Perfect Life

Many times, many things, not necessarily who is stronger than who, the result is often always this sentence: time is, power is also.

Times make heroes.

In Li Qian's personal opinion, the album "Once You" is no better than "The False Monk". The two should be regarded as works on the same level - just like the outside world's interpretation of him, doing For the album, he always tries his best to make the works in the album as inclusive and eclectic as possible, taking into account the styles and tastes of the minority, and at the same time never taking care of himself, only playing some minor things, but paying attention to the relative popularity. Good works are also included, forming the entire album to be freely retractable.

Cui Jian, Dou Wei, Xu Wei, Huang Jiaju, Zhao Chuan, Wu Bai, Wang Feng, and maybe even Tang Dynasty, Zero Point, etc., which may appear in the rock albums of the Four Great Beauty Bands in the future, gather the peak works accumulated over the decades in that other time and space , Li Qian has sufficient confidence that whether it is word of mouth or sales, he will never lose to the flying band of this time and space. However, if you want to say that the album of Flying Band will definitely be inferior to "Once You", obviously not necessarily.

At least Li Qian himself, and even Liao Liao, Cao Zhan and others, are not so conceited.

Moreover, Li Qian is indeed looking forward to the Feixiang Band to come up with a wonderful enough album to fight against him.

However, the result is definitely not what he expected when he decided to make this album.

At this time last year, with his popularity at the time, "The False Monk" was tepid for a few weeks after it was released. Although it was not bad, I still felt that it was a little bit worse. After accumulating to a certain extent, the sales slowly climbed up. However, even so, the sales of that album were actually not considered to be explosive, but the long-term sales were relatively good. Over time, in terms of total sales, it must be a few days in China. disc level.

But "Once You" is obviously not like that.

In the first week after the new year, the entire domestic entertainment circle revolved around three hot events: First, everyone praised or criticized the Spring Festival Gala. Among them, the eleven minutes in which the four beauties were in charge of the finale was obviously an escape. A topic that cannot be opened; the second is related to the album "Once You", some people commented on the works, and some people estimated the sales of this album in the first week; third, of course, it was the infighting of the Flying Band, and it was expected that the The cancellation of the new album that will be officially released in the first half of this year.

Each of these three things is closely related to the four beauties, so it is conceivable that the topic heat on them and the attention gathered on the album "Once You" are conceivable.

The sales of this album are definitely going to break records. This is something that countless people have guessed in advance, but no one can say exactly how high its sales can be.

Li Qian's own reputation is getting bigger and bigger. The four beauties have gained more and more loyal fans in the past year, especially after the good reputation of "The False Monk". One point is the news attention drawn from the rivalry with the Flying Band since the end of last year, and another point. Of course, the eleven minutes of the Spring Festival Gala must also be crucial.

In the end, all of this will be directly reflected in the sales of "Once You".

Therefore, when next Monday comes, the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, February 15th in the Western calendar, Valentine's Day just passed, the new issue of Dongguan Bookstore's sales rankings suddenly became the focus of the entire entertainment industry.

And this data is 147,269 in a single week!

In the first week of listing, sales officially started on February 10, and by February 14, "Once You" had sold nearly 150,000 copies in Dongguan Bookstore alone! An average of nearly 30,000 copies a day!

This is a scary enough sales!

Moreover, Zhen Zhen, who just released her new album in early January this year, is on this list. Her new album is ranked second, but her weekly sales are only 13,105!

The first place is more than eleven times that of the second place!

In this regard, the overall sales data of the last week given by Dongguan Bookstore shows that the album "Once You" has occupied 78.3% of the total sales of all audio-visual products sold by Dongguan Bookstore's national sales system in the past week. %.

Everyone, including the members of the Four Great Beauty Bands, and of course Li Qian, were stunned by this data.

Without any doubt and without having to look up any information and records, everyone can be sure that the first week of "Once You" broke all the previous records for the first week in the record sales industry!

Because the gap is really too big, it's too big to imagine, so the original records don't even need to be compared!

Previously, "Sister and Sister Stand Up" by Wuxingwusu became a hit in the traditional off-season of record sales, and was praised as a phenomenon. Later, Liao Liao's "The Sound of the Waves Still" not only directly put Wuxingwusu's third album The album's sales were directly halved, and he repeatedly hit new sales highs, and was hailed as a phenomenon by the industry. Later, He Runqing's transformation was successful, and the album "Dream Chaser" created a dazzling opening sales. In between, it was unavoidably given the title of phenomenal by the media.

