"Fake Monk" is about to be released.

Qi Jie, who had already finished her vacation before the Golden Melody Awards ceremony and rushed back from Jinan Mansion to sit in the town, was confident and nervous, but also a little regretful and helpless - she, as well as all the people in the company who had listened to the album "Fake Monk", almost all gave a very high evaluation to this album!

In fact, even if there is no unanimous praise from everyone, just because nine of the songs on this album are from Li Qian's lyrics, and Li Qian himself is the lead singer, it is enough to give Qi Jie extremely strong confidence.

However, when the album is really going to be released, she will still be nervous.

Because almost every insider, when mentioning the four beauty bands, will always subconsciously sigh, saying that they, and their works, should have appeared more than ten years ago, should have appeared in the heyday of rock bands.

If that's the case, the Four Beauties will be a rock band that can compete with the Flying Band, and "Fake Monk" may not be able to challenge Dugu's "Driving the Pig West".

But now......

When these four words are spoken, many people will sigh and then stop talking.

But their subtext, Qi Jie knows. She has been in the industry for more than two years, and her starting point has been very high from the beginning, and these people around her, from Li Qian, to Liao Liao and He Runqing, are the most top-notch figures in the music circle, so she knows what the sentence that everyone didn't say was.

But now...... Rock 'n' roll is no longer good.

Or rather, there is no market anymore.

The current music scene is already the era of love songs. It's the time of fast songs.

So. Qi Jie was full of confidence on the side. On the other hand, I couldn't help but be nervous.

She has confidence in Li Qian, but she knows the power of the market, so she is afraid that this album, which must be extremely good, will be given a cold reception by the market.

She hopes more than anyone else that Li Qian can continue to be stronger, and she is more afraid than anyone else that Li Qian will fail in music, even if it is only once-because in her heart, Li Qian must not fail!

So. Although she herself knows that things are over and it is useless to think about it, when she is alone, she can't help but wonder: what if this album had been released last November?

Probably...... No, not probably.

With "No Place to Shame" and "Nothing", when this album first came out, it was sure to trigger a wave of rock frenzy in China - and now, what is available on the market is only piracy. Although it seems to be very hot and popular, if everyone just likes these two songs. And didn't you fall in love with Li Qian's rock?

People's mood is contagious.

As the general manager of the company. Qi Jie's face was tight, and the whole company became nervous.

At this time, only Li Qian and Liao Liao can really be inappropriate, right?

The two of them can still help He Runqing make a new album with great interest...... Let Qi Jie feel helpless when she thinks about it.

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In the domestic music scene, as long as rock music is mentioned, the name of the Flying Band has to be mentioned.

Because they were not only the most influential and accomplished rock band in the heyday of domestic rock music, they were even regarded as the representatives and banners of that era by many fans, and even in the world, they were also considered to be the representatives of Chinese rock music and enjoyed a high reputation.

If you only talk about the status of the rivers and lakes, in today's domestic music scene, Liu Mingliang, the king of the generation of male singers, and the eldest sister Zhen Zhen, who has always been regarded as a banner figure among female singers, are all juniors in front of him, and they have always regarded themselves as fans of the Flying Band in all public occasions, which shows their respect for the Flying Band.

Moreover, putting aside all the pioneering, historical achievements, and status of the rivers and lakes, just talking about sales and market appeal, in the past 20 years of development history in the domestic music scene, the Flying Band is also the absolute leader!

They were the first to win six platinums in the history of domestic record sales, and this record was once held by them alone for eight years, until eight years later, it was overtaken by Liu Mingliang and Liu Tianwang - it was equaled, not surpassed!

Of course, when the music industry came to the mid-90s, with the development of the economy, with the outbreak of the entire record market as a whole, new album sales records were constantly created, and the six-platinum record held by Liu Mingliang and the Flying Band was quickly broken, and now, the sales of six-platinum have even dropped out of the top five in the record sales history list.

Liao Liao's three albums have been sold so far, and they have all exceeded the record of six platinums, among which her highest-selling second album "The Sound of the Waves Remains", just counting domestic sales, has exceeded 10 million copies, and the first album "Grateful Heart" after switching to Minghu Culture, although it has been on the market for less than a year, the sales volume has reached an astonishing more than 7 million copies, and it is about to break 8 million, so to speak, in the future, this album will break through the 10 million mark, and it is not a big problem.

In addition, Wuxing Wusu's "Sister and Sister Stand Up" and "The Boy on the Other Side Look Over" have also successfully broken through the 8 million and 7 million mark, and continue to sell, He Runqing's "Dream Chaser" has also broken through 5 million copies so far, at most in the first half of this year, it should be able to successfully break through 6 million copies, and in the long run, it is reasonable for her album to sell 7 million or even 8 million copies.

