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Chapter 21 White shirt and jeans

The domestic music scene in August was still owned by Liao Liao. New...

The album "The Sound of the Waves" set an astonishing sales record in July, which scared many singers to temporarily adjust the date of their release of new albums, ranging from two to three weeks, and at most five to six weeks. In short, try to postpone it as much as possible, but only one July is obviously not the whole of the album "The Sound of the Waves".

August 1st is Monday, and from this day on, "The Sound of the Waves" has entered its fifth week of its launch.

Then, in the next four weeks, "The Sound of the Waves" won sales of 32551, 30814, 28519, 26586 in Dongguan Bookstore. For eight consecutive weeks, he always sat firmly at the top of the Dongguan Bookstore album sales rankings. After eight weeks of listing, the album alone steadily reduced sales of more than 254,000 copies in Dongguan Bookstore alone!

Even if it may not be yet, this means that the national sales of this album have reached an infinitely close to the 5 million copies!

Yes, next, high school and junior high schools and universities across the country will start school one after another, and the sales of all cultural and entertainment products will surely fall apart immediately. However, in this unstoppable summer vacation, the glory of the album "The Sound of the Waves" has been built.

Eight consecutive weeks, it exceeded 20,000 copies in a single week!

Four consecutive weeks have exceeded 30,000 pieces in a single week!

The highest single week is 38,552!

And in the foreseeable next week, although "The Sound of the Waves" cannot escape the market pattern of sales inevitably plummeting after the summer vacation, it still has a high chance of continuing to maintain sales of more than 20,000 copies!

It can be said that this album exceeded 8 million sales in one year, which is a foregone conclusion.

Although there is still a certain gap between the current big names among European and American pop singers who can often exceed 12 million copies in a year and 15 million copies, this is an unprecedented big step forward for the Chinese music scene!

The market is becoming more mature, the strength of singers, the quality of the songs, and the effort of production, which brings this kind of market feedback, a complete sales explosion.

Of course, although Liao Liao was the strongest in the Chinese music scene in August, many singers released new albums one after another in the last two weeks of August. What many people expected was that although "The Sound of the Waves" was still strong after more than a month after it was released, those singers who released albums at huge risks were not that vulnerable.

On Wednesday, August 17, Liu Mingliang officially released his new album "You and My Love".

Once this album was launched, it was considered by many professionals that Liu Mingliang began to transform completely and the style of ordinary folk songs and ballads in the past. In this new album, Liu Mingliang completely turned to folk songs! The whole album eleven new songs, and the folk songs alone reached eight. He was the best at the best in the past, but only two of them!

Moreover, what surprised many people in the circle was that in the album "You and My Love", there was actually a purely popular urban love song "The promised love" in the album.

On Tuesday, August, a singer who has always been considered to be among male singers, Huang Yuqing, also released his fourth studio album "Raining Day".

Huang Yuqing was originally an urban love song singer. Since his debut, but in the past few years, due to the weakness of love songs in the entire record market, the sales of his previous albums have not increased. Although many fans still like it and support it firmly. Including Li Qian, who sang several of his works when he was singing in a restaurant, but before this "Rainy Day" was launched, he was always classified as a singer in a niche genre by the market.

But this time, as the total market volume gradually increases, on the one hand, after the bombing of Liao Liao and Wuxing Wusu, the market's acceptance and recognition of love songs, whether fast or slow songs, is constantly improving, especially younger fans, who have begun to turn to the love song camp on a large scale. On the other hand, Huang Yuqing's new album was very attentive. While he borrowed some ideas from many of Li Qian's works, he integrated into his own style. In this album, several songs are quite outstanding.

So, Huang Yuqing suddenly rose up.

On the Dongguan Bookstore sales rankings on August 22, Liu Mingliang's new album "You and My Love" in the first week of listing challenged "The Sound of the Waves" that had been on the market for seven weeks, but failed.

Although "The Sound of the Waves" has shown its decline, it still leads the sales list with 28,519 sales. "You and My Love" ranks second with 21,754 sales.

