HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 123 [123] Qi Yuan Becomes the King of Chinese Pop

The debate over Ren Yingying in "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" has not yet ended, and Qi Yuan's photo has quietly appeared on the pages of two authoritative newspapers, "Music Lovers" and "Music Life Daily".

Founded in 1979, Music Lovers is one of the most authoritative music magazines in China.

Music Life Daily was founded in 1993 and is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China. It is a national-level comprehensive music newspaper.

In their article, they referred to Qi Yuan as the king of Mandopop.

Both of these are authoritative media outlets in mainland China, so they have the confidence to say such things.

At the end of September, Qi Yuan held an autograph session in mainland China, and Zhang Xueyou released his new album "No Regrets".

As the one with the best record sales among the Four Heavenly Kings, "No Regrets" sold well after its release.

However, this "good" is only in comparison to other singers. Compared to "Qi Yuan," "Bu Hui Yi" is far inferior.

To date, the official sales of "Wish" in Asia have exceeded five million copies.

Last year, Zhang Xueyou's "I Want to Take You to Feel the Wind" sold 2.5 million copies.

Even if "No Regrets" sells as well as "Blow the Wind", Zhang Xueyou would still need to release another album to catch up with Qi Yuan.

Moreover, "Qi Yuan" was only recently released and has a long sales cycle. Even if Zhang Xueyou releases two albums, they still won't be as good as Qi Yuan.

It is thanks to such achievements that Qi Yuan has become a pop king recognized by authoritative media and fans.

There are rumors that some leaders on the mainland are very satisfied with this young man, Qi Yuan.

The mainland music scene has always lagged behind the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene, especially in the area of ​​pop music, where it has long been suppressed by Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This time, a musical genius like Qi Yuan emerged from the mainland, who swept through the Hong Kong and Taiwan music scene with two albums, bringing two brand-new styles of music, R&B and Chinese style, to the Chinese music scene and making the mainland music scene proud.

It is rumored that the Spring Festival Gala directing team has been assembled, and part of the list of invited artists has been leaked, with Qi Yuan's name prominently featured.

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A small reunion of Beijing Film Academy's Class of '96.

Huang Xiaoming said enviously, "Damn, you're not really going to be on the Spring Festival Gala, are you? To be on the Spring Festival Gala after only a year since your debut, you're really awesome."

He thought he was already very impressive to be able to act in CCTV dramas right from his debut, and that he was nothing compared to Qi Yuan.

His drama, "Love Is Not a Game," is about to premiere on CCTV.

These days, TV censorship is quite fast; a film can be broadcast on TV soon after it's finished.

Zhang Tong's drama "Love Will Carry On" will soon be broadcast on Beijing TV.

This is related to the fact that the production of TV dramas in mainland China is currently too low.

More than a decade later, more and more film and television companies emerged, and at their peak, these companies produced 17000 episodes of TV series in a single year.

If each episode is counted as 30, and the annual production is five or six hundred, then supply exceeds demand, and broadcasting becomes very slow.

Some TV dramas have been filmed for several years and have been successfully sold to TV stations, but the TV stations just won't broadcast them.

"I'm nothing special, I'm just lucky. Both of my albums sold very well," Qi Yuan said 'modestly'.

"Damn! Isn't that awesome?" Huang Xiaoming and the others laughed and cursed.

As long as Qi Yuan doesn't make any mistakes, his appearance on the Spring Festival Gala is a sure thing.

As the only pop singer in mainland China who is on par with those from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and also a singer-songwriter, he is a must-appear on the Spring Festival Gala.

Honestly, he's really looking forward to it.

The Spring Festival Gala of this era is the real Spring Festival Gala, unlike the later ones that only showed dumpling making and mocked the audience for being single.

Lip-syncing was very common during the Spring Festival Gala from 1997 to 2008, with the exceptions in 99 and 02.

In the past two years, the Spring Festival Gala production team has tried to have singers perform live. Especially in 99, the production team was very open-minded.

Generally speaking, the songs that singers sing are arranged by the production team; they sing whatever the production team tells them to sing.

In the 99 Spring Festival Gala of my previous life, there was a special situation. The production team asked Richie Jen to sing "Too Softhearted".

Richie Jen said the lyrics of "Too Softhearted" were too sad. The Lunar New Year is a joyous occasion, so how could he sing about crying alone until dawn? He requested that it be changed to "The Girl Across the Way".

The production team actually adopted his suggestion.

Ren Xianqi sang live during the Spring Festival Gala. Halfway through his performance, he ran into the audience and jumped around to interact with them, something that would never happen in later Spring Festival Galas.

After a small get-together with classmates Huang Xiaoming, Yan Danchen, Zuo Xiaoqing, and others.

Qi Yuan received a call from Chen Hong.

"It's a real pity. Producer Zhang from 'Swordsman' said he wanted me to play Ren Yingying. I had already accepted 'Palace of Desire,' otherwise I really could have auditioned for Ren Yingying... Kaige asked me to inform you that 'The Emperor and the Assassin' will have its premiere at the Great Hall of the People on October 6th."

As expected of Director Chen, the premiere was held at the Great Hall of the People, a truly grand affair.

However, the Great Hall of the People has been open to the public for lease since the mid-1980s.

If you have the money, you can rent a 10,000-seat auditorium to hold your wedding. Generally, no one is that high-profile.

Qi Yuan agreed.

The two music videos that Chen Kaige filmed helped boost his record sales a lot, so he definitely had to go and support Chen Kaige.

After Qi Yuan returned home, a system notification arrived.

[Successfully progressed together with Fang Wenshan, +1 draw chance]

[Successfully progressing together with Chen Kaige grants +1 draw chance]

[Successfully progressing together with Richie Jen increases your draw chance by 1]

Qi Yuan now has a deeper understanding of the "golden finger" (a powerful ability to grant power over others).

For projects like albums that involve too many collaborators, the system will only select one or a few people with the most outstanding performance to have their attributes extracted.

For example, the album "Qi Yuan" was drawn by Fang Wenshan and Chen Kaige.

Fang Wenshan's lyrics for "Dong Feng Po" are so well written.

Needless to say, Chen Kaige's two music videos are the pinnacle of Chinese music video production, and no one will be able to surpass them for many years to come.

If Qi Yuan collaborates with only one person and achieves results, then he can reliably extract that person's attributes with a 100% success rate.

For example, Ren Xianqi, who collaborated with Qi Yuan on "The Girl Across the Street".

Although Qi Yuan's performance in the "Girl Across the Street" MV was so outstanding that she overshadowed Richie Jen.

However, with Qi Yuan's addition, the song became even more popular, truly becoming a hit everywhere, on par with "Twilight" and "Jiangnan".

As is customary, the prayer ceremony began after incense burning and bathing, followed by the lottery draw.

"Start drawing!"

"Successfully extracted. Features: Classical artistic conception, from Fang Wenshan, making it easier to write Chinese-style lyrics."

"Successfully extracted, featuring exceptional visuals, from Chen Kaige, who has gained a new understanding of the beauty and artistic conception of composition, and knows how to use techniques such as symmetry and contrast to make the picture highly artistic."

"Successful extraction. Special characteristics, strong luck. Richie Jen, whom Rock Records didn't have high hopes for, became famous throughout Asia with just one song and became the new king of Asian pop. His luck is terrifyingly strong, and you have his luck."

"!!!"

Qi Yuan was shocked.

Holy crap! Three consecutive draws and all I got were special abilities? That's ridiculous!
(End of this chapter)