In December, MTV and CCTV jointly held the CCTV-MTV Music Festival, no longer exclusive to Channel V.
Since the music festival was co-organized by CCTV, its scale, specifications, and authority were much higher, and it attracted a large number of singers.
Among them, the "Most Popular Male and Female Singer Award", because it is competed in the form of public voting, represents the true popularity of the singer to a certain extent, so it is also the award that everyone pays most attention to.
In the end, Xiang Nan defeated Sun Nan, Man Wenjun, Zheng Yun, Mao Wei and others with the highest number of votes and won the Mainland's Most Popular Male Singer Award.
In addition, Leslie Cheung and Wang Fei also successfully won the Best Male and Female Singer Award in the Xiangjiang region for their two albums "The King of Karaoke" and "The Time", respectively, for which Xiang Nan participated in the lyrics and composition.
It can be said that Xiang Nan is fortunate to be the veritable biggest winner at this award ceremony.
This also resulted in twice as many people asking him to sing after the music festival than before.
However, Xiang Nan didn't give any face to anyone and rejected them all.
The reason why he is so tough is that firstly, he has now established a firm foothold in the film and television industry and the music industry and does not need support from anyone; secondly, in 2000, he made nearly 500 million yuan in the stock market. achieved financial freedom.
To be honest, even domestic entertainment giants such as Huayi, Guangguang, and Rong Xinzhu may not have as much funds as he does.
In this case, he naturally does not need to look at anyone's face, nor does he need to follow anyone's path. Just like what Master Fan said back then, I don’t have to marry into a wealthy family, I am a wealthy family myself.
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In January 2001, the filming of "Yanjing Music and Road" was officially completed, which took about three months.
During this period, Xiang Nan also found time to dub for "Young Man Bao Qingtian".
In fact, the crew originally wanted to hire professional dubbing actors, but Xiang Nan thought it would be better to do the dubbing himself.
Firstly, the audience is already familiar with their own voices, and dubbing them will make everyone feel like they are in a drama; secondly, by dubbing by yourself, the tone and rhythm can be controlled more steadily, and the quality of the TV series can also be improved.
As a producer, Zheng Xiaolong is very satisfied with his dedicated behavior.
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In addition, during the filming of this movie, Warner Records proposed a cooperation plan to MaiMiao Records, and the two companies merged to form Warner MaiMiao.
Xiang Nan naturally agreed with this matter.
After four years of development, Maimiao Records has entered a bottleneck period. Want to expand, but funds, talents, and experience are scarce. Merging with Warner can solve many problems and help Maimiao Records to reach a higher level;
Secondly, Warner Records is one of the largest record companies in the world, and its record production, marketing, and distribution capabilities are among the best in the world.
It is said that it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. Xiang Nan's career has developed to this point and has entered a bottleneck period, and he is in urgent need of more capital to help him move to the next level. Warner came at the right time.
As for whether the store will bully customers after joining Warner, Xiang Nan is not too worried about this.
Firstly, he was the most popular singer of Maimiao Records, and he believed that Warner Bros. would not ruin his money career; secondly, he was the agent of his, and he only signed a record contract with Maimiao, and he only signed five albums. There are only two left until the contract expires, and then the sky is high and the birds can fly.
To put it bluntly, even if Warner is really messing around, with his capital, he will not be helpless to fight back. At that time, he can even buy out the contract with his own money, and if it fails, he will file a lawsuit.
With his current popularity, status, and influence in the industry, he really wants to have a fight with Warner. Even if it is a major international record company, it may not be able to take advantage.
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On the day when Maimiao Records signed a contract with Warner Records, Xiang Nan, as a leading singer, naturally went to support the signing.
At the signing ceremony, Xiang Nan also met artists such as Sun Nan, Zhou Xun, Jin Haixin, and the Band Band who were originally owned by Warner.
Since they were all fellow disciples from now on, Xiang Nan greeted them warmly.
"I've heard your songs, but I don't like them very much~" Zhou Xun blinked his elf-like eyes, looked at Xiang Nan, and said directly.
