has always had an argument: Jacky Cheung is not the best-selling Hong Kong singer, Andy Lau is. The statement
is mainly aimed at the sales of the two in Mandarin albums. The sales of
Hong Kong Philharmonic records are there, no matter how much fans question, the IFPI sales data is the best answer.
Which of the two heavenly kings has better album sales can only be compared in terms of Mandarin album sales. If the time is pulled from 1989 to 2007, perhaps Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung's total scores are comparable. But if the time is put in the 1992-1999 years from the "Four Heavenly Kings" to the "disintegration", the winner will be Jacky Cheung.
Let's look at a set of data: In Taiwan's physical album sales chart, there are 9 Mandarin albums with sales of more than 1 million copies, from Chen Shuhua 1989's "Talk to You, Listen to You" to Ren Xianqi 1998 "" Love is like the Pacific ", Jacky Cheung has 3 albums with more than 1 million sales, they are the 1993 album " kiss goodbye " (1.36 million, first place), 1995 "True Love Collection" (1.22 million, Third place) and "Forget You I Can't Do It" (1.05 million copies, seventh place).
In addition, the top 20 albums include Jacky Cheung's 1993 album " Blessing " (910,000 copies, No. 11) and the 1997 album "I want to blow the wind with you" (820,000 copies, No. 1). 16).
Let's talk about Andy Lau, in Taiwan's physical record sales chart, his highest-selling album is the 1994 album " Forgetting Love " (850,000 copies, ranked 14th), followed by the 1994 album "God's Will" (780,000 copies) , No. 20), no other album has sold more than 700,000 copies.
Jacky Cheung is the first male singer on Taiwan's physical album sales chart to break one million sales, and the first Hong Kong singer to win the Golden Song King at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. Perhaps, in terms of the number of golden song kings, Jacky Cheung is not as good as the younger generation Eason Chan , but in terms of overall influence, Jacky Cheung is better than the younger generation. In the Hong Kong music scene,
has a heavy title - God of Songs. Only Xu Guanjie, , Jacky Cheung, and Eason Chan have received this title, but the title of "God of Songs" is also unique to Hong Kong. , the mainland or the Asia-Pacific region, people are just citing, not to be true. Above
, with a set of data, we listed the outstanding performance of "Song God" Jacky Cheung in Taiwan, the largest market for Mandarin songs. Besides Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau's performance can be said to be the second among male singers, even if Comparing Zhou Huajian and Zhang Xinzhe , two "Mr. Stable" with good sales in Taiwan, are almost in a situation of suppression.
started from "If You Are My Legend" in 1990, to the album " Beautiful Day " in 2002. In the past 13 years, Andy Lau's name has been at the forefront of Taiwan's physical record sales list, such a constant. Lasting, it has to be said that it is also a kind of "miracle".
In fact, what caused Jacky Cheung and Andy Lau to have such a situation in the Taiwan market is because of the existence of one person. Without him, Andy Lau may have been "dominant" for a long time. He is a well-known Taiwanese musician, A "gold medal producer" who can compose, arrange, write lyrics and sing but is proficient in production - Mr. Huang Qingyuan.
In 1990, Andy Lau, who ended his 5-year partnership with EMI Records, chose to join the Baoyixing Records company under PolyGram . The production rights of his Mandarin albums were also transferred from Kedeng Records to PolyGram. Taiwan branch. In this way, Andy Lau got acquainted with Huang Qingyuan, the producer of Polygon's Mandarin Department, and reached a deeper cooperation with Zhou Zhiping.
"Forget this Life" (Cantonese version is "Kiss Me Again"), " Infatuated Years ", " Song in the Wind " (Cantonese version is "Is it Me"), "Waves and Sands", Huang Qingyuan wrote a lot of songs for Andy Lau during the Polygon period, and also contributed to several Mandarin albums "If You Are My Legend" (about 200,000 copies), "Me and My Dreams" ( about 500,000 copies), "Afterlife" (About 450,000 copies) and "Thank you for your love" (about 400,000 copies) ranked first in Taiwan's annual Golden Song Dragon and Tiger List, and Andy Lau became Taiwan's highest-grossing Hong Kong male singer, and became Taiwan's top ten idols for three consecutive years. name.
This situation is a favorite of PolyGram, and it firmly controls the market in the Hong Kong Philharmonic; in Taiwan, except for Tong Ange , Zhang Haozhe , and Yang Lin, he just sent Andy Lau and the Grasshopper Band , and they broke through easily. The "Maginot Line" of flying saucer , rolling stone , so good!
However, Andy Lau joined Warner Records with an "astronomical price" to break the "strategic deployment" of PolyGram. The four heavenly kings themselves have "four received three", and now the popular king Andy Lau has switched to "the mortal enemy", and the Hong Kong Philharmonic still has Jacky Cheung, Liming constrained Andy Lau, but there were no people who fought against the Taiwan market.
