Chapter 82: The World Is Invincible
At ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, Li Qian was on the way, and Liao Liao called in person.
Li Qian pulled over and connected the phone.
"If I can push it, I asked Wei Lan to help me push it, some of it is not easy to push, and some of it is not too dare to push, so I negotiated with the other party and adjusted the date, so in the next few days, I will rush everywhere, about four or five days, and around the 25th, I can end all the publicity work......"
There was a visibly tired look in her voice, "You can't delay things, can you?"
Li Qian was a little distressed, was silent for a moment, and said, "Tired, right?"
Liao Liao smiled, "It's okay." This is exactly what I want, and after a few more busy days, I'll go home!"
Li Qian had no choice but to smile when he heard this.
As the first sister of Minghu Culture, Liao Liao's every album is involved a lot, and the impact of her album sales has never only affected herself. Therefore, the promotion and release of each of Liao Liao's albums is the top priority of Minghu Culture, like this "Woman Flower", three months before the scheduled release date, the publicity and distribution department has begun to arrange and plan the publicity itinerary for her.
If you want to change, of course, it's not so easy to change.
Therefore, although when we talked on the phone last night, Li Qian hoped that Liao Liao could try to squeeze out time to come back first, and then go to the propaganda when this side was over, but it was obviously not Wei Lan who dared to call the shots for such a big matter, even if the order came from Li Qian and Liao Liao. In the end, he had to alarm Qi Jie, who was in Singapore.
So, Qi Jie had already called early in the morning, hoping to adopt the method of compressing the number of programs but recording them in advance, instead of letting Liao Liao suddenly withdraw in the middle of the propaganda - in that way, there will be a publicity vacuum of at least a week or at most several weeks in the period after the launch of "Woman Flower". That's dangerous.
Even if it is Liao Liao's album, Qi Jie will never dare to take such a risk, after all, she still has to compete with Zhou Yan for sales!
As a result, Li Qian respected her suggestion as a manager and agreed to end the publicity period early.
Wait until the call ends. Li Qian put away his mobile phone, looked at the freshly printed songbook in his hand again, and tapped his fingers the paper, his eyes became more and more determined.
Maybe it's useless, but how do you know if you can't do it if you don't try it?
Besides, if you don't achieve it, you won't lose anything anyway.
Present, and even in the next few years, their main market. It's still domestic, it's still Chinese.
Thinking about this, Li Qian's heart became relaxed, picked up the mobile phone and thought about it, dialed Wang Jinglu's mobile phone, and when the phone was connected, he asked with a smile: "I remember that you didn't have classes in three or four classes in the morning?"
On the other end of the phone, Wang Jinglu whispered: "Yes...... You wait. I'm looking for a place, in the library. ”
About half a minute passed. Her voice grew louder, "Something?"
Li Qian asked again, "Do you have a class in the afternoon?"
After a while, Wang Jinglu said, "You can escape." ”
Li Qian laughed, "Do you remember that French restaurant?
"Good!"
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Recently, Li Qian has entrusted two real estate companies to help him choose land. At noon, I answered two phone calls. So, I was going to go to the movies together in the afternoon, but the two of them decided temporarily that they wouldn't watch the movie and go to the ground first.
However, after running and looking at several places that the real estate company had found. Li Qian was not very satisfied.
Either the place is too big, or the place is too small, or the surrounding environment is relatively poor. Li Qian wants to buy a piece of land to build a house by himself, but he doesn't want to build a big villa that covers an area of dozens of acres, and he doesn't want to buy one or two acres in the planned villa area.
So, an afternoon was wasted.
However, that night, he had dinner with Wang Jinglu and went to watch a movie.
When they woke up the next morning, they had breakfast and went out for a stroll together.
Bookstores, clothing cities, shopping malls, cinemas, video stores...... At present, when he walks down the street, as long as Li Qian is not too high-profile, he will not be recognized within a few steps, so the two of them go shopping hand in hand, and on the whole, it feels very good.
Then, on May 21, Sunday morning, Qi Jie returned.
After she came back, she was not in a hurry to rest, first sent the staff of her colleagues back to the company with all the materials for filing, and then took a taxi and went straight to the place agreed on the phone.
This lunch became a meal for three people.
When she finished eating, Wang Jinglu asked for a pot of tea, and Qi Jie began to report to work.
