Chapter 90: The Smoke of December (Two Chapters in One)
Because he was also very busy, Chen Qiming did not help Zhang Yusheng stand on the platform all the time.
After he helped run the promotion twice, he quit Zhang Yusheng's album promotion and started his own commercial performance and work.
Oh! There are also book signings.
After the release of "Fairy Tale", Chen Qiming basically did not hold a book signing, which made his fans very dissatisfied, and often wrote to UFO, asking for a book signing to be held quickly.
No way, the fans' requests cannot be ignored.
So from mid-November, Chen Qiming began to hold his book signings.
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When Chen Qiming ran a commercial performance and held a signing meeting, the time quietly came to December.
Although it has been released for nearly two months, "Fairy Tale" still maintains a strong popularity.
"Fairy Tale" and "Waves Blooming" are still stable in the top five of the major song lists, and "Life with You" and "Orange Perfume" can also impact the top five from time to time.
"Listen to Mother" and "Rice Fragrance" and "Youth" are because of the style of music, although those who like them regard them as masterpieces, but there are many people who don't like them.
Therefore, the positions of these three songs often change, and when they are awesome, the song "Daoxiang" once hit the top three, and when they pulled their hips, they fell directly to the bottom of the charts.
Especially with the advent of December, after a number of powerful songs appeared on the list, these three songs were once squeezed out of the top ten list.
Subsequently, with the help of the popularity of the record, the sales came back.
"The champion of "Fairy Tale" fell, and Zhang Yusheng's "The Sea" won the champion of this week's Dragon and Tiger Golden Melody Chart!" -- Minsheng Daily.
"The fight is fierce, Chen Qiming, Zhang Yusheng, and Goldman Sachs are vying for the first place on the song list!" - Treasure Island Music Scene.
"Chen Qiming's reign is over, the strong enemy has not been killed, and the new enemy has arrived!" ββTaipei Daily.
On December 6, a new week began, and a large number of newspapers began to report some of yesterday's major events.
Among them, Chen Qiming's "Fairy Tale" fell from the top of the Dragon and Tiger Golden Melody Chart for six consecutive weeks to become the hottest news.
In addition to the Dragon and Tiger Golden Song List, Chen Qiming's songs have undergone great changes in their rankings on the major song lists.
First of all, "Fairy Tale" opened the championship position for the first time and fell directly to third.
Then there was Chen Qiming's reign of seven songs occupying the top seventeen positions on the song list, officially coming to an end.
"Youth", "Listen to Mother" and "Daoxiang" all fell out of the top ten, and Chen Qiming only had four songs left on the list.
They are the third "Fairy Tale", the fifth "Waves", the sixth "Life with You" and the tenth "Orange Perfume".
And the reason why there has been such a big change all of a sudden is in addition to the influence of Zhang Yusheng's "The Sea".
There is also the impact from the record "The Legend of the New White Lady Interlude Collection".
In November, Chen Qiming's "The Legend of the New White Lady" was officially launched on TV.
This TV series only aired a few episodes, and it directly broke the ratings record of Treasure Island.
In a month's time, this drama that tells the story of Xu Xian and the White Lady's snake love directly swept the entire treasure island, and spread to other regions at a very fast speed.
How popular is "The Legend of the New White Lady"?
Let's put it this way!
Pull up a random person on the street, and if you ask him if he has been watching a TV series recently, he will definitely tell you that it is "The Legend of the New White Lady".
Not only passers-by, but even Chen Qiming's mother and little sister were also fascinated by this TV series and stayed in front of the TV every day.
Two days ago, when the White Lady was pressed under the Leifeng Pagoda by Fahai, the two of them cried profusely, saying that Fahai didn't understand love.
In short, this TV series is directly known to the whole people.
Affected by this, the actors in the play have risen one by one.
Zhao Yazhi regained her second spring, with continuous film appointments and activities, and directly became the hottest star in November.
Well, only the four major idols of Treasure Island can compete with it.
In addition to Zhao Yazhi, Ye Tong also became famous in Treasure Island because he played the role of Xu Xian.
In the past, except for those who have watched her movies, I am afraid that few people really know about this Hong Kong actress.
But now......
The popularity of "The Legend of the New White Lady" directly made her well-known on Treasure Island, and the film appointments continued.
Even, some media reported that a TV station had offered Ye Tong a salary of NT$350,000 an hour and invited her to film.
350,000 an hour, what is this concept?
With this salary, she can at least get NT$30 million for a play.
The actors are so hot, and so are the songs in the play.
A few days ago, Shanghua Records, also known as Shangge Records, released a collection of episodes of this drama "The Legend of the New White Lady Episode Collection".
As soon as this record was released, it quickly exploded the record market.
In the first week, the sales even exceeded the 90,000 copies of Chen Qiming's "Fairy Tale", and won the second place in the weekly sales list of Baodao with 110,000 sales.
As for the first, it is Zhang Yusheng's "The Sea".
The songs of Zhang Yusheng's album are very popular, and Chen Qiming also sacrificed himself to help a few times, so the sales of this album won 180,000 copies in the first week, almost equaling the first week data of "Fairy Tale".