Andy Lau joined Warner , and his hand was a piece of "Real My Demeanor" that sold more than eight platinum. Although it was not as good as Jacky Cheung's "True Love", it also made PolyGram "liver trembling".
Baoli Gold has to speed up the layout, the Mandarin market must have someone to stand up, Liming is not willing to make Mandarin albums, Alan Tam has "relegated to the second line", and can only let Jacky Cheung and Andy Lau "carry it hard".
In fact, PolyGram is well aware of the fact that eggs cannot be placed in the same basket. Before Andy Lau quit his job, he had already arranged for Jacky Cheung to record a Mandarin album. After Zhang Guozhuan's market was cold, Zhang Xueyou was completely out of spirits. At the beginning of 1990, after Zhou Zhiping's national special "Déjà Vu", which he devoted himself to producing, encountered Waterloo again, Jacky Cheung almost gave up the idea of releasing a Mandarin album.
For Jacky Cheung's fourth Mandarin album, PolyGram has done a lot of ideological work. Since 1992, Taiwan PolyGram branch has sent young producers to Hong Kong to follow up on Jacky Cheung's National Specialist production, but Jacky is relatively It is more exclusive, and the recording is not active, and the recording is often delayed due to the filming of the film, and the production progress of the album is delayed again and again.
Andy Lau's job-hopping quickened the pace of action for PolyGram. If they don't respond quickly, once Warner has the upper hand, the situation will not be reversed.
After several consultations, the Polyglot Mandarin Department sent Huang Qingyuan to Hong Kong to produce his fourth Mandarin album for Jacky Cheung. Huang Qingyuan was born in 1955 and has worked in Polygram for more than 5 years. In terms of age and experience, it is possible Zhang Xueyou listened to some words.
So, Huang Qingyuan took the song "Kiss Goodbye" Demo prepared by his colleague Yin Wenqi for the movie "The Last Emperor" as the title song. , the title of the song was officially designated as "Kiss Goodbye".
Huang Qingyuan positioned Jacky Cheung's "new image" in the Mandarin song market: Jacky Cheung has the best singing skills among the Four Heavenly Kings, but he has no advantage in appearance, so in the interpretation of love songs, he can only be a girl who has been repeatedly beaten by his girlfriend. "Loser" of "dumping", but with deep affection, will not have negative energy, in addition to blessing "Liren", but also like "Xiaoqiang who can't be killed" to face the new life positively. The "new image" of
has been implemented and extended to Jacky Cheung's Mandarin albums since then, such as "Blessing", "Stealing Heart", "Forget You I Can't Do It", "Want to Blow With You" and so on. The production idea of
's album "Kiss Goodbye" implements the "fast food culture" that the HK Phil has always adhered to, selects some Cantonese songs that have been well received in the market before, and then adds a few new songs in Mandarin, and an album is complete. In addition to the title song of the same name, the
album "Kiss Goodbye" also has two new songs, one "Love Net", one "Believe Her, Care for Her", "Believe Her, Care for Her" is a song composed by Huang Qingyuan himself, while "Love Net" is a song picked up from the "trash can".
It turned out that "Love Net" was the last song of the album. Because of the lack of songs, the producer Huang Qingyuan thought of the music talent Wu Sikai, who was preparing for the new album, and had no time to write new songs. , gave Huang Qingyuan the song demo of "Love Net", which had been "shot" three times by the company.
Huang Qingyuan brought back the demo for Jacky Cheung to listen to. They both liked it very much, so they asked someone to fill in the lyrics, but a senior from Poly GoldThe lyric master spent nearly half a month writing the words but could not satisfy Huang Qingyuan. Seeing that the recording date agreed with Jacky Cheung was approaching, Huang Qingyuan entrusted Liu Yurui with the task of filling in the lyrics for "Love Net". In less than three days, Liu Yurui handed over the market version of "Love Net" heard by fans to the producer. The other seven songs of
are all of Jacky Cheung's famous Cantonese songs before, among them " love you more every day " and " break up always on rainy days ", which won the Golden Song Gold Award of Jinge Song, in order to be able to kiss goodbye to the album "Kiss Goodbye". The production style is the same. Huang Qingyuan specially asked He Qihong , Xie Mingxun, Yao Ruolong and others to change the words they wrote. For an album like
with "New Songs + Best Selections", Huang Qingyuan gave an estimated sales volume of 300,000 copies to the PolyGram headquarters. Although he is not sure, Jacky Cheung needs confidence.
