Chapter 60: Biting
On Tuesday, March 14, the day of the release of "Fake Monk", many fans also bought this album that was distributed at the same time across the country for the first time.
The current four beauty bands, of course, cannot be compared with the appeal of superstar singers at the level of Liao Liao, He Runqing, and Zhao Xinfu, but the publicity work done by Qi Jie before was not given in vain.
Since the end of He Runqing's concert in November last year, especially after the live video of the concert was broadcast on Shuntianfu Satellite TV and Huaxia TV, until the last month, "Nothing" and "No Place for Shame", which were pulled out of the live video and made into MVs, have been broadcast in a loop on major TV stations, it can be said that the four major beauty bands still have considerable popularity.
In particular, although pirates like the four beauty bands, which were not famous at the time and could not bring appeal, when making pirated tapes, basically rarely marked their names on the back of the songs, but the voice, and music style, these two things, do not need to be named, all the fans who like "Nothing" and "No Place for Shame" after listening to it, as long as they hear similar styles, they will almost subconsciously pay attention.
In particular, perhaps most pirates will not deliberately mark the names of the four beauty bands, but at that time, Li Qian was already full of gossip and was very popular, so there were actually many pirates who marked the name of "Li Qian" after the songs "Nothing" and "No Land for Shame".
The combination of these moments, coupled with Li Qian's once-sky-high gossip popularity, and his appeal in emerging online media, there are many fans who will maintain a certain amount of attention to the album "Fake Monk" and even look forward to the release of this album.
At least. Although the current four major beauty bands are only releasing their first albums, they must not be regarded as newcomers.
So, on March 14, the sound of "Fake Monk" began to sound in the streets and alleys of many cities.
The quality and calibrity of the songs. As well as the quality and standard of the whole album, it is needless to say.
Basically, whether it's the fans who bought the album as soon as they were paying attention to it, or the fans who were attracted by a certain song played in a video store and bought it, at least more than ninety percent of them will not be disappointed after buying it back, and to a large extent, at least seventy or eighty percent of fans will buy it back. It's even a surprise.
If you evaluate it from a relatively calm perspective a few years later, this album, which integrates the essence of rock development in another time and space for more than 30 years, can definitely not be left behind even if it is compared with the Flying Band's "Driving the Pig West". For fans who love rock and roll, this is certainly a surprise.
Therefore, after sending people down to a few cities and gradually getting general sales feedback, Qi Jie finally began to relax a little.
The album. There was no direct explosive sales like Liao Liao and He Runqing, but judging from the sporadic feedback received in just one day. It should be said that the sales momentum is good.
Not only will people who have been paying attention and looking forward to it run to buy it and leave, but there are also many fans who are attracted by the music that is being played, run to the store to ask, and then buy the album.
It can attract new fans, and it is a fairly high proportion of new fans. That's a good thing!
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After the release of "Fake Monk", it also attracted the attention of a large number of media and music critics.
For music critics, this is an album that includes two top rock works, "Nothing" and "No Place to Shame", and the new songs in it are no worse than the two songs that have almost been praised by them before. So for such a rock album that appeared in the era of rock and roll, of course, everyone is willing to pay 12 points of attention. For the shock and impact it has brought to itself, he also does not hesitate to give praise.
For the media across the country, the four major beauty bands are Li Qian's bands, and this alone has made them have to pay great attention.
Therefore, in the week after the album was released, media across the country, from TV media, to radio stations, to major newspapers, devoted considerable space to the launch of the album "Fake Monk".
Among them, of course, there will be some far-fetched gossip hype, but more of them are professional review articles by many music critics.
In a word: rave reviews.
And such a public opinion boom, of course, has formed a positive impetus for the sales of the album.
So, when Monday, March 20 came, "Fake Monk" sold 16,552 copies in the first week, and in such a sales off-season, it topped the album sales chart of Dongguan Bookstore, and became the first rock album to get the first place on the album sales chart of Dongguan Bookstore in ten years. Of course, it is also the first rock album in the past 12 years to sell more than 10,000 in a single week at Dongguan Bookstore.
This achievement, of course, can't be compared with Liao Liao and He Runqing, and even with Zhou Yan after her comeback last year, but for rock music that has been silent for more than ten years, it is already a good result that is enough to make people stunning.
And when Wednesday, March 22 arrived, on the latest episode of the Voice of China Radio Golden Songs on demand, the album's first title song "Fake Monk" also landed at the top of the chart almost effortlessly.
At the same time, works such as "Flower Girl", "Ronin Love Song", and "Don't-Break-My-Heart" in the album have also been on the list. Even at this time, "Nothing" and "No Place for Shame", which were already gradually falling off the list, were suddenly rejuvenated with the launch of the genuine albums, and returned to the top five together!
