Rock music is a relatively niche genre of music.

But, in a sense, there has never been a real niche music in this world.

As long as it can be accepted and loved by more people, a small niche can also become a public. And once there is a lack of high-quality products, then even the former public will gradually decline and become a niche.

Just as folk songs once flourished in China, and declined in the present.

In the birthplace of rock music, in the Western world, rock music once had a very strong dominance, whether in the time and space that Li Qian had experienced, or in the current world, this is the case. The dominance of rock stars and rock albums over the pop music scene is not weaker than pop pop, but even surpasses it.

However, in China, even if rock music flourished to the peak, in the mid-eighties, a group of rock forces represented by the Flying Band were also a pivotal force in the domestic music scene, but due to the social atmosphere at that time, as well as the degree of social development in China at that time, the vast majority of the people did not accept such things as rock music very strongly, so even if it was as popular as the Flying Band, although it had a very high status in the circle, it was simply the godfather level, but in terms of the entire pop music scene, rock music still failed to reach the peak of the Western world。

Although the Flying Band is popular, it still occupies the absolute mainstream of the entire music scene, such as folk songs, folk songs, sweet songs, POP, etc., rock music, and has never reached the center of the entire pop music scene.

However, that doesn't mean rock music doesn't have the power to rule the music scene.

It's just that to get to that point, you need the right time, the right place, and the right people.

With the overall rise of the economy, the current domestic economy is a new level every year, it is the country with the fastest economic development in the world, the industrialization and urbanization of the whole country are becoming more and more prominent, with the increase of income, the advancement of urbanization, the material conditions are of course becoming more and more convenient, but all kinds of social problems are also born - all this, just like the situation when rock music was born in the Western world.

Speaking of geographical advantages, in recent years, it has been a period of explosion in the sales of the domestic music record market, and the entire record industry is thriving, so the overall capacity of the domestic record market has reached a certain extent. The growth of the market not only means that the commercialization of the entire market has reached a certain level, but also means that the taste of the market will inevitably begin to differentiate, and various niche music categories will begin to have a preliminary survival soil.

In fact, if you really want to analyze it seriously, you will find that the current domestic music scene is really a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought are contending, although the market is already very large, but with the gradual decline of the older generation of superstars such as Liu Mingliang and Zhen Zhen, there is no real top superstar in the domestic music scene anymore.

If there is, Liao Liao can barely be regarded as one.

But for such a large domestic market, only one top superstar is obviously not enough.

The market is still very large, and there are still top superstar seats, just to see who is enough to sit on it.

Let's talk about people and ...... The older generation, such as the Flying Band, has already grown into the backbone of the society, which certainly means that the status of the Flying Band in China will become more and more lofty, but from another point of view, that is, the mainstream force of the whole society has an acceptance of rock music. is even a welcome attitude, the four beauty bands successfully appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, not only appeared in the finale, but also got eleven minutes of performance time at once, and they did brush the highest ratings in thirteen years in one fell swoop, which proves all this.

And, of course, young people, young people, have always been a natural audience for rock music.

So, quietly, as time passed, as that generation grew up and took over the power of the whole society, before you knew it, rock 'n' roll had in fact the largest potential market he could have!

Therefore, the right time, place and people are available.

Then, the four major beauty bands were stuck at this time, and they appeared on the most influential stage in the entire Chinese-speaking region, and came up with two works that naturally have a larger audience and can even win many original non-audience groups for pop music - "Once You" and "Fly Higher".

As a folk rock song, for fans in the Chinese music industry, works like "Once You" have a natural sense of intimacy from the bloodline.

And as a pop rock song, the theme is so positive, there is no doubt that the audience of "Fly Higher" is even far greater than that of "Once Upon a Time"!

So, when the performance ended, to a certain extent, rock music not only ascended to the hall of elegance, but also, for the first time in history, rock music, and the four major beauty bands stood in the center of the Chinese music circle for the first time!

The four beauty bands are on fire!

"Once You" and "Fly Higher" are on fire!

Of course, the four major beauty bands were also very popular, and the album "Fake Monk" was hailed as one of the most successful rock albums in China, and before the Flying Band decided to make a comeback, they were the representatives of the entire domestic rock force. However, the kind of fire at that time and the fire now are not the same concept at all.

The former has a considerable status and appeal in the music world, in the music circle, and in the hearts of the majority of fans, especially rock fans, while the latter has begun to become a cultural symbol in the entire China and the entire domestic society -- when it comes to the pop music scene, the four major beauty bands must be mentioned! In China, they have even reached the historical level of almost no one knows!