Therefore, Liao Liao's three super albums, and Wu Xingwusu's two super albums combined, indisputably occupy the top five of the record sales history list, making the six platinum sales record held by Liu Mingliang and the Feixiang Band can only retreat to sixth and seventh places.

And next, not to mention the new album, just the album that has been released on the market, He Runqing's "Dream Chaser" doesn't need to say more, it is no longer a problem to surpass the record of the Flying Band. And last year, Zhao Xinfu's "Dream Man" had no worse momentum than He Runqing's "Dream Chaser", and the sales volume had already broken five million copies even before "Dream Chaser", and it would break six platinum in the future. Not even a year may be enough. More than seven platinum. It's only a matter of time.

Although Li Xinru's famous album "Marry Me" is a little lacking in stamina, and it will hardly sell well after four million, it will not be a problem to break through the five million and six million mark over time.

And Huang Yuqing has accumulated a lot of hair, don't look at it, it seems that it is not as strong as Li Xinru's momentum, but his stamina is more sufficient, and the album has been on the market for nearly a year and a half now. has easily exceeded six million copies, and gradually has the momentum to win the king, and will soon surpass the Flying Band and Liu Mingliang one by one.

In this way, to put it bluntly, the sales of six platinum seem to be becoming less and less valuable.

But if you analyze it a little, you will understand: when the flying band sold to six platinum, how big was the big market for the entire record industry?

You must know that in the heyday of the Flying Band, they were once called the "half of the country" in the domestic music scene! There must be an exaggeration, but it is the so-called peep in the tube. But it can also be seen from this that their six platinum records are very heavy!

It can be said that if you really talk about the weight and the influence on the entire music world, there is only about one Liao Liao, who has contributed a total of more than 27 million copies to the entire domestic record market in more than three years.

As for the rest, even the Five Elements have contributed more than 18 million copies to the record market in the past few years, which is still slightly lower than the 6 million copies sold by the Flying Band.

To put it simply, in the heyday of the Flying Band, almost everyone in China listened to Flying, and there was a feeling of "if you don't listen to the Flying Band as a fan, what kind of fan are you". And red like the five elements, it can't reach this level.

However, how did the popularity of the Flying Band and the absolute status of the Flying Band come about?

First, there is the question of the direction of the whole world.

With the advent of the industrial era, rock and roll, a music that is imprinted with a rebellious spirit in its bones, and this music style full of various ridicules and criticisms of the industrial age, soon swept the whole world.

As the representative and banner of domestic rock music, the Flying Band only followed this trend at that time.

Second, of course, because the Flying Band's rock 'n' roll is good enough.

Like "Driving the Pig West", it can even make domestic rock music enter the world rock music palace! It is a super disc that has been imprinted into the soul of the domestic music scene!

However, the Flying Band is still there, and rock 'n' roll is in rapid decline.

When many people mention rock music, they will say: rock and roll is not dead!

So, is the decline of rock music in China, even to the point that at its worst, when only two rock albums are released in a year, is it because rock and roll is dead?

Apparently not.

Music can never be separated from the soil of life.

The rapid development of the economy can certainly cover up many social contradictions, but the contradictions will always be there, even about money, about morality, about the conflict between industrial society and agricultural society, about freedom, about love...... And so on, these countless topics are even gradually becoming more and more prominent with the rapid development of the economy.

It can be said that the things that rock music can criticize have always been there, and the things that rock music can praise have always been there.

They just lack an eye to spot them, a pen to record it all, and a mouth to scream through everything.

The status of the Flying Band in the domestic music scene is unparalleled, but after a few years of heyday, after a few big albums that are almost unattainable for future generations, they quickly half disappeared.

In years, not a single album came out.

Rock music, too, with the withdrawal of the Flying Band, has waned, and even at a much faster pace than when it rose, it has fallen rapidly.

In the final analysis, it's just because the Flying Band has squandered all their talents to those palace-level albums, and with their popularity, with their fame and fortune, they can no longer write a classic like "Driving a Pig West".

Over the years, countless fans, especially the older generation and those who have experienced the hot era of rock and roll, are almost always looking forward to the comeback of the Flying Band. Almost all the time, I hope that rock music can become popular again. Shout, its shout. Lonely and angry.

However, it turns out that although they have long since exhausted their talents and are in decline, the Flying Band is indeed a group of musical geniuses that no one can achieve in domestic rock music. Before them, domestic rock music was only underground music, and after them, rock music was still forced to return to underground music.

