Sprint: This champion is a bit weird

Chapter 184 2007 China’s Top Ten Lawrence

May 5, Changsha Huanghua Airport.

This trip to Changsha was still welcomed by the local people and fans without exception, and Wen Hao was accustomed to this.

However, not all the people gathered at Huanghua Airport are here to greet him. Tomorrow, more sports figures who are familiar to the domestic people will land here.

For example, "Queen of Gymnastics" Cheng Fei, "Prince of Gymnastics" Yang Wei, "Prodigy" Ding Junhui, "Master of Meng" Wang Meng, and "Flying Man" Liu Xiang.

It must be a major event in the domestic sports world to bring so many top domestic sports athletes together, and at this point in May, there is naturally only the annual "China's Top Ten Lawrence Champion Awards".

After waving goodbye to the onlookers and fans who picked him up at the airport, he got into the business car arranged by Mango TV. Manager Annie, who had come here a few days ago to negotiate a good deal, immediately told Wen Hao about the schedule for the past few days.

"Just like participating in a competition, a press conference will be held as usual tomorrow afternoon, and you and Liu Xiang will be arranged to be interviewed together."

"As I told you before, Mango TV very much hopes that you can perform on stage. After all, Top Ten Lawrence is a live TV broadcast, which is good for both the ratings and your single sales."

"Singing on stage?" Wen Hao put his hands behind his head and said leisurely: "I don't care. Anyway, I just treat it as a fun these two days, but are they interested in Mango TV?"

Annie smiled: "I didn't mention it at all at first. I hinted it a few times before their person in charge realized it and said they would guarantee it would be at Li Yuchun's level."

Wen Hao chuckled. He was not one of those little artists who begged to be on TV. How many TV stations and websites begged him but didn't bother to pay attention. How could he spoil you, Mango Channel?

This year's 2007 China Top Laureus Champions Awards landed in Changsha. Mango Channel will not miss such a sports event. Not only has it taken care of every aspect of the event, but it is also preparing to host a grand live TV broadcast.

In addition to many well-known sports stars, celebrity artists such as Jet Li, Joey Yung, Gigi Leung, Li Yuchun, Jane Zhang, Huang Xiaoming, etc. were also invited to perform or present awards.

The predecessor of the "China's Top Ten Lawrence Champion Awards" was the "National Top Ten Athletes Selection Event" that began in 1979. In 2004, it began to be organically combined with the "World's Top Ten Lawrence Champion Awards" and quickly became a gathering of Chinese sports circles. , an annual event for superstars in the literary and art world.

This award will gradually decline as China's national power becomes stronger after 2011, but at this point in time in 2007, it is still very influential.

The shortlist of candidates for this year's "China's Top Ten Laureus Champions Awards" was officially announced as early as April 4.

Wen Hao was shortlisted for two awards: Popularity Award of the Year and Breakthrough Award of the Year, while Li Qing was shortlisted for the Best Coach Award.

In fact, based on his performance in the 2006 season, plus a nomination for the "Rookie Athlete of the Year Award" is understandable, but the Top Ten Laureus Champions Committee will definitely not be so messy.

After all, for nominations like this, he would have one more spot, and other athletes would have one less spot. Otherwise, the committee would do the work, and in the end it would be Wen Hao himself who offended others, so who should he ask to reason with?

Speaking of which, Wen Hao had already won an award long before Top Ten Lawrence.

On April 4, he won the CCTV 9 "Sports Person of the Year Award". In terms of domestic influence, he is actually no less than the top ten Lawrence.

It's just that relatively speaking, the Top Ten Lawrence is more professional. After all, its model is directly connected to the "World Top Ten Lawrence Championship Award", and this award is the highest recognized award in the world of sports.

For this year's selection of China's top ten Lawrence candidates, all netizens can log on to the Xinlang website to vote for the remaining nine awards except the Annual Popularity Award.

The rules are a bit strange. After all, according to normal logic, the "Annual Popularity Award" should be released for netizens to vote, and the remaining nine professional awards should be selected by the committee. This is reasonable.

But the actual situation is the opposite. No one knows why the Top Ten Lawrence Committee formulated such selection rules. Perhaps it is to increase the interaction among netizens?

Think about it, if there is only one "Annual Popularity Award" that is open to voting, it is indeed not as effective as opening up voting for nine awards to have more interactive effects and more traffic.

"Sister Annie, you just talked about your arrangements for tomorrow, what about today?"

After listening to Annie say a lot, Wen Hao suddenly discovered this problem.

"Today? Haha, this time the reporting by reporters from various media outlets on Top Ten Lawrence will not end until 16: in the afternoon. Most reporters are still applying for 'interview passes' at the moment, where will they have time to care about you?" Annie laughed replied.

"Then since I arrived in Changsha one day early, is it really just for tourism?" Wen Hao also smiled, "Then don't go to Malan Mountain, just drive the car directly to Orange Island."

"Orange Island? What are you doing there?"

"Do you even need to ask? Of course."

Wen Hao was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that the Great Man's Youth Art Sculpture project was only approved in February this year, and now he can only see a construction site at most.

"Orange Island is very good, let's go there." When Wen Hao was stunned, Li Qing took over the topic with a smile, "In the cold autumn of Independence, we go north to the Xiangjiang River, to the head of Orange Island. After finally coming to Changsha, we have to pay homage to the great man. This trip is not in vain!"

As a result, the car turned and drove to Orange Island. After having lunch there, Wen Hao and his party went to the International Film and Television Convention and Exhibition Center Hotel in Malan Mountain to check in.

