Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Chapter 112 Terrible Sales Data

After "The Heart Is Too Soft" was released on March [-], Chen Qiming immediately let all those who doubted him and who didn't trust him know what an idol king is and what a popularity king is.

As soon as this album was released, the eight songs in the album, which can be called classic songs, quickly began to slaughter the charts.

Except for the English song "Believe" and "Have to Love", which invited UFO singer Yi Nengjing to sing as a chorus, only ranked [-]th and [-]th on Voice of Asia, all other songs entered the top ten of the list.

Especially the song "The Heart Is Too Soft".

His tunes and lyrics are actually not the most outstanding in this album.

But it's so magical.

The phrase "You are always too soft-hearted, too soft-hearted", as long as you listen to it once, most of them can hum.

Then, the song started to climb up the charts like crazy.

ninth.

sixth.

fourth.

second.

For four days, it had to move several positions almost every day, and directly climbed to the second position.

And the other songs are not weak either.

After the release of the album "The Heart Is Too Soft", "Thousand Paper Cranes" saw a huge increase in on-demand data, directly moving from the fifth place to the third place.

In addition, "The Past Follows the Wind" and "Love Is Simple" also ushered in an explosion, ranking fourth and fifth respectively.

Although "Rain and Rain" entered the list later, it was not as awesome as "The Heart Is Too Soft", but it went straight to sixth.

Plus the seventh "Just Love You".

As such.

Looking at the entire list from top to bottom, there was a terrifying and suffocating scene immediately.

That is, apart from the number one "Kiss Goodbye", Chen Qiming's songs are actually arranged on the list row by row.

Then, if you take a closer look, a more terrifying scene appeared.

That is the name of only two singers in the top ten.

One is Jacky Cheung and the other is Chen Qiming.

The two of them actually directly occupied the entire list, pushing Nicky Wu, Jimmy Lin, Aaron Kwok and Andy Lau's song "True Love Is Hard to Take" out of the top ten after releasing the pre-release song.

"These are the two kings in the Chinese music scene, no matter who wins and who loses"

"Shocking!Chen Qiming proved his strength"

The champion of "Kiss Goodbye" is not guaranteed, but Chen Qiming will fight for it! "

"This is the pinnacle showdown"

"Aaron Kwok fell out of the top [-] on the list, his face turned black"

Chen Qiming's horrific climbing statistics, and his and Jacky Cheung's dominance of the top ten in the rankings shocked the media, and cheered for them.

On the [-]th, when Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung was interviewed, when he was asked about the list dispute between Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung, he took the initiative to say:
"It's a historic moment, and whoever wins between the two of them, in my opinion, they both won.

Based on this historic moment, they will be destined to leave their names in history! "

When Alan Tam was asked this question, he also admired, "Obviously, the Chinese music scene belongs to them."

Anita Mui: "I've bought and listened to both of their albums. There is no doubt that they are two divine albums."

In addition to some superstars in Hong Kong were asked.

There are also some famous singers on Taiwan's side who were asked by reporters about Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung.

Deng Lijun, who has gradually retired, Han Baoyi, the former treasure island queen, and even Luo Dayou, etc. were all asked.

Most of these people gave Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung recognition.

And when the media were looking for the older generation of singers to comment on Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung.

The time has quietly come to the [-]th.

Today is Sunday, which is the day to count the sales data of this week.

The first is the Polygram branch of Baodao where Jacky Cheung works. They announced the sales data of "Kiss Goodbye" this week.

"Kiss Goodbye" was released on Wednesday, March [-], exactly twelve days old today.

In twelve days, the album sold a staggering [-] million copies.

terror.

Horror!
When Jacky Cheung's sales surprised the media and fans, it also made everyone turn their attention to Chen Qiming.

Furlong and the flying saucer didn't keep everyone waiting.

When Jacky Cheung announced that the sales of the album had exceeded one million and a celebration party was about to be held, the UFO data announcer held a ring of firecrackers and set it off in front of the reporters before releasing the data.

