Just after the beginning of June, the annual college entrance examination ended, and seeing the relaxed expression on Chen Yun's face, the family laughed happily, and then gave their own gifts.

Chen Lang drove a yellow? The colored beetle, Chen Yun happily took the key, and then happily stroked the body, shouting, "I have to learn to drive quickly." ”

Chen's father's gift was the simplest, he directly gave Chen Yun a card, Chen's mother's gift was much more sincere, she accompanied her daughter to the street for three days, and bought countless things, which made Chen Yun very happy.

After giving the gift to his sister, Chen Lang saw Chen Shufen who took time out of his busy schedule, but it had nothing to do with the record company that was going to be established, Chen Shufen brought a contract extension.

In 1982, Chen Lang reached a two-year endorsement contract of US$200,000 (about HK$1.56 million) with Pepsi, one of the international beverage giants.

Because after Chen Lang's endorsement, Pepsi's sales in Hong Kong increased sharply, especially in the crazy January of 1984, after Chen Lang became a superstar in Hong Kong's music scene, the increase was even more amazing, and now Pepsi's sales in Hong Kong are about to catch up with Coca-Cola's sales.

At the same time, Pepsi's sales in Taiwan and Southeast Asia have also increased significantly, and the huge influence of the superstar is indeed unparalleled, so Pepsi is eager to renew the contract with Chen Lang.

But they were sniped by their rival Coca-Cola, and the two began to compete for the brightest superstar in the Hong Kong music scene.

In the end, Pepsi successfully won Chen Lang's favor and offered a three-year contract extension of $1.82 million, with a $500,000 for the first year and a 20% increase in each of the following two years.

The current exchange ratio between Hong Kong dollars and the US dollar is 7.8:1, which means that Chen Lang has obtained 14.19 million Hong Kong dollars in advertising endorsements, and he only needs to shoot two commercials for Pepsi every year.

Despite this, Chen Lang still has to sigh that advertising endorsement is really the best way to earn more money, less time, and less work.

In comparison, Jackie Chan is the highest-paid actor in Hong Kong now, and now Brother Long is desperately spending three months to make a movie, and the salary is only more than 2 million Hong Kong dollars, and now Chen Lang can easily earn nearly 4 million Hong Kong dollars as long as he poses a few poses, no wonder celebrities like to accept endorsement advertisements.

Chen Lang sighed while signing his name on the contract.

At the same time, Warner Records, which previously announced that it would release a record to compete with Chen Lang and Alan Tam, finally launched its latest record "Top 100 84" by its leading singer and melancholy prince Chen Baiqiang.

With the popularity and excellent performance of the Prince of Melancholy over the years, the record sparked a rush of buying as soon as it was released.

However, after Alan Tam and Chen Lang released records one after another, Chen Baiqiang, who released the new record, was not able to steal all the attention, because Huaxing Records held a grand record release ceremony for its previously performed Leslie Cheung on the same day.

On the last record, Leslie Cheung ushered in the spring of his singing career because of the song "The Wind Continues to Blow", and together with Alan Tam, who also attracted much attention with "Late Spring", he was regarded by everyone as the leader of the new generation second only to Chen Lang and Chen Baiqiang.

Alan Tam, who was the first to release the film, became popular in Hong Kong with a "Fog Love", and his strong performance shattered the glasses that shattered the ground, and Leslie Cheung, who is tied with Alan Tam, has now aroused everyone's curiosity and expectations, I don't know if his performance can surprise everyone.

Huaxing announced the news that the title song of Leslie Cheung's record "Monica" was written by Chen Lang during the promotion, which made everyone's expectations for this record increase by several percentage points at once.

At the same time, Huaxing actually chose to release this record at the same time as the melancholy prince Chen Baiqiang's "Top 100 84", which shows that Huaxing's ambition is not small, and he should also be full of confidence in the quality of this record.

Leslie Cheung only had one "The Wind Continues to Blow" before which he was quite famous, not to mention other records, and now he chooses to fight with Chen Baiqiang, and the meaning of Huaxing pushing Leslie Cheung to the top is very obvious, but even if Chen Lang, a young talent, writes songs for him, everyone is still more optimistic about Chen Baiqiang.

After all, Chen Baiqiang has been famous for a long time, many years earlier than Chen Lang's debut, and his performance has always been excellent, and although Leslie Cheung debuted earlier, he is really famous because of the previous "The Wind Continues to Blow".

In other words, Leslie Cheung is no different from a newcomer in terms of fame and qualifications.

However, the media just likes this kind of showdown, so with the help of Huaxing and the media, the duel between Leslie Cheung and Chen Baiqiang, the new generation of singers, was fired.

But no matter what the result is, one of the purposes of wireless has been achieved, Leslie Cheung let everyone know him because of his duel with Chen Baiqiang, and at the same time saw him as one of the representatives of the new generation of singers, wireless can be described as invincible, and Warner is a good stepping stone.

Of course, whether Leslie Cheung can use the opportunity of this duel to become a singer on par with Chen Baiqiang in one fell swoop, everything depends on the final result, so everyone is waiting for the latest issue of the Hong Kong album list.

