Before due to work reasons, I watched many rap videos on YouTube. In the past few days, my account has received many rap video recommendations. And from it, I also found some strange phenomena: many of the popular rap songs in the Mainland have not received widespread attention on the oil pipe; and some songs with relatively high hits in the oil pipe, such as NetEase Cloud in the Mainland, etc. On the music platform, the number of comments is only one to two thousand.
This situation quickly aroused my curiosity. After all, from a certain perspective, this also represents some differences in rap culture between the Mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. So in this article, I intend to take stock of Chinese rap songs that have received extremely high hits in YouTube.
First of all, if you mention which Chinese rapper is the most popular in the world, whether you recognize it or not, Kris Wu is definitely a name that we cannot avoid. On YouTube, Wu Yifan's "July", "November Rain", "Deserve", and "Juice" have all played more than 20 million.
However, it is regrettable that these four capitals are English songs. When we turn our attention to "Heaven and Earth" and "6", these personal Chinese works that Wu Yifan has pushed forcibly in recent years, you will find that their broadcast volume has not exceeded 10 million. Of course, it is difficult for us to judge whether this phenomenon is good or bad. After all, the 10 million views that have increased because of English are likely to come from Western audiences.
Even in the eyes of domestic audiences, the quality of these four English songs is indeed much higher than the latter two "half-ocean and half-earth" Chinese style works. I dare not say that these four English songs are high-scoring works, but the pass line is definitely reached. And letting Western audiences know that "Chinese singers can also have English song works of this level" is actually not a bad thing for the Chinese hip-hop circle.
However, the 9.9 million of "Heaven and Earth" and the 8.73 million of "6" are not the peak of Wu Yifan's Chinese works. At this time, the man appeared...
Wu Yifan’s work with the most views on the tubing. It was "In the Name of Father", which was co-produced with PG One in "China Has Hip Hop". The song received a total of 15.03 million views. It is worth mentioning that, looking at this cooperative track alone, we really may not be able to judge who the majority of the audience is here for. Because if we look further up, PG One has 16.37 million views on "The Second Disease in China" of "Hip Hop in China".
Since the Chinese of the comment section accounts for almost 90%, we can judge that the audience is either from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, or the "historical tour group" around us. "I still miss the summer of 17 years", we have seen many times in the barrage and various comment sections.
However, at this point, I still have to admit from another perspective that the cultural output power of "China Rap Hop" in Hong Kong and Taiwan is really beyond the reach of "China New Rap". Among them, the most famous example is that the Taiwanese group Anti-Bone Boys became popular overnight with the spoof "China Has Rip Hop" and successfully promoted to millions of Youtubers.
is ranked in front of "Second Disease" and is also a singer who has participated in iQiyi rap shows. He is Zhou Tanghao . This work is called "Turn It Up" and has 16.83 million views. To be honest, this MV is a typical Korean "rap + dance", originally I wanted to simply skip it.
But when it comes to Korean style, I remembered that whether it was "EXO-M" many years ago or "Way V" now, these groups from Korean entertainment companies have released Chinese singles, and rap is on these singles. Songs also account for a considerable proportion.
So, I just searchedAfter a while, the broadcast volume of such "industrialized" works in YouTube is probably in the range of 17-30 million. Frankly speaking, in a sense, the promotion of Chinese singles by SM TOWN (Korea Entertainment Company), which has 24 million fans, should not be underestimated.
However, these songs are actually just K-POP with "Chinese lyrics", and it depends on the benevolent. It seems that everyone wants to see pure rap works more, so here is a brief mention. The rap songs of Chinese idol groups that have played more than 20 million in recent years are Way V’s "Over Time Back" and "Flying Without Wings". "I believe most rap listeners are at a loss.
Next, talk about the representative of Worldwide, the higher brother. "Midsummer Madness", in which almost all 88Rising members participated, has a volume of 71.23 million. Considering that Chinese does not account for a high proportion of this song, we will not go into details about this song. The number of views for "Made In China" was actually a little lower than I expected, at 20.83 million.
However, this number is definitely not representative of Ice Paper's (20.97 million hits on "Heart Like Water"), which is more famous in the world than the higher brothers. After all, as we said before, most of the audience for the rap songs in this article are Chinese from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas.
What's more, this song has also been made by Migos, Lil Yachty and other famous European and American rappers. Even DJ Snake, who has 19 million fans on YouTube, has personally made a remix for this song.
, which represents the highest volume of "Chinese style" rap, is "My New Clothes" (24.47 million) from Vava. The accompaniment of ancient strings and the music video full of opera elements are all important elements that attract audiences from all over the world. If the language of the comment section is used to determine the extent of the video worldwide, I think "Made In China" and "My New Clothes" are undoubtedly a pinnacle of Chinese rap.
At the threshold of 20 million, the ones that can be compared with these "worldwide" works are those in the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan that have the most popular "inside and outside" type works. In addition to YouTube and music platforms, viewers must have been exposed to them in Douyin, TV shows, and even supermarkets and barber shops in daily life.
In addition to the "Heart Like Still Water" just introduced, there are also DP Longzhu's "All Are You" (20.82 million), and the female version of "Blemish" by Ju Wenxian and Deepain.
For mainland audiences, the popularity of "China New Rap" is undoubtedly due to Wu Yifan, who has 51.2 million Weibo fans. But in the process of searching, I found that the person who made "China New Rap" attracted attention in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan was the female producer of "China New Rap"-Deng Ziqi.
