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"The Hometown of My Passionate Love" suddenly became popular!

Before the album was released, there was only one Li Qian who knew and believed that it would definitely become popular, and only one Liao Liao who believed and hoped that it would become popular. There was also only one Wang Jinglu, who was anxiously looking forward to something.

In addition, even Li's father and Li's mother, who believe in Li Qian the most, just hope that it will sell better and have better word-of-mouth reviews. Even Zhao Meifeng, the producer who likes Liao Liao's voice the most, only I just hope that the market performance of this song is not too bad, after all, it is the second title song of the album "Liao Liao".

As for the others... General Manager Zheng Changsheng, Artistic Director Du Xiaoming, Huang Yueqin, Lele, etc., although they have different thoughts, in the end, no one is optimistic about this album and this song.

But, it's on fire!

Before even waiting for Liao Liao's second title song promotion tour to start, listeners began to call the radio station to order this song! After that, as Liao Liao continued to participate in various programs in major cities across the country, and continued to promote this second title song, the popularity and on-demand rate of this song also increased. rise.

How well it can drive the sales of the entire album is still unknown until the sales statistics are collected. As far as Liao Liao's experience of participating in the show is concerned, she suddenly feels that her fans have increased, and they are all Become more enthusiastic!

As for Dad Li, who often holds the radio recently, his biggest experience is: no matter which music station, or music channel, or music program you switch to, in short, as long as it is a music radio program, it will take only a few minutes. , there will always be listeners calling the hotline and ordering "My Hometown of Love"!

And in this new week, when Dad Li rode his bicycle around the streets of Jinan again, he found that the song was already playing on the loudspeakers of many video stores!

At the beginning, many people were inexplicably surprised.

Even Dad Li, who in the bottom of his heart hoped that this album would be a big hit, and hoped that his son's works would be liked by more people, faced this situation for the first time, in addition to surprises, it was inevitable that there would be a little bit of confusion. And a little apprehension.

Because... it's actually so red!

The song "My Hometown I Love" is habitually classified as a folk song in the domestic music scene. The so-called folk songs are between folk songs and folk songs, more popular than folk songs, and more free and unrestrained than folk songs. Moreover, at the beginning of the concept of pop music, it had its first masterpiece - "The Ballad of the Great Wall".

In the early 1980s, Liu Mingliang's "Hometown Remote" became popular all over the country. This kind of pure sing-song of his hometown and memories of his hometown, with a strong flavor of the times and the love of hometown and country, led to the popularity of the entire 80s. The folk songs in the music world are very popular. In that decade, it was the most prosperous decade for the Feixiang Band, but it was folk songs that occupied the mainstream of the music scene. And Liu Mingliang is firmly on the top spot in the domestic music scene with his series of classic folk songs! After him, there is the rise of the folk song prince Xinfu Zhao, and the birth of Zhen Zhen!

Although even in the 10-year boom in folk songs, it is still inevitable that there will be all kinds of sand and sand, there are fine works and excellent works, but there are more works of average level. Moreover, after a boom that lasted for several years, along with the decline in creation, as Liu Mingliang began to turn to more soothing folk songs, as Xinfu Zhao became more and more focused on folk songs, and Zhen Zhen started to develop American country folk songs with all his strength, Country ballads, a category of pop music with a distinctly Chinese flavor, declined rapidly.

Since the 1990s, in this market, except for a few masters who occasionally have one or two folk songs that can be heard, almost no one dares to touch this category. Even in the early 1990s, musicians and music critics had already shouted the words "Country ballads are dead".

In fact, such a market trend is the key reason why everyone from Zhao Meifeng to Zheng Changsheng expressed their concern about Liao Liao's insistence on making this song the second title of the album.

However, is Xiangyao really dead?

Obviously not.

The cold winter after the ten-year boom in folk songs does not mean that folk songs are no longer loved by the audience. In fact, just as Americans love to listen to the countryside, this kind of family and national feelings full of national characteristics is full of personal feelings. The love of the hometown, this strong desire to tell, will never be outdated.

Because everyone has their own hometown love, everyone has their own old and old love.

It can be said that if music does not die, folk songs will not die!

It can also be said that as long as people are still alive, they will have a hometown that belongs to them alone. Then, folk songs have an absolutely strong audience base!

The reason for the decline of folk songs is that the musicians can no longer produce good works, and the second is that many ideas, melodies and rhythms from folk songs have been integrated into folk songs and ballads with similar styles. and popular songs.

Moreover, in the category of folk songs, it is indeed too difficult to produce excellent products!

