Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 125 Zhou Ziheng blew the horn of the rise of mainland music

Time passed by minute by minute.

In two hours, Zhou Ziheng sang half of all his songs.

No more, no less, when the last song was sung, the concert came to an end.

His debut album was released in August 1992.

To date, he has released three official albums, plus the "Golden Boy and Jade Girl" he collaborated with Yang Yuying, which should make a total of three and a half albums.

There are thirty-five songs in total.

Apart from a few unpopular songs, there are also "Laughing at the Wind and Clouds" and a new version of "Xiao Fang" sung by guests such as Li Chunbo and Zhou Ziheng.

No more, no less, just in time for the concert to end.

Although it was already ten o'clock, the fans obviously didn't want to leave.

that is the truth.

Every popular singer will encounter this situation. From the beginning to the end of the concert, fans will always refuse to leave.

Fortunately, Zhou Ziheng's fans are relatively obedient.

After Zhou Ziheng persuaded them for a few minutes, people began to leave one after another.

……

Zhou Ziheng's first concert was obviously a success.

At least in terms of influence, it was successful.

He is the first mainland singer to hold a concert for tens of thousands of people.

The next morning, news about the concert dominated all entertainment newspapers in the mainland, big and small.

Even the People's Daily gave it a small space.

The title is, "Zhou Ziheng sounded the clarion call for the rise of mainland music."

From an official perspective, Zhou Ziheng's rise is indeed of extraordinary significance.

At this time, the theme of our country's development is to connect with the world.

As the mainland singer with the greatest influence in Southeast Asia, Zhou Ziheng represents our country's reputation.

The various meanings it represents are many and huge.

However, compared to these various meanings.

The general public apparently doesn't care too much about these twists and turns.

They care more about entertainment.

The audio-visual world is obviously deeply rooted in the Hong Kong and Taiwan entertainment newspapers.

For the first time, he published an article titled "Zhou Ziheng sang on Tianhe, attracting tens of thousands of people to sing along, and Jacky Cheung expressed his admiration."

Jacky Cheung must have been confused after seeing this news.

When did he give in?
He didn't say a word!

But there is no point in being confused. What entertainment newspapers like to do most is to praise one person and put down another.

In Hong Kong, except for neutral newspapers, most newspapers tend to favor Jacky Cheung.

It would be said that Zhou Ziheng is actually not as good as Jacky Cheung in all aspects.

But in the mainland, the situation is reversed, and the mainland media clearly supports Zhou Ziheng more.

In their descriptions, they often step down Jacky Cheung to elevate Zhou Ziheng.

And this is often what the general public likes, they like this kind of gossip very much.

It is said that this issue of Audio-Visual World was sold out because of this article.

The audio-visual world attaches great importance to the impact of this article and is preparing to set up a special department to track and report on entertainment stars.

To be honest, Zhou Ziheng was at a loss whether to laugh or cry about this.

He also didn't expect that because of him, the paparazzi from the mainland would appear first.

I don’t know whether this is good or bad.

Except the mainland.

After Zhou Ziheng's first concert, it attracted a certain amount of attention in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places.

Several media outlets used the photo of Zhou Ziheng sitting in front of the piano and playing as their cover.

Titles vary.

The first solo singer in the mainland to hold a concert with 10,000 people appeared

"Zhou Ziheng's concert appearance is stunning"

"The mainland music scene is catching up with Hong Kong and Taiwan at a very fast pace. The first organizer of a concert with 10,000 people has appeared."

Not only the media pays attention to it, but the singers also take it seriously.

Zhou Ziheng's concert with tens of thousands of people made singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan pay attention to the mainland market.

In the past two years, the mainland record market has begun to account for an increasingly larger proportion in the Chinese-speaking regions.

Even if it is just selling tapes, the sales are very good, and it is an important focus for many cross-regional singers.

Now, Zhou Ziheng has held another concert for tens of thousands of people.

This immediately made record companies and singers realize that the mainland market is indeed not what it used to be.

As the saying goes, if there is one, there will be two, and if there are two, there will be three.

The first solo concert has attracted over 10,000 people.

Is the second game still far away?
For record companies and singers, this means nothing else.

There is only one thing that they attach great importance to.

That is, if they held a concert in the mainland, would there be so many people?

If so, does that mean they can make a lot of money here?

As a result, everyone turned their attention to Zhou Ziheng's second Tianhe concert.

According to information released by Zhou Ziheng, the tickets for his second concert were also sold out, with more than 13,000 tickets already sold out.

