“Continue the story of peace” – The most listened song on platforms this time - Lang Son Newspaper and Radio and Television Station

Musician Nguyen Van Chung. (Photo: Personal FB)

“Continuing the Peace Story” has surpassed 2 billion views (total views on platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, TikTok...) in the days leading up to the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day. The song has a heroic, bright melody, emotional lyrics, touches the heart with patriotism, and is very close to young people.

“Continuing the story of peace” has become one of the most frequently inserted music clips into reels and short clips on platforms such as Tiktok, Facebook, Thread, etc. in recent times. Some clips have reached over 100,000 views.

The strong spread of the song has made "Continuing the story of peace" go beyond the framework of a normal commemorative song, loved and responded to by young people.

The song was also performed at many major art programs on the occasion of the April 30 anniversary. Most recently, at the national celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day, the song was performed by two singers. Dong Hung and Vo Ha Tram performed in the art program opening the parade. The video clips of this performance, which have just been posted on social media platforms, have attracted tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of views.

The virality of “Continue writing the story of peace” has made the song’s “father”, musician Nguyen Van Chung, busier with conversations surrounding this song.

Singer Nguyen Duyen Quynh, the first person to perform "Continue the story of peace".

“Continuing the story of peace” was written by musician Nguyen Van Chung around November 2023. At that time, he and singer Duyen Quynh wanted to produce an album about the homeland to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam People's Army on December 22. However, when creating the album, both musician Nguyen Van Chung and singer Duyen Quynh felt that a theme song was missing that would carry the spirit of the album. And so “Continuing the story of peace” was born.

On April 29, singer Duyen Quynh also officially released the MV "Continuing the story of peace" on the Youtube platform, using historical images and the latest images from the soldiers' training sessions before the war. celebration 50 years of Southern Liberation and National Reunification Day.

Musician Nguyen Van Chung said that he initially wrote this song with a simple version so that people could sing along with a guitar like other group songs. But after reviewing it, he felt that this song needed to be more grandiose, more heroic, to evoke national pride and patriotism. And he decided to remake the song, as the current version.

Nguyen Van Chung is the author of many hit songs about love and youth such as “The Winter is Not Cold”, “The Warm Wind Scarf”, “Mother’s Diary”… He is a versatile composer of many genres, from youth music, love music, to songs about fathers, mothers, children’s songs, songs about love for the Fatherland and country.

He said that he always wants to challenge himself in different topics. He writes music not only from his own emotions, but also from his contemplation of life after many experiences. His musical maturity, according to the musician, is the journey from songs about youth, love to about family, about children, and when he grows up, his feelings are mature enough to write songs about love for his homeland.

Musician Nguyen Van Chung is also very open about copyrights for his songs. He said he will not take copyrights but will let everyone freely use his songs with themes of homeland and country and children's songs.

“For songs about family, homeland and children, I will always spread them and make them available for teachers, students, primary school students and preschoolers to freely use in their environment. You can perform, sing and compete. Teachers can teach their children and stage for them in competitions without having to worry about copyright. Because that is also my passion in wanting to spread the good things in this life” - the musician announced on his personal page.

For composers, having their works loved and famous is a great happiness. But for musician Nguyen Van Chung, this is even greater. As one of the musicians with many hot songs, many of which have become big hits in the music market, but "Continuing the story of peace" is even more than happiness for musician Nguyen Van Chung. Not only happy and proud to see his song become viral, used a lot, combined with images expressing patriotism of many young people, and brought to competitions in many places, musician Nguyen Van Chung also feels satisfied when the audience feels the value of the song, feels the positive life views from his compositions. For him, that is the best thing a musician can do for life.