The music scene in 1996 could be described as a fight between gods and gods, not like the chaos of demons in later generations.
Especially with the strong rise of Liu Hao.
At this time, Liu Hao was holding a mainland music list in his hand, which was comprehensively selected by hundreds of radio and television stations and was very authoritative.
Ranking first is "Norwegian Wood" by Bay Province singer Wu Bai. This song is a rock song, and it is also the best among the best. It is the absolute pinnacle. Although mainland rock music has begun to gradually decline, the public's appreciation of it is still low.
The enthusiasm for rock music remains undiminished, and its popularity has remained high since its release in June.
Liu Hao, including his eldest brother, was once a rock youth, and he has no temper at all when losing to such a song.
Ranking second and third are Liu Hao's "Fairy Tale" and "Lonely Sandbank" respectively.
The song "Fairy Tale" is a perfect combination of a song and a story-telling MV, far reaching the effect of one plus one greater than two. Once it was released, it immediately exploded the market. It is especially loved by middle school students. It is still the most popular song on middle school campuses.
One of the most popular songs.
"Lonely Sandbank" is the title song that Liu Hao focuses on promoting. It has aroused strong resonance among lonely young and middle-aged people, and its on-demand popularity on radio stations has remained high.
Ranked fourth is "Health Song" by Fan Xiaoxuan. This is a children's song that everyone knows. It is a must-have song for kindergartens and unique activities for primary school students. It has even become a square dance song for the square aunts of this era. It is easy to follow the melody after listening to it.
The neck is twitching and the butt is twitching.”
Liu Hao's "Fairy Tale" and "Lonely Sand Island Cold" can be ranked first in this song thanks to the combined effect of the entire album.
Ranked fifth was Huo's "Big Sedan", which was released in 1995 and remained popular throughout 1996.
Ranked sixth is "Perseverance" by Tian Zhen. This song made her famous. Perhaps it is because of this that the General Administration of Sports finally chose her to sing "Steel Rose".
Ranked seventh is "The End of the Song" by Zhang Yu, eighth is "Prison Bird" by Peng Ling, and ninth is "My Heart is Too Chaotic" by Xiao Gang.
Liu Hao was a little surprised that the tenth place was his own "Beijing" ("Chengdu"). Folk songs have always been considered a niche culture, and their audience is also those literary young people, so when Liu Hao was promoting his first album
Not many resources were used to promote this song.
What Liu Hao didn't expect was that this song seemed to have broken the circle, especially in the capital, where the demand remained high, and some enthusiastic fans even wrote to the city government suggesting that the song should become the capital's city anthem.
When Liu Hao heard the news, he was shocked and stunned.
Ranked 11th is Harlin's "The Passionate Desert" and "The Last Resort" ranked 12th is about "falling in love and killing each other".
There are also "Understanding You" by Man Wenjun, "The One I Love the Most" by Er Zhang, "Ambiguous" by Wang Fei, "Slowly" by Zhang Xueyou, etc.
Most of Liu Hao's remaining songs are in the top 30, and only one song, "A Little Sweet", is in the upper 40s.
Although it is a bit regretful, this has made Liu Hao very satisfied.
Especially after comparing the 1996 pop music charts of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
On the Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music charts, Liu Hao only has two songs in the top twenty, "Fairy Tale" and "Lonely Sandbank Cold", and only Liu Hao's "Fairy Tale" is outside the top three in the top ten.
It's normal to be squeezed out.
When it comes to Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music, Liu Hao feels a little uncomfortable.
"Rolling Stone Records just called. I hope your second album can be released simultaneously in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. They will invest more resources to help you promote it..." Wang Jinghua reported to Liu Haohui.
"Huh! You must have other requests!" Liu Hao said dissatisfied.
"They are very satisfied with the quality of the songs on your second album and hope to get the right to cover some of the songs with female vocals..." Wang Jinghua continued.
"Um?"
"There is a singer under Rolling Stone named Liu Luoying who became popular in the Bay Area because of her singing "Crazy for Love". They will take advantage of the situation to create a new album for them. They took a fancy to "Later" from your second album and thought it was very suitable for her.
style of…"
Liu Hao: “…..”
"They want to test the waters by releasing a single for their singer named Liang Jingru, and they want to use the song "Courage" from your album..."
"???"
Liu Hao looked surprised and asked: "Then did they sign an unpopular singer and sing "Meet" from my album to her..."
"What an unpopular singer?" Wang Jinghua said with a calm smile. "Xu Huaiyu is not an unpopular singer now. She is now quite famous in Wanwan. Rolling Stone Records is also preparing to release an album for her. I hope to use the songs in your album.
"Meet" is the title song..."
Liu Hao then remembered that a certain unpopular singer had not debuted yet, and he was not a Rolling Stone singer.
When he thought of Rolling Stone, Liu Hao felt a fire in his heart, and interrupted directly: "This Rolling Stone really likes to pull the wool out of a sheep. I have a good temper, but I am not a fool, and I don't understand everything."
Liu Hao started to say angrily: "They said that my first album only sold more than 300,000 copies in Bay Area, and not much in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. If that's the case, then why do they spend so much effort to improve me?"
How much publicity is needed for the second major?
And Xu Huaiyu, what works did she have before? She is just an unknown newcomer who only became popular after singing a duet with me. If my first album only had that little sales, would she be as popular as she is now?"
