Chapter 247 So, They Flocked

After the beginning of 1997, almost all practitioners in the pop music industry have discovered that the atmosphere of the entire music industry seems to be changing little by little.

This kind of change does not simply mean that a certain singer has become more popular, that a certain singer has risen, that a certain singer has declined, or that the total amount of the market is always expanding, expanding, expanding... and so on, but That is to say, the general climate of the entire music world, the trend of the entire music world, and even the fierce competition in the entire music world, all of which make people feel more and more clearly that the music world in 1997 seemed to be really It is entering a new era.

In such a lively year of 1997, Wu Xing Wu Su was the first to stand out.

Originally, after the combination of Wu Xing Wu Su experienced a big hit in the first half of 1996 and a sudden decline in the second half of the year, their status in the music market is still in the undetermined category, because no one knows their What will the sales of the next album be like-maybe it will suddenly soar to an unmatched height like "Sisters and Sisters Stand Up", or it may plunge into a deep ditch like "Let Me Fly", who know?

Therefore, for her new album, almost everyone is looking at it with a cold-eyed attitude.

It wasn't until they debuted on the Spring Festival Gala with the title song "Look at the Boy Opposite Side" for the first time, and won the house with their youthful and beautiful image, and the same youthful and dynamic style of music, that everyone had a premonition. The first album will not be "Let Me Fly", but "Sister and Sister Stand Up".

as expected.

After the official release after the Spring Festival, "Look at the Boy Opposite" has almost perfectly reproduced the unparalleled arrogance of "Sisters and Sisters Stand Up" that swept the country last year in this traditional off-season of record sales.

In Dongguan Bookstore, they broke the sales record of 30,000 copies in a single week once and 20,000 copies in a single week five times. The third best-selling album in history.

On the Voice of China radio station's Golden Melody On-Demand List, "The Boy Opposite Look Over" reached a maximum of six songs on the list at the same time. It has been firmly sitting at the number one position, no one can shake it, and then this song has dominated the list for seven weeks!

All over the country, "The Boy Opposite Look Over", "Ai Yi Ya", "Love" (Little Tigers Edition, author's note), "Butterfly Fly", "I'm Sorry Baby", "Wish You Peace", "Chinese Folk Songs" ...This series of songs has also successfully occupied the playback equipment and loudspeakers of audio-visual stores all over the country, and for a while, no matter where you go, you can almost hear their five girls. Children's singing.

In the two months before and after that, they were definitely the most popular ones in the north and south of the river!

It can even be said that they have swept away the bad luck and depression of last year's "Let Me Fly", and rejuvenated the infinite brilliance of the number one youth girl group in China.

Then, in mid-March, Feng Feifei released a new album. Ordinarily, of course, she was going to stand up to take over the baton, but in the end, she sank—three weeks before the new album, Feng Feifei was always surrounded by Wuxing, who had been on the market for several weeks. I was under the pressure, and I didn't even show the potential to rush up, and then I gradually sank to the bottom!

Because in April, Zhou Mo's new album was released.

The release of Zhou Mo's new album has finally put an end to the nearly two-month-long dominance of various charts by "The Boy Opposite Me" - the so-called four queens of the music scene, although Zhen Zhen is known as the return of the king, but In fact, the new album she released last year has lost her kingly momentum. After a few months of release, people summed up the data and found that she is no longer comparable to Li Junru, who has just risen in the music scene, and Feng Feifei can almost be judged to have fallen. After last year's "Bitter Bamboo", it has been recognized by the industry that it has really gone downhill. Up to now, there is only one Zhou Mo left who can really stand up and compete with these new forces who have recently risen in the music industry. .

Comeback after several years, Zhou Mo's Zhou's love song is still beautiful, especially for fans who like her voice, it almost feels like tears are coming out of their eyes.

So, her new album is selling pretty well.

According to what Zhou Mo told Li Qian personally, according to the shipping feedback received by Sony, by mid-to-late June, the national sales of that album should be able to exceed two million in a stable manner. So, when Liao Liao's album started to sell out, Sony even started planning and preparing a double platinum celebration dinner for Zhou Mo.

Of course, Zhou Mo's comeback is like a gust of wind, but after all, she has been away from the music scene for several years, and the number of truly loyal fans is still limited after all. Therefore, after the first four weeks of glory, her follow-up ability to sell hits, It began to weaken gradually, so "The Boy Opposite Look", who had been chasing steadily behind her, gradually caught up.

Throughout early and mid-May, almost all of their two albums were competing with each other on various charts.

Then, Liao Liao finally came.

After "Grateful Heart" was released, people inside and outside the music circle really understood what is the return of the king.