In a sense, although the four major beauty bands and their "Fake Monk" are far from being like Liao Liao and He Runqing's albums, which immediately became a hot national topic as soon as they were listed, but for the pop music world, they, and their album, are still popular.
Thereupon. In the second week after the listing, he unexpectedly and satisfactorily obtained the single-week sales of 18,756 copies of Dongguan Bookstore, and continued to sit firmly in the first place in the sales list.
In the first two weeks of its launch, Dongguan Bookstore sold more than 35,000 copies, which means that 13 days after its launch, its national sales should have reached between 600,000 and 800,000 copies. In accordance with the laws of the market. With such results, it should already be guaranteed that the album will successfully enter the double platinum club within a year.
And for rock music, this is definitely the best result in more than a decade.
As a result, after the results came out, countless music critics who love rock and roll published review articles in major newspapers and magazines, and between the lines, they almost cheered for another big hit of rock music.
It's just that what people didn't expect was that "Fake Monk" was released in the first two weeks. After achieving such sales results that have amazed countless professionals, they once again did not follow the normal market rules.
This is exactly the same as Li Qian's previous albums that suddenly became popular!
Because in the music market and album sales, there has always been only one thing that really plays a key role, and that is - word of mouth!
And the reputation of the album "Fake Monk" is simply so good that it bursts.
Not just professionals. It's not just those fans who have known and liked Li Qian and the four beauty bands before, after hearing the songs in this album. Unless it is a small number of people who are really not interested in rock music, almost everyone is willing to give this album his thumbs up in the first place!
So, word of mouth spreads.
So, just after Huang Dazhong, the general manager of Hua Records, directly killed Du Xiaoming's proposal to make two rock albums. At a time when Sony Records' meeting on whether to follow the trend and make two rock albums was held twice, but it was difficult to reach an agreement, and it was estimated that nine times out of ten, "Fake Monk" suddenly broke out in an unexpected contrarian way three weeks after its release.
The third week of listing, the sales period is Monday, March 27. By Sunday, April 2, the sales of "False Monk" in Dongguan Bookstore had not declined, but had suddenly climbed to 24,339 copies!
Continue the upward curve!
This time, even the critics who wrote a newspaper article praising "The False Monk" last week were immediately stunned.
However, in the fourth week of its launch, the week from Monday, April 3 to Sunday, April 9, the sales data of "False Monk" in Dongguan Bookstore actually rose again, reaching 31,058 copies!
Break 30,000 in a single week!
The first four weeks combined, a whopping 90,705 shots!
This achievement is still incomparable with Liao Liao, He Runqing, and Zhao Xinfu, after all, Liao Liao and He Runqing are both the kind of big names who can sell 50,000 or 60,000 copies in a single week, and Zhao Xinfu's album last year was a big hit, and the highest sales volume was more than 17,000 copies in a single Wednesday, and the first four weeks combined, it was also as high as 120,000 copies!
But, you know, "Fake Monk" is a rock album!
And it was released at a time when this kind of rock music was already dismal to the extreme!
So, seeing this achievement, many people immediately figured it out: word-of-mouth! It must be word-of-mouth, which is promoting all this!
It is precisely because of word-of-mouth, especially the super word-of-mouth among listeners and fans, that this album can violate the normal laws of the market in the four weeks after its release, increasing at a rate of about 7,000 copies per week in the second, third and fourth weeks of the sales cycle, and finally breaking through the 10,000 copies mark in a single Wednesday!
At this time, as soon as the results of 10,000 pieces of a single Wednesday came out, it seemed that it had suddenly reached a certain critical point, and after brushing it, the word rock, the word "four beauties", and the word "fake monk" suddenly became popular!
and the popular period of rock and roll in the past history, that is, the period when the flying band was alone in the world, Liu Mingming's folk songs, folk songs and folk songs became popular, the rise of female singers represented by Zhen Zhen, and the sudden popularity of the five elements and fast songs, Liao Liao's national diva, He Runqing's successful transformation, in the blink of an eye, rock, the rock of the four beauty bands, and the album "Fake Monk", suddenly became a hot national topic!
At this stage, there is no need for any driving force, because almost all the places related to the entertainment industry, from TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, to major forums on the Internet. Even the number of QQ groups, which is increasing rapidly, almost the entire country is in full swing to discuss this album and discuss these names!
There is no doubt that this is a qualitative change accumulated by quantitative changes!
So, under everyone's attention. In the fifth week after its release, the album "Fake Monk" once again violated the normal market law and won 36,956 copies in one fell swoop!
For the first five weeks, every week increases!
In the first five weeks, a total of 127661 copies of Dongguan bookstore sales were swiped!
So, the whole world was shocked!
As a result, the fiery atmosphere of the nation's heated discussion heated up again!
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Saturday, April 8. Morning.
The sun was shining outside the window, and the birds were chirping.
