Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

"Just give me two of them!"

Wang Jiawen is not a child and has no requirements for beautiful posters.

The clerk went to select records for Wang Jiawen.

Wang Jiawen, on the other hand, set his sights on the old man who was counting money not far away with a beaming face.

This old man is the owner of this video store.

He walked towards the other party.

"Boss, how is business?"

Old Man Li is counting the money carefully.

Suddenly I heard a voice ringing in my ears. I looked up and saw a young man wearing glasses walking over.

"It's okay! Every time Chen Qiming releases a record, the business of the video store will get a lot better."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but longingly said: "I really hope Chen Qiming releases records tomorrow! If that happens, I don't have to worry about the business of this store."

Hearing this, Wang Jiawen couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

Chen Qiming is not a machine, how could he release records every day.

However, from the other party's words, he could also hear the other party's high regard for Chen Qiming.

Nor is it admiration.

But Chen Qiming is his bread and butter and allows him to make money.

In this era where everything depends on money.

Whoever can make people make money and support an industry is the bread and butter of others.

Even if these people don't like him, they will support him.

Obviously, Chen Qiming supported many video stores on his own.

"Boss, I'm a reporter. I'd like to know about today's record sales from you. Is it convenient?"

After a pause, he took out another two hundred Hong Kong dollars and said, "It's not free. I can give you some money to buy the news."

The old man glanced at the two hundred yuan in Wang Jiawen's hand. He didn't refuse. He took the money and took out an account book.

"Here are the records sold this morning, see for yourself."

Wang Jiawen took the account book and read it carefully.

The more I looked at him, the more frightened I became.

The video store didn't open until eight in the morning.

So far, just over two hours.

But in just over two hours, Chen Qiming's new album "Chen Qiming 1999" has sold more than copies.

Considering that a record sells for more than 100 yuan, in just a few hours, this store alone has sold nearly 30,000 Hong Kong dollars worth of records.

This is simply a money grab.

At this moment, Wang Jiawen finally realized Chen Qiming's appeal again.

The record didn't even hit the radio charts, and many people didn't know the quality of the songs, but they were able to sell so many records in one store in just two hours.

This is just one family.

How many video stores in Hong Kong are selling this record?

How many have been sold not only in Hong Kong, but also in Asia as a whole and even around the world?
It’s no wonder that some newspapers once reported that Chen Qiming has his own system to attract money. When he releases records, it is almost equivalent to printing money.

At this rate of record sales, it’s like banks are printing money.

After reading the account book, Wang Jiawen understood that he probably didn't need to visit today.

Because for one or two or three days, he probably wouldn't be able to get a specific evaluation of this record.

Most of the people who came to buy records at this time were Chen Qiming's loyal fans.

They don't care at all about the quality of the records.

Just because of Chen Qiming's name, they will go into the video store to buy records.

Therefore, after getting the record he bought and paying for it, he went straight out of the video store without thinking about asking fans for their opinions on the album.

In fact, it was just as Wang Jiawen thought.

When he was buying records.

within the globe.

Chen Qiming's new album "Chen Qiming 1999" has been snapped up by fans around the world.

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and even North America and Europe.

In places where entertainment is relatively developed, this record has triggered a large number of fans to rush to buy it without going through the charts.

There are long queues at almost every video store or newspaper that sells Chen Qiming's records.

These people, without exception, are all people who buy Chen Qiming's records.

Many media and newspapers even filmed the hot buying scene and published it in the newspapers, attracting countless people to pay close attention to Chen Qiming's record.

In this situation where a large number of colleagues gathered their attention and the media paid attention, the day flew by in a blink of an eye.

Early the next morning, Qidian Records announced the sales data of Chen Qiming's first album through Mingyang News.

In Hong Kong, 78,000 copies were sold on the first day.

Treasure Island, sold 123,000 copies on the first day.

First-day sales in Singapore and Malaysia totaled 54,000 copies.

Japan, 163,000.

South Korea, 91,000.

