In zhihu there is such a popular question "who are the five most important singers in the history of the Chinese music scene", in fact, I have noticed it a long time ago, I remember that there were only a few hundred answers at that time, and when I saw it again recently, there were already 1615 answers, and the number of views exceeded 10 million.
Netizens have been talking about it, expressing their minds about the top 5 of the music god, and there is no shortage of people who are blushing. After reading a lot of answers, I think it is quite interesting, and today we may wish to talk about this question.
So many answers, we can't look at them all, but fortunately, the platform's artificial intelligence robot "Xiaozhi" made a systematic statistic for us. Through this statistical result, we can probably intuitively understand who the five most important Chinese singers in the minds of netizens are.
In fact, before seeing Xiao Zhi's statistical results, I probably guessed who the top three belonged to, because there were 3 names that were obviously mentioned the most. The result is really that they occupy the top three, but the ranking is a little unexpected, because the first place is -
1. Jay Chou, 394 votes
Jay Chou occupied the first place with an absolute advantage of 394 votes, is this result expected by you?
To be honest, I was a bit surprised, I thought it would be Teresa Teresa who reached the top. However, I thought that someone had said "Know = Jay Chou", so this result should also be expected. Why do you say "Zhihu = Jay Chou"? This is not difficult to understand, because jay Chou's fan body is after 85 to 90, and this age is also the main user group with the highest degree of activity. Therefore, Jay Chou has always been a god here, just like Hua Chenyu has always been used to taunt.
In this way, it is not that I do not recognize Jay Chou, he is undoubtedly the "first person in the Chinese music scene" since the 21st century, so I absolutely recognize a place in the "five most important singers in the Chinese music world", but I did not expect that he would reach the top with an advantage of nearly 100 votes over the second Teresa Teng.
2. Teresa Teng, 308 votes
Where there are Chinese, there is Teresa Teresa's singing, and Teresa's influence in the history of the Chinese music scene should be unparalleled. However, the time is long, Yiren has been dead for nearly 30 years, the classic will be passed down forever, but it will also be slowly diluted by new music, so in the minds of a considerable number of young fans, her influence may be slightly inferior to Jay Chou, but the deep status and long-term influence are still the first person in the Chinese music scene.
3. Luo Dayou, 239 votes
Luo Dayou had 69 fewer votes than Teresa Teng and 155 fewer votes than Jay Chou, which was a bit unexpected. Because on many online platforms, when netizens nominate the most important singers (musicians) in the Chinese music scene, one of the most repeated names is Luo Dayou, which shows the wide degree of his recognition.
Besides, the five most important "singers" mentioned here, Luo Dayou is a musician who influenced an era, but specific to the identity of the singer, his singing ability and stage performance are not enough to be proud of the crowd.
But no matter what, Luo Dayou can enter the top three, and he will eventually live up to the reputation of "the godfather of the music world".
4. Jacky Cheung, 207 votes
Judging from the impression I browsed before, there seems to be no suspense in the top three occupied by Teresa Teng, Luo Dayou and Jay Chou, and the ownership of the next two seats, there are many variables, there are supporters of "Li Zongsheng + Cui Jian", there are supporters of "Cui Jian + Xu Guanjie", there are supporters of "Xu Guanjie + Jacky Cheung", there are supporters of "Jacky Cheung + Liu Huan"...
According to Xiao Zhi's statistical results, Jacky Cheung won fourth with ahead of Cui Jian and Li Zongsheng. Congratulations to the god of song, as the singing hero of the four kings, the king of the Scene in the Chinese music scene, Jacky Cheung is really expected by all. He is also the only Hong Kong singer in the top five.
5. Cui Jian, 196 votes
The last of the five seats is the rock singer Cui Jian, who is also the only mainland singer.
To tell the truth, Cui Jian is indeed eligible to enter the top five, but he can beat Li Zongsheng, Xu Guanjie, Liu Huan and others to squeeze into the top five, or a bit of a victory. In terms of influence among popular fans, Cui Jian, the godfather of rock and roll, may not be as broad as the later ones, but he is better than the significance of the times and the pioneering spirit, so the status is there.
