major radio stations in the United States, and John, who fired the first shot of his resignation, has contributed a lot.

If you can make an appointment to do a guest interview on the radio, how much will the listening rate be increased?

"Okay, let's hear the next ......"

Jimmy, the radio host in charge of the broadcast, looked at the on-demand list that was pushed forward again, and then took a deep breath, and the whole person collapsed directly into the chair backwards-

Why is this song again?!

You should order a few other songs!

What about Britney's?

Britney is now ranked 30th on the Billboard, so don't Britney's fans want to help her get a higher ranking?

Is it enough to be satisfied with the high sales of the album?!

Listening to this song every day for three consecutive days, closing his eyes at night was the sound of Zhou Yi shaking and singing in his ears, and in his dreams, Zhou Yi and the group of orangutan hooded people behind him were chasing him around.

He didn't understand.

How could an Asian, to be precise, a Chinese, sing songs that are suddenly so popular?

It's all fucking the number one radio on-demand rate this week, or the kind that leads second off a cliff!

Why?

Who is this Chinese kid?

Eminem? Or Kid Arthur?

Or is it Justin Timberlake?

Jimmy, who suddenly had the names of three male singers in his mind, was obviously dissatisfied with the appearance of the Chinese "Spike Week", but it was during work hours, and he could only hold it all.

After work, he had time to complain to his friends: "This singer is from Warner, right?" Warner's marketing efforts are also too great, and I feel that the news of his song is everywhere, which is simply terrifying.

"And the singing is not good, I don't even know what to shoot a MV, just twist and dance with a few orangutans in a room?

"The song is so vulgar that it's a mess, it's a pure saliva song, can this be popular? I don't understand ......"

"Don't blush, Jimmy, isn't it just a new song that you made and it hasn't been released?"

After work, a friend who had a dinner party and drank some wine pointed at him and smiled: "Besides, no one listens to the songs you made."

"This Spike Week song has already hit the top 70 on the Billboard singles chart, and if you don't think it sounds good, that's your own problem."

As the most authoritative list in the American music scene, thanks to the strict entry mechanism, the Billboard Singles Top 100, which can only be entered after integrating radio and sales data, is in a sense more valuable than the Billboard Album Top 200, which only counts sales.

It is precisely because of this that most singer fans and even singers themselves usually have a sentence on their lips when they tear it up is how many champion singles they hold.

This champion single is the weekly champion of the top 100 singles on the B list.

Generally speaking, the 90-100 on the singles chart is a mixed bag. Some are indeed not good enough to see purely marketing, and the gold content is not enough, but this kind of song usually drops off the list in about one to two weeks, and there is no such person.

You can say you don't like the songs that go up from the 89th place, but you definitely can't say that they don't count as fires - small fires are also fires.

And the songs that start from 70 to the top can be said to have the ability to get out of the circle or have been out of the circle.

For an ordinary singer, once his song enters the top 50 and above on the Billboard singles chart, it is an undoubted fire, the kind of fire that smokes from the ancestral grave.

Because this also means commercial performances, fame and even various copyright fee channels. If the singer-songwriter writes and sings his own songs and enters this range, it can basically be called pension insurance.

As long as you don't play blindly, not only will you not starve to death, but you can also live in a house and drive a luxury car.

And now, on the Billboard Top 100 list in the United States, an unprecedented Chinese singer has broken into the top 70 -

From the official release on November 26 to today, December 12, in half a month, it has gone from no popularity to 68th place.

If before many American record companies were still a joke about Warner's laughing hype and this Chinese singer named Zhou Yi, now it is Warner's turn to see them as a joke.

The famous American magazine "Entertainment Weekly" even published such a news on its own page: "Spike tore Tom and Jerry apart!" 》

As a generation of classic animation in the United States and even in the world, the popularity of cat and mouse goes without saying.

Zhou Yi's birth made many people mutter, and at the same time, they began to investigate his relevant information.

Atlantic Records, a subsidiary of Warner, was even more surprised when it found out that this Zhou Yi was actually his own: "It's actually from Asia? ”

"Chinese?"

At this time, Atlantic Records was no stranger to the Asian market, especially the Chinese market-

Because their company's two-member girl music group M2M is very popular in Taiwan, Atlantic Records even asked M2M to record a Chinese version of the song to thank fans, in order to further expand the market.

Because of his rare identity, the name Zhou Yi has almost been noticed by the major singers who are fighting in the American music scene - especially when they estimate that the potential of Zhou Yi's song has obviously not been exhausted.

"The lazy song should hit the top 20, or even the top 10."

Eminem, the king of white hip-hop who is preparing for next year's new album, commented after listening to the single after being notified by his manager: "His voice is very infectious. ”

As a person who was born in hip-hop, he was able to fight against the Teep pop song genre led by Britney Spears at the beginning of the millennium without weakening the wind, and he relied on the infectious power of his voice.

“Spike zhou？”

Inside the Destiny True Girl Group, Beyoncé, who was already preparing to fly solo, felt that this face was very familiar, and immediately asked her agent: "Is this Chinese singer on the list of finalists for the 2002 World Music Awards like us?" ”

"I'll take a look...... Yes, he looks exactly the same, it's him. ”

In New York, Alicia Case, who just debuted this year, was busy promoting, trying to help her second single on the annual chart surpass the first place, but her agent suddenly brought her a piece of news-

"Elle, there's a singer from China who's squeezing another song from your album out of the top 70 on the billboard."

“Spike zhou？ Who is the week? ”

Alicia Keys was puzzled, but fell silent after listening to the song.

As time passed, with Zhou Yina's increasingly ferocious offensive, more and more pairs of eyes were watching his journey.

This year's popular Arthur Boy even saw a trace of his friend Michael Jackson in the dance steps of Zhou Yi's MV, and immediately shared it with him-

"Mike, there's a singer here who has a song, it's very interesting."

In Japan, Hikaru Utada, who plans to officially enter the U.S. market next year, is even more stunned-

I haven't even been there yet, why did you take off in the United States?

(End of chapter)