North America, 410,000 copies.

Europe, 310,000.

Together with other scattered regions, the first-day sales of Chen Qiming's album was an astonishing 1.5 million copies.

shock!
As soon as this data was published, there was almost a global uproar.

One and a half million.

Compared with Chen Qiming's previous sales of tens of millions, this data is actually not much.

But there is a premise here.

That's the total sales of those records.

And this time it’s a single day sales.

In one day, countless singers sold more than they could achieve in their entire lives.

How is this not scary?

At the same time, after one day of sales, songs from Chen Qiming's new album also began to be logged on major radio stations.

This is not what Chen Qiming sent for ranking.

Instead, the radio DJ buys the records himself and then plays them on the radio station.

This is also something that makes Chen Qiming envious and jealous of countless colleagues.

If other singers want their songs to be played on the radio, they almost have to arrange for the radio station to have the radio DJ recommend and play the songs in the program.

Well, to put it simply, if you want your song to be played on my station, you have to pay.

Radio is just like TV. Recommending songs can actually be regarded as advertising.

Advertisers want to advertise on this platform, but if you don’t pay advertising fees, why should I help you advertise?

However, this was the case before.

Now, this situation is broken.

Breaking by Asia's top singer Chen Qiming.

When his record was released, he did not send any money to any radio station, and he did not even send a record.

Under such circumstances, not only did the record sell well, but the next day, the radio station even spontaneously went to the video store to buy Chen Qiming's record to play on the radio station.

This is absolutely unprecedented.

Even though Chen Qiming himself was so popular in the past few years, such a situation has never happened this time.

In fact, the radio station is also very helpless.

Originally, when Chen Qiming did not send songs to major radio stations to hit the charts, the major radio stations were very dissatisfied. Everyone needs our platform, but you don’t. Are you looking down on us?

Even those radio stations that had a good relationship with Chen Qiming were very dissatisfied with Chen Qiming after this incident.

They made a tacit decision not to help Chen Qiming promote any topics about this album.

We must let Chen Qiming know that it is not that they cannot live without Chen Qiming, but that Chen Qiming cannot live without them.

However, this tacit understanding between the major radio stations was broken a day later.

After Chen Qiming's record was released, the songs from his new record quickly began to play in video stores, clothing stores and even barber shops on the streets.

The widely sung and melodious singing immediately attracted countless people.

Then, a large number of Chen Qiming's fans didn't know that Chen Qiming was not charting on the radio station, so they began to call the radio station to ask for the song to be played.

Once or twice is fine, but if you refuse, forget it.

But it happened not just once or twice, but throughout the whole day, the phone calls from the radio station didn't stop, and they were all calling to order Chen Qiming's songs.

There are no strong binding covenants between major radio stations.

Finally, with a large number of listeners requesting the song, a radio station could not resist the temptation and played Chen Qiming's new song that night. .

It's okay if it's not broadcast, but if it's broadcast, other radio stations will be frightened.

The radio station that played Chen Qiming's new songs at that time was a small radio station that had just been established and did not have a license. It was a radio station that the audience did not know.

As a result, because other radio stations did not play Chen Qiming's new songs, they were the only ones playing them.

This directly led to the record-breaking listening rate of this small radio station that night. Not only did it rank first in radio listening rate that night, but it also set a record of possibly 110,000 simultaneous listeners.

Once I saw this situation, no other radio station could stand.

The battle between radio stations is the same as on television.

The competition is for listenership.

Whoever has a higher listening rate will have higher advertising fees and more loyal listeners.

Those big radio stations don’t want to push out all their listeners just because they don’t play Chen Qiming’s new songs.

As a result, major radio stations spontaneously went to video stores to buy Chen Qiming's records and started playing them on the radio stations.

"Dear listeners, this is Hong Kong Commercial Radio...

As everyone knows, just yesterday, our Chinese light Mr. Chen Qiming released his new album "Chen Qiming 1999".

