Deep city.
At the signing ceremony for Li Qiang's new album "Transparent", the atmosphere was lively, with hundreds of young men and women holding albums waiting in a long line.
"Is Teacher Li Qiang here?"
"It should be here soon. I read on the news that Teacher Li Qiang left Huadu in the morning and came to our Shencheng. I guess he should be here now."
"I have been a fan of Teacher Li Qiang for seven years. I will buy every album that Teacher Li Qiang releases, and I will definitely support it this time. But this time I am even more lucky. Teacher Li Qiang actually came to Shenzhen to hold a book signing event. I am very happy. "
"By the way, I saw someone on the Internet saying that Zhang Wenhua's new album "Stronger" seems to be good. Do any of you buy it?"
"I didn't buy it. What's so good about a little fresh album? The quality is probably average and there is no value in buying it."
"Yes, albums like Mr. Li Qiang's may still be treasures after many years and have collectible value. In a few years, no one in the entertainment industry will have heard of Zhang Wenhua."
"Listen, it seems that Teacher Li Qiang is coming out."
"..."
Backstage, Li Qiang was sitting on the sofa, drinking cold drinks and blowing on the air conditioner.
The weather in the south is really too hot, and Li Qiang is not used to it, and the journey is really hard. From Huadu to Shencheng, he didn't even go to the hotel, but came directly to the signing site to prepare for the event.
Gululu.
After taking a sip of the drink and putting down the cup, Li Qiang also heard from his assistant about the sales results of "Stronger" on the first day, which were only a little over 70,000.
The sales volume of an album is generally concentrated in the first three or four days. After the first three days, the sales volume basically begins to decline rapidly. If the sales volume on the first day is not good, the overall sales volume of the album will also be sluggish.
Now Zhang Wenhua's new album "Stronger" has only sold over 70,000 copies on the first day, which is only half of "Transparent". It no longer poses any threat to "Transparent".
The best-selling album in the same period, this one should be considered stable.
After the release of "Stronger", Li Qiang hasn't taken the time to listen to it because he has been busy attending book signings across the country.
Although he didn't listen to it, Li Qiang had seen news on the Internet before, including the mention that the title song of Zhang Wenhua's new album was a new song composed by Tan Yue.
In the past, Li Qiang didn't know much about Tan Yue, but a few days ago, a song "Wukong" shined at the Tomorrow Youth Online Singer Competition, attracting the attention of many people in the music industry. Li Qiang chose to release an album after the competition , and naturally have been paying attention to the status of the Tomorrow Youth Online Singer Competition.
From that time on, the name Tan Yue officially entered Li Qiang's eyes.
Li Qiang also admitted that the song "Wukong" is a good song, a high-quality song, but even he may not be able to create such a song every year. The quality of "Wukong" is comparable to the two or three songs that I am most proud of.
However, Li Qiang also learned that Tan Yue's main job is to do programs, and music is just for fun. After all, he is not a real music professional. An amateur may spend a few years to grind out a good song. songs, but one song is already top-notch, and it is absolutely extremely difficult to write another one.
Li Qiang really didn't believe that Tan Yue could write any good songs for Zhang Wenhua this time.
For some people in the industry, writing songs is indeed not difficult, but if anyone really thinks that writing a good song is like cabbage, Li Qiang believes that he will spit in his face.
Except for a few extremely talented people, the vast majority of outstanding singers and musicians, including Li Qiang, want to write a good song, but it will take them a year or two, or even longer. Not nothing.
Li Qiang shook his head and narrowed his eyes slightly. He no longer thought about Zhang Wenhua or Tan Yue, and completely kicked "Stronger", which was no longer a competitor, out of his mind.
What he has to do now is to do his own thing well. The current results of "Transparent" are very good, and Li Qiang hopes to continue this good result.
Beijing, Magic City, Huadu, and Shencheng are just the beginning. There will be album signing events in more than a dozen cities later.
Li Qiang believes that with his hard work, the performance of "Transparent" will reach a higher level.
