Chapter 21: White Shirt, Jeans
The domestic music scene in August still belongs to Liao Liao.
The album "The Sound of the Waves Remains" in July, although it set an astonishing sales record one after another, scared many singers to temporarily adjust the date of their new albums, at least two weeks and three weeks, and more than five or six weeks, in short, as much as possible to postpone it later, but only one July, obviously not all of the album "The Sound of the Waves".
August 1 is Monday, and from this day, "The Sound of the Waves Remains" has entered its fifth week of listing.
Then, in the next four weeks, "The Sound of the Waves Remains" successively won 32,551,30,814,28,519,26,586 sales in Dongguan Bookstore, and for eight consecutive weeks, it has always sat firmly at the top of the album sales list of Dongguan Bookstore. Eight weeks after its release, the album has steadily sold more than 254,000 copies at Dongguan Bookstore alone!
Even though it may not be there yet, it already means that the national sales of this album are infinitely approaching the five million mark!
Yes, next, all high schools, junior high schools and universities across the country are about to start school, and the sales of all cultural and entertainment products will be planted immediately, but in this unstoppable summer vacation, the glory of the album "The Sound of the Waves Remains" has been built.
Broke 20,000 in a single week for eight consecutive weeks!
Exceeded 30,000 in a single week for four consecutive weeks!
The highest single week is 38,552 tickets!
And in the foreseeable next week, although "The Sound of the Waves" will not escape the market law that sales will inevitably plummet after the end of the summer vacation, there is still a good chance that it will continue to sell more than 20,000 copies!
It can be said that it is a foregone conclusion that this album will exceed 8 million copies sold within a year.
Although there is still a certain gap between the current European and American pop singers who can sell more than 12 million or 15 million copies in a year, this is an unprecedented stride forward for the Chinese music industry!
The growing maturity of the market, the strength of the singers, coupled with the quality of the songs, and the intention of production, have brought about. It's the kind of market feedback -- a complete explosion of sales.
Of course, in the Chinese music scene in August, although Liao Liao is the strongest one, it was in the last two weeks of August. There are still many singers who have released new albums one after another, and to the surprise of many people, although "The Sound of the Waves Remains" is still strong after more than a month of its release, those singers who have released albums at great risk are not so vulnerable.
August 17th. On Wednesday, Liu Mingliang officially released his new album "You and My Love".
As soon as this album was released, it was considered by many professionals to be a sign that Liu Mingliang had begun a complete transformation -- different from the style of ordinary folk songs and ordinary folk songs in the past, in this new album, Liu Mingliang completely fell into folk songs! Of the eleven new songs on the entire album, the number of folk songs alone stood at eight, and the folk songs that he was best at in the past were only two!
Moreover, to the surprise of many people in the circle, it is in the album "You and My Love". There is actually a purely pop urban love song - "Say Good Love".
On Tuesday, August 23, Huang Yuqing, a singer who had always been considered to be between the second and first tier among male singers, also released his fourth studio album - "Rainy Day".
Huang Yuqing was originally an urban love song singer, since his debut, but a few years ago, because of the weakness of love songs in the entire record market, the sales of his previous albums have not risen, although there will still be many fans who like and firmly support it. Including Li Qian, when he sang in the restaurant, he sang several of his works, but before this "Rainy Day" was released. He has always been classified as a niche singer by the market.
But this time, with the total amount of the entire market increasing one after another, on the one hand, after the bombardment of Liao Liao and Wuxing Wusu, the market's acceptance and recognition of love songs, whether fast or slow, in short, love songs. is constantly improving, especially younger fans, began to fall into the camp of love songs on a large scale, on the other hand, Huang Yuqing's new album is quite careful, he borrowed some ideas from many of Li Qian's works, while integrating them into his own style, in this album, there are several songs that are quite outstanding.
As a result, Huang Yuqing suddenly rose.
On the sales list of Dongguan Bookstore on August 22, Liu Mingliang's new album "You and My Love", which was on the market for the first week, challenged "The Sound of the Waves", which had been on the market for seven weeks, but was unsuccessful.
