Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

"Idol of the Times" is in full swing.

On the 22nd, the first episode of "Idol of the Times" premiered on ATV.

The first episode is divided into three episodes and will be broadcast at 8pm every night.

Talent shows have long been available in Chinese-speaking areas.

In Hong Kong, TVB has a new talent singing contest, and ATV has an amateur singing contest.

Not to mention Baodao, several major TV stations have planned many singing contests.

In the early days, talent shows were still very popular with audiences, so many of the current mainstays in the music scene were born from these programs.

It’s just that as time goes by, these programs have become more solidified in talent selection, and there are fewer and fewer good prospects, which has led to less and less attention being paid to talent shows.

Affected by this, when "Idol of the Times" premiered, although the ratings were good, they were actually not good at all and were not worthy of ATV's investment in this program.

Just when ATV was a little anxious about this, the outside world began to collectively badmouth this program.

The ratings of the second episode of "Idol of the Times" took a huge turn.

The ratings of the second episode directly reached an astonishing 28 points, surpassing the 26 points of TVB's currently popular "Sister Tuoqiang".

"Idol of the Times" became famous immediately.

Several mentors on the show, Chen Qiming and Leslie Cheung, have greatly increased their popularity. At the same time, two foreign idols, Nakamori Akina and Shin Seung-hun, have become famous in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Especially Nakamori Akina, she has a look that touches the hearts of the audience. In the first episode of the show, she cried as soon as she came on stage, which directly broke the hearts of the audience.

Speaking of Nakamori Akina's popularity, the most significant point is that in the few days after the show was broadcast, Nakamori Akina's event invitations in Hong Kong doubled from before.

There are also many movies in which she has been found.

If the mentors are popular, it will naturally be easier for the players to become popular.

After the show was broadcast, several outstanding contestants in "Idol of the Times" have become everyone's talking points in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Edison Chen, Luo Zhixiang, Long Zexiu Ming, Qiao Zhenyu and several good-looking players are all popular.

Privately, fans have even begun to establish fan support clubs for them.

Of course, if you have more fans, you must vote for your idol.

The polling place set up by "Idol of the Times" in Hong Kong was overcrowded. A large number of young girls came every day to first buy votes and then vote.

Regarding the reason why the ratings of "Idol of the Times" were only good in the first episode, but suddenly exploded in the second episode.

Major newspapers conducted special surveys.

The conclusion reached is surprising.

It turned out that on the day of the premiere, Chen Qiming attended the Hong Kong premiere of "Resident Evil".

The premiere of the day was in the evening, and fans were busy supporting the movie invested by Chen Qiming.

As soon as this conclusion came out, many colleagues were shocked.

It’s hard to imagine how many people went to see a movie for Chen Qiming that day.

It can also be seen from this that everyone can see Chen Qiming's current appeal.

These are not movies he acted in, just investments.

It actually attracted a large number of audiences to watch this movie.

From here, everyone can basically understand why the movies starring Chen Qiming in the past two years have been such box office hits.

With this appeal, he is undoubtedly a superstar.

Closer to home.

The launch of "Idol of the Times" has had a huge impact on the Chinese-speaking region.

Idol! Create idols through variety shows.

Fans develop themselves and personally send their favorite idols to the final group.

This trendy gameplay directly amazed other companies in the same industry.

At the same time, the idol style of idols of the times has quickly spread throughout Asia.

The popularity of "Idol of the Times" is indispensable to the appeal of several mentors such as Chen Qiming.

But its success in the future depends not only on a few mentors.

This is a draft, and the players are the protagonists.

If the quality of the players is not good, then naturally fewer and fewer people will pay attention.

It is the outstanding appearance and strength of the contestants that make this show continue to be popular, and the ratings will become higher and higher in the following days.

Directly to the astonishing 37 points.

"Idol of the Times" cultivates idols, not pure singers.

In recent years, the idol trend has been very popular, and the audience pays more and more attention to the appearance of singers.

When a show like "Era Idol" featuring all handsome brothers appears, you can imagine how excited those students will be.

How popular are all the players, including Edison Chen?

Let’s put it this way!

A week after the broadcast of "Idol of the Times", ATV released the fans' votes for all contestants.

Adding together Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and other regions, Edison Chen, who received the highest number of votes, received an astonishing 5.78 million votes.

Second place Longze Xiuming has 4.1 million.

The third place was Luo Zhixiang with 3.89 million.