Making money is naturally an important aspect. On the other hand, Li Qiang also hopes to rely on the good results of "Transparent" to further his ranking on the list of first-line public figures.
There are people in this world who like to be comfortable, but for the vast majority of people, who wants to stay where they are? Who doesn’t want to keep going up? Do those who choose comfort really don’t want to move up? Maybe it’s just that I can no longer work hard and persevere.
Li Qiang feels that he is still young and can continue to move forward!
Take a short break and then start the book signing.
...
However, just today, something is already fermenting.
"Stronger" was not as popular as "Transparent" at the beginning, but "Stronger" is like a sharp knife, and the sharpest tip is too lethal.
If you don’t listen, that’s it. Once you listen, it’s easy to not stop.
If you use some words to explain the connotation of the song "Stronger", you must use words full of positive energy such as "inspirational", "passionate", "hot-blooded" and "explosive".
The whole song is like a lighter, igniting the listener.
Hangzhou, a bar.
Many customers who just came in were surprised because the song playing in the bar was very exciting.
"Huh? What song is this? It's very nice!"
"Fuck, I'm so high."
"What's wrong with my legs? Why do I move involuntarily after hearing the song?"
"What kind of song is this? It's so nice and has such a strong rhythm. You shouldn't have heard it before."
"That's right, whose song is this?"
.......
Suzhou, a shopping mall.
When passing by the square in front of the shopping mall, many citizens will stop for a moment and prick up their ears to listen to the song played in the square today.
Songs are played every day in the square, but today's song is particularly attractive.
After a while, the wide square started to look a little crowded, which was rare.
So many people were attracted by the song played today, and everyone was talking quietly.
"Oh, this song sounds so powerful."
"Mom, I won't skip school, I won't buy a computer anymore, let's go home, I want to study, I want to go to Beijing University!"
"Gee, this song is so contagious. After listening to it, I feel full of power, as if my life has reached a climax."
"I just want to know what the name of this song is?"
"Yeah, what kind of song is this? Such an explosive song shouldn't be unknown."
"Haha, this song is the title song of Zhang Wenhua's new album. The song is called "Stronger". It is a song written by Tan Yue, the same Tan Yue who wrote "Wukong". I bought this album yesterday. This song I listened to the song over and over again so many times.”
.......
At night, No. 1 Middle School in Luocheng.
The evening self-study is over. After studying all day, the exhausted senior high school students are coming out of the classroom one after another.
"Xiao Kai, I'm so tired today. I feel like all the bones in my body are falling apart."
"Who's not exhausted? Let's go to the supermarket and buy some ice cream."
"Let's go eat ice cream and then go back to the dormitory to sleep. I think I can fall asleep if I just fall on the bed."
"After I ate the ice cream, I still wanted to come back and continue studying. After all, the college entrance examination is coming up in twenty days, and I feel like I'm still far behind."
"What do you want to learn? Does learning happen overnight? Go back and sleep well today, and get up early tomorrow to devote all your energy to learning."
"That's...okay."
A group of students talked and left the classroom.
At this moment, music suddenly sounded in the campus.
“Youknowthebedfeelswarmer,
Sleepingtherealone,
..."
The moment the music started playing, a famous student stopped.
The tune of the song became higher and higher, and the rhythm became more and more intense. It was as if a fire was igniting on the students, burning away the fatigue all over their bodies, and everyone began to feel energetic.
"Xiao Kai, what are you doing?"
"I won't go back to the dormitory yet. I'll study for a while."
"This... okay, I'll go back and study for another half an hour. There are still a few error-prone questions in mathematics that I haven't understood yet."
"Hey, Xiao Kai, Lao Sun, do you want to go back and continue studying? Wait for me, I'll go back too."
The greatest charm of a good piece of music is that it can resonate with the human spirit and positively guide people's behavior.
Never ignore the power of music because in many things it represents the power of the spirit.
One by one, the students who walked out of the classroom began to turn back and re-entered the classroom, their young faces full of tenacity.
