More than forty days after the auditions for "The Voice of China" ended, the finals of "The Voice of China" kicked off in the studio of Pingshan Film and Television City.
The blind auditions are the biggest draw of The Voice of China. From the very first episode, The Voice of China has been popular with audiences for its novel competition format and fair selection mechanism.
The four mentors, Xu Wei and Huang Jiajun, are rock musicians, while Su Ennan and Tian Zhen are pop musicians. Their task is to fairly judge the level of each contestant. As long as they can be impartial, they will meet Liang Liang's requirements.
Unlike the previous season of The Voice of China, in Haiyun's version, all the singers who participated in the finals appeared on television, even if none of the four judges turned their chairs.
The advantage of doing this is that all singers have the opportunity to appear on screen, and the second advantage is that it fundamentally eliminates the possibility of paying for screen time in the future.
The overwhelming popularity of the first episode greatly benefited the TV stations that purchased the broadcasting rights.
After the first episode was shown as a trial run, the second episode broke viewership records.
This made other domestic satellite TV stations envious, and as a result, TV stations flocked to buy the copyright, keeping Haiyun Company's business department busy.
Not only did provincial TV stations come, but numerous domestic audio-visual companies also came.
"We can't let Haiyun sign all these good talents. If you sign them all, what's the point of us playing? We won't even have anything to drink."
The boss of a video company in the south complained to Liang Liang as soon as they met.
"Mr. Zhang! You're trying to poach my employees right here."
"Whether you like it or not, although Haiyun has priority in signing contracts, I definitely can't go back empty-handed this time. I have to take a few singers back with me!"
"Mr. Zhang! This puts me in a difficult position. If it were just your company, I wouldn't refuse to let you ask for as many people as you want. But with so many companies, if you sign people away, other companies will have objections. What am I supposed to do if they all ask me for people?"
"That's none of my business! If I can't get people to go back, I'm just going to stay at the shipping company and not leave."
"real?"
A promise made is a promise kept.
"My company happens to be short two department managers. Why don't you stay and be my department manager?"
"Get lost! I'm a company CEO, and I'm on the same level as you. You actually want me to be your subordinate? What are you dreaming of?"
Liang Liang laughed heartily.
There are hundreds of singers who made it to the finals of The Voice of China, and it's impossible for Haiyun Company to sign them all.
While The Voice of China competition was in full swing, the Blue Shark Band's national tour also officially began.
They will be performing more than 50 shows over five months, from the end of June to the end of November, averaging two shows a week, which is quite a challenging task.
This summer has been quite busy for both Haiyun Company and Liang Liang personally.
While Liang Liang was busy with company affairs in Lianwan, her family was also busy.
Liang Liang's mother sent a matchmaker to the Xu family to propose marriage for Liang Liang.
The Xu family naturally had no objections.
After the marriage was arranged, the mother asked someone to choose an auspicious date for Liang Liang and Xu Mei's engagement.
Therefore, when Liang Liang received a call from his mother asking him to come home on the ninth day of the eighth lunar month to get engaged, he was really dumbfounded for a long time.
Why the rush to get engaged? Is the person going to run away or something?
Even if Liang Liang gave Xu Mei 100 million yuan to run away, she still couldn't escape.
Xu Mei certainly wouldn't object to going home to get engaged; on the contrary, she was overjoyed.
Despite having many things to do, Liang Liang and Xu Mei still returned to Liangshui Bay on the ninth day of the eighth lunar month to complete their engagement ceremony.
The engagement wasn't a big deal, and Liang Liang didn't inform anyone at the company.
One advantage of engagements in rural areas is that the couple can sleep together without worrying about gossip, and as for accidental pregnancies and children…
That's absolutely not an option, unless you get married before the baby is born.
Therefore, when Liang Liang and Xu Mei got engaged, Xu Mei started buying books on prenatal education, which terrified Liang Liang.
Is it a bit too early to prepare this before the two of you have even slept together?
After several months of competition, The Voice of China concluded its final episode at the end of October.
The level of the contestants in the first season of The Voice of China exceeded Liang Liang's expectations.
Many of these singers have reached the level of professional singers.
As the organizer, Haiyun Company naturally signed the best group of contestants, while the rest were signed by other music companies.
It's fair to say that almost all the singers who made it to the final stage have found their place.
The success of the first season of "The Voice of China" made it the best choice for many singers to jump the dragon gate, so the call to expand the scope of the auditions has been growing louder.
After 2000, things became somewhat difficult for domestic satellite TV stations.
But the emergence of "The Voice of China" gave them a glimmer of hope to escape their predicament.
These TV stations also hope that the second season of "The Voice of China" can expand the scope of auditions, and that they can be entrusted to conduct the selection in their respective capacities.
Listening to the voices of the people is key to a company's success; therefore, the auditions for the second season of The Voice of China became a nationwide audition.
However, Liang Liang must give a warning to various TV stations that they want to hold audition programs.
We should select truly talented contestants, not rely on the show to create messy unspoken rules.
If Haiyun Company discovers this, its qualification to hold auditions will be revoked.
The various satellite TV stations acted very quickly. From winter to May of 2002, almost all of the more than 20 satellite TV stations across the country held auditions for singers. Goodness, the number of singers who made it to the finals doubled all at once.
But that's what will happen next year.
Two weeks after the inaugural Haiyun Cup Chinese Good Voice competition concluded successfully, the Blue Shark Band's national tour also came to a successful close.
Although only 48 of the originally planned 60 performances were completed, the results were still quite good.
The 48 shows attracted over 1.5 million viewers, indicating that fans generally approve of Blue Shark's new lead singer.
The Voice of China not only brought Haiyun Company a great reputation, but also generated substantial profits.
During the broadcast, it brought hundreds of millions of yuan in advertising revenue to the participating satellite TV stations.
These advertising revenues are split proportionally between Haiyun Company and the local TV station.
This alone brought Haiyun Company hundreds of millions of yuan in revenue.
Revenue from this area will increase significantly next year.
Haiyun has signed more than 20 singers.
The artists' management companies formed a performance team, planning to have them tour nationwide and release a compilation album.
I'll consider releasing an album once I've built up enough reputation.
It's unlikely that all of these singers will become famous; it would be good if two or three of them actually succeeded.
Before we knew it, 2002 had arrived.
Liang Liang wondered if Dao Lang's "The First Snow of 2002" would actually be released in 2002.
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