Chapter 480 Head-on confrontation

"It Started with a Kiss" will start filming next week, and Tong Liya is back to make some preparations.

After Du Sheng learned about this, he simply brought her together with Jiang Xin, who had just finished filming.

This is the first love scene in the MV of "Autumn Will Never Come Back".

In the MV, Tong Liya plays Du Sheng's girlfriend, while Jiang Xin appears as her best friend.

Tong Liya's fresh and sweet temperament perfectly fits the theme of love and separation in the song "Autumn Will Not Come Back", making her the best candidate.

After playing half of the song, Du Sheng looked up and forward, and his eyes happened to meet Tong Liya's.

The corners of his lips lifted slightly and he smiled at her.

Tong Liya lowered her head shyly, like a frightened little rabbit, not daring to look directly into Du Sheng's eyes.

Although he knew that he was being filmed and that two cameras were pointed at him, Du Sheng still felt a subtle feeling in his heart, and a picture suddenly appeared in his mind:
"That fleeting glance back was like a spring breeze blowing across the lake, creating ripples!"

The sound of the piano was like ripples on the berth, as if reflecting his mood at the moment.

Wang Yuelun, who was sitting behind the surveillance camera, pursed his lips tightly, fearing that he would shout out out of excitement.

This lens is simply amazing!

And the smoothness of this shoot exceeded his expectations.

Although at the beginning, Tong Liya and Jiang Xin lacked tacit understanding and made some elementary mistakes.

But these do not affect the overall situation.

Moreover, these two people are college students themselves, and their performances are very natural. They well interpret the heroine's yearning and desire for love, but her mentality of not daring to take the initiative to confess.

As for Du Sheng, his performance in front of the camera was impeccable, with every movement and look just right.

As expected of an artist who is expected to win the Best Actor award this year, Wang Yuelun was moved by his talent.

As Du Sheng finished playing the last note, Wang Yuelun finally couldn't help but stand up and announced with a smile:

"pass!"

If we can keep this up, we can finish shooting the two title songs tomorrow instead of spending several days.

For Du Sheng, shooting an MV is only slightly more difficult than shooting a commercial.

Today's filming content is very rich, including his first meeting with Tong Liya in the music classroom, their passing by in the restaurant... and their farewell in the autumn.

Although there are no hand-holding, kissing or other intimate scenes, the eye contact and body movements alone are touching enough.

As expected, the entire subsequent shooting process went very smoothly with almost no NGs occurring.

The recording of "Yi Sheng You Ni" has been completed, and the entire album is unified in a popular lyrical style.

If you count them up, the lineup of this album is truly luxurious.

Each of the five songs is a masterpiece, with both the melody and the lyrics full of highlights, and some of them are true classics.

As this is his second album, Du Sheng will certainly not treat it carelessly!

But he hesitated when choosing the album title.

From a promotional perspective, "Two Butterflies" is obviously the most suitable choice, but it does not fully fit the theme of the entire album.

After careful consideration, Du Sheng finally adopted Zhong Zhen's suggestion and chose "Yi Sheng You Ni" as the album name.

Miracle Records has negotiated with Kugou Music and Qianqian Jingting and decided to release this album first on both platforms.

The success or failure of this album will largely affect Du Sheng's position in the music industry and the subsequent sales of ringback tones on the three major operators.

Therefore, both the industry and the public have paid close attention to this.

Since Du Sheng’s previous album was a huge success on Qianqian Jingting, with extremely high download volume and excellent reputation, he attached great importance to this cooperation.

Although Kugou Music was founded not long ago, it has strong capital and network support behind it and has risen rapidly, just like Renren.

At present, it and Qianqian Jingting occupy almost half of the online music market.

According to Miracle Records' plan, the album will be pre-promoted on Kugou Music and Qianqian Jingting on May 5, and will be officially put on sale on May 3.

At that time, we will also cooperate with Sony Music.

This builds a complete sales network.

However, not everyone is optimistic about the sales of "Yi Sheng You Ni".

Because he ran into several strong competitors this time!
The first opponent, Ling Junjie, is signed to Ocean Butterflies Music.

The company has operations in Singapore, Malaysia, and across the Taiwan Straits, with more than 15 record distribution companies alone.

It has successfully launched famous singers such as A-du, SEVEN, Chen Jieyi, and Ling Junjie.

Ling Junjie pre-promoted his album "茳萳" on Kugou + Qianqian Jingting on April 4th.

Except for a few songs he composed himself, all other songs on this album were produced by Chairman Lin Qiuli himself.

It was supervised by Xu Huanliang, a producer renowned in the Asian music scene, and was nearly a year in the making.

Absolutely a fine piece of work.

Its title song "CangCang" currently ranks first on the click charts of Kugou + Qianqianting.com, and it can be said to be coming in with great momentum!
The second rival, F.I.R, released its self-titled album "F.I.R" on April 4, which includes songs such as "Our Love" and "Lydia", and its sales are currently good.

As for the third opponent, he is undoubtedly Du Sheng’s old acquaintance, Luo Zhixiang.

Last year, the two sides had a disagreement over the endorsement of "Battle of Guangmingding".

