Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 86 "Dangerous Party" was cut off
The competition in the Chinese music scene was still fierce in May 2006.

Many albums that were in the top ten of the chart in April were impacted by newly released albums and fell out of the top ten.

Even in the top five, two strong opponents have re-entered.

Wakin Chau's "Rain Man" and Karen Mok's "If Not For You" were released almost two weeks apart.

It immediately shot into the top five upon release.

In the first week of May, Fahrenheit's self-titled album "Fahrenheit" retained the top spot with a strong performance.

But in the second week, A-mei's "I Want to Be Happy", which had never won a championship since the album was released, suddenly exploded and won the championship with 61765 copies sold.

This forced "Fahrenheit", which sold 59800 copies, to come in second place.

And this fall from the championship almost means that the album "Fahrenheit" has nothing to do with the championship anymore.

There's nothing I can do about it; the new albums released in May are too strong.

There is no need to say much about Wakin Chau and Karen Mok's "Rain Man" and "If Not For You". Both of them are veteran singers in the Chinese music scene with a huge number of fans.

Then there is You Hongming's "Tears of a Poet" which is also coming in strong.

Most importantly, there will be another heavyweight singer performing in mid-May.

Jolin Tsai.

Yes, it’s Jolin Tsai who failed to invite Wu Zhuo to sing a song for her.

Jolin Tsai's new album "Dancing Diva" was released simultaneously in Chinese-speaking regions across Asia.

As soon as this album was released, it won the championship in all Chinese-speaking regions except Hong Kong in the first week.

The emergence of these powerful rivals took up a large part of the market, causing the data of "Fahrenheit" to decline significantly.

By June, Fahrenheit even fell out of the top five.

Similar to "Fahrenheit" is "Cao Cao".

"Fahrenheit" was released in mainland China on April 4th. As of June, less than two months after its release, the cumulative sales reached 5 copies.

In the mainland's total sales data list of Hong Kong and Taiwan this year, it is second only to JJ Lin's "Cao Cao" and Wang Leehom's "The Heroes".

JJ Lin’s “Cao Cao” is indeed powerful. Although “Fahrenheit” snatched two championships from him in mainland China after its release, in terms of overall data, “Cao Cao” is still higher than “Fahrenheit”.

Even the data of Wang Leehom's "The Heroes" is not as good as this.

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Wu Chao pays attention to the ever-changing outside world, but the most important thing for him right now is the production of the drama "Smile Pasta" and the songs for the soundtrack.

Especially the three songs he wrote for Smile Pasta.

It was not until he started producing his own songs that Wu Chao realized how expensive it was.

Including the rental of the recording studio, production, recording, and MV shooting, he spent almost all the money he had.

The money he has earned so far this year is neither small nor excessive, from song sales, advertising fees, endorsements, and his salary of NT$50,000 per episode for "Smiling Pasta".

All the money added up to nearly NT$2.6 million, and it was only with all this money that we were able to produce a few songs.

Of course, this is actually due to Wu Chao’s pursuit of quality to a certain extent.

If he is willing to do things half-heartedly, the NT$1.5 million he invested previously would basically be enough.

But considering that these songs were related to his future reputation, he did not dare to be perfunctory when producing them, but strived for the best.

And the result is good.

With the completion of "Dangerous Party" sung with Cyndi Wang, Sanli sent someone to inspect the song.

After listening to a few songs, Sanli unanimously felt that these songs had the potential to become big hits.

……

On June 6, Taiwan's GTV channel broadcast "Oriental Juliet" starring Wu Zun and popular female idol Ariel Lin.

The drama received a 3.7 rating when it premiered, firmly taking the top spot in ratings for idol dramas in the same time slot.

Because of this drama, Wu Zun, who was originally a normal member of Fahrenheit, experienced a huge surge in popularity. After only three episodes of Oriental Juliet were aired, Wu Zun's popularity in Fahrenheit surpassed Wu Zhuo, who was the second most popular member of the group, and was approaching that of Jiro Wang.

It was also at this time that the filming of "Smiling Pasta", in which Wu Chao played the leading role for the first time, was finally completed.

“I wish “Smile Pasta” will have a long-lasting viewership! Cheers!”

"Smiling Pasta" is not a small crew. A lot of investment has been made in this project, so the wrap-up party is not as casual as that of "KO One".

The crew specially booked a hotel and all the crew members were present.

At the wrap party, the actors and creators gathered together to celebrate excitedly.

Wu Zhuo drank a few glasses with everyone and was then called aside by Shen Yi.

"I'm afraid the song 'Dangerous Party' can't be used in a TV series!"

When they came to the corner, Shen Yi's first words made Wu Zhuo frown slightly.

"Hasn't it been decided to use this song?"

Shen Yi looked helpless, "Producer Wang seems to be very dissatisfied with you recently, and she proposed not to use three of your songs.

However, The Onion and The Day After Tomorrow were of good quality, and the company did not agree with her proposal.

But Dangerous Party was rejected because it didn’t fit the TV series well.”

After a pause, he couldn't help but feel curious, "Hasn't Producer Wang always been very considerate of you? Why are you suddenly so dissatisfied with me?"

"Maybe I have offended her in some way!" Wu Zhuo said calmly.

In fact, he knew why.

Wang Lihui is not young anymore, but she likes young girls.

In late May, she actually approached Wu Zhuo and said she wanted to date him.

She also said that as long as Wu Zhuo dated her, he wouldn't have to worry about television resources in the future, and she would strongly recommend Wu Zhuo to become a TV actor that Sanli would promote.

To put it simply, she wanted to use her position to support Wu Chao.

Of course Wu Zhuo disagreed with this.

His career is now flourishing and he doesn't need to rely on anyone.

So I refused directly.

This rejection naturally angered Wang Lihui, and she immediately said that Wu Chao would not be allowed to participate in Sanli's dramas in the future.

Unexpectedly, it was not just that, she even wanted to cut off Wu Chao's original soundtrack for "Smile Pasta".

"'Dangerous Party' has been cancelled. Which song does the crew plan to use to fill the gap?" Wu Chao asked.

"As for the song 'Little Turtle' that you sang with Wang Xinling before, the company thinks this song is more suitable."

The soundtrack of "Smile Pasta" includes not only a few songs by Wu Zhuo, but also "Rainbow Smile" by Cyndi Wang and others. "Little Turtle" is a song written by another composer found by Sanli. Wu Zhuo and Cyndi Wang recorded this song together some time ago.

After a slight pause, Shen Yi continued: "Personally, I quite like "Dangerous Party", but you also have to understand me.

Although I am one of the producers and directors, my authority is limited.”

"I understand. Director Shen, you have helped me a lot. I can't thank you enough!"

Wu Zhuo responded with a smile.

When he first heard the song "Dangerous Party" being choked, he was indeed a little angry.

But when I think about it carefully, I don’t care too much.

Just don’t make it a TV series soundtrack.

Recently his CP with Cyndi Wang has been very popular. This song is sung by both of them together. Whenever it is released, there are audiences willing to pay for it.

As for the release, neither Huayan nor AVEX Records, the company behind Cyndi Wang, will refuse to release this song.

(End of this chapter)