However, up to now, the entire pop music world, record industry, distribution companies, and media circles were shocked by the astonishing data of nearly 150,000 copies per week, and they slowly recovered, only to find out: It turned out that this is the real phenomenon level.

The so-called phenomenal level is completely outside the normal prediction range of everyone, and even to some extent, there must be all kinds of unreasonable things-there is only one Dongguan Bookstore, and they are only one hundred in the country. The chain stores around, actually sell six-digit sales in a single month, which is undoubtedly the biggest unreasonable.

However, it happened so real.

The entire pop music world lost its voice.

Then came the overwhelming reports from all the domestic media.

The Four Beauties immediately became the loudest names in the whole of China after the Lunar New Year.

Li Qian, Liao Liao, Cao Zhan, Yu Bojun, Wang Huaiyu, each of these names became legends in an instant. Under the more or less exaggeration of the media, each of them appeared to be so dazzling!

After such an amazing sales volume was released, the previous hot topics were immediately brought in again.

The Spring Festival Gala... The director team broke through many obstacles and invited the four beauties to join in, and they resisted the pressure and gave the four beauties the chance to perform at the end of the show, and it lasted as long as 11 minutes. , there is no doubt that they have successfully launched the four beauties, and this Spring Festival Gala has such a bonus on the basis of the already good overall quality, which is of course considered a success.

This is undoubtedly enough to boast about for the entire Huaxia TV Variety Department, for the director Zhao Yigu, and for the director team of the Spring Festival Gala!

"Once You"... In the face of such an astonishing sales volume, do you still have to criticize what or where it is not good? Do you really think that you have so many fans all over the country? The fans proved everything with their actions and with their banknotes!

So, flatter me, OK! Find fault, no OK!

Of course, there are always mavericks, and at such times, some newspapers and writers will jump out and attack the things that everyone is optimistic about to prove their vision and aesthetic taste. It is different, and I hope to use this to gain attention and gain sales, but it is obvious that in the current overwhelming praise across the country, such reports and remarks will soon be like sand in a river, or washed away by water. Walk, or simply sink to the bottom and become part of the riverbed.

And then...the Flying Band.

Since the infighting incident and the fighting incident were exposed at the time, the major media in Shuntian Prefecture have been chasing the members of the Feixiang Band and Xinda Records closely in the recent period, hoping to dig out even bigger news.

And with the phenomenal sales of "Once You" in the first week, the previous fight between the flying bands was instantly interpreted by the media with their brains wide open. , there is the theory of changing songs, the theory of uneven distribution of benefits, and the theory of Feixiang Band's request for a price increase.

In short, all kinds of negative news are coming.

Due to the increasing pressure from the media and fans, on Wednesday, February 17th, the third day after the release of the Dongguan Bookstore sales chart, Zhou Zhao, general manager of Xinda Records, joined hands with the manager of Feixiang Band. Zheng Mo, and Ma Aishu, one of the troikas of the Flying Band and rhythm guitar, jointly held a press conference.

At the press conference, Ma Aishu came forward and denied the rumors of infighting and fighting in the Feixiang Band. Of course, he also frankly admitted that within the band, everyone had some differences on the creation style of the album, which would affect the album. The creation of this album has a certain influence, but there is no doubt that everyone still supports Lao Xiao's creation. In the future, the release time of this album will be postponed to the second half of the year, but the style must still be the style of Feixiang Band, or the rock Lao Xiao's. style.

As for the media who have repeatedly asked whether it was because after hearing "Once You", the band was worried that the album would fail both in word of mouth and sales after the album was released, so there was infighting, so the release of the album was postponed. Ma Aishu did not agree. words, and their agent, Zheng Mo, dismissed this statement.

However, it was useless. The two protagonists in the infighting and the fight, Xiao Aiguo and Geng Le, were not present, which was enough for the media to draw all kinds of conjectures. A reporter took a photo of Geng Le getting drunk at a nightclub. The photos and reports were released the next day. The Band-Aid on the corner of Geng Le's eyes, and his drunken-eyed appearance instantly made Ma Aishu appear at the previous press conference. The righteous rebuttal became a joke.

Then rumors flowed within the industry: Feixiang Band was facing disintegration, only one step away!

The band faced a huge vortex of disbanding, plunging this hall-level band even more deeply into the negative press.

