Chapter 161
(To be revised)
On Saturday, Polygram Records invited entertainment reporters from major newspapers to attend Cheng Weiliang's album launch conference. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Month day, Sunday. Cheng Weiliang held a handwriting signing session at a large video store on Hong Kong Island.
In order to start the first shot, Polygram Company has invested a lot in the issuance and publicity. A week before the album was released, he began to put up large promotional posters in the city's audio-visual stores, and also placed advertisements in the most well-known and widely-read newspapers in Xiangjiang such as "Ming Pao", "Oriental Daily" and "Sing Tao Daily" for three consecutive days.
A series of publicity before the listing really brought good results.
Early on Sunday morning, before the scheduled book signing began at nine o'clock, there was already a long queue in front of the large video store, obscuring the facades of several shops next to it. At a glance, the team of long snakes was full of anxious and excited young faces. Some of them are solo travelers, waiting silently, while others are forming gangs, sisters, brothers, classmates, and colleagues, gathering together in twos and threes, dancing with their eyebrows and talking loudly.
A black limousine passed the line of fans and slowly stopped in front of the store. As if there was a hunch, the team, which had been a little noisy, gradually stopped talking, and many people in the team looked at the car.
The front door opened, and a big foot in white trousers and white leather shoes stretched out.
The rear door opened, and a big foot wearing black trousers and black leather appeared in front of the waiting people at the same time.
Big Mouth Wen is also wearing the white suit, white trousers, flower tie, and a pair of small sunglasses on his face today. As soon as he stepped out of the passenger seat, he was startled by the many stares gathered on him in front of him. "Mom, there are so many people!"
He walked down and was about to wave his hand to say hello to the fans. A cheer erupted from the crowd!
"Brother Sunglasses, you're so cool!"
"Ajuan, look! He's coming!"
"Cheng Weiliang, here and here! Several of us are your loyal fans. ”
"Liang Zai, we love you!"
As soon as Cheng Weiliang's head sticked out of the other rear door, his trademark slightly curly, short hairstyle was recognized by the fanatical fans, who had not yet settled down and stood still, and was already surrounded by waves of enthusiastic cheers.
Black suit, white shirt, silver silk tie, this outfit is also the image that Cheng Weiliang most often appears in the public eye. His collection of men's suits is very different from the current loose men's suits, and his tailor-made slim suits have become another symbol of his short hair in addition to the long broken hair of Cheng Weiliang.
Dressed in a well-tailored black suit, with his slender and tall figure, he looks so outstanding when he appears in a crowd of people who are generally half a head shorter than him!
As soon as he appeared, the orderly long snake team that was originally lining up suddenly had a lot of commotion. Some of the people at the back of the line squeezed desperately forward, tiptoeing, leading, and looking at him. Some of the fanatical fans at the front of the queue also wanted to cross the red ribbon that separated the queue and break to him.
Feeling the commotion of the crowd, several staff members in the store hurriedly came over to maintain order on the field, and the staff who came with the car also protected Cheng Weiliang and the deputy manager of the marketing department together with Dazuiwen, so as not to be hit by a fan who came over recklessly.
Cheng Weiliang brushed aside the hands of his entourage and approached the fans separated by red ribbons. He smiled and waved his right hand at the people, shouting: "Hello everyone! I am Cheng Weiliang! Thank you very much for your support to me!"
In the echoes of the fans, Cheng Weiliang walked to the end of the team of more than 200 people first, shook hands with the fans cordially, and walked back. It took about ten minutes to interact with the enthusiastic fans before returning to the store.
At 9 o'clock, the signing officially began.
At the front of the line were several young boys and girls who came together, and they all got their autographs before leaving happily together.
When it came to the sixth person, it was unexpectedly a simple uncle in his forties of medium stature, who took out ten song discs and handed them to Cheng Weiliang. Feeling the inquiring eyes of the young people around him, he grinned shyly: "Trouble you, Hou Shengzi." ”
A simple middle-aged uncle likes his songs so much, he buys ten copies? In such a high position, he should have come early in the morning to occupy a position, right? Cheng Weiliang couldn't help but look at the other party more, he seemed to be a little impressed by this person!
After swiping and signing the name, Cheng Weiliang handed it to him with a smile, "Signed, uncle, please take it!"