Many students were affected by the song and were full of high morale, but not all of them returned to the classroom to study. But even if only some students came back to study, it is enough to illustrate the excellence of this song. Only music that can impress the audience will That's good music.
The reason why it has such a good effect is naturally related to the fact that this is the first time "Stronger" has appeared in this world. Everyone has never been exposed to this song before. When you listen to it for the first time, you will definitely be more shocked. As time goes by, As the number of times they listen to "Stronger" increases, the song's impact on these people will decrease, but not by much.
Because "inspirational" and "passion" are the core things of the song "Stronger".
.......
On this day, Li Qiang's "Transparent" was still the most discussed online, but few people noticed that the popularity of "Stronger" has not dropped, and has been steadily rising.
And there is another point. In the online reviews of "Transparent", there are both good and bad reviews. Although the proportion of good reviews is more, there are also many negative reviews.
Looking back at "Stronger", almost 98% of the reviews are positive. As long as people who bought the album, they basically came here to give positive reviews. Even if there are bad reviews, they are all about other songs in the album. , and for the theme song, there is absolutely zero negative review.
Even many of the comments are obviously very careless.
Record stores across the country are still very busy, but store owners have gradually discovered that among the people who come to buy albums, more and more customers are buying "Stronger".
If we say that among the ten people who came to buy the album yesterday, only two bought "Stronger" and the remaining eight bought "Transparent". So now, there are ten customers, four or even five of them coming to buy "Stronger".
.......
May 26th.
On the official website of the General Administration of Culture, the music section page, the sales data of domestic singers' albums the previous day have been released to the public. These data will definitely have errors, but the statistical factors adopted by the General Administration of Culture are relatively objective and comprehensive, so in terms of errors, they are still relatively large. It's small, so the album sales data is quite referenceable. .
The only best-selling albums that can really attract people's attention are Li Qiang's "Transparent" and Zhang Wenhua's "Stronger", because these two have the biggest celebrity status and are among the top two in terms of sales. They are both A-list stars. The others are all second- and third-tier singers, and there is a big gap between them and these two.
Even if Zhang Wenhua's new album performs very well in front of Li Qiang's new album, that's just because the opponent is Li Qiang, a powerful singer in the Chinese music scene.
Li Qiang himself is quite popular, and the songs he composes are also good, so he can steadily surpass Zhang Wenhua. Zhang Wenhua was definitely a bit behind Li Qiang, but if his opponent were a second- or third-tier singer, it would be easy to win.
The best time for a new album to sell is three days before the new album is officially released. Generally speaking, the sales volume in the first three days is not much different. From the fourth day on, the sales volume of the album begins to decline, even Some albums with poor quality will show a step-like downward curve, and the collapse is a serious one.
The album sales of "Transparent" have begun to drop. The lowest daily sales in the first three days were 125,000 copies, and the daily album sales data announced today dropped to 111,000 copies.
This is normal. Although Li Qiang's promotion of "Transparent" is very strong, after all, the three-day golden sales period has passed, and the album sales of more than 110,000 on the fourth day are already very good.
However, the data of "Transparent" is normal, but there is something abnormal here in "Stronger".
Yesterday's data was that more than 70,000 albums were sold per day, so today's data should be around 70,000 albums to be normal. Today, the album sales data released by the official website of the General Administration of Culture is actually more than 106,000 albums. It’s a big improvement over yesterday’s performance, and it’s already firmly grasping the tail of “Transparent”.
The growth rate of the album "Stronger" is really amazing. On the second day after its release, the sales volume of the album increased by more than 30,000 compared to the first day. It was only 5,000 copies away from "Transparent" which ranked first. Album sales gap.
As an official website, the official website of the General Administration of Culture has a high degree of credibility in China's cultural industry. Artists and media in the entertainment industry have the habit of reading the official website of the General Administration of Culture every day.
For many people who pay attention to music, today is destined not to be peaceful.
The growth rate of "Stronger" is too great. If this trend continues, it will only be a matter of time before it surpasses "Transparent".
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