246 Creating a New Era of Music
Rolling Stone records were released very quickly. On September 2, many news media began to hype the news about Ye Fan and Ren Xianqi's "Double Dragon Showdown" and "Brothers War".
Subsequently, when other news media on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places saw these news, they immediately smelled the hot gossip and joined in the news hype one after another.
Suddenly, news about the duel between the two spread throughout the country.
The biggest brother in the Mainland music scene VS the best brother in the Taiwanese music scene. This stunt is very important and makes their fans and the public excited.
After all, after "Love in the Pacific" came out, it is no exaggeration for Xiao Qi to be called the top brother in the music industry in Wanwan.
Even people in the domestic music industry can't help but look askance at this, not to mention the singers who are currently having a lively competition.
A certain king, Xie Xiaofeng, not to mention jealous, EASON, Yang Qianhua, and Ku Juji and Han Hong, who will release a new album on September 1st, are jealous.
Singers who will release new albums in September, such as Jacky Cheung and Lin Jiying, will pay special attention to it, because if this showdown is well-hyped, the continued popularity of the news will definitely affect them.
Warner received Ye Fan's notice and knew the Rolling Stone's intentions. Although Ye Fan's popularity was already high enough, good publicity would also make "Light Chasers" more famous overseas.
Therefore, Xu Zhiwei, Zhou Jianhui and Xu Zhongmin discussed it together and furthered the matter in three places.
However, Ye Fan's strength and reputation are even better, and Warner's participation is very strong.
Xu Zhiwei and others disagree with the term "Double Dragon Duel". They believe that the duel between the two is more appropriately called "Enter the Dragon".
After Ye Fan heard this statement, he thought about it and agreed. He and Xiao Qi had a good relationship, but when it came to interests, they had to fight over what should be fought.
After "friendly" communication between Warner and Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone could only agree with this statement and informed their media to change "Double Dragon Showdown" to "Enter the Dragon".
Xiao Qi is still a kind person. He knows this situation and has no objection. After all, he is not willing to touch Ye Fan in the first place. It is good for Ye Fan to agree because of his face.
But the gap in strength and fame between the two is visible to the naked eye, and Ichiban can accept it. After all, how many people in the Chinese music world can rival Ye Fan now?
In fact, if the music industry wants to attract attention, it would be most effective to engage in various duels and competitions such as "Black and White Battle" and "Jordan VS Bad Boys" like the NBA.
In the Chinese music scene, there is far away "Tan and Zhang Zhenghe". Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung each dominate the Hong Kong music scene.
Recently, there are the "Four Heavenly Kings", whose popularity is sweeping across the Taiwan Strait and three places. When Ye Fan and Xiao Qi are not out, they even surpass all the Chinese music singers.
As long as there are awards or major events in the music industry, the Four Heavenly Kings are indispensable.
But now Tan and Zhang are not as active in the music scene as before. Although the Four Heavenly Kings are still at their peak, they have also begun to transform.
With the emergence of Ye Fan and Xiao Qi, people understand that they are being caught up or even surpassed by the two, and they are no longer the brightest stars in the music world!
Now the two are working together to create "Enter the Dragon". Although the initial purpose is competition, the improvement of their status in the Chinese music scene will be huge!
It is rare that Ye Fan also agreed to this plan. Warner and the Rolling Stones, the old enemies, had a rare tacit understanding for a while and decided to work together to popularize the concept of "Enter the Dragon" and create a new era for the new generation of kings in the Chinese music world!
Although Ye Fan agreed to let people use his name to promote him, Ren Xianqi is Rolling Stone's own artist, so they naturally support Xiao Qi at all costs.
There is no doubt about Ye Fan's status in Warner Bros., especially after Xu Zhiwei saw the English version of "Light Years Away", he even guessed Ye Fan's ambition.
If Ye Fan can also compose high-quality English songs and break into the European and American music scene, then his status in Warner will be improved to a higher level, and there is a chance that he can be transferred to Warner's US headquarters!