Here, on behalf of the owner of the radio station, I would like to first congratulate Mr. Chen. He once again broke the record, with album sales exceeding 1.5 million on the first day...

Without further ado, the song we bring to you today is Chen Qiming’s new album.

This album is a rare mixed album that contains several languages ​​including Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean and English.

The album has a total of thirteen songs.

Four songs in Mandarin, two in Cantonese, two in Japanese, one in Korean, and four in English.

Among them, several songs use the same tune, and the words are divided into languages...

Now, let us relax and enjoy this music feast together.

Well, yes, it is a musical feast, and as always, Chen Qiming's songs never disappoint.

Although there are many languages ​​on this album, it can give people a confusing feeling.

But there is no doubt that the songs in it are all the best among the best..."

The vehicle was driving on the road, and Chen Qiming was lying on his back on the back seat. On the car radio, the morning music channel of the commercial radio station was playing.

The host is recommending playing his new record.

First, he talked a lot, and some advertisements were interspersed. Slowly, the host's voice slowly disappeared, and the tune of the song began to appear.

The music progresses from slow to intense.

"Spend love unbridled

My heart is broken, why should I care about it?

Whatever you want, let you take it away
If you feel that freedom is happiness
......"

The first song played was "Too Much".

Chen Qiming's album has different versions released in different regions.

Although they are all the same thirteen songs.

But in different regions, the songs placed at the beginning are different.

In the Chinese-speaking area, "Too Much" starts before "Thank You for Your Love 1999" ends.

In Japanese-speaking areas, before "Lemon" starts.

It's different when it comes to English-speaking areas.

In North America and other places, the song before the fight is "Whataya Want from Me".

Speaking of English songs.

The original plan for this album was to have ten songs, and there was only one in English.

However, after this plan reached Warner, it was rejected.

According to them, although the Chinese area is Chen Qiming's base camp.

But in reality, Chen Qiming's best-selling and most profitable albums are undoubtedly Europe and the United States.

Therefore, as a European and American publisher, Warner does not agree that there is only one English song in this album.

Warner initially thought that Chen Qiming had no English songs, and also proposed that if Chen Qiming did not have good songs of his own, they would ask the head office to send invitations to European and American lyricists and composers, inviting them to tailor songs for Chen Qiming.

However, this takes time.

In the end, Chen Qiming rejected the request.

His image in front of fans around the world is that of a musical talent.

In all his previous records, almost all the songs were composed by himself.

This time, if I ask someone else to compose songs, it will obviously give the outside world the feeling that he has exhausted his talents.

So, he had to take time out to re-add three songs for the new album.

Originally, the only English song he prepared was "Whataya Want from Me".

Later, he took out three more songs.

The three songs are "Here With You", "Animals" and "Wait for You".

These three songs, together with the previous "Whataya Want from Me", form the English tracks of the new album.

The four songs are all high-quality masterpieces, and when combined together, Warner agreed to release this mixed album worldwide.

In fact, judging from the current situation.

Warner's original approach was indeed right.

If there was only one English song, his album might be able to achieve good results based on his previous fame, but it would definitely not be as dazzling as it is now.

This can be seen from Japan.

Because it is a mixed album, there are only two Japanese songs in it. One is the Japanese version of "The King of K-Song", and the quality is not very good.

This caused the album's reputation in Japan to be questioned.

Of course, this kind of doubt is not too much.

After all, Japan is also a place where there are many audiences for English-language songs.

There are also four English songs in the album. Even if some people question that there are too few Japanese songs, it will not affect them from buying this album.

People in Japan rarely question the Japanese songs in it.

If Chen Qiming only puts one English song on the album, I think this will happen in Europe and the United States as well.

Fortunately, Warner has rich experience and corrected Chen Qiming in time.

This is the benefit of large international companies.

Although working with them, the profit will be less.

But it is undeniable that they will also play a big role.

Whether it is promotion, distribution or positioning of the album market.

With their rich experience, they can help people avoid many detours.

(End of this chapter)