Chapter 172 White Shirt and Jeans
The domestic music scene in August still belonged to Liao Liao.
The album "The Sound of the Waves Still" set amazing sales records one after another in July, which frightened many singers to temporarily adjust the release date of their new album, ranging from two to three weeks to five or six weeks at most. In short, Try to postpone it as far as possible, but it's only for one July, obviously it's not the whole of the album "The Sound of the Waves Still".
August 1st is Monday. From this day, "The Sound of the Waves Still" has entered its fifth week of listing.
Then, in the next four weeks, "The Sound of the Waves Still" won sales of 32,551, 30,814, 28,519, and 26,586 in a single week at Dongguan Bookstore. at the top of the leaderboard. Eight weeks after its release, this album has steadily sold more than 254,000 copies at Dongguan Bookstore alone!
Even if it may not be available for the time being, it already means that the national sales volume of this album has infinitely approached the five million mark!
Yes, next, all high schools, junior high schools and universities across the country will start school one after another, and the sales of all cultural and entertainment products will surely plummet immediately. However, in this unstoppable summer vacation, "Tao The brilliance of the album "The Sound Is Still" has already been built.
Over 20,000 copies per week for eight consecutive weeks!
Breaking through 30,000 copies in a single week for four consecutive weeks!
The highest single week is 38552!
And in the foreseeable next week, although "The Sound of the Waves" cannot escape the market law that sales will inevitably plummet after the end of the summer vacation, it still has a high chance of continuing to maintain sales of more than 20,000 copies!
It can be said that it is a foregone conclusion that this album will exceed 8 million sales within a year.
Although there is still a certain gap between the current big names among European and American pop singers who can easily sell 12 million or 15 million copies within a year, but for the Chinese music scene, this is already unprecedented. Great stride forward!
The market is becoming more and more mature, the strength of the singers, the quality of the songs, and the dedication of the production, all brought about by this kind of market feedback-a complete sales explosion.
Of course, although Liao Liao was the strongest in the Chinese music scene throughout August, many singers released new albums one after another in the last two weeks of August, and to the surprise of many people, despite " The Sound of the Waves is still strong after more than a month on the market, but those singers who released their albums with huge risks are not so vulnerable.
On Wednesday, August 17th, Liu Mingliang officially released his new album "You and My Love".
Once this album was released, it was considered by many professionals as a sign of Liu Mingliang's complete transformation - different from the previous style of folk songs and folk songs, in this new album, Liu Mingliang has completely turned to folk songs! There are 11 new songs in the whole album, and there are only 8 folk songs alone. He used to be the best folk song, but there are only 2!
Moreover, to the surprise of many people in the circle, in the album "You and My Love", there is actually a purely pop-style urban love song - "The Promised Love Continues".
On Tuesday, August 23rd, Huang Yuqing, a male singer who was always considered to be between the second-tier and the first-tier singers, also released his fourth studio album - " Rainy Day".
Huang Yuqing was originally an urban love song singer, since his debut, but a few years ago, due to the weakness of love songs in the entire record market, the sales of his first few albums have not increased, although there are still many fans I like and firmly support, including Li Qian, who sang several of his works when he was selling and singing in restaurants, but before this "Rainy Day" was released, he was always classified as a Singers of niche genres.
But this time, as the total market volume is gradually increasing, on the one hand, after the bombardment of Liao Liao and Wu Xing Wu Su, the market is more interested in love songs—whether fast songs or slow songs, in short, love songs— The degree of acceptance and recognition is constantly increasing, especially the younger fans, who have begun to fall into the camp of love songs on a large scale. On the other hand, Huang Yuqing's new album has been made with great care. Many of his works have borrowed some ideas, while integrating them into his own style. In this album, several songs are quite outstanding.
As a result, Huang Yuqing suddenly rose up.
On August 22nd, in Dongguan Bookstore’s sales rankings, Liu Mingliang’s new album "You and My Love", which was released for the first week, challenged "The Sound of the Waves Still", which had been on the market for seven weeks, but failed.
Although "The Sound of the Waves" has shown signs of decline, it still leads the sales list with 28,519 copies. And "You and My Love" ranked second with 21,754 sales.