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"Cheers!" In a long-established seafood restaurant, PolyGram raised their glasses full of champagne in their hands, clinked glasses and drank them all.
"I'm in for a treat today, everyone eats as much as you want!" Zheng Donghan said after drinking it all, waving his hand to a few people at the table.
"Hehehe, Lao Zheng, then I'm welcome!" Production director Guan Weilin smiled, beating snakes with sticks, not polite to Zheng Donghan at all, and shouted to the restaurant owner: "Boss, bring me a bottle of your most expensive wine!"
Everyone laughed and coaxed.
Today is a good day, Cheng Weiliang's album has sold more than 10,000 copies in a week since it was released last Sunday, as of today's Saturday, surpassing the sales of the album released early last month. Today, the distribution department also received a lot of sales stores to add orders, according to this trend, more than 10,000 tickets, absolutely no problem!
People are in good spirits at happy events, Zheng Donghan was arbitrary and boldly introduced newcomers, and Cheng Weiliang did not live up to his expectations. The first album achieved a good result of more than 10,000 platinum records, not to mention that this achievement is a Chinese new singer, even if it is a popular Cantonese singer, not every record can be sold platinum. Last time, it was a small disc, and others can still talk about it, but this time it is a big disc, but it is eligible to compete for the "Platinum Record Award" honor at the IFPI Golden Record Awards ceremony at the end of the year. This time, others should have nothing to say, right?
This evening, when the statisticians of the marketing department excitedly broke into the conference room with sales reports, informing them that as of today, Cheng Weiliang's new Chinese song album had sold 10,000 copies like crazy, Zheng Donghan in the meeting suddenly waved his hand, "Dismiss!"
"Come, Wei Liang, I'll have a glass of two touches! Today is a small celebration for you, and when your record platinum and platinum are in the future, our entire company will hold a celebration party for you!" Guan Weilin shook the wine glass in his hand and touched Cheng Weiliang next to him.
As the producer of this record, Guan Weilin and Cheng Weiliang spend more time together than Zheng Donghan. Initially, when he heard the conditions proposed by Cheng Weiliang from Zheng Donghan, although he also admired Cheng Weiliang's talent for music creation, he still thought that Cheng Weiliang was too arrogant. He insisted on signing a contract for only one year, and demanded such a degree of freedom, for a newcomer who had never released a single record, he dared to put forward such conditions, which was really unheard of! Only Zheng Donghan, the general manager who has been immersed in the music industry for many years, dared to sign him like this!
But now it seems that even if there is no record contract for the next three years, and a single-year singer contract, PolyGene will not lose money! Polygram does not need to invest much resources at all, and does not need to spend time and effort to find someone to write songs like cultivating other newcomers. Cheng Weiliang has provided the songs needed to create 2 albums; in terms of publicity and promotion, before signing the contract, Cheng Weiliang already has a certain popularity and fan base. Therefore, PolyGram only invested a small amount of resources, and easily obtained high returns. The facts are in front of him, and he has to convince him, or Mr. Zheng has enough vision and courage!
After Cheng Weiliang clinked glasses with him, he drank half of the wine in the cup. said: "It's not just my credit, it's the credit of the entire production team and all the employees of the company." ”
"Alright, boy, it's just a few of us here, don't be so modest. Zheng Donghan sat down on a chair next to Cheng Weiliang and patted him on the shoulder, "You just need to write more and better new songs to be worth a thousand words!"
Lu Dongni, the veteran of the company and the arranger who sat opposite Cheng Weiliang, didn't drink much, and smiled when he heard the words: "Dong Han, I think the few songs newly written by Wei Liang are very good." He was really attentive to his play, and as soon as we didn't pay attention, he had already written the theme song and interlude. ”
Guan Weilin carefully broke off the shell of a prawn, and sent it to his mouth, chewing it with relish. After taking a sip of water, he also said, "Well, that's right. I listened to the song samples sent by Wei Liang yesterday, and I think those songs are quite good. It can be put into Wei Liang's second album. Especially the song called "", as well as "Love Has to Be Done", the song is good, and the lyrics are also very interesting, which is very suitable for the taste of young people. ”
"Oh, is that the new song mentioned in the gossip article published in the Oriental Daily a few days ago?" Zheng Donghan turned his head and asked Cheng Weiliang.
