After chatting with Leslie Cheung's mentors, Chen Qiming went to the student area alone.

The cadets were thrilled with his arrival.

Although they didn't dare to take the initiative to come over to greet him, they all looked in his direction frequently.

After turning around, Chen Qiming probably has some understanding of the students in this draft.

In terms of physical condition, these 100 people are very good.

Although they come from different regions and countries, if it is run properly, this group project initiated by Chen Qiming has a good chance of success.

Among the 100 draft students, Chen Qiming also paid attention to the people recommended by other companies.

Among them, in addition to Edison Chen and Long Ze Xiuming from Japan, Chen Qiming also found several artists who appeared in his dreams.

Three of them are from Baodao, namely Luo Zhixiang, Huo Jianhua and Guo Pinchao, who were recommended by Zhang Xiaoyan and Fulong Company.

In addition, Qiao Zhenyu from the Beijing Dance Academy, and TAE from Thailand.

These have all appeared in Chen Qiming's dreams.

"How? Do you have any students you value? ”

When Chen Qiming returned to the tutor's dedicated backstage area, Leslie Cheung had already finished putting on makeup.

Seeing Chen Qiming coming back from the student area, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"It's ok! Good quality! Chen Qiming didn't say who he was optimistic about, and replied casually.

"Of course the quality is good, which means that you are the initiator of this talent show and have promised to create an album for this group.

Otherwise, if anyone else started this draft, there would not be so many handsome guys with very good quality who signed up for the draft.

As far as I know, several of these guys have already debuted, and they are all highly valued in their company.

It is precisely because you initiated this "Time Idol" project that their agency will let them participate in this show. ”

Leslie Cheung saw that Chen Qiming seemed to be lacking in interest, and couldn't help but feel sorry for these students.

Although Leslie Cheung only said that he was optimistic about Edison Chen before.

But in fact, he is also very optimistic about some of the other students among the students.

It's just that he didn't say it.

Regarding Leslie Cheung's words, Chen Qiming did not refute it.

In a real sense, the quality of his draft is really good.

Not only are there many amateurs who have signed up to run.

Even some debutants were attracted.

is like the one named Luo Zhixiang on Treasure Island.

He relied on Treasure Island's "The King of Heaven is You" imitation competition, and after the game, he made his debut with four other players to form the Five Heavenly Kings.

Oh! It is worth mentioning here that "The King is You" is a parody contest on Treasure Island, and the objects of imitation are the kings of the Chinese music scene, including Chen Qiming.

Among them, because the four kings of Hong Kong are second only to Chen Qiming, this title is also very famous.

Therefore, in the past few years, Chen Qiming will also be joined by others, and the Four Heavenly Kings are widely known as the Five Heavenly Kings.

Of course, Chen Qiming's fans disagree.

Because, for Chen Qiming, joining him into the so-called Heavenly Kings is completely touching Chen Qiming.

After all, Chen Qiming's popularity is almost the sum of the four heavenly kings, and he surpasses them by a large margin in terms of achievements.

If Chen Qiming is called one of the five heavenly kings, this is completely an insult to Chen Qiming.

However, even if Chen Qiming never admits that he is also one of the five kings, the outside world still widely refers to him as the four kings of Hong Kong, who was popular in Asia during the 90s......

In addition to Luo Zhixiang, he is an artist who has debuted for many years.

That TAE from Thailand is also an artist who debuted early.

TAE, whose Chinese name is Tang Chenyu, was born on April 26, 1982 in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, and is of a quarter Chinese ancestry.

In 1997, TAE became a member of the Thai 8-member group "Teen 8 Grade A" and officially stepped into the entertainment industry.

In the first half of this year, TAE announced that he would fly solo and released his first solo album in Thailand, which achieved good results.

Subsequently, perhaps yearning for the heyday of the Chinese entertainment industry, he signed up for the "Times Idol" draft initiated by Chen Qiming, and was shortlisted for the Times Idol with the first place in Thailand, becoming one of the 100 program contestants.

"Either way, you may need to take care of these students in the next draft.

You're the oldest of us, and you're our idol, so you'll have to help me. ”

"Don't worry about this, since I took your ATV's money, the work I should do will definitely not be sloppy, anyway, I can't let you spend this money unjustly." After listening to Chen Qiming's words, Leslie Cheung immediately straightened up.

The investment in this talent show is actually quite large.

Let's not talk about the cost of holding primaries in each region and country.

The cost of just a few tutors is a lot of money.

Among them, Chen Qiming is the highest.

Don't think that ATV is Chen Qiming's company, so he doesn't have to give money.