This is a huge glory that superstars such as the Flying Band, Liu Mingliang, Zhen Zhen, and even Liao Liao have never really achieved in the past!

If you have to give an example, the four beauty bands before and after the Spring Festival Gala are probably like Dong Chou in the time and space that Li Qian once experienced.

Initially, he was a potential newcomer in the music circle, and later he became popular, but he was still just a superstar, but until he went from "East Wind Breaking", "My Territory", and then to "Hair Like Snow", "Chrysanthemum Terrace", "Thousands of Miles Away", "Blue and White Porcelain", after several years of continuous expansion of several albums, he finally became Dong Chou, and became the person who will inevitably mention Chinese music, and even achieved that almost everyone knows it.

Of course, unlike Jay Chou, although they have come to this point, the Flying Band and Li Qian have actually experienced the accumulation of the previous years, but they have completed this step of leapfrogging and achieving qualitative change, but they are much faster than Jay Chou in another time and space, Jay Chou took several years, while the Four Beauties Band only took eleven minutes!

The Spring Festival Gala is over.

That night, I don't know how many people talked about "those two beautiful songs", or learned about rock and roll from friends, and learned about the four beautiful bands.

The next day is the first day of the Lunar New Year, the theme of the whole country on this day, of course, is New Year's greetings, but on this day's coffee table and sofa area, on this day's dinner table, everyone sits together, in addition to exchanging each other's situation in the past year, last night's Spring Festival party, "those two very good songs", and the names of the four major beauty bands, as well as the names of Li Qian, Liao Liao and others, have also become a hot topic in thousands of households and almost the entire domestic after-dinner session.

It is said that the rebroadcast of the Spring Festival Gala in the morning and afternoon of the same day still reached an astonishing rating of 62 during the time period when the four beauty bands appeared!

In fact, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, countless people have gone to their most frequented video stores or bookstores to ask when the legendary album will arrive.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Dongguan Bookstore's branches across the country collectively started the official opening of the new year, and on the same day, their stores in large and medium-sized cities across the country received a total of up to 130,000 orders for "Once You", and on the third day of the Lunar New Year, the total number of orders booked was even as high as 190,000 - Even if there are some of these early orders, they will not be fulfilled because customers have the right to cancel orders at any time, but even according to the ratio between normal bookings and actual sales figures, it is likely to mean that "Once Upon a Time" will get more than 100,000 copies sold in a single week in the first week of its release!

Since there have been sales statistics in the domestic record market, and since Dongguan Bookstore has record record of record sales data, this record is unprecedented.

In fact, when the influence of a singer, a band and an album has spread to the extent that the four major beauty bands are currently in place, then as a book and audio-visual sales network that only stands in medium and large cities, Dongguan Bookstore can occupy a market share, and its sales data will be far lower than the 20 times law commonly used in the industry.

Of course, no one knows exactly how much.

During the Chinese New Year, the other departments of Minghu Culture Company had a normal holiday and rest, but the publicity and distribution departments did not even have a day off, and all of them devoted themselves to intense work.

Through this increasingly mature network, truckloads of CDs and tapes departed from Shuncheonfu and Songjiang respectively, and arrived all over the country according to the predetermined number of dealers before 8 o'clock in the evening on the third day of the new year, and then they were spun off and sent to the next level of dealers.

Of course, this is only the first batch.

Because the service industry has always been not resting much on holidays, and the top day is a one-day or two-day holiday, therefore, the audio-visual stores and bookstores that opened one after another in the second and third years of junior high school, after receiving a large number of album bookings from regular customers, urgently asked for goods from superior dealers, so the sales figures estimated by dealers at all levels in advance were suddenly greatly pulled up a big step.

One after another calls for additional orders were directly called to the distribution department of Minghu Culture Company, and then, the first batch of trucks has not yet returned, and the second batch has been urgently on the road!

It is conceivable that during this annual leave, the transportation companies that have cooperated with Minghu Culture and the subordinate distribution companies of Minghu Culture are also very busy.

Of course, all this current prosperity is still only in the reservation, and no one dares to make a conclusion about the actual sales situation, but even so, the person in charge of the company still called Qi Jie several times to report the good news.

At half past nine in the evening on the third day of the Lunar New Year, Qi Jie urgently returned to Shuntian Mansion and hastily ended his second vacation in the past two or three years.

At the same time, after Li Qian stayed in Shuntian Mansion for two days, on the morning of the same day, he had already driven to the northeast with Liao Liao - Liao Liao said with a smile, maybe from now on, he really had to say goodbye to travel and ride.