"Yes, I sang two of them in the ballroom and the audience responded well. It was those two songs that made Cheng Weiliang provoke gossip reporters and cause a little trouble.
Zheng Donghan nodded, "I was busy clearing your passage to Taiwan Island a while ago, so I ignored your new song." Hearing you say that, I'm going back to listen to what kind of new song you've written for that play?"
"By the way, I also have an interlude called "Planetarium", and I need to find a young female singer with a clear voice who can sing the feelings in the lyrics. Mr. Zheng, I'll bring it to you tomorrow. ”
This song is an interlude throughout the whole play in the Japanese version of Meteor Garden, and is sung by the well-known Japanese female singer Ai Otsuka. The melody of the song is beautiful, the lyrics give people a touch of sentimentality and nostalgia, once actively trying to keep smiling, and in the end, although powerless and helpless, but always remember the original beauty.
This deeper love song is used as an interlude to render the emotions of the characters in the play, and Cheng Weiliang thinks that it is more suitable than the Taiwan version of the brisk "Love Must Be Done". This episode is quite important, so he must find a young female singer who can sing the feeling of this song.
Anyway, the music in "Meteor Garden" also needs to be produced and distributed by Polygram, so when it comes to finding suitable female singers, I believe that Zheng Donghan is more experienced and efficient than himself.
"Okay, let's take care of the singer. ”
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The singing aspect has developed relatively smoothly.
The first Chinese album, many of the songs in it have been promoted by the Chinese song dragon and tiger list, and have become widely known, so Cheng Weiliang's debut album has attracted many long-awaited fans as soon as it was released.
It is said that in the bar and nightclub these days, a considerable number of customers order "Special Love for Special You", "Single Love Song" and "Cao Cao", while most women order the songs "The Myth of the Star and Moon" and "Later". Most of the dancerooms sing more dynamic songs such as "Run". Some restaurants prefer melodious songs such as "Middle School Days".
After three months of continuous appearances in newspapers and radio, as well as a number of songs that have been on the song charts in a row, Cheng Weiliang has now accumulated considerable popularity and popularity. In the past week or so, the hot sales scene of the album listing, and the same singing voice was heard from time to time on the streets and alleys, which made Cheng Weiliang once again intensively exposed to entertainment news and became the target of entertainment in major newspapers.
Yesterday, another unscrupulous tabloid reporter stir-fried old rice. insisted on connecting him with the heroine Weng Meiling, who continued to be in the limelight because of her role in "Hooligan Tycoon". said that he made up this drama just to get close to Weng Meiling, and he also wanted to be the leading actor, but was rejected by TVB. also insinuated that he couldn't be the protagonist, so he whimsically wanted to make a movie by himself to have a good time. The article also attached a photo of the four of them before, as well as a photo of him and Weng Meiling laughing on the set that he secretly took at some point.
Although the article is obviously a patchwork, it involves the two major male and female stars in the current entertainment industry, and this news really makes the gossip citizens happy. Some people discussed with great interest whether Cheng Weiliang, a supernova in the music world, is worthy of Weng Meiling, the "pretty Ronger" who is now red and purple in the film and television industry? Whether he can pry the corner of the "jade-faced little student" Tang Zhenye? The little girls are chattering, is it better for Tang Zhenye to be a "Duan Yu" style of an ancient good boy, or is it a cool and cool-looking handsome guy like Cheng Weiliang who is suitable for being Prince Charming?
Well, as a member of the entertainment industry, it's not a big deal to entertain your parents with your own body. This kind of gossip tabloid with curiosity as its own responsibility, Cheng Weiliang should laugh it off. But he took it as a joke, and others didn't let him go so easily.
may have seen that the sales of the tabloid yesterday were on fire, and early this morning, the entertainment of several major newspapers came to his door to block him. After asking a few words about the latest news of the record, they turned to the gossip topic between him and Weng Meiling.
Oriental Daily's entertainment record is even more rehashed of the old words, and asked again that "Rogue Tycoon" has already aired more than a dozen episodes, when will his other script start filming? Is it because he insists on being his own director, which led to the breakdown of the cooperative relationship with TVB?
These people, don't they just look down on him Cheng Weiliang's recent music career, so they have to add some blockage to him on the other hand?
(To be continued.) )