……

The total votes of all contestants across Asia totaled more than 30 million votes.

Thirty million votes, what is this concept?

Let’s put it this way! Tickets sold to fans by ATV are priced at 1 Hong Kong dollar.

There are more than 30 million votes, which directly means that ATV earned more than 30 million Hong Kong dollars in the program "Idol of the Times" just by asking fans to vote.

And this is only a small profit for the program "Idol of the Times".

The bulk of the program's profits mainly come from imported copyright fees from other countries and advertising fees.

The copyright fee was okay, because Chen Qiming had negotiated with TV stations from various places before, and the price was not too high at that time.

Therefore, after most countries in Asia introduced copyright introduction fees, they received a total of 36 million Hong Kong dollars.

And advertising fees.

This is awesome.

The first is Pepsi-Cola endorsed by Chen Qiming and Leslie Cheung.

As the company most willing to spend money on publicity.

After seeing the popularity of the variety show "Idol of the Times" in Asia, PepsiCo directly spent 30 million US dollars to buy the sponsorship of the show.

Well, the so-called sponsorship is what the host says at the beginning of various variety shows, "Welcome to watch such-and-such a program sponsored by such-and-such a brand."

In addition to Pepsi-Cola, Chen Qiming's own company, Peacebird Clothing Company, also sponsored the show.

Although Chen Qiming was the middleman, it still cost 70 million Hong Kong dollars to obtain clothing sponsorship fees for all players and advertising space during breaks.

These two sponsored advertisements alone brought income of 2.8 million Hong Kong dollars to the idol of the times.

Coupled with other peripheral income, etc., this variety show has earned 3.6 million Hong Kong dollars in revenue after only one week of broadcasting.

"Era Idol" became famous in one battle, and the contestants quickly became popular in Asia. If they form a group, they will directly debut as the top performers of this era.

This top trend is not only limited to Chinese-speaking regions, but also other countries such as Japan and South Korea.

It can be said that the contestants on this show are almost at their peak since their debut.

After seeing the popularity of idols of the era, many players went from being unknown to becoming famous stars.

This has made many people who had the ability and had the opportunity to participate in this program regret it.

At the same time, several agencies that sent artists to this show, such as SM and Johnny's, are now laughing.

Originally, he only valued Chen Qiming and planned to use Chen Qiming's help to cultivate people for his family.

Unexpectedly, Chen Qiming hasn't even started training yet. Just the talent show has made these players popular in Asia.

It’s not just these agencies that send people to idols of the past.

Those companies that didn't send anyone here are also staring closely at the idol of the times.

Many companies have even begun to actively send people to contact the amateur contestants on the show, hoping to sign them.

ATV has already made it public.

They are only responsible for hosting the show. As for the artists’ management contracts, they will not get involved. Of course, those who participated in the program and eventually formed the group will work at ATV for three years.

Not ATV either, but Pacific Entertainment.

"Idol of the Times" is an ATV program, but Pacific Entertainment is also involved.

Of the total investment of more than 70 million Hong Kong dollars, Pacific Entertainment accounted for 30 million.

Therefore, it is most accurate to say that it is a joint production and broadcast by ATV.

The reason why Pacific Entertainment invested was for the final seven-member group.

Chen Qiming has already made a plan on the Pacific side.

As soon as the group was formed, the company immediately launched a concert tour for them.

Well, similar to the fast boys of later generations, after the top ten are ranked, fast boy concerts will be held across the country.

And the same goes for the icons of the era.

After making a fortune, Pacific Entertainment will start to release an album for this group...

A large number of brokerage companies began to appear outside ATV, just to contact players who did not sign with Pacific Entertainment or had contracts with other companies.

For this reason, someone even approached Chen Qiming directly.

Chen Ziqiang.

Jackie Chan's agent.

This guy has a crush on Edison Chen.

"Mr. Chen, I'm really sorry! Edison Chen will most likely be one of our seven-member team, so..."

In a coffee shop opposite ATV TV station, Chen Qiming couldn't help but sigh after hearing what Chen Ziqiang said.

Hearing what Chen Qiming said, Chen Ziqiang on the opposite side couldn't help but frown, "Didn't you say that ATV won't sign with them?"

Chen Qiming gave him a strange look, "ATV doesn't want agency rights, but Pacific Entertainment does!"

Chen Qiming is not a fool, how could he make wedding clothes for others.

Forget about SM and Johnny, Chen Qiming needs to use their outstanding newcomers to promote the idol group he created.