46 million copies!
It is consistent with the sales data released by Jacky Cheung for the first time.

However, everyone's focus is not on this.

What they pay attention to is the digit before 46.

Three days.

In just three days, Chen Qiming's "The Heart Is Too Soft" won a staggering 46 copies worldwide.

This data directly broke Jacky Cheung's four-day sales record of 46 copies just a few days ago.

Boiling.

Both Taiwan media and Hong Kong media are boiling.

It's definitely historic.

Both albums released during the same period broke records.

This not only improved the historical status of Jacky Cheung and Chen Qiming in the music scene.

From the perspective of the music industry peers, this has another meaning, that is, the Chinese music scene may usher in a big explosion this year.

In the past few years, the development of the recording industry has been getting better and better year by year.

From the 80s, the sales volume of 30 million copies can be called a burst.

By the 90s, millions of copies were needed.

Judging from the rhythm of Jacky Cheung and Chen Qiming's two albums, this is a small goal of 400 million copies and a big goal of 600 million copies!

The sales data of Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung not only caused a sensation in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Even the mainland was shocked by these two records.

On the 23rd, Mainland China Records Guangzhou Company and New Era Audio and Video Company approached Fulong respectively, hoping to represent Chen Qiming's "The Heart Is Too Soft" in the Mainland.

It is different from the plethora of record companies in Hong Kong and even Taiwan.

There are not many large record companies in the Mainland at present.

Among them, China Record Guangzhou Company and New Era Audiovisual are two of them.

The location of these two companies is in Guangzhou, where the record industry in the mainland is currently the most prosperous.

Since the 80s, Guangzhou has received a lot of entertainment influence from Hong Kong and Taiwan because of its proximity to Hong Kong. Affected by this, starting from the late 80s, the heyday of the Chinese recording industry has been set off here, and the earliest batch of pop singers have been achieved here.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the 90s, more than 90% of the national audiovisual distribution market was occupied by companies in Guangzhou.At that time, a large number of well-known singers of Chinese pop music were also concentrated in Guangzhou.

With the right time, place and people, the first large-scale "star-making" in the Chinese pop music scene began in Guangzhou, the birthplace of pop music.

When the concept of "MTV" did not exist in the mainland, record companies in Guangzhou began to use video tapes to promote singers.

At the annual order meeting, when other record companies only provided trial listening, the colorful music videos caught the attention of merchants at once. This kind of music promotion method can be said to be unique.

In addition to the advanced management methods of record companies in Guangzhou, the local media in Guangdong also played a key role in publicity and promotion. Guangdong local media such as Guangdong TV and "Yangcheng Evening News" also contributed a lot to pop singers' star creation.

Formally take advantage of this opportunity at the right time and place.

China Record Guangzhou Company and New Era Audio and Video have become the most influential entertainment giants in the mainland.

Among them, the new era audio and video is the most influential.

Yang Yuying, which they released last year, sold millions of copies in the Mainland with "The Wind Is Loved, The Water Smiles".

Became the first singer in the mainland with sales exceeding one million.

Subsequently, in December last year, Guangzhou New Era Audio and Video launched Mao Ning again.

A piece of "Please Let My Love Song Stay With You" directly made Mao Ning appear on the Spring Festival Gala, and made the song "The Sound of the Waves Still" popular all over the country.

According to Chen Qiming's knowledge, this record has sold over a million copies since it was released.

For some reasons, Fulong chose Hong Kong to meet with these two companies.

It just so happened that because Chen Qiming was going to hold a signing event here, he also attended the agency negotiation meeting.

Of course, he didn't speak, he just listened to the whole process.

Talking about business is boring.

Both sides will fight for a dime share.

Just when Chen Qiming started to yawn, the representative of China Records slapped the table, stood up, put his hands on the table, stared at the representative of Guangzhou New Era Audio and Video with a gloomy face, and said:

"200 million, our China Records will sell 200 million RMB, and the proceeds will be split [-]-[-]!

