This year, Radio Television Hong Kong and TVB will jointly host the "Hong Kong Golden Melody Awards Ceremony" for the first time. According to Hong Kong media reports, recently, the local social media circulated a "list of banned singers" of the award ceremony, including He Yunshi, Huang Yaoming and others, in this regard, on the 25th, Radio Television Hong Kong responded, "Hong Kong and Taiwan have always supported the development of local Chinese pop music, and the program hosts have chosen to play songs with the program from a professional point of view." ”
Radio Television Hong Kong and TVB have always had their own tradition of hosting music awards ceremonies: RTHK has the "Top 10 Chinese Golden Melody Awards Ceremony", while TVB has the "Golden Melody Awards Ceremony".
Earlier this month, the two television stations held a press conference announcing that for the first time this year, the Hong Kong Golden Melody Awards Ceremony 2021/2022 will be jointly held, with a total of 13 categories of awards, including Golden Melody Awards, Male Singers, Female Singers, Bands, etc., and public voting will be held from January 29 to February 13, while the winners of the major awards will be selected by the Internet public voting, professional judges, Chinese Song Dragon and Tiger Charts and The Golden Melody Committee and polls.
TVB General Manager Zeng Zhiwei said that he has always hoped to do a credible and recognized award ceremony, and now he has taken the first step and hopes that the music awards ceremony can have a new situation. Radio Television Hong Kong consultant Ho Chung-eun said: "TVB coverage is high, and Radio Television Hong Kong has listened to a lot, so the cooperation is seamless. The award ceremony is scheduled to take place on 3 April at the Kowloonbay International Trade and Exhibition Centre.
Recently, local social media rumors said that Radio Television Hong Kong informed the DJ through oral notification that there was a list of banned singers, and the songs of these singers were not included in the election, including Wong Yiu-ming, Ho Yun-shi, Daming Yi faction (Wong Yiu-ming's band), Fang Haowei, C AllStar and other people/groups.
Ho Yun-shi has become increasingly active and radical in recent years, and her act of taking office has not even stopped because the Hong Kong National Security Law has come into effect, so it is considered to be involved in "anti-China chaos in Hong Kong", and at the end of last year, she was arrested by the Hong Kong Police National Security Department. According to the Ta Kung Pao, female singer Fang Haowei was suspected of inciting "Hong Kong independence", and in August last year, singer Wong Yiu-ming was arrested by the Integrity Office on suspicion of cheating in the 2018 "Legislative Council" by-election.
C AllStar's songs have previously been removed from the shelves of a number of mainland music platforms, and yesterday, when the group attended the event, it talked about the suspected inclusion of the "banned singer list" and said, "I didn't think about it in particular, after all, it is a rumor, not a fact, the response will be unfair, and the hypothetical questions will not be answered." We make music, do our job, we don't count the support of different media, and we don't delve into whether Radio Television Hong Kong has broadcast our songs. In fact, Radio Television Hong Kong used to have a high degree of support for us; when we were newcomers, we had won the Newcomer Award and the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs, and we were very happy at that time. ”
As for whether to set up a "banned singer", on the 25th, Radio Television Hong Kong responded: "We have always supported the development of local Chinese pop music, and the program hosts have chosen to play songs that match the program from a professional perspective." The candidatures, scoring criteria and proportions of each award will be made public, and the results of the awards will be accounted for by the accountants to ensure fairness and openness. The biggest goal of the awards ceremony is to inspire continuous innovation and progress in the local music scene, and any musician in front of and behind the scenes who is rated as commendable by the mechanism will win awards. ”
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