Chapter 330: Unexpected Dark Horse

"Can this still happen?"

Elva Hsiao was dumbfounded, and Zhou Yi was equally dumbfounded.

This was completely beyond his expectation.

God knows, he really didn't think so much when he gave the song to Elva Hsiao.

"What is the total sales volume of your albums now?"

"If the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places are added together, the actual sales volume should be more than 600,000."

"That's okay, I don't care. This will help you boost sales, and I just need the heat to maintain exposure now."

Zhou Yi, who didn't care at all, replied directly that it was business as usual.

In almost two months, more than 600,000 were sold domestically. Taking into account countries such as Singapore and Malaysia, this is undoubtedly an album that is expected to break the one million sales mark across Asia within one year.

Zhou Yi's four songs are indispensable to his topicality.

After all, the album "4U" currently has sales of around 280,000 in Taiwan.

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

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yi raised his eyes and looked at the high-rise buildings through the floor-to-ceiling windows, with some emotion in his tone.

Whether it is Jay Chou's "Eight Dimensions of Space" or Tao Zhe's "Black Willow", their market performance is stronger in the mainland market.

Tao Zhe's classic love song "Melody" written for Ms. Liu Hard Pao and Jay Chou's "Back to the Past" are not only competing against each other on the charts in Taiwan, but also on the mainland.

This is also the first time that two creative talents have faced off head-to-head on the ranking list——

Since "Melody" was released with the album on August 9, as of today, September 18, it has ranked highest at number three on multiple charts in the mainland last week. It is also his current highest ranking in the mainland. The peak lasted for two weeks. It is currently expected to launch an impact towards the goal of lasting three weeks.

Since its release on July 18, Jay Chou's "Back to the Past" had the highest weekly ranking as of September 18, which was also third. However, its durability was not very good. It only maintained its peak for one week before losing its position. However, It is still in the top ten of the list.

Because the release month was earlier, Jay Chou had already figured out the limits of his album, so when he was interviewed by the media, he was not so worried about gains and losses. Instead, he was able to joke about Zhou Yi——

"Are you optimistic that Ayi will win the championship? Of course you are optimistic about it, 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. Therefore, although his song rankings also participated in the charts, it was obvious that they were not as strong as in the mainland due to the lack of publicity.

On the 19th, on Taiwan's radio daily chart, Zhou Yi's "Little Dimple" and "Today You Will Marry Me" finally managed to make it into the top ten thanks to the unremitting promotion of loyal fans. .

Ranked ahead of him is "When Love Is Approaching" by Liu Ruoyin.

On this same day, in the mainland music scene, the reputation of Sun Nan's "Rescue" also began to ferment, and the real-time data of radio stations also began to soar;

The everlasting Man Wenjun thought he could continue to be among the top ten goalkeepers with his song "I Need You", but he never thought that he would be blown away by "Save".

However, Zhou Yi's two songs are still firmly nailed to the championship and runner-up positions, which is disappointingly stable.

Adu, who did not believe in evil, started to run frantically again under the arrangement of Haidie, hoping to return "He Must Love You Very Much" from the third place on the radio daily chart to the first place;

Tao Zhe, who slipped from third to fourth, was also unwilling to have his peak peak interrupted after only two weeks, and was still working hard to make an upward push.

Wang Lihong and Lu Qiaoyin's "Break Up with Good Will" also saw its numbers soar due to the promotion of the two's reunion. It is inseparable from the No. 1 band's "Love Even If You Die", which ranked fifth and sixth.

Elva Hsiao's "Prague Square" and "Give Me a Reason to Forget" both ranked among the top nine in Taiwan and the Mainland.

The last card of the Four Heavenly Kings, Liu Hua, barely ranked among the top ten goalkeepers with his song "Practice".

Monday, September 23, 2002.

A brand new week.

When some authoritative mainland lists such as the Chinese Music Chart, the Music Chart, and the Chinese Pop Songs Chart announced the comprehensive listening and on-demand rankings for the past week, that one high-ranking name will inevitably make people feel discouraged——

First: "Today You Will Marry Me", Zhouyi

Second: "Little Dimple", Zhouyi

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

Fourth: "Melody", Tao Zhe.