On the one hand, this certainly shows the strength of Liao Liao, because for Liu Mingliang personally, after only selling for five days in the first week, he got a weekly sales volume of more than 20,000 copies. It's normal sales.
But on the other hand, in the face of "The Sound of the Waves Is Still" which has been released for the seventh week, Liu Mingliang's new album has such a weak performance, which makes people have to sigh with emotion. He made a big turn around, completely invested in the camp of folk songs, and even rolled up his sleeves to play the most popular urban love song at the moment, but he still seemed unable to stop his gradual decline.
When it came to the second week of "You and My Love", many people thought that with the inevitable decline of "The Sound of the Waves" and the inevitable development of "You and My Love" in the second week, this week "You and My Love" probably has a lot of hope to overthrow Liao Liao.
But when the latest sales ranking of Dongguan Bookstore came out on August 29, it shocked everyone's attention.
"The Sound of the Waves Are Still", Liao Liao, in the eighth week, 26,586, ranking first.
"Rainy Day", Huang Yuqing, ranked second with 23,916 copies in the first week.
"You and My Love", Liu Mingliang, ranked third with 23,453 copies in the second week.
Liu Mingliang not only failed to overthrow "The Sound of the Waves" which continued to slide, but was directly smashed to the ground by Huang Yuqing!
Moreover, this is the second week of the release of "You and My Love". According to the almost irreversible market law, this should be the week with the highest sales volume of Liu Mingliang's album, and his new rival Huang Yuqing's new The album "Rainy Day" was only released for the first week, and it only sold for six days!
However, the second-tier singer Huang Yuqing directly KO'ed the top singer Liu Tianwang!
Although in fact "Rainy Day" only sold about 400 more copies than "You and My Love", but if it surpasses it, it surpasses it! What's more, they are still at an absolute disadvantage in publicity, fame, etc., and the quality of the album alone abruptly surpasses the past!
Although it is said that after seeing the data, Huang Yuqing himself was so frightened that he could not speak for a few minutes before he realized that he should be happy. However, Huang Yuqing's successful counterattack this time showed very clearly to all popular music fans. Practitioners in the industry conveyed a message - the era of urban love songs has really come!
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Zou Wenhuai parked the car and went down. When he reached the door, he opened the door and walked in. It happened that Wu Ma was watering the flowers in the yard. When she saw him coming, she greeted him with a smile, "Mr. Zou is here."
Zou Wenhuai closed the gate, nodded at her, and strode towards the main room along the corridor in the middle of the yard, but when he passed her, he stopped suddenly. After thinking for a while, he turned his head to look at Wu Ma, and lowered his voice , asked: "How has she been these days?"
Wu Ma nodded and said, "It's pretty good. Apart from still being in a daze, there's nothing else. I look pretty good, and she's gained a little weight. She doesn't drink anymore, and pays for every meal. Eat some of them, sometimes a small bowl of rice, sometimes a steamed flower roll that I steamed for her. But, she still smokes, if she can quit smoking, it will be perfect!"
Zou Wenhuai nodded, thought for a while, then smiled at Mama Wu, and said, "Okay, I see, then you are busy!" He raised his leg to move forward, but before he could take a step, he retracted it again, and Question: "The person who sent her back last time really never appeared again?"
Without thinking about it, Mama Wu shook her head firmly, "No! I haven't been here once, and I haven't even called."
After a pause, she said again: "You know, in the first two days, she was so anxious that she wandered around the house like crazy. At that time, I was afraid that she would set the house on fire. Hey! But later, it got better slowly, especially in the past few days, she listens to music every day, that is, the small box of records you gave her years ago, she listens to it every day recently. Although she still likes to be in a daze, But I can see her laughing several times almost every day. She even came out to water the flowers by herself yesterday!"
Hearing this, Zou Wenhuai first nodded and smiled with satisfaction, then squinted his eyes and muttered to himself, "This is really a bit evil! She actually started eating and quit drinking! Who could this be? I really want to meet him!"
