Chapter 17: Popularity
"With more than 80,000 sales in the first week!! there is no doubt that this will be a number that will go down in the history of Hong Kong music and will leave anyone stunned. ”
"Since the opening of Hong Kong, the record for the highest domestic sales of a single record is held by Hui Guanjie at 430,000 copies, a record that has been held for several years and has not been broken, but as it stands, it only takes one month for Wei Xiong to break this record. ”
"More than a month ago, no one may have thought that such a thing would happen, at that time Wei Xiong was just an ordinary employee of an advertising company, maybe some fame, but at most he can only be regarded as a new star in the advertising industry, but in just over a month, Wei Xiong's identity has undergone a 360° big change, not only becoming a singer, but also a genius singer who creates miracles. ”
"That's right, it's a superstar. Before writing this report, the editor interviewed a number of senior singers in the Hong Kong music scene, including songwriters, producers, and popular singers, and they all said that the quality of the album "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" is the best in the history of the Hong Kong music scene......"
With a pragmatic, rigorous and stylish approach to running a newspaper, Ming Pao rarely wrote a report on its entertainment page that praised a singer in such a way.
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The whole press conference lasted about two hours, of which Wei Xiong, Hong Kong Polygram President Liu Zhizhe, and Music Production Director Bai Ping took half an hour to speak, and the reporter asked questions freely for more than an hour, and Wei Xiong sang three songs in the remaining time. ”
"Judging from these four data, this is a very ordinary album launch, but in addition to the ordinary, it is not ordinary. As we all know, Lee Theatre is the most luxurious cinema in Hong Kong, which shows movies and is also used for theatrical performances and concerts, but since Lee Theatre was built more than half a century ago, no singer's album launch has been held here, but yesterday Wei Hung did so. ”
"Whether it is the scale or the atmosphere of the scene, yesterday's album release was more like a concert, and Wei Xiong's super popularity was also revealed in this 'concert', even if it was over, fans still shouted the name of the satellite and were reluctant to leave for a long time......"
This is a related report of "Sing Tao Daily", the headline is in red art letters, and the content is also very eye-catching - an unprecedented press conference!!
At first glance, the average reader may think that it is a bit exaggerated, but once you think about it, you will think that it is really a bit like this, because it seems that there is really no singer who has held an album release in a theater, let alone at Lee Stage, the most luxurious theater in Hong Kong.
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Yesterday afternoon, Wei Xiong held his first album launch event at the Lee Stage, which was attended by more than 100 reporters from dozens of media outlets, and nearly 2,000 crazy fans poured into the scene, who turned what should have been an ordinary press conference into a grand fan meeting. But this is not the only highlight of the press conference, the sales volume announced by the president of PolyGram is the biggest highlight. ”
According to the accurate data obtained by this newspaper from Polygram insiders after the press conference, the sales volume of "The Legend of the Hungry Wolf" in the first week was 837.45 million, which is equivalent to about 120 million copies per day, and with the play of the publicity effect and the spread among fans, the sales growth rate will be faster and faster. However, in addition to the amazement of the album's sales, doubts also appeared in due course. ”
Before stepping into the music scene, Wei Xiong's profession was an advertising planner, which has been reported by the media, so some media questioned how an advertising planner could have such a genius musical talent? With this kind of doubt, this newspaper specially investigated Wei Xiong's background. ”
The result is enough to surprise everyone, Wei Xiong comes from a family of traditional Chinese medicine, his ancestors worked as imperial doctors in the Qing Dynasty, and his father Wei Hongdao is a famous master of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong, who has treated Hong Kong's wealthy people including Fok Yingdong, Run Run Shaw, and Bao Yugang, and even many people from Taiwan and Southeast Asia have come to Hong Kong to see him. However, in recent years, due to his age, Wei Hongdao has rarely consulted doctors, even if you have money, if you want to see him, you have to see him if he is willing or not. So Wei Xiong is definitely a real and true famous family. ”
"Anyone who knows a little bit about Chinese medicine knows that Chinese medicine is a discipline closely linked to Chinese culture, and the more intelligent the Chinese medicine skills, the better his Chinese culture literacy will definitely be. Wei Xiong grew up in this environment, and his knowledge of Chinese studies was naturally not bad, so he applied for the research department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong when he was in college, and also took two courses, namely Chinese painting and music. ”
According to Wei Xiong's college classmates, Wei Xiong is very good at every course, often writing and drawing with a notebook, and often playing and singing with a guitar, which is very literary and artistic. But because he was more introverted in college and didn't have many friends, few people knew what he was writing and drawing in his notebook. But now it seems that at least part of the things in the notebook are songs he wrote......"
Very detailed introduction, there is a background and university experience, especially the university experience, this report of the Oriental Daily is particularly detailed. But it's a pity, as written in the report, Wei Xiong was introverted in college, or Wei Xiong was originally introverted and had few friends, so there were not many really eye-catching highlights in the report, but Wei Xiong's background was more interesting.
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Wei Xiong sat in the first class cabin of the plane, flipping through the newspapers that his assistant had collected for him, all of which were reports about him in the past few days, and after a while, he put down the newspapers, looked out the window, and there was an expression on his face that seemed to be helpless and seemed to be a memory.
Speaking of which, he is really versatile in college, not only has excellent grades, but also knows a variety of musical instruments, can sing, Chinese painting is also very powerful, plus he is handsome, how can he be regarded as the number one person in Hong Kong Chinese University, but his personality is a little stuffy and not good at communicating with people.
He remembered that in his junior year, there was a flower in the music department, a very beautiful and innocent girl, confessed to him, of course, he didn't say it directly, it was a more obscure kind, if it was now, he would definitely be able to hear it, but he was no different from wood at the time, and he didn't react. So the girl misunderstood, thinking that he didn't like her, but it turned out that it was over before the affair began.
Thinking about it now, thinking about Li Jiaxin, he couldn't help but let out a chuckle: "Hehe......"
"What are you laughing at?" Le Zhenghong, who was sitting next to him, turned his head.
"No, I suddenly remembered something from the past. ”