Chapter 477: September

"The director is the organizer and leader of the production of film and television works, the person who uses actors to express his thoughts, and the person in charge of putting film and television literary scripts on the screen. As a synthesizer of various artistic elements in film and television creation, the director's task is to organize and unite all the creative and technical personnel and performers in the crew, give full play to their talents, and integrate the creative labor of all people.

The director is like the supreme commander of the army, and the quality of a film and television work is largely determined by the director's quality and cultivation; The style of a film and television work often reflects the director's artistic style and character, and it can better reflect the director's values in looking at things. ”

At this time, it was the end of September, and after the madness of the early school days, Chen Lang was finally able to move around the campus relatively calmly.

Although they were still watched during the meal, there were still many people who came to ask for autographs on the way to class, and the classroom was now crowded with many students who did not choose this course, but at least there will be no more people who are being chased and intercepted.

For the situation that is always very lively around him, in the face of countless pairs of eyes that always pay attention to him, several years of exercise have already made Chen Lang adapt to all this, so Chen Lang can calmly sit in the classroom and listen to the teacher's lectures, and even take notes seriously.

Chen Lang knows his goal of coming to this campus, so he is also making unremitting efforts, as he himself said, hard work is the greatest talent, and if he wants to show the classic movies of various styles in his mind in front of everyone, Chen Lang still needs to learn.

Therefore, after entering the campus, Chen Lang devoted himself to studying, listened carefully to lectures every day, and often went to the library to consult materials, and his daily study life was very fulfilling.

This surprised many people, including many teachers and classmates in the school, who thought that Chen Lang, a big star, was not really here to study, maybe he was just here to mix up a diploma and walk around, but he didn't expect Chen Lang to be so serious and hardworking.

The teachers and classmates were surprised, and the major media were even more surprised, thinking that Chen Lang was just here to gild, but it seemed to be real, and there was no explosive news except for the madness caused at the beginning of the school year.

Even if he has a lot of preferential treatment, he can make the media hype for two or three days, but Chen Lang, who entered the campus, behaved so low-key and ordinary, which disappointed the media.

A month later, the major media finally gave up looking for news from Chen Lang, and reduced their attention to Chen Lang, and turned to other celebrities, after all, there are so many superstars in the entertainment industry, it is impossible to revolve around one person forever.

But as a popular super idol in the music industry and even in the entire entertainment industry, as long as Chen Lang has a little news, he will definitely make headlines the next day, and he doesn't have to work as hard as Wang Feng.

When Chen Lang was concentrating on his studies, Yulang International released the last volume of the "Zhu Xian" comic, because it was the finale, and it showed a state of explosive sales from the first day of sale.

By the end of September, the 35th volume of "Zhu Xian" had sold 230,000 copies in Hong Kong, second only to the 250,000 copies set by the fourth volume, but now the daily sales have almost stagnated, and it is unlikely that it will break the record again.

At the same time, affected by the finale of "Zhu Xian", the sales of the other 34 comics have increased slightly, probably because of the end of "Zhu Xian", many people have made up the 35 comics in their hands.

Yulang International is also using its newspapers and magazines to frantically promote the brilliant achievements and historical significance of the "Zhu Xian" comic in the whole of Asia, so that many people have the idea of buying a set to collect.

At the same time, the Hong Kong branch of LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records, which caused a shock in the entire Hong Kong music scene in August, released its first record since its establishment, "Charming May" by the singer Jenny.

The album sold 101265 albums in its first week, which is not a standout result for any artist who has released a record this year.

Because Chen Lang, Chen Baiqiang, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung all sold more than 130,000 copies in the first week, but this result is the highest sales among all female singers and singers of the older generation.

Since Chen Lang and Xu Guanjie started the battle between the old and the new in 1982, the sales of the older generation of singers have declined to varying degrees.

In Hong Kong, where there are few people, the first week of sales is very important for the final sales of a record, and it can be said that it is a very clear weather vane, and this important indicator seems to be getting farther and farther away from the older generation of singers after Chen Xu's battle between the old and the new.

Among the older generation of singers, except for Xu Guanjie, Luo Wen, Lin Zixiang, Teresa Teng, Zhen Ni and Xu Xiaofeng, who were able to get more than 100,000 records in the first week, the other singers did not exceed this important standard line in the first week.

After Chen Lang was crowned the king of the music world in January this year, none of the older generation singers who released the latest records have sold more than 100,000 copies in the first week except for Zhen Ni, even Xu Guanjie, the popularity and market appeal of the older generation of singers in the music industry are still shrinking.

Therefore, when Zhenni's record sales were exposed in the first week, it caused a lot of exclamations, although it was only worth more than 100,000 copies, but someone finally stood up and saved the face of the older generation of singers.

