Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 203 Baidu's Top Ten Figures of the Year
The two girls started discussing Wu Zhuo's miserable childhood.

Zhao Yide's mind was no longer on them.

After hesitating for a long time, he picked up the phone and called his eldest brother, youngest sister, and third brother.

Wu Zhuo's song gave him a deep insight.

This song is like writing about motherhood.

More importantly, he suddenly remembered that his mother was actually not young anymore. She was already 69 years old this year.

Year after year, how many years can she have?

I didn’t think about it carefully before, but now that I think about it carefully, I find that my brothers and sisters have done really badly.

Except for my third brother, who has always stayed with their mother.

It has been many years since the eldest, the fourth and I went back to see her properly.

Zhao Yide quickly dialed the phone numbers of the eldest and fourth brothers in turn.

The eldest and the fourth were very busy, and they were perfunctory about his suggestion to go home.

"Next year, next year, how many next years does mom have?"

Hearing the two people's perfunctory response, Zhao Yide became inexplicably angry and couldn't help but roar directly in the car, attracting everyone in the car to look at him.

Zhao Yide didn't say any more words to the eldest and the fourth brother and hung up the phone directly.

He was angry.

Angry at the eldest and fourth sons' indifference towards their mother.

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Yide calmed himself down.

Just then, the bus arrived at the stop. He struggled to squeeze through the crowd and got off through the back door.

After getting off the car, Zhao Yide called his third child and his mother to tell them that he would go back during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

He didn't notice it before, but this time, Zhao Yide noticed it. When his mother on the other end of the phone heard that he was determined to go back, her voice became a little different.

happy!

That's happy.

Sure enough, the mother really wanted her brothers and sisters to go back and see her.

No, it could also be that she wanted to see her brothers and sisters.

After ending the call with his mother, Zhao Yide walked towards the company where he worked.

When he arrived downstairs of the company, he suddenly stopped and turned to walk across the street.

He remembered there was a video store across the street.

He didn't like Wu Zhuo as a singer just because of one song.

Chasing stars is not something that people of my age should do.

He just felt that this song touched his soul so deeply that he needed to buy a record and listen to it carefully.

"When you are old"

"Hair is turning grey"

"Drowsiness"

"When you are old"

“I can’t walk anymore”

At the door of the music store, Zhao Yide listened to the singing and couldn't help but remain silent for a long time. After a while, he walked into the music store.

"Give me a DVD of Wu Zhuo's "Grandma"."

After hesitating for a moment, he added, "Give me a DVD of the song you played."

The owner of the audio-visual store was a middle-aged man in his forties, about the same age as Zhao Yide.

He looked at Zhao Yide strangely, "These two songs are from Wu Zhuo, from the same record."

"One?" Zhao Yide was stunned.

"Yes, Wu Zhuo's album is a single, with only two songs, the "Grandma" you mentioned and this one "When You're Old"."

As the boss spoke, he took out a DVD and placed it in front of Zhao Yide.

Zhao Yide picked up the record and looked at the cover carefully.

[Wu Zhuo's latest masterpiece "Grandma", includes two songs "Grandma" and "When You Are Old".

This is Wu Chao's blessing and greeting to the grandmother who raised him since he was a child, and it is also a reminder to all parents and children.

"May all parents in the world live long!"

The most eye-catching thing on the cover is undoubtedly the two words "Grandma".

At the bottom, the record's slogan is written.

What is even more eye-catching is the image below: a young man is praying with his hands folded and his eyes closed.

"I wish time would go slower!"

Looking at the man on the record, Zhao Yide felt somewhat familiar.

After taking a closer look, I realized that the other person seemed to be the guy my daughter liked the most.

My seventeen-year-old daughter is usually quiet, well-behaved and obedient, but sometimes she can be very rebellious.

The pocket money given to her was often used by her to buy posters of this guy.

The bedside in her room was covered with this guy.

Every time I enter my daughter's room, I can hear her humming:

"It's all up to you. I'm willing to go wherever you say..."

Smiling and shaking his head, Zhao Yide paid the money.

It’s very expensive, just two songs, but it costs 30 yuan.

"It just so happens that Xiaowen is having her birthday soon. I'll give this as her birthday present. She will definitely like it."

Thinking this in his mind, Zhao Yide took the record and left the music store.

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The original song of "Grandma" is "Father", which is the work of Chopstick Brothers.

In the past life, this song made the group Chopstick Brothers go from obscurity to become a top domestic group.

The song has also achieved a lot of success in music awards.

It won the Gratitude and Inspirational Golden Melody Award in 2012 and the Baidu Boiling Point Top Ten Golden Melody Award in 2012.

These honors further consolidate its position in the music industry, making it a representative work expressing fatherly love.

Although Wu Zhuo slightly changed the lyrics.

But that little change doesn't affect the quality of the song at all.

Plus there’s another song called “When You’re Old” included in this single.

The two songs were combined into a single record.

This directly increases the quality of this single disc.

Although this single album did not receive large-scale promotion.

But under the impact of Wu Zhuo's own high popularity and the quality of the song.

In just one day, these two songs occupied the top two spots on the new song chart of the Qianqian Jingting music platform.

On the hot song chart, these two songs quickly entered the top ten in just three days.

It was not until this time that the record company began to take action.

"The new song 'Grandma' by the talented songwriter Wu Zhuo is so moving that it can be called the best inspirational song of the year." - Guangdong Pioneer News.

"There is no doubt that Wu Zhuo is the top creator in the current music scene. He is not inferior to Jay Chou and Leehom Wang." - Gold Typhoon Entertainment.

"One of the top ten figures of the year in the first half of 2007 - Wu Zhuo, a grassroots person, was hailed as one of the new Four Heavenly Kings for his outstanding creative talent, along with Jay Chou, Wang Leehom and JJ Lin." - Baidu's list of figures of the year in the first half of 2007.

First came the record company's public relations and marketing manuscript.

Gradually, news reports about Wu Zhuo began to go beyond these reports.

Some well-known and authoritative media began to report on it.

What made Wu Zhuo the most popular singer in mainland China was undoubtedly the Baidu Person of the Year announced by Baidu.

Baidu Person of the Year is actually not an important award.

But it has a huge impact.

Because Baidu's annual person list is selected by Baidu based on Baidu's Baidu Encyclopedia figures, search terms, and popular comments.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is the result of real popularity.

Among the Baidu Person of the Year announced by Baidu in the first half of the year.

Wu Zhuo ranked sixth.

In the top ten, he is the third artist.

The other two are movie stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Among singers, the ones second only to Wu Zhuo are Jay Chou and Jolin Tsai.

Some time ago, during a break in his concert, Jay Chou directly criticized Jolin Tsai for buying charts. For a while, the popularity of both of them exploded, and Baidu searches soared.

Under such circumstances, Wu Zhuo actually defeated both of them, which really aroused the curiosity of many people who didn't know him.

Many people went to check why Wu Zhuo was selected.

(End of this chapter)