Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 49: Taxes, fierce competition on the radio demand charts

"Ziheng, what do you think about the development of music in our mainland?"

The private room was noisy. Some people were expressing their opinions loudly, while others were whispering. Zhou Ziheng was distracted when suddenly Chen Xiaoqi called his name.

Everyone looked at him.

Zhou Ziheng smiled awkwardly, "I don't have any opinion."

Of course Zhou Ziheng has his own opinion.

If he really had the decision-making power, he could talk about it all day and all night.

But unfortunately, he is not a leader, and he was able to sit here only because Chen Xiaoqi pulled him here.

Let him make suggestions.

Even if he said it, these big guys in front of him would not take it seriously.

So, he simply didn't bother to say anything.

Anyway, according to the trend, mainland pop music will usher in a big explosion in the next few years and begin to actively catch up with Hong Kong and Taiwan.

So, it doesn’t matter whether he says it or not.

Chen Xiaoqi was probably just asking subconsciously, and didn't think Zhou Ziheng had anything to say.

After he said he had no opinion, he started talking nonstop again.

Guangzhou has achieved good results this year and is a model for the north to learn from, so Chen Xiaoqi obviously needs to talk more about the operation of singers and songwriting ideas in the south.

All the producers in the private room are heavy smokers, never leaving their cigarettes.

With more than ten or twenty people gathered together, the whole private room was filled with smoke.

Zhou Ziheng couldn't stand the secondhand smoke and found an excuse to leave the private room.

Outside, the owner of the karaoke bar had someone bring out a pile of beer, and singers from the north and south were drinking together.

As soon as Zhou Ziheng came out, he was pulled over by them and joined the battlefield.

……

The next morning, the southern singers who came to participate in the exchange meeting returned to the south under the leadership of Chen Xiaoqi.

The same is true for Zhou Ziheng.

Originally, he had planned to stay for two days.

One was that Cui Jian invited him to watch his performance.

The second reason is that he was invited to two business events in Beijing.

But because the tape "Golden Boy and Jade Girl" is about to be released.

New Era and Pacific had been urging him and Yang Yuying to go back and cooperate with the publicity.

There was no other way, he could only put the matter in the capital aside.

After returning to Guangzhou, the first thing Zhou Ziheng did was to go to the tax bureau and pay his taxes for this year.

His total income from tapes and performances this year is 900,000.

Of this, $670,000 was kept as revenue from the tape, and $230,000 was his performance income.

18 yuan, and you need to pay yuan in taxes.

Zhou Ziheng was really heartbroken watching 20% ​​of his annual income disappear.

However, no matter how painful it is, the tax still needs to be paid.

He doesn't want to learn from Mao Amin.

This person's bright future was ruined by her tax evasion.

Speaking of which, this guy really only cares about food and not about beatings.

As early as 1989, she was fined for tax evasion.

As a result, he did not learn his lesson and continued to evade taxes in the following years.

The law is long and she was finally caught in 1998.

Zhou Ziheng didn't want to be one of the people arrested.

So no matter how heartbroken he was, he dared not evade taxes.

Moreover, in order to pay off the taxes, he checked all his income for the year.

Only after making sure that I had not missed any taxes did I leave the tax office.

In the next two days, Zhou Ziheng began to fully cooperate with the promotional activities arranged by Pacific and New Era and began to promote "Golden Boy and Jade Girl".

Radio interviews, magazine covers, and TV appearances.

In a few days, under the arrangement of Pacific and New Era, Zhou Ziheng and Yang Yuying had sex with several people.

These are all for free.

Zhou Ziheng was just cooperating for free. But this was not without benefits for him.

At the very least, his exposure has increased and his influence has become greater.

When he walked down the street, people would point at him and ask, "You...are you the Zhou Ziheng from the Golden Boy and Jade Girl?"

……

September 26th.

Under the arrangement of Pacific and New Era, the title song "Heart Rain" from the tape "Golden Boy and Jade Girl" was officially released on major radio stations.

As I said, the Guangzhou music scene is dominated by the four major record companies.

The Big Four record companies are all officially established record companies, and they are sister units to all the major radio stations.

How can I not support the singer from our brother unit when he releases a record?

On the afternoon of the 22nd, all the music channels of major radio stations began to recommend the song "Heart Rain" on time.

To be honest, Zhou Ziheng was stunned by that scene.

Turn on the radio.

On all music-related radio stations, the hosts all recommend "Heart Rain" and "Golden Boy and Jade Girl".

Magazines, Yangcheng Evening News, Southern Daily.

Quan put the cover of Zhou Ziheng and Yang Yuying's new tape on the front page of the news that day.

On television, Guangdong TV's "Pacific Golden Songs" program also focused on promoting the tape "Golden Boy and Jade Girl," and promoted it three times in one episode.

With the large-scale public relations promotion of New Era and Pacific, the song "Heart Rain" sung by Zhou Ziheng and Yang Yuying spread throughout the Pearl River Delta region at lightning speed.

Yang Yuying:
"My thoughts"

“It’s an untouchable net”

"My thoughts"

“No longer a broken sea”

Zhou Ziheng:
“Why is it always here?”

"Those Rainy Days"

"Thinking of you deeply"

……

Almost all the radios in the streets and alleys were playing "Heart Rain".

There is no doubt that with such huge publicity, coupled with the fact that Zhou Ziheng and Yang Yuying now have great fame in Guangdong.

This made the tape "Golden Boy and Jade Girl" a hit even before it was published and released.

but.

On the second and third days after "Heart Rain" became a hit, Zhou Ziheng and Yang Yuying also met their opponents.

Li Chunbo and Gan Ping.

The release date of both of their tapes was also set on New Year's Day, January 1st. The promotional theme song for these two tapes was "Xiao Fang" for Li Chunbo and "Wet Heart" for Gan Ping.

The publicity efforts of the Chinese record label are also considerable.

As soon as major radio stations and print media finished recommending "Heart Rain", they immediately followed up with "Xiao Fang" and "Wet Heart" on the second and third days.

All three songs are classics. (Although "Heart Rain" is a cover, few people in mainland China had heard it at that time.)
Appeared together in the same time slot.

Without a doubt, the three songs directly triggered a war of on-demand requests.

No, more than three.

There is also "Bon Journey" from Taiwan, sung by Little Tigers member, Nicky Wu.

Wu Qilong went solo in August this year and released his first solo album "Chasing the Wind Boy" on August 21st.

After this tape sold well in Formosa and other Chinese-speaking regions, it was finally introduced by White Swan in December and began to be released on December 24th.

If we were to classify the singers whose tapes were introduced to the mainland from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

Then, the Four Heavenly Kings, Chyi Chin, Wang Jie, Su Rui, Little Tigers, etc. must be the first tier.

Among them, the Little Tigers are still at the top.

To a certain extent, when the Four Heavenly Kings had not yet made large-scale efforts and the Little Tigers were still active, the Little Tigers were much more popular than them in mainland China.

And Nicky Wu is a member of the Little Tigers.

Of course, his tapes were undoubtedly extremely popular in the mainland.

As soon as it was published, we immediately received a large number of orders from subscribers.

Moreover, the number of on-demand requests on the radio has been rising steadily, directly competing with "Heart Rain", "Xiao Fang" and "Wet Heart".

(End of this chapter)