"Flying Saucer Civil War", this is the outside world's evaluation of the sales and list competition between Zhang Yusheng and Chen Qiming.
This kind of evaluation is very common in Treasure Island in recent years.
Since Wang Jie joined UFO in the late 80s, the UFO civil war has become a custom.
The reason for this.
It's just that the flying saucer is too fierce.
In the past few years, the singers of UFO have become more and more bullish.
In other companies, double platinum is already a successful record sales.
But in skeet, double platinum is just the passing line.
Yes, flying saucers with a large number of popular idols are so fierce.
Records that are so fierce that they are below double platinum are all failing records in this company.
is also because there are too many singers under UFO, so the UFO civil war has become the focus of media attention on Treasure Island.
Like Wang Jie vs. the Little Tigers, the Little Tigers vs. Aaron Kwok, Chen Qiming vs. Lin Zhiying, etc., have all been things they have paid attention to.
Therefore, when Zhang Yusheng defeated Chen Qiming to win the championship position, the Baodao media immediately boiled.
"The Rise of the Treasure Island Music Scene".
Some media directly wrote.
In the article, the author described the development of the music scene in Baodao in recent years, and then mentioned the showdown between Chen Qiming and Zhang Yusheng.
He believes that this indicates that the music scene of Baodao is rising, and it may not be long before it can overpower the Hong Kong music scene.
The article sold well and was recognized by many people.
Everyone generally believes that the treasure island music scene is about to rise.
And while everyone was discussing these, on the major song lists, "Waiting for a Thousand Years", "Fairy Tale" and "The Sea" also began to fight fiercely in the next few weeks.
After being squeezed out of the championship by "The Sea", Chen Qiming's fans were furious and began to frantically stream the song on demand in the second week, while wealthy fans went directly to buy records at home.
Times Weekly reported that a rich second-generation fan of Chen Qiming directly ordered 500 cassettes from UFO at one time, and then brought them to school to give to his classmates.
This incident was once in the social news.
Driven by fans, in the second week, "Fairy Tale" once again returned to the top position.
However, after all, "Fairy Tale" has been released for a long time, and no matter how hot it is, it can't withstand the two new songs "The Sea" and "Waiting for a Thousand Years".
In the third week, under the influence of the TV series "The Legend of the New White Lady", "Waiting for a Thousand Years" came to the first place.
In the next few weeks, you will compete for three songs, today you will be first, tomorrow I will be first, and you will fight on the charts, so that the other songs below will not be able to squeeze in.
Especially Zhou Huimin.
After the release of the record on Treasure Island in November, the sales reached more than 200,000 copies, and she was called the head of the jade girl by fans on Treasure Island.
She's the worst one.
She has sales, and she also has popularity.
However, after the release of her album, she did not win a championship.
made her so angry that she almost drew a circle and cursed Chen Qiming.
Zhou Huimin: "Phew! He also said that he liked me, but he didn't know how to let me, scumbag! β
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Just when "Fairy Tale" and Zhang Yusheng's "The Sea" and Gao Shengmei's "Waiting for a Thousand Years" fought fiercely on the list, and "The Legend of the New White Lady" was broadcast to Chen Qiming, which caused a heated discussion among the audience, Chen Qiming stopped his various activities and rushed to Hong Kong.
The company arranged a play for him.
This film is also invested and produced by Changhong Film and Television, which was established by Wu Dun.
However, compared with Chen Qiming's previous "Truant Biography", this film is much larger in terms of lineup and investment.
In order to make this film a success, Changhong spent a lot of money and directly invited Tony Leung, Michelle Yeoh, and Wang Zuxian to join.
And, of course, Chen Qiming.
Because Chen Qiming's popularity is too hot, before that, Changhong invited him and wanted him to star in another movie produced by Changhong "Nerve Knife and Flying Lynx".
But because Chen Qiming was busy attending various activities and running publicity, he was rejected by Fulong.
After December, seeing that Chen Qiming's popularity has not decreased, he continues to fight with Zhang Yusheng and Goldman Sachs on major lists.
Changhong Film and Television did not give up and invited Chen Qiming again.
Let him star in this Chinese New Year movie that he cooperated with Yonggao Cinemas.
Wing Ko Cinemas is currently the fourth largest cinema chain in Hong Kong.
It is a cinema chain established at the end of last year by the famous Hong Kong filmmaker Huang Baiming and the outsider Roger.
At that time, the movie that made a name for itself in theaters was the movie "Happy Family" starring Leslie Cheung, Stephen Chow, Huang Baiming and others.
The success of "Happy Family" has made Yonggao Cinemas officially squeeze into the ranks of the four major cinema chains in Hong Kong.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, in the second half of this year, Huang Baiming and Roger had a conflict, which led to Huang Baiming's Yonggao Film Company withdrawing from Yonggao Cinema Line and establishing a new cinema line called Oriental Cinema Line.
After Huang Baiming left, Yonggao Cinema Line had no fixed co-producer, and in the end, he could only choose to cooperate with Changhong Film and Television from Baodao.
After discussion between the two sides, the film "New Meteor Butterfly Sword", adapted from Gu Long's "Meteor Butterfly Sword", was officially established.
