Comments on: The sales squabble continued

By: hobielover

hobielover — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:46:30 +0000

@Merry: Yes, the “J” is for Jay, but the “V” is for Vincent Fang and the “R” is from JR Yang’s name. I suppose you are right about them being the founders of their respective companies. Even though JVR also has Nan Quan Mama and Gary Yang now, without Jay, there would be no JVR Music. I don’t know. Maybe the interviewers caught on of Jay’s employees on a bad day? In any case, I hope they didn’t really just say that, and this all just fades into the background. I also hope Jay sees the error of his ways and sees why Mayday’s album is selling so well. Perhaps S.H.E and Jolin have been a bad influence on him.

I do agree that the whole thing is rather childish. Why should anyone be fighting for #1 on a chart on which, only a few weeks ago, S.H.E was #1?

By: Wenning

Wenning — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:21:29 +0000

true… typo typo orz

By: Wenning

Wenning — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:20:24 +0000

Oh well, May Day has been selling out in quite a number of places in Singapore, people who were listening to them previously are buying the album so it is ture that they have been selling very well. I am also expecting them to continue selling well in the first quarter of 2009 as they are having more concerts after January.
The music should be more important than sales figures but I am not seeing that in Jay’s new album. He seems more concerned about sales and how many expensive MVs he’s going to make. I was at this CD shop last night and May Day topped their best seller list with JJ Lin in the second place. Jay was third. So is JVR going to complain about JJ Lin too since he is distributed by a big record company? Probably not, as they are friends. The whole things is quite silly as JVR comes across as petty and arrogant. If I were their PR company, I would advise them not to say anything more damaging.

By: Jing

Jing — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:23:23 +0000

In a world where sales no longer accurately measures the quality of the music, I’d say this whole argument is pointless and slightly childish.

The time spent arguing about sales figures should be used instead in trying to produce better music, especially for Jay. If the time comes again when every song on his album gets through to people’s hearts without the use of music videos or excessive marketing, I’m sure he wouldn’t need to worry about another singer/band topping him in sales.

By: random leon

random leon — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:37:24 +0000

why is it so incredible to JVR that mayday is selling a lot of albums? and why are they obsessed with having the sales record? if your albums aren’t selling as well as other albums, maybe consider the outrageous, outlandish possibility that maybe perhaps maybe your album isn’t up to par? i hope this proves to be a wake-up call for jay to shift his focus back on actually making decent music.

By: Merry

Merry — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:39:41 +0000

Heh, hobielover, you might be even more optimistic than I am… doesn’t the “J” in JVR refer to Jay? If it was SonyBMG and Rock Records arguing about sales I’d agree, but I’m not sure how much Jay can claim that JVR doesn’t speak for him, same with Mayday and B’in Music. In both cases, the artists are the ones who founded the companies.

If the whole thing ends quickly (and this is the last we ever hear about it), that’ll make it easier for Jay and Mayday to say it had nothing to do with them. Beyond that I don’t see how they could.

By: hobielover

hobielover — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:17:26 +0000

I have found something that seems to point to Jay himself not being upset over the sales figures. There’s a little audio clip on Jay2U of Jay acting as a DJ, you see, and the first song he played was his own “时光机,” but right after that, he introduced Mayday’s song of the same name. It has to be a rather recent clip, and it was just posted today. So, if Jay himself is mad about Mayday outselling him last week, why would he play one of their songs?

I hope Jay’s company and Mayday’s company get things straightened out without any trouble between the artists.

By: rhea

rhea — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:12:51 +0000

i’ve heard both quite a few times, and I really have to say that Jay’s latest is perhaps his most mediocre album to date. There’s alot of borrowed themes/background effects/ideas etc that are in direct relation to his past hits. Mayday’s on the other hand, becomes increasingly intriguing the more you hear it, and it’s obvious that its a very well crafted album. Based on that, i’m not surprised Mayday beat Jay. Jay needs to take an artistic break anyway, i think he’s reached a point where he’s having difficulty coming up with ground-breaking material…