Of course, from a practical point of view, if Ji Yan were to apply for Best Actor at this year's Chang Kong Awards, his chances of winning would indeed be very low. On the one hand, he has already won once, and on the other hand, the character Li Yu is very negative. Ji Yan had already experienced this once when he was nominated for "The Vanished Murderer". If he can be nominated again this time with "The Black Curtain", the problem will probably still lie here.
However, Ji Yan didn't think about this issue much for the time being. He was indeed quite depressed when he lost to Xi Ming, but now that he already had a Changkong Award, his desire for the Changkong Award was not as fervent as before.
In March, Chi Yan's main focus remained on her new album, "Inspiration".
Tsubasa had already announced to fans that they would take a break after the tour before preparing for a new album. Given fans' knowledge of how lazy the members are, Tsubasa's so-called "break" will probably be at least half a year.
As expected by fans, in the past six months, apart from Ji Yan promoting "Black Curtain" and joining the filming of "Run Out of the Sky", the other members have been almost completely silent.
Most of "Wings'" fans have now become working adults, enduring the threat of deadlines from their bosses and clients. When they were following their idols, they naturally didn't want "Wings" to suffer the same pain, so they watched "Wings" lazily drift through life until the Spring Festival.
I thought this album would be a long way off, but in March, DW Entertainment surprisingly announced the release date for "Wings'" new album.
A new album?!
"This is so unusual for Wings! Their fifth album is faster than I expected. It feels like we had no news about them before."
"Aaaaaah, another new album to listen to!"
"Since the fifth-year vocational college is at the beginning of the year, does that mean the sixth-year vocational college is at the end of the year? [doge][doge][doge]"
"The idea upstairs is brilliant, and it aligns with my views."
For fans of "Tsubasa", it's hard to see the members on variety shows, and there aren't many stage performances, but having a new album to listen to is great.
Especially nowadays, many idols and singers treat appearing on variety shows as their main job, so "Wings" who has been consistently releasing albums can actually be considered hardworking.
From the age of 20 to 30, Yi has been pursuing her dream of becoming a singer.
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Longtime fans like Su Li had already set a date to hear the new album from Wings as soon as it was released. In addition to the longtime fans who have been following Wings, Wings has also attracted a large number of new fans in recent years. They are not attracted by the faces of the Wings members, nor do they follow their photos or look forward to their variety shows. The only thing they look forward to is Wings' new songs, which they have listened to countless times from the old album to the new one.
After "Inspiration" was launched on the "Liuge" platform, it remained incredibly popular.
Now, whenever "Wings" releases an album, the promotional page provided by the "Liuge" platform is often the largest, placed in the most prominent position on the website's homepage. After the release date of this year's album "Inspiration" was confirmed, the "Liuge" platform even paid out of its own pocket to purchase promotional pages for "Wings" on other websites, which is something that has never happened before.
DW Entertainment's stinginess has once again been exposed in comparison.
However, in the current slump of the music scene, apart from singers with their own fan base and a few superstars, most singers do not make money from releasing albums, and platforms are not making a fortune as fans imagine. On the contrary, the VIP subscriptions from fans alone are not enough to support a platform to continue operating. However, collaborating with big-name singers can generate revenue sharing and attract more fans to pay, which platforms like "Liuge" are usually happy to do.
And the sales of this album "Inspiration" did not disappoint the expectations of the "Liuge" platform.
Compared to Wings' previous albums, Inspiration was one of the fastest albums to reach the top of the sales charts.
The title track, "Radiant Light," quickly climbed to the top of the play count charts—in the absence of any big-name singers competing against them, "Wings" was practically invincible.
"It sounds great!!!"
Upon hearing "Radiant Light," Su Li gave the song the highest score in her mind. She didn't know why, but every song by "Wings" touched her.
The song "Radiant Light" is clearly sung by the members of Wings themselves. It tells the story of how the members finally stepped onto the stage and shone their light on the world. Perhaps because it was written for themselves, the song sounds so real and sincere when sung by the members of Wings.
"Another surprising album."
The second song Su Li listened to was "The Boy of the Past, The Boy Forever". Actually, the theme of this song is similar to "Radiant", but it is more lyrical. When singing this song, the voices of "Yi" and the others were very gentle, as if they were recalling their youth and confessing to their youth.
As a loyal fan of "Wings", Su Li has not heard the members sing such a gentle song for a very long time.
In her fourth album, "Mountains and Seas," Lu Wei composed a more passionate piece, while this song from her fifth album is the epitome of gentleness.
It's hard for Su Li not to like him.