Wu Ma heard the words and answered him in a low voice, "Hei, he looks young, he is tall and handsome, and the young man looks very energetic. Can he have... maybe 1.85 meters? He doesn't dress very well. , or it may be because he just came back from outside. The car he drives is not small, but it is quite dirty. Oh, by the way, the lady seemed to mention it yesterday, saying that the young man is from Jinan and has just been admitted to our Shuntian Prefecture. There's a school next to it, it's... to learn something... Oh, look at my brain!"
She was only thinking about it, and didn't notice it at all. Zou Wenhuai was a little dumbfounded, "Stop! You mean, the person who sent her back was a college student? He just entered college?"
Wu Ma nodded, "Ah! No! When Miss said it yesterday, I recalled it myself. Didn't that young man look young? He just looked calm!"
Zou Wenhuai hesitated for a moment, his eyes blinked, and he couldn't help thinking wildly.
This is important information!
He never lost confidence in Zhou Mo's voice and singing skills, but he never had the slightest confidence in Zhou Mo's ability to survive and distinguish.
Young, just entered university, he has a good car, and he sounds like the kind of person who likes to drive around the country - isn't this what many rich men are like?
That's right!
It's broken, it's broken now!
How could this girl not remember the pain after being beaten like that!
The bad old man last time had already ruined her and her career, but this time it's good, if he meets a playboy... well, then it's all over!
No matter how famous Zhou Mo is, she can't stand up to the consumption of one crop after another, and she can't stop releasing new songs for so many years in a row! No matter how prosperous the market is, you don’t produce new songs, not to mention your reputation being consumed, the rising newcomers will sooner or later push your position in the industry away, and with more choices, fans, even those hardcore fans Fans, will also gradually shift camps!
The music world is like this, you can be willful, as long as you sing well, as long as your album sells well, no matter how self-willed you are, there will always be companies and fans who are willing to praise you, but if you are too self-willed, even after many years, you will not be a bird at all. Company and fans, you can’t bring sales and profits to the record company, and you can’t bring constant good new songs to loyal fans, so who would be so stupid to keep guarding and praising you?
Thinking of this, Zou Wenhuai couldn't bear it anymore, left Mama Wu in the yard, strode to the door, pushed the door open, and shouted symbolically, "Mom, it's me, I came in ah!"
He pushed the door open and went in, and saw Zhou Mo coming out of the room holding a skirt——Zou Wenhuai was a little stunned the first time he saw her, it was rare in the past year or so, she was actually wearing a flowery skirt, and It seems to have light makeup on?
Seeing Zou Wenhuai come in, Zhou Mo smiled at him and asked, "What are you muttering to Mama Wu in the yard?" At the same time, she didn't even think about asking Zou Wenhuai to answer, she just shook the dress with the hanger in her hand and put it on the Comparing myself in front of him, I asked, "How is it, does it look good?"
Zou Wenhuai froze for a moment, and asked, "Are you...going out?"
Zhou Mo blinked her eyes and said, "No! Oh, it's like this. In two or three days, I have a friend who is going to come to Shuntian Mansion, so I haven't tidied myself up for a long time, so I'll try on my clothes. ..." At this point, she sighed, "Oh, I really want to go out and buy clothes. It seems like I haven't bought clothes for many years!"
Zou Wenhuai pushed his glasses and looked at her, "Mom, your friend...do I know you?"
Zhou Mo glanced at him, her eyes couldn't tell whether she was smiling or not, it was like a small knife, swishing, she even raised her voice, pretending, and asked: "Just now you and Wu Ma were outside Muttering this, isn't it?"
Zhou Mo turned around, leaving behind him a figure in a flowery skirt.
"whispering sound!"
After a while, she took out another set of clothes. The upper body was a very ordinary short-sleeved plaid shirt, and the lower body was a pair of washed jeans. Compared with her body, she asked, "What about this one?"
Zou Wenhuai thought for a while, and asked directly: "Your friend has just been admitted to university, right? Are you going to send him to school?"
Zhou Mo glanced at him again after hearing the words, "No?"
Zou Wenhuai sighed helplessly, "Mom, can we stop making trouble?"
While speaking, he picked up his briefcase, opened it, reached out and took out his notepad, flipped it to the middle, and pointed at Zhou Mo, "Sony, Xinda, Huage, Times, New Oriental, are you Don't want to know what quotations they gave you respectively? And..."