But other companies actually want to share the pie, so I'm afraid they don't treat him as a fool.

Currently, "Idol of the Times" has broadcast the top 20 events.

The top ten will be decided in a few days.

After the top ten are released, the reputations of these ten artists will be greatly improved.

Among these ten people, in addition to outstanding artists sent by other companies, there will definitely be some who have not signed with a management company.

For example, Edison Chen, such as Qiao Zhenyu.

Chen Qiming praised them so much, how could he let them sign with other companies?

There is no need to wait for the top ten games, Chen Qiming will contact them and convince them to sign with Pacific Entertainment and become a member of Pacific Entertainment.

If they don't agree, there's nothing they can do. They can only unfortunately stop at the top 20 and fail to advance to the top ten and finals.

Chen Ziqiang obviously didn't expect that this was the case. He pondered for a long time and asked: "There are a lot of artists here in Pacific Entertainment! I think you don't lack this one. How about Mingzai, give me a face and give him Give it to me?"

Chen Qiming didn't expect that Chen Ziqiang would say this.

These words immediately stunned him.

This guy is really too confident and takes himself too seriously.

give face.

To be honest, this is not a matter of face.

Edison Chen is currently the most popular player among idols of the era.

His future value is immeasurable.

Especially when he was in Chen Qiming's hands.

Chen Qiming believes that as long as he is willing to support him.

Edison Chen is definitely a Chinese who can enter the European and American music scene.

After entering Europe and the United States, his value...

tsk...

Even if he only sold a million per album, that would be a lot of money.

For such a gold-level artist, Chen Ziqiang actually allowed himself to give up to him for his sake.

He really thought he had the fruit of face.

"I'm sorry, this is the company's decision. Although I am the boss of Pacific Entertainment, I cannot interfere in this kind of thing."

Chen Qiming shook his head and expressed his refusal.

"I understand." Chen Ziqiang drank the coffee in front of him and stood up directly.

Adjusting his glasses, he said: "Mingzai, I know you have strong capital now, but this is not how you play in the entertainment industry.

Look at Hong Kong now. A large number of artists and directors have been recruited by you.

You only have one theater chain. Can you afford to support so many people?

Also, you don’t care about the rest of us who are eating in the pot together? "

Chen Ziqiang's words were very serious, which made Chen Qiming a little angry.

how? Threaten me if I don't agree?

Do you really think I'm still the little loser selling tapes on the street?

He sneered directly: "What? Brother Ziqiang is planning to teach me a lesson?"

Chen Ziqiang stared at Chen Qiming and didn't speak for a long time. After a while, he said, "I'm reminding you that it's not good to eat alone. Be careful of overturning the pot."

"Then I'll wait and see how this pot turns over." Chen Qiming crossed his arms and responded unceremoniously.

Chen Ziqiang left.

There was no grace in leaving.

He left with dissatisfaction with Chen Qiming.

Chen Qiming didn't care about him at all.

If the boss of Jiahe said this to the boss of Wireless, he would definitely carefully consider whether to overturn the pot or not.

As for Chen Ziqiang.

To be honest, he is not on the same level as me at all.

Chen Ziqiang does have a high status in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

Jackie Chan is his artist, and he also has good connections in the entertainment industry. Many artists and company bosses have a close relationship with him.

But so what.

After all, he is just an agent.

In this world dominated by power and wealth, everything depends on strength.

Does Leslie Cheung have a high status in Hong Kong? The connections aren’t bad either!

But he hasn't been tortured by the media yet and can't cope with it.

In his eyes, what was nothing more than a solution, in Chen Qiming's case, was just a matter of a few phone calls and a small sum of money.

To put it bluntly.

Chen Ziqiang simply does not have the strength to overturn Chen Qiming's job.

By Jackie Chan?

Putting aside whether Jackie Chan is willing to help or not, even if Jackie Chan takes action, Chen Qiming is not afraid.

Moreover, as far as Chen Qiming knows, Chen Ziqiang's current relationship with Jackie Chan is not so good.

Managers and artists always have various conflicts after getting along for a long time.

Now, the two have deep grudges.

Chen Qiming remembered that it would not be long before the two of them officially broke up.

Without Jackie Chan, Chen Ziqiang also plummeted from being a gold medal agent in Hong Kong. He became in need of resources but not resources, and strength but not strength. In the end, he had no choice but to retire.

(End of this chapter)