In December last year, "lip-syncing" at Mayday's concert sparked heated discussions. Public opinion was divided as to whether lip-syncing existed. After the Law Enforcement Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau intervened in the investigation, netizens continued to pay attention.
A few days ago, the Law Enforcement Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau stated that it had not found any "substitute for live singing and performance" at the Mayday Shanghai concert. It also introduced the whole process of how to supervise the Mayday Shanghai concert, how to obtain evidence, and how to identify it.
Hundreds of thousands of tickets for Mayday’s 10 Beijing Bird’s Nest concerts from May 18 to June 1 have already been sold out. It is estimated that the total box office of the 10 concerts may exceed 400 million yuan. According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, the relevant law enforcement departments in Beijing stated that will send staff to on-site supervision, and there is also a corresponding working mechanism for "identifying real singing and lip-synching".
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The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism announced the investigation results
clarified the standard for "lip-syncing"
How to supervise it?
During the eight Mayday Shanghai concerts from November 11th to 13th, November 15th to 16th, and November 18th to 20th, 2023, the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau Law Enforcement Team will follow the large-scale business regulations of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism Sexual performance management mechanism and strengthen performance on-site management. For each performance, a number of cultural law enforcement officers at the city and district levels are arranged to supervise the whole process in the sound control area, verify actor information and performance programs on-site, urge the performance organizer to send dedicated personnel to supervise singing and performance activities, and make records for future reference. The record includes the name of the actors, the band, the repertoire and the basic situation of the singing and performance process, and is signed and confirmed by the person in charge of the performance organization and the supervisor. How to obtain evidence for
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After discovering that there was a heated discussion about "lip-syncing" on the Internet, the Law Enforcement Team of the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau conducted an investigation and inquiry into the performance organizer, the venue, and the on-site sound control engineer, and obtained the entire video and audio of the on-site law enforcement recorder, the organizer On-site supervision records and other information are collected and a comprehensive investigation is carried out. How to identify
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The Law Enforcement Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau stated that according to Article 26 of the "Implementation Rules of the Commercial Performance Management Regulations", lip-synching and fake playing refer to actors using pre-recorded songs and music to perform during the performance. The act of singing and playing live . After obtaining relevant evidence and materials, the Law Enforcement Corps immediately conducted verification according to standardized procedures and invited social experts to participate in discussions to analyze and provide professional opinions on the full video and audio data of the performance, on-site video and audio, etc. After verification, did not find that the eight Mayday concerts held in Shanghai in November 2023 contained the situation of "using pre-recorded songs and music to replace live singing and performance" as mentioned in the above regulations..
In addition, the Law Enforcement Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau expressed concern that there were some subsequent updates to the online video. According to the Law Enforcement Corps, the owner of Station B who testified about "lip-syncing" at the time released a video on March 7 this year, saying that "when identifying lip-syncing, we did not confirm whether the source of the sound was correct." "Private individuals, the identification results are not accurate." "Has legal effect" and so on, which caused heated discussion at the time, and the video was later deleted by him.
10 concerts, hundreds of thousands of tickets were sold out
"As long as Mayday comes out, fans will definitely pay the bill"
"From the 1st to the 9125th day, from the 1st to the 30th show... the Bird's Nest... back to that day "With you and me." On the afternoon of April 24, Believe Music officially announced the Mayday Beijing Station Bird's Nest Concert, a total of 10 performances in 15 days.
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At that time, many senior figures in the performance market told the reporter of "Daily Economic News" that as soon as comes out in May, fans will definitely pay for .
Sure enough, according to Damai.com, the ticket price of Beijing Bird's Nest Concert is divided into 6 tiers, ranging from 355 yuan to 1855 yuan. It has been sold out and more than 800,000 people want to watch it.
Public information shows that the Bird's Nest can accommodate up to nearly 100,000 people and has 80,000 official seats. It is estimated that the total number of tickets for Mayday's 10 Bird's Nest concerts may reach 500,000. If all are sold out, the total box office may be more than 400 million yuan.
However, this year’s Bird’s Nest concert in May was no longer as popular as last year.
According to Beijing Youth Daily, Mayday also held a concert at the Bird's Nest last year. A total of nearly 300,000 tickets were sold for 6 performances. The tickets were sold out within 5 seconds of opening, and 1.12 million people wanted to watch. Later, a lot of "ticket scalpers" appeared on the e-commerce platform, causing great controversy. The organizer was suspected of colluding with "scalpers", but it denied it, saying that all tickets available for the Mayday concert were sold openly and transparently under the supervision of relevant departments. If it is sold publicly on an officially authorized ticketing platform, there is no collusion with "scalpers".
started holding concerts in the mainland on May 26 last year. As of November 21, 2023, Mayday had performed 47 concerts in half a year. Industry insiders once told reporters that a rough estimate is that the box office of Mayday's 8 performances in Shanghai alone exceeded 300 million yuan.
"Although the previous 'lip-syncing controversy' caused divisions among Mayday fans, most fans are very tolerant." Sheng He (pseudonym), who has been deeply involved in the performance market for nearly 20 years, told the "Daily Economic News" reporter. "They have been 'quiet' for a while, and there is no problem in restarting the tour now. After all, there are many fans who like Mayday."
In the industry: The overall box office popularity of this year's concert
may not be as popular as last year
Looking at the overall performance market, there is a backlog of three years. Released, the performance market including concerts in 2023 will show amazing money-attracting power. On March 20, the China Performance Industry Association released a briefing on the development of the national performance market in 2023, which showed that in 2023, the overall economic scale of the national performance market would reach 73.994 billion yuan, an increase of 29.30% compared with 2019, reaching a record high.
In 2024, artists from all walks of life will hold concerts with unprecedented enthusiasm. Andy Lau, Jay Chou, Zhang Xinzhe, Eason Chan, Gigi Leung, Deng Ziqi and others are all scheduled to sing. Quark Digital shows that in the first quarter of this year, the number of users searching for “concert” increased by 40% year-on-year.
So, will the performance market achieve another success this year?
In this regard, many industry insiders hold conservative opinions. They believe that this year’s performance market has returned to rationality.
"The number of concerts in 2024 should be more than last year, but the overall box office popularity may not be that good." Zhang Cheng (pseudonym), who is very familiar with ticketing information, told the "Daily Economic News" reporter. According to his observation, in the past, the highest-priced tickets would be sold out very early, but this year, the mid- to low-priced tickets always sold out first.
Source: Daily Economic News is compiled from CCTV News, Damai.com, Beijing Youth Daily, Southern Metropolis Daily, public information, etc.
