Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

In the first two days after returning to Guangzhou, Zhou Ziheng did not immediately start preparing for the production of the new album, but took two days off.

By the way, I also paid attention to the situation of various singers of Hengdong Records this year.

Xu Wei is already preparing his third album.

Xu Wei may not be a singer with explosive sales in mainland China, but his data for two consecutive albums have been very stable.

With the release of "Once Upon a Time" last year, he gained a large number of fans in China and was called the northern and southern half of the folk rock scene together with Zheng Jun of Northern Red Star Records.

Then there is my cousin He Jin, who is doing pretty well in China and even has a certain number of fans in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is also preparing a new album.

The last one is Coco Lee, who signed with Hengdong last year. She released her first album after joining Hengdong in June. Most of the songs in the album were written by Zhou Ziheng.

Although she doesn't have any particularly popular hits, her style is very popular. Since its release, the album has sold 600,000 copies.

What is worth mentioning here is that over the past two years, due to the impact of pirated CDs, the sales data of singers in the entire Chinese music scene have declined over the past two years.

It is obvious to the naked eye that not only the film industry, but also the record industry is declining.

After meeting with Xu Wei and others and encouraging each other, Zhou Ziheng began to retreat on the 21st to prepare for his new album.

Zhou Ziheng did not plagiarize songs from too many other people in his new album, only from one person.

Zhou Chuanxiong.

Strangely enough, in his previous life, most of Zhou Ziheng’s classmates liked Jay Chou.

But unlike them, Zhou Ziheng has no feelings towards Jay Chou, not that he thinks he does not live up to his reputation.

He also listens to Jay Chou's songs and admits that he is a groundbreaking singer.

But relatively speaking, Zhou Ziheng likes Zhou Chuanxiong more.

Perhaps Zhou Chuanxiong's status in the music industry is not as good as Jay Chou, and in later generations he even fell to the point of being commented on by a traffic star who can't sing.

However, Zhou Ziheng likes every one of his songs, especially those from the first decade of the 21st century.

His songs are very emotional.

Every time he listens to it, Zhou Ziheng can't help but calm down and feel the loneliness in the song.

In Zhou Ziheng's playlist in his previous life, many of his songs were included in Zhou Ziheng's playlist, and he would listen to them whenever he had time.

Among them, Zhou Ziheng likes the song "Winter Secret" the most.

The song has touched the hearts of countless people with its soulful melody and sincere lyrics.

The opening creates a slightly sad atmosphere.

Zhou Chuanxiong's recognizable voice, with a hint of vicissitudes and helplessness, perfectly interprets the entanglement and pain in the song, allowing the audience to deeply feel the heaviness brought by the secret hidden in the heart.

The lyrics use delicate brushstrokes to depict an unspeakable secret love, vividly showing the inner conflicts and struggles of the secret admirer.

If you like it, of course you should copy it!
So, this song was the first song Zhou Ziheng copied down.

Except for "Winter's Secret", all other songs in this album are also sung by Zhou Chuanxiong.

They are:
"Blue and White Porcelain", "Lonely and Cold Sandbank", "Dusk", "The Window That Cannot Be Closed", "Is There a Song That Will Remind You of Me", "Blue Turkey", "My Heart Is Too Confused", "Fragrance of Flowers", and "Notepad".

As the saying goes, you don’t know until you copy, and you’ll be surprised when you do.

After copying them down, Zhou Ziheng discovered that he actually had so many popular songs. The names of these ten songs may sound unfamiliar to people.

But when the music started, almost all of these songs were huge hits.

In the room, Zhou Ziheng looked at the ten songs he had copied. Looking at these songs that had once been very popular, he couldn't help but sigh.

Who would have thought that a person who wrote so many hit songs and had a bunch of representative songs would end up being commented on by traffic stars who couldn't sing.

Zhou Ziheng was a little hesitant.

If Xiaogang copied all these songs himself, would he disappear from the history of Chinese music?

However, he changed his mind and shook off the idea. Maybe Xiao Qi would become silent because he copied too many of his songs.

But Xiaogang is different.

This guy is a singer-songwriter.

Without these songs, he would probably create other songs.

Perhaps, because I copied so many of his songs, he would have more motivation.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ziheng thought of Jay Chou again.

This guy has such great creative ability, shouldn't I copy more of his songs, let him work harder, and write more songs for him?

……

When Zhou Ziheng was preparing his new album.

On the 20th, "The Ring" was released in Hong Kong.

I have to say that this guy Jerrys's publicity model is very powerful.

He promoted "The Ring" using European and American viral marketing, and in less than a week, the whole of Hong Kong and even other regions knew about the movie.

With a lot of exposure, the drama attracted a large number of audiences.

After it was released on the 20th, it immediately achieved very impressive results.

2 million and 100 thousand on the first day of release.

In its first week of release, "The Ring" broke the first-week box office record for horror movies in Hong Kong, earning HK$11 million and topping the Hong Kong box office chart that week.

Because the performance was so good, the talk about the play even spread to Guangzhou.

Zhou Ziheng heard a lot of people talking about this movie.

"Have you heard that there is a horror movie in Hong Kong that is so scary?"

"Is this true? Can a movie really scare people to death?"

"It's true. It is said that accidents happened all the time during the filming of this movie. It seems that some staff members even saw ghosts on the set."

"My goodness, is this movie still watchable?"

"I heard that Hong Kong is forcing this movie to be taken off the screen."

Zhou Ziheng, who was passing by the company's front desk, heard the discussions of several staff members and couldn't help but smile.

There is no doubt that Jeris’s propaganda worked.

However, the only problem is that because of this rumor, many people are said to be afraid to go to the theater to watch "The Ring", which is a problem.

Fortunately, according to news from Hong Kong, although the box office of this movie has declined significantly since the beginning of the second week, it still remains at a high level and many viewers go to watch it.

"The film and television branch in Beijing has been established. I may not be able to return to Hong Kong for the time being. I plan to visit several schools to see if there are any talents. If there are any suitable ones, I will sign them to the company."

In the afternoon, Florence Hui called Zhou Ziheng.

The mainland film and television industry, especially TV dramas, is entering a period of rapid development.

After much thought, Zhou Ziheng applied to set up a film and television company in Beijing, mainly for shooting TV series.

As Zhou Ziheng was busy preparing records and didn't have time to go there in person, he asked Florence Hui to go there on his behalf and set up the company.

"Yes, the focus of Chinese-language films in the future will definitely be in the mainland. There are also many talented people in several schools in the mainland. You can sign a few of them, both male and female.

We are currently mainly producing TV series in the mainland, which requires a lot of actors.”

Zhou Ziheng replied.

(End of this chapter)