Chapter 325: Big News in the Circle and Variety Music

The year 2008 was a special year for the entire China, and it was also a lively year for the entertainment industry.

From the frequent big news at the beginning of the year, to the participation of celebrities in the Olympic Games promotion in the middle of the year, to the big hit of "The Martian" during the National Day, and finally to the end of the year now, it has been equally lively.

The first thing that attracted a lot of attention was that Gong Li and Jet Li were revealed to have changed their citizenship to Singapore.

Even photos of the former taking the oath were disclosed by the media. Although there is currently no direct evidence for the latter, he has never made a public clarification in the face of outside doubts and comments.

Even though people in later generations were very strict about the nationality of celebrities, in fact, people are still very sensitive about it now.

It’s just that because information is not so transparent now, it is difficult for everyone to get to know about the situation of some celebrities and artists joining the citizenship of other countries.

Of course, at this stage, there are not many cases of celebrities acquiring citizenship of other countries.

But suddenly, heavyweight big-name artists like Gong Li and Jet Li switched to citizenship of other countries, which immediately caused a huge uproar.

The outside world was talking about it, and other people in the entertainment industry were also suspected and rumors spread.

In addition, Ni Zheng, the usual scumbag + villain tool man in Hong Kong entertainment, was revealed to have passionately kissed a female college student, and then Jade Girl Zhou announced their breakup.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately aroused public excitement. After all, Zhou Huimin is the white moonlight and goddess of many people.

Damn, it was already jealous enough that this playboy Ni Zheng took away their goddess, and now he is even cheating on her. Netizens and most of the Hong Kong media directly scolded Ni Zheng.

But reality often hits you in unexpected places. Just when everyone was rushing to defend the goddess and criticizing Ni Zheng, less than a week after the breakup statement was released, the two quickly reunited and got married.

This not only shocked all the onlookers, but also made the warriors on the charge road unbelievable and stunned, and finally, they left silently.

In fact, what they don’t know is that this is not what makes them most sad. After the two got married, Ni Zheng was still caught cheating all year round. Various revelations made the Hong Kong media numb, but the two never divorced.

I don't know whether it is in name only and they are doing their own things, or if the goddess is deeply in love with them and will never leave them.

But the outside world feels pity and sympathy for Zhou Huimin, while the outside world is full of anger, resentment and envy towards Ni Zheng!
But anyway, Ni Zheng’s reputation is already bad enough. In the online literature world, this guy has always been positioned as a villain who is repeatedly slapped in the face by the protagonist.

In addition to the Hong Kong circle, a big news also broke out in the Beijing circle.

That is the mainland singer Zang Pangzi who was imprisoned.

Although he is not a popular artist, he has representative works such as "Friends", has appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, and has collaborated with Zhang Yimou and composed the soundtrack for his movie "If You Are the One".

Although he is not well-known to the outside world, he is very famous in the entertainment industry.

He is a well-known big brother in the music industry. When Jackie Chan and Andy Lau came to Beijing to hold a concert, he went straight to disrupt the show and finally had to hire someone to settle the matter.

However, although Fatty Zang was very powerful, he did not dare to show his teeth in front of Liu Zhou. He was not Cheng Long or Liu Dehua, and he did not have deep roots in the capital.

All he relied on were some gangster followers, connections in the Beijing circle, and some other relationships that he boasted about.

These are useful for ordinary celebrities or outsiders, but for Liu Zhou, these are not presentable.

His younger brothers are the kind who bully the good and fear the evil. If there are desperate criminals, Liu Zhou will still look at you straight in the eye, but in front of the violent organs, they are nothing but chickens and dogs.

Not to mention the violent organs, the same thing happened in front of Liu Zhou's bodyguards.

As for the connections in the Beijing circle, the entire Beijing circle can’t do anything to Liu Zhou now, not to mention that he cannot represent the entire Beijing circle.

At the beginning of Liu Zhou's debut, he had already clashed with the Beijing circle, but in the end they were unable to do anything to him.

In Liu Zhou's current view, the Beijing circle is actually the same as the Hong Kong circle before, both of which are a bit self-contained.

He thinks he is superior, but because he controls some resources, he attracts the fawning of some people. Then he becomes arrogant and thinks he can decide life and death with a single word.

Liu Zhou scoffed at this, so from the beginning he never thought of currying favor with the Beijing circle and working as a dog for others.

If he had really done that at that time, he might even have become like the little black fat man, serving as a dog for others, but no one would want him.

So until today, Liu Zhou has never joined any circle, because he knows that in the end no circle will work and only capital will have the say.

Now Liu Zhou itself is a circle, the Jiahe circle.

He has a casual chat with the top leader who manages the entire broadcasting media, has close relations with China Film Group and TV stations, and has the cooperation and curry favor with big companies in the industry such as Bona, Light Media, New Picture, Emperor Entertainment Group, and Media Asia.

In addition, it has unique overseas distribution capabilities and has also opened up Internet channels, which is unique in mainland China.

To put it bluntly, everyone is no longer on the same level. Those Beijing people are still playing with movies and parties, while Liu Zhou is directly planning a strategic layout for the entire industry.

