Chapter 129 First Day Sales
When Chen Lang was still sighing at home, Huaxing Records was still busy delivering goods to major music stores, although Huaxing was constantly delivering goods, but this did not mean that 100,000 records were sold out.
Maybe Chen Lang's name is really almost unknown to everyone in Hong Kong, and he also won the championship of the Asian Amateur Singing Competition, but after all, it is the first time to release a record, unlike those old music superstars, who have already experienced time and the affirmation of fans.
Therefore, although the major music stores place the record "Lang Lang Qiankun" in the most conspicuous place, but just in case, there are not many goods from Huaxing for the first time, so when many fans come to buy, there will be a shortage of goods, and then they will be busy urging Huaxing to buy goods.
However, judging from the sales of major music stores today, the record "Lang Lang Qiankun" is undoubtedly selling very well. Seeing the long queues in front of the major music stores, everyone was curious about the sales of Chen Lang's first record.
Many singers are also very curious and nervous, after all, Lang Lang's name is not small, the well-known writer Xiao Caizi, the youngest millionaire in Hong Kong, popular singers, etc., if the record does not sell well this time, it is difficult to say, but if the sales of the record are very high, then today is very likely to be the rise of a music superstar, and at the same time, it will also make the gradually prosperous Hong Kong record market competition more intense.
Old singers such as Xu Guanjie, Guan Zhengjie, Luo Wen, and Lin Zixiang are still in their peak, with strong strength, popularity, and many fans, and are frequent visitors to the top ten Chinese golden songs.
Other singers are also outstanding, such as Alan Tam and Chen Baiqiang, Alan Tam was the lead singer of the former Wenner band, with the huge influence of the band, even if he is flying solo now, he still has a lot of fans and good popularity.
Chen Baiqiang was launched his first solo album "FirstLove" by manager Tan Guoji Luo Zhi in 1979 and became an instant hit; "Tears Flow for You" was selected as one of the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Songs of Hong Kong and Taiwan"; The album was well received, and Danny (Chen Baiqiang's nickname) immediately became the idol of thousands of fans.
Moreover, Chen Baiqiang has good creative ability, and is the first powerful idol singer in Hong Kong, as if he has the momentum to become a new generation of superstars in the Hong Kong music scene.
Coupled with many film and television stars from across the border, such as Zheng Shaoqiu, Zheng Shaoqiu is the most perfect hero image in everyone's minds, handsome and dashing, personable, the classic image of the thief Chu Liuxiang is popular all over Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and this TV series star also often releases records, and sings well, sometimes excellent works are selected into the top ten Chinese golden songs, and sales are also very good.
This is only a male singer in Hong Kong, and such as Xu Xiaofeng, Leina, Teresa Teng (mainly developed in Hong Kong in the early eighties) and so on are also very popular and powerful female singers.
Unlike the mid-to-late 80s when Tan Zhang was fighting for hegemony, the demeanor of the two people almost stole everyone's attention, and now is the period when the gods are fighting and the heroes are competing for each other, and no one can stand tall and look down on all beings.
Chen Lang has a great influence on teenagers with his outstanding appearance, good singing skills, strong creative ability and dancing ability, and his young age.
When Chen Lang won the championship of the Asian Amateur Singing Competition, everyone knew that Chen Lang would definitely step into the music scene and stir up monstrous waves, making the current Hong Kong music scene more exciting and intense.
Record sales in Hong Kong are not as long-term blockbusters as in the United States. Of course, the U.S. record sales are also the highest or higher in the first month, and then if nothing else, it will also show a gradual downward trend.
However, the United States is a highly developed entertainment industry, and its economy has been leading the world's largest economic power since World War II, and the United States has a population of hundreds of millions, and at the same time has a strong sense of buying genuine copies, the impact of piracy is almost non-existent, and good records can sell for about a year with their quality.