Many people are skeptical about the data released by Zhou Ziheng.

After all, data falsification has almost become the norm in this day and age.

In order to gild the reputation of their own singers, major record companies have often falsified the data of their own singers.

Sales of one million are reported as three million, and sales of five million are directly reported as ten million.

Don’t even mention the statistics from Zhou Ziheng’s concert.

Even Zhou Ziheng’s record data is not believed by many people.

Therefore, in order to find out the truth, major record companies temporarily sent people to the concert to continue observing.

Lee Zhenxiong was the person sent by PolyGram.

Last year, Jacky Cheung did come to the mainland to hold a concert, but it was only one concert, also in Tianhe, and the number of people was only about 7,000.

If Lee Jin-hsiung proves that Zhou Ziheng did have over 10,000 people attending his two concerts.

And if the attendance at subsequent concerts in other cities is also high, PolyGram will immediately launch a touring plan and allow Jacky Cheung to start a tour in the mainland as well.

After Lee Zhenxiong arrived in Guangzhou, he immediately contacted scalpers to inquire about tickets for Zhou Ziheng's concert tonight.

Zhou Ziheng's second concert starts tonight, so apart from scalpers or fans buying tickets, you will definitely not be able to find them anywhere else.

Through PolyGram's record distribution partner in Guangzhou, Lee Zhenxiong quickly contacted a scalper and met with him at a restaurant near Tianhe Stadium at 11 a.m.

"What? Six hundred? Are you selling golden songs?"

After meeting, Lee Zhenxiong immediately took out money to buy tickets.

As a result, after hearing the scalper's offer, Li Zhenxiong was stunned.

six hundred.

The scalper charged him 600 yuan for an ordinary seat ticket that only cost more than 50 yuan.

Li Zhenxiong just thought that this guy was crazy, completely crazy.

"My friend, it's up to you whether you want it or not. It's six hundred dollars, not a cent less."

The scalper was a bald man with a face full of fat. He had a big gold chain around his neck and a leather bag in his hands, looking like he had suddenly become rich.

He looked arrogant and said, "Let me tell you this, Zhou Ziheng's concert tickets are not hard to sell. Recently, many Hong Kong and Taiwan fans have come to buy tickets. If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again. I only have these two tickets.

You certainly won't find it anywhere else.

But, since you asked me to come here, even if you don’t want to, you still have to give me a hundred dollars for travel expenses.”

Hearing this, Li Zhenxiong immediately became angry.

He was involved in gangs in Hong Kong in his early years.

I have a bad temper.

Now, this guy was clearly trying to trick him. How could he tolerate it? He was going to take action on the spot.

Fortunately, his colleague Xiao Liu held him back.

You have to pull it! .

If he really does that, he won't be able to leave the hotel today.

Because Xiao Liu clearly saw that several big men had stood up in the restaurant. No matter how powerful you are in Hong Kong, when you come to Guangzhou, you have to coil up like a dragon and lie down like a tiger.

A strong dragon will not suppress a local snake. This is an eternal law.

Not to mention, it is still unclear who is the dragon and who is the snake.

"Brother, we accept the responsibility. Here is a hundred yuan, please accept it." Xiao Liu hurriedly took out a hundred yuan and handed it to the other party.

After getting the money, the scalper didn't make things difficult for them. He looked at the two of them arrogantly and left with his people.

"What kind of people are they! Blackmailing us openly!"

Li Zhenxiong slammed the table angrily.

Xiao Liu didn't say anything, but suggested: "Let's forget about the scalpers, they will definitely blackmail us.

I suggest we go directly to those fans.

It shouldn’t be expensive when they buy it, we should be able to buy the ticket if we pay a little more.”

Hearing this, Li Zhenxiong nodded. This was indeed the only way.

The two of them packed up and went out, running straight to the entrance of Tianhe Stadium to wait. Whenever they met someone who looked like a fan of Zhou Ziheng, they would go up to them and ask for their tickets at a high price.

Lee Zhenxiong and his partner only needed a few tickets, just two, so it was not difficult to buy them.

It’s just the price!
The two of them spent more than three hundred yuan to get an ordinary ticket that cost more than fifty yuan.

During this period, the two also discovered that in addition to them, there were other people who were also involved in the vote-buying process.

From their accents and dress, they discovered that these guys were also from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and should be in the same industry as them.

It is obvious that many companies from Hong Kong and Taiwan have sent people here.

