Chapter 351: The Golden Record
At the end of June, the Hong Kong music scene was still dominated by Teresa Teng, Anita Mui and Cai Fenghua.
Teresa Teng relied on her unparalleled appeal to beat Anita Mui and Cai Fenghua, but Anita Mui firmly occupied the runner-up position on the Hong Kong album list, and the gap with Teresa Teng was gradually narrowing, which surprised many people.
Although Anita Mui won the best newcomer of the top ten Chinese gold, and became popular with the first record "Red Temptation", showing a strong rise momentum, no one expected that when the second record was released, it was not crushed by the Asian singer, but constantly narrowed the gap between the two, which made everyone think of Chen Lang, the flag bearer in the new generation of singers.
Now Anita Mui's hot popularity reminds people of Chen Lang, who has amazed everyone since the beginning of his debut, although there is still a gap between the two, but Anita Mui has gained huge popularity and sales with only two records, which makes people have to feel that the popularity of the new generation of singers came too quickly.
The singing skills of the new generation of singers are not perfect, and they are not even mature, and there is a big gap between them and the older generation of emperor superstars and powerful singers, but they are more youthful and vigorous, more handsome and handsome, and they have easily captured the hearts of teenagers.
With the increasingly hot market and the growth of the younger generation, the current Hong Kong music scene has entered the era of idol singers from the period of powerful singers in the primitive pioneering period.
Of course, current singers still need a certain amount of singing skills, whether it is Chen Lang, Chen Baiqiang, or Alan Tam, Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung, they all have good strength, but there is a gap compared to their predecessors who have been famous for a long time.
But they are young and handsome, and they are more in line with the idol positioning of young people, and this trend will become more and more obvious.
A few years later, the Hong Kong music scene will completely enter the era of idol packaging and promotion, and many singers' singing skills are no longer the first choice, and the beautiful appearance and the company's packaging are very important.
There will be more and more star products on the packaging lines of major record companies, until they flood the entire music market, and the strength of the squeeze is good, but the singers with slightly worse appearance and inaccurate positioning have no room to survive.
When Teresa Teng and Anita Mui were fighting, and Cai Fenghua was slightly inferior, Warner's strongest newcomer, the first idol singer in the Hong Kong music scene, Chen Baiqiang, the melancholy prince, also released his latest album "I Like You".
"I Like You" can be said to have been born out of nowhere, with 28,654 copies on the first day, and the sales of 112035 albums in the first week were outstanding, and they directly landed on the top of the Hong Kong album list, not only surpassing Anita Mui, but even Teresa Teng's "Walking on the Road of Life" was not so strong when it was released.
Now the competition in the Hong Kong music scene can be described as extremely fierce.
Originally, there were Teresa Teng, Xu Guanjie, Guan Zhengjie, Xu Xiaofeng, Zhen Ni, Lin Zixiang, Luo Wen, and Lei Anna, eight top singers of the older generation, and then Chen Lang and Chen Baiqiang were added.
And Wang Mingquan , Zheng Shaoqiu , Ou Ruiqiang , Du Lisha , Cai Zhentang and so on are all first-class singers of the older generation, and their popularity and sales are very good, and the current newcomers Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam are also rising rapidly, and newcomers such as Cai Fenghua and Zhang Delan are also following suit.
Now the Hong Kong music scene is really full of flowers, and a hundred schools of thought are contending.
Major media have also launched a series of reports on this, the older generation is old and strong, the new generation is like a rainbow, the new and the old alternate, and the heroes are competing for the deer.
It's just that judging from this year's performance, the new generation of singers is obviously better than the older generation of singers.
At present, only Teresa Teng has won five platinum sales, while other older generation singers who have released records, Xu Guanjie barely reached four platinums, and Guan Zhengjie, Xu Xiaofeng, Zhen Ni and Luo Wen have only three platinum sales.
On the other hand, the new generation, Chen Lang temporarily won this year's record sales champion six platinum, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung won five platinums respectively, and now Anita Mui's four platinums are also nine out of ten, Cai Fenghua may be worse, whether it can reach four platinums is still unknown, but the strength of Chen Baiqiang, who has just released a record, makes everyone seem to see another five platinum record.
Looking at the current Hong Kong music scene, the new generation is grabbing power, and their popularity and sales have greatly surpassed the older generation of singers, but the heritage of the older generation of singers is still there, and they will not be replaced if they want to, they will still be the most important part of the Hong Kong music scene.
In 1983, when the Hong Kong music scene was dancing wildly, after entering July, Chen Baiqiang's "I Just Like You" still occupies the top of the charts, which is already the third consecutive championship of this record, which is very rare in the increasingly competitive Hong Kong music scene, of course, there is no heavyweight singer to release the record is also an important reason.
