Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 136 Mainland King's Popularity
"Mr. Wang Jie, nice to meet you, I'm Zhou Ziheng."

Zhou Ziheng greeted Wang Jie with a smile.

"I know you. You are much better than those four monsters."

Wang Jie had a smile on his face, but what he said made Zhou Ziheng slightly stunned.

After a few seconds, he realized that the four monsters the other party was talking about were actually the Four Heavenly Kings.

In 92, Hong Kong launched the Four Heavenly Kings.

These four people were not simply banned by the media.

To a certain extent, all of Hong Kong's resources have been integrated together.

Just say it!
If the resources of Hong Kong male singers are divided into ten parts, the Four Heavenly Kings would occupy six of them, leaving only four for all other singers to share.

How many singers are left?

There are at least dozens or hundreds, if not hundreds.

Not to mention anything else, Li Keqin, who had a certain popularity in the late 1980s, saw his originally good resources drop to the bottom due to the emergence of the Four Heavenly Kings. Ultimately, due to the lack of exposure resources, he had to choose to temporarily withdraw from the music scene.

Others were also affected. Singers like Huang Kaiqin and Alex To, who were very popular in the 1980s, were almost forgotten by their fans during this period because they had no exposure.

As the most popular singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan at the time, Wang Jie was also greatly affected.

He was already ostracized by the Hong Kong music scene at the time.

After the establishment of the Four Heavenly Kings, their exposure was further squeezed.

By last year, or even throughout the year, you could hardly see any news reports about him in Hong Kong.

Some of them are news that can damage his image.

Wang Jie himself looks down on the Hong Kong music scene.

Not only him, in fact, from the 1980s to now, singers in the Taiwanese music scene have always looked down on singers in the Hong Kong music scene.

As for the reason!
Wang Jie said this in an interview program later.

Compared with the professionalism of the Taiwanese music scene at that time, the Hong Kong music scene was simply a chaos of demons.

Under the control of capital, anyone can be a singer.

It is said that many singers in the Hong Kong music scene cannot even read music scores.

Imagine a singer who can't even read music score.

Coupled with various factors such as the transfer and suppression of original singers, it is natural that local original singers in Hong Kong look down on their hometown.

It’s not that I look down on my hometown, but I look down on the music scene.

Most of the capable original singers couldn't stand this environment and left one after another.

The most typical one is Beyond.

Beyond couldn't stand this kind of environment, so they went to Japan to develop their careers.

The media has always looked down on the Hong Kong music scene, and after the Four Heavenly Kings came out, they frequently targeted Wang Jie.

Naturally, he was very angry, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the Four Heavenly Kings in public more than once.

"I am very honored to be recognized by Mr. Wang Jie."

Zhou Ziheng did not refute Wang Jie.

Nor did he follow his words to criticize the Four Heavenly Kings.

After all, although he has a gap with Jacky Cheung, he does not have a gap with the others.

Among them, Liming is his friend.

Although Andy Lau has an average relationship with him, they are just superficial friends and there is no need to offend him.

In fact, Zhou Ziheng liked Andy Lau very much in his previous life.

I believe many people like this king as much as he does.

When he first met Andy Lau, he asked him for an autograph.

However, after getting to know him, Zhou Ziheng discovered that Andy Lau had a good personality.

But the reality is not so easy to approach.

Just like the media said, he is a good guy.

But it is also because he is a good guy that he treats everyone the same.

Greet everyone with a smile.

By the way, is it really easy for such a person who greets everyone with a smile to become a close friend?
Therefore, he did not try to make friends with him on purpose, and just let things take their course.

Therefore, although the two are friends, they are not the kind of friends who will stick together through thick and thin, but just superficial friends.

Unlike Leon Lai, after becoming friends, people really support him.

When Zhou Ziheng has a feud with some people in Hong Kong, he will support him without hesitation.

If it were Andy Lau, it would probably not be easy.

As for Aaron Kwok.

Zhou Ziheng actually had no contact with him.

I really have never come into contact with it.

Although both of them are now top-tier traffic stars in the Chinese music scene.

But it seemed that the two had never even met each other.

However, the two have been friends for a long time and have praised each other through the media.

If we meet next time.

The two of them might flatter each other, but the possibility of them becoming friends is really slim.

He competes with Aaron Kwok in all aspects.

Whether it is as a singer, a movie, or a photo fashion, the two are actually the most direct competitors.