In terms of the time and space where Li Qian once lived, there are only a few folk songs that can truly be called palace-level folk songs in the 30-year history of pop music.

"The Loess High Slope", "The Hometown I Loved", "Xintian You", "The Wanderer's Song"...

And there are probably only a few folk songs that can reach this level in this time and space.

There is no doubt that "The Hometown of My Passionate Love" is not only enough to rank among them, but also no less!

So, in this very similar time and space, it's on fire!

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The time was August 16th, ten days after "Liao Liao" was released.

Monday, morning.

After Zhao Changsheng came to the company, he just made a cup of coffee when the secretary entered the office with a few documents.

The top one is the album sales chart from Dongguan Bookstore.

He took over the list with a calm mind, and he looked down one by one, but soon, when that familiar name came into view, Zhao Changsheng couldn't even spit out a sip of coffee!

"Liao Liao"... ninth place!

4386 pieces!

What an international joke!

In the first week, it sold about 1,000 pieces. In the second week, whether it went up a little or dropped a little, it was normal, but... more than 4,000!

Zhao Changsheng lowered his head to look down, and sure enough, Shen Haimei, who was in the tenth place last week, has already been squeezed into the eleventh place!

He swallowed, put down the coffee cup, raised his head to look at his secretary, and asked, "Did you call to confirm? This data...isn't it?"

The secretary seemed to be waiting for this question. Hearing that, he quickly said, "The publicity department doesn't seem to believe it. When Manager Liu gave me this document, he emphasized that he had already called the Dongguan Bookstore. Confirmed, the data is correct!"

Zhao Changsheng nodded subconsciously, then looked down again.

4386... That's right!

Ninth place... That's right!

Oh, yes, "Liao Liao"... that's right!

But... I rely on it!

These horses are not 1,400, nor 2,400, but more than 4,300 of his horses!

How could you be so crazy all of a sudden?

Before it was released, he had listened to that album, and he didn't think it had such an explosive power!

The question now is, does it only sell well in Dongguan Bookstore? Or is it generally good across the country? Is the so-called 20-fold rule of the Dongguan Bookstore ranking still applicable?

If applicable, it would be... more than 80,000 copies!

This is too scary!

So far, the highest weekly sales volume recognized and certified by the Music Association is 370,000 copies created by Liu Mingliang in 1987! More than 300,000 copies per week, this is the only case! Selling more than 200,000 copies per week, that is the top line. Among male singers, Liu Mingliang, Zhao Xinfu, Zhang Chang, and Hu Yang have achieved this record, but only one female singer has done it. Her name is Zhen Zhen .

Generally speaking, if you can break 150,000 copies in a week, that is to say, if you can sell seven or eight thousand copies in a week in Dongguan Bookstore, then the platinum album can already be confirmed, and double platinum is also very promising. Even if it is the front line of the domestic music scene.

There are about seven or eight male singers who have achieved this achievement, and there are only four female singers: Zhen Zhen, He Runqing, Feng Feifei, and Zhou Hao. Therefore, they will be collectively known as the four queens, and they will become the top existences among female singers.

For male singers, it can be regarded as the second-tier top-notch, or it can be regarded as the first-tier, and for female singers, it can be said to be the absolute first-tier.

For example, Shen Haimei, Sun Yue, and Yang Qianzheng have all achieved this result.

And now, "Liao Liao" actually won 80,000 copies in a single week?

Is it an accidental outbreak, or...

Next week, will its sales shrink rapidly, or will it… keep going?

Of course, if this sales volume can be maintained, even if it drops slightly, as long as it lasts for a few weeks, it will be enough to make Zheng Changsheng jump up with joy, and Liao Liao's status in the arena will be decided by this battle. As for continuing a bigger outbreak... He didn't even dare to think about it! Because everyone knows that a newcomer, the first album... This is a matter of close to zero probability!

Holding the thin piece of printing paper in his hand, Zheng Changsheng had countless thoughts coming and going in his mind.

Excited, looking forward to, puzzled, questioned, anxious, bored...

He looked up and found that the secretary had not left yet, so he asked, "Is there anything else?"

The secretary quickly said, "When I first went to work, just after Manager Liu from the Publicity Department left, a call came from the production department. They asked if they needed to arrange the production plan for the second batch in advance."

Hearing this, Zheng Changsheng hesitated for a moment, and said: "This...let's wait, wait and see, I always feel that this result is a little unreal! In this way, when the regular meeting will be held at 10:30, I will personally discuss it with you. The production department said, don't worry about this. Are there any other things?"

Sure enough.

