One person's entertainment

Chapter 142: Getting Too Much

As the focus of the music industry chain is rapidly shifting to live performances, the mindset of singers and record companies has changed. They no longer expect to obtain funds for healthy operation through physical albums. The income from live music has become the main source to fill this funding gap, so live performance ability will be the decisive factor affecting the development of singers.

This is also the reason why Shen Lingyou attaches great importance to live singing ability.

In the original time and space, Taylor Swift resumed her tour in 2023. On the day the tickets went on sale, she directly broke the sales record. It is said that 1400 million people flocked to the ticket purchasing website, causing the website to crash. The concert set a sales record of 240 million tickets in a single day, breaking the global record for male/female singers.

According to Forbes estimates, Taylor's total box office revenue will reach a staggering $6.2 million. After deducting various expenses, the final revenue is between $4.65 million and $4.96 million.

Moreover, this concert broke the record, surpassing the $2008 million box office earned by Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" tour from 2009 to 4.07, becoming the best-selling tour by a female singer.

Shen Lingyou naturally would not miss out on this considerable income, but it was not yet time to hold a concert.

The steadiness of his live singing is partly due to talent, partly due to hard work, and partly due to the system.

It can be said that he is not afraid of any singer when singing live now.

After singing "Under the Mount Fuji", Shen Lingyou bowed to express his gratitude, then went backstage and handed the trophy to the excited and happy Huo Wenxi.

"I knew you could do it!" Huo Wenxi held the trophy carefully.

"Calm down, I'm going back." Shen Lingyou's happiness had passed.

Return to your seat.

The last of the Top Ten Golden Songs will be announced soon.

There are still many singers who have been nominated but have not won the award yet, such as Alex Fong, Michael Tse, Leung Hon Wen, Ekin Cheng, Daniel Chan, etc.

This time, the guests who came on stage to present the awards were Zhang Guorong and Anita Mui.

Back then, the two were competitors, partners, and good friends.

I don’t know which lucky person will receive the trophy from them.

"I heard you're releasing a new album?"

"You are well-informed. It is true. It will happen at the beginning of next year."

Zhang Guorong and Anita Mui were in no rush to present the awards, but started chatting on the stage first.

"I also heard that the title song of your album was written by a very talented musician." Anita Mui said with a smile.

"Oh, you know all this. You are worthy of being the big sister. Indeed, you found a very talented musician to write it." Zhang Guorong replied.

Shen Lingyou was stunned. These two were singing the same tune, were they recommending me?
"Who is it? Do I know him?" Mei Yanfang asked again.

"He is here, but you don't know him yet. He is Shen Lingyou who just won the award." Zhang Guorong said with a smile.

"Oh, then I have to get to know him." Anita Mui continued.

At this time, countless pairs of eyes looked towards Shen Lingyou.

To be honest, he felt a little embarrassed being stared at like that.

Everyone is very envious and jealous. What kind of luck is this, to be able to work with superstars.

"Okay, let's give out the awards first." At this time, Zhang Guorong ended the topic.

Anita Mui tore open the envelope and read: "The winner of the 1997 Top Ten Golden Songs is..."

Zhang Guorong continued reading: "Shen Lingyou, 'This Day Next Year', congratulations!"

Anita Mui also clapped her hands and said, "Congratulations!"

This time, not only Shen Lingyou was surprised, everyone in the audience felt the same.

He never thought that he could achieve two consecutive victories, and at first he was worried that he wouldn't be able to achieve any.

Everyone was surprised because ever since Anita Mui, Patrick Tam and Anita Mui announced in the late 80s and early 90s that they would no longer accept music awards, it has become rare for one person to receive multiple awards, and most of the time they only receive one song each.

The key point is that Shen Lingyou is a mainland singer and a newcomer who has just debuted.

This……

But if you think about it carefully, Shen Lingyou's Cantonese album "Jingge Jinqu" is a top-notch work, except for the title song of the medley. It is no exaggeration to say that all of them have the strength to win awards.

So, giving two is conservative.

Of course, there are voices of doubt. You have to know that the fans of the Hong Kong entertainment industry are quite crazy. At the beginning, the fans of Zhang Guorong, Tan Yonglin, and the Four Heavenly Kings were scolding each other and even fighting.

There is one person for each position. One more position means one less person.

Fans of the singers who didn’t win the award will definitely be unhappy.

Shen Lingyou ignored these voices and went on stage to receive the award.

He also expressed his gratitude for the encouragement from Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang.

After giving his acceptance speech, he sang "Same Time, Next Year" and bowed as he left the stage.

And in the backstage, Huo Wenxi had tears in his eyes.

Two awards!

This is only the first year of debut, the future is bright!
Afterwards, awards of all sizes continued to be presented.

Most Popular Male Singer Award: Guo Fucheng

Most Popular Female Singer Award: Zheng Xiuwen

Golden Melody Award: Lai Ming "Only Love Me for One Day"

Asia Pacific Most Popular Hong Kong Male Singer Award: Alumni Zhang

Asia Pacific Most Popular Hong Kong Female Singer Award: Wang Jingfei

It is worth mentioning that Shen Lingyou has started the award-winning mode.

In the Most Popular Mandarin Song Award, the gold prize went to Andy Lau's "Chinese", the silver prize went to Wang Jingfei's "Red Bean", and the bronze prize went to his "Yellow Man".

He also won the bronze medal for the Advertising Song Award for "Loving You Is Loving Myself" and the gold medal for the Most Popular Newcomer Award.

It's not over yet.

Shen Lingyou won the Metro Music Awards' Best New Male Singer, the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs' Most Promising Newcomer Gold Award, the HITS Music Awards' Best New Male Singer Gold Award, and other awards at the other three major music award ceremonies.

This trip to Hong Kong was very rewarding.

He was also invited by Zhang Guorong, Anita Mui and Wang Jingfei to have dinner together.

"Ah You, you wrote songs for your brother and for Fei, but you didn't write one for me. Isn't that inappropriate?" Anita Mui joked.

"Sure." Shen Lingyou said honestly.

When Anita Mui asked this question, he already had a song choice.

"I was just kidding you." Mei Yanfang said cheerfully.

This young man is very interesting, just as Zhang Guorong said.

"Sister Mei, I'm serious. I watched the album of Rouge some time ago, and I came up with the idea of ​​writing a song for my brother and you. Later, I wrote a little bit on and off, and now it's almost half done." Shen Lingyou made up a story.

"Is this true?" Zhang Guorong thought, it can't be such a coincidence.

"Really." Shen Lingyou nodded heavily.

"That's too embarrassing." Anita Mui didn't expect to sing a song as a joke.

"It's my honor that you can sing my songs." Shen Lingyou praised the two of them.

"You kid, stop saying these things. Anyway, we are just waiting for your song." Zhang Guorong said bluntly with a smile in his eyes.

"No problem, I'll finish it as soon as possible." Shen Lingyou nodded.

And this song is "The Most Beautiful Youth".

(End of this chapter)