Generally speaking, as long as there is competition, there will be grudges in each person's heart, and it is absolutely difficult to truly become friends.

"You are very good, work hard!"

Zhou Ziheng finally understood that Wang Jie was excluded by his peers.

That's my personality.

After chatting with Zhou Ziheng for a few words, he patted Zhou Ziheng on the shoulder and spoke with the attitude of an old senior.

This kind of Zhou Ziheng seemed like his younger brother, even Zhou Ziheng felt a little uncomfortable, let alone others.

However, Zhou Ziheng did not hold a grudge for this.

Wang Jie is indeed his predecessor.

Besides, since everyone knows that he has this kind of personality, why should we care?
After chatting with Wang Jie for a while, the two exchanged contact information.

At this time, the dinner was almost over and everyone started to leave.

Zhou Ziheng also left with Tong Ange.

Zhang Yusheng didn't come to today's dinner as he had something urgent to do.

So Tong Ange, as the host, entertained Zhou Ziheng.

After the dinner, Tong Ange took Zhou Ziheng to a nearby snack stand to eat some snacks, and then the two went back home.

……

The next day, news about the Golden Melody Awards occupied most of the Taiwanese media space.

["Sad Pacific" won the best song of the year]

[A song that deserves the title, with both good sales and good reputation]

【Zhou Ziheng confidently expressed that he hopes he will be at the next Golden Melody Awards】

……

Although the news of "The Pacific Ocean" winning the award spread widely.

Even due to the influence of the awards, the sales of the album "Pacific Heartbreak" saw a small boom.

But this has nothing to do with Zhou Ziheng. The Hong Kong and Taiwan distribution rights of this album were given to Yineng Dongyin. No matter how high the sales are within five years, he will not get a penny.

In terms of copyright, the songs in this album earned a good amount of copyright fees from Taiwan.

Wanwan’s radio station and music TV channel contributed a good amount of copyright fees to Zhou Ziheng.

The cost of producing the songs for the entire album is about one million RMB per year.

This is also an important reason why Zhou Ziheng is unwilling to give up the copyright of the song.

The songs from the two albums "Fairy Tale" and "Sad Pacific" alone can probably bring him about four million in copyright fees this year.

Most of them come from "Fairy Tale".

The eleven songs in this album are all very popular, and each song earns him a copyright fee. In a year, he can earn about three million.

This is the copyright income of a hit song.

Although this copyright income is declining year by year, it still exists.

Perhaps the copyright income will become ordinary in a few years, but it is still possible for one album to contribute about 100,000 to Zhou Ziheng every year.

If something unexpected happens and the song becomes popular again, the copyright income may be higher. Speaking of copyright income, Zhou Ziheng has to sigh that the improvement of Hong Kong and Taiwan copyright laws during this period is very beneficial to singers.

First of all, when a singer releases an album, he or she will generally authorize major radio stations to play it for free for a few months.

Once the time has passed, the copyright owner will choose to collect copyright fees on an annual basis, or sometimes even for several years at a time.

Copyright is calculated on a song-by-song basis, and the copyright fees for songs with different levels of popularity are different.

If a radio station wants to play a song but does not have authorization, the copyright owner of the song can choose to sue the radio station.

Because of the protection of copyright law, almost every lawsuit is successful.

Therefore, radio stations generally choose to pay copyright fees.

Especially for popular songs, almost every radio station will choose to purchase the copyright and play them.

Otherwise, it is easy for listeners to request a song but the radio station cannot play it.

Except for the radio.

The same is true for television.

Compared to radio stations, television stations use songs less frequently, unless they are television stations like TVB that often hold singing competitions or have music channels.

Otherwise, they rarely purchase song copyrights.

However, even if there are fewer revenue channels, the annual revenue from a hit song is still very impressive.

And this is not just a one-time deal, but long-term benefits.

Compared with Hong Kong and Taiwan, the copyright laws in the mainland were not perfect at that time, and the copyright revenue was almost zero.

According to the copyright fee regulations issued by the mainland in previous years.

Mainland songs, TV stations and radio stations have the right to use them free of charge.

That is to say, in mainland China, you don’t have to pay a penny for radio and television stations to play your songs.

There's no point in suing them because it's legal.

And this is only possible due to the promotion of other countries.

In the 1980s, when there was no copyright law in the mainland, people in the mainland could even sing songs from Europe, America, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan directly without paying any copyright fees.

