Talent show 'The Coming One' opens its fourth season

The fourth season of the online talent show, The Coming One, where 40 music lovers participate to win the opportunity to form a five-member boy band, premiered on Tencent's video streaming platform on July 11.

The show has set a super band school where all the band members make friends, play music together and tap their musical potentials for around three months.

Pianist Lang Lang, Liang Long, the leading vocalist of the Chinese rock band Second Hand Rose, singer-songwriter Pu Shu, Hong Kong pop singer Gloria Tang Tsz-Kei, Taiwan cellist Ouyang Nana and pop idol Zhou Zhennan have been invited to guide all the candidates.

Pupils aged around 20 who are adept at singing, playing multiple instruments including the guitar, the bass, the drum, the piano, the matouqin -- a traditional horse-headed musical instrument and the dongbula, a traditional musical instrument in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, as well as performing humai, or Mongolian throat singing, gathered to show their talents and be graded by the aforementioned well-established musicians.

"I've been playing music in a band for the past 20 years. Now as a middle-aged musician, I want to know what kind of music is popular in today's market," Liang said. "We want to select a creative band whose musical works and performances could play a leading role in this new age."

The first episode of the show's fourth season has notched up nearly 400 million views, according to box-office tracker Maoyan.