Superstars start from HK Entertainment

Chapter 312 The Development Process of the Five Heavenly Kings

"We can try to shorten the shooting time."

Said to the boss.

This is the time when He Jin is at his most popular.

High popularity means there will be box office. Boss Xiang's intention is very clear, he plans to take advantage of this period to shoot the movie as soon as possible and then release it.

To put it bluntly, he actually wanted to take this opportunity to harvest a wave of He Jin's fans.

Naturally, He Jin would not be willing to do this.

Therefore, he shook his head and said, "I'm really sorry! Let's wait until after the new year!"

"It's okay! Let's talk about it later!"

He smiled at the boss, raised his glass and clinked it with He Jin.

"There seem to be a lot of people looking for you, so I won't delay you!"

It is almost impossible to recreate a top singer to match the five kings.

External public opinion, coupled with Aaron Kwok's deep feeling that if he stayed at China Star any longer, he might fall out of the top five heavenly kings.

So, starting from mid-1992, Huang Baigao began his journey of wielding a hoe.

Among them, Warner has undoubtedly spent the most money.

They are both members of the Five Heavenly Kings and belong to the same company. When Aaron Kwok and He Jin were at China Star, China Star asked the two of them to form a combination of China Star's top talents in order to compete with PolyGram.

Therefore, the ready-made prodigal son is no longer available.

Seeing Huaxing and PolyGram having two and three kings, Huang Baigao was naturally unhappy.

Since He Jin can cooperate with PolyGram, he can definitely cooperate with Warner.

As a result, the famous Five Heavenly Kings basically have nothing to do with Warner.

Speaking of Huang Baigao, this guy's reputation in today's Hong Kong music scene can be said to be extremely resounding.

However, it is different from He Jin's explosive performance in 1992, when his second Mandarin album "Eternal Sun" even exceeded 5 million a few months after its release, becoming the sales record holder in the Chinese music industry.

From early to mid-1992, the idea of ​​the Five Heavenly Kings began to spread. Huaxing and PolyGram joined forces with many capitals to reach a consensus, no longer confronting each other, and instead jointly launched five people to form the Five Heavenly Kings.

In the entire Hong Kong music scene and even the Chinese music scene, the Five Heavenly Kings are unmatched in their limelight.

Affected by this, he is also very eager to get authorization from the record company, so that he can freely choose on the song path.

In addition, there are even rumors that PolyGram transferred the resources originally given to Hacken Lee to Liming in order to promote Liming. Affected by this news, Hacken Lee publicly had a disagreement with the record company, so he signed a contract with PolyGram, which was several times lower in reputation and strength.

Orders of magnitude of starlight records.

Among them, "Linda" written by Lin Zhenqiang became a hit song that year and helped Jacky Cheung return to the path of career advancement. Therefore, Jacky Cheung has always respected and loved Zheng Donghan.

Although Hua Xing also produced several albums tailored for Aaron Kwok this year.

Andy Lau is good friends with He Jin, and he can often hear He Jin talking about the degree of freedom he has when producing his own albums at the record company.

Of course Andy Lau, who has his own style, was happy, but Huang Paigao was even happier because in early 1993, Aaron Kwok, one of the Five Heavenly Kings, had a disagreement with Hua Xing.

Even this year, Warner once overtook PolyGram to become the largest record company in Hong Kong.

As the saying goes, people with red eyes are crazy.

As for their Wang Jie, when Huang Baigao came on stage, Wang Jie's record contract with Warner had expired, and Wang Jie had already made up his mind not to renew his contract with Warner and to start his own company.

It's okay for female singers, after all, the audience is different, but male singers are different, except for a few people, such as Zhou Huajian, or the former prodigal son Wang Jie.

Yes, he is famous in the Hong Kong industry for poaching.

After Andy Lau terminated his contract with TVB in 1986, he transferred his record contract to EMI in 1987, and then to Polygram.

Some of the people who came to talk to him were like Yong Sheng, who wanted to make movies with him. Among them, there were many established film production companies like Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers.

He Jin spent the entire banquet talking with people.

Regarding this situation, He Jin naturally declined them politely.

In 1992, the "Tan and Zhang Zhenghe" completely subsided, and the "Five Heavenly Kings" came into being. In order to maximize profits, with a lot of capital and the strong popularity of the five people, the Five Heavenly Kings became the well-deserved leaders of the Hong Kong music scene.

Maybe God was blessing him. By chance, he heard Andy Lau who had released 10 albums in early 1992 and wanted to change his singing style. Although his previous love songs were very popular, he couldn't say he liked them very much.

After the contract ends, will He Jin continue to be with China Star?

There are also He Jin’s English albums.

After reaping the bonus of poaching, I heard that He Jin, the most popular among the five kings at present and recognized by many media as the top of the five kings, had a huge hit in English records and became an international singer.

In this way, Warner Huang's promise made them hit it off immediately.

Among the three, Warner knew that there was not much chance of poaching He Jin.

