Twenty days have passed in December.
Although Jiang Kan is one of the participating singers in the Newcomer Championship List, he actually doesn't put much energy into it.
Instead, I diligently study the various theoretical knowledge required as a singer and a composer every day, and work hard to turn them into practice.
As for his ranking, he feels that as a pure newcomer, he is very satisfied to be in the top ten.
On the contrary, there was one thing that he always kept in mind.
"Hey, Zhiheng~"
During the lunch break, he was half lying on a single sofa in the lounge and dialed Liu Zhiheng's number.
"Hey, Kan, what's up?"
The voice on the other end was very noisy, and there were toasts and glasses clinking. It seemed like they were at some kind of dinner party.
"Well... I don't have anything else to do. I just want to ask Boss Zhou Dongzhou and his band, how are they doing now? And that song "Cold Rainy Night", have they put it to any use?"
That's right, what he had been thinking about these past two days was the song "Cold Rainy Night" that he found out from the treasure chest.
According to the introduction of the system, this song seems to be sung by a very, very famous band on the other side of the earth. It has achieved great success and social response, and also has a high historical status in the music industry.
I don’t know what kind of feedback they will get after handing it over to Boss Zhou and the others.
Jiang Kan was looking forward to it.
"Ha, Brother Kan, this song of yours... ah, wait a minute, I'll talk to you in a quieter place."
Then the phone was silent for a while, it was probably Liu Zhiheng who was leaving the place to eat.
"Hey, Brother Kan, let me tell you, your song "Cold Rainy Night" is really amazing!"
His voice came over the phone again, and his tone sounded very excited!
"What...what happened?"
Jiang Kan was confused. There had been no response from Gefa for a long time. When he asked, why did he suddenly become "dead"?
"Ha, boss Zhou and his band have been busy working on this song during this time!"
"In order to get the best out of this song, they rehearsed for more than a week before starting the official recording!"
"During the official recording, we also hired a special photographer to film the entire process and make it into a MV, which will be released simultaneously with the song!"
Liu Zhiheng became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice gradually became louder. His happy mood could be heard from the microphone.
"You also know that in this era, bands have gradually declined, and singer combinations of two or more people have gradually disappeared from the music scene. It is only individual singers who are releasing albums and singles."
"So at the beginning, this song, which was released as a band, did not get much response from the market."
"The initial 24-hour sales volume was only a few thousand times. This was all the result of the publicity launched by Boss Zhou's own personal connections."
"He was a little discouraged at first. He thought how could such a good song have such a small sales volume, so he asked people everywhere to promote it."
"But on the third day, it seemed that a well-known self-media musician on the Internet heard the song, and then commented on it and helped him forward it..."
"And the fans who follow him are also fans of some niche music on the market, or some of them are as old as you and me who grew up from the most glorious era of the band in the 1980s and 1990s. people!"
"The retro melody of this song evoked their memories of youth and the era when bands dominated the music scene. They spread the word from one person to another, and actually... actually made this song available to everyone overnight. It’s really exciting!”
Liu Zhiheng himself is also a music lover, although he has no musical ability and no interest in musical instruments.
But when I have free time, I always like to play games and listen to music as a pastime. Even when I go to bed, I have to listen to a few of my favorite songs before I can turn off the phone and go to sleep with satisfaction.
And his favorites, in addition to those well-known singers, also include songs from some well-known bands in the world.
So now when I talk about the band, I feel very sad.
Although the era of the band has passed, many songs and many memories still exist in his memories.
“It’s very embarrassing when these people get nostalgic. They are in their prime of life, in their thirties and forties, and their financial strength is the strongest in their lives. They dare not buy luxury cars or watches. But can’t they afford a song for a few dollars?”
Jiang Kan listened to the other party's words silently, and was reminded of the nostalgia for his past youth. It was not because he listened to the songs of some passionate and ideal bands that he ignited the idea of playing guitar. .
Unfortunately, his family is not very well-off, and he does not have much time and energy to learn guitar and drums. More of his time is occupied by his studies. After all, only the concept of studying well is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If he wants to change his current situation, he has to give up. Other activities focus on learning.
This is also a difficult mental journey that many middle-aged people today have experienced.
For the sake of life, I gave up my ideals and interests and devoted myself to reading, reading, reading.
But now there suddenly appeared a song with such a nostalgic style sung by the band, and the quality was so high, the fire in their hearts that had been buried for many years was rekindled!
"Haha, you may not even guess how much sales this song has achieved after a week!"
Liu Zhiheng bought a trick and asked Jiang Kan to guess.
"How many? Twenty thousand downloads?"
His guess was already very unconservative. After all, this was not a song released by a big-name music company. There was no marketing promotion, no well-known media promotion, no self-media comments and hype, and no big-name singer performed.
All the members of the band are nameless ordinary people. They have no fame, no connections, and no exposure.
Some are just their passion for music, their tireless pursuit of art, and their nostalgia for the time when the band dominated the music scene.
"Ha, Brother Kan, you underestimate the charm of your own song, guess again!"
Liu Zhiheng made a disdainful sound, obviously the number was lower.
"Uh... thirty thousand?"
Jiang Kan was stunned. What, is the wild band's ability so powerful? Twenty thousand downloads is already the average number of downloads of a new song by an ordinary new singer in the first month.
They were able to break this number. Could it be that they have surpassed the level of new singers?
"Thirty thousand? Oh, Brother Kan, you really have no imagination~"
There was a hint of a mean smile in Liu Zhiheng's voice, and he knew that Jiang Kan would never guess what kind of terrifying figure the number of downloads of this song had reached in the past week!
