At the end of July, under siege by Cao Xuan's four songs, Zhang Huimei's "Can I Hug You" finally failed to hold the number one spot.
It was overtaken by "First Dream" and "Love Because of Love" successively. Later, it competed fiercely for the third position with "The Last Resort" for two days, and finally lost on August 1st.
At this point, the two queens of Mainland China and Taiwan Province were defeated by Cao Xuan one after another, and the songs from the "Sparkling Stars" album occupied the top three of all major music charts.
In addition, "Those Years", "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and "Not a Hero" are also wandering around the top ten. At their peak, they once occupied the top sixteen places. Occasionally they slipped, but they could still get four or five places.
In just half a month, Cao Xuan told everyone who is now the king of mainland pop music.
But Cao Xuan was not happy for long. Naying and Zhang Huimei were temporarily defeated, but "Huan Zhuge Ge" came.
On July 25, 1999, "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2" was broadcast on Hunan Channel.
How popular is this drama? According to statistics from authoritative data institutions, the average ratings of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2" are 53%, and the highest ratings are 68%.
This ratings is not as rough as the previous "Water Margin", but uses the latest statistical methods that are more scientific and objective.
Although there is definitely still some moisture, the data is relatively more accurate and can be used as a standard for the ratings of TV series.
This can be called crazy ratings. If the Spring Festival Gala and "Xinwen Lianbo" had not set a specified time + all stations broadcast it simultaneously, I would not dare to say that it could win "Huan Zhuge Ge".
From north to south, across the country, everyone knows the names of Little Swallow, Ziwei and Erkang, and there are peripheral items related to "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" everywhere.
Especially for primary and secondary school students, if they don’t have anything with the elements of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" on them, they don’t get along well in the class.
It can be said that "Huan Zhuge Ge" has saved countless printing factories, stationery factories, clothing factories, food factories, basin factories that were on the verge of bankruptcy...
If Qiong Yao is paid royalties for these peripheral products, she can go home and retire directly.
With the help of two "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" and the gradually emerging "Happy Camp", Hunan TV Station has jumped from a second-tier TV station to the leader of local provincial TV stations.
So much so that Hunan Province TV station later broadcast "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" every summer vacation, and it often ranked first in ratings during the same period, and even achieved the feat of beating the Olympic Games in ratings for reruns.
Not to mention the several leading actors in the drama, they have reaped the dividends for a lifetime.
Although their careers have developed well later, when they are mentioned, the first thing that audiences think of is their characters in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge". Twenty years later, the cast and crew participated in a show together and easily became a hot search topic.
There was even an Internet celebrity who made a live broadcast using crape myrtle imitation makeup, and a big brother used Rockets, and the traffic once surpassed all the top anchors.
And "My Fair Princess 2" is not only extremely popular in mainland China and Taiwan, but after being introduced to Hong Kong by ATV, TVB was completely disgraced.
Later, it was introduced to South Korea, but it was also crowded with people and criticized various Korean TV dramas. The Korean media exclaimed about cultural invasion and did not dare to introduce Chinese TV dramas easily again.
Not only in South Korea, but also in the entire East Asia and Southeast Asia, "Huan Zhuge Ge" has had a certain influence. More than ten years later, Zhao Wei went to Thailand to do a show, and local audiences recognized Xiao Yanzi.
The popularity of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" has naturally made the songs in its TV series popular.
"Since I Got You" and "There's a Girl" sung by Zhao Wei, and "You Are the Wind and I'm the Sand" sung by Zhou Jie and Lin Xinru, have reached the top of the rankings in a very short period of time.
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In fact, when the first part of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" was aired last year, "Dang" and "Rain Butterfly" were also very popular.
However, at that time [Nan Ren and Bei Cao] joined forces to dominate the rankings, the gods made changes, and everyone bowed their heads.
These two songs, which were originally huge hits, didn’t even make it into the top three at the time...
However, this year [Nan Ren Bei Cao] has only Cao Xuan, and his dominance has weakened.
The influence of the two parts of "Huan Zhuge Ge" is superimposed, and the singers have also been replaced by Xiao Yanzi and Ziwei + Erkang who are currently in the spotlight.
One side is weakening, the other is strengthening, and now the bayonet is directly in the rankings.
On August 4, "There is a Girl" and "You Are the Wind and I Am the Sand" both entered the top five.
On August 5th, due to the huge popularity of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", Cao Xuan's first three fronts were lost.
"You Are the Wind and I Are the Sand" overtook "Love Because of Love" to reach the third place, and rushed to the second place the next day, ready to take on the top spot "Original Dream".
The group singing of "Huan Zhuge Ge" is fierce, but Cao Xuan's fans are not vegetarians either.
Last year, Cao Xuan first defeated Naying, and then fought an unprecedented battle with Ren Xianqi, completely dominating the game. This year, he defeated two queens one after another.
Of course, it is due to the quality of the songs and the popularity of the songs, but it is also inseparable from the strong support of the fans.
Compared with the fans of other mainland singers, Cao Xuan's fans are definitely more experienced and have strong chart-topping abilities.
Seeing that Cao Xuan's front line was lost, he immediately began to support him. The phone calls for song requests from major radio and television stations were almost overwhelmed by Cao Xuan's fans.
With the help of his fans, Cao Xuan finally stopped his decline.
But "Huan Zhu Princess 2" was too popular, and Cao Xuan was unable to suppress it, so the two sides started a tug-of-war in the rankings.
The reporters and spectators who were watching were dumbfounded.
They never dreamed that Naying would lose, Jang Hye-mei would lose, and the person who was fighting Cao Xuan on the ranking list would be the theme song of a TV series.
What surprised everyone even more is that "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2" became such a hit and swept across other domestic fields, but it was blocked by Cao Xuan.
You know, several theme songs of "My Fair Princess 2" were crazy on the music charts in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Xie Feng, who had been praised by the Hong Kong media before, was rubbed to the ground by several Mandarin songs from "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2" in Xiangjiang, the stronghold of Cantonese songs.
This time the mainland media is proud.
They extensively reported on Cao Xuan's "heroic deeds", calling him a man that even Little Swallow and Ziwei could not conquer, a thorn in the side of Grandma Qiong Yao, and the last holdout in the Chinese music scene.
Anyway, it was such a wild boast and exaggerated words that Cao Xuan himself blushed after seeing it.
But with the momentum of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2", it also added a lot of influence to Cao Xuan.
Many viewers of "Huan Zhu Princess", after reading the reports, were curious about Cao Xuan's songs and listened to them through various channels, which invisibly brought a lot of traffic to Cao Xuan.
And relying on this diversion, although Cao Xuan was overtaken by "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2" on the rankings several times, he quickly regained the lost ground again and again.
It wasn't until mid-August that Zhang Yu's new album "The Rain Keeps Falling" entered the mainland market, finally taking some of the pressure off Cao Xuan.
Finally, he no longer has to face "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2" alone.
It’s not easy for Cao Xuan to persist!
"Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2" is currently being broadcast by nearly 20 large and small TV stations in the mainland at the same time, with an audience of over 100 million easily.
The influence and size of the two parties are not at the same level at all.
Cao Xuan would rather fight Ren Xianqi for three games at his peak than face this kind of monster. The pressure is too great.
But the sense of accomplishment is also full.
This is "Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2", a national phenomenon-level TV series, the youthful memory of a generation, but I have had a real fight with it.
Although it is only the theme song of "My Fair Princess 2", it is enough for him to be proud of, and he has won the title that will be given twenty years later...