Overall, in the past ten days, she has basically achieved the original goal: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the three most important places in the Southeast Asian market have been taken down by Minghu Culture.
Among them, Singapore is the simplest, Minghu Culture and a local distribution company direct joint venture, registered a new distribution company, the other party is responsible for sharing the distribution network, Minghu Culture is responsible for providing publicity support, the ratio of capital contribution is 50:50 between the two parties, the management right is the other party's, this side gets the financial rights, the senior management level, in addition to the general manager is appointed by the other party, it is also in accordance with the ratio of 1:1, appointed by both parties.
Although the other party's asking price is definitely much higher than the actual assets, and once it is taken over, it means a debt of about four million US dollars, but time is not waiting, Qi Jie still immediately made a decision, and directly acquired a total of 78% of the shares in the hands of several shareholders of the company at a price of 2.3 million US dollars, and successfully became the largest shareholder of the company, and absolute control.
In contrast, the Indonesian side is the slowest and most protracted to deal with things.
After a week of negotiations, Minghu Culture finally negotiated a shareholding contract with a local issuing company, and when the shareholding is completed, Minghu Culture will acquire a 49% stake in the issuing company for $2.5 million.
Anyway. He Runqing's album is about to be released, and if it is delayed for a day, it may give up a lot of benefits to the piracy market, so everything is done quickly and suffer a little loss in money. It is certainly inevitable, but these three companies either invest in or inject capital, a total of millions of dollars are thrown out, and Minghu Culture is the first step to roll out the development network in Southeast Asia.
These things are not trivial, Qi Jie, as the general manager of the company, of course has the right to decide, but after all, Li Qian is the owner of the company, so after coming back. The first thing she wanted to do was to report to Li Qian.
After listening to her report, Li Qian just nodded and said, "If you think you can, just do it." I believe in you and support your decision!"
Qi Jie smiled when she heard this, and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
I don't know if it's a joke or a complaint. She shook her head with a smile and said, "I knew you would say that." ”
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May 22nd. Monday.
Although she had been running around for more than ten days, Qi Jie herself was very tired, and Qi Jie gave a day off to everyone who was on a business trip together, but she didn't give herself a holiday. Early in the morning, she had already arrived at the company early.
Nine o'clock in the morning. Qi Jie has already convened a meeting of the company's executives, on the one hand, to announce the results of this business trip and listen to everyone's views, on the other hand, of course, to ask all departments to report to her during her business trip. Matters within the company.
The most important of these is the distribution and sale of "Woman Flower".
As soon as the meeting ended, everyone walked out of the conference room with a smile, and Huang Wenjuan had already walked over with a few pieces of paper and said with a smile: "Mr. Qi, the sales list has been sent over by the Weekly News." ”
Qi Jie was discussing things with Lao Xu of the distribution department, and fell last, but when Huang Wenjuan shouted, she immediately raised her head, walked over with a few steps of hope, took the things in Huang Wenjuan's hand, and subconsciously asked, "Have you seen it, how much?"
As she spoke, she herself had already seen the data.
Because it's too conspicuous.
Dongguan Bookstore Music/Audio-Visual Sales Rankings, 1998.05.15-1998.05.21.
First place, 40,558 photos, "Woman Flower", Liao Liao, Minghu Culture, first week.
Second place, 27,963 copies, "Tears of the Witch", Zhou Yan, Sony Records, first week.
Third place, 18,381 pieces, "False Monk", Four Beauty Bands, Minghu Culture, Week 10.
Fourth place, 8486 copies, "Love to the End", Zhao Xinfu, Sony Records, Week 27.
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Seventh place, 5085 copies, "Koi", Feng Feifei, Sony Records, Week 5.
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Qi Jie raised her eyebrows, as if she was smiling, and then, she raised her head, and when she saw that everyone was looking at her, she smiled, raised the ranking list in her hand, and said lightly: "First, forty thousand five hundred and fifty-eight!"
"Yay!"
Everyone laughed and clenched their fists, and some people high-fived.
If you want to say happy, of course you are happy, but it's just happy, and no one will show surprise, ecstasy, or anything like that - this is Da Liao Liao's album, the queen of the people, although the first four thousand copies are really scary, but for her, this is completely a "normal" value, isn't it?
Therefore, even Qi Jie has a light appearance.