In just two years since he became the president of Warner Hong Kong Region, he has managed Warner in a spectacular way.

Based on the above, Jacky Cheung and Dawn, the two kings, basically have no chance.

The situation is similar for Dawn. Although she debuted through the Rookie Competition and signed with China Star, China Star has not released even one album for Dawn.

Subsequently, Hua Xing continued their efforts and fully believed in He Jin, using He Jin's own songs to completely establish him on his feet with a Cantonese album "Don't Be Obsessed with Me".

Warner does not have the TV station resources like China Star, and it does not have the powerful radio station resources like PolyGram.

Huang Baigao, the current president of Warner Asia, directly offered He Jin that as long as he switched to Warner, he would not only pay all the liquidated damages for He Jin, but also pay a sky-high signing fee of 50 million.

As a result, three of the five have been eliminated, and only Andy Lau and Aaron Kwok are left.

As for Warner's rise so quickly, apart from the fact that this year Warner Corporation acquired UFO, one of Taiwan's two leading record companies, another reason is that it relies on Huang Paigao's extremely hard iron hoe.

He quickly decided to move to Warner Bros. and released the album "My True Style" in the same year. The song "My True Style" of the same name is Andy Lau's true voice.

This means that newcomers from either the Rookie Singing Contest or the Amateur Singer Contest will not be able to enter Warner, and at the same time, Warner's ability to create stars will be less.

Somehow these guys knew that He Jin signed a cooperation contract with PolyGram.

When Huang Baigao heard about this opportunity, he immediately approached Andy Lau and promised to give him enough freedom.

Therefore, he refused to renew his contract with Huaxing and planned to find another company.

As a rookie singing competition champion, he attracted the attention of Huaxing as soon as he debuted. Within three months, they invested money to help He Jin release the album "Young Boy He Jin", which made him famous in the first place.

The twin heroes of China Star existed in name only, and He Jin and Aaron Kwok began to go their separate ways.

Later, in 1990, Liming turned to PolyGram. Zheng Donghan accurately realized that he should take the soulful route to sing songs for Liming. In the same year, he released the album "Leon" with the same English name as the English title. Among them, "Meet in the Rain",

Songs such as "Anonymous Romance" have also become Lai Lai's classic songs, and Lai Lai's music career has begun to flourish.

This record sold a million and nearly two million, making He Jin go from a little unknown singer to a top-notch singer.

Then, there are others who are from record companies such as Warner and EMI.

From being unavailable, to two of the Five Kings landing at Warner, Warner's record sales immediately increased significantly in 1993, creating huge profits for the company.

Then, there are three more from the five.

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Once the Five Heavenly Kings are established, the Three Musketeers and the Two Heroes of Hua Xing will naturally become a thing of the past.

Affected by this combination, Aaron Kwok's popularity also rose rapidly.

It is not an exaggeration to say that He Jin is Hua Xing's biological son.

Huang Baigao was unhappy when he saw this result, because among the five people, Jacky Cheung and Ming Lai belonged to PolyGram, while He Jin and Aaron Kwok belonged to China Star Records.

Boss Xiang looked at the other people waiting to come forward and smiled.

During that period, the names of Hua Xing Shuangjie and PolyGram Three Musketeers were simply at odds with each other. It was a showdown between strong men that attracted much attention.

Originally, even if he was close, it would be nothing, but the outside media stuck to this issue and kept saying that he was not worthy of being among the five kings.

So, with the help of this banquet, he took the initiative to contact He Jin and wanted to find out what he said.

Their thoughts were the same as Yong Sheng's, they all wanted to make money with He Jinhong by making a movie with him.

However, this situation did not last long.

Anyone else who bumps into the Five Heavenly Kings will basically be pressed to the ground and rubbed.

Therefore, Huang Baigao knew that the chances of digging him were very slim.

Everyone knows that He Jin is a singer that Hua Xing truly trained himself.

From Jacky Cheung's point of view, the tragic record sales in 1988 should have been abandoned, but Zheng Donghan still chose to support him and released "Give Me Honey" for him in 1989.

He immediately thought about it. The contract He Jin signed with Huaxing was a three-year contract, and now more than two years have passed.

However, with the attitude of giving it a try, he offered He Jin generous transfer conditions, but unfortunately, there was no surprise in the end.

After seeing the success of He Jin's records in Europe and the United States, everyone wanted to recruit He Jin to their label.

After hearing the news, Huang Baigao almost burst into laughter. He immediately found Xiaomei, a Hong Kong lyricist who was close to Aaron Kwok, and asked her to be an intermediary, signing Aaron Kwok to his company in one fell swoop.

Among the five kings, Jacky Cheung and Leon Lai should be absolutely loyal to PolyGram.

But compared with other kings, his performance is a little worse.

To be honest, this kind of poaching at other people's celebration banquet is really unethical.

But Huang Baigao wouldn't think so much.

What if we could dig deeper?

Guaguai, Asia's first international star, brings profits that are simply unimaginable by ordinary people.

(End of chapter)