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Chapter 109, Hong Kong music scene changes [5 more, please subscribe]

With the help of Anita Mui and Zhang Guorong, and the sharp tongue of the Hong Kong media, Shen Lang's new album quickly spread in Hong Kong.

Also spread were the 10 songs in the album.

Whether it can catch this wave of popularity ultimately depends on the quality of the album.

Central:

"'This time next year, I haven't seen you for a year. Who would be willing to change and leave you for sixty years...' A song with two lyrics, one in Mandarin and one in Cantonese. The mainland music talent is indeed worthy of his reputation!"

"Not only this song, the other 9 songs are also good."

"It does have a bit of a 'no Hong Kong star can stop it' meaning."

……

Kowloon:

"'I am not rare. I will disappear into thin air after walking around the street once...' When I heard this song, I remembered my ex-girlfriend in Tokyo that year."

"Is it the ex-girlfriend you spend a few seconds with every night on the disc?"

"Stop being so stubborn, let's be serious, Shen Lang's new album is worth buying."

……

Wan Chai:

"'This kiss is like spilled water, maybe we'll be reunited in heaven when we meet again, and it will be even more sad when we look back...' It's nice, isn't it? This song made me appreciate Shen Lang's handsomeness and talent. Go buy a copy and listen to it."

"Is it true that a mainland singer can sing Cantonese songs well?"

"Really, I don't know if Shen Lang is good at speaking Cantonese, but he has no problem singing Cantonese songs."

……

Although the Hong Kong music scene is not doing well this year, records are still being released and concerts are still being held.

But some are happy while others are sad. The glory of the kings and queens is gone, and the rise of newcomers has caused chaos.

The songs are very lackluster. Apart from a few that stand out, most of the others are of mediocre quality.

This is also normal.

Hong Kong is actually a place without music culture. Even when Hong Kong music was at its most prosperous, almost all of the popular songs were covers of foreign songs.

After the decline of the Japanese music scene, the Hong Kong music scene also fell silent. This is because when it came to competing for original songs, only a few songwriters such as Lin, Huang, and Raymond Lam were able to come to the fore.

But people’s energy is limited. How many singers can they write songs for?

In this way, Shen Lang could be said to have "taken advantage of the opportunity" and served 10 dishes at once.

The Hong Kong audience had never seen such a scene.

Nowadays, when Hong Kong singers release an album, they will at most have one or two hit songs.

Even in the era of Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung, it was already very remarkable if an album had three or five hit songs.

Shen Lang is good, the whole album is a hit.

"You hid it from me, and I hid it from myself. In fact, we both knew the truth, but we still refused to believe it. Sigh."

"Haha, 'Best Friend' scolds you in front of you but praises you behind your back."

"The one singing "Rogue" is Shen Lang himself, right? He debuted for a year and has five or six rumored girlfriends, which makes him even more impressive than Xie Tingfeng."

"Love and sincerity, even if you don't love me anymore, please leave sincerity to me."

"What is the true meaning of love? You don't give up on me, and I won't give up on you!"

"The allusion of 'Seven Friends' is the seven dwarfs. There were seven dwarfs who took care of Snow White, but in the end the princess was awakened by the prince's kiss and taken away."

……

In fact, the fan circle support culture that has become increasingly popular in later generations is all left over from Hong Kong in the past. It’s just that at that time, Hong Kong stars would hang banners offline, support them while singing, and shout their names.

There is a scene in Stephen Chow's movie "King of Destruction" where someone goes to the ticket office of Zhang Xueyou's concert and shouts "I love Lai Ming", and then is beaten up by a group of people.

But most people still like the song but not the person.

If the song is good, listen to it and buy the album.

If it doesn’t sound good, then change it.

Shen Lang's Cantonese album is favored by these listeners.

6 tickets were sold in three days.

Became the mainland singer who achieved "Platinum Record" the fastest.

The IFPI standard in Hong Kong is that 2.5 copies are considered a "gold record", 5 copies are considered a "platinum record", 10 copies are considered a "double platinum", 15 copies are considered a "triple platinum", and so on.

In the original time and space, due to the deteriorating Hong Kong record market, by 2007, there were less than 10 singers whose single record sales could reach "gold record". Therefore, in 2008, IFPI lowered the gold record standard to 1.5 copies, and the platinum record to 3 copies as the standard in the future.

To put it bluntly, it's just a nice-sounding title.

But the sales are made with real money.

The singer with the highest sales in Hong Kong last year was Kelly Chen, whose album was "Love Erotica", which sold 15 copies.

This year will be different from last year, the market will shrink even smaller and album sales will be lower.

So Shen Lang got a platinum record in three days, and this data has already surpassed more than 90% of Hong Kong singers.

And judging by the trend, it will not be less than 15 shares at least.

That means that Shen Lang's Cantonese album can compete for the award for Hong Kong's highest-selling singer of the year.

When the Hong Kong singers woke up, the world had changed!
what's the situation?
Did the joke made by Hong Kong media come true?

This is not "big waves hitting the harbor" but "huge waves covering the harbor".

At this time, Gold Medal Entertainment Records.

The top brother Xu Zhian came to the company and said: "Let me see what's going on!"

This year he has reached the peak of his career since his debut.

At the Hong Kong Jade Solid Gold Awards Ceremony at the beginning of the year, he beat Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Tse Ting-fung and Eason Chan to win the Most Popular Male Singer award, breaking the Four Heavenly Kings' monopoly on this award for more than a decade.

At that time, he went on stage to receive the trophy from Anita Mui and made a "Kitchen Declaration" that moved countless people - there is one person I want to thank. A few years ago, I was in the kitchen with her and told her, "One day you will win the Most Popular Female Singer award and I will win the Male Singer award." She told me that as long as I work hard and believe in myself, it will be fine. I didn't expect it to come true today... Thank you so much!
Who would have thought that he would dump Sammi Cheng more than a decade later.

Xu Zhian went to the boss's office, where Shen Lang's new song was playing.

After listening for a while, the confidence and pride on his face disappeared immediately, replaced by the same solemnity as his boss.

"What's going on" has also become "What's going on".

When the DVD player stopped, the boss took a deep puff of cigarette and said solemnly, "This Shen Lang is incredible."

Xu Zhian opened his mouth, wanting to save some face for Hong Kong singers, but he was speechless during songs like "Same Time Tomorrow", "Under the Mount Fuji" and "Big City Small Things".

The sense of oppression brought by these 10 songs of Shen Lang is just like the era of Zhang Guorong, Tan Yonglin and Wang Jie, when these young singers had no chance at all.

The problem is that the era of Anita Mui, Alan Tam and David Wang is over, and they have grown into the backbone of the Hong Kong music scene.

Now, he is being bullied by a young singer from the mainland, and what’s even more infuriating is that he has no idea how to deal with it.

Wrong!

Do you really think there is no one left in the Hong Kong music scene?
“When is my new album ‘Mud’ scheduled to be released?”

"The 23th of this month."

"Phew, it's okay."

(End of this chapter)