On July 7, the annual Golden Disc Awards ceremony is coming again, and a number of superstars and idols in the Hong Kong music scene have gathered on this day.
The awards ceremony was lined with fans and reporters holding up tools for the crime.
Every time a singer appears, it attracts the screams of the fans around him, and some fans even want to break through the security guards and get close to their idols.
The security guards are busy sweating and frightened, and the reporters are pity that the fans are not strong enough to break through the encirclement, but they also have to sigh that the current fans are really getting more and more crazy.
Attending with Chen Lang tonight was his little sister Anita Mui, and when the two appeared, there was a burst of "lightning and thunder", the screams of fans were deafening, and the shutter of reporters snapped.
Chen Lang has long been accustomed to such a scene, and calmly waved to his fans, causing the fans to scream again, Anita Mui has also improved a lot after a year of training, at least she is not in a daze.
Chen Lang and Anita Mui didn't stay long, and soon entered the venue.
As soon as Chen Lang entered the venue, Alan Tam and Chen Baiqiang walked over.
"In the end, it is the flag bearer of the new generation of singers, this is the finale."
Only Alan Tam can tease Chen Lang like this, and Chen Baiqiang, the melancholy prince, is a quiet beautiful man, standing aside and nodding his head and smiling silently.
"What's wrong with my finale, if you have the ability, you can also sell a six-platinum sales to show me." Chen Lang's nostrils turned to the sky when he heard this, and he looked at Alan Tam with contempt.
Alan Tam saw Chen Lang's arrogant appearance and directly punched Chen Lang, Chen Baiqiang and Anita Mui looked at the two living treasures and laughed.
After Chen Lang returned the punch, "Congratulations to you Alun, you have finally taken a big step forward in success and ushered in your own spring, although it is a little late." ”
Chen Lang thought that Alan Tam was thirty years old, and felt that the name of this record was really appropriate.
"It's a little late, but it's finally here." Alan Tam is very content.
"And Danny, you're so beautiful now, you've won three times in a row." Chen Lang turned to Chen Baiqiang again, an idol singer who is called a twin star with himself.
"Yes, if it weren't for that kid Leslie Cheung in your company, maybe I would have won three consecutive championships." Alan Tam said a little depressed when he heard this.
"Hehe, it's just luck." Chen Baiqiang smiled, "There is no opponent, that's why this is the case, and I am very surprised." ”
"Lang Lang, Amei." At this time, Leslie Cheung walked over, "Hello Aaron, hello Danny." ”
"Rong Tsai is here." "Hello Rong Zai."
The five strongest newcomers got together, but it attracted a lot of attention.
Chen Lang looked at Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui and Chen Baiqiang in front of him, and sighed in his heart, this is the four superstars of Tan Zhangmei and Chen who dominated the Hong Kong music scene in the mid-to-late 80s in the previous life, and he is actually among them, and he is even the first of the five, this feeling is really cool.
After chatting for a while, the five went to the older generation of singers to say hello.
Teresa Teng and Xu Guanjie are very familiar with Chen Lang, Alan Tam and Chen Baiqiang and are very casual, but the new joiners Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui seem a little restrained.
However, the two brothers and sisters in the music industry are very talkative, and they are also very willing to bring newcomers, which makes Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui a lot easier.
"You young people are amazing this year, we have all been left behind by you." Xu Guanjie looked at the five strongest newcomers in front of him and sighed.
"Yes, I really said to Lang Lang that the back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves, and the front waves died on the beach." Teresa Teng also joked.
"Where and where, one of you is a god of songs, and the other is an Asian queen of songs, we are still far away." Chen Lang came casually.
The remaining four also hurried to be humble and express their admiration.
Then Chen Lang and the five of them met Zhen Ni, Xu Xiaofeng, Guan Zhengjie, Luo Wen, Lin Zixiang, and Leianna, several top singers of the older generation, and they also chatted with the five of them briefly, which was considered familiar, and then the five of them found a place to sit down.
"Aaron, Danny, you've got a lot of gold records." Chen Lang looked at Alan Tam and Chen Baiqiang and said.
"That's because we release a lot of records, and if you release them, every single one of them will be platinum." Chen Baiqiang said.
Alan Tam also nodded, but the meaning of that look was obviously who made you not release a record.
The Golden Disc Awards Ceremony presents the Golden Disc Records from March last year to March this year.
Chen Lang only has one "Catchy", and Anita Mui also has one "Red Temptation".
Only Leslie Cheung also released a record when he was in Li, but he didn't even reach the gold record, so he is the only one of the five strongest newcomers who didn't win an award tonight, and tonight is actually to meet the world and prepare for the future.
"Good evening, good evening and welcome to the 6th Golden Disc Awards Ceremony."