"No, why is this Mango Channel so busy? Isn't it good to sing "Chasing Dreams"? Do you have to change it to "We Are Young"?"

"I don't know which leader in their station requested it, but since the money has been accepted, I'd better go to the rehearsal site and have a look first."

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, the female voice in the middle only has four lines. When the time comes, I will just let the fans at the scene sing it. It will also increase interaction."

While talking, Wen Hao and Annie had already arrived at the rehearsal site. On the stage, Gigi Leung was rehearsing, Joey Yong was standing aside waiting, and the others were also busy. There was no one idle at the scene. Soon, Wen Hao met Cheng Gang, the director of this Top Ten Lawrence Awards Ceremony.

After meeting and shaking hands with Wen Hao, Cheng Gang showed an embarrassed expression on his face, as if he didn't know where to start.

After asking the reason, Wen Hao couldn't help but feel a little funny.

In fact, he is completely acceptable to perform on stage as long as he is sincere, and he also wants to give back to his fans.

After all, he can't hold a few fan meetings throughout the year, and the number of people attending fan meetings is limited and has a high entry threshold. For live TV, the threshold is much lower and can take care of the vast majority of fans.

At the beginning, Mango TV also planned to let him sing "Chasing Dreams", but later someone begged Cheng Gang in every possible way, hoping to change Wen Hao to "We Are Young".

"So... it means there are fans of mine who have worked hard to establish a relationship with you, Director Cheng, and want to hear me sing "We Are Young"?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not a fan, but I." At this time, a man wearing glasses came out from behind Cheng Gang, smiled and extended his hand to Wen Hao, "Hello, hello, I've admired the name Red Lightning for a long time. I'm glad to see you. you."

"Who are you?" Wen Hao shook his hand politely.

"My name is Feng Ke. You may not know me, but you should have heard of Jane Zhang. She is the artist I brought up single-handedly."

When he heard the words "Feng Ke", Wen Hao subconsciously pulled his hand back and said with a smile: "Haha. Of course I have heard of Super Girl, and I even voted for it at the time."

"Are you going to vote for our pretty girl?"

"That's not true. I voted for Brother Chun."

"Ah?" Li Yuchun, who was suddenly called, put down his phone and raised his head, giving Wen Hao a thumbs up: "Okay, those who voted were all my good buddies!"

Wen Hao patted his chest and responded: "Respect!"

Feng Ke felt that he had been left out, and quickly hinted at Cheng Gang with his eyes.

But Cheng Gang ignored him, picked up the walkie-talkie, grunted, and left directly.

Without Cheng Gang as the ceremony director to act as lubricant, Wen Hao simply ignored him and turned around to chat with Brother Chun.

Feng Ke felt that he was embarrassed, but there was nothing he could do. Who could ask him to ask for help?

So he had to go to Annie and tell her his idea first to see if she, Wen Hao's manager, could accept it, and then consider the next step.

Off the stage, Wen Hao was standing in the shadows, putting his right hand on his chin and rubbing it gently, while his eyes were motionless staring at "Ms. Zhang Zhen" who was rehearsing "I Give Everything to Repay Love" on the stage.

The reason why Feng Ke bothered to curry favor with Cheng Gang and changed his singing repertoire from "Chasing Dreams" to "We Are Young" was because

The first is to let Zhang Liangying be responsible for the female voice part with only 4 lines in the middle, so as to take advantage of Wen Hao's renewed popularity after breaking the Asian record in the new season.

Secondly, I wanted to ask him to write a song for Jane Zhang.

It stands to reason that Jane Zhang is now also a hot new female singer in China. For example, her first studio album "The One", which was released in October last year, sold 10 million copies in three months.

However, this sales volume is still far behind that of Wen Hao. After all, his "Chasing Dreams" was the runner-up in Chinese sales in 2006. It can beat her for a fraction, let alone "We Are Young" which is popular all over the world. .

But this doesn't make Feng Ke put so much effort into asking him to sing. After all, no matter how high the sales of Wen Hao's songs are, their style is completely incompatible with Zhang Liangying. Feng Ke has no reason to ask for help like this.

The real reason is probably that the song "When You Get Old" written by Wen Hao for Mo Wenwei was officially released on New Year's Day this year. The record sold 280 million copies in the mainland alone in one month, and Mo Wenwei even appeared on the Spring Festival Gala stage. .

After the song "When You Get Old" became popular, many mainland female singers sent Wen Hao song invitations.

But during that time, he was still training hard to prepare for the 2007 season. He didn't even care that his English single topped the B chart for a week. How could he bother to care about these annoying things?

As for Feng Ke, he probably wanted to take this opportunity to give it a try.

Even if you can't get a singing appointment, letting Zhang Liangying sing "We Are Young" with Wen Hao is still a topic that can be hyped. If you can't let it go, you won't let it go.

Now that he had received the money, Wen Hao did not show off to Mango TV and seriously rehearsed "We Are Young" with Zhang Liangying.

After the rehearsal, Feng Ke invited him to sing again, saying that the price was negotiable.

Wen Hao thought for a while, smiled at him and said: "Music creation is purely my hobby. The reason why I wrote songs for Sister Karen is mainly because I have a close relationship with her in private. The song "When You Get Old" is also from She finds inspiration in her life insights.”

"Of course it's okay to write songs for Liangying. Let her come to me later. If we have a happy chat, maybe we can find inspiration tonight?"

After saying this, Wen Hao turned around, got in the car and left, completely ignoring the reactions of Feng Ke and Zhang Liangying.

　Let me see how many people thought this chapter was about awarding (squinting smile)

　　

　

(End of this chapter)