It is about his own future. As the boss of Warner China, Xu Zhiwei also decided to show his courage and let Ye Fan see his strength!
Thanks to the joint efforts of both parties, "Enter the Dragon" has never been off the hot search list. During this period, there are only two names in the entire Chinese music scene, Ye Fan and Ren Xianqi!
The two people who were already popular are now even more popular. In addition to their rising fame domestically, their fame is also rising rapidly overseas.
Of course, if you want to become an iconic symbol of the new era of Chinese music, you can't just rely on hype, you also need to have real achievements.
Otherwise, a few people would randomly appear and form an iphone4, a snake group, Feihai, 184club, 6677 or IQ Lihe.
Then the media hyped them up and hyped them up as the same existence as the "Four Heavenly Kings". Then we should write and sing whatever songs we want and let the media lead the development of the music scene.
Then just wait and see gossips such as "discord between face and heart", "double-faced person", "sexual orientation", "everyone takes the blame when singing and overturning" or "sleeping fans enter prison and step on sewing machines".
So no matter when you don't have works and strength in the entertainment industry, you will never be strong.
Otherwise, in later generations, why would acting talents and veteran drama stars be able to turn around frequently? A certain baby's resources would plummet after she divorced her "too much trouble".
A certain baby made our Chinese brother confused when he filmed a crying scene for just a few seconds. After the divorce, he had to spend his own money to buy hot searches for his birthday, tsk tsk!
Not to mention that Zhao Xiaoyuan's resources were reduced after her divorce, and Yang Xiaohu became a "desperate mother", firmly dominating the small screen and becoming an evergreen tree in the entertainment industry.
Therefore, to forcibly raise one's own status is to deceive oneself and others, and will also cause ridicule and contempt from the public in the industry and outside.
If virtue is not matched, there will be disaster!
Nowadays, the momentum of "Enter the Dragon" has been boosted by Warner and Rolling Stone's joint efforts.
Whether we can maintain this symbol of the new music era and make this title solid and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people depends on whether the duel and influence between the two are exciting enough!
If you want to give a specific standard, you can take the Internet war as an example. The boss and the second boss are fighting. As long as enough "innocent" companies such as the third and fourth boss die, then it can be said that the industry has entered a new stage or
era!
Ye Fan was naturally the first to exert his efforts, but he was considered "passive". Xu Zhongmin and Xu Zhiwei were helping him exert his efforts.
On September 5th, "Light Chaser" continued to dominate the Wanwan Golden Songs Chart, ranking first for 4 consecutive weeks!
On the same day, [The 4th Global Chinese Music Chart] was held in Shanghai.
As the annual flagship large-scale event of elV, it is the earliest annual awards ceremony for global Chinese songs held in mainland China.
Ye Fan took the time to attend this award ceremony and gained a lot.
Only 20 songs could be selected for the 1997 [Chinese Top 20 Songs] Award. Ye Fan was selected for 5 more songs, directly winning a quarter of the award!
They are the first place "The Wind Rises", the fourth place "Blue Lotus", the sixth place "Invisible Wings", the tenth place "Fly Higher" and the fifteenth place "Young Battlefield"!
The other recipients of the award are old faces, first-line singers such as the Four Heavenly Kings, Xiao Qi, Wang Fei, Zhang Xinzhe, Zhang Huimei, Zhou Huajian, Sammi Cheng and Coco Lee.
Other less famous singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan did not win the award, and all their places were taken by Ye Fan!
Since the first [Chart-in-Chart Award Ceremony], there have been many singers who have been selected for two songs in the same session, but only Ye Fan has been selected for five songs in the same session!
Even Ye Fan is the singer who has had five songs selected for this award for two consecutive years. It can be said that there is no one before or since!
Moreover, the year before last, Ye Fan relied on two albums to select 5 songs, and last year, he relied on one album. The gold content of the awards is not the same!
In addition, Ye Fan also won the [Best Music Video], [Specially Recommended Male Singer Award], [Asian Outstanding Singer-Songwriter Award], [Asia's Most Popular Singer Award] and the most important [el [V] Award].