In 1993, Jacky Cheung's Polaroid album "Kiss Goodbye" and Andy Lau's UFO debut album "True Love", which was released ten days later, had a head-to-head contest in Taiwan. It was a lively event. Andy Lau's "Truth Is Hard to Take" "lazy" half of the songs in "True My Style", Jacky Cheung's "Kiss Goodbye" gathered many Cantonese boutiques from his 8-year career as a singer. The genuine sales of
's "Truth Is Hard to Take" stayed at 450,000 copies. This is Andy Lau's "operating" quite well. The upper limit may not be the highest, but the lower limit is the highest limit for many singers.
and "Kiss Goodbye" created a sales "myth". Jacky Cheung surpassed Chen Shuhua and became the first male singer to break one million. The sales of 1.36 million copies made Jacky Cheung secure the first place in Taiwan's physical record sales chart. For 29 years, no one can match it.
Jacky Cheung has become a singer who is even more amazing than the "God of Songs" of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Counting the blessings of the subsequent Mandarin albums, the phrase "where the wind blows, there is Jacky Cheung's voice" has become a reality the legend of.
If there is no precise positioning and detailed control of Huang Qingyuan, and if we go to make Jacky Cheung's national school like "Déjà Vu", the final result may not be accepted by the market. "Kiss Goodbye" allowed the music world to see a jaw-dropping Jacky Cheung, and also made Huang Qingyuan the second musician to become the "Million Gold Producer" after Li Zongsheng, an old friend of 's acoustic guitar chorus . The difference between
and "brightness is dim" is that after the album "Kiss Goodbye", Huang Qingyuan produced their second album "Blessing" for Jacky Cheung in the same year. In addition to insisting on the positioning of Jacky Cheung's image,
has increased the investment ratio of new songs in this album, "Blessings", " It's Too Difficult to Go Back ", "'s Last Letter ", "For a Long Time", "Bitterness" Love" and more than half of the new songs.
" who wants to steal my kiss gently " is the Mandarin interpretation of " sunset drunk ", " loves you more and more heartache " although cover from Huang Ge chooses but Jacky Cheung sings out a better version.
This time, another major success of Huang Qingyuan was the title song "Blessing" written by Guo Zi "caught". "Blessing" is one of the top five songs in Jacky Cheung's Mandarin songs, but it is Huang Qingyuan's "Blessing". "With a song written by Guo Zi, an overseas Chinese in Thailand, when Guo Zi went to Taiwan and was not taken seriously, he has returned to Bangkok for the next step. I didn't expect that a phone call from Huang Qingyuan not only earned Jacky Cheung more famous songs, but also saved Guo Zi. music career.
's "Blessing" album sold 910,000 copies. After "Kiss Goodbye", Jacky Cheung's name is still a hot spot in Taiwan's music scene.
in August 1994, after the word of mouth of "Blessing" exploded again, Huang Qingyuan's team as the producer created the album "Stolen Heart" for Jacky Cheung. "Stealing Heart", Huang Qingyuan, who likes simplicity, also named the album after "Stealing Heart". The physical sales of "Stealing Heart" in Taiwan eventually exceeded 600,000 copies.
In 1995, Jacky Cheung ended his cooperation with Huang Qingyuan. Huang Qingyuan appeared in the production lineup of Andy Lau, Tsai Qin , Wang Jie , etc., and Jacky Cheung, who continued Huang Qingyuan's singer position, still relied on "Albums such as "True Love Selection" and "Forget You and I Can't Do It" firmly held the position of "No. 1" in the Mandarin song market until 1998.
can be said to a certain extent, if there is no Huang Qingyuan, there will be no Jacky Cheung who is all-powerful in the Mandarin song market, where the wind blows, it will be the voice of others.
In addition to the "match made in heaven" with Jacky Cheung, Huang Qingyuan also sparked sparks with many singers. "Junior Brother" Tong Ange sang and sang, but he still let Huang Qingyuan write " keep the root " and " love" And sadness " lyrics; Huang Qingyuan wrote to Jiang Yuheng " Years Later " and "Looking Back at the Road", which grasped the temperament of the "Prince of Melancholy" to the death. The album "Midnight" produced by
for Cai Qin is a very well-known album in the music library of this golden song diva; the songs " would rather not be free " and " love too much " written for Wang Jie have been popular in recent years. With old songs and new songs, it became popular again.
Andy Lau's "Liu's Love Songs" There are many, but Huang Qingyuan wrote to Andy " You are my tender ", " is wrong is me ", " today " are all Chinese fans. Happy song.
Unlike many musicians who have faded out and created after the new millennium, Huang Qingyuan, who loves music, has always been active in the front line of the music scene. Although he has not produced any good works in recent years, he is still using his influence to promote the music of the two sides of the strait. Integrate and use his more than 40 years of working experience to discover new "tinders" for Chinese music scene .
When we list well-known musicians from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, I hope that fans and friends will have more different names besides "Huihuang Ersheng", "Big, Middle and Small Music Godfather" and "Wuchen Erli", because these "Not famous" musicians have also enriched the Chinese music scene.
would like to give this document to teacher Huang Qingyuan, a powerful musician. I hope that I can give my whole heart in exchange for one of your attention and likes, and ask for comments and reposts!
