"Can it still be like this?"

Xiao Yaxuan couldn't cry or laugh, and Zhou Yi couldn't cry or laugh either.

This was completely unexpected.

The sky can be seen, he really didn't think about it so much when he gave the song to Xiao Yaxuan.

"What is the total sales of your album right now?"

"If the two sides of the strait and the three places are added together, the real sales should be more than 600,000."

"That's okay, I don't care. This helps you drive sales, and it just so happens that I need the heat to keep the exposure right now. ”

Zhou Yi, who didn't care at all, replied directly, everything is as usual.

In almost two months, more than 600,000 domestic sales were sold. Including Singapore, Malaysia and other countries, this is undoubtedly an album that is expected to break the million sales mark in Asia within a year.

Zhou Yi's four songs and his topicality have contributed a lot.

After all, the album "4U" currently sells around 280,000 in Taiwan.

"The weakening of Taiwan's music market is already visible to the naked eye......"

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yi raised his eyes, looking at the high-rise buildings through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and there was a little emotion in his tone.

Whether it is Jay Chou's "Octave Space" or Tao Zhe's "Black Liuding", the market performance is stronger in the mainland market.

Tao Zhe's classic love song "Melody" written to Ms. Liu Hardcannon and Jay Chou's "Back to the Past" are not only on the Taiwan charts, but also in the mainland.

This is also the first time that the two creative talents have faced each other head-to-head on the rankings -

Since the release of the album on August 9, "Melody" has ranked third on multiple mainland charts as of September 18 as of today, and it is also his current highest ranking in the mainland, with a peak of two weeks, and is now expected to hit the goal of lasting three weeks.

Since Jay Chou's "Back to the Past" was released on July 18, the highest weekly ranking as of September 18 is also third, but the durability is not good, and it only maintained a peak for a week before losing its position, but it is still in the top ten on the list.

Because of the early release month, Jay Chou has already figured out the limits of his album, so when he was interviewed by the media, he didn't suffer so much, but he could still ridicule Zhou Yi a few words-

"Are you optimistic about Ayi's championship? That's certainly promising, but it may be more difficult in Taiwan. ”

Due to well-known reasons, Zhou Yi was unable to come to Taiwan to promote the album, so although his song ranking also participated in the chart, it was obvious that in the absence of publicity, it was obviously not as strong as in the mainland.

On the 19th, on Taiwan's radio daily list, Zhou Yi's "Little Dimples" and "Today You Want to Marry Me" finally relied on the unremitting publicity of loyal fans, and barely put these two songs into the top ten goalkeepers.

In front of him is Rene Liu's "When Love is Approaching".

Also on this day, in the mainland music scene, the reputation of Sun Nan's "Rescue" at the bottom of the box also began to ferment, and the real-time data of the radio station also began to soar;

The immortal Manwen Jun thought that he could continue to maintain the position of the top ten goalkeepers with the song "I Need You", but he never thought that he would be blown up by "Rescue".

And Zhou Yi's two songs are still firmly nailed to the position of champion and runner-up, which is stable and desperate.

Adu, who doesn't believe in evil, began to run around like crazy again under the arrangement of Haidie, wanting to make "He Must Love You Very Much" return to the first place from the third place on the radio daily list;

Tao Zhe, who slipped from third to fourth, was also unwilling to be interrupted after only two weeks of peak growth, and was still trying to hit upward.

Wang Leehom and Lu Qiaoyin's "Kind Breakup" also soared with the promotion of the two of them again, and it was inseparable from the fifth and sixth positions of "Love When You Die" of the Xin Orchestra.

Hsiao Yaxuan's "Prague Square" and "Give Me a Reason to Forget" are among the top nine in Taiwan and mainland China.

Andy Lau, the last card of the Four Heavenly Kings, a song "Practice" barely hung in the position of the top ten goalkeepers.

Monday, 23 September 2002.

A brand new week.

When the Chinese music chart, the music billboard, the Chinese pop song chart and other authoritative lists in the mainland announced the comprehensive ranking of listening and on-demand last week, that high-flying name is inevitably discouraged-

First: "Today You Want to Marry Me", Zhou Yi

Second: "Little Dimple", Zhou Yi

Third: "He Must Love You Very Much", Adu

Fourth: "Melody", Tao Zhe.

The next is Li Shengjie's "Infatuation Absolutely", Wang Leehom Lu Qiaoyin's "Kind Breakup", Xin Orchestra's "Love When You Die", Jay Chou's "Back to the Past", Sun Nan's "Rescue" and Tang Lei's "Lilacs".

"Andy Lau deserves to be the last card of the Four Heavenly Kings - huh? Wait, what is Lilac? ”

Warner, Qianjiang Office.