Although "The Sound of the Waves Remains" has shown a decline, it still leads the sales list with 28,519 sales. and "You and My Love" ranked second with 21,754 sales.
On the one hand, this certainly shows the strength of Liao Liao, because for Liu Mingliang personally, he only sold for five days in the first week, and he got more than 20,000 copies of sales in a single week, although it is not too brilliant, but it is already a normal sales.
But on the other hand, in the face of "The Sound of the Waves", which has been on the market for seven weeks, Liu Mingming's new album is so weak, and it is also difficult to sigh, although Liu Tianwang is singing with all his life, and even does not hesitate to make a big turn, completely devote himself to the camp of folk songs, and also roll up his sleeves to come up with the most popular urban love song at the moment, but he still can't seem to stop himself from gradually declining.
And in the second week of the listing of "You and My Love", many people think that with the inevitable decline of "The Sound of the Waves" and the inevitable force of "You and My Love" in the second week, this week's rankings, "You and My Love" is estimated to have a lot of hope to overturn Liao Liao.
But when the latest issue of Dongguan Bookstore's sales list came out on August 29, it was shocking.
"The Sound of the Waves Remains", Liao Liao, the eighth week, 26,586 shots, ranked first.
"Rainy Day", Huang Yuqing, the first week, 23,916 shots, ranked second.
"You and My Love", Liu Mingliang, the second week, 23,453 photos, ranked third.
Liu Mingliang not only failed to overturn "The Sound of the Waves", which continued to decline, but was directly knocked to the ground by Huang Yuqing!
Moreover, this is the second week of the release of "You and My Love", and according to the almost irreversible market law, this should be the highest selling week for Liu Mingming's album. And his new opponent Huang Yuqing's new album "Rainy Day" was only the first week of its release, and it was only sold for six days!
However, second-tier singer Huang Yuqing directly knocked out top singer Liu Tianwang to the ground!
Although in fact, "Rainy Day" only sold about 400 more copies than "You and My Love". What's more, people are still at an absolute disadvantage in publicity, fame, etc., and the quality of the album alone surpasses the past!
Although it is said that after seeing the data, Huang Yuqing himself was so frightened that he was speechless for several minutes before he began to know how to be happy, but. Huang Yuqing's successful counterattack has sent a message to all practitioners in the pop music industry very clearly - the era of urban love songs is really here!
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Zou Wenhuai parked the car and went down, and when he got to the door, he pushed the door directly and entered, just as Wu's mother was watering the flowers in the yard, and when she saw him coming, she greeted him with a smile, "Mr. Zou is here." ”
Zou Wenhuai closed the door, nodded at her, and strode along the road in the middle of the courtyard to the hall. But walking past her, he suddenly stopped, thought about it, he turned his head to look at Wu's mother, lowered his voice, and asked, "How has she been in the last few days?"
Mother Wu nodded and said, "It's good, except that I'm still in a daze, there's nothing else, and I look good." I'm a little fatter. She doesn't drink anymore and eats a little at every meal, sometimes with a small half bowl of rice, sometimes with a flower roll that I steamed for her. It is. She still smokes, and if she can quit smoking, it will be perfect!"
Zou Wenhuai nodded, thought about it, and then smiled at Wu's mother and said, "Okay." I see, then you're busy!" he raised his leg to walk forward, but before he could take a step, he retracted it and asked, "The person who sent her back last time really hasn't appeared again?"
Mother Wu didn't think about it, so she shook her head firmly, "No! I haven't been here once, and I haven't even called yet." ”
After a pause, she said, "You know, in the first two days, she was so anxious that she walked around the house like crazy, and I was afraid that she would give the house a fire! Although I still like to be in a daze, I can see her laugh several times almost every day. I came out to water the flowers yesterday!"
When Zou Wenhuai heard this, he first nodded and smiled with satisfaction, and then squinted his eyes and muttered to himself, "This is really a bit evil! I actually let her start eating and quit drinking! Who kind of person could this be? I really want to meet him!"
