China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 150 Wang Fei: I announce that Cao Xuan will be the boss of Chinese pop music in the future

Cao Tianwang fled with his dog, which became a joke for the people in the capital, but some interested people could smell something from it.

The hot guy is back in music!

Countless people began to recall the fear of being dominated and beaten by the big devil in the second half of last year.

Last year, Cao Xuan's new album "Sparkling Stars" first killed Na Ying + Zhang Huimei, and then made the theme song of the national phenomenon "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2", and pressed the bitter love song king Zhang Yu under his body. Novas were all swept away.

"Sparkling Stars" was released in July, and a large number of songs were on the list. After that, it continued to dominate until the popularity dropped in late November. Several songs began to drop off the list one after another, but they still maintained a certain popularity.

Frankly speaking, the dominance of "Starry Stars" in the rankings is slightly inferior to that of "Starry Stars" in 1998.

At that time, the South, Ren and North Cao worked together to dominate the top ten share of almost half of the list. Many singers could not touch the top three at all, and it was difficult for them to enter the top five.

Cao Xuan's dominance in "Twinkling Stars" is not that terrifying. Although he has always maintained a strong position, he is not as desperate as he was in 98.

But then again, at that time, the two teamed up to compete at the peak and hype the topic, but last year it was Cao Xuan who dominated alone, and his dominance seemed to have declined, but the degree of brilliance was only high.

Anyone who paid attention to the news of last year's music charts was almost wiped out by Cao Xuan in the second half of the year.

Whoever Cao Xuan kills today, and whoever challenges Cao Xuan fails tomorrow, has been going on for several months, forcibly creating an atmosphere where the big devil is fighting the entire music scene.

In addition to the buzz on the charts, insiders are most concerned about Cao Xuan's album sales.

"Sparkling Stars" broke through 65+ copies in the first month, and broke through 1999 million before the end of 200, winning the annual sales champion. So far, the sales volume has reached 270 million+.

Although the sales data continues to decline, it is only a matter of time before the total sales volume exceeds 300 million.

And Cao Xuan's first album "Starry Stars" officially exceeded 9 million sales as early as September last year. After the release of "Starry Stars", it also drove a certain amount of sales.

As of July 2000, the cumulative total sales volume of "Starry Stars" has reached 7 million+.

This data, leaving aside some ancient data and only calculating reliable data, can make a wave of the top ten sales of genuine single albums in the Chinese music scene.

The total sales volume of the two albums is 600 million + original copies. It took Cao Xuan two years to catch up with the data of several or even dozens of albums of other superstars, and he can be called a cash cow in the music industry.

Rolling Stones, EMI, Sony, Polygram and other record companies all looked at Cao Xuan with green eyes.

Sony even considered poaching Cao Xuan with 5000 million yuan. Although it was not implemented in the end, it was also guarded by Warner as a thief.

The singing of the song has a wide influence and the sales are hot. Cao Xuan is currently recognized as the pop singer with the most commercial value, and the industry loves and fears him.

Love him has made brilliant achievements one after another, and even the momentum of the Chinese music scene was also brought up by Cao Xuan, and slowly flourished.

Fearing that he is too strong, as long as he releases a song, other singers will all become foils, and his performance and sales will also be affected to varying degrees.

In the first half of this year, Cao Xuan went to shoot a TV series, and the music scene was quiet for a few months, but the good times didn't last long, and he came back to make a new album.

Many singers who are expected to release albums in the second half of the year are having a headache. If this happens, I'm afraid they will have to be rubbed again.

Of course, those who are afraid are eager to try. The music world has never been short of top singers who want to step on the head of a true god.

The four heavenly kings have retired, and now the new generation of singers is aiming to overthrow the Southern and Northern Caos and rule the roost.

Among them, Xie Feng was the one who held back his energy the most.

Although he was terribly suppressed by Cao Xuan last year, aside from Cao Xuan, he is indeed the most popular among the new generation of singers.

The Spring Festival Gala opened him up to a certain degree of popularity in the mainland. After his relationship with Wang Fei was made public, the controversy was controversial, but it also brought a high degree of exposure.

Emperor is also working hard to provide resources. He chooses good songs first, and arranges several films in succession, "SWAT New Man", "Chinese Hero" and "Half a Cigarette".

Except for Ekin Cheng's supporting role in "Chinese Hero" and two cameo appearances, the rest are male leads, and they also won the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards.

It can be said that Emperor is giving Xie Feng resources according to the standard of future pillars. Compared with him, Mr. Chen, Chen Yixun, Li Keqin and others who have signed with Emperor will now stand aside.

Therefore, Xie Feng, who has all the resources, fame, looks, and exposure, is currently the most confident singer to challenge Cao Xuan.

He is also very ambitious himself, he doesn't even pay attention to Ren Xianqi, and he is dedicated to overthrowing Cao Xuan and becoming the king of heaven.

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However, Cao Xuan himself took a wait-and-see attitude for this battle between Xie Feng and the music supernova that outsiders were looking forward to.

Again, Xie Feng's conditions in all aspects were almost completely overcome by Cao Xuan, and the only thing he could show was his bright and rebellious character.

Well, now we have to add a diva girlfriend.

Last year, Xie Feng released three albums and participated in five films.

This year, Xie Feng released two more albums one after another, and another one is in preparation and is expected to be released by the end of the year.

Six albums in two years, although two of them are short albums with 4~7 songs, they add up to almost 50 songs, which can definitely be called high production.

Cao Xuan looked at the number of his movies and albums, and wondered if Xie Feng had learned the technique of avatar.

Of course, it is also possible that the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang is too "developed", two movies were shot in a month, and an album was compiled and recorded in two months.

