Each music market has its own characteristics. The Asian market represented by China, Japan and South Korea is expected to explode in the short term, and album sales often determine life or death in the first month.
New albums in the Japanese market often have sales of 2 to 3 million in the first month of release, but sales will drop off a cliff after that, and then continue to sell out smoothly.
South Korea is even more exaggerated. A week or at most two weeks can determine the life or death of a new album.
It is impossible to sell in the long term.
The basic model of the Chinese market is similar to that of Japan, with first-month sales accounting for the majority of new albums. However, the domestic record market is not as big as Japan's, with sales of less than two to three million in the first month.
However, Zhang Yuanjun’s new album was able to absorb the 130,000 pre-sales within a week, which was enough to shock the music world.
The main force in the Chinese music scene will still be singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan, especially the younger generation. None of the young mainland singers can compete with Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai and others.
Li Yuchun, who has high hopes, will not release the film until the second half of next year.
Now there is a 21-year-old guy who sells 100,000 copies of his first album in a week. This sales volume is a very good result even for Jay Chou and others.
After the sales volume was released in the first week, Zhang Yuanjun did not need to do it himself, and various media took the initiative to report it.
"Of course I'm happy." Zhang Yuanjun was interviewed by the media at the backstage of the event. Talking about the impressive sales of the album, his joy was palpable. "I have met many enthusiastic fans during these days of activities. I am very grateful for their support."
Zhang Yuanjun's only released work so far is Guihai Yida. It can be said that this music album has completely attracted and consolidated a large number of fans for Zhang Yuanjun.
"Wang Lihong's "Unparalleled Heroes" is about to be released. Who do you think will sell the album better between the two of you?" It's a very naked question.
Zhang Yuanjun didn't accept the move: "I am a fan of Wang Lihong. I will definitely buy one of his albums. As for whose album sells better, let the market decide. I am a newcomer, so how can I predict sales."
At the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006, the music market became extremely lively because Zhang Yuanjun and Wang Lihong released films together.
The movie market is equally busy, but not in a good way.
Zhang Yimou, who returned to literary and artistic films, has delivered quite good results. "Riding Alone, Thousands of Miles" had a box office of 12 million in its first week.
Let me emphasize again, it is a literary film. "Riding Alone" is a literary film. It is really good to have 12 million in the first week. Even if the director is Zhang Yimou.
"The Great Sage" sold 2 million on its first day, meeting Huayi's expectations, but its reputation has been polarized.
The highlight of the Lunar New Year movie is "The Promise", and "A Murderous Case Caused by a Steamed Bun" completely set off the Internet.
The viral spread has seriously affected the audience's movie-watching choices.
The number of downloads of the short film "Steamed Buns" actually exceeded that of "The Promise".
After the New Year, Chen Kaige finally couldn't sit still and cursed the author of "Steamed Buns": "People can't be so shameless!"
The newspaper criticized "The Promise", but the crew did not respond.
Xu Jinglei and Han Han criticized "The Promise", but the crew did not respond.
Audiences complained online that they could not understand "The Promise", but the crew still did not respond.
Why did Director Chen and his wife react so strongly when a newly debuted female reporter asked if the box office was not as good as expected?
Why is it that when an unknown person cuts an entertainment short film, Director Chen gets so angry and calls him shameless?
Although "Steamed Buns" is a comedy, it also reveals the shortcomings of "The Promise": the relationship between the characters is confusing, the logic of actions is not self-consistent, some art is designed for the sake of design, and the entire story cannot convince the audience.
The box office of "The Promise" officially exceeded 160 million after the New Year's Day holiday.
It is still half way from the 300 million box office planned by the film studio, but Zhang Yuanjun knows that "The Promise" has run out of steam and its achievements will stop here.
However, the current results are enough for "The Promise" to securely take the top spot at the box office in 2005.
Taking the author of "Steamed Buns" to court intensified the carnival among netizens.
Even Zhang Yuanjun said to Luo Jin in private: "He doesn't cut well. If you let me cut, I can make a fool of myself."
Director Chen could not indiscriminately attack the netizens who gave him bad reviews, so in anger, he responded by saying: "No one will understand "The Promise" in five years."
pale and weak.
As soon as Laba was over, Zhang Yuanjun came back from Wandao.
The most intense stage of promoting the new album is over, and he can finally rest.
The new album has sold 430,000 copies in mainland China within 16 days of its release!
Three days after it was launched on the island, sales exceeded 10,000.
Seven hundred thousand in the first month is not a problem, and annual sales of one million are not impossible.
Maitian is already thinking about holding a concert for Zhang Yuanjun.
Why can't we hold a concert with millions of sales?
What’s wrong with an album, let’s do the same with an album!
Wang Lihong's album, which was released a week later, also performed well. After all, he is a veteran singer. The one-week sales of "Universal Heroes" caught up with Zhang Yuanjun's three-week sales, and slightly beat it, reaching 450,000 copies.
On the 9th, Monday, Zhang Yuanjun received news from his subordinates when he first arrived at the studio.
Movie Entertainment has agreed to the studio's investment in "Diamond."
"We invested 1.8 million and got 40.12%."
"Andy Lau is still worried about the risks of this film."
"Yes, we were talking in Pengcheng. Liu Dehua didn't show up the whole time. People from his company took his place."
"Okay, let's just say 40, we can't lose money on this film." Zhang Yuanjun didn't have a special plot for "Big Diamond" and only regarded it as a profitable project.
"How is "Animal World" going?" Zhang Yuanjun asked. During this period, they were mainly busy with the preparations for "Animal World".
"The screenwriter has already started writing the script, and the art team has also started work." Because it is a comic adaptation, there is no need for Zhang Yuanjun to intervene in advance to provide an outline.
Although the script is outsourced, if it fails the acceptance test, it still has to be revised one draft after another.
"We found three special effects teams, Hong Kong Island Xian Tao and Wan Kuan, as well as China Film's Hualong Digital. We originally wanted to find Koreans with more advanced technology to do it, but the price for digital creativity was too high, and we couldn't get much off the price, so we just give up.
"The special effects director is Wang Jianxiong from Hualong Digital."
Zhang Yuanjun nodded and agreed to this plan.
Digital creative technology is more advanced, but this does not mean that Xantao + Wankuan + Hualong Digital cannot do well.
The lessons of "The Promise" were at hand, so Zhang Yuanjun decided to personally recruit the art and special effects teams.
You can't just change your needs, otherwise Weta Digital + Industrial Light & Magic will do the special effects for you, which is only 50 cents.
Also benefiting from the original comics, the art team’s design work was done with less effort.
Zhang Yuanjun knew very well what he wanted. He told Wang Jianxiong his needs very clearly. Coupled with the already drawn artwork, Wang Jianxiong led the special effects team to work very smoothly.
In the design industry, the client who does not change his needs is not only his father, he is his living ancestor!
If the requirements are not changed, it saves time and money for Party A. For the designer, if the requirements are clear and no changes are made midway, they will also save time and effort.
Also on the same day, the filing record for a movie called "Rock, Paper, Scissors" was exposed by the media.
Registration unit: Zhang Yuanjun Studio.
Filing result: Agree to shoot.
morning.
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