As a fan, she sometimes couldn't help but sigh, "Why does Yi have so much energy? He's so busy with tours, and the time he spends between tours and album releases might not be enough to keep up with his work. Meanwhile, Ji Yan is filming one movie after another."
What surprised Su Li the most on this album was "Radiant Light" written by Ji Yan. Whether it was the song itself or the fact that Ji Yan was the lyricist and composer, among the members of "Wings", Ji Yan was obviously the busiest, with album releases, tours, filming... all his work was arranged very clearly.
Marketing accounts are spreading rumors that Ji Yan and Ning Wei are dating, but Su Li is mostly skeptical. "Blue" has already entered retirement age, so it's not surprising that Ning Wei is dating, but Ji Yan... unless he's a master of time management, if he's so busy he still has time to date, then Su Li can only sigh that he and Ning Wei are definitely true love.
Ji Yan must really like Ning Wei to be able to spare some time from his heavy workload for her.
So when Ning Wei and Ji Yan officially went public many years later, Su Li's confident promises were ridiculed by her friends, but she was genuinely shocked. It felt like seeing a fish fall in love with a bicycle.
In her heart, Ning Wei and Ji Yan weren't a good match. Although she gradually accepted the outcome, the two of them went through thick and thin together until Su Li's memory started to decline.
Su Li has always liked "wings" and "blue". She feels like she has been chasing a star for a long time. Ning Wei and Ji Yan are the same. They have been in a long relationship and will stay together until they grow old.
In the beginning, Su Li heard dissenting voices from fans of both groups, but as time went on, these voices became fewer and fewer, and eventually disappeared.
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Among the five albums, Su Li also really likes the song "Wings' Lyric Writing," which truly expresses the pain of writing lyrics. The lyrics are also very funny, even incorporating the joke about the bald master Ji Yan. Su Li's only regret is that the song "Raising Cats" was not released in the official album. She can only hope that Wings will put this song in the next compilation album because she really likes it.
The fifth album, "Inspiration," is still composed of compositions by the four members of "Wings." Su Li discovered that each member has one of her four favorite songs. However, there are no songs she doesn't like on the album "Inspiration." When listening to "Wings" albums, she usually only distinguishes between songs she likes immediately and songs she likes gradually.
Su Li's favorite song at the beginning of her third album was "Cat", but gradually, her favorite song became "Fighting Maniac". She felt that this song inexplicably matched her temperament at work, especially when rushing to meet deadlines. She felt that she needed a kind of indomitable spirit. Every time she listened to this song, she felt full of fighting power and fearless.
Su Li glanced at the screen and was amazed. The song she was listening to, "Writing Lyrics," had only a few hundred thousand plays, but after just over four minutes, it had already reached a hundred plays. If it weren't for her confidence in "Wings," Su Li herself would have suspected that the data was inflated.
But this is enough to prove the current influence of "Wing".
"That's terrifying."
Su Li is one of the fans who witnessed "Wings" gradually reach the peak. Now, her group members no longer need to be shocked by how amazing the data of "Wings'" new album is, or how good the songs on their new album are. Every time a new album is released, everyone listens to the songs in a Zen-like manner. "Wings'" songs have not yet made them lose interest, but they have already lost interest in their own music reviews.
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"Wings" are not worried about their album sales now. After all, they have been in the industry for many years and have released quite a few albums, so they still have a solid fan base.
Even when they go to the "Ryuga" platform, the members are concerned about the fans' evaluation of the new album. They are quite afraid that fans will say that the songs they write are old-fashioned or that they haven't made any progress, especially since they are quite satisfied with the new album themselves.
Singers, even big-name singers, sometimes fall into this trap—they become complacent with their past successes and believe that every song they release will satisfy their fans.
But that's not the case.
Fans may be reluctant to speak harshly because of their past devotion and are willing to spend money to buy their albums, but that doesn't necessarily mean they truly like the album.
Wings are afraid that one day they will become such singers, so they have always taken their fans' feedback very seriously. They also have plans to continue releasing albums, and they hope to present something new with each new album.
One week after its release, the album "Inspiration" broke the record for the first week of Wing's previous album releases, selling nearly 10% more than "Mountains and Sea" at the same time. Given that "Mountains and Sea" already had a phenomenal sales performance, the sales of "Inspiration" were astonishingly high.
According to many professionals in the music industry, there are probably only two artists in the industry who can achieve such data with the release of an album: "Wings" and "Blue," even though the two groups "Wings" and "Blue" have never officially competed against each other.
In the past, "Wings" naturally sold less than "Blue," but gradually some fans have come to believe that if "Wings" and "Blue" were to be compared in terms of album sales, it would be hard to say who would win.
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