Dynasty first, if you offer more than this price, I will leave immediately without saying a word. "

Hearing this, Chen Qiming lifted his spirits and set his sights on the representative of the new era of audio and video.

Just now, the representative of the new era of audio and video has been increasing the price.

No matter what price China Records offered, he would add some, which made the China Records representative very angry.

Now, it seems that China Records has given the highest bargaining chip.

It depends on how the audio and video in the new era will be done.

If they add more, then Chen Qiming's record and even his agency rights in the mainland for a period of time in the future will be acquired by New Era Audio and Video.

The so-called record agency is a very common thing for current Hong Kong and Taiwan singers.

Because the management companies of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers may not have branches in other regions, it will be very inconvenient when selling records.

Therefore, in order to facilitate the distribution of records, if most singers in Hong Kong and Taiwan want to sell their records to other regions, they will basically find local companies to distribute them as agents.

This kind of agency release has no copyright, and generally only takes the income from the record.

Just like the relationship between Furlong and the flying saucer.

The record company under Fulong Company has only production capabilities, but no distribution capabilities, so Fulong has reached an alliance with UFO.

But all records produced by Furlong Records will be handed over to UFO for distribution.

And the Mainland...

Although UFO has been acquired by Warner most of the equity.

But at present, they also do not have the ability to distribute in the mainland.

Not only flying saucers, but also other companies such as Polygram.

Therefore, if Fulong wants to release Chen Qiming's album, he must find a publishing house or a record company in the mainland that has the ability to distribute.

And this kind of cooperation sometimes depends on people.

Let's talk about Chen Qiming's previous "Fairy Tale".

At that time, the album had not yet been released, so UFO contacted a company in the mainland for distribution.

At that time, Chen Qiming was not well-known in the mainland, and "Fairy Tale" had not yet gained momentum in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Therefore, the agency of this record belongs to seeking someone to represent it.

And now...

It's different now.

First of all, Chen Qiming already has a certain scale of popularity in the mainland with his previous "Fairy Tale".

The second is that this record has already started to gain momentum in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even other countries with Chinese population.

In this case, a smart person would know that if he wins the agency distribution of this record, he can basically make money sitting still.

Therefore, the agency distribution company will choose to buy the agency distribution rights of this record with money.

"You won! I didn't expect China Records to have so much wealth!" The representative of New Era Audio and Video pondered for a while, stood up and spread his hands.

Then he looked at Chen Qiming and Liu Ciwei.

"Two, I can't give Mr. Li this quotation. I hope we can cooperate again next time."

After speaking, he nodded and quickly left the office.

"Heh... isn't it because the company has two popular singers, so they dare not take risks, so why not pretend?"

The representative of China Records surnamed Li sneered, then looked at Liu Ciwei and Chen Qiming.

"You two, my quotation should be the highest among all the companies in the mainland that can release this record. What do you think? Do you have to wait for other companies' quotations, or..."

Before he could finish speaking, Liu Ciwei interrupted him, "Mr. Li, needless to say, I hope we can have a happy cooperation!"

Liu Ciwei's words are obvious, that is, he agreed to the offer.

After negotiating the quotation, the next step is to sign the specific contract.

Chen Qiming didn't get involved in the latter matter. After chatting with the representative of China Records for a while, he left Fulong's branch in Hong Kong and rushed directly to the airport.

He has finished the signing session here in the morning, and the next step is to fly to Singapore.

Now that the fire has been lit, all he has to do is to keep adding fuel to the fire called "The Heart Is Too Soft".

Only in this way can the fire burn more vigorously.

……

In the next few days, both Chen Qiming and Jacky Cheung are vigorously promoting their respective albums.

Today you appear on this TV program, and tomorrow I will be interviewed by a magazine.

Then, in terms of signing parties, the two also held one after another.

Under the publicity of the two competing, on the 27th, the new week's data came out.

And when this week's data comes out.

The media was stunned!
Jacky Cheung was stunned.

Even Chen Qiming was shocked.

Jacky Cheung, 43 in a single week, with a total sales of 150 million.

