Chapter 240: Do You Also Deserve to Be One of the Two Peerless Heroes?

"Fuck! What is he showing off? Is he showing off his perfect family and living parents?"

"This Chinese person is not at all like his predecessors Jackie Chan and Jet Li; he is acting too arrogant. I will never become his fan in my life!"

"Jet Li doesn't seem to be Chinese anymore."

"He's not even as good as those humble overseas Chinese!"

"He actually says he never does trial recordings; this is simply incomprehensible! He is insulting the record industry, he is insulting the music scene!"

"Let me correct that; we overseas Chinese are actually very humble. This Zhou Yi cannot represent us..."

There are quite a few people who can't stand Zhou Yi being so arrogant and domineering on the internet, and they have launched a barrage of verbal and written attacks against him. What kind of person is this? Just arrived and wants to be a dragon crossing the river?

Did you ask the local snake for its opinion?!

"But I think he sounded very domineering when he said that; isn't it a good thing for a man to be confident?"

"Right, Spike didn't lie; his song is currently on the Billboard chart. Are those who disagree just jealous? If you have the ability, go write a song that reaches number 68 on the Billboard chart!"

"Correction, it's already number 65."

"Why can singers from other countries be arrogant, but singers from our country can't? Eminem writes songs dissing how many people every day? At least Zhou Yi hasn't been dissing people everywhere like a mad dog."

"..."

As the first Chinese singer to break into the Billboard Hot 100, Zhou Yi's debut on American variety shows can be described as directly setting off a towering wave.

Many who saw him on television for the first time either fell for his confident, bordering-on-domineering personality at first glance, or felt disgust; there was rarely any middle ground.

Internet surfers are by nature extremely expressive and eager to share; now, just as Warner Bros. had started to get involved and stir the waters, they found halfway through that they didn't need to lift a finger at all—

The netizens who were already arguing had more energy than the PR department members in their company who were drawing salaries; when the keyboards were smoking, whether it was right or wrong no longer mattered; the goal was simply to win the argument.

Under these circumstances, thanks to the novelty of a Chinese singer, Zhou Yi's popularity in the United States was actually climbing every day, and his single sales and Billboard ranking were soaring as well!

Reflected offline, the most direct change was that when Zhou Yi now attended various radio events and music festival venues under Warner Bros.' arrangements, he no longer needed the company to provide hired supporters—

On December 25, Christmas Day, Zhou Yi's single ranking had surged to number 57, and single sales had skyrocketed to nearly 500,000 copies!

The more they cursed, the more famous he became; the more famous he became, the more they cursed; the more they cursed, the higher the sales!

In the American music scene, the most headache-inducing thing for a singer before officially releasing an album is not knowing how to build their name recognition.

Precisely because of this, quite a few new singers actually choose to release one to three songs about a year before their first album, and then spend that year relying on those one to three songs to take on performances everywhere to accumulate fame and build heat.

The most typical example is the Canadian singer Avril Lavigne.

Many people thought she only debuted in 2002, but in reality, she had been running around the United States performing at venues with a single song as early as 2001.

Zhou Yi even brushed past Avril Lavigne at a Christmas music festival in Los Angeles; at that time, he hadn't gone on stage yet, while Avril, who had performed earlier, rushed non-stop to the next Christmas venue after finishing her set.

"Work hard for the next week, keep running around."

Qian Jiang, whose corners of the mouth were almost stretching to the back of his head as he watched the data soar every day, said: "To be honest, the combat power of people who can become your fans is simply too strong."

"It's just a very simple cultivation-style psychology of admiring strength; they feel that by becoming your fan, they are following a strong person who is climbing to the top. After I truly enter the top ten, they will go even crazier, because this reflects the superiority of their taste, so they will have even stronger fanatic and loyal attributes."

A tactic that would be played to death in the streaming era of the future was, for people of this era, nothing less than a spiritual "baptism."

This was clear from the cheers after Zhou Yi appeared on stage at the music festival now—

"Spike! Spike! Spike!"

"One week! One week! One week!"

On Christmas night, when Zhou Yi walked onto the stage holding a microphone, followed by a group of dancers wearing gorilla masks dancing along, the scene instantly became a sea of magenta with heads bobbing and shaking!

"Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi! Zhou Yi!"

On the music festival stage in Los Angeles, America, for the first time, a group of foreigners of various skin tones were shouting half-familiar Chinese at the top of their lungs, jointly shouting the name of the same person!

And all of this was filmed by Warner Bros. officials and sent back to the domestic market as news—

The first to suffer was Xie Tingfeng.

As a Hong Kong male singer who had been battling Zhou Yi in both popularity and sales since last year, Xie Tingfeng did not have a very happy Christmas this year.

First, he argued with his girlfriend Wang Fei; then the media, enjoying the spectacle and not afraid of making things worse, fanned the flames on the side and even dragged Zhou Yi into it, causing him to completely break up with Wang Fei;

Now the media are coming to him with videos, photos, and reports of Zhou Yi "slaughtering" in the United States, asking him with every breath when he will also go overseas to slaughter the foreigners' pride.

Damn it, if he had that ability, he would have gone out and earned US dollars long ago, okay!

In less than a year, he, who was clearly in the leading position in the competition, suddenly became the trailing side, and the gap between him and Zhou Yi was visibly growing wider and wider.

Although he had long known that Zhou Yi was strong at songwriting, this was simply too ridiculously strong!

Zhou Yi's fans in the domestic market even directly confronted Xie Tingfeng's fans—"With Xie Tingfeng in his current state, what face does he have to be mentioned in the same breath as Zhou Yi?! Go home and date Wang Fei like a good boy!"

"Still 'Two Peerless Heroes'? What two heroes?! North Qiao Feng, South Murong, right? My Zhou Yi, a fine man, is someone you Xie Tingfeng can try to compare yourself to?!"

Originally, the huge sales in the Japanese market had made Zhou Yi's fans cocky; now, look at this; Zhou Yi had only been out for a short while and was already starting to slaughter in America.

Under the circumstances where the total album sales in the domestic market really couldn't show a huge gap, Zhou Yi this time completely maxed out his Buff in the domestic market. Some of his extreme fans couldn't wait a moment longer and started confronting Xie Tingfeng to settle the score for all his early achievements—

High sales? Emperor Entertainment bought them!

Many awards? Emperor Entertainment handled the PR!

High popularity? Emperor Entertainment did the marketing!

High endorsement fees? Emperor Entertainment forced the connection!

In short, one sentence: Do you also deserve to be one of the Two Peerless Heroes?!

The language used by this group of fans was so fierce that even after Warner Bros. came to their senses and wanted to manage it, they couldn't; instead, Warner Bros. itself got blasted for several blocks.

(End of this chapter)