Then in 1981, tape recorder factories sprung up all over the country, and their output suddenly exceeded one million.

By 1982, the national annual output of tape recorders had exceeded eight million, and demand still exceeded supply.

As for the current year of 1983, so far, even if it is less than a year, only half a year, the domestic output of tape recorders has probably already exceeded 10 million.

In other words, so far, the number of domestic tape recorders in stock has already exceeded 10 million if we only count domestic tape recorders, and this does not include imported tape recorders.

In fact, the number of imported tape recorders is only much greater than the number of domestic tape recorders, of which parallel imports account for at least 90%.

From 1979 to the present, there are no strict statistics on the number of tape recorders imported into the country, but even based on the most conservative data, there are at least 30 million units.

In other words, so far, there are at least 40 million tape recorders in China.

With such a huge number of recorders, the demand for content, that is, recording tapes, has naturally increased greatly.

In addition, in 1983, after teacher Li Guyi publicly sang the banned song "Hometown Love" at the 1983 Spring Festival Gala, he sounded the clarion call for openness, which caused Hong Kong and Taiwan pop music to start crazily entering the mainland.

It was only because the number of domestic audio tapes during this period was too small, there were too few pirated copies, and transportation was poor, which resulted in the overall number of popular song tapes being too small.

It can be said that in 1983, you might be able to buy a tape recorder, but the number of audio tapes you could buy on the market was actually relatively small, especially the audio tapes of popular songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

And few.

This is mainly because most of the popular songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan are illegal and have not been formally approved, so regular domestic record companies cannot openly release them.

For example, China Record Company, Cao Zhiqiang's Huaxia Audio and Video Company, and record companies directly under various local governments, such as Jinmen Record Company, etc., such domestic formal record companies, cannot openly produce Hong Kong and Taiwan pop songs at this time.

As a result, the popular songs flowing into the country at this time were actually pirated goods produced privately by various record companies in the south, that is, cassettes without the name of the record company printed on them.

It was not until 1984 that the country officially liberalized this area, and various record companies began to openly pirate popular songs from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Europe and the United States. Just like they pirated martial arts novels from Hong Kong and Taiwan, they all openly pirated and sold them.

So after October 1984, or after 1985, the Hong Kong and Taiwan pop song tapes you heard usually had the name of the audio and video publishing company printed on them. That was because they were allowed to do that.

But in 1983, this was still not allowed, so although there were Hong Kong and Taiwan pop songs on the market, they were very few.

This has resulted in everyone's desire for pop songs being very high, so that the price of pirated pop song tapes is very high, generally more than six yuan.

Now, there are domestic songs that are comparable in quality to Hong Kong and Taiwan pop songs, and the price is so cheap, so of course everyone is rushing to buy them.

Not to mention, the common people at this time were very smart, and many people discovered the business opportunities. Not only did they buy and listen to them themselves, but they also bought many more and traded them privately to make a profit on the price difference.

So, three million sales is really just the beginning.

This can already be understood from the market demand, which is still in short supply, and the market price, which has not dropped yet and far exceeds the set price.

It can only be said that the domestic record market at this time is really a blue ocean with high demand.
Chapter completed!