Chapter 054: The Battle for Album Sales (1)
Because he successfully won the role of Gong Xiuning, Ye Jinchu stayed in the crew that day and officially joined the filming the next day, but the news was not announced, Director Zhang never liked to engage in gimmicks during the filming of the movie, and always refused to be visited by reporters.
Zhang Jianye is indeed quite strict, and Ye Jinchu is being NG hundreds of times a day under his almost harsh requirements.
But she is hard-working, serious and smart, and her acting skills have progressed rapidly, many old actors who play with her are full of praise for her, even Zhang Jianye is surprised, he has not met such a spiritual actor for many years, and more importantly, she is still so young and has a promising future.
But "Puppet" seems to be destined for many disasters from the beginning, and a month after the start of the filming, another big event happened to the crew, and the second female car accident was just half a month after the first time.
This time, it was Bai Chuxin, the heroine who played Qi Jingyun, who was photographed by the paparazzi having a private meeting with a family director in the industry in a hotel.
Bai Chuxin's third party stepped in, and the bright and solid black material appeared on the front pages of major entertainment newspapers, and the Internet was full of photos of the two of them without discipline.
Zhang Jianye can accept actors who are shoehorned in and have no acting skills, because he is confident that he has the ability to train waste into an acting school, but he will never use bad artists.
There is a liability clause in each actor contract signed with the crew, which clearly states that "those who have illegal and criminal acts such as xd and prostitution, and those who have personal bad deeds that affect the filming of the crew, will be fired from the crew and bear the corresponding losses of the crew".
Bai Chuxin's involvement in the junior is of course a bad deed, so she will not only be fired from the crew, but also pay a large amount of liquidated damages to the crew.
But there are a lot of troubles for the crew, after all, the matter of the second female has just been solved, but I didn't expect the first female to have an accident again, Zhang Jianye was so angry that he couldn't even shoot the drama, and announced that he would stop work for a few days, and the specific resumption time was notified.
And yesterday evening, Lu Nian and Fan Zhiran's new albums were officially released at the same time, because the turmoil caused by the 'internal event' finally ushered in a decisive battle.
As the fuse of this battle, although Ye Jinchu was busy with the filming of the crew, of course, he did not stop paying attention to the trend of this matter, Yicheng Entertainment's actions were very fast, and after she made a suggestion, it quickly became operational, and signed a contract with Tesco Mall to open the Lu Nian album purchase column, which will be opened at the same time as the album is launched.
Everyone knows that the next battle will be a tough battle, and the most beneficial point for Yicheng Entertainment is that the production of Fan Zhiran's new album is not long, if they move quickly, they may be able to stagger Fan Zhiran's release time.
So while the MV shooting was still underway, the post-production team of One City had already begun to work overtime, striving to complete the entire production of the album as soon as possible.
At the same time, Lu Nian was also arranged by the company with various promotional activities, not only to promote the upcoming TV series, but also to promote the new album, and there are more and more discussions about him on the Internet.
Discuss his beauty in his prosperous life, and discuss the dispute between him and Fan Zhiran for album sales......
Of course, Fan Zhiran's side also started the promotion of the new album, and the publicity methods are even more varied, the most eye-catching thing is that Feng Chime posted a video on her blog, the content is to ask fans to support Fan Zhiran's new album, and bet with fans that if the sales exceed 500,000 in the first week, she will dance a striptease to celebrate.
Wind chimes were originally the focus of Yicheng Entertainment's cultivation object, and she has put a lot of effort into her in the past two years, and she has filmed several dramas before cooperating with Lu Nian, and she has a certain popularity, which can be regarded as second-tier, and her character is gentle and elegant, and she usually dresses mostly in the intellectual style of the forest, and rarely shows off her sexiness.
So her bet that can be called a temptation has certainly aroused heated discussions among netizens, and many people said that they would buy a record even for the goddess's striptease and share it with Fan Shen's sales.
Ye Jinchu glanced at the howling wolf sound under the wind chime blog, and couldn't help but scold: "This wind chime is really ruthless!" ”
The advent of the digital age has dealt a huge blow to the Huaxia record market, although it has not been as bad as ten years later, but it is still quite difficult to break 500,000 sales in a single week, even for a superstar singer like Fan Zhiran, his new album sales last year were only 200,000 in the first week, and the total sales were only 670,000.
Even if it receives more attention today because of the dispute with Lu Nian, it doesn't mean that sales will grow by leaps and bounds, Ye Jinchu has the memory of the original owner, she can remember that Fan Zhiran's last album was published in 2007, and he hasn't released an album in the next ten years.
This at least shows that the quality of his album this year is not high, and it is even very likely that it will be completely hit the street, so the habit of maintaining it for ten years has been interrupted.
"Huh, half a million? I can afford to look up to myself! Ye Jinchu couldn't help but mock.
