Singer Pu Shu leads with ten nominations for China awards
BEIJING: Singer-songwriter Pu Shu leads with ten nominations for the second CMIC (China Music Industry Committee) Music Awards.
Among the categories he has been nominated for are Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Male Singer of the Year.
Taiwanese singer A-mei received nine nominations, including Album of the Year for her 2017 album, Story Thief, Female Singer of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Hong Kong pop singer Eason Chan’s album, C’mon in, has been nominated for the Album of the Year, Male Singer of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
New Artist of the Year nominees are hip-hop singer VaVa, folk singer-songwriter Xie Chunhua, pop singersongwriters Zhou Shen and Xu Jun and the band, Kawa, from Yunnan province.
Xu Yi, president of the CMIC Music Awards Committee, disclosed the nominations in 35 categories.
“From the list of the nominations, we can see the music scene of the country in 2017, which has more diversity and more new faces,” said Xu.
In 2017, when Song Ke, the chairman of the China Music Industry Committee, initiated the idea of launching CMIC Music Awards, he hoped to restore the dignity of China’s music industry.
Being a central figure in the development of China’s music industry for more than two decades, Song, the former head of Warner Music China and now the CEO of Ali Music Group, a division of e-commerce giant Alibaba, says that there are many music awards in China which “have celebrities, screaming fans and generous sponsors, but it’s more about entertainment. They have nothing to do with music.
“We want to recognise talented people in the music industry and encourage young musicians. Most importantly, we can finally regain our industry’s dignity, which we have lost,” Song said onstage during last year’s awards ceremony in Beijing.
The jury consists of 101 members of the China Music Industry Committee, all hailing from record labels and distributors. Taiwan veteran songwriter and producer Jonathan Lee has been invited to be the chief consultant.
“Lee helped us by giving a long report on sharing his views about the music industry and his opinions about the standards of each category,” Song said. “We want to let people know why we choose the winners and we will elaborate on the reasons before announcing each winner at the gala.”
The gala awards ceremony will be held in Beijing on July 31, and will be broadcast online by streaming site iQiyi.
We want to recognise talented people in the music industry and encourage young musicians. Most importantly, we can finally regain our industry’s dignity, which we have lost. Song Ke, chairman of the China Music Industry Committee,