Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 16 is out, "Wandering Song" is out (please read it later)
Guangdong Province in the early morning is just like China at this moment, full of vitality and yearning for the future.

Early in the morning, people from all over the world who came to Guangdong Province to make a living started their hopeful day with expectations for tomorrow.

Peng Yang is one of them.

Four years ago, he came to Guangdong Province from his hometown in Sichuan with only 40 yuan in his pocket and became a carpenter on a construction site.

It took him four years to go from the initial difficulties, when he had no food to eat and no sleep, to becoming a skilled craftsman who can send some money home every year.

How difficult was it for him in the beginning?
In his own words, he had to break a steamed bun into two pieces and eat it for a day, and even then he still had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival or Chinese New Year, when others were reuniting with their families, he could only work on the construction site, holding his bowl, looking up at the sky, missing his family.

However, those days are now a thing of the past. After several years of hard work, he has become a rich man, but at least he has established some roots in this big city in Guangdong Province and no longer has to worry too much about three meals a day.

Early this morning, after getting up and washing up, he looked at the time and saw that there was still some time before he had to go to work.

With nothing to do, he turned on the radio and listened to music.

This is a little hobby of his. He would listen to it whenever he had time. This could ease the loneliness he felt when he was alone in this big city.

zizi...

"Leave...Father..."

There was a strong sound of electric current. The radio was a bit old, the signal was bad, and the sound was intermittent.

Snapped……

Peng Yang raised his hand and slapped the radio.

With this beat, the sound of the radio immediately returned to normal.

Seeing this, he raised his eyebrows.

This broken radio needs to be cleaned up.

It won't behave itself unless you beat it.

"Waving with tears in my eyes"

"The wind blows and the rain falls without stopping"

"I walk silently on the long road"

“How Many Winters, Summers, Springs and Autumns”

The radio quieted down and the sound became clear.

Peng Yang was attracted by the singing at the first moment.

This was a song he had never heard before.

Moreover, as the singing continued, Peng Yang was a little stunned.

Not only the melody is nice.

More importantly, he felt that the song was about him.

Isn't he just like the protagonist in the song, working alone and silently, suffering from hunger and cold and never telling his family about it!

Listening to the song, Peng Yang's thoughts reverberated, as if he saw the scenes when he first arrived in Guangdong Province.

As he thought about it, his heart ached.

It would have been fine if he hadn't thought about it, but once he thought about it, he realized that he had actually suffered a lot since coming to Guangdong Province.

Sleep under a bridge, eat hard steamed buns, and wash and wear the same set of clothes over and over again.

The song "New Working Song" ended quickly and the radio station played the next song.

Peng Yang frowned, he wanted to listen to the song again.

However, as soon as this thought came to his mind, he was immediately attracted by the song playing again on the radio.

It’s still a new song, but the singer seems to be the same person who just sang the same song.

"Children who run away from home are wandering outside"

“No good clothes, no good cigarettes”

“It’s hard to find a job and work hard”

"Tears in my heart, sweat on my face"

……

The song struck directly at his soul, and seemed to be written about his own voice. Peng Yang stood there in a daze.

"Isn't this really about me?" he cried in his heart.

At this moment, countless people were listening to the music.

Then, most of the people who came to Guangdong from other places to work hard, after hearing those heart-touching songs on the radio, couldn't help but think, "This is really written for me!"

What factors are needed for a song to be widely sung?
A beautiful and pleasant melody is undoubtedly important.

Another type of song is one that can touch the heart and resonate with people.

Most of the songs in Zhou Ziheng's tape are undoubtedly of this type.

The songs on this tape are almost all about the voices of migrant workers.

And how many people in Guangdong Province are migrant workers at this time?

If not millions, then there are hundreds of thousands.

If the whole country is included, the number would almost be in tens of millions.

So many people have one thing in common, that is, they all left their hometowns and come from rural areas.

As long as they have this one thing in common, plus their identity as workers, they can almost all resonate with Zhou Ziheng's tape.

After resonating with them, they will undoubtedly become the audience of Zhou Ziheng's tape.

As long as one out of a hundred of them buys the tape, the sales volume of Zhou Ziheng's tape will become a hit tape of this era.

In Zhou Ziheng's estimation, this tape of his may not be as good as "Xiao Fang", and may even not be as good as Yang Yuying's upcoming "The Wind is Full of Love and the Water is Full of Smiles" for various reasons, but with its huge audience and the heart-touching lyrics and decent melody, it is definitely enough to push it to the top position of this era.

But the fact is that Zhou Ziheng's estimation was wrong.

It’s not that “Wandering Song” failed.

But it exploded.

It completely exploded.

How can I put it? The 90s was indeed a time when Hong Kong and Taiwan styles were prevalent in mainland China.

In this era, everything from Hong Kong, Taiwan and foreign countries, whether good or bad, will be labeled with a high-sounding label.

Songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan are inherently seen as superior to mainland music and are generally more popular.

But it is precisely this somewhat deformed ecological environment that has caused mainland radio stations and media with a sense of superiority to spontaneously cheer for mainland music.

Just like in the early 1990s, when Hong Kong was impacted by the rise of original musicians from Taiwan, several major radio stations gave preferential treatment to local music in various aspects in order to support local music.

The same was true in the mainland at this time.

Especially the radio stations in Guangdong Province.

Many radio stations have created song charts for the mainland.

For example, the most famous one was in 1987, when Guangdong Radio cooperated with relevant departments to promote the development of local folk music and original music, and jointly launched the "Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong Original Song Jianpai Grand Prix" with Beijing Radio and Shanghai Radio, also known as the Jianpai List.

In 1991, because the sponsor of this chart, Lippo Group, could not sponsor the chart, the chart was renamed as Guangdong New Songs Chart.

This list is dedicated to promoting the development of mainland local music, and the songs on the list can only be works by mainland singers.

Today, in August 92, the future famous 8 generation had not yet made their debut. Even the albums of Yang Yuying and Mao Lin, who were the first to try out the new genre, were not released until October and December.

This is a window period in which mainland music has not yet begun to gain momentum.

It was during this period of time that Zhou Ziheng's "Wandering Song" suddenly came out.

It swept away the recent downturn in the mainland music scene and successfully attracted the attention of those who had expectations for mainland music.

After the songs on this tape were frequently played on major radio stations, it became surprisingly popular with the audience.

How popular is "Wandering Song"?
After the songs on this tape began to be played frequently on major radio stations, within three days, most of the songs on "Wandering Songs" appeared directly on the on-demand song charts of major radio stations and ranked in the top 20.

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The audience liked it.

In addition, radio stations and media have always been supporting local music.

This immediately gave the tape a huge boost.

Radio stations began to play the tape spontaneously.

Newspapers began reporting on it.

In an instant, "Wandering Song" had its moment.

(End of this chapter)