Chen Qiming, 84 in a single week, with a total sales of 130 million.

Chen Qiming airborne the sales champion of the week.

After seeing Chen Qiming's sales of 46 in three days, most people had expected that he might be the parachute champion today.

But what no one expected was that he would be airborne with such high data.

84 million.

a week...

Seeing this data, Nicky Wu looked at the 50 sales celebration party he had just received from the company, and instantly felt unsatisfactory.

Aaron Kwok, who was practicing the splits in the dance room, saw the data and tore it up, and the data sheet was instantly torn to pieces.

After seeing the news, Takeshi Kaneshiro, who was in the lounge of Fulong Company, took a silent look at the seat where Chen Qiming often sat. That seat was clearly there, but now, he suddenly felt that it was far away in the sky.

Rolling Stone, after seeing this data, Zhou Huajian got up and went directly to the general manager's office. He wanted to ask Duan Zhongtan if he could change the date to release the album.

Then, Jacky Cheung, who was holding the signing event, nodded silently after hearing the data reported by the assistant, called the company directly, and added six more signing events for himself, and he was going to fight.

"Chen Qiming, he is the king of the Chinese music scene, he does not accept refutation! "

"The Chinese music scene ushered in a new king"

"A week of 84, Michael Jackson in the East is Chen Qiming"

"I figured it out, the price will go up next week! "

Crazy, all the media are frantically starting to process printed newspapers with dots.

The next day, all the entertainment newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan reported the news.

Even many newspapers that only report social news couldn't help but participate in the report.

"Obviously, obviously..."

"Ah ah ah..."

Downstairs from Fulong Company, when Chen Qiming got out of the car, dozens of fans immediately came up.

Among them were journalists.

"Amin, your "The Heart Is Too Soft" sold 84 yuan in a week. This figure is even more terrifying than your last "Fairy Tale". Some people say that with this album, you are enough to be called No. 1 in the Chinese music scene. You What do you think about this, do you want to be No.1?"

"Amin, although your sales have exploded, "The Heart Is Too Soft" has not yet defeated "Kiss Goodbye" to win the top spot on the song chart. Do you regret this?"

"Chen Qiming, I'm a reporter from Hong Kong New Times Weekly. What do you think of Jacky Cheung's record? Can you comment on this record?"

A group of reporters frantically chased after Chen Qiming and his party and asked loudly.

After entering the company gate, Chen Qiming took off his sunglasses, and answered one question after another:

"I'm just a singer. I can't evaluate myself. I can only do my best. As for how others evaluate, I can't control them!"

No.1 in the Chinese music scene, this statement is actually just talking.

After all, Chen Qiming has only debuted for a year. If he dares to say that now, no matter how good his sales are, the media will definitely kill him tomorrow.

So, he refused to answer.

After answering this question, he answered another question.

"As for the fact that "The Heart Is Too Soft" has yet to win the song chart, I will not comment, it needs fans to comment."

After a pause, he continued: "About the record "Kiss Goodbye", there is no doubt that its sales and reputation have proved that it is a classic enough album.

Although we are rivals, the media often compare me with brother Xueyou, but I admire him very much.

He has become popular from the 80s to the present, which is simply impossible for ordinary people.

To be honest, I have been listening to his songs all the time before I debuted, so please don’t keep antagonizing me from the media, we are all Chinese, we don’t need to create regional differences..."

Before Chen Qiming finished speaking, Liu Ciwei who was next to him immediately pushed and interrupted: "Sorry, A Ming just came back from the publicity run, he needs to rest, and we are interviewing when we have a chance.

Thank you everyone! "

After finishing speaking, he hurriedly dragged Chen Qiming to the company.

As he walked, he said, "Don't talk nonsense. It's easy to cause unnecessary trouble."

　Hong Kong entertainment novels, starting from 25, the main character started to set up Fang f4 from chapter [-]. The members include the main character, Huo Jianhua, and Yan Kuan. If you are interested, you can go and read it.

　　
　
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