On the one hand, this certainly shows Liao Liao's strength, because for Liu Mingliang personally, he only sold for five days in the first week and got more than 20,000 copies in a single week. Although it is not very outstanding, it is already a normal sales volume.

But on the other hand, facing the seventh week of "The Sound of the Waves", Liu Mingliang's new album is so powerless, which makes people sigh that although Liu Tianwang was singing for life, even made a big turn and completely join the folk song camp, and rolled up his sleeves to write the most popular urban love song at the moment, he still seemed unable to stop his gradual decline.

When it comes to the second week of "You and My Love" being released, many people believe that with the inevitable decline of "The Sound of the Waves" and the inevitable efforts of "You and My Love" in the second week, the rankings of this week, "You and My Love" will probably have a lot of hope to overturn Liao Liao.

However, when the latest Dongguan Bookstore sales rankings came out on August 29, it was shocked.

"The Sound of the Waves", Liao Liao, in the eighth week, 26,586 pictures, ranking first.

"The Rainy Day", Huang Yuqing, the first week, 916 photos, ranking second.

"You and My Love", Liu Mingliang, the second week, 453 photos, ranking third.

Not only did Liu Mingliang fail to overturn the "Sound of the Waves" that continued to decline, but was directly fucked by Huang Yuqing!

Moreover, this is the second week of "You and My Love". According to almost irreversible market rules, this should be the week with the highest sales of Liu Mingliang's album. However, his newly emerged rival Huang Yuqing's new album "Rainy Day" was only the first week of its launch, and it only lasted for six days!

However, second-tier singer Huang Yuqing directly brought top singer Liu Tianwang to the ground!

Although "The Rainy Day" only sold about 400 more copies than "You and My Love", if you surpass it, you will surpass it! What's more, they are still in the face of publicity, fame, etc., and they are definitely inferior to the quality of the album!

Although it is said that after seeing the data, Huang Yuqing was so scared that she couldn't speak for several minutes, and then she began to know that she was going to be happy, but Huang Yuqing's successful counterattack this time conveyed a message to all practitioners in the pop music industry. The era of urban love songs is really here!

………

Zou Wenhuai parked the car and pushed it straight into the door when he arrived at the door. It happened that Wu Ma was watering flowers in the yard. When she saw him coming, she smiled and said hello, "Mr. Zou is here."

Zou Wenhuai closed the door, nodded at her, and walked towards the main hall along the middle of the yard. But when he walked past her, he suddenly stopped. After thinking about it, he turned his head to look at Wu Ma, lowered his voice, and asked, "How is she doing in the past few days?"

Wu Ma nodded and said, "It's pretty good. Apart from being dazed, there's nothing else. I look pretty good and I'm a little fatter. She doesn't drink anymore and eats a little bit of every meal. Sometimes it's half a bowl of rice, and sometimes it's a steamed roll I steamed for her. She still smokes. If she can quit smoking, she will be perfect!"

Zou Wenhuai nodded, thought for a while, then smiled at Wu Ma and said, "Okay. I understand, then you are busy!" He raised his legs and wanted to go forward, but before he could take a step, he took it back and asked, "The person who sent her back last time has really never appeared again?"

Without thinking, Wu Ma shook her head firmly, "No! I haven't been here once, and I don't even have a phone call."

After a pause, she said, "You know that in the first two days, she was so anxious that she was crazy, wandering around the house. At that time, I was afraid that she would give the house a torch! But later, it got better, especially in the past few days, she listened to music every day, which was the small box of records you sent her before the New Year. She listened to them every day. Although she still liked to be dazed, I could see her laughing several times almost every day. I came out to water the flowers myself yesterday!"

Upon hearing this, Zou Wenhuai nodded with satisfaction and smiled, then squinted his eyes and muttered, "This is really a bit weird! She actually asked her to start eating and quit drinking! Who is this person? I really want to see him!"