On the other hand, although Hong Kong is an international metropolis, it is also just a city, and now the population of Hong Kong in 1981 is only about 5 million, even if it is more than 7 million in later generations, and piracy is rampant.
Of course, in the 80s, there were no high-tech products such as the Internet and CDs, and the problem of record piracy was not very prominent, which is why many superstars in the 80s were often able to sell about 500 gold and 6 platinum sales.
To make a comparison, the population of the United States is 150 million, the population of Hong Kong is 5 million, and a record has 1 platinum sales of 1 million copies in the United States, and the ratio of album sales to population is 1:150, while to make the same record sell 1 million sales in Hong Kong, the ratio of record sales to population is 1:5.
As long as one out of 150 people in the United States buys one record, one out of every five people in Hong Kong has to buy a record, a difference of 30 times, so there is a big difference between the platinum sales standards of the two places, the United States 1 platinum sales is 1 million, while Hong Kong's 1 platinum sales are 50,000 copies, a difference of 20 times.
Hong Kong's record market is completely incomparable with the United States, so a record in the United States can still have good sales in two years, but Hong Kong, basically a month is a life and death, even if you are a blockbuster, at most more than two months, the rest of the sales are slowly accumulated over time.
Therefore, Hong Kong's record sales mainly look at the first month, and for the record sales of well-known singers, the first month depends on the sales of the first day, if it can explode huge sales, then even if it is gradually decreasing, you can still have a good sales, but if the sales on the first day do not rise, then even if you are in a huge publicity, I am afraid the effect is not obvious.
In addition to many singers paying attention to the sales of "Lang Lang Qiankun", many fans of Chen Lang are also looking forward to it, after all, everyone is fully supporting Chen Lang, everyone wants to know what the final result is, and at the same time, the main responsible persons such as Chen Shufen and Chen Liuquan of Huaxing, as well as the producer of the record Gu Jiahui, and even Shao Daheng want to know the final sales on the first day.
Shao Daheng's attention to this sales is not entirely because of Chen Lang, but because Huaxing will co-host a singer talent show with TVB next year, which is the far-reaching "Rookie Singing Contest" later.
Shao Daheng sees the huge potential of TV in the future with his extremely keen eye, although the current TVB dominates the highest ratings in Hong Kong, but the annual income is probably less than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, you must know that the TVB of later generations is a super media with an annual income of nearly 10 billion.
Therefore, in the late 70s and early 80s, after the death of the original TVB chairman Li Xiaohe, Shao Tycoon bought the shares of TVB that the Li family wanted to give up, and at the same time acquired the shares of several other major shareholders of the Yanghang Group, and then achieved a TV tycoon legend, even if Shaw Brothers Film and Television Company was beaten by Golden Harvest and Xinyicheng to lose his armor, Shao Tycoon is still proud of Xiangjiang with TVB.
It was already twelve o'clock at night on August 8th, but Huaxing Records was still brightly lit, and everyone was busy doing statistical work. In order to get the sales figures of Chen Lang's first record "Lang Lang Qiankun" as soon as possible, Chen Shufen specially told the major music stores to feedback the sales figures of the records to Huaxing Records after closing today, so that Huaxing Records could do a good job in record sales statistics.
Now all the music stores in Hong Kong have fed back to Huaxing today's "Lang Lang Qiankun" record sales, and Huaxing's staff are also in the nervous statistics, and in the end, many people are looking at the statistical table in Xu Fang's hand, wanting to know the final sales sum at the first time.
Although Chen Shufen and Chen Liuquan did not watch but sat on the office chairs, the fingers that kept tapping on the desktop still revealed the anxiety in their hearts, and just when everyone was waiting for the fire in a hurry, Xu Fang stood up suddenly.
"It's finally counted." Xu Fang's words immediately attracted everyone's attention, and the two main responsible persons, Chen Shufen and Chen Liuquan, couldn't sit still any longer, and stood up directly and asked, "How many records have you sold today?" ”
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