Further down the list are Li Shengjie's "Absolute Infatuation", Wang Lihong and Lu Qiaoyin's "Broken Up with Kindness", Xin Band's "Love Even to Death", Jay Chou's "Back to the Past", Sun Nan's "Rescue" and Tang Lei's "Lilac Flower".

"Liu Hua is indeed the last card of the Four Heavenly Kings - huh? Wait a minute, what is "Lilac"?"

Warner, Qianjiang Office.

Qian Jiang opened the champagne and planned to appreciate it carefully. When he saw that "Practice", which was still in the top ten in the comprehensive data the day before, was missing - his eyes widened.

Which god is this Tang Lei?

New to which record label?

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

Qian Jiang immediately went to a colleague from the marketing department to get a piece of data and fell into deep thought.

According to the information available, this song "Lilac" was uploaded to the Internet by the mysterious Tang Lei alone. The lyrics, music and singing were all written by Tang Lei himself, but his profession was... an IT industry practitioner? ? ?

Feeling a little unbelievable, Qian Jiang immediately found the song "Lilac" and planned to see what the song was about and why he had never heard of it.

But when the Warner staff did not give him a disc or tape, but opened a web page on the computer and clicked to play, Qian Jiang's eyes became even more confused.

No disc? No tape?

"The flowers blooming in front of the grave are the beauty you long for.

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

"Listen, someone is singing your favorite ballad.

"There are so many troubles in the world, no need to worry about it anymore~"

When the chorus of "Lilac" pushed the sadness to the highest point, Qian Jiang was stunned into silence.

He had heard this song on the street, and more than once. It turned out that this song was called "Lilac"?

"This song... Doesn't he sell it? No album?"

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

"It hasn't been released yet. Our people have been contacting Mr. Tang Lei, but he has not responded yet. ”

“…”

Qian Jiang, who felt that he might have encountered something new, was still thinking about whether to dig deeper, but after seeing the data of "Lilac" skyrocketing week by week, he decisively turned around and looked for Zhou Yi——

"Ayi, something is not right. The radio data of another song is almost catching up with yours. The key is that he doesn't have an official channel yet."

"What?"

Zhou Yi, who was still reciting the script for tomorrow's program, was puzzled and immediately took the information from Qian Jiang——

The next second, he subconsciously patted his forehead.

Oh my god, I almost forgot about this song.

"Forget it, this song is just a good-looking one. It doesn't affect me because it's not official. "After reacting, Zhou Yi smiled and shook his head.

If the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scenes had their own eras in the past, then the eras of the mainland music scene are undoubtedly the ringtone era and the Internet era.

In a sense, these two eras can be said to be connected.

It is impossible to verify when the first mainland Internet song was released, but one thing that can be confirmed is that the song that opened the door to the mainland Internet song era was "Lilac" in 2002.

This song can be regarded as the first generation of mainland Internet divine song. Tang Lei's first version was extremely rough and was directly posted on the Internet, but with abundant emotions and the free and easy-to-spread Internet The song became a hit all over the country.

However, due to the lack of profit, Tang Lei never made a penny.

For this reason, he officially released the single disc of "Lilac" in 2004 through the channels of Song Ke, Ai Da Jin and others.

When Dao Lang's "The First Snow in 2002" was first spread all over the country through Song Ke's online channels in 2004, it was based on the process of "Lilac" becoming popular on the Internet in 2002.

Moreover, because Dao Lang himself was very popular in 2004, Song Ke also put a slogan of "Daolang Second Generation" when he officially released the album for Tang Lei.

"It's a waste of Tang Lei to post such a good song."

Qian Jiang smacked his lips a few times, looking very sorry: "But the speed of Internet communication is really a bit scary. ”

Obviously, this is the same as Zhou Chuanxiong’s previous “Twilight”.

Is “Twilight” popular? Of course it is. But the popularity of piracy will not affect Zhou Yi’s market at all.

No matter how popular the piracy industry is, Zhou Chuanxiong can’t get a penny, and he almost changed his career and gave up music.

“Yeah, it’s quite scary…”

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

The emergence of “Lilac” also means that the era of large-scale online MP3 downloads in the mainland is about to come. Baidu MP3, a platform dedicated to searching and downloading MP3s, will also be launched, completely sounding the death knell for the domestic physical record industry.

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

Even after 2005, even top singers like Jay Chou’s record sales have been sluggish year by year, forcing him to start entering the film and television industry to find new profit points.