Perfect Superstar

The China Music Chart, or Music Chart for short, was jointly established by the Chinese Musicians Association and dozens of media such as WeChat Music, NetEase Music, Pop Radio, and so on. With its professional music attitude, strict auditing system and credible data collection, it has become a highly authoritative pop music list in China.

The Music Chart is published every weekend, ranking the top 50 domestic pop songs according to the pop index, which is based on data provided by major music media, including broadcast, download, on-demand, purchase, and other values and converted according to a fixed formula.

Although there is the possibility that the data of websites and media could be artificially manipulated, the huge amount of data and multi-point collection, coupled with the existence of authoritative figures, basically ensure the fairness and justness of the Music Chart.

Therefore, compared with the various lists published by different media, China Music Chart is undoubtedly more recognized by hundreds of millions of audiences, and is regarded as the No.1 of pop music chart.

The Music Chart of the first week of July and last week has not changed much. One of the biggest highlights is the rapid rise of a band named Wandering in the chart, with a total of three songs on the chart at the same time this week!

Wandering Band “Reason to be Strong” / Pop index: 2044, ranked 47th this week!

Wandering Band “I Want to Have A Home” / Pop Index: 3505, ranked 29th this week!

Wandering Band “In Spring” / Pop Index: 5780, ranked 17th this week!

For the majority of fans, the Music Chart is the best basis for searching for songs. Apart from those singer fans, most people do not care about the data ranking itself. They listen to whatever songs are popular.

However, the newly released Music Chart, in the eyes of the people in the circle, can actually show many positive results.

First, the amazing appearance of the Wandering band. As a previously unknown band, not many people have heard of the band, but unexpectedly three of their works had appeared in the Music Chart. This is undoubtedly a sign of great popularity.

In fact, last week Wandering band’s “In Spring” has been on the list and was ranked 43rd. And this week, it jumped to 17th. The momentum of its growth is amazing, but also shows a strong potential.

And the evaluation of the song is very good, with 97.26% of likes.

Those in the industry also noticed a detail that ordinary audience would not pay much attention to. That is, the three top songs of the Wandering band were all written by the same unknown author!

“Reason to be Strong” Lyrics/Song: Lu Chen!

“I Want to Have A Home” Lyrics/Song: Lu Chen!

“In Spring” Lyrics/Song: Lu Chen!!!

Today, when domestic original works is in decline, the sudden emergence of such a talented songwriter made a lot of people in the circle cannot help but have to use their relationship to inquire.

Who is Lu Chen?

As a result, the China Music Chart for the first week of July not only made the Wandering band hot, but also made the name of Lu Chen shine for the first time in the circle he was about to enter.

Unfortunately, Lu Chen himself did not know this yet.

In the afternoon of that day, he arrived at the Blue Sky Creative Park located in Beijing’s Fifth Ring Road.

Blue Sky Creative Park was founded five years ago. It was specially established by the metropolitan government to support innovative and creative small enterprises. Its policy is open and efficient. It is very friendly to young entrepreneurs in Beijing circle, so it has attracted a large number of small enterprises and small companies.

After taking Metro Line 9, getting off at Blue Sky Park Station and coming out the station, Lu Chen can see the main gate of the park.

Wang Changsheng has been waiting for him at the exit.

Lu Chen was a little surprised. He did not expect that the other party would be waiting for him here. It was really a surprise.

Lu Chen met this middle-aged man at the Delong Building at Tianzhai Workshop on June 6. At that time, Lu Chen was impressed by the other party’s solicitation of album production business. He also has his business card.

Lu Chen had never thought of giving his first album to this unknown Nirvana Studio for production. His first collaboration was with Tianzhai Workshop, a well-known workshop in the industry.

Lu Chen has heard the mini-album produced by Tianzhai Workshop for the Wandering band, which was very outstanding.

But the emergence of Juxing Agency’s Jin Hongwei changed his mind.

Jin Hongwei is a director of Tianzhai Workshop. He owns shares in the music production unit and Lu Chen has completely fallen out with the other party. How can he possibly put his album in Tianzhai Workshop?

