By June 28th, the cumulative download counts for "The Girl Next to Me" and "The Brother Above My Bed" had already surpassed 4.7 million and 4.1 million, respectively...
These two songs had also climbed to the second and fifth places on the Amy Music Newcomer Chart, and the tenth and nineteenth places on the Qianxun Music Chart.
The name Li Chencan, as a newcomer singer, lyricist, and composer, ranked fourth on the Qianxun Music Newcomer Popularity Chart!
During this time, "Friends" was released!
If "The Girl Next to Me" and "The Brother Above My Bed" had brought Li Chencan a high level of recognition and made many people deeply moved and even shed tears over the emotions portrayed in the songs, then "Friends" was like a blockbuster bomb. When "Friends" appeared, everyone was stunned by the song.
It was an inspiring song, a song about remembrance and continued struggle, and a song filled with emotion and沧桑 (沧桑 translates to '沧桑' which means 'weathered' or 'aged' in Chinese, but in this context, it can be translated as 'the vicissitudes of life').
On the first day of its release, "Friends" achieved a download count of 50,000. By the third day, on July 1st, the cumulative download count had already surpassed 300,000, ranking first on the Amy Music Weekly New Songs Chart and third on the Qianxun Music Weekly New Songs Chart!
This was Li Chencan's highest achievement to date.
To achieve third place on the Qianxun Music Chart could only be described as mind-blowingly impressive.
When Xiao Zhi and Wu Gang saw this result, they almost couldn't help but open their mouths wide in astonishment at the ranking.
With this guarantee, Li Chencan's chances of participating in "The Voice of China" were greatly increased.
On the evening of June 30th, a famous domestic video website, Tomato, uploaded a video that instantly gained tens of millions of views. Although the view count had some water content, the number of tens of millions was still enormous. By the end of June, it was graduation season, not just for high school students but also for junior high and college students!
In this sentimental season, Li Chencan's three songs seemed tailor-made for this unique time. Each song was like a claw, scratching at the deepest part of everyone's heart. It was a tear-jerker, making everyone's tear ducts tremble involuntarily, regardless of whether they were still in school or what they were doing.
The video featured several college students who were about to part ways.
These were students from the Chinese Department of Zhonghai Jiaotong University... The Chinese Department was inherently a major for those who were sensitive and emotional, and most of the students had become young artists... Now, it was the time of parting, with the gardenia flowers blooming and about to fall, and everyone's future would scatter across the horizon with their different life paths...
In a dormitory of the Chinese Department, there were four male students. All four had found their respective jobs and were about to leave the campus. Thinking about their four years of college life and the beautiful times that would never return, they couldn't help but feel sad. During their last gathering, they got drunk, and one of them specifically went back to the dorm to fetch a guitar.
Then, two of the four played the melody on the guitar, while the other two sang "The Brother Above My Bed" and "Friends"!
"Brother above my bed... silent and quiet you..." At the beginning, the four sang, and the people around them, who were also facing parting, initially felt a bit annoyed, but gradually they gathered around, forming a large circle, and slowly started humming along with the melody. Thinking about the four years that had flown by, a lump formed in their throats, making them almost choke up.
Then, the four started singing "Friends"!
"Friends, we walk together, those days are gone, a word, a lifetime, a life of friendship, a cup of wine, friends have never been lonely, a word of friend, you will understand, there are still wounds, there is still pain, we still have to go, I am still here..."
When the song reached its climax, the group of boys surrounding them, whether they knew each other or not, all put their arms around the shoulders of the people next to them, forming a circle. Those who knew the song sang along, tears streaming down their faces, while those who didn't know the song hummed along. The melody of "Friends" was so classic that after humming a few times, everyone knew it.
"Friends" touched them the most deeply. The four sang and cried, cried and sang, over and over again! The people around them also sang along, over and over again, and the atmosphere reached its peak. The place was filled with college students about to graduate, and this was their last moment together.
Soon, the video was uploaded online. In this time of parting, everyone quickly resonated with the song, shedding tears and trembling all over!
They thought of their friends, the past years, and their persistence!
Many people were moved to tears and immediately searched for the original version of "Friends" on Qianxun.
"Such a beautiful song! So touching!"
"Friends, we walk together, those days are gone, written so well!"
"Sending such a song at graduation, was it arranged by fate?"
"I'm going to listen to the original version!"
Unexpectedly, the original version of "Friends" didn't sound as everyone had imagined. When they heard Li Chencan's original version of "Friends," they found that the song, when sung by Li Chencan, made them feel as if they had fallen into a time trap, as if they were in a world of friends and dreams.
Thus, in everyone's trial listening and formal downloads, the popularity of "Friends" soared! The download count continued to skyrocket!
On July 1st alone, the single-day download count for "Friends" surpassed 200,000, and the cumulative download count had already reached 400,000, catching up to "The Brother Above My Bed"!
Driven by the video, the popularity of "Friends" continued to rise, with the click count and download count growing rapidly. Li Chencan had already climbed to the top three on the Qianxun Music Newcomer Chart!
At this point, the person in charge of "The Voice of China" finally took a serious look at Li Chencan!
PS: Sorry, I had something to do yesterday afternoon and couldn't update... I repent, I repent, I will definitely work hard and write more from now on.