"But it's difficult for us to figure out the true sales volume of your first album in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. It's beyond our reach..." Wang Jinghua said with shame.
"Yes, we don't know the true sales volume of my first album in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, but I'm sure that the sales volume of my first album in Taiwan alone will definitely be no less than 500,000!
Don’t tell me that this is an unwritten rule used by Hong Kong and Taiwan record companies. If they respected me and valued our cooperation, they wouldn’t go so far!
Also, the agreed-upon share has been delayed by me, and I still haven’t seen any of it!" Liu Hao said angrily.
"Rolling Stone's Chen Yongzhi called me to apologize to you. He is urgently dealing with your matter and also expressed his difficulties. He is not the only one who has the final say in Rolling Stone. There are many constraints, such as big companies, office politics, etc.
Intrigue..." Wang Jinghua answered truthfully.
"I understand him, but if Rolling Stone really values me, they won't keep defaulting on my share just because they are embarrassing him. I don't owe them Rolling Stone anything. I also invested in Zhang Yang's movie. You tell them directly,
The right to cover the songs in my album will not be authorized to them. If my share is not paid before the release of my second album, the cooperation with them will be terminated directly!"
"But your second album is about to be released. It is difficult to find a suitable publishing partner at this critical point..." Wang Jinghua reminded.
"Then I would rather the second album not be released in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. I don't lack the money, but I want to fight for it! And I told them that my share should not be less than a penny, and I am not afraid of filing a lawsuit with them..."
Liu Hao said with a very tough attitude.
…
If you are tough, then you are soft. The Rolling Stones' share was quickly received. More than 1.3 million has been transferred to Liu Hao's account, but it was still delayed for a few days, which also caused Liu Hao's second album to be bounced again and postponed again.
It's not all because of the Rolling Stones.
First, because Wahaha needs to cooperate with the publicity, so that it can use Wahaha's publicity resources to reduce its own publicity pressure, Wahaha has selected Liu Hao's new album "Gong Xi Fa Cai". It will be released on January 1st, which is still more than a month before the Spring Festival. It has been postponed for a few days.
A little bit of the New Year flavor is just right.
Secondly, the winter vacation of China National Theater started a little late, and it didn’t start until after the 10th. However, the winter vacation of China National Theater was very long, nearly two months.
Liu Hao had to complete the final assignment of the Chinese Theater Academy first, so that he could devote himself fully to the promotion work of his second major.
The second ticket delay is just for fans who have been waiting for a long time, but Liu Hao is not Fatty Zhou and will not do it again.
"It's incredible that a young man under the age of 18, without any systematic professional study, can compose so many songs, well, pretty good songs!" On the TV, a certain Tsinghua University dropout was playing in his
Liu Hao is being discussed on the show.
"Maybe he is a creative genius that is rare to see in a thousand years?" the host on the side said with admiration.
"It's a rare occurrence in a thousand years, haha, a creative genius, maybe, haha. I've seen too many songs that others have worked hard to create as their own, and then publicize that they were composed by themselves. The company wants to praise people. This kind of thing is in this circle
It’s going to be common here too…”
"You mean the songs on his first album were not composed by him?"
"I didn't say that, don't falsely accuse me of my innocence out of thin air, haha, you see, they are about to release their second album, maybe they can prove themselves..."
"I heard he's delayed the release again."
"Oh, why did you say again?"
"This is the second postponement..."
"Will there be a third time?"
"Who knows?"
"Maybe it's just a cover and it's never been released, haha!" The Tsinghua dropout laughed loudly and continued, "Maybe it's really possible. His first album is of such high quality, where can I find so many good songs?
Resources, I’m afraid I’ve missed something.”
"Do you still think that the songs in his first junior high school were not composed by him?"
"This is what you said, not me. Who knows the real situation?
I have always believed that only a person who truly loves music can create excellent musical works, and a person who truly loves music should devote himself to music instead of learning some performances or just playing tricks. This is a deep understanding of music.
Disrespectful…”
Seeing this Tsinghua dropout acting strangely on the show, Liu Hao's inner discomfort immediately disappeared.
I'm not angry at all, I even want to laugh.
Some people speak righteously on the show, talking about poetry and distant places, but in fact, they don’t have all kinds of calculations in their hearts.
This guy has been in the music industry since 1994, and last year he founded his own music label "Wheatfield Music".
When Liu Hao's eldest brother helped Liu Hao find record companies all over the world, this guy got the news from nowhere and even came to Liu Hao's door, promising to invite Liu Hao.
It seemed sincere, as if that was the case.
But he hadn't established a music label yet.
Later generations of Liu Hao himself felt a little disgusted with him, and the conditions he offered were no different from those of vampire record companies.
So Liu Hao rejected him.
As a result, Liu Hao's first album was an immediate hit and made a lot of money.
His attitude immediately changed. He said the grapes were sour because he couldn't eat the grapes. Now that Liu Hao's second project had been delayed twice, he took the opportunity to be sarcastic.
Fortunately, the production of Liu Hao's second album is kept secret, otherwise he wouldn't be dancing so happily now!
His face was stretched out in front of him, begging for a slap in the face.
The corners of Liu Hao's mouth raised slightly, that means you're welcome.