Online, news media have reported on it.
Well-known front-line singer Li Qiang's new album "Transparent" is officially released to the public on the first day.
Online malls and offline physical record stores launched sales at the same time, and sales were very hot. In first- and second-tier cities, many record stores were not full, but they were much more lively than before. This is the appeal of top-tier singers!
"Today I went to buy Li Qiang's new album. Oh my God, there were so many people. I almost didn't buy it."
"Hahaha, I bought two copies and listened to them. I'm worthy of being a first-tier singer. She sings really well, especially the title song. It's a masterpiece."
"Okay, it's an album of pretty good quality. I wasn't disappointed."
"Have so many people bought it? I'll buy one and listen to it too."
"I didn't buy it in a record store, I bought it in an online store, but the delivery was slow and it hasn't arrived yet."
"I don't know if Zhang Wenhua's "stronger" the day after tomorrow can reach this level."
"It's definitely not as good as Li Qiang's new album, but the title song of Zhang Wenhua's new album is a new song written by Teacher Tan Yue, so I'm a little curious."
"I'm curious, since I listened to "Wukong", I followed the lead and searched out a few of Mr. Tan Yue's previous songs and listened to them. They are all really good. I didn't even notice them before."
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The music section of the official website of the General Administration of Culture has data on album sales, but it is said that there is an error of between 5% and 10%.
Because an important source of statistical data is based on the number of albums released by several major record companies, the longer and later the album is released, the smaller the error in the data will be.
According to statistics from the official website of the General Administration of Culture, Li Qiang's new album "Transparent" sold 131,000 copies on May 22. One hundred and twenty-four thousand copies were sold the next day.
This result is quite good even for a first-line singer.
The momentum of "Transparent" can be said to be quite strong.
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On the 23rd, at night.
Chang'an Building, Bright Entertainment Company, in the office of Wei Yu, director of the music department.
Wei Yu hung up the call with Zhang Wenhua, put down the phone, took off his glasses, and rubbed the corners of his tired eyes.
"Stronger" will be officially released tomorrow, and Wei Yu has been very busy with it today. He is still working overtime at the company until now.
However, apart from public institutions, which company does not work overtime?
Wei Yu was one of the earliest employees of Cuican Entertainment. When he came in, Cuican Entertainment was not a company, but a studio model. Wei Yu was not the director at that time, but just an ordinary employee of the company, working in the back After achieving great results through hard work, he was appointed by Chen Ziyu as the head and director of the music department.
It can be said that Wei Yu has a strong sense of belonging to Bright Entertainment, and the annual performance of the music department is also linked to his own year-end bonus. Whether it is for the company or for himself, Wei Yu is dedicated to his work.
Moreover, this afternoon, the boss even called me over to ask about Zhang Wenhua's new album.
After all, Zhang Wenhua is also one of the company's pillar artists. Bright Entertainment does not sign contracts with top artists, which is what we verbally call the kings, queens, and movie kings and queens.
The artists with the highest status in Bright Entertainment are these first-line artists including Zhang Wenhua.
Another difference between Zhang Wenhua and other artists is that Zhang Wenhua is a top-tier trainee launched by the company.
Many years ago, the boss Chen Ziyu personally coached artists. Zhang Wenhua was one of the artists that boss Chen coached at that time. Because of Zhang Wenhua's relationship with the boss, even if Zhang Wenhua starts to decline now, no one dares to look down upon him.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk."
Wei Yu frowned, shook his head and sighed.
In the afternoon, the boss called me over to ask about Zhang Wenhua's new album, which also showed that the boss had been paying attention to Zhang Wenhua's new album to be released tomorrow, and he couldn't be careless.
Li Qiang's new album "Transparent" has been selling very well in the past two days. Just looking at the huge album sales can make other singers in the same period tremble.
However, Wei Yu also immediately bought Li Qiang's "Transparent" to listen to. Judging from the overall quality of the album, Li Qiang's new album is indeed much better than Zhang Wenhua's new album. But there is one thing that "Transparent" is far inferior to "stronger", and that is the title song of "Transparent", which is not at the same level as "stronger".
At least that's how it sounds to Zhang Wenhua. He is not a professional singer, but he has been a music director for so long and has always been engaged in music work. He is not good at singing and writing songs, but his musical aesthetic ability has improved. .
