Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

As the only singer in the Chinese music scene who has a huge international influence.

The release of Zhou Ziheng's album was undoubtedly very grand.

A large number of media in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and other places are reporting on his album.

Sales predictions for the album filled the press.

Some people think that with Zhou Ziheng's appeal and influence, even if the sales of this album are weaker than his previous album "Heart Too Soft", it will not be much different.

Some people also think that Zhou Ziheng’s failure to promote the song in advance is equivalent to giving up on many ordinary audiences, and the sales of his album may suffer a setback.

A tabloid in Hong Kong saw the opportunity and even held a campaign.

The rules of the activity are very simple. The newspaper issues a unique greeting card to citizens. Fans or ordinary citizens buy it and then tick the numbers listed by the newspaper on it.

One million, two million, three million...all the way up to ten million.

Fans tick the boxes that they think should represent the album's sales figures and mail them back to the newspaper.

The newspaper will count the numbers, and the person who guesses correctly will get a set of exclusive photos of Zhou Ziheng.

Yes, it is Zhou Ziheng’s exclusive photo.

In order to host this event, the newspaper called Citizen Entertainment specially invited Zhou Ziheng to take a set of photos as prizes.

Of course, this newspaper is certainly not doing charity.

It actually makes money.

As we all know, Zhou Ziheng's fans are all over the world. Wherever there are Chinese people, there are his fans, and he even has quite a few foreign fans.

In order to support Zhou Ziheng and for his photo album, these fans will definitely not hesitate to spend three or four dollars to buy a ticket.

This is actually similar to Wanwan’s top ten idols and the so-called top ten idols in later generations.

Fans have to pay to vote, and the money naturally ends up in the hands of the organizers. After deducting some costs, they can still make a lot.

The reason why Wanwan’s Top Ten Idols can continue to be held for so many years is that it makes a profit.

What they eat is the fans' meals of popular singers like Zhou Ziheng.

And this is actually the influence of the singer.

There are many people like this throughout Asia. They rely on Zhou Ziheng for their livelihood, and the income generated every year has formed a huge profit chain.

This kind of thing can never be prevented.

Even Zhou Ziheng cannot eliminate it, but has to promote it.

After all, this is actually a channel to enhance his influence and popularity.

So, when Citizen Entertainment came to him and invited Zhou Ziheng to take photos for a cheap price of two million, Zhou Ziheng did not refuse but agreed.

But Zhou Ziheng considered that if his photos were distributed in large quantities, it would also create huge profits.

So he signed various restrictive treaties with them.

According to the contract, the photos taken by Citizen Entertainment can only be used for the guessing activities they organize.

At the same time, Citizen Entertainment has no right to sell this set of photos.

There are some other terms.

In short, it eliminated the possibility that Citizen Entertainment would buy the rights to distribute a set of Zhou Ziheng's photos for just two million.

This is not because Zhou Ziheng is overbearing.

But the price of two million is actually only worth this much.

You know, last year, in order to obtain the rights to distribute Zhou Ziheng's photos, Japan's Johnny's Company offered 10 million for one set.

As a result, Johnny's released Zhou Ziheng's photo album and ultimately made a direct profit of around 20 million after deducting the cost.

The winner takes all effect is perfectly reflected in Zhou Ziheng.

While other singers and celebrities' photos are almost impossible to sell, Zhou Ziheng has become the most popular peripheral photo agency in Asia.

In the whole of Asia, only Japan's Takuya Kimura can rival him in this respect.

Civic Entertainment issued their election ticket on the 23rd.

It is not just released in Hong Kong.

It has been issued in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and even the United States and Canada.

You didn’t know until it was released, but once it was released, it gave the industry a huge shock.

Even Zhou Ziheng was shocked when he found out.

Two million on the first day, nine million in five days.

In other words, just because the prize was a set of exclusive photos of Zhou Ziheng, this campaign directly attracted 49.3 million people.

Of course, that’s what the media says.

In reality, the number of participants was definitely not that high.

After all, the betting tickets issued by Citizen Entertainment do not prohibit buying multiple tickets.

In other words, one person can buy one ticket, or ten or a hundred tickets, there is no limit.

It just so happens that there are some wealthy people among Zhou Ziheng's fans.

They buy hundreds or even thousands of them at a time.

Citizens made a fortune from entertainment.

There are 2.5 million betting tickets, each selling for about yuan, with a total value of more than million yuan.

Excluding the initial cost and the fees paid to Zhou Ziheng, this guessing game, which nobody paid much attention to, directly earned five to six million for the entertainment of the citizens.

The boss of Citizen Entertainment was grinning from ear to ear and kept calling to thank Zhou Ziheng for his support of their newspaper.

He also promised on the spot that in the future in Hong Kong, their Citizen Entertainment Newspaper will definitely follow Zhou Ziheng's footsteps.

The general meaning is, I will be on your side from now on, so remember to give me some soup when you eat meat.

This guessing contest organized by the Citizen Entertainment Newspaper caused a great sensation throughout the Chinese-speaking world.

Apparently no one expected that Zhou Ziheng would be so popular now.

No, it was not expected.

Everyone knows that Zhou Ziheng is popular, but no one expected that his appeal would be so strong.

This directly led to a large number of newspapers calling Zhou Ziheng, seeking authorization to hold a similar event.

Even people from the casino in Macau contacted Zhou Ziheng.

The people at the casino saw an opportunity and wanted to use Zhou Ziheng's record sales to play a lottery-style gamble.

Of course Zhou Ziheng refused.

But his refusal was useless, as Zhou Ziheng heard that someone in Macau had already privately set up a gambling game using this method.

Zhou Ziheng did not want to see his fans involved in this kind of gambling, so he had to temporarily accept interviews from several influential newspapers, calling on fans not to participate in this kind of gambling.

With the constant interference and promotion of such off-site factors, the album "Love Story Under the Stars" received great exposure.

Every day the newspapers are almost entirely filled with news about this record.

For a time, Zhou Ziheng stole the limelight of the entire Chinese-speaking world.

Even A-mei's "Sisters", which sold one million copies this week and brought the total to 3.5 million, failed to steal Zhou Ziheng's limelight.

Amidst this huge attention, December 28th arrived in a flash.

On this day, "Love Story Under the Stars" was released in major regions around the world.

It's really a hot sale, not just a literal meaning.

(End of this chapter)