Qian Jiang, who was opening champagne and planning to take a good look at it, suddenly widened his eyes when he saw that the "Practice", which was barely hanging in the top ten guards with comprehensive data the day before, was gone-

Who is this Tang Lei?

Which record label newcomer?

"Huh? This Tang Lei doesn't seem to be a serious singer? ”

Qian Jiang, who immediately asked a colleague in the marketing department to get a copy of the data, fell into deep thought.

According to the information that can be found so far, this "Lilac" is a song uploaded to the Internet by this mysterious Tang Lei alone, and the lyrics, composition and singing are all Tang Lei himself, but his profession is a ...... IT Industry Practitioners???

Qian Jiang, who felt a little incredible, immediately found the song "Lilacs", intending to see what this song was singing and why he had never heard of it.

But when the Warner staff didn't give him a disc or tape, but instead clicked on a web page for him on the computer and clicked to play, Qian Jiang's eyes were even more confused.

Don't use discs? Don't use tape?

"The grave is full of flowers, what a beauty you desire

"Look at the mountains and fields, do you still feel lonely~~

"Listen, someone is singing, that song you love the most

"How much complexity is in the world, you don't have to worry about it anymore~"

When the chorus of "Lilacs" pushed the sadness to the highest point, Qian Jiang was directly silenced.

He had heard this song on the road, and he had heard it more than once, so it turned out that this song was called "Lilacs"?

"This song...... Doesn't he sell for money? Not on the plate? ”

Qian Jiang, who heard that the production of this song was obviously very rough, widened his eyes and asked incredulously.

"It's not out yet, our people have been contacting this Mr. Tang Lei, but he hasn't heard back yet."

“……”

Qian Jiang, who felt that he might have encountered something new, was still thinking about digging it, but after seeing the data of "Lilacs", which skyrocketed week by week, he decisively turned his head and went to find Zhou Yi-

"Ah Yi, it's not quite right, the radio data of a song is about to catch up with you, the key is that he doesn't have a genuine channel yet."

"What?"

Zhou Yi, who was still memorizing the script of tomorrow's program process, was puzzled, and immediately took over the information in Qian Jiang's hand-

The next second, he subconsciously patted his head.

I almost forgot about this song.

"Forget it, this song is just good-looking, it's not genuine, and it won't affect me." After reacting, Zhou Yi shook his head with a smile.

If the Hong Kong music scene and the Taiwan music scene had their own era in the past, then the era that belongs to the mainland music scene is undoubtedly the CRBT era and the Internet era.

In a sense, the two eras can be said to be interconnected.

It is impossible to verify when the first mainland online song was published, but one thing that can basically be confirmed is that the song that opened the door to the era of mainland online songs is "Lilac" in 2002.

This song can be regarded as the first generation of Internet Divine Comedy in the mainland, Tang Lei's first version was extremely rough and directly put on the Internet, but with its abundant emotions and free and easy-to-spread Internet, it became popular all over the country.

It's just that because he is not profitable, Tang Lei has never earned a penny.

For this reason, he officially published the single disc of "Lilacs" in 2004 under the channels of Song Ke, Gao Xiaosong and others.

When Daolang's "The First Snow in 2002" in 2004 was first spread all over the country with Song Ke's online channels, it was borrowed from the process of "Lilacs" becoming popular on the Internet in 2002.

Moreover, because Daolang himself was red and purple in 04, Song Ke also put a slogan of "Daolang Second Generation" when Tang Lei officially released the album to formulate publicity.

"This one named Tang Lei is too wasteful, just send a good song like this."

Qian Jiang smashed his mouth a few times, looking very pity: "But the speed of this Internet spread is really fast and a little scary." ”

Obviously, this is the same as Zhou Chuanxiong's "Dusk" before.

Is "Twilight" popular? Fire, of course. But the fire of piracy will not affect Zhouyi's market at all.

No matter how popular the piracy industry is, Zhou Chuanxiong can't even receive half a dime, and he almost changed careers and gave up music.

"yes, it's scary......"

Zhou Yi, who put down the information, rubbed his eyebrows and swallowed the second half of the words back into his stomach.

The emergence of "Lilac" also means that the era of online MP3 downloads in the mainland is coming. Baidu MP3, a platform dedicated to retrieving Mp3 and downloading, will also be launched, which has completely sounded the death knell for the domestic physical record industry.

The good days of singers in the physical record industry are coming to an end, and only a few people at the top of the pyramid can still make money from records, and the already stunted copyright ecosystem has been completely destroyed.

Even after the development to 05 years, even the records of top singers like Jay Chou are selling less and less year by year, so he has to start entering the film and television industry to find new profit points.

(End of chapter)