1993 My China Entertainment Age

Chapter 102 establishes the title of "King of Songs" and meets the producer of "Returning the Pearl" for the first time.

On October 10th, Jiang Xiaofeng's latest Cantonese album "The more you kiss, the more sad", officially broke through the 25 mark after it was released for more than a month, becoming the best-selling album in the Xiangjiang music scene.

Ranked No.2 is Jiang Xiaofeng's Mandarin album "Cross Era", which sold 24 copies, 3 more than No.3 Zhang Xueyou's "Love and Symphony".

As the end of the year is approaching, if nothing else, Jiang Xiaofeng's Mandarin album "Cross-Era" and Cantonese album "The More Kiss the More Sad" released in 1996 have basically locked in the annual sales champion and runner-up of the Xiangjiang music scene.

At the same time, Jiang Xiaofeng's "The More Kiss The More Sad" album's title song "The More Kiss the Sadder" of the same name, as well as songs such as "Love Too Late", "Under Mount Fuji", and "Seven Friends" are also on this album. For many months, it has spread throughout the streets and alleys of Xiangjiang.

Every Xiangjiang person, for more than a month, almost every day, will hear several hit songs from Jiang Xiaofeng's "The More Kiss the More Sad" album on various occasions.

If we say that in the first half of the year, the Xiangjiang music scene was dominated by the four heavenly kings, competing with some popular newcomers, then in the second half of the Xiangjiang music scene, Jiang Xiaofeng was the only one, and it could be said that he had no rivals at all.

Because the gold content of Jiang Xiaofeng's "The More Kiss the More Sad" album is really ridiculously high.

Whether it is Jiang Xiaofeng's solo songs such as "The More Kiss the More Sad" and "Under Mount Fuji", or the chorus of "Love Is Too Late" with Zhou Huimin, these songs can be played in any year in the Xiangjiang music scene. The existence of the annual golden song.

Many music critics, including many local fans, believed that Jiang Xiaofeng's limelight over the past two years had completely overshadowed the Four Heavenly Kings, and it was very likely that they would break the monopoly of the Four Heavenly Kings in the Xiangjiang music scene.

Especially in the second half of 1996, after Jiang Xiaofeng released the two high-quality albums "The More Kiss the More Sad", he defeated his own "Cross-Era" in an unstoppable manner and became the annual sales champion.

From the sales of these two records and the number of golden songs, it can be seen that Jiang Xiaofeng had no rivals in the Xiangjiang music scene in 1996. At least so far, his opponent is only himself.

In order to create momentum for Jiang Xiaofeng to win the award, manager Chen Jiaying even joined forces with the media and music critics to give Jiang Xiaofeng the title of "King of Songs".

7:30pm.

In order to build momentum for Jiang Xiaofeng, Xinyibao Records once again held a celebration banquet for Jiang Xiaofeng in Mong Kok.

The celebration banquet this time is for nothing else but to celebrate the total sales of Jiang Xiaofeng's Cantonese album "The More You Kiss the More Sad" has exceeded 25 copies and achieved 5 platinum records.

And Jiang Xiaofeng's crazy fans, in order to allow Jiang Xiaofeng to get an extra 5 platinum album, insisted on selling "Cross Era", which was released for half a year, from 24 copies to 25 copies in just three days.

As of this day, Jiang Xiaofeng's Cantonese album "The More I Kiss the More Sad" which has been released for more than a month, and the Mandarin album "Cross-Era", which has been released for nearly half a year, have both broken through the 25 mark in Xiangjiang.

In other words, Jiang Xiaofeng's two albums "Cross Era" and "The More Kiss the More Sad" both reached 5 Platinum achievements, becoming veritable 5 Platinum records.

As for the achievement of 5 platinum records, in the Hong Kong music scene in 1996, only one male singer achieved it, and he did it twice in a row. This singer is none other than Jiang Xiaofeng, who is known as the "king of Chinese national songs".

For the title of "King of Songs", Jiang Xiaofeng personally likes it very much, because he has gained a foothold in the Chinese music scene and reached the pinnacle of his acting career by relying on one golden song after another.

As for the "God of Songs" Zhang Xueyou, the reason why she is called the "God of Songs" is not only because her records are selling well and there are many classic golden songs, but also because of his singing skills.

There is no doubt that Zhang Xueyou has the best basic singing skills among the four heavenly kings, not one of them.

The so-called basic singing skills specifically refer to primary vocal music standards such as intonation, articulation, breath support, and rhythm.

First of all, Zhang Xueyu has two-way absolute pitch, which is better than Andy Lau's C3-G4 absolute pitch, better than Li Ming's half-degree pitch deviation, and better than Guo Fucheng's sense of rhythm.

The second is the sense of articulation. From the perspective of timbre, Zhang Xueyou’s advantage is actually not obvious. In other words, among the recognition of Zhang Xueyou’s popular timbres, the sense of articulation is the core of his uniqueness.

Then there is breath support, which has to be said to be where Zhang Xueyou completely suppressed Andy Lau, Li Ming, and Guo Fucheng, because in vocal music, breath support is the key to intuitively reflecting whether a person sings well or not, apart from pitch .

The significance of breath support is to provide enough voice stability and perfect tone space.

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All in all, the reason why Zhang Xueyou was called the "God of Songs" back then was not only the popularity of singers and the best-selling records, but also the most important reason, which was because of his excellent and superb singing skills.