However, before the latest issue of the Hong Kong Album Chart was released, the 8th Golden Disc Awards officially opened.

This time, Chen Lang and Anita Mui walked the red carpet at the same time, and Leslie Cheung was going to walk the red carpet together, temporarily forming a Huaxing Three Musketeers group, but Leslie Cheung was in full swing because of the release of the latest record, and he didn't come to the scene until now, so the two had to set off.

The combination of Chen Lang and Anita Mui caused huge cheers at the scene, Chen Lang needless to say, Anita Mui is also known as the strongest newcomer besides Chen Lang.

Since the debut of the first rookie singing contest champion, both records have achieved more than five platinum sales, and if it weren't for Chen Lang's ungodly creative ability, Anita Mui might be able to tie with Chen Lang.

But even so, Anita Mui is still the first person in the new generation of female singers, and now it has threatened the status of the older generation of singers such as Xu Xiaofeng and Zhen Ni.

The two came to the venue and sat next to Chen Shufen, who had already arrived.

"Hello Manager Chen!" Anita Mui greeted Chen Shufen with a smile.

At this time, in addition to Huaxing's senior management and Chen Lang, everyone didn't know that Chen Shufen might also leave Huaxing, and the news that Chen Lang would not renew his contract was still rumored to be rumored in the outside world, which covered up the news that Chen Shufen might also leave.

"Ame is so beautiful today." Chen Shufen looked at Anita Mui with a smile on her face.

Anita Mui is the first champion of the rookie singing contest created by Chen Shufen and her husband, and the famous song composed by Chen Lang signed by her own made Anita Mui popular all over Hong Kong when she was able to debut.

This is what Chen Shufen has always been proud of, and it is also the plan that Chen Shufen created for the future of Huaxing, but unfortunately everything was ruined because of Fang Yihua, a woman.

Fortunately, he found a place to display his ambitions again, and more importantly, Chen Lang was with him, which made Chen Shufen full of confidence.

Chen Shufen turned her eyes away from Anita Mui's body, and wanted to talk to Chen Lang about the new company, but considering that Anita Mui was by her side, she thought about it and said, "Lang Lang, this is likely to be the last Golden Record Awards Ceremony." ”

"What?" Chen Lang and Anita Mui exclaimed in unison when they heard this.

"According to the information I have got, it is likely to become history after the end of this Golden Disc Awards ceremony, and it is very likely that this award ceremony will not be held, but with the efforts of all parties, everyone finally compromised, but it will be difficult to say in the future." Chen Shufen said.

"Why?" Chen Lang asked curiously, and Anita Mui was also full of curiosity.

In his previous life, Chen Lang had never heard of the Golden Disc Awards Ceremony, but he only knew the great significance of this award ceremony after he was reborn.

Compared with the Double Ten Awards Ceremony, the Hong Kong Golden Disc Awards Ceremony has no more gimmicks with more tricks, and the Hong Kong Golden Disc Awards Ceremony, which was held in 1977, has always been a substantive awards ceremony favored by singers and record companies.

Because this award ceremony represents the recognition of the industry, it means that the award-winning singer can 'make money' for the company, and the singer can make money for the company, in the pure eighties, it is one of the singers' own capital that they attach great importance to.

Songs can be selected for taste and trade, but record sales are not, in the 80s Hong Kong 'icac' was a tiger for Hong Kong people to talk about, stamp duty and record tax royalties, including auditors and record dismantling, rarely dare to fake.

Even if the record company wants to fight for the promotion of the record to "report a large number", it does not dare to be too outrageous, at most, the boss pays for the "dead goods" (those that are sold wholesale but cannot actually be sold) out of his own pocket.

"There are mainly two reasons, the first is because of the conflict between the Hong Kong Record Association and the International Phonographic Association, the second is because of the relationship with TVB's broadcast rights, and some others are not unrelated to the entanglement between record companies." Chen Shufen whispered.

The Hong Kong Golden Disc Awards Ceremony is actually Hong Kong's local record sales statistics, although he wears the ifpi hat on his head, but he implements it in his own unique way, 50,000 for one platinum believes that it is definitely a Hong Kong characteristic.

The statistical mechanism is different from the time of IFPI statistics, which is counted from March of each year to March of the following year, while IFPI is counted from January to December of each year, so there is a contradiction with the International Phonographic Association from the beginning of the establishment of the Golden Disc Awards Ceremony.

At the same time, the broadcast rights of the Golden Disc Awards Ceremony were given to Wireless, and there was nothing before, but when the Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony hosted by Wireless itself was established, it was inevitable that there would be contradictions between the two.

In addition, the fairness and rigor of the Golden Disc Awards Ceremony has always been unpopular with record companies, especially the giant companies do not feel their advantage, and no matter how much sponsorship money is given, there is also a conflict between the two.

Now the contradiction that has been accumulated for a long time has exploded, and the outbreak of a contradiction has caused a chain reaction, which has led to the fact that the entire award ceremony is now in a difficult situation.

The wall is falling down and everyone is pushing, in the face of such a predicament, this year's Golden Record Awards Ceremony may really be the last.

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