Text: Hong Sixing (music critic, winner of the Hong Kong Art Development Award 2017 Art Rookie Award [Art Critic]. Personal website ) Last month, RTHK Radio 4 announced the results of the 2021 "Top Ten Music News Selection" . From the 21 candidate music news items, ten "Music News with the Most Far-reaching Impact on Hong Kong's Cultural and Academic Development" were selected. , as a good window to review the Hong Kong music scene in 2021. Before discussing this year's "Top Ten Music News", let's talk about the voting mechanism of the "Top Ten Music News". Channel 4 will first invite people from the music and cultural circles to nominate music news, and collect dozens of music news. It will be scored on its academic and news quality, and 20 will be re-selected for the public to vote. If breaking news occurs after 20 pieces of good news are selected,
Channel 4 will consult industry professionals whether they are suitable to be added to the shortlist. That's why there are 21 candidates for music news this year. It is also worth noting that with the cessation of the publication of "Meile Ji", which has been published for more than 30 years, the results of "Top Ten Lectures" are obtained through online voting for the first time in recent years. The Melody Collection advertised the event and asked citizens to mail the enclosed voting form. That being said, it is understood that turnout did not suffer much. And in the past, wedding photo retouching services Channel 4 would receive a large number of voting forms from a single address before the deadline, that is, some nominated art groups mobilized fans to vote, this is no longer the case (of course, there will still be online mobilization). Focusing on this year's "Top Ten Lectures", the top-ranked "Uncle Ray Emeritus" won the vote with a high vote rate of 80.5%, more than 10 percentage points higher than the second-ranked 67.9%, and the first-ranked vote rate in 2020. (66.1%) and 2019’s (72.4%) are both higher, which can be said to be well-received,
which shows the status of Uncle Ray in the hearts of Hong Kong people. However, on the other hand, "Uncle Ray Retirement" represents the loss of an extremely important disc jockey in Hong Kong. In fact, there are many news related to "loss" in the "Top Ten Music News", except for "Uncle Ray Retirement" In addition to "Holiday", "Veteran Music Critic Zhou Fanfu Dies" (No. 2), "Mile Music Collection, which has been published for more than 30 years, ceases publication" (No. 3), and "Tseng Fook Music Industry Closes" (No. 6 ) are all "lost" news, and I have to say that 2021 is indeed a "year of separation". In addition to Uncle Ray, two other seniors were selected for the top ten, namely "Yip Huikang was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star" (No. 5) and "Lu Jingwen was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" of the Hong Kong Arts Development Award" (No. eight). Both of them praised their contributions to Hong Kong music. It is a pity that although the Pan Asia Symphony Orchestra is still very active, Ye Huikang, the music director, has