……

Zhou Ziheng didn't know that record companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan had actually sent people to watch his concert.

Moreover, many people were directly blackmailed by scalpers.

In fact, he wouldn't be surprised even if he knew.

Scalpers are some of the indispensable people at concerts.

Don't think they are all a bunch of wannabes.

In fact, these people are not simple.

Those who can work as scalpers are often local people with extensive interpersonal relationships.

Many are organized and disciplined.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to buy a bunch of tickets at once.

After all, those tickets required them to buy them with real money.

Zhou Ziheng himself certainly doesn't want his tickets to be sold at sky-high prices by scalpers.

This is very degrading.

But scalpers cannot be banned.

Especially in this day and age.

To a certain extent, if there were no scalpers, your tickets might not be sold.

It is impossible for every fan to run to the stadium to buy tickets.

Most of them actually bought their tickets from scalpers.

It’s just that some scalpers are scammers, while others only make a certain profit from the price difference.

Plus, it was Zhou Ziheng’s first concert.

Therefore, it is inevitable that scalpers will take advantage of the loopholes and pocket large numbers of tickets.

However, Zhou Ziheng has already realized the problem of scalpers.

If left unchecked, his tickets would definitely be driven up to sky-high prices by these guys.

Scalpers earn more than singers, and this happened frequently in the 1990s.

So, he has made his decision.

He had no way of banning scalpers during this first round of concerts.

I can only be well prepared next time and try to allow only one person to buy one ticket.

This way, scalpers can be prohibited from buying dozens or hundreds of tickets at a time.

Although it certainly can't be banned, it should still have a certain effect.

……

On the afternoon of July 1994, 3.

Zhou Ziheng arrived at the gymnasium early to start preparing and met tonight's guests at around five o'clock.

Gan Ping, an old friend, I’ve met her before.

For a period of time, Li Chunbo pursued her.

Unfortunately, she didn't seem to like Li Chunbo.

Shanying Band is currently the first ethnic minority rock band in mainland China.

Zhou Ziheng still has a good impression of this group.

His hometown in his previous life was Panzhihua, Sichuan, close to Liangshan, so he was considered a half-fellow villager.

The Mountain Eagle combination is indeed a relatively excellent combination.

Zhou Ziheng has also heard their songs.

"Walking Out of Daliang Mountain" and "Torch Festival in July" are both very good songs.

And it just so happened that these two songs were exactly the ones they were going to sing at the concert.

The Shanying band consists of three members, led by Jikequbu, who is also the band's creator.

He is the composer of both of the above songs.

Oh! By the way, the lyricist of these two songs is Chen Xiaoqi.

Zhou Ziheng really admires Chen Xiaoqi.

This guy's skills are really strong.

The melodies of these two songs by the Shanying band have a very strong ethnic minority flavor.

But Chen Xiaoqi's lyrics fit in perfectly with it.

"Mr. Zhou!" The three members of the Mountain Eagle Group seemed a little restrained after arriving at the scene.

"Don't be nervous. I heard that you have held large-scale performances in Sichuan. Just treat this performance as a normal one."

Zhou Ziheng shook hands with the three of them and comforted them.

The three were signed to Pacific by Chen Xiaoqi.

Before Chen Xiaoqi left Pacific, they were all Chen Xiaoqi's direct descendants.

Since Chen Xiaoqi asked me to let them debut at his concert, I naturally have to take care of them.

“In fact, I listened to your song “Torch Festival in July”, it’s a very good song.

I think the audience will like your song."

Zhou Ziheng said with a smile.

"Really? It's our honor to receive your praise, Mr. Zhou."

Jikequbu said cautiously.

All three of them were from ethnic minorities and spoke with heavy accents, but Zhou Ziheng didn't care. Instead, he enthusiastically arranged for someone to take them to rehearsal.

Zhou Ziheng himself had felt the strange looks from others in Hong Kong.

So he won't look at others in this way.

Even if they have a heavy accent.

After arranging the Shanying band and Gan Ping, Zhou Ziheng began to prepare for tonight's performance.

Thanks to yesterday's performance, everything today is going smoothly.

Zhou Ziheng himself no longer felt nervous at all.

Time passed quickly.

Around five o'clock, the audience began to enter.

Tonight's performance will start a little earlier than yesterday.

It started at eight o'clock yesterday.

Today it arrived earlier at seven o'clock, and two hours later it was exactly nine o'clock.

This is mainly for the fans' consideration.