Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 69: Care from CCTV

April th.

Zhou Ziheng attended the Guangdong New Songs Chart Music Awards hosted by Voice of Music.

Because Zhou Ziheng has been very popular recently, and Faye Wong once expressed her desire to work with Zhou Ziheng on the same stage.

So the organizer arranged for the two to enter together.

As soon as the two of them appeared on stage, they immediately stole the spotlight from all the mainland singers who came to participate in the awards.

A large number of local Guangdong reporters came to the two people.

"Hengzi, your new album is about to be released. How are you feeling?"

"It's not bad! The final result still depends on the audience."

"Jacky Cheung's "Kiss Goodbye" is currently number one on all the major radio stations in Guangdong. Do you have the confidence to dethrone him?"

"'Kiss Goodbye' is a very classic album. I am also listening to it myself. Jacky Cheung is also a very good singer in Hong Kong.

As for whether my song has the potential to win the championship, it really depends on the audience.”

Zhou Ziheng praised Jacky Cheung, but was vague when asked by the media whether he could beat Jacky Cheung.

The entertainment industry is a place where human relationships are important.

The day before yesterday, Jacky Cheung praised him in Hong Kong.

He can’t just turn around and say, “Jacky Cheung, you’re no good, I’m going to fuck you”!

If that were the case, Zhou Ziheng would definitely be labeled as an idiot for the rest of his life.

As for whether he can beat Jacky Cheung.

That’s even more impossible to say.

Looking at the entertainment industry, apart from those singers who hate each other.

Generally speaking, no singer would ever say to someone's face that he or she wants to do something like that.

Chinese people are reserved.

Even if the atmosphere of competition between the two sides is very strong, one should still be reserved when necessary.

Privately, no one cares how they argue.

But in front of the media, no matter how fierce the competition is, respect is still required.

"Ms. Wang Jiawen, what do you think of Hengzai compared to Jacky Cheung?"

Some reporters focused their interviews on Faye Wong.

Ask him to comment on Zhou Ziheng and Jacky Cheung.

Faye Wong glanced at Zhou Ziheng and said, "They are both very good singers. As for who is better, I think they each have their own strengths."

……

After getting rid of the reporters, Zhou Ziheng and Faye Wong entered the Tianhe Stadium.

Today's awards ceremony is held here.

At this time, the stadium was already full of spectators, and admission was free.

At present, whether in Hong Kong, Taiwan or the Mainland, music awards and film awards have not yet implemented the model of charging admission fees.

As far as Zhou Ziheng knows, the first time Hong Kong's film award, the Academy Awards, charged admission was in 1999.

On that occasion, in order to sell tickets, the Academy Awards also awarded the Best Actor award to Andy Lau.

As soon as I entered the gymnasium, I ran into Mao Ning and Yang Yuying.

Zhou Ziheng and Mao Ning have conflicts.

Last time, this guy almost cursed Zhou Ziheng at the entrance of New Era.

However, since that time, this person never took the initiative to provoke Zhou Ziheng again when he met him.

When we meet normally, we just treat each other as strangers and don’t talk to each other.

However, this time, Mao Ning actually took the initiative to speak.

"The media has been praising you so highly lately, don't let it get hurt."

Zhou Ziheng could feel a strong sense of jealousy as soon as he heard it.

“It’s better than some people wanting to expose it but no media coverage!”

Zhou Ziheng retorted, then smiled and nodded to Yang Yuying, then walked into the gymnasium with Faye Wong.

"Do you have any grudges?"

Faye Wong looked curious.

“Didn’t New Era and Pacific jointly produce an album called “Golden Boy and Jade Girl”?

The original New Age plan was to make him the golden boy.

And then, you know, I became the golden boy.”

Zhou Ziheng spread his hands.

"Love is for women!" Faye Wong glanced at Yang Yuying.

"Don't talk nonsense, we have nothing to do with each other."

Zhou Ziheng quickly distanced himself from the matter.

Yang Yuying is currently having a hot relationship with a second-generation guy.

That second generation has assets worth over 10 billion and a gray background.

He didn't want to be thrown into the river.

"By the way, where is your girlfriend in Beijing?" Faye Wong suddenly thought of Li Xiaoran.

"We've lost contact." Zhou Ziheng sighed.

He is too difficult.

Love ended before it even began.

In fact, it is normal. He has been in Guangzhou, while Li Xiaoran is in Beijing.

We are so far apart that we can’t meet every day, even if we can call each other often.

It's impossible to maintain the relationship.

Not to mention that neither of them has confirmed their relationship.

