Recently, NetEase Cloud Music released the "2018 Annual Music List", inventorying the music works and musicians favored by 600 million users in Yuncun in the past year, among them, Mao Buyi's "Ordinary Day" ranked first in the annual new digital album sales chart, Li Ronghao's "Ears", Charlie Puth's "Voicenotes", BTS (Bulletproof Youth League) "LOVE YOURSELF to 'Tear'", Aimer's "Black Bird / Tiny" Dancers / Si い出は奇丽で" won the most popular albums in Chinese, Europe, America, Korean and Japanese respectively, and Xue Zhiqian's "Talent" became the hottest single.
In addition, the popularity awards generated according to user voting were also announced, among them, the theme song of the TV series "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost" sung by Mao Is not easy to sing, and Zhu Zhengting, who was fired due to the popular variety show "Idol Trainee", won the annual popular single and the annual supernova, respectively.
(NetEase Cloud Music 2018 Annual Music List Released)
Multi-variant musical styles
In the era of Focus, people's listening styles have become more and more diversified. In this list, NetEase Cloud Music also took stock of popular music works in different segments. In terms of Chinese music, Li Ronghao's latest album "Ear" is at the top of the popularity, this album contains many popular songs this year, such as "Young and Promising", "Ace Wrongdoer", "Remember and Don't Forget" and many other popular songs this year, "Young And Promising" has exceeded 200,000 comments on NetEase Cloud Music, which is a frequent visitor to the platform hot song list, and "BeiBei" has also become the focus of discussion among netizens because of the length of the song of only 4 seconds. Wang Ether's "Feel Sight", the landlord's cat "Soft", Mao Buyi's "Ordinary Day", and Xu Song's "Treasure Hunt" ranked second to fifth.
In terms of European and American music, the singer, composer and producer Charlie Puth's album "Voicenotes", which has been nominated for many Grammy Awards, has become the most popular album in European and American music, and the double platinum-selling single "Attention" and the single "Done For Me" created by the Grammy-nominated RB goddess Kehlani are all highly acclaimed works in this album. "Poke" Troye Sivan "Bloom", Drake "Scorpion", XXXTENTACION "? "A sister" Ariana Grande "Sweetener" followed.
Last year, NetEase Cloud Music gained a lot in terms of Korean and Japanese music copyright, and also attracted many Japanese and Korean music fans to gather on the platform. In terms of Korean music, the popular Korean boy band BTS (Bulletproof Youth League) has the highest popularity in the third series of "LOVE YOURSELF to 'Tear'", which is the sincere work brought by BTS (Bulletproof Youth League) after eight months, and has sold more than 1 million songs in less than 40 minutes. The top five albums of Korean music also include (G)I-DLE's "I Am", G-Dragon's "G-DRAGON 2017 WORLD TOUR LT"; ACT III, M.O.T.T.Egt; IN JAPAN》、GOT7《EYES ON YOU》、Red Velvet《The Perfect Red Velvet – The 2nd Album Repackage》。
In the direction of the sound in Japan, the new generation of songs that are life-spanned, "Black Black / Tiny Bird Dancers / Memories are beautiful", Sumire Uesaka, "POP TEAM EPIC", majiko-like "AUBE", Starite 99 Pairs "Shoujo ☆ Opera Review" In-play Song Album Vol.1 "La Reveude Matine" Ito Kanako's Fatima 2nd to 5th people.
"Video-audio linkage" has become a trend
In this list, there are many popular songs from film and television works and variety shows. Musical works bring new interpretations and connotations to film and television works and variety shows, and the influence of the latter can also effectively drive songs and singers to the public, and the two sides promote each other's achievements, a trend that has become more and more significant in 2018.
NetEase Cloud Music specially set up the most popular TV series OST and movie OST TOP5 in the "2018 Annual Music Chart", the theme song of the TV series "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost" sung by Mao Buyi, the theme song "Not Stained" and the theme song "We" of the movie "Later Us" sung by Eason Chan respectively led the list.
In addition, in terms of albums, "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost TV Soundtrack Album" was selected as one of the top 10 new digital album sales in 2018. In terms of singles, "No Dye" and Skylar Grey's ending song "Everything I Need (Film Version)" of the movie "Aquaman" were selected as the top 10 hottest singles of the year. Among the top 5 MV broadcasts, the theme song "Ei Ei" MV of the popular variety show "Idol Trainee", the episode "Calories" of the movie "The Richest Man in Xihong" sung by Rocket Girl 101, and the theme song of the TV series "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost" "Not Stained" won the top three.
Among the popularity awards voted by music fans, Mao's "No Dye" won the annual popular single, and Zhu Zhengting, who successfully debuted from "Idol Trainee", became the supernova of the year.
A new force for original music
With the development of recent years, original music has become an important part of the Chinese music scene, and in the "2018 Annual Music Chart", original music and musicians have also appeared in multiple charts to show their strength.
In terms of albums, rap musician Wang Ether's "Feel Sight" and folk group landlord's cat's "Soft" performed well, becoming the second and third most popular Chinese albums of the year. Wang Ether had an eye-catching performance in "China's New Rap" last year, attracting countless fans, and the landlord's cat has also increased in popularity in the past year because of the new song "Is This the Life You Want" and the cover song of Lu Xiansen Band "Spring Wind Ten Miles", and has 1.64 million fans in NetEase Cloud Music. Among the original programs with the highest annual playback, the landlord's cat participated in the "Cloud Village Listening To The Song Club No. 2 The Landlord's Cat: The New Folk Song Rush to Listen to The Friend Hongyu Shouts for Healing", "Music Good Friend 2 No. 4 Listen to the Landlord's Cat Singing: All the Wine Is Not as Good as You", which also created the highest number of broadcasts of these two original programs.
In addition, NetEase Cloud Music also set the top 10 list of NetEase musicians with the highest annual popularity, hua congee, Xu Binglong, landlord's cat, Shen Yicheng, Zhao Lei, Xu Mengyuan, Jony J, Mu Xiaoya, Xie Chunhua, and Yin Lin became the top ten. Folk, pop, rap, electric, antique... These original musicians cover different types of musical styles and are producing high-quality musical works for various fields of music segmentation.
Original musician support programs such as NetEase Cloud Music "Stone Project" also provide better development opportunities for original musicians. Ru Mu Xiaoya is a musician from the second season of the "Stone Project", her original work "Can You" was selected into many lists of NetEase Cloud Music as soon as it was released, and the current music reviews exceed 270,000, and her fans have risen from zero to 250,000.
As of 2018, NetEase Cloud Music has settled in more than 70,000 original musicians and uploaded more than 1.2 million original songs, making it the most suitable platform for original musicians in China. Not long ago, NetEase Cloud Music officially announced that the 2018 NetEase Cloud Music Original Ceremony will be held on January 20, 2019 in the M space of Wukesong Stadium in Beijing. At that time, Zhang Chu, the landlord's cat, Wang Ether, Mu Xiaoya, Mao Buyi, Xu Binglong, G.G (Zhang Siyuan), Sunset Flying Car and many other well-known original musicians will gather at the scene and bring wonderful performances.