Originally, according to the original plan, Changhong planned to invite Donnie Yen to play the role of Chen Qiming.
After all, this is a costume martial arts movie.
And Donnie Yen relied on the role of Nalan Shu in "Huang Feihong's Boy as Self-improvement" in the first half of the year and the Governor in "New Dragon Gate Inn", but he has received a lot of praise in the Hong Kong action field.
With him starring, he can add a lot of color to the movie.
But after Changhong weighed the two aspects of popularity and professionalism, the profession finally lost to popularity.
This role was won by Chen Qiming, an action novice.
Hong Kong.
Chen Qiming didn't delay after coming here, and went straight to the filming location of the crew.
This film is going to be released during the Chinese New Year, so the shooting cycle will be very short.
When Chen Qiming arrived at the crew, the crew was already filming.
is filming the scenes of Meng Xingsoul played by Tony Leung and Die'er played by Wang Zuxian.
There were a lot of people around the filming location.
"I'll take you to the director to report first, the filming cycle of the movie is short, and you may have to devote yourself to filming after you join the group."
Seeing Chen Qiming looking over there curiously, Zhu Yanping, who brought Chen Qiming to the crew, said.
Zhu Yanping is not the director of this film, but serves as a producer.
The director of this play is Mai Dangjie, who has directed "Hong Kong Provincial Flag Soldiers".
Well! He also has a more famous play, called "The Secret Love Treasure of the Jade Rot Troupe", a very good-looking action scene......
Chen Qiming and Zhu Yanping found Mai Dangjie behind the crew's filming machine.
He is instructing Lin Zhiying, another idol in the play, how to film.
Lin Zhiying also starred in this movie, but it was a cameo, and he didn't play much of the role of Emperor Jia, probably planning to finish filming early, so he came two days earlier than Chen Qiming.
"Director Mai, this is Chen Qiming, the actor of Ye Xiang."
Zhu Yanping didn't wait for Mai Dangjie to finish speaking to Lin Zhiying, but said directly.
He was very busy, and after arranging Chen Qiming to the crew, he had to rush back to the company to do the later stage of "Nerve Knife and Flying Lynx".
The lineup of that movie is also very large, including Leung Ka-fai, Jacky Cheung, Zhang Min, Lin Zhiying, etc.
And because it is an imitation of "East Becomes West", he still attaches great importance to that play, hoping to achieve a good result.
"Chen Qiming, hello! I often listen to your songs, and I hope we can have a happy cooperation! β
Hearing Zhu Yanping's voice, Mai Dangjie turned his head and looked at Chen Qiming with a scrutinizing look on his face, and then spoke.
He is not from Treasure Island.
is not like Zhu Yanping of Treasure Island, they attach as much importance to Chen Qiming, the top idol of Treasure Island.
Before, he was very opposed to letting Chen Qiming replace Donnie Yen in the role of Ye Xiang.
But his small arms and legs can't defeat the producer at all, and in the end, he can only choose to compromise.
But because of this, this made him not very kind of Chen Qiming.
The tone of his voice was a little cold.
"It's a pleasure to meet Mai Dao, and I hope to have a happy cooperation."
Chen Qiming smiled, not caring about the other party's tone.
Everyone has their own preferences, and he can't influence others to like him.
The only thing he can do in this crew is to do his job well.
Although it can be a little harder.
But isn't that a workout?
"You go change your costume first! There's your play at night. β
Mai Dangjie said a word, and then turned his head to Lin Zhiying to continue the play.
"You go first!"
Mai Dangjie's actions made Zhu Yanping frown.
Chen Qiming was invited by him with a lot of effort, and he was counting on him to contribute to the box office of the movie on Treasure Island.
McDonald's current attitude makes him very worried about the next shooting.
But the scene was not filmed, but Chen Qiming was taken away by the director, if this is the case, how can he explain to the big guy above.
Therefore, after Chen Qiming went to change clothes with the staff, he immediately called Mai Dangjie aside.
"I know you're unhappy, I didn't listen to you and asked Donnie Yen to play this role.
But it's a foregone conclusion, I don't want you to treat Chen Qiming differently because of this matter, do you know what I mean? β
What did Zhu Yanping do before?
He's on the road.
In the one-third acre of land on the treasure island, he can be regarded as a person who speaks the same.
Therefore, the speech is very direct.
After a pause, he added: "You really only need to think about taking your salary and leaving after the film is made, but we are different, the market for our film is not only Hong Kong, but also an important market for our company."
And Chen Qiming, his popularity on the treasure island is unimaginable, and even in Hong Kong, he is as popular.
So, I hope you understand! β
Hearing this, Mai Dangjie was silent for a while and nodded, "Don't worry, I understand!" β
The producer spoke, what can McDonald do, he can only accept.
Even, he has to implement it seriously.
After all, there are many directors in Hong Kong who can make movies, and there are many who can replace him.
If one accidentally angers the producer, it is possible that he will be fired.
It's not impossible, you know, the producer can be the capital of the treasure island, and it's common sense that the villagers take care of the villagers.
(End of chapter)