At this time, she smiled and said: "Thank you for your work in the past period, I think, if nothing else, we can have a meeting to discuss everyone's semi-annual award." ”
"Yay!"
Everyone laughed, and then laughed and applauded.
After the applause rang out for a while, Qi Jie smiled and said, "Okay, now everyone can go back to work." You all have this sales list on your desks by now, but be careful, it's okay to be happy, it's okay to be proud, and it's okay to show off, but don't delay your work!"
Everyone laughed, agreed in a hurry, and then walked out of the conference room in twos and threes.
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After everyone came out of the conference room, Qi Jie and Huang Wenjuan also walked to the general manager's office, and when they entered the office, Qi Jie pointed to the data cabinet over there, "Juanzi, go and bring the sales statistics folder." ”
As she spoke, she walked quickly to the desk, spread out the list in hand, and looked at it seriously.
After a while, Huang Wenjuan found the folder, took it, Qi Jie took it, opened it, flipped through it slightly, found the place, looked at it a few times, and sighed, "Sure enough!"
She looked up at Huang Wenjuan, smiled a little relieved, and a little happy, and said, "Ranked third in history!"
The first place is He Runqing's "Dream Chaser", which was the first time in China and even the world to do publicity through online on-demand at that time, plus there was a big gimmick of the transformation of the Queen of Sweet Songs, so it caused a lot of momentum, to a certain extent, it was to concentrate a large number of sales that should have been sold slowly in the first two weeks of the market.
Therefore, although "Dream Chaser" experienced a slightly terrifying sales decline in the third and fourth weeks after its release, it was not until the fifth week that it stabilized at around 20,000 copies in a single week, and resumed a gentle downward trend, and finally achieved a big hit. But I have to admit that this kind of concentrated weekly sales are really scary enough.
In the second week of the release of "Dream Chaser", this album won a super high record of 63,591 copies, and no one has been able to break it so far!
And the second in history is Liao Liao's "Grateful Heart".
At that time, there were also some special circumstances, because Dongguan Bookstore deliberately suppressed the distribution of goods to the stores below, so many VIP users of Dongguan Bookstore placed orders, but they never got the goods, so the sales were piled up to the second week. This led to the fact that in that week, "Grateful Heart" got an astonishing result of 50,864 copies in a single week in Dongguan Bookstore!
In fact, everyone understands that such two data have no reference and reference significance at all, because they are all formed by chance, so if you want to say that the normal results should be the 40,558 created by "Woman Flower" this week, which is the first in history.
And that's just the first week of listing!
As we all know, under normal circumstances, the second to third week after the release of an album is the explosive period of sales, the peak of the sales curve of the whole album!
Therefore, it is foreseeable that the results of "Woman Flower" next week will steadily exceed 40,000 copies!
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After comparing Liao Liao's data, He Runqing couldn't wait to turn to Zhou Yan's data, looked at it, she "tsk" twice, and couldn't help sighing: "This time the Spring Festival Gala sang "Meet Ninety-Eight", which helped her far more than Liao Liao!"
Huang Wenjuan glanced at the information in her hand, couldn't help but nodded, and said, "She will be able to get more than 30,000 next week?"
Qi Jie nodded and said, "Almost!"
After a pause, she pulled her gaze back to Liao Liao's party, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity! Such a good result is definitely going to be sold, but the money can only be earned by Sony! Alas...... can only start with Sister Runqing. ”
Huang Wenjuan smiled and couldn't help but say, "Sister Qi, if you say that, if other companies hear it, will they want to kill you?"
Qi Jie smiled, and then said self-deprecatingly: "That's right, we still earned the big head!"
While speaking, she put down the information in her hand, thought about it, turned her head and stared at Zhou Yan's name for a moment, her eyes looked at the number "27963" for a long time, laughed slowly, nodded her finger on it, and said to Huang Wenjuan: "Wait for her to come over, plus Wang Jingxue and Xie Bing, we are really invincible in the world when we are female singers!"
After a pause, she took out her mobile phone, turned her head and asked, "Have you called Li Qian?"
Huang Wenjuan shook her head, and while putting away the materials on her desk, she said, "No, wait for you to fight!"
Qi Jie smiled and asked, "Why did he go?"
Huang Wenjuan shrugged, "It's said to be...... Anyway, I heard that he was going to look at the land. ”
Qi Jie thought about it and called out. (To be continued.) )