Chinanews client, Beijing, December 30th (Reporter Ren Siyu) There are always a few days at the end of each year when social networks will be screened by various annual music charts.
Music big data is difficult to outline a whole year of life, but it can also show personal preferences at certain moments in the moment.
However, in the personal trivial matter of listening to songs, it has become increasingly difficult to find exactly the same list.
Some people’s annual favorites are "English Listening" and "Baby Bus", some people circulate unpopular songs late at night, and some people lament that they have listened to old songs for several years, and the favorite singers are still those few.
The 2020 annual music report released by the music platform.
In 2020, my playlist is still them
In 1999, Pu Shu released his first solo album called "I Go To 2000", which became the starting point for many people to remember the millennium.
He sang "Birch Forest" to the Spring Festival Gala, and "Those Flowers" became popular all over the country.
That year, the music scene was in full bloom, and Eason Chan, who signed a contract with the new company, released the album "Hot Hits". The title song "King of Karaoke" finally sang his title of "King of Karaoke".
The cover of Eason Chan's album "Hit Hot".
"The King of K Songs" became one of the top ten golden songs of 2000. The singers who were selected together include Jacky Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Kelly Chen, Aaron Kwok, Sammi Cheng, Faye Wong, Andy Lau, etc. The final winner of the Gold Medal was Miriam Yeung's "Girl's" prayer".
That year, some old people left, and some new people filled their seats.
The MUJI group disbanded, and the company director told Guangliang after solo, write a song to your fellow villager.
The lyricist happened to be there that day. He created "Courage" in less than 20 minutes. Later, Liang Jingru became famous with this song.
Another female singer has just emerged. The song "It's dark, I want to rain" let everyone remember her name-Stefanie Sun.
Struggling while the iron is hot, she released her second album at the end of the year. Songs such as "Begin to Understand" and "Bad Weather" became popular again.
The cover of Stefanie Sun's album "The Happiness I Want".
There are also three young girls who participated in a draft contest called "Universe 2000 Powerful Girls Contest". In the second year, they debuted under the name of the SHE group.
That year, Jay Chou was still working in the company, writing "Tears Knowing" to Andy Lau and was returned, and writing "Nunchakus" to Zhang Huimei was returned until Yang Junrong discovered his talent from "Cute Woman", he said to Wu Zongxian, "I want to bring this young man by myself. Leave it to me. He must be red."
On November 7 of that year, Jay Chou's first album of the same name "Jay" turned out, and this 21-year-old young man opened a new chapter in the Chinese music scene.
The cover of Jay Chou's album "Jay".
There are also Mayday, Tao Zhe, Wang Leehom, Zhang Huimei, Jolin Tsai, Xiao Yaxuan...their names shined alternately on the major music charts in those years. At the Golden Melody Awards ceremony in 2004, Faye Wong’s winning speech was: "I will I know about singing, so I am fully affirmed by the Golden Melody judges!"
Nowadays, every once in a while, there will be videos that count the fights of gods in the music world 15 and 20 years ago.
At the beginning of 2020, these singers started live online concerts one after another, and the barrage said "all stand up" and "ye Qinghui".
Not long ago, Douban released its 2020 music list. Among them, in the column of the most watched artists of the year, people found familiar names: Jay Chou, Faye Wong, Stefanie Sun, Eason Chan, Pu Shu, Mayday, New Pants...
"This is definitely not the list twenty years ago?" "Is there really no one in the music world now?" Some people wondered.
Source: Douban's 2020 Music Chart.
Ten years ago, "fairies fight", and fans quarrel ten years later?
In 2019, rock singer Zheng Jun reluctantly said on the show: "Of the ten songs on the charts, nine out of ten are really hard to hear." It turned out that a song became popular because it sounds good, but now it is because of singing. People think that this song should be popular.
This passage quickly made popular searches. In some people's opinion, "the gods fought ten years ago, and the fans quarrel ten years later", and the music charts have long lost their objective position.
