Chapter 61: The first album.
Compared to the film industry, the Xiangjiang music industry is quite decent, at least singers can make money by selling records.
During this period, Zhou Xing has been busy recording and releasing new albums, but has not been greatly affected by the film and television industry.
That's right, he is about to release his first new album. In addition to "Exaggeration" as the first title song, his previous [Notepad], [Dunning], [Missed], and this time [Lifetime Beauty] and [Practice] were all included. The other songs were collected by Warner Records, and the quality can only be said to be average.
Although in Zhou Xing's view, this is completely a behavior of making money, the music industry has long been accustomed to this kind of recurring to the cold rice, and has also specially formulated a new term for this - new song selection, well, perfect.
Fans are still very proud of Zhou Xing's first album. As soon as the news broke, more than 10,000 fans booked it. In fact, most of them came for the song "exaggeration". After all, I have heard of other songs before, and the first half of the hype is really amazing. Zhou Xing has attracted everyone's appetite for so long, so naturally many fans want to take a look.
"Welcome to the Sound of Music, I am your friend Yueya. Today we are our old friend, Zhou Xing. Everyone should have heard of it. His first solo album is about to be released, and the most popular song is naturally the song [Exaggeration]. Today, we are not only fortunate to be able to first release the second half of this song, but also listen to Zhou Xing telling the story behind the creation of this song. It's so lucky."
According to Zhou Xing's current status, it is actually a bit of a loss in the price of starting a radio program. However, the Sound of Music has helped him at the beginning, and the host Yueya and him are old friends, so they just think it's a favor.
"That year's eighteen alma mater dance party
Standing like a minion
At that time, I swear with tears in my eyes
Everyone must see me
There are too many ordinary and ordinary roads in the world
Which village do you live in?
In love, at work
Too much neglected
Self-esteem has fallen
Pay attention to cure hunger
I know why I have never obtained it
Many big moves make these mistakes
Try people to see if I am sick?”
The lyrics of the second half are also amazing. Not only the main song part, but also the climax part of the subsequent chorus, especially the last sentence "Gaze at me, don't just look at the smallpox, I can drink it with you if I don't have a cup of tea, don't forget someone is making a sound for you."
That hysterical roar seemed to penetrate the eardrums, making people lose their ability to think, their brains were blank, and only the bloody lyrics were hovering over the thinking.
Shocked, when hearing the performance in the second half, many fans' first reaction was "Buy, buy, buy!"
In fact, there were fans who were worried before that Zhou Xing could perfect this song in such a short time. After all, the first half was really amazing. Now it seems that not only did the dog-tail sequel, but on the contrary, the lyrics of the second half and the climax of the final chorus are all phenomenal. With this song alone, even if the rest of the song is rubbish, this album is worth it.
At the end of the show, the Sound of Music also drew several live audiences and connected with Zhou Xing. In order to repay the support of the fans, Zhou Xing also gave away ten autographed albums and some signature posters and other prizes. The fans who won the prize were so excited that they screamed. Those who didn't get it could only sigh secretly and made up their minds to buy one as soon as possible.
The sales channels of records are actually relatively single. The main sales force is various audio and video stores. Basically 80% of the album sales are obtained through audio and video stores, followed by the audio and video areas of some hypermarkets and the audio and video areas of bookstores.
Zhou Xing released his album for the first time, so he naturally had to go around and run around and sign sales activities between various audio and video stores, stores, and bookstores to attract fans to buy.
In fact, from another perspective, signing a sales meeting is an activity that can intuitively measure the cohesion of singers and fans. If a singer only has two or three kittens at a sales meeting, they are either outdated singers or failed singers who have never been popular at all.
Several signings held by Zhou Xing were quite successful, with fans all over the place, and many fans originally planned to meet their idols. After all, many fans of Zhou Xing were movie fans, not fans, but seeing the signings were so popular, and Zhou Xing sang live, some fans who were not fans also bought albums.
However, this made Zhou Xing suffer. He almost got tired of signing. After an event, thousands of signatures were not enough to satisfy all fans.
Zhou Xing suddenly envied RB sumo wrestlers. When they were doing activities, they became much more relaxed. They dipped their hands in ink and treated the hand mold as signature.
Of course, there is no gain. After a series of signings, the distance between Zhou Xing and his fans has been narrowed a lot. Before the signings, many fans thought Zhou Xing would be very arrogant, but after contacting him, they found that even though his hands were so tired that he was trembling, Zhou Xing still insisted on meeting the fans' requirements for signing congratulations, without any impatience.
Ahem, of course, most importantly, he seems to be more handsome than on the screen.
In just one week, Zhou Xing's first solo album "Exaggeration" sold over 100,000 yuan, reaching the platinum record standard, which also established his position as a singer in the music industry.
In fact, whether it is the Xiangjiang music scene or the Baodao music scene, they are all very mature commercial markets. Measuring a singer's status, awards, qualifications and other aspects are just reference standards. What really plays a key role is the sales of records.
Why is Huang An so arrogant for so many years? Because he does have this arrogant capital. The sales of the "New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream" album alone in the treasure island area are nearly one million, and he can count his hands that can surpass him. This is the status of the world and can be eaten for a lifetime.
Of course, the record market in the past was much better than it is now. After entering the 21st century, piracy was just rampant. With the popularization of audio technology, many piracy did not even require the engraving of optical discs or ripping tapes. They directly packaged audio, and the spread speed was much faster than CDs and tapes.
The record market is actually in a gradual shrinking state. At the same time, a large number of outstanding singers emerged around 2000, resulting in increasingly fierce competition in the entire record market.
Although Zhou Xing's sales of this album just exceeded 100,000 in a week, in fact, this is already quite good. Moreover, this is just the sales in the Xiangjiang area. If the sales volume in Asia are based on this momentum, it is not impossible.
Chapter completed!