Wei Yu was very lucky. Fortunately, he was so excited that he took Zhang Wenhua to find Tan Yue. If he had not asked Tan Yue to compose the song "stronger", Zhang Wenhua would definitely lose to Li Qiang this time.
Zhang Wenhua is a popular artist, so there is nothing wrong with losing to Li Qiang.
But it is foreseeable that Li Qiang will definitely be beaten miserably.
Such a comparison would put Cuican Entertainment in a bad light.
And Wei Yu has been with Boss Chen for so long, and he has figured out some of Boss Chen's temper, stinginess and face-saving.
Based on the previous songs alone, Wei Yu didn't think Zhang Wenhua's new album would be able to produce any waves, but now that Tan Yue's new song "stronger" is added, that's not necessarily the case.
With such a good song as the title track, the results must not be bad.
At least, because of the existence of "stronger", Wei Yu can feel more at ease.
However, it is useless to think about it now. In the end, it still depends on the specific sales of "stronger" tomorrow.
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The next day, "stronger" was officially released to the public.
During this period, Li Qiang and Zhang Wenhua have been building momentum for releasing new albums at the same time. Li Qiang's new album was released two days ago, and Zhang Wenhua's new album was finally released today.
Although Zhang Wenhua, a popular artist for many years, is on the decline, he still has a lot of traffic.
As soon as the new album "stronger" was released, it aroused heated discussions among many netizens on the Internet.
Some fans of Zhang Wenhua and some netizens chose to support the new album "stronger".
"After waiting for more than half a year, Wenhua finally released a new album. I have already placed an order. I support it!"
"Brother Hua, come on, you are the best!"
"I'm not a fan of Zhang Wenhua, but I plan to buy an album later because I like Teacher Tan Yue's songs."
"Hahaha, me too. I really like "Wukong". I wasn't interested in Zhang Wenhua at first, but because of Teacher Tan's new song, I bought an album."
"Wenhua, come on, support you, no matter how the sales of the final album are, you must do well!"
"I looked at the data on the official website of the General Administration of Culture. The sales of Li Qiang's new album are very strong. Brother Hua is in danger. My husband just gave me private money. I will buy ten copies to support Brother Hua!"
"Wow, I just went to the record store next door and bought a copy of "stroronger". It sounds great, right?"
There are also many netizens who don't buy it. With the development and improvement of the entertainment industry, traffic artists have become less and less popular, not to mention veteran traffic artists like Zhang Wenhua.
"Albums by popular artists like Zhang Wenhua have no value at all. Only fools would buy them."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I really don't understand, why did Zhang Wenhua choose this time to release a new album? He dares to go head-to-head with a singer as powerful as Li Qiang. I don't know whether he looks down on Li Qiang or is too confident in himself."
"Oh, in terms of the quality of the album, Zhang Wenhua's "stronger" is probably not worthy of Li Qiang's "Transparent", and it will definitely be beaten. As for popularity and popularity, if we talk about Zhang Wenhua's golden peak period in the past two years, Li Qiang may not be able to compare, but now Zhang Wenhua, a popular artist, has been popular for several years... You must know that the traffic stickiness of popular artists is very low. Without high-quality works as a foundation, fans will be lost as quickly as they come. It’s fast, Zhang Wenhua’s current flow may not be as good as Li Qiang’s.”
"I'm not talking nonsense. Those little fresh meat and popular celebrities are all so stupid. If they dare to appear in front of me, I will punch their heads off! I can't stand those effeminate guys. .”
"Zhang Wenhua is different. He is one of the more hard-working popular artists, and he is not a girl. However, my money did not come from the strong wind, and I am not his fan. I will definitely not spend money on him to buy his album."
The major music forums are in chaos.
Some people are talking about "Transparent" and others are talking about "Stronger".
Some people think that people who buy "stronger" are fools, and some people think that those who say they are fools are fools.
.......
Yangzhou.
college town.
Sun Ya is a freshman counselor at a university. She just graduated with a doctorate and chose to stay at the school to teach. Because my age is not much different from that of the students, I am very popular with them. Although I am very busy and tired during my time as a counselor, I am still very happy.
In the morning, Sun Ya got off work at 11 o'clock.