Chen Qiming is not a philanthropist, and he has to be paid for making movies for Qiming Film and Television.

Not to mention ATV, a company in which he owns only 40 percent of the shares.

The so-called brothers settle accounts, so Chen Qiming will not do anything to attend for free.

However, after all, it is its own company, although it has to be charged, Chen Qiming still chose to reduce the price to attend.

The number of recording periods of this show is about four episodes.

The price of the first phase of Chen Qiminglu's record is five million.

The four episodes of the program add up to about 20 million Hong Kong dollars.

In addition to Chen Qiming, the highest is Leslie Cheung.

His asking price for the first phase was three million, and the four installments combined were 12 million.

This was followed by Shin Seung-hoon, whose price was around 1.5 million for one and a half million and six million for the fourth phase.

The lowest is Akina Nakamori, one million issues, a total of four million.

Maybe someone here is asking, Nakamori Akina is so popular, why hasn't the price been high.

Actually, this is reasonable.

Akina Nakamori was really popular in the 80s and early 90s.

But since her affair with Sato became a stir, causing her to terminate her contract with the agency, she has gradually disappeared from the entertainment industry.

Although she has starred in some Japanese TV dramas and variety shows in the middle, in terms of influence, she has fallen to the bottom.

Therefore, she is now completely in the type of outdated, and it is completely enough to give a million issues.

The total cost of the four tutors is about 40 million.

It is no exaggeration to say that in this era, Chen Qiming is the one who dares to spend so much money to play a draft.

Of course, TVB counts separately.

TVB has a love affair with many popular people in the entertainment industry, such as the Four Heavenly Kings, Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, etc.

As long as Sir Shao speaks, they will mostly reduce the price to participate in TVB programs.

However, this kind of incense was almost used up a few years ago, and now TVB, if you want to invite the Four Heavenly Kings, the cost will definitely not be less.

This can be seen from the fact that the four heavenly kings have rarely participated in the TVB Jade singer He Taiqing in recent years.

In fact, Chen Qiming can also invite someone to come over as a mentor for free.

But after Chen Qiming thought about it carefully, he felt that it was not necessary.

Favors are going to run out.

The current ATV is not exhausted, and it is not cost-effective to invite people with favors at this time.

Therefore, Chen Qiming simply waved his hand and directly invited Leslie Cheung and others according to the market price, and even exceeded the price.

There's no way, the money isn't in place, and it's not easy for people to invite!

Leslie Cheung is okay, as long as Chen Qiming speaks, he will come 100%.

But Akina Nakamori with Shin Seung-hoon.

These two people have nothing to do with Chen Qiming, if the money is not in place, why should people help you record.

In short, ATV has invested a lot in "Idol of the Times" this time.

Even, for Chen Qiming, it is better not to fail.

If he fails, his position as chairman and president may be affected.

That's why he asked Leslie Cheung to help more.

After chatting with Leslie Cheung for a few words, Chen Qiming found Akina Nakamori and Shin Seungxun again, discussed with them and explained some questions about the recording rules, and only after a few people almost understood each other did Chen Qiming go to put on makeup and change clothes.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the recording of the first episode of "Idol of the Times" officially began.

"Let's use warm applause to invite Chen ......, the initiator and mentor of our "Idol of the Times" and the killer of the king of heaven, the No. 1 in Asia, and the lifelong enemy of Michael Jackson Open...... Ming ......"

The host of "Idol of the Times" is Chen Qitai.

After he joined ATV, he not only got a lot of resources in TV, but also successfully got the opportunity to host many variety shows.

In addition, he and Chen Qiming got along well in "I Have a Date with a Zombie", so the host of "Times Idol" handed it over to him.

Well, this is also one of the reasons why it has been rumored that Chen Qiming and Chen Qitai are brothers.

After all, there are still many gold medal hosts in ATV now.

As a result, ATV's high-profile status as the host of "Idol of the Times" was actually handed over to Chen Qitai, which shows that he is valued much in Chen Qiming's eyes.

Chen Qitai's hosting skills are still very good.

When announcing the curtain, the drag sound was deliberately used.

Sounds exciting.

After Chen Qitai's voice fell.

Chen Qiming slowly walked out of the backstage under the watchful eyes of the camera and hundreds of fans who came to buy tickets.

"Ming Tsai ......"

"Ahhh......h

The audience was in an uproar and stood up and applauded.

Chen Qiming waved his hand to the audience, stood in the center of the stage, and began to sing along with the accompanying music.

He sings "Blue and White Porcelain" from his February album "Chinese Style".