In contrast, Jiang Xiaofeng's singing skills are obviously not as good as the "God of Songs" Zhang Xueyou, but it's just not as good as Zhang Xueyou, and he is still better than Liu Dehua, Guo Fucheng, and Li Ming.

Moreover, the basis for Jiang Xiaofeng's foothold in the music world is not his singing skills, but his creation and the golden songs created by him.

Jiang Xiaofeng thought to himself, he is only 21 years old this year, he has only released 5 albums in the music scene for only three years, and he is hyped as the "King of Songs" by the brokerage company and the media. The results are far from reaching the realm of "King of Songs".

However, Jiang Xiaofeng thought about it again. Among the most popular singers in today's Chinese music scene, besides him, who else has the capital to be called the king of singers?
Although Zhou Huajian is known as the "King of Heaven" and was once called the "King of National Songs" in Taiwan, his two titles are far less resounding than Zhang Xueyou's "God of Songs".

In Jiang Xiaofeng's view, the God of Songs is the God of Songs, and the King of Songs is the King of Songs. Originally, "King of Songs" is already awesome enough, but "King of Songs" must be preceded by a prefix of "national" or something, so the singer The title of Wang is restricted, and his aura has become hip-stretching.

Therefore, Chen Jiaying also learned to be smart this time, and asked the media and some senior seniors from Hong Kong and Taiwan to give Jiang Xiaofeng the title of "King of Songs" instead of calling him "King of Creative Songs" or "King of Mainland Songs" No need for anything, just a simple singer.

Just like Wang Fei's Tianhou, Tianhou is Tianhou, why do we need to add "National" in front?
Soon, Jiang Xiaofeng's title of "King of Songs" began to spread in Hong Kong and spread to other Chinese-speaking regions outside Hong Kong, driven by major media and fans in Hong Kong, as well as Pepsi's advertisements.

In order to make his title of "King of Songs" worthy of the name, Jiang Xiaofeng also planned in his heart to make persistent efforts and release another top-notch album that is comparable to "Cross Era" and even surpassed "Cross Era".

May 11st, morning.

Under the arrangement of Chen Jiaying, Jiang Xiaofeng met the producer He Xiuqiong from Taiwan, and met him in a private restaurant.

In fact, Chen Jiaying did not support Jiang Xiaofeng's filming of Qiong Yao's drama, but she also respected Jiang Xiaofeng's opinion and did not object, so she asked him to chat with He Xiuqiong alone.

When Jiang Xiaofeng learned that He Xiuqiong was Qiong Yao's daughter-in-law, he was still quite surprised.

There is one thing to say, although Jiang Xiaofeng is a man, he also watched a lot of Qiong Yao dramas when he was a boy.

For example, Qiong Yao dramas such as "Grass by the Green River" and "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms" have left a deep impression on Jiang Xiaofeng's memory.

Especially "Plum Blossoms" and "Water and Cloud" in the "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms" trilogy are unforgettable for Jiang Xiaofeng.

The first is "Plum Blossom Burn". Jiang Xiaofeng no longer remembers the plot, but only remembers that it was a tragedy. In the end, both the hero and heroine turned into white foxes, but he still remembered Chen Derong who played Bai Yinshuang, and also remembered who played Haozhen. "Roaring Horse" Ma Jingtao.

As for the drama "Among the Water and Clouds", Jiang Xiaofeng was most impressed not by Ma Jingtao's Mei Ruohong, nor Chen Derong's Du Qianqian, but Chen Hong's mannequin Wang Zixuan.

Back then, Chen Hong was at the peak of her appearance, and she was indeed incredibly beautiful. She had a beautiful oval face, fashionable and noble, with a bright temperament.

It's no wonder Director Chen couldn't control himself, he would rather bear the infamy of the world, and be with Chen Hong...

When Jiang Xiaofeng was at the dinner table and saw the script of "Tears in the Sky" brought to her by He Xiuqiong, his first reaction was that in his memory, there was really nothing about Qiong Yao's play "Tears in the Sky" impression.

Although Jiang Xiaofeng had always wanted to act in a movie or a TV series, he really didn't want to star in a TV series with little popularity and influence. This was a waste of his time and energy.

Moreover, the drama "Tears in the Heavens" is a bitter scene of crying from beginning to end, and Jiang Xiaofeng really has no interest in it.

Jiang Xiaofeng asked He Xiuqiong: "Mr. He, besides the movie "Tears in the Sky", does your company have any other works?"

He Xiuqiong nodded: "Yes, in addition to "Tears in Heaven", we have also prepared a new drama called "Huanzhugege". I am also the producer of this drama."

"However, the production of "Han Zhu Ge Ge" is relatively small, not as big as the cast of "Tears in Heaven". If you are willing to act in this play, we can tailor it for you and adapt a brand new male lead... ..."

When He Xiuqiong mentioned the words "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", Jiang Xiaofeng immediately became interested.

There is a saying, "Men look at Jin Yong, women look at Qiong Yao, and neither man nor woman look at Sanmao".

Although Jiang Xiaofeng is not a fan of Qiong Yao, nor San Mao Mi, but a fan of Jin Yong, the drama "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" still left Jiang Xiaofeng with indelible memories.

In the memory of Jiang Xiaofeng's previous life, the popularity of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" was unmatched by all later Chinese TV dramas, and it was definitely a super-phenomenal existence.

(End of this chapter)