I didn't want to be an actor

Chapter 262 is about to be released (44)

"Zhou Jielun's Bedtime Stories" is considered to be the highest quality album of Zhou Jielun's later years, probably at the same level as "Octave Space", and much better than "The Greatest Work"!
In fact, Zhou Jielun was the first person to release a digital album in mainland China. The 14 album "Oh, Not Bad" opened the era of digital albums in China.

The digital album of "Oh, Not Bad" was released 2 days earlier than the physical album, and buyers have exclusive rights to download high-definition lossless music.

QQ Music has also designed a luxurious gift package for this purpose, including Jay Chou's confession letter, private photos, and exclusive MV highlights. Users will receive an exclusive album nameplate after purchasing.

This digital album sold 15 copies during the Christmas period alone, and it established a certain model for the sales of digital music albums in China.

Sales reached 349 million, injecting a shot in the arm to the sluggish music market. It turns out that the Internet does not necessarily play a dirge for "records".

But in the past few years, there are actually only two types of singers who can sell multiple albums and sell well:

Either they are idol singers who can make fans spend money on them;

Or you have to be a big star like Jie Lun and Lin Junjie who will never sacrifice even a penny of the popularity of their songs even if they are paid.

Singers like Xue Zhiqian and Xu Shangao, who have dominated the Chinese music scene, have been following the "free song release" model for so many years...

If mid-level original singers pay to release their songs, doesn’t that mean they are cutting off the path for their works to be known by more people?

Deng Ziqi's "Revelation" and Li Ronghao's "Across the World" have never been charged, because they know that compared to the income from a digital album, a hit song may bring more.

Shen Liang’s self-positioning is definitely that of a top celebrity…

But there are still many fans who are willing to spend money on him - the total sales of his last EP were 386 million copies, with sales exceeding 3000 million!
The album is priced at 25 yuan.

Shen Liang’s expectation is 200 million copies, so the sales volume would be 5000 million!

So, he wasn’t exaggerating when he said it was better than “Zhou Jielun’s Bedtime Stories”…

Zhang Yixin’s work has sold nearly 300 million copies, so there’s no reason why Shen Liang can’t sell more than it!
……

"Boy", "Profile", "As Wish", "People Are", "Passing by the World", "Beyond the Sky", six songs on Side A;

"The Wind Rises", "Arrogant", "Walking Fish", "Your Answer", "Mohe Dance Hall", "Looking for Him in the West Chamber", six songs on Side B;

There is also a song called "Clear", which I sang with Deng Ziqi...

Among them, "Passing By The World", "The Wind Rises" and "Walking Fish" have all been sung on "Singer" and have also been released as singles.

Oh, why not ask Meng Sanzhi to sing with you?

Or other female singers of Rocket Girls?

Aren’t they very popular?

Alas, Rocket Girls is in a mess. Lehua, the agency of Meng Shanzhi, Wu Xuanyi and Zhang Zining, issued a statement ten days before the Rocket Girls' press conference: because of signing an unequal agreement, the company's artists Meng Shanzhi, Wu Xuanyi and Zhang Zining withdrew from the Rocket Girls 101 group. It also said that the three were overworked, physically exhausted, and mentally affected.

I'm speechless. Isn't the purpose of participating in a show to debut as a group? Is it okay to hold people hostage?

If this goes on, don’t participate in talent shows in the future. What’s the point of playing if you don’t have a sense of the game!

Wow, I'm so angry...

Still cooperate?
Cooperation is bullshit! However, Lehua has Alibaba funds, so it is completely integrated into the Alibaba system...

Back to the album "Shen Liang", it was announced that it would be released on the 10th. Within 24 hours, the number of people who pre-ordered the new digital album exceeded 600 million;
Also in 24 hours, the new digital album sold over two million copies;

At noon on the 8th, the "Youth" MV was released. In just 15 minutes, the QQ Music keyword rushed to the second place on Weibo's hot search, and the real-time dynamics were full of users sharing various new songs.

Nearly one million people are currently listening to the song "Boy".

On the evening of the 8th, the music source of "Youth" was released. As of the evening of September 9th, the number of auditions of the new song was close to 12 million times...

The number of fans who have paid for the entire album of Youqian Renxing has exceeded 180 million.

That’s right, the album hasn’t even been officially released yet, but it’s already sold 3600 million copies, ranking second on the digital album bestseller list…

Not to mention the industry, even Shen Liang himself was confused!
……

“…I am a more traditional musician. I always think that Chinese music should follow its own development path…”

"In the Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, 96.8% are from the UK and the US, of which 499 are English albums and only one is not in English. Does this mean that Northern Europe, Japan, and China cannot produce good rock music?
Not necessarily. It’s mainly a matter of popularity brought by the language.

Non-English albums are inherently less popular than English albums!"

“The quality of music production… is something that can be bought with money. The production teams used by many of our popular music brands are no worse than those of the average European and American big names.

The so-called "influence" is not determined by the production level, but by whether there are points that can be spread!"

Shen Liang accepted an interview with QQ Music and talked about his music philosophy...

“The scope of the four words ‘Chinese music’ is too broad, yet too narrow. It is broad because Chinese speakers account for 20% of the world’s population, and it is narrow because the mainstream Chinese-speaking population is still concentrated in the ‘Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Mainland China’ markets. Whether it is hard power or soft power, it can only go around in this big circle and can never break out of our cultural circle.”

"Modern pop music originated in Europe and America. Most of what we play now is this. The pop music, classical music, rock music, hip-hop music, and blues you hear are all from others... We are definitely not as good as them if we play these. We also need to make our own music with national characteristics, our own ancient style songs."

“To go out into the world… I think we should go out into the masses first. Who doesn’t have a dream?”

……

The content of the interview is directly linked to the album "Shen Liang". Those who bought the album can directly see it...

On the 10th, "Nobody" was released for 13 days and the box office exceeded 6 million;
Shen Liang sent a Weibo post to thank the audience, and then sent another Weibo post a while later, "I almost forgot that my first album "Shen Liang" was officially released at noon today... I hope everyone will support it. In addition, don't buy too many... just buy one for yourself and buy another one for a friend... I have discussed with the platform, and each ID is limited to 5 copies!"

"Finally, I have something to announce. There are 3000 physical records and 500 vinyl records of "Shen Liang". They are all produced by factories that I found. They are all in my hands. You can't buy them. The studio will hold a lottery and randomly draw 3000 copies based on the numbers of the digital albums. We will send them to you... The 500 vinyl records... will be handled in a similar way. Once you get them, just listen to them yourself. You are not allowed to resell them..."

After posting the Weibo, I felt the car stop and looked at Chen Jiadong: “Are we there yet?”

Chen Jiadong stretched his head to look, then shook his head: "...Wait a minute, there's a traffic jam..."

"I told you we should take the light rail..."

"...Brother, you are very popular now, taking the light rail? How dare you say that!"

Oh, they have already arrived in Chongqing - "A Sun" is about to start filming.

(End of this chapter)