When Wu Ma heard this, she immediately replied in a low voice, "Hei, she looks not very old, tall, handsome, and the young man looks very energetic. She can be...it's probably 1.85 meters tall? She doesn't dress very well, and it may be because she just came back from outside. She drove a big car, but it's very dirty. Oh, by the way, yesterday, the lady mentioned it and said that the young man is from Jinan and has just been admitted to a school in Shuntian Mansion. She is...what to learn...Oh, look at my brain!"

She only cared about her memories there, and didn't notice it at all. Zou Wenhuai was already a little stunned, "Stop! Are you saying that the one who sent her back is a college student? She has just been admitted to college?"

Wu Ma nodded, "Ah! No! When the lady said yesterday, I recalled myself, wasn't that young man just looking young? He just looked calm!"

Zou Wenhuai hesitated for a moment, blinking his eyes, and couldn't help but think about it.

This is important information!

He never lost confidence in Zhou Xuan's voice and singing skills, but he never had any confidence in Zhou Xuan's survival ability and screening ability.

I was young and had a good car when I first got into college. And it sounded like I liked driving around the country. Isn’t this the tune of many rich young men?

It's absolutely true!

It's broken, it's broken now!

Why can't this girl remember the pain even if she was beaten so much?

The last time that old man had already cheated her and her career. This time, if he met a playboy..., then he would be completely finished!

No matter how famous Zhou Lao is, he can't stand the consumption of one generation after another, nor can he keep her from not publishing new songs for so many years! No matter how prosperous the market is, you won't produce new songs, not only will your fame be consumed, but the rising newcomers will sooner or later defeat your position in the industry. After having more choices, fans, even those hard-core fans, will gradually change their camps!

This is the case in the music industry. You can be willful. As long as you sing well, as long as your albums sell well, no matter how willful you are, there are companies and fans who are willing to support you, but if you are too willful and even have never missed record companies and fans for many years, you cannot bring sales and profits to record companies, nor can you bring constant good new songs to loyal fans. Then who would be so stupid that you have been guarding you and always praised you?

Thinking of this, Zou Wenhuai could no longer hold it back and left Wu Ma in the yard. He strode to the door. While reaching out to push the door, he shouted symbolically, "Mr. It's me, I'm here!"

When he pushed the door and saw Zhou Lao coming out of the inner room with a skirt, Zou Wenhuai was a little stunned. It was rare in the past year. She actually wore a flowery dress and seemed to have light makeup on her?

Seeing Zou Wenhuai come in, Zhou Lao smiled at him and asked, "What are you muttering to Wu Ma in the yard?" On the other hand, he didn't even think about asking Zou Wenhuai to answer, but just shook the dress with a hanger in his hand and put it in front of him and compared it. He asked, "How is it, is it good-looking?"

Zou Wenhuai was stunned for a moment and asked, "Are you... going out?"

Zhou Lao blinked and said, "No! Oh, that's it. In two or three days, I have a friend who is going to Shuntian Mansion, so I haven't cleaned myself for a long time, so I'll try clothes..." Speaking of this, she sighed, "Oh, I really want to go out to buy clothes. I have not bought clothes for many years!"

Zou Wenhuai pushed his glasses and looked at her, "Mr., do I know you, my friend?"

Zhou Lao glanced at him, and the look was so clear that she couldn't tell whether she was laughing or not. She was like a blade, and she even picked up her voice, pretending to behave, and asked, "You and Ma Wu were just muttering about this outside, right?"

Zhou Lao turned around and left him with a back of a flowery skirt.

"whispering sound!"

After a while, she took out another piece of clothing. She had a very ordinary short-sleeved plaid shirt on her upper body and a pair of washed jeans on her lower body. When she compared it to her body, she asked, "Where is this one?"

Zou Wenhuai thought about it and asked directly: "Your friend has just been admitted to university, right? Are you going to send him to school?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Lao glanced at him again, "No?"

Zou Wenhuai sighed helplessly, "Mr., can we stop making trouble?"

While speaking, he picked up his briefcase, opened it, reached out and took out his notepad, turned it into the middle, and lit it at Zhou Lao, "Sony, Xinda, Huage, Times, New Oriental, don't you want to know what quotations they gave you respectively? And..."