The secretary actually took out a newspaper and handed it over, saying, "Manager Liu from the Publicity Department brought it here. He specially told me to give it to you. He said that there is a very important music review on it."

"About Liao Liao?" Zheng Changsheng said and took the newspaper, "Isn't it just the flattery of the music critics who did public relations, so I have to watch it?"

This is a "Shuntianfu Evening News", he opened the newspaper, flipped to the entertainment and culture section, and easily found a not too long article - "My Love

But what is surprising is not the name, nor the length of the piece of tofu, but his author, who is actually... Guan Chengdong!

Zheng Changsheng's eyes blinked, he couldn't believe it!

People outside the music circle may not even know what this name means. But Zheng Changsheng, a person outside the circle, went into the industry alone and has been in this circle for many years. He is naturally familiar with the famous musicians and music critics in the circle!

It's no wonder that the Publicity Department attaches so much importance to this, but this Guan Chengdong doesn't easily write music reviews for others!

Holding the newspaper, Zheng Changsheng spent a few minutes reading this comment carefully.

From start to finish, full of praise!

Zheng Changsheng, however, had a bit of a toothache - Xiangyao has long since withdrawn from the pop music scene, okay? Everyone knows that folk songs are dead! Not to mention what happened to the sales chart of Dongguan Bookstore this week, even if everything is true, even if Liao Liao's album is really selling well, it's not necessarily what's going on! Guan Chengdong is good, and he directly shouted a big scary slogan: The recovery of folk songs is imminent!

Su!

Zheng Changsheng put down the newspaper, thought about it, and said to the secretary, "Notify the people in the company to hold a regular meeting!"

He paused, and before the secretary turned around, he suddenly said, "Wait... You said... Liao Liao's album suddenly sold so well in Dongguan Bookstore. Could it be that there is some behind the scenes?"

While talking, he himself shook his head.

Liao Liao signed it with her own hands. If other people don't know her origin and social circle, can she still know it? If there is a pusher, can we wait until now?

Pushing aside the boss chair, he stood up. He took two steps back and forth at the desk, then suddenly stood down, grabbed the phone and dialed a number, and when the call got through, he said directly: "Old Liu, I am Zheng Changsheng. I found a research company and asked them to give me a questionnaire on Liao Liao's album, such as where did you know about this album, why did you buy it, which song is your favorite, etc. Your publicity department Discuss with the investigation company, and do it as soon as possible and send someone to do an investigation back, remember, not only in the capital, but also in some key cities!"

After he finished speaking, he said "um" and "um" and hung up the phone.

…………

At the regular meeting on Monday, according to Zheng Changsheng's intentions, in the end, the production department's proposal to apply for the second batch of production plans in advance was rejected.

Zheng Changsheng naturally had ample reasons for this.

First, given the popularity of Liao Liao, and the first album has just been released, it is a bit abnormal in itself that the performance has suddenly fluctuated like the current one. How is the sales outside, we still need to wait for further feedback from the market, it is not appropriate. Prematurely preoccupying the company's liquidity for sales that are likely to be a few months away;

Second, even if Liao Liao's album is really popular, as far as Dongguan Bookstore is concerned, the company treats it as a first-level distributor, and directly gave them 15,000 cassettes of tapes and a 1,500 boxes~www.wuxiaspot.com~ accounted for 7.5% of the first batch of production, and 500 vinyl records were directly given to them, which is larger than most provincial dealers, and As of last weekend, adding up the sales for two consecutive weeks, they have only sold 5,000 boxes, and the warehouse still has about 10,000 boxes. With so much stock, even if they continue to sell four this week and the next week Thousands of sheets are enough for them to sell for two weeks. Then, after this week's sales come out, it will be too late to arrange production.

Moreover? Continue to 4,000 sheets next week?

What do you think about you!

Think beautifully!

However, just the next morning, Changsheng Records suddenly received a stocking notice from Dongguan Bookstore.

The so-called stocking notice means that our goods are almost sold out, and we are preparing for the next batch!

Then, before Zheng Changsheng could react, in the afternoon of the same day, Changsheng Records received a stocking notice from seven provincial distributors!

Everyone in Changsheng Records who heard the news was stunned!

What is even more surprising is that just one day later, at 11:00 on Wednesday morning, Dongguan Bookstore sent another delivery notice——

"Liao Liao" is sold out!

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4,000 words a day is really the limit, and if it goes faster, it really can only be irrigated. And now at this speed, I can feel my heart and say, I write very seriously and very responsible!

Hyun Ran burst into tears, begging for tickets, begging not to rush...