Yang Chaoyue

Yang Chaoyue
Background information
Chinese name 杨超越
Pinyin Yáng chāoyuè (Mandarin)
Born Yang Chaoyue
(1998-07-31) July 31, 1998
Dafeng District, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China
Other names 村花(Village flower)[1], 花(flower), 超超越越(ccyy)
Ethnicity Bai
Occupation
Years active 2017–present
Nationality Chinese
Genre(s)
Label(s) WAJIJIWA Entertainment
Manager(s) Tencent Penguin Picture
Associated acts

Yang Chaoyue (Chinese: 杨超越, born July 31, 1998), is a Chinese teen idol member signed under Wenlan Culture. After finishing third in Tencent's girl group survival show Produce 101, [2] she debuted as a member of Rocket Girls 101.

Early life

Yang Chaoyue was born on July 31 1998, in a village located in Dafeng District, Yancheng, China. Yang Chaoyue's parents divorced when she was 12. Instead of going to high school, she decided to help support her family and left home to work. Before becoming an idol, she had worked as a waitress and a garment worker.[3][4]

Career

2016-2017: Girl group contest and CH2

In 2016, the eSports game Battle of Balls hosted a girl group contest offering a 2000 RMB salary with accommodation and meals. Yang was voted as the most popular contestant during the contest, and began her idol trainee career along with 10 other contestants.[5][6] In 2017, 8 of the trainees formed the girl group CH2.[6][7] Due to Wenlan Culture's gaming background, and the lack of a dedicated performance theater, Chaoyue did not receive proper training; instead her jobs were mostly involved in promoting video games at various events. [8][9]

2018: Produce 101 and Rocket Girls 101

In April, Yang Chaoyue and three of her CH2 teammates were chosen to represent Wenlan Culture on reality girl group survival show Produce 101 aired from April 21 to June 23, 2018 on Tencent Video. She ranked third with over 139 million votes and debuted as a member of Rocket Girls 101 on June 23.[10][11] In September she released her first solo song, a promotional single, titled Follow Me.

Discography

Promotional singles

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
CHN
Billboard
 QQ
"跟着我一起 (Follow Me)" 2018 TBA17[12] 京都念慈菴 Theme Song
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.

Filmography

Reality Shows

Year Title Network Notes
2018 Produce 101 Tencent Video Contestant
3rd place
2018 – Rocket Girls 101 Research Institute N/A
2018 送一百位女孩回家 Season 2 Sohu Video Guest
Episode 2

Variety Shows

Year Title Network Notes
2018 The coming one Season 2 Tencent Video Guest
Episode 8
Heart Signal Panelist
Lipstick Prince Guest
Episode 2

Controversy

During the evaluation stage, despite her poor performance, Show Lo commented that Yang Chaoyue has a feel which naturally will appeal the viewers and Tao wanted to give her a spot in A class. However, following Ella Chen's suggestion, Chaoyue ended up being assigned into C class. When the first episode was aired, Chaoyue soon gained a huge popularity and was voted into A class. This resulted in a huge debate and put her on multiple Weibo trending topics.[4][9][13][14][15] Finally, hateful comments emerged all around Weibo to trash both her stage performances and personality and turned into a wide spread of cyberbullying.[16] After finishing third in the final episode, Chaoyue was once again the most-searched topic on Weibo and was a trending keyword on Baidu, China's largest search engine.

A few netizens even anonymously reported Chaoyue to the Ministry of Culture, claiming that she does not have any singing or dancing talent and that by allowing her to debut in Rocket Girls 101, it "violates the Core Socialist Values".[1] Wang Sicong, son of tycoon Wang Jianlin, also made disrespectful comments about Chaoyue and inevitably made her a trending topic once again.[9][17][15]

References

  1. 1 2 "standards for chinese pop idols beauty or competence". The World of Chinese. 10 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "WJSN's Meiqi And Xuanyi Announced As Final Members Of Chinese "Produce 101" Group". Retrieved 2018-06-24.
  3. ↑ "深入走访杨超越的家乡和学校！跟乡亲们聊聊全村的希望". 新浪娱乐. 2018-06-08.
  4. 1 2 "After "China's Beyoncé," Reality Show "Produce 101" Creates Another Controversial Star". RADII China. Jun 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ "2016球球宝贝总决赛圆满落幕". 切游网. 2016-11-27.
  6. 1 2 "CH2高校偶像女团诞生 互动养成由你参与". 新浪电竞.
  7. ↑ "CH2高校偶像女团介绍". CH2官方网站. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
  8. ↑ "中国女团爆发前传：一部"虚假繁荣"史". 新浪财经. 2018-06-11.
  9. 1 2 3 "Chinese Netizens Divided Over Singing Cinderella". Sixth Tone. Jun 15, 2018.
  10. ↑ "The final lineup of China's 'Produce 101' has been revealed". Kmusic. June 24, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Produce 101 China winners debut as Rocket Girls". Dramapanda. June 23, 2018.
  12. ↑ "QQ Music's Chart 9.20 - 26" (in Chinese).
  13. ↑ "支持101女孩的明星：杨超越只有颖儿支持，而王菊就不同了". 腾讯网. 2018-06-10.
  14. ↑ "创造101评级连连看 第1期评级表演Ⅱ". 腾讯视频 (in Chinese). 2018-04-22.
  15. 1 2 "Singing competition contestant under fire for 'poor performance'". Sino-US. 2018-06-13.
  16. ↑ "The Meaning of Idols". Pandaily. 16 July 2018.
  17. ↑ "Beijing News: how Yang Chaoyue and Wang Ju are pushed to the two extremes of Popular Aesthetics". waonews. 2018-06-25.
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