Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 103: The battle is fierce, and the war of words begins

Monday, August 1993, 12.

Yesterday, the Hong Kong Dragon and Tiger Golden Songs Chart and Taiwan Dragon and Tiger Golden Songs Chart both announced the Dragon and Tiger Golden Songs Charts for various regions last week.

In both regions, "Fairy Tale" won the championship with an overwhelming advantage, beating "Love", "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" and "Good Intentions" which were released in November.

Speaking of the Dragon and Tiger Golden Songs Chart, it has a very annoying rule.

That means only one song from an album can be on the charts.

It is precisely because of this rule that although "Fairy Tale" has many popular songs, the final list only selected the first hit, which is also the most popular, "Fairy Tale".

Otherwise, Zhou Ziheng felt that with the songs in this album, he would definitely dominate the Golden Melody Chart...

On the sales chart of the Dragon and Tiger Chart, "Fairy Tale" also took the lead, with sales data three times that of the second place "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind", making it the most successful and most anticipated album in the record market in December.

The huge success of "Fairy Tale" in the record market naturally made everyone focus on Zhou Ziheng.

No, it's not just him.

And Jacky Cheung.

"Blessing" was officially released yesterday.

It has to be said that Jacky Cheung’s appeal is really strong as he can sit firmly on the throne of the Four Heavenly Kings.

On the first day of its release, the album immediately caused a rush of people lining up to buy it in major music stores.

According to statistics from the Hong Kong branch of the International Recording Association.

In Hong Kong, 60% of yesterday's record sales were accounted for by "Fairy Tale" and "Blessing".

Among them, the respective data of the two albums should be between 6 and 4, "Fairy Tale" is 6 and "Blessing" is 4.

To be honest, after hearing the news, Zhou Ziheng couldn't help but sigh that the Four Heavenly Kings were able to make other singers tremble in fear in the early and mid-1990s, and this was not entirely based on bragging.

This is especially true for Jacky Cheung, who has the best record sales data among the few.

You know, "Fairy Tale" has almost set off a phenomenal craze now.

This song is the most popular in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Moreover, "Fairy Tale" has just been released for a week, and it is at its peak.

It was during this period of time that Jacky Cheung came in and actually achieved similar single-day data to that of "Fairy Tale".

This shows how great the prestige and appeal of Jacky Cheung is in both Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Even though his "Blessing" is not as popular as Zhou Ziheng's "Fairy Tale", Zhou Ziheng's album is obviously of higher quality and has more good songs.

But there are still a large number of fans willing to pay for it.

This is the benefit of being at the top of the music industry for a long time and having a good reputation.

This is something that the current Zhou Ziheng cannot compare to.

However, Zhou Ziheng would not underestimate himself.

"Fairy Tale" has obviously become a successful album.

The success of this album more or less started to accumulate a large number of fans for Zhou Ziheng.

If he releases one or two more albums whose quality does not decline too terribly, he will be able to achieve the same success as Jacky Cheung. Even if the quality of the songs is not as good as his other songs, there will still be a large number of fans paying for his songs.

Because Jacky Cheung's "Blessing" had great sales on the first day.

PolyGram arranged a large-scale autograph session for Jacky Cheung to stimulate record sales.

In the next two days, Jacky Cheung held several autograph sessions in Hong Kong.

At the same time, PolyGram began to give money to music critics from major newspapers and began to hype up "Blessings".

Of course, as everyone knows, Jacky Cheung and Zhou Ziheng are enemies. The two have been at loggerheads since July and August, and neither of them is willing to give in.

Therefore, while promoting "Blessing", PolyGram was also trying hard to step on Zhou Ziheng.

There are actually only a few ways in which record companies or film and television companies step on each other.

Dig up the other party's black material, expose the other party's scandal, or criticize the other party's work for flaws.

That’s what PolyGram does.

At their instruction, newspapers on good terms with them frequently broke news about Zhou Ziheng.

For example, the matter of him parting ways with Friendship Salon was exaggerated by the media here, who directly said that Zhou Ziheng was ungrateful and kicked out Friendship Salon after he became famous.

Or as a bystander, some people say that Zhou Ziheng does not respect his predecessors and he just arrived in Hong Kong and he relies on the hot sales of his records to smear and attack Jacky Cheung.

Faced with PolyGram's actions, EMi will certainly not sit idly by.

EMi and PolyGram are both large international companies. I can certainly use the same tricks that you can use.

Since you have slandered the singers of my company, I will naturally slander you as well.

Doesn’t Jacky Cheung have any flaws?

some.