Although it is still questionable whether pop singers like Deng Ziqi should be the producers of rap shows, it is undeniable that G.E.M, who is under 30 years old, has become one of the most influential female singers in the Chinese music scene in the world.
Among 29 Chinese music videos with more than 100 million views on Youtube, Deng Ziqi accounted for 3, ranking first with Jay Chou ; and "Beyond Light Years" released in 2016 was the most viewed. Chinese music video. Therefore, in terms of the status of music, Deng Ziqi will definitely not lose to any producer of "New Rap".
appeared in the "New Rap" performance, adapted from the hot dog "Almost Girl", has 32.14 million views on the tubing, which is also the highest record reached by a Chinese female singer. Coincidentally, the highest broadcast record in YouTube is also from a music competition program, that is, the scene of "The Monkey King" performed by Hua Chenyu in "Battle of Nature", with 43.96 million views.
About Hua Chenyu's rap skills, we have discussed it in the previous tweet about celebrity rap techniques. Perhaps some mainland rap listeners will be slightly disappointed by this result, but in the process of writing this article, I also discovered that if you want to hit a higher broadcast volume in the oil pipeline, the weather, the location, the people and... The same is indispensable.
In the field with more than 40 million views, there is a combination that attracted my attention. Many mainland listeners may be unfamiliar with them. After all, as one of the 27th of a singer/orchestra with over 100 million views, they have less than three thousand comments on one of the most popular songs on NetEase Cloud. They are Jiu. One one.
However, after watching some of their videos, I quickly understood the reason: most of their songs are written in Hokkien, and the content of the lyrics is also something very localized in Taiwan, and if you want To enjoy their work 100%, watching their MV is still a must-do... In this way, it is not surprising that the music platform on the mainland has not attracted much attention.
Their most popular rap video on YouTube is "9453" (61.64 million). If you are interested, you can also experience the pure local culture of the other side on the B station NetEase Cloud and other platforms.
As I said before, the rap record of mainland singers stays at Huachenyu’s 43.95 million. As for who will appear next, everyone will definitely focus on the following three hip-hop OGs in Taiwan. They are hot dogs, Urchin MJ116 and Jay Chou. However, their respective work records are 21.43 million in "Mr. Almost", 35.71 million in "Doing Big Things", and 33.66 million in "Nocturne" (Jay Chou's rap record).
But note that the word here is "each". In Beijing in 2015, Zhang Zhenyue, hot dogs, and the naughty skinny boy, Xiaochun, and Dayuan formed the brotherhood known as the "Taiwan Rap Avengers". The emergence of the combination
has caused one of the few "rap crazes" before "China Has Hip Hop" all over the country. On YouTube, their "Fly Out" (84.69 million) and "Lost Lamb" (50.77 million) took the runner-up and fourth place in the original rap charts respectively.
Finally, the most anticipated first one will finally appear. It is the collaboration between Malaysian singer Huang Mingzhi and Chinese-American singer Leehom Wang. This song ranks fifth in the overall ranking of Chinese MVs. It is worth mentioning that the "girl version" covered by Singapore singer Wen Huiru and the "KTV box" version of Huang Mingzhi's collaboration with Deng Ziqi also won. A good result of 50.87 million and 42.09 million views. The song
got the number one name in Chinese rap, I think it deserves it. First of all, although Huang Mingzhi is of Malaysian Chinese descent, his fan range covers the entire Asia. Prior to this, some of his Japanese and Thai music videos had a lot of popularity.
Secondly, the lyrics of this song are from the point of view of a small person, and they are more positive than some nonsense songs. In the end, the Hook of this song is still sung by Leehom Wang, who is recognized as a talent, and the strong teamwork will surely double the popularity.
However, in recent years Huang Mingzhi has also shown signs of gradual deviation in the Mainland. In the past year or so, he first collaborated with Taiwanese independent rappers on the single "Ghost Island", and a few months ago he released the single "Our Sea and Sky" and the video "Wuhan Pneumonia" which supported Hong Kong protesters. Why the name cannot be changed". Based on NetEase Cloud and other platforms, he currently has his music, so as a rap public account, we will not give him too many comments.
writes here, the article is over. Originally, I wanted to write according to the ranking + reviews of each song, but I gradually discovered that this inventory is more like a guide to our previous tweets on different topics.
For example, "Fly Out" has 80 million tubing views, but on NetEase Cloud, it has less than 2,000 reviews. And if you want to find out the relationship, you can actually revisit Dr. AKA's "Nowadays Taiwan Rap, Why Are the Mainland So Far behind" (click on the title to read).
Another example is how to think that "love song rap" is a common work across the strait. You can also find the answer in Sand and Sea's "Why "Love Song Rapper" Is Always Unwelcome" (click on the title to read) .
Finally, let’s talk about an interesting point: "Drifting to the North", "Fly Out", and "9453", the works that have disparity in attention between the two sides of the strait, were all released at least three years ago.
And while writing this article, I accidentally found the same song in YouTube’s Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland iQiyi’s "Hot of the Week"-known as "the most explosive producer performance in four years" , "Fire Horse + Empty City Plan + Chongqing Soul" sung by GAI.
So, from a certain point of view, is the difference in rap taste between the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan gradually shrinking? And this question is left to readers and friends to ponder...