However, the reasons for the decline in the number of golden songs in the Chinese music world are not all traffic and rankings.
Source: Video screenshot.
Around the very lively millennium, the crisis of the industry has quietly been buried.
With the advent of the digital music era, piracy has begun to ramp up. The recording industry, which relies on physical records and singers for survival, has suffered a heavy blow. Seriously writing songs can't make money. It is still a problem for the creators behind the scenes to switch careers.
In those years, a large number of Internet celebrities and Internet songs emerged, and their popularity also showed the internal changes that have taken place in this industry-the way of creation is different.
When the communication channels are far from being developed today, a newly born record and a song that appeared on the TV radio charts have already undergone layers of polishing and screening by singers, producers, record companies, and professional editors;
In the era when everyone can be a singer and composer, there is no longer a strict threshold for writing and sending songs, leaving less time for musicians to grow up. Although the number of music has increased significantly compared with the past, the penetrating power has changed. Weak, not to mention some of them are fast-moving consumer goods that cater to popular tastes.
At the same time, the right to choose music is also given to the audience.
Under the information explosion, people ushered in the age of music consumption.
The audience’s attention is widely diluted. Big data pushes songs according to personal habits and preferences. On the other hand, a few seconds of prelude can dominate the fate of a song, even though singers are using various ways to shape their own uniqueness. But the big trend is still difficult to stop.
"I am a singer and composer" Chief Director Che Che mentioned: "Everyone seems to be locked in their own information cocoon room. On the one hand, musicians lack a platform to display good music, and on the other hand, the audience thinks that there is no high-quality music in the market." Hu Haiquan He also said: “It’s very difficult to push a song now. If you make an album carefully, it’s easy to feel like it’s gone, even if your colleagues try their best.”
Source: Weibo screenshot.
Also under the trend of decentralization, the emergence of "super singers" and "national golden songs" is no longer as easy as in the past.
There are more consideration factors in the rankings, and some popular models that have emerged on short video platforms will inevitably fall into controversy after being out of context.
The speed of new song iteration is still accelerating. This year, some people have discovered that even the "Divine Comedies" such as "Learning to Meow" and "Wild Wolf Disco" seem to have decreased.
No good songs to listen to now? That may not be
This summer, Jay Chou's "Mojito" crashed the server; in the winter, the new song "Because of You, I" was launched in May. Elva Hsiao, who has been hiding for a few years, also released a new album "Naked Truth". After the excitement, none of them was the same as in the past. Become the hottest of the year.
Many people feel sorry for the famous scene of "fighting gods", but some people don't think so.
A netizen commented, “I think it’s because the environment is different. Now listeners can choose what kind of song they want to listen to, instead of listening to what the crowd is like. If the current musicians still do like 15 years ago With that kind of music, the Chinese music scene really hasn't improved, let alone its peak."
On the 27th, the well-known music blogger "Erdi" on Weibo released a summary of the 100 best songs of 2020. Someone in the comment area said that one of the 100 songs has not been heard in the capital. Someone said, "If you listen to all these songs , Perhaps have a new understanding of Chinese concerts."
Source: Weibo screenshot.
In the past, music creation was aimed at the general public, but now, more diverse and self-expressing songs are emerging.
There are not all popular lyric songs on the market, and it is not a bad thing that people find their own resonance.
On the 22nd, the Universal Youth Hostel, which has been grinding its sword for ten years, released "Jingxi Forest Road". It went online for one day. The total sales exceeded 660w, setting the highest record for independent music digital albums on the music platform. Some netizens said: It’s also an encouragement for the people."
The cover of Wanneng Youth Hostel album "Jixi South Forest Road".
In fact, there are good songs and bad songs in every era, and the songs that we now classify as golden tunes are also the fine works left over from the "big waves scouring the sand" year after year.
But now, if you want to create songs that break through all circles and resonate with the audience, the requirements for creators may be even higher.
When lamenting that there is no newcomer in the music industry, why not try new songs, maybe there will be surprises?
Who is your favorite singer of the year in 2020?
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