Chapter 620: Standing and Cheering (Part II)
"Okay, let's ask all fans and friends to line up in an orderly manner, Ethan, Sister Mei, and Mr. Ye Zi have made all preparations and are waiting for everyone." Brother Keny picked up the microphone again and said loudly.
"Before I do that, I want to give you a piece of good news." Keny raised his voice: "It's 10:38 a.m., Chen Yichen's new album has sold 159 copies at HMV Xiangjiang Record Store, oh, I saw it, 161 copies, 161 records have been sold so far, which is a very good result." ”
"Let's congratulate Ethan!"
Applause and shouts and screams once again "drowned" the entire record store.
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"Ethan, my name is Xiaomei, I like to hear you sing the most, listen to it!" A little chubby girl hugged Xiong in her hands and made a nymphomaniac, her eyes flickering at Chen Yichen and kept discharging.
Chen Yichenjun's face was flushed, and he couldn't stop her enthusiasm a little. He quickly lowered his head, wrote a short blessing on the cover of the CD that had been opened, and signed his name. The fan bought three CDs at once, which was the maximum number that each fan could buy at the time of the signing. Otherwise, some fans will buy 10 or 20 albums for autographs, and other fans will have to wait to die.
"Little ...... Xiaomei, there are two more that are also ...... Yours too? After signing one, Chen Yichen asked cautiously, he was still very unsuitable for Xiaomei's enthusiastic discharge.
"No, no, that's Xiaohong and Xiaolan's, they are in class today, and they can't come." Xiaomei's voice is soft and glutinous, and it sounds delicate.
"Oh, don't you have to go to class?" Chen Yichen asked casually while writing quickly.
This question elicited a long list of answers.
"How can there be! I was supposed to have a class today, but I thought it was more important to come and support you, so I took a leave of absence. Xiaomei pursed her mouth and said quickly: "Everyone told Xiaohong Xiaolan that they wanted them to ask for leave to come together, but they just refused, oh, it's really unrighteous!" Ethan, you see I've skipped class to cheer you on, I should be your loyal fan, right? Shouldn't you give me any gifts to encourage me? ”
"Huh? A gift? You...... What do you want? ”
"Hee-hee, that's it." Xiaomei is a man of action, as soon as she stretched out her hand, she hugged Chen Yichen and kissed him on the face.
"Oh~~~" Xiaomei raised her hands high and made two V-shapes of victory. The fans lining up behind her all burst into laughter, whistles and screams everywhere.
"And me, Ethan, and me!"
"I want it too, I want it too!"
Many of the girls shouted coquettishly.
"Ethan, we want it too, you can't favor one over the other!"
A boy took the opportunity to coax, and then he was immediately criticized and sneered at by the girls, and the boy refused to accept the "argument based on reason", and the atmosphere in the store became more lively.
Chen Yichen's handsome face turned red, and his body shrank back unconsciously, he was really frightened by Xiaomei's "surprise attack" just now.
On either side of him, Sister Mei and Ye Zi all burst out laughing.
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"Ye Zi," a voice sounded softly in Ye Zi's ear: "I...... Can I call you Little Leaf? ”
Ye Zi looked up and saw that it was a delicate and shy girl, sixteen or seventeen years old. After asking that sentence just now, a faint flush appeared on the girl's little face.
"Absolutely." Ye Zi took the CD from the girl's hand and asked with a smile: "By the way, how do you know to call me like that?" ”
The girl sighed softly, lowered her head slightly, and her voice became softer. If it weren't for Ye Zi's extraordinary ear skills, he wouldn't be able to hear what she was saying at all: "I...... My name is Xu Meiqin, beautiful beauty, the qin of the guqin. Just now...... I heard Ethan call you that, so ......"
This girl is very shy, and when she said this, her face flushed even more.
"Mai Trin, my friends call me that, of course you can call me that, we're all friends, aren't we?" Ye Zi said with a smile while writing words of blessing on the cover of the CD and signing his name.
"Thank you...... Thank you, little leaf. Xu Meiqin curled the corners of her mouth slightly and smiled softly, her eyes flashing with happiness.
