Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 153: Targeting Europe and America, Unstoppable

EMi was very quick. She finished filming the commercial in mid-November, and on the 26th, the album's title song "As Long As You Love Me" officially began to chart on major radio stations.

It has been said before that Zhou Ziheng has a certain number of fans in Europe and the United States.

The huge Chinese community is his basic group.

These Chinese people are able to live in the United States and Canada, they understand English, and are very receptive to English songs.

Therefore, after the title song "As Long As You Love Me" was released on Chinese radio stations in the United States and Canada, it quickly became popular among these Chinese people.

In just three days, the song entered the top three of the Chinese radio chart released that week in Canada.

After the song became popular on Chinese radio, EMi Records immediately increased its resource investment and began to put the song's MV on television for broadcast.

At the same time, other radio stations that did not originally play Chinese songs contacted EMi immediately after seeing the popularity of this song on Chinese radio stations, obtained the record, and began to play it on English radio stations.

At the beginning, this song was only popular among a small number of Chinese people.

As word of mouth spread and with huge exposure and publicity, other groups were also attracted to the song after hearing it. Gradually, it was visibly that the song began to become popular in Canada, the United States and other places.

In the second week of the song's release, it ranked in the top ten of the charts in many cities in Canada and the United States.

EMi Records has counted that in the United States, this song has reached the top ten of thirteen radio stations.

Canada had fewer, but also had nine stations in the top ten.

"Increase the publicity, this song is about to become a hit."

Jim Fefield, head of EMi America, announced to the publicity department.

The same is true in Canada.

A lot of news about the song began to appear in the media.

"A detailed discussion on why Chinese singer Zhou Ziheng's songs suddenly became popular."

"A Chinese person actually sang a song that is about to become a big hit."

"He is the first Chinese man to have so many listeners in Europe and America."

A large number of reports about Zhou Ziheng's song appeared in the news, guiding the public who didn't know him to get to know him and understand his songs.

This is a common tactic used by record companies in this era.

It's old fashioned, but it often works well.

On December 6th, "As Long As You Love Me" had already achieved good results on the radio.

EMi released the album's second promotional track, "I Want It That Way".

With "As Long As You Love Me" leading the way, "I Want It That Way" began to rise at an extremely fast speed immediately after it was released.

That week, the song directly landed in the top ten of seven charts.

Obviously, these two songs have started to gain momentum.

When these two songs were released in the United States and Canada and began to gain traction and achieve impressive results, radio stations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and other places also released these two songs.

However, unlike the indiscriminate propaganda in the United States and Canada, the propaganda in Asia is much less intense.

There should be a focus when promoting this thing.

This album will be widely distributed in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

It can almost be said to be a global release.

There are so many places, and if a lot of resources were invested in each of them, the number would definitely be astronomical.

Instead, it is better to concentrate resources in one or two places.

And apparently, America is such a place.

This is the world's largest record market and the center of current pop music.

Songs that are popular here can attract attention in other places without any large-scale promotion.

Not to mention Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Whenever a song performs well on any chart in the United States, a large number of media will spontaneously promote it for you.

Therefore, when the promotion was booming in America, no resources were invested in Asia.

"Zhou Ziheng's English songs are very nice, why don't they seem to be popular at all?" "I feel the same way, the radio stations haven't even promoted them."

However, this situation did not last long.

After "As Long As You Love Me" reached the top ten of multiple radio charts in the United States and Canada, the media in Hong Kong and Taiwan were collectively excited.

"On the third week of the song's release, Zhou Ziheng's new album has already achieved a dazzling result of more than a dozen top ten charts in the United States."

"Is Zhou Ziheng arrogant or does he have real talent?"

"Zhou Ziheng's new song has reached the top ten of thirteen charts in the United States. He is already unstoppable"

With the help of the media, radio stations began to actively promote Zhou Ziheng's English songs.

In Macau, Jacky Cheung is participating in a radio interview.

Before the interview, he had a private chat with the radio DJ.

The radio DJ has a good relationship with him. He usually releases records and will be a guest on this DJ's show when he is free.

Therefore, this DJ also seems to speak very casually.

"Xueyou, you were too impulsive about the bet."

"What do you mean?" Jacky Cheung asked puzzledly.

He has been busy promoting his new song recently and hasn't paid attention to Zhou Ziheng's record for about a week.

Seeing this, the DJ rummaged around and found a specially made vinyl record.

Before a singer's album hits the charts, the record company will send the album to the radio station for playback.

Generally, what we get are vinyl records, which are not easy to be copied or pirated.

In order to distinguish it from other records, the versions given to radio stations are usually special.

It is no exaggeration to say that for those who like to collect records, these things are out of print.

Jacky Cheung has sharp eyes and recognized the person on the album cover at a glance.

"Zhou Ziheng's English album?"

"Yes, you may not know this, but this guy's album is already very popular in the United States and Canada. In its third week on the charts, it has reached more than 20 top ten positions in Canada and the United States combined," said the DJ.

Hearing this, Jacky Cheung’s eyelids twitched.

It was in the top ten of more than 20 radio charts, especially in the United States and Canada. This is undoubtedly a big hit.

The DJ unpacked the record, took it out and put it into the record player.

The music starts playing.

“Although loneliness has always been a friend of mine
I'm leaving my life in your hands
People say I'm crazy and that I am blind
......"

The quality of this record is very good, and the sound is like the person himself singing softly in your ear.

Jacky Cheung inevitably frowned.

He almost thought it was Zhou Ziheng who was next to him.

However, he soon focused on the singing.

The more he listened, the more his brows furrowed.

"I miscalculated! Mmmm, I'm not going to lose!"

Thinking of the two million in the bet, Jacky Cheung felt a pain in his heart.