She is currently renting in the family area of the school, which is not far from the campus. She has just walked out of the campus and saw the bustling university town outside. She planned to buy a stir-fried dish from a small roadside restaurant and take it home to eat.
When passing by a record store, Sun Ya looked at the posters at the door and was suddenly stunned.
There are posters of Li Qiang and Zhang Wenhua at the door. As the two most popular singers who have released albums during this period, record stores take them very seriously.
What stunned Sun Ya was not these two people, but when she saw Zhang Wenhua's poster placed at the door of the record store, she suddenly thought of another person.
Sun Ya usually likes to listen to music. By chance last year, she saw a video and heard a song called "Song for Myself".
The title of that song is very strange. Sun Ya was attracted by the strange title, otherwise she might have missed it. What is it? Is it a song that the songwriter wrote for himself?
Out of curiosity, Sun Ya listened to "Song for Myself" once. After listening to it, Sun Ya added the video she accidentally saw to her favorites and listened to it again when she had nothing to do.
She didn't deliberately ask who the man in the video was, but as Tan Yue's reputation rose, Sun Ya automatically knew that the man singing in the video turned out to be Tan Yue.
Gradually, whenever Sun Ya saw news reports about Tan Yue on the Internet, she would consciously pay attention to them and began to pay attention to them slowly and deliberately. Sure enough, she was not disappointed. She discovered again that Tan Yue had another song called "Youth and Promise", which was also a rare and good song.
Gradually, because of Tan Yue, Sun Ya, who rarely watched variety shows, began to watch variety shows. Her favorite was not the famous "Tucao Conference" or "Happy Comedian", but the one Tan Yue used to watch. The program "Post-80s Talk Show Tonight" produced by Jishui City TV Station.
Sun Ya has read "Journey to the West", but she doesn't like it as much as many people do, so she doesn't have such strong feelings for "Wukong". However, Sun Ya has listened to it many times, and the artistic conception in "Wukong" is still very contagious. .
A few days ago, Sun Ya saw a piece of news on the Internet, saying that Tan Yue had written a new song, which was the title song of Zhang Wenhua's new album, "Stronger." Sun Ya paid attention to it at the time, but because she was too busy with work, she forgot about it for a while. , suddenly saw the promotion of Zhang Wenhua's new album in front of the record store today, and Sun Yacai suddenly remembered this matter.
Without thinking much, Sun Ya walked directly into the record store.
There are many customers in the store, most of them are students from various universities in the university town. Some buy "Transparent" and some buy "Stronger". Sun Ya did a simple count and found that more than 80% of them bought "Transparent" , only a few people came to buy Zhang Wenhua’s new album.
This fact makes Sun Ya, the counselor, very pleased. It shows that young people today have made progress. When she was in college, young people and popular celebrities were very popular. It seemed that everyone around her was pursuing those young people. Fresh meat, very blind.
Today's students are much better than they were back then. At least they value the quality of their works more than their appearance or being copied by others.
Sun Ya smiled and nodded with satisfaction.
She took a Wenhua album from the shelf and walked to the front desk to queue up. Soon she was there. Sun Ya handed the album in her hand to the store owner and said with a smile: "Boss, an album."
"Forty-five dollars."
"Okay, I'll scan the code for you."
Sun Ya paid the money and walked out of the record store with the album.
Behind him, there were several men and women, probably companions, pointing at Sun Ya's back.
"Eh? Isn't that Teacher Sun?"
"Yes, it's Teacher Sun. With such a figure and such a flat figure, there's no one else but Teacher Sun."
"Hey, if Teacher Sun hears this, I bet you won't be able to graduate."
"Did Mr. Sun buy an album just now?"
"Yes, I don't know what album she bought. It should be Li Qiang's album, right?"
"That's for sure. How could such a mature and high-level intellectual buy Zhang Wenhua's album? He must have bought Li Qiang's "Transparent". Who dares to bet with me?"
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On the other side, Sun Ya bought food, took the album, and returned to her home.
Putting the food on the coffee table, Sun Ya took the laptop from the bedroom, placed it on the coffee table, pulled out the CD from the album, and put it into the computer.
Soon, the songs from Zhang Wenhua's new album appeared on the computer.
The first song is the title song "stronger".