"Don't be so polite, Mai Trin." Ye Zi quickly finished signing, picked up the CD and handed it back to her: "Okay, thank you for supporting me." ”
"Well, I'll come back when you sign the sale on the 28th." After laughing with Ye Zi for a while, Xu Meiqin was no longer as nervous and shy as she was just now, but after taking the CD signed by Ye Zi, the little girl suddenly began to babble again: "Little Yezi, can I ...... Can you ......?"
As she spoke, Xu Meiqin's gaze quickly swept to Ethan next to her, where Chen Yichen was once again forcibly hugged by a girl. Only this time he dodged quickly and was not forcibly kissed by fans.
Ye Zi smiled slightly, stood up and spread his hands generously: "Meiqin." ”
"Little Leaf."
Xu Meiqin shouted with shyness, and immediately opened her hands as well. Ye Zi gently hugged her, patted her delicate back twice, and whispered "thank you" in her ear, and then let go of her.
The girl was blindfolded, with a hint of reluctance, and left the fan team step by step.
Behind her, there was also a whistling and screaming.
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At noon, the press conference was held here at the signing desk, and Chen Yichen, Brother Keny and Sister Mei, the three important ministers of the flower star, as well as Ye Zi and Wenhui, two cadres of Wenhui Entertainment, attended the press conference at the same time.
Fans are all quietly waiting in their own line, and fans who want to go out to buy something or walk away for a while will get a numbered card from the staff of Huaxing to find their place in the line when they return. This method is not only convenient for fans, but also very humane in management. Compared with the singer signing meetings he had seen and participated in in in his previous life, Ye Zi remembered that there was a lot of difference in this regard.
There are several issues that are of great concern to journalists.
First of all, of course, is the specific results of Chen Yichen's album sales in the morning, which will provide a reference for the future trend of this album. According to the accurate statistics obtained by Keny from HMV, after two hours of sales in the morning, the HMV record store in the Mhuan Jianzhong Building sold a total of 497 records, and the sales of about 1,000 copies should be guaranteed today.
This is an extremely outstanding result for the signing of the first solo album of a rookie singer.
Singers who have signed contracts with this HMV in the past generally sell three to five times as much as on the day of the signing in the next two months, and the best can be close to 10 times. So according to this law, just this HMV record store, Chen Yichen's album sales in about two months should be conservatively estimated to exceed 3,000 copies. Sales will drop after the hot sale period, but they will continue to sell, and the data of about 5,000 copies of this album sold after half a year of sales is not a problem.
With a strong international background, strong financial strength, and strong sales capabilities, this HMV has become the vane of the Heung Kong record market in just two years. In terms of record sales, it alone can reach more than one-tenth of the total sales of an album in Hong Kong. In other words, if Chen Yichen's album can sell more than 5,000 copies in this HMV during the main sales period of half a year, the total sales of this album in Xiangjiang will exceed 50,000 platinum record indicators.
Because of the excellent results in the morning, Brother Keny was dancing when answering reporters' questions, and after speaking, he invited everyone to a banquet after the press conference. Brother Keny also revealed to reporters that Chen Yichen's second solo album has been brewed and mature, and the recording of the song will start in August at the latest, and it will be launched to the market by the end of this year.
This is the habit of the major record companies in Hong Kong.
When working on the first album for a new artist, the record company is actually preparing a second or even a third album at the same time, and once the first album is doing well, the second album will soon be released to the market again. If the second album can still reach the goal, then the third and fourth albums will continue to be launched outward, directly promoting the singer.
This is extremely common.
For example, Brother Xue You's first solo album "Smile" was released on August 18, 85, and it won platinum record sales that year, and a few years later, the total sales of the album reached a rare 6 platinum 300,000 copies. It was precisely because of the excellent results that just four months later, in December 85, Xue Youge's second solo album "Amour", which was still quickly sold on platinum records. Since then, Brother Xueyou's albums have been published one after another, and finally sent him to the throne of "Four Heavenly Kings" and "God of Song".
Of course, if the results of the first album are not satisfactory, then the second album that the company originally promised to do well is likely to "disappear" inexplicably. Even if the company does not give up on the singer, it will still produce and publish a second album for him (her), but the preparation period for the second album is likely to be relatively long.
Chen Yichen's new album has excellent sales on the first day, and it is expected to break through the platinum record within the year, so it is normal for Keny to announce that he is about to produce and publish his second solo album. (To be continued.) )