He wanted to open up the mainland market but was not selected, and the reason had a lot to do with Du Sheng.

There was also a scandal of being manipulated by the director, and finally he returned to Bay City in disgrace.

Fans of both sides had fought fiercely on the three major social platforms, and Du Sheng's side won in the end. This time, Luo Zhixiang returned to the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and four places with his album "Da Ren Show".

Forming a pincer attack with Ling Junjie, the intention is strong of revenge.

Four well-known singers released albums almost simultaneously during the May Day holiday, and the promotion schedule was so tight, which is unprecedented in the history of the music industry.

Normally, unless they are sworn enemies or to create topics, there will be a tacit understanding between entertainment companies and management companies to adjust the promotional schedules of their artists to avoid direct competition.

After all, even if we can gain an advantage, it will be a pyrrhic victory.

Ocean Butterflies Music, Warner Music, and Interactive Entertainment are all large companies that are above the top in the industry.

It is foreseeable how tragic the scene will be when the three parties fight together.

In fact, the main advertising spaces of Kugou Music and Qianqian Jingting have now been divided up by these three companies.

Their publicity campaigns on blogs, Renren, Tianya and Tieba are also very fierce!

Ling Junjie, F.I.R and Luo Zhixiang are all actively promoting themselves.

In this fast-paced era, the rise and fall of celebrity idols is extremely frequent.

Fans' preferences are fickle, and artists who don't often appear in entertainment news can easily be forgotten.

In comparison, Du Sheng did not spend much time promoting his album.

Because "Kill Bill 2" and "House of Flying Daggers" were squeezed into three major film festivals, a lot of time was taken up.

Generally speaking, I have only appeared on variety shows such as Yangshi Music, Mango TV, and Lizhi TV.

They sang a song on the spot and gave each host a physical album, and that was it.

The most lively event was probably the grand reception that Ye Jingzhi arranged today to invite reporters to Star Media.

A total of eight large media organizations and more than twenty small media units were present.

A total of dozens of reporters sat in several rows.

"Mr. Du, what do you think of this album?"

"Daolang's divine power is still there. Aren't you afraid of fighting him?"

"'Mouse Loves Rice' is currently topping the charts on all major websites. Mr. Du chose this time to release an album. Is he planning to go head-to-head with his fans?"

"Lin Junjie is also releasing an album recently. There are rumors that he wants to snipe you. Is that true?"

"I heard that your single "Blue Bird" released in Japan is still dominating the charts. Have you considered making a Mandarin version?"

"Taiwan's 'Triple Crown' Luo Zhixiang once revealed that he had a crush on Xu Xiyuan. This time he suddenly announced the release of an album. Is he trying to ambush her..."

"........."

"Everyone, don't worry, come one by one!"

Du Sheng responded calmly to questions raised by several major media outlets.

Because these almost see through the bottom, there is no deliberate embarrassment.

As for questions from other media, he only selected a few to answer.

For example, the release date and the Chinese version of "The Blue Bird".

He would just smile and ignore anyone who tried to bring him down.

For example, when it comes to issues related to Lin Junjie and Luo Zhixiang, no matter what you say, people will criticize you.

There have been many artists whose images have been damaged due to distorted media reports.

Sometimes there is nothing wrong with what an artist says in his or her answer, but after the media takes it out of context, the meaning becomes completely different.

Even if the artist raised objections afterwards, the media would just apologize and the article would have already been circulated.

After the reception, Wang Jinhua smiled at Du Sheng and said:

"I performed well just now. I didn't get led astray by others, and I didn't feel like hitting the reporter like Zhang Weijian did..."

Just now some reporters deliberately set up traps and asked embarrassing questions. She was really worried that Du Sheng would be stumped.

Not long ago, when Zhang Weijian was asked why Du Sheng did not apologize for misunderstanding him about the "beating incident", he almost got angry.

Du Sheng smiled and said:

"After going through this many times, your Qi training skills will improve a bit."

"The flight ticket has been booked and we will fly to Sichuan Province at 1pm.

You have no rest time this week, and you have text and phone interviews after you come back.

After the album promotion, I will go to Modulo to rehearse for the May Day Gala and Kill Bill 2..."

After talking about the itinerary, Wang Jinhua suddenly remembered something:
"By the way, I just received a call from Kugou Music and Qianqian Jingting, asking if they need to advance the album's release date to avoid a head-on collision."

According to the agreement previously negotiated, "Yi Sheng You Ni" will begin pre-promotion on May 5 and will be officially put on sale on May 3.

What’s strange is that Ling Junjie’s album “Cangcang” was also released on the same day!
This was clearly an intentional attack.

The company behind the other party, Ocean Butterflies Music, is an industry giant and has a close cooperative relationship with Blueberry TV.

Ling Junjie’s main focus is music, and he is the type of idol that young people love today, with nearly 1800 million fans across all platforms!
No matter how many zombie fans he has, in terms of popularity in the music field, he is definitely not inferior to Du Sheng.

This time the other party chose to put the products on the shelves at the same time, and the meaning behind this is worth pondering.

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(End of this chapter)