Entertainment 1998

Chapter 405 Chapter 404, Time Magazine Cover Character

I have to say that Universal Music Asia President Zheng Donghan understands marketing!
Jiang Feng had just won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actor in mainland China. The next day, the title song "Hometown" from his Mandarin rock music album "Fly Higher" began to top the major domestic music charts.

And there are not just one song on the charts, but five songs together, namely "Fly Higher", "Life in Bloom", "I Love You China" and "Spring".

In the beginning, many domestic radio stations complained about the dominance of Universal Music. Yes, we encourage domestic musicians to recommend their best music works to our radio station.

But you have to follow the rules, right?!
Isn't it okay to have a hit song every week?
However, after Zheng Donghan's assistant gave them a reason, the radio stations agreed very happily.

"At present, the English rock music album "Natural" has sold more than 600 million copies abroad, and many domestic fans believe it is the work of Jiang Feng.

Okay then.

We are releasing Jiang Feng's five rock songs online together, with the goal of letting fans make a comprehensive comparison and see what the difference is between the English album with a strong heavy metal rock sound and Jiang Feng's own rock music songs. "

Driven by this topic and Jiang Feng's winning of the Best Actor Award at the Golden Eagle Awards, the five songs quickly occupied the top positions on domestic radio stations once they were released.

Especially the song "Hometown", which has now become the most requested song on every radio station. In fact, many listeners feel that listening to it once is not enough, and they even call the radio station and strongly request that the song "Hometown" be played again.

On October 10, on the eve of the release of Jiang Feng's new album "Fly Higher", the five new songs that were put online were ranked in the top ten of various mainland charts. Even in Hong Kong and Taiwan, three of the songs were at the top of the charts.

This kind of grand event is the first of its kind in the Chinese music scene.

Therefore, the "Contemporary Music" magazine, which had previously set a trap for Jiang Feng, decided to temporarily add an issue for him. The purpose was to analyze and predict the impact of Jiang Feng's rock music album on the Chinese music scene, and whether this music album and "Natural" were the works of the same person.

This is also the 7th time that Jiang Feng has appeared on the cover of "Contemporary Music" alone. If joint appearances are counted, this is the 9th time.

You have to know that "Contemporary Music" is a bimonthly magazine. Even with a few special issues in a year, it does not exceed thirty issues. Jiang Feng's frequency can be said to be dominating the screen.

At the same time, this is not the first time that "Contemporary Music" has published a special issue for Jiang Feng.

In early 99, when it was confirmed that the sales of Jiang Feng's first music album "Twilight" had exceeded 600 million copies, "Contemporary Music" did a special issue for this; some time ago, Jiang Feng topped the Chinese pop music scene at the Formosa Province Golden Melody Awards, and "Contemporary Music" also did a special issue for this.

Today, Jiang Feng’s Mandarin rock music album has not been released yet, it is just on the charts, but "Contemporary Music" couldn’t help but jump out to "cash in on the popularity", and maybe they will still release a new special issue in the future.

"Contemporary Music" is here to take advantage of the popularity, while Universal Music is here to create the popularity.

Before, Jiang Feng had never held any album release conferences for the several albums he released, but this time, with Universal Music, Jiang Feng had a high-level music album release conference.

Their treatment is comparable to that of international superstars.

This time, Universal Music not only invited nearly a hundred entertainment media from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and other Asian countries, but Jiang Feng even saw a dozen blond-haired and blue-eyed foreigners at the scene. Upon asking, he found out that they were from the United States and the United Kingdom.

The latter is the BBC, which is hated by everyone, and the former is the famous Time magazine. Of course, this is the Asian version.

Let’s not talk about the BBC, they go wherever there is news; the latter, Time magazine, was actually invited by Universal Music. Zheng Donghan’s purpose was very simple, which was to make Jiang Feng the cover character of Time magazine.

In fact, even if Universal Music did not invite him, Time Asia wanted to do an exclusive interview with Jiang Feng and even considered putting him on the cover.

It is still in the investigation period. Well, to be more precise, they want to see whether Jiang Feng has any relationship with the English music album "Natural". After a systematic review, they will consider how to treat Jiang Feng in the interview.

The arrival of numerous Asian media and two important international media made Jiang Feng's press conference particularly grand.

Many entertainment reporters who only pay attention to the mainland have just realized that Jiang Feng now has a certain influence worldwide. It may be a bit of an exaggeration to call him the King of Asia, but if you add a small word in the middle, it should not be a big problem.

On October 10th, at 24pm, Jiang Feng, together with "Fly Higher" producer Zhang Yadong and Universal Music Asia President Zheng Donghan attended the press conference.

The flashing lights almost blinded the three people. After they sat down, they introduced the album according to the procedure, and the reporters began to ask questions one by one.

Long before the press conference, Universal Music had already made arrangements. All the reporters who came were given red envelopes, so their questions were very measured and Jiang Feng handled them with ease.

Reporter: "Jiang Feng, it is said that all the songs in your rock music album are related to a movie called "Beijing Music and Road"? "

Jiang Feng: "Yes, these rock songs can be said to be propositional essays. Director Zhang Wanting of "Beijing Music and Road" asked me to write whatever I wanted, and I wrote whatever I wrote on the set of the movie."

Reporter: "Do you feel constrained when creating something like this? It's like the movies in your country. Director Jiang Wen described it as dancing in shackles."

Jiang Feng: "It is a little bit restrictive, but if you are capable enough, you can practice the Half-Step Collapse Fist even in a small cell."

Reporter: "Regarding the rock music album "Fly Higher", Jiang Feng, how many platinum do you think its sales can reach?"

Jiang Feng: "As for sales, the higher the better, of course. But according to my judgment, the sales of this somewhat niche rock music album should not exceed 240 million copies."

……

Everything is going well.

After all, Universal Music had already communicated with all the major media outlets before, so they asked simple questions so as not to make things difficult for Jiang Feng.

However, just as the press conference was coming to an end, the BBC reporter stood up on his own initiative.

"Jiang Feng, is the music album "Natural" that is currently very popular in the European and American music markets your work?

Because regarding this matter, both the music king Michael Jackson and his agent Frank DiLeo have come out to publicly deny that this music album has nothing to do with them.

But when reporters narrowed their speculation and cast their suspicious eyes on you, you kept being vague.

The same is true for your music company Universal Music. Now, on behalf of all your fans, I want to ask you, is [Feng] you? "

"Um…"

When Jiang Feng heard this question, he took a deep breath.

"Yes, [Feng] is me!"

"what…"

All the reporters were stunned.

After all, speculation is one thing, and the person involved admitting it personally is another.

However, after being surprised, many mainland reporters clenched their fists.

wipe…

Unexpectedly, [Feng], who turned the European and American music scene upside down with just one album, turned out to be Jiang Feng himself!

(End of this chapter)