This album has washed away all the charts related to pop music in the country, occupied almost all radio stations' popular on-demand tracks, swept away the amplifiers in almost all cities in China, large and small, and monopolized every pair of music-loving ears!

After the release of this album, as long as you are in China, no matter where you go, as long as you meet people walking or cycling with earphones on the street, stop people randomly and ask them, at least half of the ten people People are listening to "Grateful Heart"!

It can be said that without waiting for the final data of the album's three-month sales, half-year sales, and one-year sales, Liao Liao can already become the undisputed and complete king!

As Xie Mingyuan, the head of Sony Records, the largest record company in China, said with emotion: the first person in China!

Moreover, Liao Liao's current status today is no longer just the evaluation of a certain person, a certain organization, or a certain media. This is the consensus of the domestic pop music circle - media, music critics, musicians, singers , record companies, and Liao Liao Na have at least tens of millions of loyal fans all over the country.

Of course, for in-depth practitioners in the music industry, the impact of the huge sales of the album "Grateful Heart" is not just as simple as Liao Liao's complete domestic music scene.

First, the huge sales of "Grateful Heart" and the subsequent gossip news about distribution companies in various places using this album to push the market, made everyone suddenly understand that once the popularity reaches the level of Liao Liao, once The album has reached the level of "Grateful Heart", in fact, to a certain extent, it has already been able to drop hundreds of meetings at once, and directly create a distribution channel from scratch.

After all, the market will always rotate with interest. For professional musicians, "Grateful Heart" is a successful template that can be used for reference, and for fans, it is an extremely wonderful music journey, but for businessmen, record companies, distribution companies, distributors For merchants and audio-visual stores and bookstores, it is a big profit cake.

Therefore, Li Qian's studio did not have any distribution channels of their own two months ago, and they were completely poor. There is an extremely coveted distribution channel.

Second, with the blessing of distribution channels, although as far as the industry knows, the small music company that Li Qian Studio and Minghu Culture Company are bundled together has only two contracted singers, Liao Liao and He Runqing, but it But he has already taken his first solid step. From now on, he is no longer Wuxia Amon, but has rapidly grown into a force that cannot be underestimated in the entire business.

Moreover, whether it is from song creation, album production, artist guidance, or promotion, packaging, and distribution, their strength is already among the best among hundreds of record companies in China!

Thirdly, there is no doubt that Li Qian once again proved his almost invincible musical talent!

At the same time, he also proved once again that Li Qian plus Liao Liao, or Li Qian plus Wu Xing Wu Su, or Li Qian plus XX, will be an absolute guarantee of great success!

Singers can be changed, it doesn’t matter, it’s okay, if you change singers, there is a gap in singing skills, and there is a difference in strength. When it comes to the quality of the record, the difference is just a little singing skill, and when it is reflected in the sales of the record, it is only the last. That's just the last two or three million copies that can make the singer's status infinitely higher.

However, as long as there is Li Qian, five million copies sold will be a guaranteed figure!

One must know that Huang Yuqing, Li Junru, and Zhou Mo, who made a comeback recently, can't guarantee that their records will be able to sell more than five million copies in the future!

However, in Li Qian's shooting record, "Sisters and Sisters Stand Up" has infinitely approached 8 million copies, "The Boy Opposite to Look Over" is about to break through 5 million copies within four months of its release, and "The Sound of the Waves Is Still" is on the market In one year, it is said that domestic sales alone have exceeded 9 million copies. In the future, it may be half a year, or a year... well, it will be a year, this album is destined to become the first domestic album. Ten Platinum Records!

As for "Grateful Heart", although the national sales data still needs to be fed back bit by bit later, the single-week sales record of Dongguan Bookstore breaking the record of 50,000 is enough to show its strength! Sales? Will it be missing something like this?

It can be said that as "Grateful Heart" has conquered the ears of millions of fans, and with this album washing out the major charts all the way, there are only two things that the entire pop music world is most looking forward to now——

The first one is that after He Runqing switched to Li Qian's studio, it is said that he has already recorded a "transformation" album, and it is said that he has already ordered it to be released in July or August. For this album, the entire industry is looking forward to it.

He Runqing is the queen of sweet songs that everyone is very familiar with, and her downward trend in the past two or three years, especially with the change of old and new in the domestic music scene, and the gradual loss of the mainstream market for sweet songs, let All those who liked He Runqing in the entire music scene were worried and helpless for him.

So, when Li Qian meets He Runqing, what will their "transformation" look like? What kind of changes will it bring to the music world?

Also, will the so-called "transformation" they have joined forces succeed in the face of the market?

