Chapter 464 Hong Kong Coliseum Rock Power Concert

At 7:30 p.m. on December 17, 1994, the 1994 Hong Kong Coliseum Rock Chinese Music Power Concert officially kicked off.

This time started half an hour earlier than the performance time in the previous life.

This is naturally because there are more songs in this concert than in the previous one.

The concert in my previous life lasted an hour and a half and featured sixteen songs, but two songs, "The Internationale" and "The Sun," were later removed when the CD was produced.

This concert is expected to last two and a half hours and feature twenty-two songs, including two songs performed by the B An Band as guest artists.

The opening time will naturally be earlier.

Tickets are divided into four tiers: 60, 120, 200, and 260.

The operation of the Hong Kong Coliseum concert has its own unique characteristics, because all singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan who hold concerts here must go through a man named Cheung Yiu-wing, who is known as the father of Hong Kong concerts.

He has excellent working relationships with big-name singers at record companies. It is said that if a young artist in Hong Kong can gain the appreciation of Zhang Yaorong, he is not far from becoming a big star.

If he takes a liking to a singer, he will first pay a substantial deposit to secure a concert contract.

If the singer becomes famous, the right to host the concert will belong to him; even if the concert doesn't happen, the singer can still receive a fee for free.

Those big-name singers don't get a share of the ticket revenue from their concerts; they get paid for the performances.

The highest-paid singer right now is Paula Tsui, whose fee is HK$1.4 million per show. She is also the female singer who has held the most concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum, reaching 134 shows.

To put it simply, Zhang Yaorong is the owner of the Hong Kong Coliseum. He hires singers who can make money by paying them a fixed fee per performance. He keeps all the ticket sales and other revenue from the concerts.

He did the same for singers in Xianggang and even Green Island.

However, this rock concert featuring Chinese music was not in that format.

Zhang Yaorong couldn't figure out exactly how much box office value these mainlanders could generate.

Although Blue Shark and Black Panther are currently very popular, rock music is not actually popular in Hong Kong, and he is unsure how many followers mainland Mandarin songs will have in Hong Kong.

He dared not risk organizing the concert according to the original rules for Hong Kong artists, so he adopted the method of collecting venue rental fees. He honestly collected only a few hundred thousand dollars in venue rental fees and did not participate in anything else.

He doesn't participate in either profits or losses.

The organizer of this concert has always been Jinmeng Company.

Jin Hao was also a little nervous about this concert, as he had invested over a million yuan in venue rental and advertising.

It will be quite difficult to recoup that money through ticket sales and broadcasts.

However, the moment the tickets went on sale, the weight that had been hanging over his throat was finally lifted.

All 12,500 tickets were sold out, generating two million in box office revenue.

Jin Meng never dreamed that this would happen.

This is just the revenue from ticket sales; the TV broadcast will bring in hundreds of thousands more in revenue sharing.

The recording of this concert is also a potential source of income.

These videos can be processed into albums and sold, which could produce two albums.

If this property, along with those from the Chinese communities in the three regions and Southeast Asia, were sold for another million or two, we would make a huge profit.

Seeing how well the concert tickets were selling, Zhang Yaorong secretly regretted that Jin Hao, that old devil, had made all the money.

He could probably settle these bands from the mainland with five or six hundred thousand yuan. He could earn over a million yuan per show. If he did ten or eight shows in a row, he could make tens of millions.

Zhang Yaorong immediately went to check the schedule at the Hong Kong Coliseum.

December to the Lunar New Year is the busiest time for the Hong Kong Coliseum, with Christmas and New Year's Day, plus various award ceremonies. The schedule during this period is very tight. After searching for a long time, Zhang Yaorong found that there were no slots available before the Lunar New Year, so the plan to have these mainland bands perform additional shows had to be canceled.

He told himself to do it early next year.

Liang Liang was also a little surprised by the large number of spectators that had flooded into the Hong Kong Coliseum.

He wouldn't find these people strange at all if they were in mainland China, given the current atmosphere there.

However, people in Hong Kong are not particularly fond of rock music; otherwise, the B An band in the previous life would not have been forced to develop in Japan.

They were surprised that so many people from Hong Kong came to watch their performance.

Whether these Hong Kong people come in to hurl insults or applaud, you still have to pay money; you definitely can't get in without paying.

That's fine.

It's certain that quite a few Hong Kong people who went to the Hung Hom Coliseum tonight were there with ill intentions.

This can be seen from the boos that filled the air before the show even started.

The boos never stopped.

Don't these people feel the pain in their mouths?

Even if the boos are as fierce as a storm, the concert will still take place on time.

The performance officially began at 7:30.

Liang Liang tried her best to recreate the scene of this concert from her previous life, and still played a short video of one or two minutes before the performance.

The band members who were performing said a few words that sounded philosophical, but they were actually just nonsense.

After the short film finished, Douwei, with his long hair flowing down his back, stood in the center of the stage, with the other members of the Black Panther band standing on either side, and the drummer on the highest platform at the back.

The first song performed by the Black Panther Band was "Light of Hope".

When the intro started, the audience was still booing loudly, but when Douwei opened his mouth and sang the first line: "The sun burns away this sorrow, bringing the light of hope to the world," the boos from the audience were like a bucket of cold water being poured over their heads, and the ferocity immediately decreased by several levels.

When the first four lines were finished and the song entered its next part, a commotion began to break out in the Hong Kong Coliseum, and the boos had diminished to a negligible level.

With its hard-hitting style and catchy melody, this song easily captures attention.

People's attention began to shift from other things to the music, and they were quickly drawn to the songs themselves.

This song is very long, more than six minutes long.

When the final notes ended, the boos had completely disappeared, and after a few seconds of silence, applause poured in like a torrential downpour.

Today's concert was a star-studded event, with not only numerous artists from the Hong Kong entertainment industry but also a considerable number of people from the community.

Chen Min brought more than a dozen of his men to support Liang Liang.

He was worried that Liang Liang would get beaten up, so he came to keep Liang Liang in check.

When the opening song elicited a thunderous applause, Chen Min felt relieved.

The song "Light of Hope" clearly captivated the audience and was a resounding success.

The Black Panther band paused briefly before the intro to their second song began.