May 23, 2012: 523, a special date for Laure Shang fans to shout out loud they love her. Let’s share this fans made MV titled “I love you more than my imagination”.
523, A Special Date for All Laure Shang Fans
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Laure Shang Recorded Cantonese Songs for Her Next Album
May21, 2012: HK Entertainment News reported that Laure Shang recorded Cantonese songs for her next album with a title of “Shang Wenjie: Gaga is a derogatory term”. Laure Shang mentioned that the new album will be 100% her original composed
“A la Claire Fontaine” No.24 Ablum in World Music of Itunes
May 19, 2012: According to the twitter just posted by @Itunes Best Music, Laure Shang’s “A la Claire Fontaine” is the No.24 Album in world music charts.
Laure Shang Covers Classic Oscar Movies’ Theme Songs
May 17, 2012: The Third China International New Media Shorts Festival “JinPeng Prize” award ceremony was held tonight at ShenZhen, China. Laure Shang performed in Chinese, English and French to cover four classic Oscar movies’ theme songs titled “I will alway love you”, “My heart will go on”, “月光爱人” and “Carmen”.
“La Muse de la Nuit” is No.6 at 85th Finals of World Song Contest
At www.world-song-contest.com, I am surprised to find that Laure Shang’s “La Muse de la Nuit” is at the No.5 of the semi-finals of their world song contest with a 85 pts score. I have no idea what this contest is about and I am pretty sure that nobody in China knows about it.
UPDATE：It seems that Laure Shang’s final rank is No.6 which is the best a Chinese singer ever achieved in this series contest that already reaches 86th by now.
When Will Laure Shang Appear on Charts Again?
Based on www.music-chart.info, Laure Shang’s “A la Claire Fontaine” is her first and only song that made into top 100 music charts with a total number of seven appearances around the world. In the post “Who and Where are Watching Laure Shang’s Youtube Video”, it can be seen that the MV of this song, even with Chinese lyrics, has been viewed over 130,000 times by people in every continent across the world.
Laure Shang’s last two albums “Nightmare” and “In” have lots of songs in English and French lyrics. Even with no global promotion at all from her company, there are still interests to pursuit these songs by people around the world. One indicator is that several file sharing website or torrent seraching websites are consistantly among the front searching results when you type “Laure Shang” in Google. Her most popular track played in Last.fm is “Love Warrior” for the last six months.
All above leads to one conclusion: Laure Shang is ready to make her appearance on the Top 100 music charts again around the world. Only obstacle that prevent this to become a reality is her company’s shortsight and weird business decision-making.
Who and Where are Watching Laure Shang’s Youtube Video?
Checking out the geographic distribution of YouTube hits, we can have a clear picture on who and where are watching Laure Shang’s YouTube video and have a better understanding of her potential to become an international famous singer.
The above MV was uploaded on Dec 24, 2006 by mbeaverk with a title of “A La Claire Fontaine by Shang Wen Jie”. Till today, it has be viewed130,628 times. The geographic distribution of the viewer are shown in this picture:
The darker color indicates more viewer from this place.
This video actually is not a real MV but a song audio with pictures and was uploaded by LaureShang32 on January 5, 2011 with a title of “尚雯婕新歌试听 – 战 – Love Warrior”. It has be viewed 21,576 times till now. The viewer distribution is shown in the following picture:
Laure Shang in Paris on 07/05/12
Laure Shang in Spa on 07/07/12
Laure Shang will attend the “Spa Tribute Festival 2012” as the first Chinese singer to cover the songs of Jacques Brel, accompanied by pianist Jean-François Maljean. Her performance will be at 18:00 pm on 07/07/2012. I am sure she will blow the minds of audience away with her strong vocal and impeccable French.
Week In China Reports Laure Shang as “China’s Lady Gaga”
April 27, 2012: Week In China posted an article of Laure Shang with a title of “China’s Lady Gaga”.