It can be said that Ye Fan is the only winner that night, it can be said that it is a total kill!
However, Ye Fan may not be able to win so many awards next year. On the one hand, there are endless newcomers in the Chinese music scene, and Ye Fan's album is too strong.
Major music awards are already discussing adding more awards or adding some restrictions. It cannot be said that it is targeted at Ye Fan. In fact, the organizers are under too much pressure to award him this award.
If Ye Fan keeps losing awards like this, let alone other singers, the organizers are a bit overwhelmed.
And Ye Fan won 10 more awards. As soon as this result came out, the entire Chinese music scene was immediately silenced. He really was unworthy of a man and did not give newcomers a way to survive!
If Ye Fan knew what they were thinking, he would definitely quibble and say, didn’t he see that the best newcomer in this year’s [Best-in-Band Awards Ceremony] was Jay Chou? Who said he wouldn’t give others a way to survive!
Bah~ Ye Fan is so shameless, Jay Chou is still yours!
Xiao Qi's only "Heart Is Too Soft" was selected into the [Chinese Top 20 Awards], and his awards cannot be compared with the current Ye Fanxiang.
As soon as this news came out, Ye Fan, the "dragon of the music scene" in China, was taking off unstoppably!
"Light Chaser", which was originally at the top of various rankings, is now soaring up the rankings on various rankings.
Now there is no need to trouble Ye Fan to run publicity, Xu Zhiwei and Xu Zhongmin's plan can go smoothly!
The popularity of "Light Chaser" has given Xu Zhiwei and Xu Zhiwei endless ambitions. They have set a goal of surpassing the sales volume of "Love is Just a Word" in Asia this year, which is a sales target of 10 million!
Hitting tens of millions of sales in 5 months, with an average of 2 million copies in two months, it is definitely out of reach for others, but it is a great opportunity for Ye Fan!
Because "Light Chaser" sold an astonishing 2.91 million copies across Asia in the first three weeks! An average of 970,000 copies were sold every week!
There is no problem that sales exceed 3.5 million copies in the first month, and 4 million copies is not impossible. This sales volume is all thanks to the English version of "Light Years Away"!
After this English version of the song became popular in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and other countries, it was not only widely praised, but also attracted people who were not interested in Chinese songs but liked English songs to buy this album.
Warner has even promoted this song to Ugly Country. If "Light Years Away (English)" can be listed on the Ugly Country Billboard, its influence will be huge!
It’s not hard to guess what Xu Zhiwei’s little thoughts are. If he has a singer who can sing and write good English songs, his and Ye Fan’s status at Warner headquarters will immediately be different.
So when Warner shouted out the slogan ""Light Chaser" has sold tens of millions of copies in 5 months", although many people were shocked, there were very few who questioned it!
Not only because this person is Ye Fan and the album is "Light Chaser", but also because Warner also announced that the sales of "Love is Just One Word" have already exceeded 10 million copies!
When this data came out, it shocked the entire music industry. This news is definitely a propaganda bomb if it is released now!
The reputation of Ye Fan and "Light Chaser" in China has reached the ceiling and cannot be improved. Warner can only use promotional resources abroad to increase the sales of "Light Chaser" abroad.
Therefore, no one can guarantee that Ye Fan will not be able to achieve this goal, because "Love is Just One Word" only took more than half a year to be sold.
The quality and reputation of "Light Chaser" are even better, so everyone really didn't dare to ridicule and question it. They could only be shocked at the number in their hearts and feel all kinds of envy and jealousy towards Ye Fan.
Ye Fan stopped paying attention to these things after attending the award ceremony. His interest allies will naturally help him get things done.
Because Shen Xusheng called him, Hong Kong stock market and international speculators have reached the critical moment of the final battle. It is estimated that the winner will be announced in a few days.
So when Ye Fan returned to the crew, he focused all his attention on Hong Kong Island.
Chapter completed!