When led by the Flying Band, the group of rock bands of that year fell one after another, more than ten years. The number of people who play rock in China will only increase, not decrease, and there are some who have released albums, but there is not even one that can resonate with the entire market, and even an album that has sold more than two million copies has not been released.

Until the sudden appearance of "Nothing" and "No Place for Shame", it can be said that all fans who came from that era. Almost all of them were refreshed.

How popular are these two songs?

Although because of what is currently sold on the market, it must be all pirated. And it's definitely not a pirated copy from a family, so the sales can't be counted at all, but the ranking of the Voice of China Radio's golden song on demand list can be used as reference data.

Since the two songs appeared at He Runqing's concert in November last year, and soon after, the live video of the concert was broadcast on Shuntianfu TV, and the pirated versions of these two songs began to appear rapidly.

Then, on the gold song on-demand chart, these two songs rushed up almost overnight.

At the beginning, "Nothing" directly landed at the top of the list, and "No Place for Self-Containment" ranked third, but soon, "No Place for Self-Containment" counterattacked, and since then, "No Place for Self-Containment" is the first, "Nothing for Nothing" is second, these two songs have begun to dominate the charts for 12 weeks! Until the current March, it has been nearly four months and 16 weeks have passed, "No Land for Self-Containment" is still ranked third, and "Nothing" is still ranked fifth!

Many people in the industry said that if at that time, even if they casually put together another eight songs and released this album, then, even if there was the impact of piracy, the sales of this album would have gone up to 3 million copies so far!

If that's the case, the Big Four Beauty Band will become the first rock band in China to sell more than 2 million albums in the past 12 years!

As for the sales of pirated copies, just look at the street video stores in China's large and small cities in the past few months, almost every one of them has been playing these two songs, and it is estimated that the sales of the "big collection" related to these two songs must have a sales of seven or eight million, or even tens of millions.

It's just a pity that it seems that the four beauty bands didn't pay much attention to the pirated listing, but just let the pirated copies of those two classics sell like crazy in the market, while slowly making their albums, thus missing the sales surge that will inevitably be brought by those two works.

And now, finally, the album they made slowly is about to be released.

After "Nothing" and "No Place for Shame", can they still come up with works that don't let alone surpass, even if they are of the same level? What kind of start will their new album have?

It can be said that although there is no fanfare, the entire music industry is extremely concerned about this album.

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As soon as possible, the major record companies have already gotten the first listed "Fake Monk".

For the first time, musicians, singers, and music critics in the music circle also got this album one after another.

And the first time, even if you are busy, you will immediately come to your own listening device.

On the morning of March 14, 1998, it can be said that almost the entire domestic music circle of professional musicians had such a freshly baked album in their hands.

On its cover, the five members of the Four Beauties Band are arranged in an inverted "human" arrangement, with Yu Bojun on the left and Wang Huaiyu on the right, Cao Zhan in front of Yu Bojun on the side, Liao Liao in front of Wang Huaiyu, and Li Qian, standing in the middle of them, holding his hands on his chest. Each of them is looking ahead with a blank face - and this photo is black and white.

In the middle of the photo, there is a delicate and neat small block with the words - Fake Monk.

Of course, there is no doubt that the calligraphy is black, of course.

A rock album with a black and white cover, there is nothing wrong with this, even cliché, but that neat brush writing seems a bit against common sense.

Rock music, with the brush word...... It doesn't seem to be a big deal.

Therefore, when opening the plastic packaging outside, many people are subconsciously a little surprised.

Of course, that's not the point, everyone knows that the point is the song inside.

As long as the work is good, no matter what kind of cover, it will be regarded as a classic by fans, and as long as the work is unsatisfactory, no matter how character the cover is, it will be scolded to the head of the dog's blood.

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At Sony Records' headquarters, when the album was bought, Xie Mingyuan rubbed it in his hand for a moment, and then ordered someone to gather the company's producers, singers and management, and open the listening room.

So, Xie Mingyuan, Watanabe Kazuyi, as well as a group of producers and executives, as well as Zhao Xinfu, Zhou Yan, Feng Feifei, and Zou Wenhuai, who happened to be in the company at the time, came to the audition room one after another.

At Hua Records, Huang Dazhong stared at the album for a few minutes with mixed feelings, and then he could only sigh and call everyone to the audition room, ready to listen to this new album with a lot of weight.

At Innovent Records......

Recording ...... in Asia

In Changsheng Records......

Many play buttons were pressed back and forth, and after a moment of silence, a piece of music that was not intense sounded.

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