Although even a commercial failure is not enough to negate their respective strengths and status in the world. The album failed and the transformation failed. Li Qian is still the number one gold medal producer and the number one promoter in the industry. They are still the irreplaceable queens of sweet songs in the domestic music scene in the past ten years, but what if they succeed?

If they are successful, even so successful that not only can professional musicians admire them, but also achieve good results in the market...then, Li Qian's status will be infinitely higher than it is now, until it reaches a The height that all domestic musicians can't match!

In this regard, everyone is looking forward to it.

As for the second thing... that is, besides Liao Liao, Wuxingwusu and He Runqing, who and which record company can get the next "Produced by Li Qian"?

Also, will Li Qian's studio, or Minghu Culture Company, maintain its current scale? Will they sign newcomers again? Will they expand their team of musicians?

If it was in the past, before "Grateful Heart" was released, for this studio that suddenly jumped in the queue, all record companies in the industry would subconsciously reject each other and would not cooperate with Li Qian's studio. , if there is a certain degree of psychological disobedience, then now, when the other party already has its own distribution channels and has risen to a force that cannot be ignored in this circle, the sense of disobedience in everyone's heart will be reversed. It disappeared suddenly.

And at this time, since they have already risen, what is the use of not cooperating with them tacitly? Think about it in turn, what does Li Qian's production mean? It means rising, which means the album is selling well!

It means... a guaranteed sales volume of at least five million copies!

In fact, there is no need to get a whole album "produced by Li Qian", even if one of his works is used as the title song, it will be a great opportunity for any singer to make a leap!

Don't you see, people like Huang Mai, Lin Xiufeng, Diao Yixiong, and Zhou Feng were all second- and third-tier singers, but now, in order to help Liao Liao successfully transfer to Li Qian's studio, Li Qian took My four songs are human feelings, so "Wandering Song" became popular, "Friends" (Zang Tianshuo version, author's note) became popular, "I think I am the sea" became popular, "Big Toe Leather Shoes" also became popular... …

In just half a year, when these four songs were released one after another, although Changsheng Records lost a Liao Liao, they gained four leading male singers, and each of them was double platinum...

Don't you see, Zhou Ye, a newcomer with some singing skills, just because he and Liao Liao are from the same hometown, so after going through Liao Liao's hand, he got a piece of Li Qian's work, "The Crooked Moon". It is a folk song, and it is not very popular. In fact, compared with the four of Changsheng Records, Zhou Ye is indeed not popular, but in the music circle, this song has won unanimous praise. Praise!

Moreover, a few months after it went on the market, although Zhou Ye's "The Crooked Moon" has been selling at a tepid pace, his sales will never rise, but it is still not low. The long-term best-selling ability has made some big-name singers jealous, and if you do the calculations carefully, you will find that, in fact, before you know it, the sales volume of his album has almost reached two million copies...

Before that, Zhou Ye was a pure newcomer!

Now, although he didn't become popular overnight, it is undeniable that he has already become popular with the song "The Crooked Moon"!

There are doubts in the first line, and the peak in the second line is steady!

And this is exactly the value of Li Qian and "Made by Li Qian"!

So, seemingly overnight, the entire pop music world suddenly woke up.

So, one day, two days, three days, unknowingly, the phone in Li Qian's studio became busy. The public contact number of the studio has completely turned into a hotline, and Qi Jie's office phone, and even his office cell phone, are showing signs of being about to be blown up!

So, first the manager, or the record company, then various musicians, and finally some singers, and even a group of singers with a relatively high status in the circle, began to visit Li Qian's studio one after another...

It would be even easier if he met someone who could get on the line by beating around the bush, such as Zhou Ye! Even if Li Qian is away for six or even seven days a week, it doesn't matter, even if He Runqing goes out to run commercial performances, even if Liao Liao goes out to run publicity, it still doesn't matter, Li Jinlong and Sun Meimei are still there Now, these are also relationships worth winning over!

So, within a few weeks, Li Qian's studio received calls from several crews. Qi Jie even found time to go out and meet with several directors and producers. In the blink of an eye, there were seven or eight copies of the plot outline piled up on Qi Jie's desk...

As a result, Lu Ruoying, the deputy director of the TV series production department of Huaxia TV, quickly made a direct call to Qi Jie's private mobile phone, and she just said, "Xiao Qi, I have a good drama here, but the theme song I have always been dissatisfied, how about you ask Li Qian for me to see if he has time, and write a song for me?"

Therefore, Feng Yumin's call even went directly to Li Qian's mobile phone, "Little Overlord, I know you must be very busy now, but don't forget about the theme song of our Three Kingdoms..."