So, Lu Chen searched out Wang Changsheng’s business card.

Of course, without knowing the other party’s situation and details, it is impossible for Lu Chen to rashly throw away his entire album. And since there was an opportunity right in front of him, he took the initiative to contact Wang Changsheng and came directly over.

The manager of Nirvana Studio should have been waiting at the subway entrance for a long time.

“Hello, Mr. Lu!”

When he saw Lu Chen, Wang Changsheng immediately showed a surprise expression and rushed forward to reach out his hand to him.

“Manager Wang, we meet again.”

Lu Chen smiled and shook hands with him and said, “Sorry for troubling you in picking me up. In fact, I can go by myself.”

Wang Changsheng explained, “The Blue Sky Creative Park is very big. Since this is your first time coming to this place, I was afraid you would not find our place.”

Lu Chen felt relieved and said, “Then let’s go.”

Since it has not been established for a long time, the buildings in the Blue Sky Creative Park were still very new, many of the green trees on both sides of the sidewalk were newly transplanted, and most of the people on the road were young people.

Perhaps because of this, it gave people the feeling that this place is full of vigor and vitality. Even the shops and restaurants along the street are different, the design of the signboard door face is very characteristic.

On the way to the studio, Lu Chen and Wang Changsheng chatted.

Through dialogues and exchanges, he learned that Wang Changsheng used to be a music teacher in middle school and last year, he quit his teaching post and set up this Nirvana Studio with his life savings!

For a 50-year-old middle-aged man, Wang Changsheng’s courage amazed Lu Chen.

One should know, at the age where one knew one’s destiny, not many people are willing to run out to start a business when they have a stable and comfortable job, especially when they take out their old capital.

For Lu Chen’s admiration, Wang Changsheng said with a wry smile, “in fact, I can’t help it, for the sake of my children...”

It turned out that Wang Changsheng had two children. His daughter graduated from the Department of Composition at Beijing Academy of Music two years ago. His son graduated from the Department of Music Engineering at the Northern Academy of Music last year.

Family of Musicians!

Lu Chen couldn’t help but stand in awe.

Zhongyin, Beijing Academy and Northern Academy are the three big Academy of Music in Beijing. They are well-known both at home and abroad, enjoy a high reputation in the international arena, and are loved by thousands of music students. The number of people who apply for the exam every year often reaches more than a hundred thousand. (TN: I’m not sure if Zhongyin is the right translation as it is also translated as tenor or alto or midrange. But it is its annotation.)

But only a few dozen of them can be admitted to the three major academies!

Wang Changsheng’s daughter is a Beijing Academy graduate and his son is a Northern Academy graduate. As a music teacher, he must devote countless efforts to the training of his children.

How can such a person not be respected? He is completely different from that kind of shrewd businessman.

However, Lu Chen can see that Nirvana Studio’s operating condition is not ideal.

Of course, he will not divulge this point, because it is better to be kind.

Nirvana Studio is located on the seventh floor of an office building in the park. The location is not very good. It is estimated that the rent is cheap enough.

After taking the elevator and turning left out of the elevator room, one could see the logo and guide marks of the studio on the wall.

Wang Changsheng was very embarrassed, “Our studio has just been established, so the place is not big.”

A standard music production unit, including the office area, the audio room, the reception room and the most important recording studio, cannot be too small in size, otherwise it will not be able to carry out at all.

From the perspective of scale alone, Nirvana Studio is undoubtedly disappointing.

The cramped office space is adjacent to the narrower reception room, and the limited space feels depressing. There are only two employees inside, and there are no receptionists at the door.

Wang Changsheng invited Lu Chen to sit down on the sofa, personally poured him tea, and explained, “Yesterday, I just received an order. They are all busy in the recording studio. I’ll let Wang Jing talk to you.”

Wang Jing is Wang Changsheng’s daughter and another director of Nirvana Studio.

The work of arranging the songs is done by her.