Chapter 64: Chapter Sixty: The Senior Sa Beinan

"January 19... wait a moment, let me check what date the New Year falls on."

Upon hearing this good news, Zhou Yi's first reaction wasn't to wonder how many awards he might win, but to pull out his phone right in front of Sun Yanzi and his own manager, and start flipping through the calendar—

"Damn, January 23rd is New Year's Eve. What's going on with the award organizers? Not going home for the New Year?"

"..."

Although he knew Zhou Yi usually didn't care much about certain things, once this complaint was voiced, Qian Jiang couldn't hold back: "Do you think you're at a regular job? Still getting annual leave?

"The end of the year is the busiest time, especially for a top-selling singer like you.

"You have two major schedules in January, both award ceremonies:

"One is the 7th Global Chinese Music Awards, jointly hosted by CCTV and Channel V in the Imperial Capital on January 17th;

"The other is the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melodies Awards Ceremony held in Xiangjiang on January 19th.

"You cannot miss either of these two."

As the manager, Qian Jiang felt it necessary to give Zhou Yi a lesson, properly explaining the status of these two award ceremonies.

As for the Xiangjiang Top Ten Chinese Golden Melodies Awards Ceremony, no need to say much; in one sentence: since the birth of the Xiangjiang music scene, it is the highest-ranking award, and also the most professional and prestigious, bar none.

"The Global Chinese Music Awards organized by CCTV is actually replicating the Xiangjiang Top Ten Chinese Golden Melodies in format; although it has more award categories, it has a suspicion of splitting the pork.

"However, it is currently one of the only two major pop music awards in the mainland. The other is the Zhongge Bang, that is, the China Song Chart."

Qian Jiang, laying out the pros and cons, gestured like an Italian taking flight: "The Four Heavenly Kings currently all attach great importance to this mainland Chinese Music Awards. Li Ming's new album didn't even register for the Top Ten Golden Melodies; instead, he registered for this Global Chinese Music Awards.

"Listen to me, A-Yi, so this is a good time for you to build your credentials."

Sun Yanzi, sitting beside the sofa, saw Zhou Yi's expression as if his holiday dream had just shattered, and immediately burst into giggles: "What's with that? Now I feel balanced. Work hard, Zhou Yi; I'll be supporting you in front of the TV when the time comes."

Zhou Yi, with dead-fish eyes, glanced at her and returned the gesture of contempt.

"Uh, theoretically speaking, your manager should have also registered you for the Global Chinese Music Awards, Yanzi."

As Qian Jiang spoke after carefully choosing his words, the situation on the scene instantly reversed completely—

Sun Yanzi's expression instantly froze, while Zhou Yi instead beamed with joy: "Now my heart is balanced too."

Some things, having someone to share the burden with is always better than having no one.

As expected, not long after, Chen Zeshan, the Deputy General Manager of Warner and Sun Yanzi's manager, called to inform her of a fact:

She had also been selected for both the Global Chinese Music Awards and the Xiangjiang Top Ten Chinese Golden Melodies, and would go to attend them together with Zhou Yi.

And like the two of them needing to fly between two places was Watching Xiao Yaxuan from Virgin Records.

However...

"What did you say? You want me to accept it on your behalf?"

Zhou Yi, receiving Watching Xiao Yaxuan's call, was very surprised; the tone of Watching Xiao Yaxuan on the other end of the phone also showed a bit of fatigue: "Yes, I really can't tear myself away to go to the mainland's Global Chinese Music Awards; I'm so busy my feet don't touch the ground.

"The company originally said they'd just have someone on-site mention it, but since I saw your name on the nomination list, I can only ask you to accept it for me on-site.

"I'll treat you to a meal when I go to Xiangjiang later."

"Alright then."

Having agreed, Zhou Yi immediately hung up the phone, and facing the gazes of Sun Yanzi and the manager, shrugged: "Watching Xiao Yaxuan was also nominated, but she can't make it, so she asked me, her good friend, to accept it on her behalf."