When Wu's mother heard this, she immediately replied to him in a low voice, "Black, I don't look very old, I'm very tall, I look very handsome, the young man looks very energetic, can he have ...... It is estimated that it can be 1.85 meters, and the clothes are not very particular, or it may be a matter of just coming back from outside, and the car is not small, but it is quite dirty. Oh, by the way, it seems that Miss mentioned it yesterday, saying that the young man is from Jinan, and he has just been admitted to a school here in our Shuntianfu, is it ...... What to learn...... Oh, look at my brain!"
She only cared about her memories there, and didn't notice that Zou Wenhuai was already a little dumbfounded, "Stop! You mean, the person who sent her back was a college student?
Mother Wu nodded, "Ah! No, as soon as Miss said it yesterday, I recalled to myself, isn't that young man just a young man?
Zou Wenhuai hesitated for a moment, his eyes blinked, and he couldn't help but think about it.
That's an important piece of information!
He has never lost confidence in Zhou Yan's voice and singing skills, but he has never had the slightest confidence in Zhou Yan's survivability and screening ability.
Young, fresh out of college, with a nice car of his own, and who still sounds like to drive around the country - isn't that the tune of a lot of rich boys?
Fit?
It's broken, it's broken!
Why can't this girl remember the pain when she is beaten like that!
Last time, that bad old man had already made a big deal out of her and her career, and this time it was good, if it ran into a playboy...... Well, it's all over!
No matter how famous Zhou Yan is, she can't stand the consumption of stubble after stubble, and she can't stand the fact that she hasn't released new songs for so many years! No matter how prosperous the market is, you can't produce new songs, not to mention the fame being consumed, and the newcomers who are constantly rising. Sooner or later, your position in the industry will be topped out, and with more options, fans, even the original die-hard fans. It's going to gradually shift sides!
The music world is like this, you can be willful, as long as you sing well, as long as your album sells well, no matter how capricious you are. There are companies and fans who are willing to praise you, but if you are too willful, and even for many years, you will not be able to bring sales and profits to the record company, and you will not be able to bring continuous good new songs to loyal fans, so who will be so stupid that they will always guard you and praise you?
Thinking of this, Zou Wenhuai couldn't hold back any longer, leaving Wu's mother in the yard, he strode to the door. While stretching out his hand to push the door, he symbolically shouted, "Sister-in-law, it's me, I'm in!"
He pushed the door in, and saw Zhou Yan coming out of the inner room with a skirt - the first time he saw her, Zou Wenhuai was a little stunned, it has been rare for more than a year in the past year, she actually wore a flower skirt, and it seemed that she had painted light makeup?
I saw Zou Wenhuai come in. Zhou Yan smiled at him, and asked, "What are you muttering to Mother Wu in the yard?" On the other hand, he didn't think about Zou Wenhuai to answer at all, just shook the dress with a hanger in his hand and put it in front of him. Ask, "How's it going, is it pretty?"
Zou Wenhuai was stunned for a moment and asked, "What are you...... Going out?"
Zhou Yan blinked and said, "No, oh, that's it, in two or three days." I have a friend who is coming to Shuncheonfu, so I haven't picked myself up for a long time, so I'll try on clothes......" Speaking of this, she sighed, "Alas, I really want to go out and buy clothes, I haven't bought clothes for many years!"
Zou Wenhuai pushed his glasses and looked at her, "Sister-in-law, you friend...... Do I know each other?"
Zhou Yan glanced at him, and in that look, she couldn't tell whether she was smiling or not, like a small blade, swishing, she even picked up her voice, pretending to be, and asked, "You and Mama Wu were muttering about this just now, right?"
Zhou Yan turned around and left him with the back of a flower skirt.
"Shh
After a while, she took another outfit of clothes, the upper body was a very ordinary short-sleeved plaid shirt, and the lower body was a pair of washed jeans.
Zou Wenhuai thought about it for a while, and simply asked directly: "Your friend has just been admitted to college, right?
Zhou Yan glanced at him again when she heard this, "No?"
Zou Wenhuai sighed helplessly, "Sister-in-law, let's not make trouble, okay?"
As he spoke, he picked up his briefcase, opened it, stretched out his hand and took out his notepad, flipped it to the middle, and flashed at Zhou Yan, "Sony, Xinda, Huage, Times, New Oriental, don't you want to know what offers they gave you......?"
