Chapter 158: Singing Seriously
The album release at the end of August finally barely caught up with Wen Zhen's popular tail and continued her topic from before.
And the attention that lasted for a month and the excellent quality of the songs finally paid off in the sales of the album.
The album was released at the end of August, and by the beginning of September, Wen Zhen had reached the top of the domestic sales chart, and the sales of more than three million proved her worth.
What's more, Wen Zhen defeated Yang Ying.
Previously, Yang Ying has always been the top among young singers in China, although her artist level and influence are not as good as those old and powerful singers, but her just right age, good looks, and people-friendly sweet song image have won her a lot of fans.
It was in this situation that Wen Zhen was pushed out and intended to face Yang Ying.
But Wen Zhen is too young after all, and his strength is still inferior, so he has not been able to catch up with Yang Ying.
A month ago, around the time when Fan Cheng was engaged in the 24-hour project, Yang Ying's new album had just been released.
This album is still Yang Ying's traditional style, with pure sweet songs and a faint ambiguous emotional line, it sounds like eating a piece of ice cream that is sweet to the heart.
As soon as the album was released, it became a hit across the country, and fans said that the quality of Yang Ying's album far exceeded that of the previous album, especially the title song "Far Star" in the album, which describes a girl's state of mind like looking at a distant star and secretly falling in love with a boy, Yang Ying's sweet voice not only captured boys, but even girls felt that she did sing her youthful state of mind.
In terms of sales, after a month of accumulation, her sales have accumulated to nearly five million, which is already at the top of the sales list in Huaxia, especially this is only a month's sales, although Yang Ying's album cannot be as hot as those big stars for more than a year and finally get more than 10 million sales, but after getting 5 million sales a month, the final data will definitely be able to rush to more than 7 million.
This sales volume is already very scary, according to last year's data, this sales volume is enough to enter the top five in this year's total sales ranking, but Wenzhen's sales are even more scary.
Three million a week is a sales volume that even Yang Ying can't reach, Yang Ying's statistical sales volume a week is less than two million, of course, in terms of sales sustainability, Wen Ying is still slightly inferior to Yang Ying, so according to estimates, a month later, although she can catch up with Yang Ying in sales, but the degree of catching up may not be too much, after that, Yang Ying may even catch up with Wen Zhen in turn, but the sales behind are not much to care about, surpassing Yang Ying is a landmark event, although Wen Zhen himself will not feel that this is really surpassing Yang Ying, but there must be something big to say in the publicity, Wen Zhen surpassed, in the global propaganda as if Yang Ying can be suppressed from now onγ
Wen Zhen can surpass Yang Ying in stages, and the global side is the most excited, although it was pushed out to fight Yang Ying, but to be honest, the global side does not expect to surpass the other party, Wen Zhen is actually Yang Ying's imitator and not really launched to fight her, the global just thinks that Yang Ying has made money, so it is just a young girl who is about the same.
Universal knows very well that if there is no insincerity, if there is no X, the quality of music production on the global side may never be able to surpass Yang Ying, not that the music production on the global side is absolutely not good, but with the status value of Wenzhen, unless you invite the top few producers in the company who are like "Keqing", generally each person only writes songs for one person, such as Yanzi Sun's Li family brothers, such as Faye Wong's Lin Xi and Zhang Yadong, otherwise it is difficult to surpass Liu Zhanyun's production ability.
These top producers can't be invited with Wenzhen's previous rank.
Wen Zhen's album is also a little better than Yang Ying, Yang Ying's album song type is relatively single, standard sweet song girl, Wen Zhen's album is different, the four songs other than Fan Cheng are Yang Ying's traditional style, but the six songs provided by Fan Cheng are completely different, "School Paradise" and "BlueVelvet" are standard pop rock, "Homecoming" and "Illusion" are folk songs with oriental colors and exotic customs respectively, "YES-YES-YES" and "M" , the former is pop with the addition of rock, and the latter is a rare atmospheric music classic.
