"I don't understand, why? Why？？ How did he do it? ”

More than a month and a half of hard work was easily "obliterated" by a person who also had just released a new album, and Avril held her head in her hands, which was a little difficult to accept for a while.

It's just been a day, it's just a day.

Forget about European countries, this one named Spike did take advantage of the World Cup to catch fire, but why is the United States so terrifying?

As one of the most difficult charts in the world music scene to conquer, if a song can hit the top 30 on the Billboard, it basically means that the song has been extremely popular in the United States and its surroundings.

If you can break into the top 20, it can basically be said that you have the ability to go to the world-

Breaking into the top ten, as long as you don't die and touch something that shouldn't be touched, relying on copyright and commercial performances, the money earned can support the singer and the creative team to spend a lifetime of drinking.

Avril is very confident in her singles, and the reason why she works so hard to promote them is to break into the top 10 as soon as possible.

In the past month or so, with the leapfrog progress of the singles, she and the company feel that this song "Complicated" definitely has the hope of entering the top 10 of the Billboard singles chart, which in turn will drive the sales of her own album.

As a result, it was not a few days before the ranking began to regress???

"Don't worry, stabilize your rhythm, no matter how strong Spike is, it's just two songs, and parachuting into the list can only show that he is hot now, most likely because of marketing."

The agent who is more anxious than Avril stands up to stabilize the morale of the army - it's just two songs, don't be afraid! He sings his, we sing ours!

As long as our own propaganda runs in place, everything will be fine!

On the Warner side, Qian Jiang, who was so excited that he seemed to have adrenaline, found Zhou Yi who was catching up on sleep as soon as he got the data-

"Ayi! Ayi! You did it! It worked!!! ”

Qian Jiang, who never thought that one day the artists he brought would be able to make a name for himself with English albums in the European and American music scenes, now feels that he is so excited that he can eat a cow in one bite.

Even if Zhou Yi's previous single results exploded, he still didn't dare to open champagne until everything was dusty.

But now it's different.

"The first day sales in the United States were 177,143 copies, and the first day sales in the UK were 239,418 copies, directly landing in the third place on the UK album chart weekly chart!"

There are more than 30,000 in France, 27,000 in Germany, 16,000 in Spain, 16,000 in Italy, and then counting Iceland, Greece, Denmark, Belgium and other European countries.

Not counting the domestic market, in Europe and the United States alone, "The Attitude Show" sold more than 600,000 copies in one day.

Even if Zhou Yi's album can't be sold from today, this sales volume alone is enough for Warner (China) to blow up and down for a lifetime.

What's more, it's only the first day after the album is released!

Qianjiang was rarely excited to the point of red temperature.

The global sales of nearly 700,000 copies a day directly beat the actual sum of all the singers who have released English albums in the Chinese music scene in the past!

"That's all?"

Because of last night's participation in the late-night radio promotion, Zhou Yi, who squinted a little during the day today, rubbed his eyes and subconsciously muttered after hearing that Qian Jiang came to report the good news, and directly gave Qian Jiang a whole day.

Big brother - ah no, ancestor, do you know what you're talking about ancestor?!

"Why is this called?"

"It's a little bit less, indeed."

Zhou Yi, who rubbed his face, cheered himself up: "I thought it would be at least a million a day." ”

"Then when you become a global superstar, a million a day is not a dream."

You sell well, you say everything right.

Qian Jiang, who was speechless, simply resorted to coaxing children, and then took Zhou Yi, who was still yawning, into the car, and rushed to the radio station and program promotion that he was going to go to today with the accompanying Warner headquarters team.

In the United States, if you want to make a big deal, radio promotion is absolutely indispensable.

Although Zhou Yi himself is not very interested in these radio programs.

"There are still many programs on the TV station owned by the head office Time Warner, and you don't want to be on all of them, but my suggestion is that such a good opportunity should be seized."

In the car on the way to the radio program, Qianjiang 1510 introduced Zhou Yi to a large number of publicity channels arranged for him.

Warner Records, which has not yet declined, is also very important within Time Warner, and the various resources that can be obtained during the promotion period of excellent singers are simply too much.

As long as the album is good enough, it doesn't matter if the single score is not high, Warner Records' current pillar Linkin Park has already set a sample for everyone.