As he spoke, he reached out and took out a piece of paper from his bag, unfolded it, held it in his hand, shook it, and said: "Huang Yuqing, you should always be familiar with it, right? You are an old friend, right? His first few albums, it is difficult to exceed one million copies, but do you know how many copies of his new album have been sold? "Rainy Day", urban love song, your road number, in the first week of listing, the publicity is not as good as others, and the reputation is not as good as others, but he killed Liu Mingliang directly!"
After a pause, he stared straight at Zhou Yan and said, "Dongguan Bookstore, nearly 24,000 copies in a single week!
After a pause, he saw that Zhou Yan was just looking at him with wide eyes, motionless, and not speaking, so he asked himself directly again, "Let me tell you sister-in-law, next week, Huang Yuqing will not only be able to continue to suppress Liu Mingming, but she can even kill Liao Liao, who has occupied the list for eight weeks!" Frankly speaking, I was also shocked as soon as this sales ranking came out, but I quickly figured it out, I think there are many people in this circle, either who have figured it out now, or will figure it out in recent days, that is, the era of singers who belong to Huang Yuqing, belong to you, and belong to your genre has come!"
Zhou Yan still didn't speak, and a pair of clear and bright eyes looked at him directly.
Zou Wenhuai made her subconsciously reach out and push her glasses, but he still continued: "Liu Mingliang has dominated the music scene for many years, but now, he is about to become obsolete, and not only him, He Runqing, Feng Feifei, Zhang Chang, and a large number of people, as long as they can't keep up with the current development trend, they will be eliminated quickly! And you, you, Huang Yuqing, Liao Liao, you are the leaders of the next decade!"
Speaking of this, he finally slowly put away the sales ranking list and notepad in his hand, sighed, looked at Zhou Yan seriously, and said very sincerely: "So, sister-in-law, is it okay to listen to me?" No matter what you want to do, no matter who you will fall in love with in the future, at least for now, let's sign a company, release a new album, and in this most important year or two of the replacement of the old and the new, you must not be eliminated, you have to follow this wind and get the position that should belong to you, and then, even if the market position is stabilized, let's be lazy and play temper, okay?"
After a pause, as if he was afraid that Zhou Yan would not pay enough attention to it, he deliberately emphasized again, "Alternate between the old and the new, Sister-in-law, this is not my alarmism, it's true! If in the past two years, you have not appeared and have not released new albums, then when this wave of alternation of the old and the new in the music world is completed, and when a large number of new singers have taken the position, whether you want to or not, fans and record companies will think that you are already a person of the previous era, this meaning...... You know what I mean?"
Zhou Yan still looked at him steadily.
And after talking for a long time, it seemed that she felt that everything that should be said had been said, and Zou Wenhuai also looked at her fixedly.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Zhou Yan opened her mouth to ask him, "Are you finished?"
Zou Wenhuai nodded, "That's it, at least what I should say and what I can say, I've already broken it for you, what to do next, it's up to you!"
After a pause, he said "oh" and said, "By the way, on the way here just now, Sony's Xie Mingyuan called me again, and it is estimated that he also saw the sales list of this issue, so he should be more optimistic about your comeback." What he meant when he called was, as long as you agree to go to Sony and agree to make a comeback, the conditions are all right, and in addition, he promised me that he would do whatever it took to invite Li Qian, the most famous talent in the industry today, to write you a title song, and even said that he would try to get Li Qian to write the first album of your comeback for you, and strive to be a hit!"
Zhou Yan looked at him, didn't speak, and didn't blink her clear and bright eyes.
After Zou Wenhuai finished speaking, he shrugged helplessly and said, "This time it's really finished, what do you want to say, say it!"
Zhou Yan finally nodded.
After a while, her eyes suddenly came alive again, and even the expression on her face suddenly became active, she shook the clothes in her hand, and asked, "Then you say, will the plaid shirt and jeans look too messy together?" Otherwise, how about I wear a white shirt on my upper body?"
Zou Wenhuai looked at her in amazement and was speechless for a long time. (To be continued.) )