In this way, Jay Chou, Teresa Teng, Luo Dayou, Jacky Cheung and Cui Jian, which are the "five most important singers in the history of Chinese music" selected by combining the opinions of 1615 netizens.
In order to prove their own point of view and promote the god-level singer in their minds, most of them are sprinkled with thousands of words, sonorous and firm, and have a reason. After all, only 5 names are chosen, the competition is fierce, and the crowd is difficult to reconcile, so to objectively look at who the "five singers" are, we can only conclude from everyone's opinions, that is, the five names above.
To be sure, there are still many excellent people who have not been selected. After these five people, who else gets the more votes? The following table is summarized in general:
6. Li Zongsheng, 171 votes
The godfather of music, Li Zongsheng, as a name representing the Taiwanese music scene in the 90s, is often mentioned on the Internet along with Luo Dayou's name, but unfortunately only won the sixth place this time, rubbing shoulders with the "five major singers". He received 171 votes, 25 fewer than Cui Jian.
7. Faye Wong, 140 votes
The second female singer after Teresa Teng received 140 votes, 31 votes less than Li Zongsheng. Faye Wong is a very good and very individualistic female singer, winning the seventh place I think is a very good ranking, if you drop two or three places can also be accepted.
8. Xu Guanjie, 119 votes
The most important thing about Hui Guanjie is that he is the founder of the Cantonese pop music scene and has a high status in the Hong Kong music scene. Like Cui Jian, the public influence in the entire Chinese pop music scene is not the most prominent, and it is reasonable to win the eighth place.
9. Zhang Guorong, 103 votes
Zhang Guorong followed Xu Guanjie and finished ninth with 103 votes. This one... How to say it, in terms of the influence of his brother, it is no problem at all, but I believe that seeing this ranking, the first to be dissatisfied should be Tan Yonglin's fans, after all, in terms of musical achievements, Tan Yonglin is still slightly greater than Zhang Guorong, and this time Tan Yonglin got only half of Zhang Guorong's votes (52 votes), ranking 13th.
10. Eason Chan, 93 votes
Eason Chan is the second youngest singer in the top ten besides Jay Chou, as the third generation of Hong Kong "singers" after Hui Guanjie and Jacky Cheung, Eason Chan is eligible for this ranking, but like Jay Chou, the fans are younger, and they still have certain advantages over the older generation of singers in terms of getting votes.
11. Liu Huan, 64 votes
From the 10th to the 11th place, another large step was dropped, and Liu Huan lost nearly 30 votes less than Eason Chan and won the 11th place. For Liu Huan, who has a very high status in the mainland pop music scene, is this rank a bit condescending?
12. Huang Jiaju, 61 votes
Huang Jiaju followed Liu Huan, ranking 12th with 61 votes.
Some people may ask me who the "five singers" in my mind are? Will it include my idol, Huang Jiaju?
My answer is no. The "five singers" counted by Xiao Zhi are acceptable to me and basically recognized; more specifically, the answer in my heart is probably (Luo Dayou + Teresa Teng + Jay Chou) + (Li Zongsheng / Cui Jian / Jacky Cheung / Xu Guanjie / Liu Huan in any two). Selfishly, I think it would be better if Huang Jiaju could move a little further on the basis of the current ranking and break into the top ten, but I also think it is very good to be 12th. Because:
(1) Huang Jiaju was not originally an independent "singer", he was only a member of BEYOND, never developed in a personal capacity, of the 33 names in the above table, only he was such a special identity;
(2) Huang Jiaju's influence basically relies on Cantonese songs, and Huang Jiaju has been active in the mainstream music scene for only 5 years, and he can rely on the far-reaching influence of the works of that year to obtain today's rank, which is already a great affirmation.
After that, the singers will not be listed one by one, and the more questionable names may be Xue Zhiqian, Xu Song, Hua Chenyu and the 29th one. In particular, the latter two are mostly listed because netizens are anti-black; and Miyuki Nakajima has also been nominated by many people, which is obviously a joke.
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