No one is perfect, even the best people have flaws.

There have been rumors that Jacky Cheung spent money when he participated in the rookie competition. Although this has not been confirmed, it is still a black spot.

As the saying goes, there is no wind without waves. There must be a reason why some things are mentioned.

Also, in the late 1980s, Jacky Cheung became an alcoholic, fought in nightclubs, urinated and defecated anywhere, and even caused a scene at Anita Mui's birthday party. These are all black spots, and it would be endless to write about them all.

In addition, compared with Jacky Cheung and Chow Yun-fat, each of them is an original creator and they wrote most of the songs themselves.

Among the hundreds of songs released by Jacky Cheung so far, a large number of the popular songs are covers. Isn’t this also a black spot?

You should know that Zhou Ziheng used the phrase "moving expert" to break Jacky Cheung's defense.

The two sides communicated with each other and contacted the media they were on good terms with.

You criticize me today, and I will criticize you tomorrow.

The fact that the two people are not in harmony and dislike each other is once again put on the table.

The quarrel between the two was so intense that not only ordinary people in the city enjoyed talking about it.

Even the major media outlets were excited.

People who work in the media are only responsible for news!

They wish there were people fighting in the newspapers every day so that they would have material to write about.

As a result, all major media outlets came out, each chose an assistant, and started scolding.

As a self-created paparazzi, Next Magazine, which is disliked by most celebrities, has joined Zhou Ziheng's camp.

Well, Zhou Ziheng was rarely in Hong Kong, so they had no chance to take pictures of him, so Zhou Ziheng was one of the few people who had no bad relations with their newspaper.

So, they chose to support Zhou Ziheng.

"Since his debut, Jacky Cheung has been criticized by the audience for his ordinary appearance, which is far inferior to Zhou Ziheng."

Next Magazine did something unconventional and directly attacked Jacky Cheung's appearance.

However, yes newspaper, which was not fond of Zhou Ziheng, supported Jacky Cheung.

A photo of Zhou Ziheng squatting on the street eating steamed buns was published in the publication, "Even if he earns tens of millions, it can't change his country bumpkin temperament."

This report in yes newspaper was the first report Zhou Ziheng saw after coming to Hong Kong.

It was given to him specially by Florence Hui.

"Have you ever offended Ni Zhen?" she asked.

Zhou Ziheng looked at the photos in the publication.

It can be seen that this record was probably secretly photographed when he was filming "The New Hard Times".

After thinking about it carefully, I found that there is indeed a little grudge between the two. As we all know, Ni Zhen is the son of Hong Kong novelist Ni Kuang, and is considered a second-generation.

His favorite thing is to hunt for beauties in the entertainment industry. He also likes to comment on the world from a high-handed perspective like Sicong in later generations.

It just so happened that "The Pacific Ocean" was very popular at that time. Perhaps in order to take advantage of the popularity and attract attention, he commented on Zhou Ziheng in a condescending manner on the show.

His original words were, "He is handsome, but he has no soul."

Zhou Ziheng burst into laughter after hearing this comment.

This guy simply doesn't have the fate of Sicong, but wants to do Sicong's things.

A mediocre novelist, the son of an editor, he really thinks he is the son of Li Ka Shing, or maybe Sicong.

Moreover, the comment Ni Zhen made about him was not his own creation.

But it comes from his aunt Yi Shu.

His aunt Yi Shu is also a famous novelist in Hong Kong. The popular TV series "My First Half of Life" and "The Story of Rose" starring Liu Yifei were written by her.

At the beginning, Ni Zhen was in love with Michelle Reis, and then Ni Zhen and Michelle Reis broke up.

In order to persuade her nephew, Yi Shu used a sentence to describe Li Jiaxin, "She is beautiful, but she has no soul."

Zhou Ziheng didn't expect that this guy would actually use this sentence on him.

So when asked by reporters about Ni Zhen, Zhou Ziheng said on the spot, "I think he should go back and study more about how to write love letters, and stop barking nonsense."

This is a meme.

Zhou Ziheng also found out from reading in the newspaper that Ni Zhen liked to write love poems when pursuing women.

It is said that Michelle Reis and Vivian Chow fell into his hands because of this.

Many media also ridiculed Ni Zhen because of this incident.

And because of this incident, the two of them became estranged from each other.

"Do you want me to ask EMi to find a way to get Yes Newspaper to retract this article?"

Huo Wenxi asked.

The yes newspaper has very good sales and even has many readers in inland cities such as Guangzhou.

It has many fans among young readers.