With the passage of time, the annual leave has ended, and everyone has returned to work. After that, the students have started school one after another. With the passing of the Lantern Festival, this week is about to end, and the results of "Once You" in the second week of listing , and immediately became the absolute focus of attention of the entire domestic music scene and domestic entertainment circle!

Obviously, the eleven minutes at the Spring Festival Gala have a bonus effect. Over the years, the Spring Festival Gala has always been popular with some people, and those people's albums, including old albums and new albums, will always usher in a quite gratifying increase in sales after the Spring Festival Gala - this is also the reason for the Spring Festival Gala. One of the reasons why singers of all sizes in the entire domestic music circle are flocking to it.

However, nearly 150,000 sales in a single week!

This increase, even if the Spring Festival Gala only contributed a part of it, is already scary enough, and it has completely surpassed all the singers who have become popular through the Spring Festival Gala before.

Even inside the record industry, as well as a considerable number of music critics, and inside the media, they are speculating that although such an amazing sales volume was obtained in the first week, it is probably due to concentrated consumption-in fact In everyone's thinking, although the total domestic record market has been soaring in recent years, it suddenly jumped from the sales level of 40,000 to 50,000 per week to nearly 150,000 per week. , certainly still unreasonable.

Even if there is the bonus of the Spring Festival Gala, even if there are Li Qian and Liao Liao, two hot figures with both strength and scandal in the four beauty bands, even if this album is really excellent, but the single-six-digit sales volume , is still inflated.

In the second week, after the initial hotness, after the bonuses of the Spring Festival Gala gradually subsided, and when some of the ardent fans had spent their money on what they should have bought, countless experts predicted that , In the week from February 15th to February 21st, the sales of the album "Once You" should fall back to a normal level.

To this end, many well-known newspapers even set up columns this weekend, inviting industry celebrities to make an inventory, comment, and estimate on the album's track, style, level, and subsequent sales. .

According to the values ​​generally estimated by experts, considering that the explosion of sales this week will inevitably consume a lot of purchasing power, so in the second week of listing, as long as "Once You" can be stable at 30,000 copies in a single It will have a healthy long-term sales curve, then this album will not only be a blockbuster, but if it continues to sell for a long time, this album has strength and can completely rank in the historical total sales list. Several albums by Liao Liao, Wuxing Wusu and He Runqing were all killed.

Of course, if after the ebb in the second week, this album can still get sales of more than 40,000 in a single, then, considering that rock is small but can be sold for a long time, and in fact "False Monk" is indeed a The factor of winning by long-term sales, then, it will become the number one sales among all records in the domestic music circle, and it will be even more certain.

However, what if there are more than 50,000 copies in a single? Or, higher?

Experts didn't say, didn't discuss.

And it's not that one person, or a few people, didn't say it, it was all the newspapers and experts who gave their special pages on this Saturday and Sunday to selectively ignore this possibility collectively and consistently.

Obviously, everyone agreed that after selling nearly 150,000 copies in the first week, setting a sales record that is almost impossible for anyone to break, the potential consumer group and purchasing power of this album have been greatly consumed. It's gone, so, in the second week, it's just five thousand words... that's completely impossible!

However, in another day, on February 22, another Monday, when the new issue of Dongguan Bookstore's sales rankings was released, all the experts were slapped one by one!

In the second week of listing, the sales of "Once You" plummeted, but... 114,892 copies in a single week!

Many of the opinions analyzed by the experts in the column are actually not wrong. Because of the bonus of the Spring Festival Gala, this album has been known by hundreds of millions of audiences and fans across the country before it was released. Last year's holiday just happened to catch up with everyone who either had red envelopes in their hands, or was the time of the year when they had the most spare money and leisure time. Therefore, before this album was released, it had already received a large number of orders, and it was time to wait until it was released. On that day, naturally, it quickly got heart-pounding sales!

Within a week of the listing, so many were sold, and the potential consumers and purchasing power were released a lot at once. This analysis must be extremely correct, but, obviously, they still ignored the overall capacity of the domestic record market today. question.

After the development in recent years, especially after the large-scale development from 1993 to this year, the entire domestic record market has blossomed, and the superstars such as Liao Liao and He Runqing are not absent, but the whole market is so big. The potential consumption power of capacity has not yet been truly explored.

This can only be seen by seeing the popularity of Liao Liao and the fact that the new album can only be sold in Dongguan Bookstore with sales of 40,000 copies in a single week.

In fact, the entire market has developed to the present, even if it is just Dongguan Bookstore, it already has the market foundation for the emergence of super albums that sell over 100,000 copies in a week.