"The plain pen outlines the blue and white strokes, and the strokes turn thick and light"

"The peony depicted on the bottle is just like your first makeup"

"Ran Ran Zen incense through the window, I know what is going on"

"The pen on the rice paper is half shelved so far"

……

The euphemistic melody accompanied by Chen Qiming's chant slowly outlines a porcelain statue for the audience, and people can't help but explore the picturesque scenery.

"Blue and White Porcelain" is still very popular this year.

Many people in the audience have heard about it.

As Chen Qiming sang, they began to sing along.

"Azure is waiting for smoke and rain, and I'm waiting for you"

"Smoke rises, thousands of miles across the river"

"At the bottom of the bottle, Han Li imitates the elegance of the previous dynasty"

"Just when I foreshadowed meeting you"

……

Seeing that the audience was singing along, Chen Qiming also cooperated with them, walked to the side of the stage, pointed the microphone at the audience, and put his right hand to his ear to make a listening gesture.

After the song, the scene resounded with warm applause, and at the same time, there were shouts of encore and encore.

"Welcome to the draft site of "Idol of the Times", I am Chen Qiming, in fact, I would like to sing two more songs for you, but today I am not the protagonist, the protagonist is our students.

So, please keep your eyes on our students, thank you! ”

Chen Qiming said a few words, waved his hand to the audience, walked quickly to the mentor's seat, and sat down in his place.

After Chen Qiming sat down, the second mentor also began to appear.

It is Akina Nakamori.

She brings her classic track "Oh No, Oh Yes!".

Although Akina Nakamori has not been popular in recent years.

But she still has a lot of middle-aged fans in Hong Kong.

In the 80s, Japanese music had a very large audience throughout Asia, and many Hong Kong fans knew some of the Japanese celebrities.

Akina Nakamori is one of them.

Therefore, when ATV promoted Akina Mori as the mentor of "Idol of the Times", many of her nostalgic fans paid more attention to this show.

Today, there are a lot of nostalgic fans of Akina Nakamori at the scene.

When Akina Nakamori appeared on the stage in a white dress, these people immediately became excited, and Chen Qiming even saw two middle-aged men with some bald heads yelling excitedly, "Akina Nakamori, ahhhhh......h ILOVEYOU……”

They shouted and wiped their tears, which was chilling to watch.

"Miss Nakamori, it seems that you also have a lot of fans in Hong Kong!"

Akina Nakamori did not understand Chinese, so Chen Qiming temporarily acted as the host and spoke to her in Japanese.

Truth be told, this should be the only inconvenient part of this show.

Neither Akina Nakamori nor Shin Seung-hoon knew Chinese, so they needed a translator.

Chen Qiming's task is daunting, and while he is acting as a mentor, he sometimes needs to act as a translator.

"Thank you, thank you all for your support."

Akina Nakamori obviously didn't expect her to have such loyal fans in Hong Kong.

When she returned to the stage again, she saw the fans cheering for her and crying for her, her eyes were red and she choked up.

"Miss Nakamori fans, Miss Akina Nakamori is thanking you for always liking her."

Chen Qiming did not have an old-fashioned translation, but added some words of his own.

"Miss Nakamori, we will always like you."

"Yes, we will always like you."

"Miss Nakamori, if you don't want to develop in Japan, the Japanese won't give you a chance, why don't you come to Hong Kong!

Our fans in Hong Kong will support you. ”

Akina Nakamori's little rub of fans cried when they saw Akina Nakamori.

I couldn't help but shout out in distress.

Chen Qiming translated these words to Akina Nakamori, causing Akina Nakamori to keep bowing to the group of fans.

"Miss Nakamori, I think you can consider your fan's suggestion.

You still have a lot of fans in China, and if you don't mind, you can actually come to China to develop.

I think there will be a lot of fans who will welcome you. ”

Waiting for Akina Nakamori to come and sit down next to her, Chen Qiming couldn't help but say to her in Japanese.

"Thank you Chen Sang, I'll think about it."

Akina Nakamori smiled.

Seeing that she didn't seem to face up to this matter, Chen Qiming didn't continue to say more.

In fact, Chen Qiming thinks that if Akina Nakamori can come to China for development, maybe he really has some future.

After all, wherever her appearance is, whether she continues to sing or act, she should have a good development.

At the very least, it should be better than in Japan.

After all, Japan's music scene in recent years has actually been like that.

Although the TV drama industry is good, there are many newcomers, and there is no place for her at present.

But if you come to China, maybe it's different.

Her idol status in the 80s will still be very popular in China.

At present, many Mesozoic directors in Hong Kong, China have chased her, and I believe that they will give her a chance for the sake of her former dream.

(End of chapter)