Chapter 113: Finalist for the Academy Awards
On April 15, Zhou Huajian's "Flower Heart" was released.
Zhou Huajian did not disappoint the media that followed him.
As soon as the album was released, it quickly began to become popular.
Among them, "Flower Heart", which adapted Japanese singer Shina Changji's "Flowers and Hearts Are Towards Flowers", was quickly sought after by fans as soon as it was launched, and it soared wildly on the song list, and it took only four days to reach the third place.
In terms of sales, although the sales of this album are different from Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung's "Kiss Goodbye".
But in the first week, it was also a huge figure of 570,000 in the entire Chinese-speaking market.
Perhaps he felt the threat from Zhou Huajian.
On the 19th, Polygram contacted Fulong Company, hoping to get Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung to join forces.
Polygram even came up with an exaggerated propaganda title, "South Qiming, North Learners".
To be honest, even Chen Qiming has to admit that when it comes to nicknames, the major record companies in Hong Kong are definitely the best.
Especially Polygram, they always like to create a special nickname for their singers.
What Polygram Twins, Polygram Three Musketeers, is completely a routine operation.
However, although the name was shouted loudly, Chen Qiming let the company refuse after knowing Polygram's proposal.
It's not that I look down on Jacky Cheung and don't want to be tied to him.
It's that Chen Qiming feels that it is completely unnecessary.
One year after his debut, he went from a small whirlwind alongside Lin Zhiying, to the four idol kings, and then to the double kings of the Chinese music scene now promoted by the media.
In a year, his titles have changed several times.
Recently, the media even shouted the name of the pop king of the Chinese music scene.
Now add another "South Qiming, North Xueyou", to be honest, it really helped him very little.
Therefore, Chen Qiming asked Fulong to push down this proposal to promote the alliance.
However, Chen Qiming's side refused.
It doesn't mean that Jacky Cheung has given up.
Sometimes, it doesn't matter if you agree with this thing.
It's like the dawn.
In 92, he is definitely the most popular person in Hong Kong.
Then, he was pulled into the Four Heavenly Kings.
Did Dawn agree to become one of the Four Heavenly Kings?
no!
He was particularly disgusted with the title and complained about it in public on several occasions.
But as a result, he became one of the Four Heavenly Kings.
The same is true for Chen Qiming.
The day after his refusal, Polygram directly contacted the newspaper news and began to promote this so-called South Qiming and North Xueyou on a large scale.
Under the coverage of a large number of Hong Kong media, the media on the treasure island began to promote it spontaneously, even if they did not receive the money.
Then, and then Chen Qiming naturally became Nan Qiming inexplicably.
This wave of propaganda from Polygram's side is actually very useful.
Stimulated by this wave of publicity, in the third week of April, the record sales of Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung increased significantly compared with last week.
Especially Chen Qiming.
"Too Soft Heart" was released on March 17, and by April 25, the total sales volume officially exceeded 4.5 million copies in more than a month.
Some professional organizations predict that if the subsequent sales data of this album does not drop significantly, the annual sales volume may be between six million and seven million.
There is no doubt that this is a terrifying statistic.
So far, no album in the Chinese music scene has reached this level of annual sales.
Therefore, when this wave of forecast data was announced, many media even shouted the slogan of the first person in the Chinese music scene.
Of course.
There must be people who are not convinced by this.
Andy Lau is not convinced, Dawn is not convinced, and Aaron Kwok is not convinced.
Fulong's Takeshi Kaneshiro is definitely even more unconvinced.
But it's useless, it's useless for anyone to disagree.
Although Chen Qiming has only debuted for a year, his three big-selling albums have proved that he is the most appealing person in the current Chinese music scene.
If anyone is not convinced, they can use the data to speak.
On the 27th, Zhou Huajian's "Flower Heart" was released for 13 days, and the total sales officially exceeded 1.5 million copies.
It has become the highest-grossing record so far this year, except for "Too Soft Heart" and "Kiss Goodbye".
This has once again attracted a lot of praise from the media.
At this time, Chen Qiming left the treasure island and rushed to Hong Kong.
On April 29, the 12th Hong Kong Film Awards will be held at the Hong Kong Cultural Stadium.
Among the shortlists announced half a month ago, Chen Qiming was shortlisted for Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actor with the role of Ye Xiang in "New Meteor Butterfly Sword".
To be honest, Chen Qiming was also confused about being shortlisted for two awards.
"New Meteor Butterfly Sword" is a very typical martial arts movie.
At that time, when filming, director Mai Dangjie didn't pay much attention to literary drama at all, but attached great importance to martial arts, and each actor's fight scene had to reach a certain level to be completed.
is such a movie that even Tony Leung does not have the slightest acting skills.
He Chen Qiming was actually shortlisted for two important awards with this.
In this regard, Chen Qiming can only say that the popularity of the Academy Awards is good enough.
Obviously, the Academy Awards should see that Chen Qiming has been too popular recently.
It just so happened that his performance in "New Meteor Butterfly Sword" was not very eye-catching, but it could also be regarded as a passing grade.
So, I nominated him easily.
However, nominating does not mean winning the prize.
According to Chen Qiming's estimate, nine times out of ten, he belongs to the kind that increases the heat.
Therefore, when he went to participate in the award, he did not even prepare an acceptance speech.
Twenty-nineth.
Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
A famous actor or an invited singer has arrived.
Outside the stadium, a large number of fans and fans held posters and various support signs to completely block the road outside the stadium.
Every time a big-name movie star or singer arrives, they will let out a loud scream and cheer.
"I feel that it may be a little difficult for "Men to Be Self-Improvement" to win awards, and I received news that the judges have a high evaluation of "Caged People", and there is a chance that the best film will be won by this film."
Near the entrance passage, Tsui Hark, who had already arrived here, was chatting with Cheng Xiaodong on his seat.
His "Men Should Be Self-Reliant" was shortlisted for Best Picture and Best Director respectively.
"...... Uproar"
"Ahhh......hh
Cheng Xiaodong next to him was about to speak, when a burst of enthusiastic cheers suddenly came from outside the gymnasium, so that the two of them couldn't help but look up at the location of the passage.
The cheers were loud and continuous.
At this time, a group of organizer staff who were holding walkie-talkies suddenly changed their faces.
A group of people hurried out.
"What's wrong?" Xu Kra stopped a passing organizer staff member and asked.
"Chen Qiming came, and his fans blocked his car......"
The staff said something hurriedly, and then immediately followed the large group and ran out.
"Chen Qiming?" Hearing this name, Tsui Hark couldn't help but touch his head, he had been hearing this name a lot lately.
Even his family muttered two sentences from time to time, "Chen Qiming is really powerful...... Do you want to find him to make a movie......" or something like that.
Thinking of his wife Shi Nansheng's chatter, he couldn't help but look at Cheng Xiaodong, "You have cooperated with Chen Qiming, how is he?" ”
Hearing this, Cheng Xiaodong was stunned for a moment, and then said: "A very good young man, his acting skills should be excellent among young people, but the action scenes are very sloppy, and a scene has to be filmed several times." ”
Tsui Hark nodded and touched his chin, "What do you think of his box office appeal?" If I look for him to be the male lead, will I ......?"
"Don't think about it, you think you're the only one trying to find him? Jiahe and Yongsheng have all looked for it, but they don't seem to have answered. Cheng Xiaodong complained.
"Not necessarily!" Tsui Hark said with squinted eyes.
While speaking, he began to think about the feasibility of inviting Chen Qiming to act.
(End of chapter)