An album, the production of multiple producers, a bad control may make the style unbalanced, but the advantage is that it can take into account the preferences of various people, Wenzhen's album does this perfectly, with the comparison and confrontation of X and insincerity as the main line, the songs of the two alternate, but not all folk and rock, the style of the two is distinct and each song has its own characteristics, so that fans will not be unable to distinguish the song when listening to the song, it sounds like the same feeling, this is the biggest advantage and feature of Wenzhen's albumγ
Yang Ying's album, when it came out before, everyone thought that the sweet song was really good, Yang Ying was really good, but after listening to Wenzhen's album, I went back to listen to Yang Ying's, even the most ordinary listeners will think that it is a little too monotonous and boring, Ming Wenzhen has tried so many genres, why did you Yang Ying come out earlier, but it has always been this genre?
What can Yang Ying say? She can't directly say that she is the one being chased, so she doesn't need to change, it's just that the current style, as long as she is popular, right?
Yang Ying and her company paid the price for conservatism.
The radicalism of Wen Zhen and Huanqiu, as well as the emergence of Fan Cheng, allowed them to win this war that was not favored by anyone.
According to the grapevine, at the awards ceremony at the end of the year, Wen Zhen is likely to have the opportunity to compete with Yang Ying for the position of best female singer, and there are several artists in the Chinese entertainment industry who have released albums for several years and are eligible to compete for the best female singer, but these have either won too many times, or they are just singers of small companies, and it is difficult to be competitive if the company's ability to operate is not good, and now it seems that Yang Ying and Wen Zhen have the best chance.
After Wenzhen's album was released, Fan Cheng also began to think about the production of his two identity albums.
Maybe he has done too much work in music recently, and even Fan Cheng's project on the comprehensive entertainment channel has begun to have some inexplicable connections with music, for example, he recently did a "serious singing" competition.
I will do this competition because the guy named Wang Nomi in the group before is obviously doing funny work, but he has a very good voice and sings very well.
His idea was to have the Yoshimoto Theater Company and invited artists who don't usually sing to sing.
However, unlike the Chinese variety show "Crossover Singer" in Fan Cheng's world, the purpose of the serious singing competition done by the variety entertainment channel is still funny, and it is a variety show of "Serious Singing Competition" born from the Japanese variety show "Divine Tongue".
To be honest, Fan Cheng is crazy.
After the successful 24-hour project, no one in the domestic variety show circle can shake the status of the variety entertainment channel for a while, even if they are still only a municipal TV station.
Next, while preparing to upgrade the provincial TV station, the variety entertainment channel continued to shoot its own variety shows, and after no one could stop Fan Cheng, he made more experimental, quite avant-garde variety show attempts in the eyes of outsiders, such as the serious singing competition, which is a very exaggerated and nonsense program in the eyes of outsiders.
Fan Cheng invited Liu Zhanyun and several stars in the entertainment industry to be judges.
In the first competition, these judges really came over to judge without even reading the script, so at first they thought that this show was really going to sing seriously and select funny artists who sang well on the entertainment channel, but the only thing they thought was a little strange was what Fan Cheng told them before the show started: "What we are doing here is a variety show, so everyone just needs to do it with an attitude of enjoyment." β
Enjoy the "variety show" A group of judges who were invited were a little confused, didn't they say the competition? Didn't they say the judges?
And so the shooting began.
Before the first artist took the stage, Fan Cheng said: "Some time ago, I suddenly discovered that there are artists in the troupe who sing very well, and they even have the ability to create their own creations. β
What? Don't laugh? Can you control the heavens and the earth and still manage whether people laugh or not? That's a strange thing to say.
This is not over, Fan Cheng continued: "We are very serious, so bring that one. β
The judges were surprised to see that the staff brought a few glasses of milk.
"In order not to make you laugh, and to let the artists perform seriously instead of being funny, all the judges need to put milk in their mouths before the artist sings, and any artist's performance, as long as four of the seven judges laugh and spit out the milk, he will immediately lose the qualification to sing!"
Several judges looked at each other and had a bad premonition in their hearts.
This earnest singing contest...... Is it really serious about singing......?
