CHAPTER XV
On June 1, Orange Sky Entertainment's album of Shen Lian, which had spent a lot of effort on production, finally entered the listing stage. Shen Lian promoted his new album on his blog, and many classmates who were on the play also helped forward it. And Hu Ge, who is known to the Xianjian crew, and Liu Yifei also wished Shen Lian's album a big hit on their own blogs, and Liu Yifei even invited Shen Lian to sing on his blog. The double support of Xianjian CP made Shen Lian's album get the attention of some Hu Ge fans and Liu Yifei fans in the warm-up stage. As Orange Sky Entertainment began to launch the two songs "Onion" and "Serious Snow" on major radio stations and the Internet, Shen Lian's name began to be known to some people. The high quality of the two songs made some young people begin to pay attention to Shen Lian, and began to collect information about Shen Lian from the official website of Orange Sky Entertainment.
On June 10, there are still 5 days left before the official release of Shen Lian's debut album "Purgatory". At the Huamei International Hotel in Shanghai, Shen Lian is about to start the launch of his first album. This press conference is also a very important part of Shen Lian's album release. Shen Lian will never allow failure! Zhang Ting sits in the middle, although she is a little nervous, but she can't see it on the outside, the more nervous the moment, the more calm she has to be as an agent, if she is not calm, let alone anything else, Shen Lian next to her will be nervous to death, this is not a single interview, if it is a separate interview, she can also ask the media to come again, but such a group interview, once there is any mistake, it will immediately become the laughing stock of the entire entertainment industry! And this time, Wu Kebo, the chairman of Orange Sky Entertainment, will also be present in person. Shen Lian is the first artist she signed, and she wants to ensure a perfect start no matter what.
After a while, Zhang Ting found the director who managed the venue and said, "Now you can put those fans outside!" Zhang Ting said very firmly, ordinary newcomers have no fans, and the so-called fans, generally speaking, are just childcare invited by the record company, and these childcare are generally not too enthusiastic, so in general, the effect is much more limited.
But although Shen Lian has no die-hard fans under the hard work of Liu Yifei and Hu Ge, there are still a lot of people who are willing to come to the album conference to see it, and you can get Shen Lian's new album for free, so why not do it. After the fans entered the venue and sat down under the arrangement of the management, reporters also entered the venue one after another. A host specially invited by Orange Sky Entertainment said: "Welcome everyone to Shen Lian's solo album press conference, let today's protagonist, Shen Lian sing two songs of the new album for everyone, namely "Serious Snow" and "Onion"! Let's all welcome Shen Lian! ”
At this time, bursts of accompaniment slowly sounded in the center of the stage, and Shen Lian stepped onto the stage, " If your eyes can come for me for a moment, if you can hear the sound of heartbreak, silently guarding you, silent waiting for miracles, silent let yourself be like air, everyone is eating, chatting, laughing, how happy I am tonight, how gregarious I am in the corner, the onion at the bottom of the plate is like I am always a condiment, secretly watching you, secretly hiding yourself, if you are willing to peel off my heart layer by layer, you will find that you will be surprised, you are my most depressed and deepest secret, if you are willing to peel off my heart layer by layer, you will have a sour nose, you will shed tears, as long as you can hear me, see my wholeheartedness......" Shen Lian affectionately performed "Onion" at the press conference, and the fans also applauded enthusiastically, responding to the idol's interaction with them on stage.
At the end of the song, Shen Lian did not rest, and motioned to the sound engineer to put down a song. As the familiar prelude sounded, Shen Lian began to perform "Serious Snow" again. "The snow is so deep and so serious, reflecting the scars I am lying in the snow, it is love in the dead of night, secretly controlling my heart, reminding me that you love you and be ......on call at any time" The long-term recording made Shen Lian familiar with these two songs, and the live interpretation was also very good.
After singing, the fans applauded Shen Lian wildly, maybe they came for various reasons before, but at this moment, the fanaticism on their faces told Shen Lian and reporters that they were Shen Lian's fans and Shen Lian's fans. Soon it was time for the reporter to ask questions, and at this time, Wu Kebo, the chairman of Orange Sky Entertainment, also walked up at this time and sat on the left side of Shen Lian, and on the right side of Shen Lian was the agent Zhang Ting.
"Everyone is welcome to join us at the press conference, and the following reporters can get up and ask questions one by one! That reporter, you ask! The host nodded to a reporter in the middle of the front row and said.
"Hello everyone, I am Li Jin, a reporter from Hunan Satellite TV's "Entertainment Without Limits", and here I would like to ask Mr. Shen Lian, can you predict the sales of your album? Then rate your own album and see how many points you can get? After he stood up, he finished his question without humility, nodded politely to Shen Lian, and sat down again.
Regarding sales, Shen Lian is really hard to say, and he will say that he is too ambitious and unrealistic. If you don't have it, you will also say that you have no confidence. I can't say anything. Shen Lian thought for a while, picked up the microphone and said, "Regarding sales, I naturally hope that the more the better, the more the merrier." As a singer, I've done almost everything I can do, and now I can only see how the listeners and professional critics react. ”
Shen Lian is telling the truth, now it is basically the final publicity, and whether it can succeed can only depend on the choice of consumers. He continued: "What about my album, I don't dare to say how many points, but it is really the crystallization of a lot of hard work between Mr. Yao Qian and me. Mr. Yao Qian and I are very satisfied, and I hope to be affirmed by everyone. ”
"Shen Lian, we learned that before this album, you were just a freshman in the theater, and you were affirmed by many musicians in the industry because you wrote a song for "The Legend of Sword and Fairy". But we all know that this is very different from releasing an album and becoming a professional singer, and suddenly you have a record, how do you feel? A reporter asked.
"It's not sudden, I've been writing and singing songs since high school, and I've had the desire to come up with an album for a long time. It's a bit unaccustomed to suddenly becoming a professional singer, and it's tiring to record more than a dozen songs with high intensity, and then shoot the MV, but it's quite adaptable. Shen Lian said with a smile. After a few more questions, the reporter's question-and-answer session ended. Shen Lian made his final speech on it, singing an English song "WhatGoesAroundComesAround" on the album for the first time.
This latest album release conference is also a successful end, Shen Lian can't be idle, he still has a lot to do, make a list of the songs in the album, go to various radio stations to make guest DJs to participate in the program recording, in short, there are still many things. Five days later, Shen Lian's album ushered in the official release. His albums are divided into several categories, the cassette is 25 yuan, the regular version (with VCD) is 40 yuan, and the hardcover version (with table calendar, photo and VCD) is 75 yuan.
Fans can choose which one to buy based on their financial strength, or they can buy all of them.
Shen Lian stayed in the company, anxiously waiting for the first day's sales. Of course, the first-day sales should be summed up around 11 p.m. But Shen Lian didn't care about this, he sat in Zhang Ting's office and played with the computer.
Zhang Ting was a little breathless, always thinking about sales, afraid that it would sell too badly. She was the most stressful person on the team. According to the current classification standard, a gold record is a record that has sold more than 50,000 copies, while a platinum record has sold more than 100,000 copies. In general, 80% of album sales are concentrated in the first month. If it can't create a sensation in the first week of listing, it will be difficult to climb the sales rankings, and it will not be able to produce a publicity effect and an inertial buying effect. Although physical records are far less prosperous than they have been in the past few years under the impact of online music, there are very few singers who can reach 200,000 sales. But can Shen Lian's record become a bombshell in the record industry?