While talking, he reached out and took out a piece of paper from his bag, unfolded it, held it in his hand, shook it, and said, "Huang Yuqing, you should be familiar with it, right? You are old friends, right? His previous albums were hard to surpass a million copies, but do you know how many copies his new album has sold? "Rainy Day", urban love songs, your way, in the first week of release, the publicity is not as good as He is not as famous as him, but he killed Liu Mingliang directly!"
After a pause, he stared straight at Zhou Mo, and said, "Dongguan Bookstore has nearly 24,000 copies in a single week! In the first week of listing, I will directly kill Liu Mingliang, who is in the outbreak period in the second week, Momo." Mom, you are also a person in this industry, you know the industry, can you tell me what this means?"
After a pause, he saw that Momo Zhou just stared at him with wide-eyed eyes, remained motionless and did not speak, so he asked himself and answered, "I tell you Momo, next week, Huang Yuqing will not only be able to continue to suppress Liu Mingliang, She can even keep Liao Liao, who has dominated the list for eight weeks! Frankly speaking, I was shocked when the sales ranking came out, but I figured it out soon. There are many people who have already figured it out, or will figure it out in the next few days, that is, the era of singers belonging to Huang Yuqing, belonging to you, and your genre has come!"
Zhou Mo still didn't speak, just staring at him with a pair of clear eyes.
Zou Wenhuai made her subconsciously reach out and push his glasses, but he still continued: "Liu Mingliang has dominated the music scene for many years, but now, he is about to pass out, and not only him, He Runqing, Feng Feifei, Zhang Chang, and a large number of others People, those old people, as long as they can't keep up with the current development trend, they will be eliminated soon! And you, you, Huang Yuqing, Liao Liao, you are the leaders of the next decade !"
Having said that, he finally slowly put away the sales rankings and notepad in his hand, sighed, looked at Zhou Mo seriously, and said with great sincerity: "So, Momo, can you listen to me? What do you want to do, no matter who you will fall in love with in the future, at least for now, let's sign a company, release a new album, and catch up with the most important one or two years of this transition between the old and the new, you must not be eliminated, you You have to follow this trend, get the position that should belong to you, and then, even if the market position is stabilized, let's be lazy and play tricks, okay?"
He paused, as if he was afraid that Zhou Mo would not pay enough attention to it, and he specially emphasized, "The old and the new are changing, Momo, I'm not alarmist, it's true! If you haven't shown up in these two years, no Release a new album, then wait until this wave of old and new in the music world is complete, and wait until a large wave of new singers have taken over, whether you like it or not, fans and record companies will think that you are already a person from the previous era , the meaning...do you understand what I mean?"
Zhou Mo still looked at him fixedly.
After talking for a long time, it seemed that he felt that all he had to say had been said, and Zou Wenhuai also looked at her fixedly.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Zhou Mo asked him, "Are you finished?"
Zou Wenhuai nodded, "It's over, at least what I should and can say, I've broken it up for you, what to do next is up to you!"
After a pause, he let out an "oh" and said, "By the way, on the way here, Xie Mingyuan from Sony called me again. He probably saw the sales list of this issue, so it should be He is more optimistic about your comeback. What he meant by calling is that as long as you agree to go to Sony and agree to come back, everything is negotiable. In addition, he promised me that he will invite the most famous talent in the industry at any cost Li Qian, I will write you a title song, and he even said that he will work hard to get Li Qian to write your first comeback album, and strive to be a hit!"
Zhou Mo looked at him without speaking, her clear and bright eyes didn't even blink.
After Zou Wenhuai finished speaking, he shrugged helplessly and said, "This time, I really finished talking. What do you want to say, just say it!"
Zhou Mo finally nodded.
After a while, her eyes suddenly became alive again, and even the expression on her face suddenly became alive again. She shook the clothes in her hand and asked, "Then what do you think, a plaid shirt and jeans are combined together?" , will it look too messy? Otherwise, how about I wear a white shirt on the upper body?"
Zou Wenhuai looked at her in astonishment, speechless for a long time.