As a female singer currently fighting fiercely on the charts with Sun Yanzi and Liang Jingru, since releasing her new album in mid-August, Watching Xiao Yaxuan hadn't had much free time; like Sun Yanzi, she was either running errands for appearances or on her way to run errands for appearances every single day.

It was only because Sun Yanzi was currently slowing down her appearance schedule to prepare for a new album that she probably wouldn't be in any better shape otherwise.

And precisely because Zhou Yi got involved, the company's internal expectation for Sun Yanzi's new album "The Happiness I Want," originally scheduled for release on December 9th, was delayed again and again; Sun Yanzi, however, thus obtained rare rest time, finding excuses every day to openly loaf around in the recording studio.

This situation continued until the end of the month, continuing until the two songs "Green Light" and "Little Happiness" were finished.

Under Zhou Yi's "strict" requirements, Sun Yanzi, who had rested until the end of the month and was fully recovered, finally began to prepare for the promotion of the new album.

Zhou Jianhui himself didn't say much, but Sun Yanzi's manager, Chen Zeshan, was anxious enough, urging day and night.

And because Sun Yanzi's new album was delayed until the end of December, Fomao also urgently adjusted the release date for their artist Zhang Shaohan, simply pushing the originally scheduled Christmas release to after the Lunar New Year of the following year.

Although both had songs handled by Zhou Yi, Fomao was still smart enough not to want to clash head-on with Sun Yanzi, who was currently red-hot and half the sky; separating them by a month was best.

In case the songs Zhou Yi wrote for Sun Yanzi exploded, Zhang Shaohan, whose album release was staggered by a month, might still be able to eat the promotional dividends brought by Sun Yanzi's new album and Zhou Yi's songs.

On December 30th, Sun Yanzi's new album "The Happiness I Want" was officially released to the public.

The first lead single was the album's title track: "The Happiness I Want"; the second lead single was "Little Happiness"; the third lead single was "Green Light."

As soon as the album was released, relying on the fame of Zhou Yi and Sun Yanzi's "Warner Twin Stars" combination, it directly slashed a terrifying result of ninety thousand genuine copies sold in three days, and in one week directly smashed down a terrifying two hundred thousand!

"The Happiness I Want" and "Little Happiness" even used only four days to climb into the top five of the Zhou Bang on various charts.

What was even more jaw-dropping was that the newly released "Little Happiness" and "Green Light" even used only ten days to surpass a host of other songs, and even defeated songs from Zhou Yi's first album, "It's Me" and "Sound Wave," rising to the thirtieth spot on the quarterly chart; and battling head-to-head with "Little Happiness" and "Green Light" were songs by two people respectively—

Zhou Yi's own "Flower Field Mistake" and "Loving You Is You";

Zhou Jielun's "Tornado" and "Cute Woman."

And Zhou Yi himself, on January 10th, quietly boarded a plane returning to the mainland.

"Sun Yanzi needs to promote her new album; she should arrive one day before the award ceremony begins.

"But A-Yi, the organizer of this mainland Global Chinese Music Awards this time is CCTV; this is the real reason I insist you attend.

"Among the hosts of this Chinese Music Awards is a CCTV female host named Zhu Xun; her status within CCTV is rising rapidly.

"At that time, I will find a way to arrange a dinner party for you with people inside CCTV, to strive to build good relationships with them."

As a manager, Qian Jiang fully fulfilled his duty as a manager, striving to use his connections to pave the way for the artist.

Who would have thought that after hearing this, Zhou Yi instead waved his hand at him: "Connections inside CCTV? No need for such trouble; I have them."

"You need to be careful not to—hmm??"

Qian Jiang, who was in the middle of earnestly giving instructions, suddenly froze: "What did you say?"

"I have a senior in university who hosts a program at CCTV; he should be quite familiar with this Zhu Xun."

Zhou Yi grinned, his smile exceptionally brilliant: "I saw him when he came back to school; we got along quite well."

"... The program your senior hosts?"

"Today's Law," Sa Beinan.

Damn!

So it's really a perfect match for law?!

Qian Jiang's face immediately turned strange.

This is bad; the artist's connections seem more awesome than mine, the agent's?