Chapter 120: Shortlist

To be honest, Zhao Zhenghao doesn't have much thought about "Best Pop/Rock Album", comparing his "No Land Self-Containment", which is an album mainly in Dragon Chinese, not facing the American market.

But Zhao Zhenghao still has a thought about "Best Pop/Rock Male Singer", after all, there is "Billie Jean", and it is reasonable to win this award.

But the results were disappointing.

However, after the disappointment, Zhao Zhenghao ushered in another surprise, the next "Best Newcomer", the award guest opened the envelope and read out his name!

I didn't expect that the loss of losing the competition for "Best Pop/Rock Male Singer" would be comforted by "Best Newcomer" so quickly.

Zhao Zhenghao never thought in advance that after so many years of debut, he would be able to get a trophy of "Best Newcomer" at this time.

The organizing committee of the American Music Awards should regard the time when Zhao Zhenghao officially landed in the United States as his debut time, which is a beautiful misunderstanding, but Zhao Zhenghao has no intention of refusing to accept this award, after all, this is an award voted by fans, representing the affirmation of American fans for him.

"Best Newcomer" and "Best Artist", as the only two comprehensive awards in the American Music Awards, are still enough, and to win this award, to a certain extent, it represents Zhao Zhenghao's foothold in North America, the center of world music.

This is also the first time that the singers of the Dragon Kingdom have won mainstream awards in the three major music awards in the United States.

Taking advantage of this shareholder trend, the first title song of Zhao Zhenghao's second solo album "Love When You Die" was officially released on Penguin Music.

This song, in terms of classics, may be slightly inferior, but in terms of popularity, it is not worse than those classics.

In Zhao Zhenghao's previous life, when this song was released, the streets were full of Ashin's hysterical shouts, "Love when you die, don't be happy if you don't drip......"

This song, in some ways, also has some rock elements, and the reason why Zhao Zhenghao chose it as the main song of the first wave is also to echo the style of the previous album.

The vast majority of singers, from beginning to end, will insist on a musical style, which is conducive to cultivating loyal listeners.

If the quality of the song does not satisfy the fans, then not only can it not get more support, but it will also lose the original fans.

Although Zhao Zhenghao is still quite confident in his vision of choosing songs, for the sake of safety, he still chose such a semi-classic that is easy to ignite the passion of fans, just looking at the title of the song, it makes people have a desire to listen to it.

Since July, Wang Yulan announced the news that Zhao Zhenghao's second solo album is in production on the official bib of "Zhenghao Studio", and his fans have been waiting for the release of his new song, which is more than four months!

After the release of "Love When You Die", it immediately ignited the enthusiasm of Zhao Zhenghao's fans, and the number of downloads rose rapidly, exceeding 100 million in one day!

To be honest, a high-pitched song like "Love When You Die" can catch the ears of fans, so it is also very attractive to ordinary fans.

A week later, the total number of downloads of "Love When You Die" reached 150 million, and it successfully won the top spot on this week's gold song chart.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Zhenghao launched the second wave of the title song "White Birch Forest".

"Love When You Die" wins with soaring high notes and surging emotional expression, and "Birch Forest" conquers fans with its delicate and timeless storytelling.

Narrative love songs like this are rare in the music market of the Dragon Kingdom, and what is even more rare is that it fits the history of the Dragon Kingdom, and the atmosphere created by the song seems to bring everyone back to the years of artillery fire a few decades ago, which is very picturesque.

As expected, after a week, "White Birch Forest" received a total of 170 million downloads, surpassing the first week of "Love When You Die" and becoming Zhao Zhenghao's fifth top single on the Golden Song Chart!

At this time, the time has entered December, and there are only a few days left before the shortlist of the 55th Grammy Awards is announced.

Zhao Zhenghao did not slow down the pace of launching new songs, the third wave of title songs came as scheduled, and the style of the songs changed again, replaced with dance music, and selected the masterpiece "Can't Stop Loving You" by Guo Fucheng, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of China in the previous life.

Zhao Zhenghao followed the sound source and simultaneously launched a dance version on Penguin Video, copying Guo Tianwang's iconic hand-changing dance.

People who like Zhao Zhenghao have been waiting for him to launch another dance music and create a unique dance step, this song "Can't Stop Loving You" can be regarded as fulfilling everyone's long-cherished wish.

Its dance version, in a week, has received more than a billion views on Penguin Video, and on video sites in the United States, it has also received more than 100 million on-demand views.

Driven by the national hand-changing dance, the explosion of downloads of "Can't Stop Loving You" is faster than the previous two songs, and the total downloads have reached more than 190 million times in a week, which is about to become Zhao Zhenghao's third single with sales exceeding 200 million.

With such a result, it is naturally impossible to leave the champion of the Golden Melody Chart behind!

So far, Zhao Zhenghao has dominated the top of the golden song chart for three consecutive weeks, although he relied on three different songs to complete this achievement, but also created a record!

However, this record did not make Zhao Zhenghao's mood better.

His mood was messed up by the shortlist of the 55th Grammy Awards that had just been announced.

With "No Place for Self-Containment", Zhao Zhenghao was successfully shortlisted for the "Best Dragon Chinese Singer" and "Best Dragon Chinese Album" awards at the 55th Grammy Awards.

But "Billie Jean", which he had high hopes for, was ignored by the Grammy Awards organizing committee, and as the most widely disseminated single in 2012, it was unexpectedly missed the "Song of the Year" competition!

As for Zhao Zhenghao's expectations, there are also mainstream awards such as "Production of the Year", "Best Newcomer", as well as "Best R&B Singer", "Best R&B Song", "Best Rock Singer", "Best Rock Song" and other mainstream awards, all of which have also failed!

This result greatly surprised Zhao Zhenghao, he didn't have much hope for "Billie Jean" and "It's My Life" whether he could win a few Grammy-winning record players for him, but now he hasn't even been nominated, which means that it is worth pondering.