As for the political attributes that group of people were proud of, that is, the powerful connections they boasted about, Liu Zhou found it even more ridiculous.

The level that Liu Zhou is now exposed to is no longer something that those people can imagine, and it is an unspeakable existence in online articles.

Even if we put these relationships aside, Liu Zhou has been building up relationships in the capital for more than ten years, and the connections he has are no joke.

If the fat guy Zang dared to mess up his place, he would have gone in and stepped on the sewing machine long ago.

It's not that Liu Zhou is so awesome, it's just that this guy has too many things on his hands, and if he stabs two of them, he will be in big trouble. Although the fact that Fatty Zang went to jail didn't make much of a splash in the future, it still has a huge impact in 2008.

Not only the outside world, after all, he is a public figure no matter what. This kind of criminal melon has always been of great interest to the public, so the popularity on the Internet is not low.

At the same time, within the circle, the impact is even greater, but it is a positive one.

Earlier, because many people had not yet gotten over the habits of the 90s, celebrities and related people still retained some of the original customs.

For example, Queen Na, her bar in Beijing is a well-known place for people in the circle to negotiate and settle disputes, and she often helps mediate and reconcile both parties.

When she was at the peak of her career in the Hong Kong and Taiwan circles, she dared to force Sister Zhiling to drink and was called the Big Sister.

The reason why she is the big sister is not because she is loyal, but because she is indeed a big sister, a big brother like Fatty Zang.

Now that the incident involving Fatty Zang has come out, the related places and people have immediately quieted down and kept a low profile, and even become afraid to even mention it.

Many big sisters and big brothers have become enthusiastic good sisters and honest big brothers.

The atmosphere of the entire circle was cleared up.

Another thing is that Jay Chou’s new album “Capricorn” has been officially released.

Among many major entertainment news, Jay Chou's new album release still grabbed a lot of headlines. His current popularity is so high that it is hard to imagine in future generations.

In the era of traffic, the popularity and fame of those top stars cannot be compared with Jay Chou at this time.

However, this "Capricorn" is also Jay Chou's last brilliant album.

Since then, due to various reasons including declining creative ability and the overall decline of the record industry, his album sales have plummeted.

Even the album "Capricorn" has shown a significant decline compared to the previous albums.

Liu Zhou was also a fan of Jay Chou in his previous life, but in this life he is quite busy and doesn’t have much free time to listen to his songs.

But it might be a habit brought over from his previous life. If Liu Zhou listened to music, he would usually listen to Jay Chou. He bought every album of his and even asked him to sign them, to make up for the regrets of his previous life.

Of course Liu Zhou also bought this album of "Capricorn".

At this time, Liu Zhou was playing with his son in the yard of the villa while playing this album.

After a while, Xiaobao was a little tired of crawling, and fell asleep in Liu Zhou's arms. The song "Dawn" happened to be played in the album, which made him fall into deep thought.

It’s not that “Dou Xiang” is so beautiful that he is fascinated by it. This song is indeed one of his favorites, but Liu Zhou now will not have too much emotional fluctuation just because of a song.

Liu Zhou was thinking of another thing, which was the future music market.

In the future, copyright of music will be increasingly valued, just like movies and TV series.

As a part of the entertainment industry, Liu Zhou found that he had not yet made any arrangements in the music field.

In the future, with the arrival of the traffic era, the music industry will decline, but music will not. Popular variety shows are almost inseparable from music.

Speaking of variety shows, Liu Zhou thought that it seemed like it was time to start making efforts in the field of variety shows.

The variety show market is also a huge gold mine. In the future, Star Culture was able to be listed on the Hong Kong stock market simply by relying on the copyright of "The Voice of China". Its market value reached as high as 40 to 50 billion Hong Kong dollars at its peak.

This shows how much money-making ability the variety show "The Voice of China" has.

So Liu Zhou thought that Golden Harvest Group also needed to develop its variety show business. Since it wanted to become a full-industry entertainment group, how could it do without variety shows?

Moreover, the mainland variety show market is just emerging now. Not to mention "The Voice of China", some other popular variety shows in the past can also take over.

As for the music field, Liu Zhou doesn't want to set up a music company. Now even Jay Chou's albums are not selling well, and setting up a music company is simply a waste of energy.

He is interested in music websites and online copyrights of music.

Liu Zhou felt that he had to remind Wang Yan later that whether Sina Group established its own website or acquired another, it would need to have its own music website.

In the future, music platforms will also be an important part of the pan-entertainment industry.

However, Liu Zhou prefers acquisitions. Companies like Kugou, Kuwo and Tiantian Jingting are all good acquisition targets and are not difficult to acquire.

As for the online copyright of music, it is not too late to acquire it now.

Now film and television companies have begun to pay attention to the online copyright of movies and TV series. After all, the competition among video websites has become quite fierce.

Music is easier to pirate than videos, and several music websites are doing fine, so music companies do not pay much attention to the online copyright of music.

But this is also the last chance to get it easily.

(End of this chapter)