This report may seem like just an ordinary scandal report, but it can easily make Zhou Ziheng a clown among the youth group.

"No need, EMi will take action when it's time, but this Ni Zhen, his character is not good, and his mind is so small.

Since he wants to be scolded so much, I will help him."

If it comes to the exchange of insults with Jacky Cheung, Zhou Ziheng needs to think carefully, after all, this guy doesn't really have any particularly big scandals.

That's for Ni Zhen.

Zhou Ziheng can easily find a bunch of scandals about him.

Jacky Cheung has been relatively quiet recently. Although he is targeting Zhou Ziheng, he generally stays within the rules of business competition.

On the contrary, it was Ni Zhen who started making personal attacks as soon as he opened his mouth.

He was really upset with him.

Upon hearing this, Florence Hui looked strange.

She probably understood what Zhou Ziheng was going to do.

When this person came, he was asked to collect information about who in Hong Kong had scolded him.

It's obvious that you want to return it.

She had been in contact with Zhou Ziheng for such a long time that she had experienced his ability to curse people in a sarcastic way.

Well, you can ask the moving expert Jacky Cheung for details.

……

Zhou Ziheng had two purposes for coming to Hong Kong this time.

One reason is naturally to promote "Fairy Tale".

At present, PolyGram has arranged a large number of autograph sessions for Jacky Cheung.

Stimulated by the book signing event, the sales of "Blessing" closely followed that of "Fairy Tale".

In order to widen the gap between the two sides, EMi decided to arrange for Zhou Ziheng to hold several large-scale autograph sessions in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other places to stimulate the market.

As for another thing, "New Hard Times" is about to be released.

As the protagonist of this movie, Zhou Ziheng has an obligation to help promote it.

The movie will be released on the 11th, which is just a few days away, and UFO Films hopes that he can follow the crew to promote the film.

Well, by the way, I'm taking advantage of the popularity of his recent record sales.

On the 9th, EMi held a large-scale autograph session for Zhou Ziheng in Happy Valley.

On that day, more than 7,000 fans attended the event.

Even many Hong Kong media heard the news and came to the scene.

It’s eight o’clock in the morning and there’s still some time before the book signing event.

Zhou Ziheng first accepted interviews from the media.

"Hengzi, there are reports that you are ungrateful and abandoned the stage friendship salon that led you to success. Is this true?"

There were a lot of reporters at the scene, at least a dozen media outlets, both large and small.

"Fairy Tale" was a big hit in the Chinese-speaking market, and Zhou Ziheng's popularity was rising. He even faced off against Jacky Cheung without losing. And judging from the current market trend, the sales of Zhou Ziheng's "Fairy Tale" are surpassing Jacky Cheung's "Blessing".

In addition, the camps to which the two belonged cursed each other in the media, which made Zhou Ziheng surprisingly popular in Hong Kong now.

No matter whether the news about him is good or bad, big or small, it never has to worry about sales.

Therefore, when they learned that Zhou Ziheng came to Hong Kong and held a book signing event, a large number of media came uninvited.

“Let me clarify something about the Friendship Salon.

First of all, there is no such thing as being ungrateful. The relationship between me and the Friendship Salon is just like that between a resident singer and a cabaret."

I still need to explain clearly about the matter with Friendship Salon. If I don't, it will be easy to label myself as ungrateful.

A typical example is Dicky Cheung. His lawsuit against his former employer Fat Cat caused a huge discussion and even ruined his popularity among the public.

Although Zhou Ziheng's case cannot be confused with his case.

But if he doesn't make it clear, it can easily affect fans' views of him and ruin his popularity.

Zhou Ziheng pointed at the reporter who asked the question and said, "Suppose a newspaper wants to recruit you to be the editor-in-chief.

Do you think you will go?
If you go, it won't be considered ungrateful, after all, you're leaving your current newspaper."

"This is certainly not ungrateful. I only have a cooperative relationship with the newspaper. The newspaper pays me and I work for the newspaper."

"That's right, if you're not considered ungrateful for leaving, why would I be considered ungrateful for leaving the Friendship Salon?
We are just an employment relationship. I use the platform of Friendship Salon to sing, and then pay a commission to the karaoke bar.

If I don't want to do it anymore and leave, how can I be ungrateful?"

Hearing this, everyone fell silent.

Indeed, what Zhou Ziheng said makes complete sense.

We are just in an employment relationship. If I don’t want to do this job anymore, I will just leave. This is a very normal thing.

You can't be labeled as ungrateful just because you are a celebrity!

(End of this chapter)