When they met for the first time, they were insulted, which made Xiang Nan feel very unhappy.
Fortunately, he has been working hard in the entertainment industry for several years, and he can still do a good job in superficial skills.
Therefore, Xiang Nan smiled and nodded, "Thank you."
Zhou Xun was slightly startled, he didn't expect Xiang Nan to respond like this. She still wanted to have a good argument with him.
"I think you..." she said immediately.
"Sorry, excuse me~" Xiang Nan smiled at her and walked away in a hurry.
"Hey, you~" Zhou Xun stamped his feet angrily.
She is a crazy music lover. In the early 1990s, when she came to Yanjing to make a living, she worked as a singer and sang in bars. Because he refused to accompany a guest to drink, he once had a front tooth knocked out.
Later, when she fell in love, she found the musician Dou Peng, who was Dou Wei's younger brother. Later, after she became famous, she still loved music. She would go to any performance as long as it was scheduled.
Even "ID", a well-known British music magazine, recognized her as an avid music fan.
As an avid music fan, she naturally knew something about Xiang Nan's disagreements with the underground rock circle in the past few days.
To be honest, she felt that both sides had their rights and wrongs, and Xiang Nan's was more wrong.
She thinks Xiang Nan is a talented musician. His singing of "Meteor", "Free as the Wind", "The Way You Were", "Blue Lotus", and "Chasing Dreams" are all good.
However, Xiang Nan has such a high talent, but he is willing to degenerate and make himself so commercial and kitsch. In her opinion, it is a complete waste of natural resources.
Therefore, she wanted to discuss it with him and ask him to write more about the beauty of spring and snow, and not be so worldly and money-worshiping.
It's a pity that Xiang Nan and Ben didn't give her a chance, leaving her with nothing to say and she was so excited!
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After MaiMiao Records merged with Warner Records to form Warner MaiMiao, Xiang Nan's fourth album was officially in preparation.
In the new album, Xiang Nan adds more R&B elements.
"Qilixiang", "Jiangnan", "Hua Tiancuo", "Love in BC", "Simple Love", "Stubborn", "Youth", "That's Me", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"...
The full name of R&B is rhythm and blues. It originated in the 1950s. After more than fifty years of development, it has developed into various branches.
According to the definition of the Western music industry, all songs except jazz and blues can be counted as R&B. Such as disco, funk, soul music, swing music, etc., so R&B is not a new product.
The reason why R&B style will emerge in the record industry two thousand years later is mainly due to commercial considerations. In order to distinguish it from previous pop music, in order to give the audience more freshness.
The so-called ten-year generation gap and the five-year generation gap mean that the appreciation tastes of the younger generation and the older generation are very different.
The previous pop music has a history of 10 or 20 years, and now it is no longer in line with the taste of young people.
Moreover, many of those popular singers have been famous for more than ten years, such as Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Alan Tam, Li Zongsheng, Luo Dayou, Zizhen, etc.
Young audiences want newer faces and fresher music, which requires an urgent response from the recording industry.
In addition, in the 1990s, American R&B music was popular. The emergence of many outstanding singers such as Y, Usher, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, Boy Band, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Beyoncé, etc. has also made the Chinese recording industry Follow the trend.
So Xiang Nan is now following the trend and introducing R&B elements into the new album to win the support of more fans.
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While Xiang Nan was preparing the record, he met Zhou Xun many times.
Every time he meets her, Zhou Xun always wants to quarrel with him and argue about how to make music, which makes Xiang Nan a little annoyed.
"Why do you always want to quarrel with me? You just like music, and I specialize in music. Can you know better than me?" Finally, he couldn't help but burst out one day, "Don't take it from you. interests and challenges my major.”
One sentence excited Zhou Xun to death! I also play music, okay!
She vowed to make an album to let Xiang Nan take a closer look at what real music is. Moreover, she also told her agent Li Xiaowan that she would work hard to get into the cast of whatever drama Xiang Nan takes on in the future.
When the time comes, use your superb acting skills to humiliate him properly. Give him back the sentence "Don't use your interest, challenge my major"!
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