But with this kind of production attitude, the quantity is rushed, but the quality is different, and the wise see the wisdom.

At least so far, there are only two songs that Xie Feng has really made out of the circle, the famous work "Thank you for your love 1999" and the song "Together with us" sung in the Spring Festival Gala.

In fact, he should have released a song "Because of Love" this year, but now it has become Cao Xuan's masterpiece.

Therefore, Xie Feng's current position is a bit embarrassing, he is extremely popular, but there are too few representative works that can be produced, and many people's first reaction when they mention him is "Feng Feilian".

Xie Feng wanted to challenge Cao Xuan, but the reality was that even Ren Xianqi could easily suppress him.

Brother Xiao Qi was busy with concerts and filming last year.

It wasn't until the beginning of this year that a new album was released, but Tianwang's popularity is still there.

The title songs "The End of the World" and "Spring Flowers Bloom" began to dominate the charts after they were released, which also reminded people that there is not only one Cao Xuan in the music scene, but also [Nan Ren] Ren Xianqi who is as famous as him.

So in Cao Xuan's mind, Xie Feng's threat level was always one level lower.

On the contrary, it was Ren Xianqi who was at the final stage of his peak period, which Cao Xuan valued very much.

The title of the last Chinese king at the turn of the century is not a joke. Even if Cao Xuan now holds 600 million genuine copies and is known as the number one pop singer and the best-selling singer in the Mainland, he can't say that he can stabilize Ren Xianqi.

In addition, Cao Xuan also attached great importance to Xiao Zhou, who is about to debut in November this year.

However, Xiao Zhou has just made his debut, and within the past two years, he will not be able to threaten Cao Xuan for the time being. It will be at least 2003 when he wants to challenge the status of king.

And during the two years, Cao Xuan did not stand still. Perhaps in 2003, the gap not only did not narrow, but widened.

On July 7th, Cao Xuan officially entered Baihua Recording Studio and began the production of his new album "Bright Stars".

Prior to this, the arrangement and accompaniment of the 10 songs of the new album have all been completed, because Cao Xuan can control it at any time, the effect is generally similar to Cao Xuan's expected effect.

Of course, there must be a certain deviation, which is normal, after all, a new producer has been changed.

So after arriving at the recording studio, Cao Xuan and producer Wei Xixi first picked up the accompaniment of the 10 songs.

If there is something that doesn't meet your own vision, you have to change it as soon as possible. At the same time, there are some things that Cao Xuan thinks Wei Xixi has done well, so he will consider whether to keep them.

It's really not sure, Cao Xuan has foreign aid, Liu Huan, Zhang Yadong, Wei Wei, Pu Shu and several musicians he knows have all come to appreciate his album demos, Cao Xuan will always ask their opinions.

Several people were not private, and they all gave Cao Xuan some suggestions. Although Cao Xuan didn't accept all of them, they also got a lot of inspiration.

At the same time, these professional singers and producers also witnessed this magical album in Cao Xuan's hands, and their hearts were shocked.

Afterwards, when some of them attended the event and were interviewed, they were also asked about Cao Xuan's new album.

Liu Huan laughed out loud and didn't say much, he just said that the quality of the song is excellent, and everyone will know the rest when the album is released.

Pu Shu was silent for a long time, and finally choked out four words: "I am ashamed."

Zhang Yadong was the most exaggerated. He happened to attend Wang Fei's new album launch on August 8. After being questioned by reporters, he spoke surprisingly.

"I listened to his new album, and I only had one thought in my mind. It's hard to say in the future, but now Cao Xuan is the leader of the Chinese pop music scene."

Zhang Yadong's words ignited the entire press conference, even Wang Fei next to him was frightened, his eyes widened.

At that time, some Xiangjiang media were dissatisfied, thinking that Zhang Yadong was exaggerating, Cao Xuan was great, but it was not his turn to be the boss in the Chinese music circle.

Zhang Yadong scoffed at this statement, and retorted on the spot: "Singers rely on their strength and works, not their seniority. Whether Cao Xuan can become the leader of the Chinese pop music scene, we will wait and see."

After the press conference, few of the media present paid attention to Wang Fei's new album, but reported Zhang Yadong's "crazy talk".

As Wang Fei's queen producer, he has also won the fame of Piao Shu and Ye Bei, and has cooperated with various well-known mainland singers. Zhang Yadong has already faintly become the number one music producer in the mainland.

So his words carry a lot of weight, at least in the eyes of the media, it is a good breaking point.

However, Cao Xuan was rather depressed. Before he pretended to be aggressive about his own album, he let Zhang Yadong get a wave of enthusiasm first.

But then again, Zhang Yadong's remarks also brought a high degree of attention to "Bright Stars".

Everyone is very curious about the new album that Zhang Yadong thinks Cao Xuan is the leader of the Chinese music scene, what kind of masterpieces are there.

Wang Fei was also one of them. Later, she sneaked to Baihua Recording Studio and listened to Cao Xuan's album demo.

When she came out, she was caught by the reporter and asked if she had listened to Cao Xuan's new album, Tianhou Wang smiled very chicly.

"Zhang Yadong is right. I declare that Cao Xuan will be the leader of the Chinese pop music scene in the future."

Wang Fei's influence is more than one level higher than Zhang Yadong's. Her seal of approval instantly made "Bright Stars" popular before it was released, and everyone's expectations became more and more high.

Warner even hired a security company to keep the various demo accompaniments of the album in secret.

Zhou Jianhui, Fanxing, and Warner's executives were all overjoyed. They repeatedly considered the promotion and distribution process, and must push "Bright Stars" to the top.

Only Cao Xuan was still worried, the two of them made such a big noise, how could he still pretend to be mellow and smooth...

(End of this chapter)