The skeptical judges put milk in their mouths and the competition began.
The first to appear, the little fat king was happy.
As a result, as soon as he appeared, all seven judges squirted milk from their mouths.
The little fat man was wearing a pink puffy skirt, showing his waist and navel, and wearing an exaggerated and cute headdress on his head, this guy actually dressed himself up as a little girl singer!
Ten minutes ago, the judges who thought it was really a serious singing contest could not stand this kind of stimulation, and two of the judges even accidentally poured milk into their noses, and now they are hiding behind their desks and coughing wildly.
Wang Xingxing on the stage looked confused, as if he didn't know what was going on, as if he didn't know why he let these people squirt milk.
"Fan Cheng, come here!" Liu Zhanyun, who was sitting closest to the host, greeted Fan Cheng angrily.
"Yes, yes, what's the matter with your little one?" asked Fan Cheng, looking over to the bustle.
"What's going on? Didn't you mean a serious game!?" asked Liu Zhanyun.
"It's a serious game! Wang is happy, you are very serious, right?"
"yes! I'm serious!"
"Then why dress up like this?!"
"I just wanted to express the thoughts of young girls. Wang Kai said as a matter of course.
"You!?what do young girls think!?" Liu Zhanyun's head was about to smoke, this Wang was happy, a usually funny little fat man, wearing a tight short skirt, with a bulging belly protruding from Lao Gao, the ghost believes that you are performing seriously!
Although the artists who were invited to participate in the review had not been told before, how could they not understand the meaning of the program team now, this show is obviously going to be funny rather than really doing a lot of wonderful performances, so everyone ...... Just enjoy it.
After Wang was happy, other people in the troupe appeared on the stage, and like the little fat man, the performances of other people were also full of gimmicks.
Dressed in a hip-hop outfit, a rebellious man who sings folk songs as if he was going to rap, a man in sunglasses who is so dirty that he is still handsome, but he has no awareness of this, is obviously only in his early thirties, but he wears a wig, claims to have debuted for 50 years, and is a female singer who treats everyone like a grandmother and a grandson......
Judges? Don't make a fuss, Liu Zhanyun almost never left the milk in their mouths, basically as long as an artist appears, everyone will squirt milk in less than a minute, as for singing? I almost didn't sing seriously in the first round!
The only person who can be regarded as singing a little bit is Wang Nomi.
Unlike those strange and strange things, Wang Nomi's appearance looks quite ordinary, he neither wears exaggerated clothes, nor does he say anything funny, the only thing that is a little special about his ordinary appearance is that he is accompanied by a guitarist.
And this guitarist turned out to be Fan Cheng!
"Fan Cheng, what are you doing up there?" Liu Zhanyun has now fully adapted to the rhythm of the show, so although he knows Fan Cheng's strength very well in his heart, he still pretends not to understand anything and asks.
"That's right. Wang Nomi said: "I worked with the guitar on this song, but the guitarist I was looking for before didn't come to my stomach, and I couldn't find anyone in the station for the time being, so I asked the third uncle to help." β
"Is that Fan Cheng, can you play the guitar?" asked Liu Zhanyun.
"I've learned a little, when I was a kid...... I've played the acoustic guitar a few times......" Fan Cheng held the electric guitar in his hand and said a little nervously.
"Third uncle, you can't do it, I agreed when you said you could help, I waited for so many years to wait for this opportunity, you have to help!" Wang Nomi said worriedly.
"Should...... There shouldn't be a problem, I ...... I'll work hard!" Fan Cheng said nervously, as if he was really not good at these.
"Since they've all decided so, let's start performing!" Liu Zhanyun said, taking a sip of milk in his mouth.
The music sounded, and Wang Nomi began to sing.
His singing voice is very good, and Liu Zhanyun nodded quite a bit when he heard it, although there are some problems with expressiveness, the quality of the lyrics, etc., but it is definitely good.
Then, at the end of the first section, before entering the chorus, Wang Nomi's voice stopped slightly, the sound of the interlude increased slightly, and Fan Cheng's guitar voice also joined in at this time.