This is the so-called time.

Since Geng Le took the initiative to provoke, the four beauties temporarily decided to make a new album to show their attitude. This kind of news has been brewing until the eleven-minute Spring Festival Gala finale. The two songs must have feelings. The popularity must be popular, coupled with the frequent outbreak of various news events that follow, making such a current situation, such an opportunity, finally ripe.

Therefore, the astonishing sales volume of nearly 150,000 copies in the first week is not enough. In the second week of listing, under the unanimous view of the media and experts, a rock album like "Once You" has once again become a strong one. It has sold more than 110,000 copies in a single week!

The entire domestic music scene, in the face of such sales, is almost collectively aphasia.

The infighting incident in the Feixiang Band, Geng Le's late-night drunkenness exposed the truth of the matter, will this lead to the dissolution of this hall-level band... and so on, these problems are no longer a problem, or in other words, the media They don't want to make their bad idea a hot topic in the report anymore.

Because it is no longer needed.

Because, after the Feixiang Band quit the music scene for many years, and after the rock music was in slump for many years, another great, palace-level, and master-level band has appeared!

Twelve days after the listing, Dongguan Bookstore sold a total of 262,161 copies! It is expected that the national sales will exceed 5 million copies!

This achievement is unprecedented not only in the domestic pop music scene, but even in the mature Western record market. In the huge market including North America and Europe, it got about 5 million copies within 12 days of listing. The sales volume is definitely the top data!

What's more, the data in the hands of everyone is only in China! Many people in the industry know that Minghu Culture is one of the few record companies in China that has independent distribution channels in Southeast Asia.

In fact, although it shows that the channel of Lake Culture in Southeast Asia has only been established for more than half a year, it has not yet been fully rolled out. Even for sales in Southeast Asia, Minghu Culture has always been a secret attitude and refused to disclose it to the public, but According to information from insiders, last year, He Runqing's "The Price of Love" and Rose Power's "Super-star" also adopted the strategy of simultaneous listing in Southeast Asia. It is said that the two albums were released in Southeast Asia. The speed of goods is about one-third of the domestic record market, and nearly 40%. You must know that He Runqing is very popular in Southeast Asia, and the power of roses is also rapidly rising, but Liao Liao and Li Qian are in Southeast Asia. That is also quite appealing. To a certain extent, the popularity and appeal of the four beauties in Southeast Asia with the two topical characters of Li Qian and Liao Liao are not even weaker than He Runqing! Therefore, if it is estimated based on this, in fact, the album "Once You" is likely to have sold 7 million copies worldwide after 12 days of listing!

In the past, in everyone's impression, those international superstars in the European and American music circles, domestic singers, musicians and practitioners in the industry, can't help but admire them. This kind of envy is not entirely a recognition of the works of European and American superstars, but to a considerable extent, it is envy that the other party has such a broad and mature market, and that every album released by the other party can always be obtained. Such a large sales volume - sales volume, means income, but also means influence.

Therefore, in advance of a certain superstar in Europe and the United States, the more people in the industry, the more they can’t help but feel envious and helpless. Speaking of someone’s new album, it broke one million and three hundred in a week as soon as it was released. Wan Zhang, while drooling with envy, was helpless and a little inferior.

As for those superstars in Europe and America, there are often one to several top albums with global sales of over 30 million copies and 50 million copies sold, and everyone is even more impressed.

However, at this moment, the entire domestic music scene suddenly discovered that we already have such a big market, and we already have so many fans who are willing to pay for albums!

Although the four beauties and their "Once You" are definitely phenomenal, a level that is impossible for ordinary singers to achieve, but at least, our Chinese music circle, our Chinese music circle~www.wuxiaspot .com~ There is already such a hall-level band that can compete with European and American superstars without losing sales, isn't it?

Since there is a first time, then the second time...maybe it will appear soon?

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Thursday, February 25.

Huaxia Daily, which has always been regarded as the largest domestic newspaper and a recognized mouthpiece of the government, published a front-page commentary article with the headline - "Our Nation Needs to Fly Higher!" 》

So far, since the Spring Festival Gala shook the whole of China in 11 minutes, the "Four Beauties" after the whole year has climbed to the top!

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In addition, I really want to say that such a "watering" chapter in many people's mouths is really really mind-consuming, even more than writing an album, writing two people bickering, writing two or three people flirting. , It would be much harder to write a monkey that jumped out for Li Qian to pretend to be slapped in the face! (To be continued.)