Of course, there is also an important reason why Jenny can be the highest-selling female singer in the first week of this year so far, and this year's Anita Mui has not released a record so far.

The current Hong Kong music scene is beginning to be ruled by a new generation of singers.

The competition for male singers has gradually shown a fierce situation of one super and many strong, Chen Lang is currently leading alone, Chen Baiqiang, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung have all shown strong competitiveness, and popular singers like Cai Fenghua are substitutes.

However, the competition between female singers in the music world is still a battle between the old and the new, and there are not many outstanding performances in the new generation of singers except for Anita Mui.

Mai Jiewen and other female singers have won a lot of awards, but there is too much difference in record sales and star aura, and the five golden flowers have not yet bloomed, so the female singers are still the same as before, the new generation of Anita Mui fights Zhen Ni and Xu Xiaofeng alone.

At the beginning of this year, Xu Xiaofeng released a Cantonese album "Xu Xiaofeng's New Songbook II", which sold 86,521 copies in the first week, a big gap from 100,000, and Anita Mui did not release a record, so Zhenni's "Charming May" temporarily led the two competitors with more than 100,000 copies sold.

For this achievement, LL Records is also ecstatic, although I have to regret that the appeal of the older generation of singers is declining, but there is a first-week sales of 100,000, I believe that the final sales of this record should not be less than 200,000 copies of the four platinums.

Maybe everyone sees Chen Lang's seven platinums, Alan Tam, Chen Baiqiang and Leslie Cheung have also won six platinums, and think that the four platinums are a little less, this view is undoubtedly biased.

A gold record is a watershed moment that can distinguish an ordinary singer from a star singer, while a platinum record can prove the fame and strength of a star singer.

The standard of 50,000 is a platinum record is because Hong Kong is narrow and there are few people, compared to the United States, the gold record is 500,000, and the platinum record is 1 million, is it a lot, so as long as you can get a gold record, it is not a small achievement.

Of course, the record market in Asia and even the world is constantly expanding, including the Hong Kong music scene, so sales are generally high.

In Hong Kong, the 150,000 tickets of 3 platinum should be regarded as another watershed, distinguishing star singers from superstar singers, of course, you have to maintain this level all the time to be considered a superstar.

Seeing that Chen Lang and others are above four platinums, many people may think that it is easy for a big star singer to get 3 platinums in the era of the soaring record market, but in fact, this is also a wrong idea.

The Hong Kong music industry is like the salary of future film superstars, and the polarization is more serious.

Several superstars at the top of the pyramid are often paid a lot more than other big bowl stars, just like the later "Double Monday", after becoming a box office guarantee, when other big stars were only 4 million salaries, they were able to get nearly 10 million salaries.

Hong Kong films gradually declined later and have a lot to do with the higher and higher salaries of actors, 20 million cost, 15 million to hire stars, only 5 million to make movies, not shoddy to blame.

But in fact, there are only a few people with super high salaries, like that kind of "golden supporting role", the salary of first- and second-rate stars with outstanding acting skills is not high.

The same is true of the current Hong Kong music scene, in addition to Chen Lang, Chen Baiqiang, Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui's records can basically sell more than 4 platinum, other singers are already very happy to get 3 platinum, and the record company is also very happy, because with 3 platinum, you can make money.

As for having a new generation of super idol singers like Chen Lang and Tan Zhangmei Chen, then you can steal the music, after all, Tan Zhangmei Chen in the previous life was a representative singer of the glorious period of the Hong Kong music scene, these four mainstream singers condensed the entire glorious Hong Kong music scene in the 80s, and their popularity and appeal are naturally unmatched.

Jenny's "Charming May" got off to a good start, which made the entire LL record company relax, after all, it was the company's first record, although it was the queen of the music world Zhen Ni played, but the performance of the older generation of singers before obviously made the people of LL Records nervous, but fortunately, the sales exceeded 100,000 in the first week.

Of course, at the same time as Zhenni Records' first week of success, Chen Shufen also felt the pressure, when she was in Huaxing, she had the star-making machine of wireless as a reliant, whether it was publicity or exposure, it was easy, but now LL records cannot enjoy the treatment of Huaxing, and the price paid is more.

However, Chen Lang took out 10 million from the last dividend obtained from the comic "Zhu Xian" and injected it into LL Records, and at the same time, with Chen Shufen's connections and the help of the publicity department of LL Film Company, it is quite satisfactory in terms of publicity and momentum, and now the entire company is still doing its best to publicize, striving to help "Charming May" get higher sales.

Overall, the first action of LL Records is satisfactory, but it is still a lot worse to compete with Huaxing and even Polygram.