Sunday's discussion gave Chen Minhao a lot of new inspirations and sparks, allowing him to overturn many of his original ideas, and he began to re-plan which songs to include in the album.
Chen Minhao does not intend to hide some king bombs. He wants to do his best to create an awesome album. After all, it has been almost 2 years since he traveled to the new world. He feels that he can make a big move.
Chen Minhao's expectation is that in the next ten or twenty years, once someone thinks of farewell songs, he will think of his own album.
Of course, Chen Minhao is not fighting alone, and other members of the team are not idle either.
Wu Hongrong helped Chen Minhao contact top domestic recording studios, bands and electronic music experts.
Hu Li helped Chen Minhao contact domestic publicity media and channels.
Li Hao helped Chen Minhao contact overseas composers.
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According to the vision and blueprint discussed on Sunday, although the album with the theme of "Farewell" is Chen Minhao's first album, the direction and standard for everyone's efforts is a platinum record.
In the music industry, a platinum record is defined as a record that has sold 1 million units. Although with the changes of the times, the music association has a new algorithm for record sales - including online digital copyright sales, but in the Internet age, free versions are always within reach, and you are willing to spend real money Not many listeners came to support the musicians.
With the decline of the record industry, there are fewer and fewer musicians who can sell more than one million records. This has also made platinum records increasingly difficult to achieve, and has gradually become an aspirational but unattainable dream.
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The rain rises three feet, the spring water rises, and the wind is calm and the clouds are free for thousands of miles. Spring in BJ is indeed beautiful, with thin sunshine and cool air.
The ivy on the wall of the Beijing Film Academy has begun to grow wildly. Yesterday it was just a few buds, but today it has all the leaves. On the way from home to Beijing Film Academy in the morning, there were still birds chirping.
But Chen Minhao was not in the mood to enjoy this vigorous and brilliant spring. He was as busy as a top.
He gets up at 6:30 every morning and goes to the school playground to practice his voice. During the day, he has a full schedule of compulsory courses, elective courses, theoretical courses and practical courses. In the evening, there are also rehearsals of the school drama troupe. After Chen Minhao returns home covered with stars and moonlight, He took a shower and started polishing the songs for his album.
Chen Minhao has a strong ability to adapt. A week has passed and he has gradually adapted to the rhythm of life. But sometimes when he asks Chen Qiang to make a cup of coffee at night, the words on his lips become, help him make a cup of wolfberry.
After Chen Minhao finished rehearsing on Friday night, as soon as he got home and took off his shoes, Chen Qiang ran over and said eagerly: "Brother Chen, it's bad, someone is posting rhythms on the Internet to blackmail you!"
Chen Minhao put the shoes he took off behind the shoe cabinet and said calmly: "Don't worry, please tell me slowly what's going on?"
Chen Qiang immediately handed the phone to Chen Minhao and said, "Read the content on Weibo yourself."
Chen Minhao didn't even take off his coat. He directly took the phone and stared at the Weibo article on the screen.
"Ignoring fans or exhausting talents?" Chen Minhao has been reluctant to start the album project"
The article first affirmed Chen Minhao's achievements in "Sweet", "Little Love Song" and "Father", and mentioned that Chen Minhao won the Best Golden Song of the Year and the Best Newcomer of the Year at the Golden Melody Awards, fully affirming Chen Minhao's past achievements. score.
Then it came to Wu Hongrong’s Weibo when Chen Minhao returned to China last month: he retweeted a fan’s Weibo urging Chen Minhao to release an album, and left a message to figure it out yourself.
Finally, mentioning the hot search for Chen Minhao's photo last week, the author of the article said that through interviews with some students at Beijing Film Academy, they found that Chen Minhao had classes every day and rehearsed every night. His days were full, so he had no time to prepare an album.
At the end of the article, Chen Minhao was given two big hats, either for ignoring the fans' demands or for being a coward.
The whole article seems reasonable and well-founded, but in fact it is all written in Spring and Autumn style, trying to incite readers' emotions.
Chen Minhao took a look at the time when this article was forwarded. It was very concentrated, almost starting at 9 p.m. This kind of content can also be ranked in the top 20 hot searches on Weibo, and it is still on the rise.
Chen Minhao immediately made a judgment and determined that the article was actually a black PR company. "Black PR" is a type of Internet marketing public relations company that uses "black articles" to smear opponents for slander. This has become one of the chaos in the entertainment industry in recent years. . "Black PR" has formed a media matrix. A paid "black article" can be published on more than ten platforms such as WeChat and Weibo, achieving the effect of confusing right and wrong and confusing the public.
Chen Minhao was a little confused. Putting on such a posture to blackmail himself online would definitely cost a lot in the end. But I haven't offended anyone recently, and I haven't blocked anyone's way. Why would someone spend so much effort to blackmail me
Chen Minhao scratched his hair, and he felt inexplicably irritated: Why are people in the entertainment industry so boring? Isn't it good for everyone to spend time, energy and resources on themselves
When Chen Minhao was about to call Kang Hui to ask what was going on, Kang Hui's call happened to come in.
"Hey, Chen Minhao, are you home from rehearsal now?"
Kang Hui's voice sounded quite calm. Chen Minhao calmed down and said, "Sister Kang, I'm home now. Are you calling because of that article on the Internet?"
Kang Hui paused for a moment and continued: "Yes, I saw that the article was very popular and had a big impact. Now there are fans leaving messages on your Weibo, asking if you really don't plan to publish. album."
Chen Minhao asked directly: "Sister Kang, do you know who is behind this?"
Kang Hui snorted and said, "Apart from Lu Huiping, it's hard for me to imagine anyone else in the entertainment industry who would be so ambitious to do such a thing."
Kang Hui paused for a moment and asked, "What do you have in mind now?"
Chen Minhao hesitated and said, "Let it be. After my album is released in the second half of the year, my fans will naturally take my album to these marketing accounts to slap them in the face. As for those fans who want to lose their followers, just let it go. It’s natural, my future positioning is not to be a traffic star anyway.”
Kang Hui snorted heavily and said, "You have a really good temper."
Chen Minhao smiled and explained: "Time will give everyone the answer. When the time comes, public opinion and the public will be on my side."
After Kang Hui was silent for a moment, he said: "Chen Minhao, you have a really good attitude. When I first entered the industry, a senior once told me that it is better to speak with words than to do nothing. What Qi Zhizhi knows is superficial. The meaning of this sentence is that the best language is no language, and the highest action is no action. It is very shallow to compete with others.
She once said to me that the entertainment industry is a vanity fair, full of conspiracies and traps. Don't fight with others most of the time, because the fight in the entertainment industry is not about strength or IQ, but it is like fighting about the lower limit. If we cannot do what others can do, we will suffer a loss and lose.
However, this senior was not a very good role model. She left as a loser in the end. The inspiration she gave me is that when others are dirty, we should be dirtier than them. "
(End of chapter)