"Don't be discouraged. I'll introduce you to someone if I have the chance. I have many sisters in Hong Kong.

Tell me, what type do you like? "

Faye Wong said, patting her chest.

……

On the award ceremony stage, Andy Lau took an envelope, opened it, and read word by word:

"The winner of Best Male Singer is... Zhou Ziheng. Let's congratulate him!"

clap clap clap...

There was warm applause.

Zhou Ziheng hugged Faye Wong, Yang Yuying and Li Chunbo who were standing nearby, then quickly walked onto the stage.

This time, the Guangdong New Songs Chart Awards Ceremony has reached a cooperation with Pearl River TV, and the awards ceremony will be broadcast on Pearl River TV at 8 o'clock tonight.

So, at this point, there were cameras everywhere under the stage.

These cameras have been facing Zhou Ziheng since he stood up.

Zhou Ziheng is also a person who has been baptized by the media for a long time. He is not afraid of the camera and walked to Andy Lau with his head held high.

"Congratulations, Mr. Zhou!"

Andy Lau took the trophy from the side with a smile and handed it to Zhou Ziheng personally.

"Thank you!" Zhou Ziheng said thank you, and then turned to the audience and the camera.

“I am very grateful to The Sound of Music for giving me this award, thank you!
At the same time, I would like to thank Li Chunbo, Chen Xiaoqi, and Mr. Li Guangping.

They have helped me a lot to get to where I am today.

Of course, we also want to thank Pacific Audio and Video, and Mr. Liu Zhiwen of Pacific Audio and Video.
......"

This is his third time on stage tonight.

The first two times were top ten hits.

His "Outside the Window" and "The Waves Still Sound" won two places respectively.

Therefore, he was not too excited when he came up for the third time.

The first time is always impressive and exciting.

After doing it a few more times, the passion will naturally fade.

After giving his acceptance speech, he sang a song "Wine on September 9th" before leaving the stage.

However, he did not return directly to his seat.

Instead, she handed the trophy to Wang Ziqi and immediately went backstage to change her clothes.

The next award is Best Female Vocalist.

He will perform with Faye Wong to warm up the audience.

When he arrived backstage, Faye Wong was already there, having changed into a white dress.

Zhou Ziheng also changed his clothes quickly, wearing a black suit, which matched Faye Wong's white dress perfectly. When he came out after changing his clothes, the host outside had finished speaking and was loudly introducing the songs they were singing to the audience.

"Next, please welcome Ms. Wang Jiawen and Mr. Zhou Ziheng to perform "Love in the Wind and Rain" for us."

Along with the host's voice, the live band began to play the accompaniment.

Zhou Ziheng came out first and sang affectionately:
"It is difficult to understand the deep love between us"

After he finished singing, Faye Wong also walked out from the white artificial smoke on the stage and sang:
"The sea of ​​love becomes vast and infatuation encounters cold wind"

Zhou Ziheng looked at her lovingly and sang: "We are separated by the world, but we may meet again someday."

Faye Wong also faced him, "Love is sobbing in the wind and rain"

……

The song "Lovesickness in the Wind and Rain" is from Jacky Cheung's album "True Feelings Revealed" released in May last year.

Sung by Jacky Cheung and Tang Baoru.

After the album was released, it became widely circulated in Cantonese-speaking areas.

When the organizers were arranging Zhou Ziheng and Faye Wong to perform, in order to take advantage of Jacky Cheung's popularity, they directly asked them to sing this song.

However, it must be said that the version sung by Zhou Ziheng and Faye Wong is not inferior to that of Jacky Cheung and others.

In addition, the organizer added a lot of stage effects to the two people's singing.

For example, smoke, and a dancing team.

As soon as the two of them opened their mouths, the audience immediately cheered.

……

This award ceremony.

how to say!

It is quite satisfactory.

The winners of the Best Male and Best Female Vocalist awards were not at all unexpected by the media.

Male singer Zhou Ziheng and female singer Yang Yuying.

The selection of the top ten golden songs was a bit surprising, as the song "Xiao Fang", which is very popular all over the country, did not win any award.

It was replaced by Mao Ning's "Basketball Night, Basketball Dream".

However, this news did not make the headlines of major media in Guangdong the next day.

Instead, the song "Lovesickness in the Wind and Rain" sung by Zhou Ziheng and Faye Wong caused a lot of heat.

Many media outlets believe that the version sung by the two is almost as good as Jacky Cheung's.

There were even media outlets that directly called on the two to release a tape with this song.

Of course, the media's expectations could not be met.

Because Zhou Ziheng does not own the copyright to this song.

The reason why I can perform this time is because The Sound of Music has the copyright.

