Among the ten annual golden songs, two were the top ones on the new song charts in February and March last year. Zhang Zheng felt that those two songs were not as good as many songs composed by Wang Xuan, and they were just born in a good month.
If those two songs compete with some of Wang Xuan's songs on the same stage, they will definitely be beaten.
Not to mention those two songs, even "Let Everything Follow the Wind" and "Back to the Past", the first and runner-up songs in last year's Battle of the Gods, Zhang Zheng feels can't compare with some of the songs Wang Xuan has sung.
For example, "The Way You Were" is definitely better than "Back to the Past", and "The Rain Keeps Falling" will not be inferior to "Back to the Past". Although "Let Everything Follow the Wind" is a classic, if it competes with "The Way You Were" on the same stage, it's really hard to say who will win and who will lose.
It's a pity that the popularity of "The King of Masked Singer" is too high, which slightly obscures the edge of these songs. Many people think that these songs can achieve such results, and a large part of them are due to the popularity of the show "The King of Masked Singer", so that these songs are somewhat disadvantaged when selecting the annual hits.
This is what Zhang Zheng doesn’t know enough about.
In fact, songs such as "The Rain Keeps Falling" and "The Time You Were" were not selected into the top ten hits, not because "The King of Masked Singer" was too popular, but because China is an emotional society, and some things are not selected for selection. Sometimes it's not all about strength, but also about human nature and sophistication.
For example, Lin Miaoke truly deserves the Rookie of the Year and Most Popular Rookie of the Year awards based on her strength. Both awards must go to her. But in the end, Lin Miaoke only won the Best Newcomer of the Year, while the Most Popular Newcomer of the Year was awarded to Wang Shasha, who was slightly inferior to her.
This is human nature.
Like Wang Xuan, White Tiger also accounted for 3 of the top ten hits of the year, which is a lot. Any more would easily cause criticism and dissatisfaction. . You can't let all the benefits go to you, you have to leave some way for others to survive.
This is the music chart, but I didn’t know that Bai Hu was Wang Xuan, otherwise Wang Xuan would never have been able to select 6 of the top ten hits of the year at once. 10 out of 6, really the top ten hits of the year were created by Wang Xuan's family?
Having said that, after the top ten golden songs of the year, the music festival selected two heavyweight awards, the Best Album Award and the Best Album Producer Award.
These two awards are actually selected together. The producer of the song that is selected for the best album will definitely be selected for the best album producer.
In the end, Lin Rui won the award with the incredible sales of the "Dongfeng Break" album.
The "East Wind Break" album is so incredible that it was released in May last year. As of the end of December last year, it had sold 8 million physical copies and 42 million digital copies, which can be said to have created a sales myth.
Physical sales of 8 million copies were a sales myth even in an era when physical albums were rampant and digital albums had not yet emerged. Therefore, the album "Dongfeng Po" deserves to win the award, and Lin Rui also deserves to win this award. As for its album producer, He Xu, he got a bit of credit from the two singles "East Wind Breaks" and "Half City of Smoke and Sand".
The album sales of "Dongfeng Po" are so high, its title song "Dongfeng Po" should account for at least half of the credit, and the movie theme song "Half City of Smoke and Sand" also takes a lot of the credit. Both singles were produced with the help of Wang Xuan.
As for the other eight songs that He Xu helped Lin Rui produce, the market response was only average. He Xu was able to win the Best Album Producer Award purely because of the two songs "East Wind Breaks" and "Half City Smoke and Sand" The glory of the single is also equivalent to the glory of Wang Xuan in a disguised way.
After being named the best album of the year, the music festival welcomed two more heavyweight awards. In other words, the remaining awards at the music festival are all heavyweight, and the more they go, the more heavyweight they become.
The two heavyweight awards that are about to be awarded are the Best Hits of the Year and the Best Hits Producer of the Year.
The two song awards are awarded jointly, because the producer of the song that is rated as the best hit of the year must be the producer of the best hit of the year.
In terms of rarity, the Best Golden Melody Producer Award of the Year is definitely not comparable to the Best Golden Melody Award of the Year. But for music producers, the Best Album Producer of the Year Award and the Best Golden Song Producer of the Year Award are already the highest honors and are very rare.
When selecting the best hits of the year, all the previous songs that were shortlisted for the top ten hits of the year were also shortlisted for the best hits of the year. However, the singers of these works did not have any hope. They all knew that they would only be a supporting role. The best hit of the year definitely belongs to Lin Rui and "Dongfeng Break".
Again, "Dongfeng Break" is incredible. The quality of the song is incredible, the performance is incredible, and it also created a precedent for Chinese style. Now there are some Chinese-style songs in the industry, but they are still in the exploratory stage and not yet mature.
As the music producer of "East Wind Break", Wang Xuan also won the first music trophy in his life, the Best Golden Melody Producer Award of the Year.
Lin Rui sang "East Wind Break" as usual when accepting the award. When Wang Xuan accepted the award, it should have been very simple, just to greet the audience, but the host Lu Yu had to catch Wang Xuan and ask him to say a few words.
In Lu Yu’s words, Wang Xuan, you have always been like a dragon, and the industry doesn’t know how to contact you if they want to interview you. I finally caught you this time, why don’t you ask the audience to say a few words? ?
Wang Xuan had no choice but to give an acceptance speech: "Thank you to CCTV, thank you to my parents who gave birth to me and raised me, thank you to Lin Rui, thank you to the audience friends who supported me, it was you who allowed me to win the first music trophy in my life. thank you very much."
Wang Xuan stopped after speaking.
Lu Yu looked at Wang Xuan, wanting to wait for Wang Xuan's next words, but found that Wang Xuan said nothing.
"It's over?" Lu Yu was surprised.
"It's over. I'm just a show-off. What else can I say? If it weren't for Lin Rui's hard work, I wouldn't have won the award, so you should let Lin Rui say a few more words." Wang Xuan said.
"No, brother, Wang Xuan, can I call you brother? I have sung three times and given three speeches. I will probably sing again and give another speech soon, so please let me go. .”
"No, you're the brother. But Brother Rui, aren't you a little weak? It's only been three times and you're on the verge of death. How can you do it if I ask you to hold a concert? Wait, I remember you didn't hold a concert last year, right? Then this concert must be held this year. The fans support you so much. How can you be worthy of them if you don’t hold a concert? Do you think this is right?" Wang Xuan asked the audience.
"right!"
"Look, the fans are so enthusiastic. Brother Rui, if I were you, I would give back to them by holding eight concert tours this year." Wang Xuan said.
"I'm not the problem." Lin Rui complained in his heart.
Good guy, this guy Wang Xuan doesn’t look like a human being anymore. He looks like a dog and is nothing like a human being. Just to avoid giving a speech, he was directly used to block the hole in the bullet.
Eight concerts, it’s going to be exhausting.
But Wang Xuan's words got out, and the fans did support him, so Lin Rui had no choice but to agree.
The audience at the scene and the countless viewers in front of the TV naturally burst into cheers.
Lin Rui whispered to Wang Xuan: "Wang Xuan, thanks to you, eight concerts."
"It's okay, Brother Rui, you can do it. Those who are capable should work harder."
"Thank you. Wang Xuan, just wait for me. Don't fall into my hands in the future, otherwise..."
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