Throughout the history of the birth of the Chinese music scene, putting aside Teresa Teng, the king of sales who cannot be studied because of the factors of the times, from the eighties and nineties of the last century to now, the first total album sales in the music world have always been two people competing-

One is Zhang Xueyou and the other is Andy Lau.

Since his debut, as of the beginning of 03, Zhang Xueyou has released a total of 60 records, including the compilation, and the number announced by the company is more than 25 million;

Although Andy Lau has always been ridiculed for Liu Bandou, Liu Junabi, etc., he is the only one who can compete with Zhang Xueyou in terms of total album sales and single popularity.

Li Ming, the most popular among the Four Heavenly Kings, is not as good as Zhang and Liu in total sales outside Hong Kong and Macau because there are not many Chinese popular songs.

After entering the new century, Liu and Zhang can still hand over big hits such as "If This Is Not Love" and "Practice" that can join the competition on the charts, and the sales of a single album in Asia can barely cross the million line, becoming the last card in the era of the four kings in the Hong Kong circle.

For so many years, although because of the different statistical agencies and methods, these two have always said that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and both of them say that they are the first, but in the eyes of the Hong Kong circle, this is actually harmless.

After all, no matter how you fight, the first is your own people.

But that's no longer the case.

When Warner officially announced that the sales of Zhou Yihua's album had exceeded 10 million copies, they really felt desperate-

You must know that the year of Zhou Yi's debut is 2000, which is the year when piracy is extremely rampant.

Started in the second half of 00, 01, 02.

In two and a half years, pure Chinese albums have sold more than 10 million copies, or more flowers, even if Zhang Xueyou Liu Dehua in his peak period and Li Mingshu can't reach it with drugs.

In this overall downward trend of the market, they can't determine how long this album record in the Hong Kong circle, which they thought no one could touch, can keep.

"Zhou Yi is a monster, before him, I have seen Deng Lijun can occupy so much market share by himself.

"I have no doubt that no matter how sluggish the domestic music market is in the future, Zhou Yi will still be able to maintain super high sales, because his basic record has far exceeded the sequence of top singers in the Chinese-speaking circle."

A fast Hong Kong reporter interviewed Zheng Donghan, president of EMI Records Asia, as the only two people in China who can sit in the position of president of international record companies in Asia, Zheng Donghan is not as sour as other peers when he talks about this.

Isn't it just a god card, as if no one has ever drawn it.

Back then, he also drew the god card of Deng Lijun, and later supplemented by Tan Yonglin and Zhang Guorong, Li Ming, Zhang Xueyou, Andy Lau, and Wang Fei were also under him.

It can be said that Zheng Donghan at his peak was a dominant company in the Chinese music industry, and more than half of the big-name singers were handled by him, which is why his son Zheng Zhongji is called "Prince Ji" in the Hong Kong circle.

He wasn't very worried that Warner's market share would be so big that he couldn't survive, after all, Zhou Jianhui had just drawn Zhou Yi's magic card, and the rest was Sun Yanzi, who was talented, but he still had Xiao Yaxuan of a similar age in his hand to compete with.

On the mainland, well-known singers such as Lao Wolf, Pu Shu and others are already destined to leave Warner with the fall of Song Ke.

"Old fox, if it weren't for Xiao Yaxuan, you see if he would be so easy to talk to."

Also on the 3rd, Qian Jiang, who returned to the imperial capital by plane, complained about Zheng Donghan's duplicity in the president's office.

Viking Records is under EMI, and Xiao Yaxuan's teacher Yao Qian sits in the position of general manager.

It can be said that after the contract renewal, Xiao Yaxuan is no longer a simple Viking sister, but has begun to sprint to the position of the first sister in EMI Greater China.

"It's hard to make money, don't be chilling."

Zhou Jianhui, who was full of red light, looked at Zhou Yi who was sitting on the side: "Ah Yi, the company will hold a big celebration for you when the time comes, and the row will be bigger." Also, when are you going to release that English song? ”

"Before the start of the Grammy Awards, it will be released in the form of a single, which is convenient for hype on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also rub off on the popularity of the Grammys."

Zhou Yi, who had been in Korea for several more days because of the little princess's accident, yawned sleepily, and when asked about the English song, he thought about it and set a time: "However, the premise is that I have to be nominated for the Grammy to be able to hype up this popularity." ”

"You can rest assured that the company will do its best to help you operate."

As soon as he heard this, Zhou Jianhui immediately patted his chest and opened up the ticket: "It's hard to say the four major awards, those old antiques in the European and American music industry are still very discriminatory against Chinese, but you can still compete for other awards." ”

The Grammy Awards refer to the four awards of Song of the Year, Production of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best New Artist.

There are no restrictions on any genre, and musicians from all branches of music compete. It is precisely for this reason that those old antiques take a far closer look at these four awards than the others.

Zhou Jianhui was also afraid that Zhou Yi would feel dissatisfied at that time, so he took a preventive injection in advance.

"Don't worry, I have a general impression of the award, it's just like that if it is awarded to me or not, I don't lack that piece of meat." Zhou Yiman waved his hand nonchalantly: "If it is not awarded to me, it can continue to hype and sell albums." ”

How can the trophy have the fragrance of real dollars, and he doesn't mix with the European and American music circles, so he doesn't need any Grammys to lift his coffee.

When he has no desires, the Grammy trophy is like a small stone on the side of the road to him.

The little stone may even be able to float in the water.

"Okay, if you are mentally prepared, you can leave the rest to the company."

Zhou Jianhui immediately opened the drawer and handed him a brand-new contract document: "This is the endorsement of the global communication that you came to talk to me in person when you went to South Korea." Ah Yi, let's see how it goes. ”

Global communication, China Mobile's most noble and widely used business, there is no one.

Even Zhou Yi himself is using this, because he needs to run all over the world.

"Mobile is now aggressively acquiring and integrating internal resources, and they can't come up with too much money to sign you for a while, so they are willing to use resources to replace."

"Displacement?"

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows and opened the contract at hand-

The money, as Zhou Jianhui said, is not much, "only" only 35 million, and the contract is four years. However, China Mobile is willing to use its own global communication business resources to promote Zhouyi, and even comes with a profit-making CRBT clause.

"The mobile company only charges ...... per song 5%？ ”

When he saw this number, Zhou Yi almost thought that he was dazzled and misunderstood.

"You've also been to South Korea, and I'm sure you know how popular CRBT is over there. If the mobile can be replicated successfully, it is just this concession, and it is conservatively estimated that it will be enough for you to make tens of millions more. ”

“……”

"This is true, the internal project of mobile is very important, and Song Ke also broke with the company because of this matter."

Seeing that Zhou Yi fell into silence, Zhou Jianhui, who thought that he didn't understand the distribution method, seriously popularized science: "According to the original contract given to Song Ke by Mobile, they plan to charge 15%. ”

“…… Yes, that's fine, but the legal details of the RBT clause still need to be perfected to avoid moving there to play scoundrels at that time. ”

Treating this endorsement contract and concession clause that is eager for talent, Zhou Yi, who suppressed the surprise in his heart, was very cautious-

The degree of caution even exceeded Zhou Jianhui and Qian Jiang's expectations.

He called.

For the first time since graduating from school, Zhou Yi made a very solemn call to his teacher.

When the contact person on the mobile side received Warner's intention to negotiate, he came with great interest, but everyone was stupid-

The person in charge even felt that he was dazzled and wrong, how could he lead the way by a legal expert from Peking University???

Looking at the lawyer's opinions under the new version of the contract submitted by Warner, all of them are from Peking University......

(End of chapter)