This phenomenon seriously damaged the rights and interests of Europe and the United States, so they actively promoted the formulation of copyright laws in the mainland, requiring those who sang foreign songs to pay copyright fees.

……

After the Golden Melody Awards, Zhou Ziheng quickly adjusted his mood and began to focus back on the concert.

He has a total of four concerts in Wanwan.

The venue was chosen to be the China Stadium.

Note that it is the China Stadium, not the Gymnasium.

Speaking of which, Taiwan's economy has indeed been very good in recent years.

But there is one thing that is worth complaining about.

That is, at that time, Wanwan did not have a performance venue that could accommodate more than 10,000 people.

There was one before, which was the China Sports Hall, the predecessor of the China Sports Stadium.

However, in 88, the stadium was burned down by a fire.

So, Wanwan found herself in an awkward situation.

That is, there is no venue that can accommodate more than 10,000 people.

If they wanted to hold performances or events with more than 10,000 people, they could only do so in the China Stadium, which was converted from the burned-down China Stadium.

And this stadium is open-air.

This means that if the weather is not good, the performance will be held in heavy rain.

Zhou Ziheng was very unlucky.

Before the performance started, the Taiwan Meteorological Bureau said it would not rain.

But the result was that a light drizzle suddenly began to fall on the night of his concert.

Tens of thousands of people were exposed to the rain.

Zhou Ziheng continued his performance on stage in the rain.

Originally, Florence Hui firmly asked Zhou Ziheng to cancel the concert temporarily.

What she meant was that performing in the rain would make it easy to get sick, which might affect Zhou Ziheng's subsequent work.

This was also what Zhou Ziheng originally planned.

However, after seeing tens of thousands of fans standing in the rain, he changed his mind.

Fight.

If his fans don't care, why should he care?
So the concert continued.

Just like that, Zhou Ziheng continued the concert in the rain.

It was drizzling, and more than 12,000 spectators were standing in the auditorium. Various glow sticks were waving and shaking in the rain, forming a sea of ​​light.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands of eyes, the music melody continued and the melody of "Can Love Come Back Again" sounded.

“I Always Blame Myself”

“Shouldn’t have done that”

"I often regret not keeping you here"

"Why do we love each other?"

"We still have to separate in the end"

……

The rain was not particularly heavy, but the stage was still completely soaked, and Zhou Ziheng's clothes were also soaked.

The originally exquisite shape has been completely disrupted by the raindrops.

Zhou Ziheng's semi-long hair was wet.

He pushed his hair back, drops of rain falling on his chin.

“Originally, I was planning to cancel the concert.

But I saw that no one left.

Since everyone is willing to watch my performance in the rain, how can I be pretentious?

So, I decided, the show goes on.

Of course, if anyone wants to leave early, you can make a note with the staff and we will write down your name and address. When the next concert is held in Wanwan, we will send someone to buy tickets for you.

Let everyone watch my concert again for free."

On the stage, Zhou Ziheng spoke with the microphone.

"We're not leaving!"

“I won’t leave…”

The fans shouted.

And that was indeed the case. Out of more than 12,000 people, only less than 700 left the scene, while the rest all stayed.

Although the drizzle affected everyone's mood to a certain extent, everyone was still enthusiastic.

Every time Zhou Ziheng sang a song, they would scream and cheer.

Screams and cheers echoed in the rainy night.

The sound of tens of thousands of people gathered together penetrated the venue like a huge wave, causing taxi drivers waiting for the concert to end to look towards the venue.

"It's crazy, these guys are crazy about chasing stars."

"If my daughter does the same, I'll break her legs."

"Old Wang, your daughter seems to be in there."

Lao Wang: "..."

The rain did affect Zhou Ziheng's performance to some extent.

Because of the rain, the stage was very slippery and he didn't dare to do some intense dance moves.

In addition, a set of audio equipment broke down because it was soaked in water.

Fortunately, Zhou Ziheng had prepared a backup plan, otherwise the concert might have been ruined.

However, various accidents occurred along the way.

But the concert was clearly a success.

Tens of thousands of people braved the rain to watch Zhou Ziheng's concert, which caused a huge sensation in Taiwan the next day.

Everyone knows that Zhou Ziheng is popular, but no one expected that he would be so popular and have such loyal fans.

[The mainland superstar is extremely popular, with tens of thousands of people watching in the rain].

This is about Zhou Ziheng’s concert the next day.

(End of this chapter)