Chapter 335: Undisputed Debut

"The sales of Zhang Weijian's new album have already proven that no one will buy his work after he left the TV drama field; on the contrary, these few people are worth your attention."

For this first person in co-produced TV dramas, who is vaguely called the "King of Comedy in the TV Drama Field," Qian Jiang did not take it too much to heart. After the data explained everything, he brought out one by one the few contestants who would compete on stage with Zhou Yi next.

On the mainland chart, Zhou Yi's home base, the ones leading the charge are undoubtedly three individuals and one band—A-Du, Yang Kun, Li Shengjie, and the Xin Band.

A-Du, known as the "People's Singer," naturally needs no further explanation of his lethality; both "Night Falls" and "He Must Love You Very Much" are at the top of the charts, with "He Must Love You Very Much" even holding the number one spot on many radio rankings for consecutive weeks, currently firmly occupying the first position in statistics across major music charts;

Li Shengjie belongs to the category of a sudden blockbuster hit; one song, "Absolute Obsession," directly sang the tragedy of unrequited love into people's hearts. Based on data synthesized from various charts, in Warner's own song data rankings, he ranks second, only behind A-Du.

Yang Kun and Li Shengjie are somewhat similar, both having a single blockbuster hit that exploded on the streets. Benefiting from a voice somewhat similar to A-Du, Yang Kun's released "Doesn't Matter" has now become a top-tier hit song in the mainland—

Regardless of gender or age, everyone can hum along to the rhythm from time to time: "Doesn't matter, I don't care~"

As for the Xin Band, once considered the brothers of Chen Xinhong, the lead singer of Mayday, the songs "Love Until Death" and "One Night in BJ" from their self-titled album directly helped them open up the market in the mainland.

Especially "Love Until Death," sweeping all major KTV song rankings with its incredibly satisfying high notes; regardless of what else, the first thing to order when entering a KTV is "Love Until Death" to warm up the voice.

Supported by this kind of popularity, the Xin Band's fame and sales in the mainland have also been rising steadily.

"These are all singers who have already released albums. Among those who haven't released yet or are preparing to release albums, Jacky Cheung, Sun Nan, and Wang Lihong are worth paying attention to."

Among the three, Jacky Cheung officially announced an album release at the end of October, with less time conflict with Zhou Yi, but the other two are different.

Sun Nan will release his personal new music album "Sky of Fate" on October 5. According to the summary of information currently obtained, Sun Nan is obviously extremely attached to this album—

He even purchased the cover rights to the theme song "I Believe" from last year's blockbuster South Korean movie "My Sassy Girl."

As for Wang Lihong, it seems he doesn't have a major task of releasing an album this year, but is instead focusing on creation. Based on information currently mastered, he should only release a greatest hits album around October 5 this year, with at most two or three new songs inside.

These are all people who will fight Zhou Yi for market sales, especially Sun Nan.

As the former number one of the mainland music scene, it is impossible to say Sun Nan has no thoughts about Zhou Yi; this can be seen from the original release time of his album—originally scheduled for October 1, exactly to fight Zhou Yi head-on—

Finally, under the intervention of the record company, it was changed to be released on the 5th.

"Sun Nan is very confident in his new album this time; otherwise, he wouldn't have had the courage to want to PK with you on National Day from the very beginning."

"I can see that."

Zhou Yi rubbed his chin with interest; this former number one is quite chivalrous, actually wanting to fight him head-on.

To be honest, in his impression, Sun Nan's album counts as a high-quality album, and two songs on the album have extremely high popularity in the mainland—"Save" and "Sky of Fate."

Until now, the impressions Zhou Yi had of those two songs from before still exist in his mind. "What can I use to save~" and "Sky of Fate, beautiful dream~" these two lines of lyrics are still vivid in his memory.

No wonder Sun Nan was so confident to dare to put it on the 11th from the start.

"What about Hong Kong?"

"Louis Yuen, Ronald Cheng, Edison Chen, Eason Chan, the albums these four released before, and then Jacky Cheung at the end of October."

Qian Jiang, who didn't think much of Hong Kong sales, showed a bit of lack of interest while introducing them.

Zhou Yi's best performance in Hong Kong has never been records, but rather his photo books and various merchandise; now, the celebrity idols liked by rich ladies and housewives in Hong Kong urban dramas are all Zhou Yi.