Li Qian carried the suitcase and casually told the precautions for going out, and just walked to the door of the villa, the company driver with special vision hurriedly ran over and picked up Liao Liao's big suitcase.
Huang Wenjuan saw that the two of them were greasy and crooked, so she said, "Brother, sister." Then I'll wait for you in the car!"
Li Qian nodded and watched her run over. Then he looked down at Liao Liao again.
In fact, I have been saying it since last night, and now, I have been repeating it several times, but there is no need to say it again, but I should say it and I want to say it. He hesitated, but didn't open his mouth.
So, the two of them just stood at the door of the villa, you look at me.
Then, suddenly. Liao Liao took his hand, dragged him back stiffly, slammed the door of the villa, and reached out to untie Li Qian's belt.
Li Qian's eyes widened at first, and then he grabbed her hand, "Why are you, Juanzi, they are still waiting outside!"
Liao Liao raised his head and looked at him and said, "I know what you want to say, don't worry, the two of us are not stupid, we can't fight!"
Just this sentence, Li Qian was speechless.
Liao Liao broke away from his hand, skillfully pulled his pants down, and then squatted down.
"Shhh...... What are you...... What a smoker!"
Liao Liao swallowed for a while before he spit out the thing, glanced up at him with slanted eyes, and stretched out his tongue provocatively and licked it, which made Li Qian gasp again, "I said, there were three times last night, you are really crazy, you want my life, right?"
Liao Liao smiled when he heard this, flew a wink, and said, "She's tomorrow's plane, right? You must go over there tonight, right? So, ...... I'll squeeze you dry first!"
With that, she buried her head again.
"Hiss......" Li Qian gasped again.
Throughout March, in addition to attending classes every day and studying drama twice a week, Li Qian's entire energy was devoted to the production of He Runqing's new album.
And as the cooperation of Li Qian, Liao Liao, and He Runqing in the iron triangle is getting longer and longer, the tacit understanding between them has reached a very high level, and He Runqing's own skills and experience are also very solid, which makes her album progress extremely fast. After only a month's work, at the beginning of April, the album had completed all the studio recording work and successfully transferred to post-production.
It was also around this time that Zhou Yan's new album was finally announced to have been recorded after nearly half a year of revision, and then moved to post-production - it can be said that in order to tear up the album sales with Liao Liao in May this year, in the past six months, she has almost taken out the best state of her singer career so far, and the craziest physical and mental investment.
Then, the Southeast Asian tour, organized by Sony Records, is about to begin.
Liao Liao and He Runqing, who had finished all the work at hand, as well as Zhou Yan, had to fly over one after another in the past few days. Of course, the company's two trump cards went out together, coupled with the expansion of the Chinese cultural circle that Li Qian had mentioned before, which was enough to arouse Qi Jie's great attention, so even two days earlier than Liao Liao and He Runqing, she had already represented Minghu culture and flew over to contact Southeast Asia.
And today, it is Liao Liao and He Runqing's plane.
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After vomiting, Liao Liao ran to the bathroom to vomit something, rinsed his mouth a few times, and then ran out, with a look of flying eyebrows, before going out, he said: "You pay attention tonight, there is a knife on the head of the color character! Although you are still young, you have to pay attention, don't you?" After speaking, she didn't look at Li Qian's face, and happily opened the door and went out.
Li Qian thought about it, but still chased him out and shouted: "Hey, don't care how you two fight behind your backs, when you go out this time, you pay attention to me, don't let others see my jokes!"
Seeing Liao Liao coming out, Huang Wenjuan opened the car door and jumped out of the car as soon as possible, waiting for her to get in the car. Liao Liao walked to the front of the car, turned around and waved his hand at Li Qian, "I know, master, go back!" and then got into the car in style.
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That night, in the sheepfold alley, Zhou's house.
After more than fifty minutes, the two of them finally finished their work, Zhou Yan was certainly tired and panting, and Li Qian also subconsciously felt a little pain underneath - in front of Zhou Yan, he was afraid that she would be suspicious and ask something, so he didn't even dare to look closely, but he was extremely suspicious that he had been worn bald.
But even if he didn't look serious, and after resting for a while after getting off him, Zhou Yan couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you today? Why haven't you come out for so long?"
Li Qian hesitated and didn't know how to answer.
However, Zhou Yan Bingxue is smart, don't look at outsiders, he seems to have a very low EQ, but as long as she faces Li Qian, her EQ is definitely not low, in fact, she is just too lazy to use her brain with irrelevant people.
So, looking up at Li Qian, she suddenly smiled weirdly, and then said, "Don't worry, I don't hold a grudge against her." I won't fight her outside. ”
Li Qian sighed and wanted to speak.
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Amitabha, long live Chairman Mao, Allah, Jesus and Taishang Laojun are above...... Ask for a monthly pass, and ask not to report!(To be continued.) )