Because in the past two days or so, all the media they can come into contact with, newspapers, TV stations, and radio stations, almost every moment, there are people talking about rock music, discussing the four beauty bands, discussing "Once You", discussing "Flying Higher", discussing Li Qian and Liao Liao.

Photos of the five members of the band frequently appear on every screen and paper that will be seen, and the poster of the album "Once Upon a Time", the five expressionless people standing in the snow with their shoulders crossed on the poster, have been almost put under a magnifying glass, and have been scrutinized and looked at by hundreds of millions of people across the country.

And the past of the five people, whether it is gray or glorious, those resumes have been turned out again by all the media, hosts, music critics and so-called experts, as well as those singers and actors who have to talk to the host about the four beauty bands and Li Qian after being dominated by the noise, repeatedly discussing everything related to the four beauty bands, everything related to Li Qian, and everything related to those two songs.

Before the New Year passed, the singers and musicians of Minghu Culture, who were originally on vacation, suddenly received many interview calls - Rose Power and He Runqing, Zhou Yan and others, needless to say, even Zhou Ye, because of his good relationship with Liao Liao, has received invitations from several TV stations and radio programs, hoping that he can go over to be a guest, record a program, talk about himself, and of course, talk about the Li Qian, the Liao Liao, and the four beauty bands he knows.

Even He Wei, the deputy director of music at Minghu Culture Company, whose identity cannot be disclosed at the moment, received an invitation from the magazine, hoping that he could be interviewed to talk about his resignation from Sony Records to now becoming a freelance creator, and also talk about his evaluation of Li Qian and the four beauty bands.

Of course, the focus of the key must be the members of the Big Four Beauty Band.

Cao Zhan, Yu Bojun, and Wang Huaiyu have already begun to become influential figures in the music circle and famous among fans with the release and popularity of the first album "Fake Monk" of the Four Beauty Bands, and now, their popularity has suddenly reached a higher level with the popularity of the two songs of the Spring Festival Gala and the almost pervasive reports of the media.

Invitations for exclusive interviews from radio, television, newspapers, and magazines poured in like snowflakes.

As for Li Qian and Liao Liao, who were already on the cusp of the entertainment industry...... It is conceivable that Cao Zhan, Yu Bojun and Wang Huaiyu are already like this, and Li Qian and Liao Liao, who are more brilliant than them, and whose popularity and influence are obviously more than one level higher, are needless to say.

Of course, Zhou Ye's album is still selling, and he is currently in the rising period of his personal singer career, after jumping ship to Minghu Culture after the year, the new album will also be launched quickly, and Rose Power is also a new force in the music world, so they can still consider going to the interview requirements with the right amount and the right direction, but others, including Cao Zhan, Yu Bojun, Wang Huaiyu, Zhou Yan, Liao Liao, He Runqing, Li Qian, etc., most of them declined- Similar to Li Qian, most of the friends around Li Qian are relatively low-key and don't like frequent exposure in the media.

Among them, it is estimated that Wang Huaiyu will benefit the most.

A year ago, because of the production of a new album, so Wang Huaiyu's personal recital that had been determined was postponed, and it is said that the leaders were quite dissatisfied, but now, with the broadcast of the party, although the unit is still in a state of performance but not working, but the influx of interview invitations still surprised his national orchestra, so the leader quickly took the initiative to call him, and it was rare to put forward that he hoped that Wang Huaiyu would prepare and arrange the time, which had been postponed indefinitely by the leaders. The solo recital, which was almost cancelled, was tried to be scheduled as much as possible in the spring.

And all of this, just because of the eleven minutes at the Spring Festival Gala, just because of those two songs, suddenly began to become very different from before - if in the past days, Li Qian and the four beauty bands, as well as these friends around them, were also very famous, but they could still arrange their lives like a trickle, then now, whether they want to or not, everything in front of them has been like a torrent of waves, surging in.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, February 9, Tuesday, in the afternoon, the album "Once You" finally arrived in advance amid thousands of calls.

Although the official sales date is tomorrow's fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the album has been put on the shelves of countless video stores, bookstores, and convenience stores across the country as soon as it arrives.

Then, of course, almost all the speakers and speakers in almost every related store in the country began to sound the familiar rhythm that countless fans had been thinking about, and the voice that had become more and more familiar to more and more people - "I once dreamed of going to the end of the world with a sword and seeing the prosperity of the world." ”

And the promotional poster sent with the album was also posted in the most conspicuous publicity position for the first time.

In addition, there are many handmade small blackboard billboards, LED electronic propaganda screens at the door, and large propaganda paper, all of which have been written on a sentence -

"Once You" has arrived!

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Ask for a few monthly passes, and strive for another chapter in the evening!(To be continued.) )