As for Taiwan, at a time when the older generation of musicians has lost market control, Zhou Yi's opponents are still the usual few from the younger generation.

Among them, Jay Chou's song rankings, which maintained last year's feverish level with songs like "Half Island Iron Box" and "Back to the Past," did not rise step by step to the top as everyone thought; instead, with the passage of time, the rankings gradually declined.

"Oh right, regarding Wang Lihong, I have to add one more thing; he has a blockbuster song released in July this year, a duet with Loo Ka-yin called 'Break Up Kindly'."

"This song is great whether in Hong Kong, the mainland, or Taiwan; currently it ranks seventh on the Music Fengyun List, and is in the top ten on multiple charts."

As if fearing Zhou Yi would fail due to underestimating the enemy, Qian Jiang, suddenly remembering this matter, offered a tactful reminder.

Zhou Yi, who was more familiar with what results this song would ultimately achieve, made a gesture indicating "received."

As Wang Lihong's only song in 2002 that could be called a blockbuster, the appearance of this song directly helped him consolidate his status in the 2002 Mandarin music scene, serving as a pair of shame-covering underwear.

"The two songs you are using for pre-charting promotion, 'Little Dimples' and 'Today You Must Marry Me', are already being prepared; I estimate they will clash with Sun Nan, who is a few days behind, at that time."

"Here is your schedule afterwards; work hard, run around a bit."

After A-Mei's unexpected Waterloo, Warner, having started with a black mark, was extremely nervous about Zhou Yi's upcoming album. To maximize exposure as much as possible, Warner contacted quite a few music promotion programs for Zhou Yi.

For safety's sake, Warner directly chose the two songs in the album featuring Sun Yanzi for duet to conduct the initial phase promotion.

On September 15, both songs arrived at all major radio stations.

On the 16th, Monday, the "Lianshan" album officially began its charting promotion schedule, and when Zhou Yi himself appeared on programs for promotion, besides these two songs, he would also sing one more song, "Cheers."

It was just the wrong occasion; otherwise, Zhou Yi would have to perform a giant pendulum swing for fun.

On the other side, Sun Nan, who had also started running promotions, went all out; after much thought, he directly took out the hidden gem "Save" from the bottom of the album box to conduct charting promotion first.

"I have great confidence in my songs, and I have great confidence in my album."

When appearing on programs, facing interviews, Sun Nan was full of confidence: "Being in the same period as Zhou Yi is a huge challenge; I am very clear about this. But the music scene is vast, and everyone's style has a corresponding audience."

"There are no contradictions between me and Zhou Yi; on the contrary, when he won the Best Newcomer Award at the Global Mandarin Music Awards back then, it was me who presented the award to him; we have a good competitive relationship."

"Regarding this album, I have been preparing for a full year. I think my fans and listeners should be able to hear my sincerity from my singing voice."

As the former number one of the mainland music scene, Sun Nan lowered his posture this time to win personal image favor as much as possible and increase the public's good impression of himself.

After all, his last album release was more than a year ago.

The marketing strategies inherited from Hong Kong were all maxed out, all for the ambition deep in his heart to wipe out past shame.

He wanted to tell the domestic listeners—Sun Nan is still here; in the field of Chinese songs alone, he still has the strength of the mainland number one!

Precisely because of this, when the 17th, Tuesday, arrived, Sun Nan's team immediately collected the boss's various data comparisons—

"'Save' debuts at twenty-three, 'Sky of Fate' debuts at thirty; Boss, very successful!"

Having achieved such good results on the first appearance on the music rankings of the biggest radio stations in the capital, Sun Nan was also excited: "Then what about Zhou Yi?"

"... Uh, debuts at number one, two songs."

"What did you say?!"

Sun Nan, who had just been smug, suddenly widened his eyes: "Two songs debuting at number one???"

"Yes, on some radio charts 'Little Dimples' is number one, on others it is 'Today You Must Marry Me'; here is the data."

Sun Nan: "..."

Looking at the data on the table, which was terrifyingly leading by a massive gap, the slight joy that had just arisen in his heart was immediately cast into the Kingdom of Java...

Damn!

How can this be fought?!

(End of this chapter)