In my heart you think of the sea of you
This life cannot be without
"I just want to go with you for the rest of my life"
The Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melodies Awards Ceremony is a very important music event in Hong Kong; Because it is hosted by TVB, the hegemon of Hong Kong's entertainment industry, Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd., its awards have a very high gold content and attention.
There are two important awards on the Top Ten Golden Songs, the Most Popular Male and Female Singer Award and the Golden Melody Golden Melody Award, which are the most concerned awards and the final grand finale respectively.
Winning the Most Popular Male and Female Singer Award is a symbol of becoming the Queen of Heaven in the Hong Kong music scene; The Golden Melody Gold Award is the highest award of the year issued by a combination of various factors, and the highest score is selected from the top ten golden songs that won the award, which is the highest honor for a single song.
The Hong Kong music scene in the 1990s was the era of the four kings, and the ten golden songs were naturally also the stage for the four kings to show their dominance.
In the 1990s, the top ten golden songs, the most popular male singer awards were all arranged by the four heavenly kings, including Jacky Cheung 1, Li Ming and Aaron Kwok 2 each, and Andy Lau won 5 sessions.
However, in the grand finale of the top ten golden songs, Andy Lau did not win 1 session, Jacky Cheung and Li Ming won 4 times each, and the other 2 sessions were won by Ye Qianwen and Zheng Xiuwen.
Comprehensive statistics of the award records of various awards, Andy Lau is the supreme king on the top ten golden songs.
However, why did Andy Lau not get the Golden Melody Gold Award of the Top Ten Golden Songs once?
Awards of the Golden Melody Gold Awards of Hong Kong's Top Ten Songs in the 1990s
In 1990, "Burning Hearts with Fire" Ye Qianwen
In 1991, "Love You More Every Day" Jacky Cheung
In 1992, "Breakup Always On a Rainy Day" Jacky Cheung
In 1993, "I just want to go with you all my life" Jacky Cheung
In 1994, "That Day I Don't Miss You" dawned
In 1995, "After Leaving" Jacky Cheung
In 1996, "Deep Love Never Spoke" dawned
In 1997, "Just Love a Day for Me" dawned
In 1998, "I Love You So Much" dawned
In 1999, "Interlude" Zheng Xiuwen
Among them, Dawn won the Most Popular Male Singer Award in 1993 and 1995, and Jacky Cheung in 1996.
In the 90s, there was no case where the Most Popular Male Singer Award and the Golden Melody Gold Award were won by the same singer; Only in 1990 did Ye Qianwen win both the Most Popular Female Singer Award and the Golden Melody Gold Award.
[In the 1980s, Tam Wing Lin won the Most Popular Male Singer Award and the Golden Melody Gold Award in 1984 and 1985. 】
Hong Kong's top ten golden songs and top ten Chinese golden songs are also the supreme honors of the music industry, and their influence is certainly enough, but when it comes to openness, fairness and justice, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince the public.
For example, in 1993, the top ten Chinese golden songs, that year, Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung won 3 songs each, Aaron Kwok Dawn 1 each, and the remaining 2 songs were won by BEYOND and Faye Wong.
The situation in which the four kings dominated seven or eight golden songs began to change completely in 1996, and each king only won 1 golden song per year.
Could it be that after 1996, the four kings could not sing?
In 1996, Jacky Cheung announced his marriage, and at the same time announced that he would temporarily withdraw from the film industry and focus on his singing career. This year, his golden songs included "Forget You I Can't Do It", "Love Letters", "Dilemma", "Your Name My Last Name", etc., which won the world's highest-selling Chinese Singer Award.
However, that year, Jacky Cheung won only one golden song in the Top Ten Golden Songs and the Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs, and the winner was only one golden song of "Your Name My Last Name".
Obviously, it is not that the kings are not excellent, but that the major awards ceremonies are balancing.
The era when the four heavenly kings dominated most of the golden songs was indeed not conducive to the development of the music world; However, limiting each king to 1 golden song per year is also a kind of harm.
In fact, the major music awards ceremonies did not just start to balance in 1996, but they were balanced from the beginning, but the aspects that needed to be balanced were different.
TVB is the organizer of the top ten golden songs, so it is absolutely deserved to be biased towards his own people.
So, who is TVB's own person?
Andy Lau debuted from TVB's artist training class, but was also banned by TVB in 1985; Aaron Kwok participated in TVB's dance training class and was one of the ten stars of the wireless Galaxy that year; Dawn was expelled from atvecta's training class and later won the third place in the ROT Singing Contest hosted by WIRELESS.
Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Li Ming are all TVB's own people, only Jacky Cheung, the champion of the first Hong Kong 18 District Amateur Singing Competition, has no direct relationship with TVB.
Therefore, the most popular male singer award of the top ten golden songs, Andy Lau has the most, and Jacky Cheung has the least, which seems to be very telling.
So what's going on with the Golden Melody Awards?
It's about the record label behind the singer.
A music award ceremony requires the cooperation between a radio or television station and a record company, which is a platform for singer exposure and song dissemination, and a record company is responsible for cultivating singers and creating golden songs.
The most popular singer award is determined by TVB, so it is also very reasonable that the Golden Melody Gold Award is determined by the record company.
At that time, the strongest record company in Hong Kong was PolyGram.
Because PolyGon once owned many tianwang superstar singers such as Teresa Teng, Xu Guanjie, Xu Xiaofeng, Tan Yonglin, Zhang Guorong, Jacky Cheung, LiMing and Faye Wong, Andy Lau also signed a few-year contracts with Polygon, and BEYOND is popular under its subsidiary New Yibao.
[The Golden Melody Gold Award of the Top Ten Golden Songs of the 90s, 8 sessions are Poly Gold, and 2 sessions are from another giant Warner Records.] 】
Among them, Jacky Cheung signed a contract with Poly Gold after his debut, and even after Poly Gold was acquired by Universal, he did not leave, but transferred the contract to Universal. Dawn signed to PolyGram in 1990, terminated in 1998, switched to Sony, and then formed his own record label.
Tam Wing Lin is another superstar singer who has not changed his owner from Poly Gold to Universal, and Andy Lau signed with Poly Gold from 1990 to 1993.
Therefore, in the 90s, PolyGram once had four superstars at the same time: Tan Yonglin, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Dawn.
In the 1980s, Tam Wing Lin was a brother of PolyGram; In the 1990s, the rapidly rising Jacky Cheung became the new Poly Golden Brother, so he was able to win the Golden Melody Gold Award for three consecutive years from 1991.
Because there are Tan Yonglin and Jacky Cheung, the status of Andy Lau and Li Ming is somewhat awkward, so there must be consideration in this regard when they choose to leave successively.
Andy Lau was the most popular male singer of the top ten golden songs for three consecutive years from 1990 to 1992; Therefore, it is impossible to take into account the Golden Melody Gold Award. By 1993, the most popular male singer had become Dawn, and By this time Andy Lau had left PolyGram and lost the opportunity to win the Golden Melody Gold Award.
[Aaron Kwok has not stayed in Poly Gold, and naturally did not win the Golden Melody Gold Award.] 】
From 1993 to 1998, it was dawn's most brilliant 6 years in the music world, 2 most popular male singer awards, 4 golden melody gold awards, and every year there were grand prizes, never left behind.
In 1998, Dawn left PolyGram; In 1999, Polygram was acquired by Universal Records, after which Jacky Cheung announced that he would no longer receive awards in the music scene.
Since then, the Hong Kong music scene has entered a new era.
Unfortunately, it will never surpass the glory of the previous era!