This was discussed by Zhou Jianhui using his connections to personally accompany Warner Records to Time Warner headquarters.

Thanks to Zhou Yi's excellent performance in the past, Time Warner directly arranged him into a grinding donkey with a wave of his hand, and the sales on the first day also proved Zhou Yi's strength, and he did not disappoint anyone.

"In addition, Zhou Jianhui means that you have been busy for more than half a month, and he is now fighting for the cover of the main edition of Time magazine in the United States.

"If you have an explosion, it's useful for him to tear off a cover for you."

"The main American magazine?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise.

As one of the three major current affairs weeklies in the United States, Time Magazine has an undoubted influence in the United States and even in the world, with many sub-publications.

What Asian version, European version, doppelgangers everywhere.

But the most influential and difficult to get to the top is the main magazine of the American edition.

The simplest point: the main American edition is distributed worldwide.

"Yes, your Chinese identity is too foreign to Americans, and that's an advantage. They know a Bruce Lee and a Jackie Chan now, plus half of Jet Li. ”

Qian Jiang nodded.

Zhou Yi, who also had psychological expectations for his short donkey life, didn't say much, but also began to burst his liver-

If the propaganda program allowed the drama, he would be eager to pick up more than a dozen programs a day, and each program would take turns for about ten minutes.

It turned out that his liver burst was effective.

On July 4, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other populous and wealthier places, the real-time radio ranking of Zhou Yixin's "The Attitude Show" almost doubled compared to two days ago.

The two songs "baby" and "yes" are almost rushing upwards at a fault-leading speed.

On July 6, after these two songs, the word-of-mouth of other songs on the album also began to spread, and the data rushed up one by one:

In the second echelon, "Because of you" took the lead in the third position on major radio stations in Los Angeles;

"What makes You Beautiful" and "Good Time" followed in the top five radio charts in five U.S. states.

Three songs have achieved the status of the second echelon in the album, and the increase of "Good Time" has even caught up with the two songs in the first echelon, and as of July 7, it has all entered the top 10 on the radio charts in 18 states!

"How long" and "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" are the leaders of the third echelon.

This is actually a very abnormal thing.

Generally speaking, if an album wants to hit the charts, the allocation of resources must be focused, which is why there is the title song.

But now, when the first week of Zhou Yi's album sales came out on July 8, in the internal meeting of Warner Records, a bunch of people looked at this piece of red data, and all of them were stunned like lightning strikes from top to bottom - the expression said that it was not happy, nor was it unhappy, what stood out was a weirdness and awkwardness.

Father! You're such a living father!

Can you stop being so extravagant on the next album?!

This mom Zhou Yi can at least have enough title singles for five albums on one album!

What kind of family is doing this?!

Looking at the radio lists in dozens of states in the United States, from time to time you can see Zhou Yi beating himself, and the heart of the Warner board of directors is dripping blood-

Money, that's all money!

That's all fragrant dollars!

"Which bastard passed Spike's album review?! I don't know how to persuade him to hide a few songs for the next album?! ”

"Mr. President, it's you, you gave it a pass after a glance, I guess you didn't take it too seriously at the time."

“……”

The CEO of Warner Records, who is a professional manager, saw the woman who teased him and wanted to kick her out on the spot.

If she hadn't been surnamed Warner.

At a time when Warner Records was in pain and happy, the marketing department also announced the first week sales of Zhou Yi's "The Attitude Show" in North America-

Broke the record of 1.063 million copies sold by foreign singers in the first week of records in the United States!

Tuesday, July 9, 2002, the day of the change.

After the settlement of the first week, "The Attitude Show" won the first place on the weekly chart of the Top 200 Albums on the B list in one fell swoop, and shocked the entire American music scene, and landed on the weekly album chart one week after its release!

A total of 11 songs on the album all entered the top 50 of the B chart, and six songs entered the top 30, becoming the first person in Billboard history!

"I'm here to win the first place."

On this day, it coincided with the broadcast of the "Conan Show" Zhou Yi special program-

The man's confident right index finger on the show became a depth charge that detonated music fans and media across the United States!

PS: Yangma!

There is one more chapter~

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