While he was talking, he reached out to take out a piece of paper from his bag, unfolded it, held it in his hand, and shook it, saying, "Huang Yuqing, you should be familiar with it, right? You are the same method, old friend, right? It is difficult for him to have more than one million albums in the previous few albums, but do you know how many copies his new albums have sold? "Rainy Day", urban love songs, your method, in the first week of its launch, is not as good as others in publicity and fame, but he killed Liu Mingliang directly!"

After a pause, he stared at Zhou Lao and said, "Dongguan Bookstore, there are nearly 24,000 copies in a single week! It will be launched in the first week, and Liu Mingliang, who was in the second week's explosion period, will be killed directly. Mr. Lao, you are also a person in this industry. You know what it means. Can you tell me?"

After a pause, he saw Zhou Lao just staring at him with wide eyes, motionless and without saying a word, and then asked and answered himself directly, "Let me tell you Lao Lao, next week, Huang Yuqing will not only continue to suppress Liu Mingliang, but she can even continue to do Liao Liao, who has dominated the eight-week list! To be honest, I was shocked as soon as this sales ranking came out, but I quickly figured it out. I think there are many people in this circle, either now I have figured it out, or I will figure it out in the past few days, that is, the era of Huang Yuqing, you, and your genre singers have come!"

Mr. Zhou still didn't speak, and his pair of clear eyes stared at him.

Zou Wenhuai subconsciously reached out and pushed her glasses, but he continued: "Liu Mingliang has dominated the music industry for many years, but now, he is about to get out of date, and it's not just him, He Runqing, Feng Feifei, Zhang Chang, and a large number of people. As long as they can't keep up with the current development trend, they will be eliminated soon! And you, you, Huang Yuqing, Liao Liao, you are the leaders of the next decade!"

Speaking of this, he finally slowly put away the sales rankings and notepads in his hand, sighed, looked at Zhou Lao seriously, and said with great sincerity: "So, Mr. Lao, is it good to listen to me? No matter what you want to do, no matter who you will fall in love with in the future, at least now, we sign a company and release a new album. In the most important year or two of the new and old changes, you must not be eliminated. You must follow this trend and get the position that should belong to you. Then, even if the market position stabilizes, we will be lazy and tantrums anymore, can we do it?"

After a pause, he seemed to be afraid that Zhou Lao would not pay enough attention. He emphasized again, "The old and the old are alternating, Mr. Lao, this is not my alarmist statement, it is true! If you have not appeared or released new albums in the past two years, then when the new and old are completed in the music industry, a large number of new singers have already taken the lead. Whether you are willing or not, fans and record companies will think that you are already from the previous era. This meaning... do you understand what I mean?"

Zhou Lao was still looking at him steadily.

After talking for a long time, Zou Wenhuai also looked at her calmly.

The two looked at each other for a moment, and Zhou Lao asked him: "Are you finished?"

Zou Wenhuai nodded, "I've finished speaking, at least what I should say, and what I can say, have been broken up and said for you. What to do next depends on yourself!"

After a pause, he said "Oh" and said, "By the way, on the way here just now, Xie Mingyuan of Sony called me again. I guess he saw the sales rankings of this issue, so he should be more optimistic about your comeback. His call means that as long as you agree to go to Sony and agree to comeback, everything is easy to say. In addition, he promised me that he would invite Li Qian, the most famous talent in the industry, to write you a title song. He even said that he would strive to let Li Qian take the first album of your comeback for you, and strive to make a shot!"

Zhou Lao looked at him without saying anything, his clear and bright eyes did not blink.

After Zou Wenhuai finished speaking, he shrugged helplessly and said, "This time I'm really finished. What do you want to say? Say it!"

Zhou Lao finally nodded.

After a moment, her eyes suddenly became alive again, and the expression on her face suddenly became alive. She shook the clothes in her hand and asked, "Then do you think the color will be too messy when you put together a plaid shirt and jeans? Otherwise, I will wear a white shirt on my upper body, what if?"
Chapter completed!
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