Chapter 354: The Unexpected
"Chen Baiqiang's record "I Just Like You" has brought us a lot of surprises, and this record has achieved four consecutive championships on the Hong Kong album chart, and other singers have no power to fight back.
At present, the record has obtained three platinum sales, four platinum should not be a big problem, and five platinum is not impossible, which can be seen that fans are crazy about this record, and this record is also an attempt to change Chen Baiqiang's music style.
Before Chen Baiqiang, the music style took the path of fresh and simple urban folk songs, the orchestration was relatively monotonous, mostly using piano and guitar, and the soundtrack of many songs in this record adopted the characteristics of Chinese and Western songs, "I Like You" and "Wave" were composed by Chen Baiqiang himself, and the music style is very different from the past, which is a big breakthrough.
In addition, Chen Baiqiang also added some elements of fast songs to this album, including fast songs such as "No", "Once Upon a Time", "Silly Hope" and "Vinegar", as well as "Loving Heart", which is mainly a cappella. --- Oriental Daily
Chen Lang looked at the hot report in the newspaper about Chen Baiqiang's record "I Like You" and shook his head secretly.
In fact, Chen Lang has always been very strange, the mid-80s was the beginning of Alan Tam's ascension to the altar, and in the middle and late stages, it was the Tan Zhang hegemony that many fans are familiar with, but he has gained everyone's attention early on, won awards and recognition, and has countless hardcore fans, why was Alan Tam left behind by Alan Tam, and in the end, even Leslie Cheung came from behind.
From the current point of view, Chen Baiqiang, as the first idol singer in Hong Kong, needless to say, is able to compose by himself compared with Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung, and many of the songs he creates are classics, and he has countless irons.
Whether in terms of popularity, sales, appearance, or the affirmation of music critics and awards, Chen Baiqiang has the upper hand, but in the mid-to-late eighties, he was suppressed by Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung, and failed to win the Hong Kong music scene.
The specific reason Chen Lang does not know, and he will only know it later, but Chen Lang originally thought that the biggest competitors of the most popular male singers in the first top ten golden songs would be Xu Guanjie and Alan Tam, but now it seems that Chen Baiqiang's performance is stronger than the current Alan Tam.
According to Chen Lang's own estimate, the most popular male singer who finally won the top ten golden songs is himself, Xu Guanjie and Chen Baiqiang.
This is a bit unexpected by Chen Lang, but looking at Chen Baiqiang, who is now extremely strong, Chen Lang has to admit that even Alan Tam, who ushered in his spring, is still not as good as Chen Baiqiang on the whole.
However, although Chen Baiqiang's performance was very good, Chen Lang was full of confidence.
The award ceremony of the top ten golden songs was in January 1984, and his fourth record will be released at the end of 1983.
A few days later, just when Chen Lang was notified by Gu Jiahui to start recording records, another incident disrupted Chen Lang's plan.
On July 7, Fu Sheng was involved in a traffic accident in a car driven by his brother on his way home, and although he was taken to the hospital, the news of his death soon came.
Who is Fu Sheng?
Fu Sheng is the starring role of Wang Jing's just-filmed movie "Flower Heart", and is the leading actor of Zhang Che, one of the four major directors of Shaw Brothers films, in recent years.
Of course, more importantly, he is the husband of Zhen Ni, the current singer in the Hong Kong music scene.
On July 7, when the traffic accident occurred, Zhen Ni was in Japan at the time, and on July 8, after Zhen Ni returned to Hong Kong, Fu Sheng was declared dead at the age of 29.
Chen Lang knew that Fu Sheng and Zhen Ni were husband and wife in his previous life, because Chen Lang had seen a report.
Zhen Ni did not remarry after Fu Sheng's death, but four years after Fu Sheng's death, Zhen Ni was unexpectedly pregnant, and no one knew the father of the child, which attracted countless criticism, and it was not until more than ten years later that Zhen Ni revealed that four years after Fu Sheng's death, that is, in 1987, Zhen Ni secretly gave birth to her daughter Zhen Jiaping for her deceased husband in the United States with sperm freezing technology.
At that time, many people were shocked when they saw this report, but they didn't expect the singer to be so affectionate to her husband.
Although Chen Lang and Zhen Ni are not very familiar with each other, as one of the top singers in the Hong Kong music scene, they still have some connections, so Chen Lang and many Hong Kong singers attended Fu Sheng's funeral, and the record recording was temporarily stranded.
During the funeral, Chen Lang also learned that Jenny had shut down the music company he founded, Golden Notes.
Zhen Ni is emotionally sad because of Fu Sheng's death, so she may not be attending various events in the near future, but Chen Lang remembers that Zhen Ni has not quit the music scene, so this Hong Kong singer who is second only to Teresa Teng will undoubtedly arouse the covetousness of many record companies.
Chen Lang is naturally among them, and now Chen Lang and Zheng Zhenkun have been preparing for the Hong Kong record label to be established next year.
In order to cause a sensational effect and open up the company's popularity, in addition to Chen Lang joining, both of them also want to sign a heavyweight veteran singer.
Originally, Xu Guanjie was the best choice, but others took the lead, Teresa Teng also had too deep a relationship with Polygram, and Chen Lang didn't want to make Teresa Teng difficult for his own reasons, so he finally gave up.
The current Zhenni is undoubtedly a good choice, and Zhenni has developed in Taiwan two years ago and has a good relationship with Zheng Zhenkun, so Zheng Zhenkun automatically asked Ying to persuade Zhenni.
Zhen Ni rejected Zheng Zhenkun because she was sad and wanted to be quiet for a while, but she gave Zheng Zhenkun a promise that if she wanted to make a comeback, she would give priority to Zheng Zhenkun's company.
As for many other record company people, they returned with a feather, and were even angrily reprimanded by Jenny.
Chen Lang couldn't help but sigh that the relationship was really too important, if it weren't for Zheng Zhenkun's familiarity with Jenny, but if he tried to persuade him, he might be blown out.
Zheng Zhenkun also reported to Chen Lang on the development of record companies in Southeast Asia.
At present, Haishan Rolling Stone has controlled a large local company in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, with a holding of 80%, and the remaining 20% still belongs to the original company.
After all, with the help of the local snake, the record company can save a lot of trouble, and there will not be too much resistance to development.
After getting Zhen Ni's promise, Zheng Zhenkun also returned to Taiwan, and Chen Lang also entered the recording state of his fourth record.