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On Children's Day on June 1, Lu Nian's "Initial Heart" and Fan Zhiran's "The Road I Walked" were released on this day, and Yicheng Entertainment also made efforts at the same time, and the shopping malls, landmark buildings, and squares with the largest flow of people in large and medium-sized cities all appeared on the huge cover posters of Lu Nian's "First Heart".
Not only that, each portal and website homepage has a purchase link of Lu Nian's "First Heart", and clicking on the poster will jump directly to the Tesco platform.
This cover poster is cut into two parts, which are two completely different expressions on the left and right sides of Lu Nian's face, his phoenix eyes on the left side of his face are raised, looking directly at the direction of the camera, the cold light in his eyes makes people feel his strength and domineering, and the corners of his lips are confidently and flamboyant; On the contrary, the right side of the face is half-drooping, the long eyelashes form two curved shadows under the eyelids, a line of clear tears is slowly sliding down the cheeks, and there is a shallow trace of blood on the slightly pursed lips, which is a trace of biting out by the teeth.
The contrast between the two has attracted the attention of many people.
"Ouch, which handsome guy is this, it's weird and cute."
"This is Lu Nian, right? It's too good-looking. ”
"This poster is a good shot."
"After reading the poster, I don't know why I want to buy an album to listen to it, and I wonder why he cries?"
"yes, I want to hear it too, and I want to watch the music video."
"Yes, yes, let's go to the video store."
"Don't go, I've been looking for it before, and the video store hasn't bought it at all."
"Why don't you stock it?"
"Who knows, but I heard that Tesco Mall can be purchased online, I have already placed an order just now, anyway, there is Tesco in the same city, and it will be delivered soon."
"Online shopping? Can it still be like this? I'll check it out too. ”
The advantage of good-looking people is obvious, and in terms of appearance alone, a hundred Fan Zhiran are not Lu Nian's opponents.
In addition to opening the record online shopping channel, Lu Nian's personal blog and Qiao Zehan's personal blog also opened the purchase link of Lu Nian's "First Heart" digital album at the same time, and other platforms also have to charge, which means that if you want to listen to Lu Nian's songs online, you must pay for it.
At Yip's suggestion, the digital album appeared a few years earlier than the scheduled track.
This era is the period when MP3 and MP4 are popular, but the awareness of music copyright has not yet developed, many people download pirated songs, and the emergence of digital versions is also the main reason for the end of the record era and even the increasing downturn and decline of the Chinese music scene.
If we can build up the copyright awareness of fans at such a critical moment of the changing times, it will play a vital role in the music industry.
Of course, Ye Jinchu didn't care about whether the music scene would be sluggish at all, she was just thinking about Lu Nian, after all, he wanted the third-line development of film and television songs, so he mentioned the importance of digital albums to Qiao Zehan at that time.
Qiao Zehan's credibility in the music industry is obvious to all, she has observed his blog, the number of fans has exceeded 500,000, this number is very amazing at the moment, and more importantly, the loyalty of his fans is very high, many musicians are his loyal fans, if he can take the lead in establishing music copyright awareness at this time, maybe he can bring new vitality to the Chinese music scene.
The facts were just as Ye Jinchu expected, although Qiao Zehan didn't say anything at the time, only said that he would think about it, but his actions already showed that he attached great importance to this matter.
When he opened the digital purchase of copyright, he also wrote a letter called "To Music" on his blog very sincerely, the content of the letter is very simple, just said his feelings about the music industry in recent years, there is no sensationalism, no agitation, but people feel his sincerity, Ye Jinchu especially likes the last sentence at the end of his article.
"When you listen to other people's work and enjoy the fruits of their labor, you should be paid the same value, just like there is no free lunch in the world, I don't think it's too much."
Yes, not excessively.
Piracy is always wrong, and there is no right to comment on the quality of the work.
Of course, there are supports and opposition to digital copyright fees on the Internet, and the reasons for those who support them are strange, but the reasons for those who oppose them are the same - "Isn't it just a broken song?" Collecting money is too much. ”
Ye Jinchu never bothered to correct the thoughts of some people with uncorrect views, it would be a waste of time.
She now only cares about sales and the public's evaluation of Lu Nian's album.
When she proposed to let them publish digital copyrights simultaneously, she also mentioned that they should take the initiative to contact the national network management department, and that network supervision during this period was not as difficult as ten years later.
Obviously, the power of capital is still quite powerful, the pirated audio of Lu Nian's album has never appeared, and the songs on the shelves of major music stations need to be paid to listen.
And Lu Nian also became the first singer in Huaxia to charge for songs online, and as a newcomer, he created a historical precedent.
Yicheng Entertainment also pays attention to this matter like Ye Jinchu, and every hour there is a special person to verify the sales data of the Tesco Mall and the sales of physical stores, not all agents are boycotting Lu Nian, after all, Fan Zhiran is not strong enough to dominate the whole of China, and he has only truncated a small part.
But the situation still seems to be unfavorable to Lu Nian, the physical sales on the first day were less than 10,000, but Fan Zhiran's side has already broken 30,000.