So they can sing.

However, although the two of them cannot release a tape with this song.

But the audience can hear both versions.

Because the organizer had already produced a version sung by the two of them and played it on the radio station.

Speaking of this, I have to complain about the current copyright regulations in the mainland.

One of them is really annoying.

That is, the media and radio stations have the right to use all the songs.

In other words, no matter who the song belongs to, when it comes to the mainland, our media and radio stations have the right to use the song for free without paying copyright fees.

For this reason, Zhou Ziheng and Faye Wong's version of "Love in the Wind and Rain" was directly broadcast on the radio that night.

And relying on Zhou Ziheng's popularity in Guangdong, plus the blessing of Faye Wong, the new rising diva of Hong Kong.

The night this song was released on the radio, it directly ranked second on the song request list of the day, second only to "Goodbye Kiss".

For a time, Zhou Ziheng's popularity rose again.

The media are extremely confident that his new album will achieve very good results.

It might even threaten "Kiss Goodbye."

In this commotion.

On April 28, the title song of Zhou Ziheng's new album, "Sad Pacific", was officially released on major radio stations and began to build momentum.

However, due to the tight schedule, Pacific did not promote the song on a large scale on the first day.

But that's the case.

"Sad Pacific" quickly became popular thanks to the reputation accumulated by Zhou Ziheng from his previous "Wandering Song" and the Spring Festival Gala, as well as the popularity of the song.

The on-demand data from the first day has not yet entered the song request chart.

On the next day, it directly entered the top 20 and ranked 17th on the on-demand list of the day.

On the fourth day, the song had already begun to spread in the streets and alleys of Guangdong, and ranked ninth on the on-demand song list that day.

Although "Pacific Heartbreak" did not debut at number one like "Goodbye Kiss".

But there is no doubt that this data trend is also very scary.

As soon as I saw that the song’s on-demand popularity was so good, I realized that it had begun to spread all over Guangdong.

Pacific finally made up their minds and started promoting the song.

First, Zhou Ziheng once again appeared on the TV program "A Thousand Colors".

And sang "Sad Pacific" live.

Afterwards, under the leadership of Pacific, Zhou Ziheng was interviewed by Yangcheng Evening News' evening party column and appeared on the front page as the cover character.

Except for Guangdong.

On the 30th, Zhou Ziheng also recorded a congratulatory video for CCTV.

This is not related to the Pacific Ocean.

Instead, they came to me on their own initiative.

Recently, CCTV is planning a music program.

The name is "Oriental Horizon".

This is a morning magazine-style column, 40 minutes long, consisting of four sub-columns: "Sons of the East" for character interviews, "Focus Moments" for on-site reports, "Living Space" for life services, and "Golden Songs Chart" for song requests.

The congratulations on the launch of the show recorded by Zhou Ziheng was for the "Golden Melody Chart".

This is a brand new music chart.

It will premiere on May 1st.

The rule is to play one song's MTV every day, thirty songs a month.

Then, ten songs are selected through ballots sent in by listeners, which is called the Oriental Time and Space Golden Songs Chart.

Finally, the voting results will be published in China Television News.

There is also another list which is the tape sales list. The TV program will send out visiting staff to collect tape sales data from all over the country and compile a weekly tape sales list.

After all, Oriental Horizon is a CCTV program.

Its strength is unquestionable.

As far as Zhou Ziheng knows, the congratulatory recording for the launch of the show not only includes him, but also Yang Yuying, Andy Lau and other singers who are currently very popular in the mainland.

When the video congratulating the launch was recorded, Zhou Ziheng also received good news.

The CCTV program crew took away a tape of his song "Sad Pacific".

And told him that he would be the first singer to play his MTV after the launch of "Eastern Time and Space Golden Songs Chart".

And it's not just one day.

Starting from number one, to number three.

"Eastern Horizon Golden Songs Chart" will play his songs for three consecutive days.

This is definitely very exciting good news for Zhou Ziheng.

Because this program has just started, it will definitely attract a lot of attention.

He was the first singer to have his music video played on MTV.

His songs will undoubtedly receive enormous publicity.

Even nationwide.

He could already imagine the impact that "Pacific Heartbreak" would have when it was broadcast on this show.

Take the quality of the song "Sad Pacific".

He believes that this song will definitely become popular all over the country at the fastest speed.

And this can feed back into the tape he released on the 6th.

By then, with the popularity of "Pacific Heartbreak", the order volume of tapes will definitely increase significantly.

He might even be able to compete with "Goodbye Kiss" in mainland China.

There are still two thousand in the evening

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(End of this chapter)