China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 275 Bystanders of the times

9 month 9 number.

Wednesday.

On non-holiday days, in major cities across the country, there was a 'spectacle' of people queuing up to buy albums at some video stores.

That's right.

At this time, if there is a queue, it is definitely a spectacle.

Especially those video store owners, they feel the deepest.

Lao Wu is a video store owner who has been in the business for more than 15 years. Since the 90s, he has plunged into the video store industry.

It takes more than ten years to do it.

Looking at the long queue outside the store, Lao Wu suddenly thought he had returned to the millennium.

Around the turn of the millennium, the music store was at its most prosperous. At that time, almost every student in the neighborhood had a Walkman.

Those who have money will buy a Sony CD player.

At that time, it was the golden age of tapes and CDs. To this day, Lao Wu still remembers how good the business of the store was when Renxianqi became popular.

As soon as the door opens in the morning, there is an endless stream of customers coming to the door.

In addition to tapes and CDs, VCD/DVD rental is also a very profitable business, although the rent is not high, only a few cents a day.

But it can't stand the steady flow of water.

However, how long has it been?

In less than ten years, why has the world changed?

Today's young people use MP3, MP4, and iPod to listen to music. Walkmans and CD players have become antiques and have been swept into the garbage.

To listen to music, fans don’t need to go to a video store to search for discs. All they need is a computer, and there are all kinds of resources on the Internet.

If you don’t have a computer, you can also go to an Internet cafe or a street print shop to download pirated resources.

Fortunately, Lao Wu took advantage of the golden age of the record market and made a lot of money, so he bought the store in Dongdaqiao.

The Cross Century Video Store has become the only remaining video store on Dongdaqiao Road.

Other audio and video stores have either switched to selling digital home appliances or opened coffee shops. This is the only pure audio and video store that only sells records.

In fact, Lao Wu is still running this store, and it is purely a loss-making business. After deducting water, electricity and labor expenses, the monthly profit is less than 5000 yuan.

If you close the store and rent it out, you can collect more than 1 yuan a month in rent.

But Lao Wu didn't do that.

After working for so many years, he still has feelings for the record industry to some extent. If the door is really closed, he would be reluctant to leave it.

Anyway, he doesn't rely on that rent to make a living. The store next to the video store also belongs to him, and the monthly rent is [-].

Including the rented house, the annual rental income is more than 30 yuan.

He opened the store purely as a hobby.

Originally, Lao Wu thought that the recording industry, or the mainland music scene, would die slowly.

He is a person who has personally experienced the golden age. He has always been pessimistic about the future of the mainland music scene.

The golden age of the record industry was almost dominated by singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan. In the mainland, only Sun Nan, Yuquan, Naying, Han Hong, Daolang and a few others could sell records.

Compared with Hong Kong and Taiwan singers, mainland singers were defeated.

However, after Lu Yuan made his debut, the situation slowly changed. This guy's records sold more than those of Hong Kong and Taiwan singers.

Debut is the pinnacle!
In 07, 08, and 09, in just three years, Lu Yuan transformed into an international superstar. The change was so fast that it was dizzying.

Not only that, this guy opened a company and also trained several singers with good appeal.

That singer named Xu Song, although Lao Wu doesn't like Xu Song's style very much, just like he doesn't like Jay Chou.

But if other people’s albums can be sold, there shouldn’t be too many middle school students and high school students coming to buy Xu Song’s records.

There is also the little girl named Mina. I have to say that this girl is really good-looking, although her singing skills are so-so.

But what about idol singers’ singing skills?
Children who go to school especially like to buy her records, and female students buy more.

There are more girls who like her than boys.

"I Am Mina" was an album released in July. To this day, Lao Wu's store has sold more than 7 copies.

Restocked several times.

Looking at the current situation, more than 500 photos is a very exaggerated number.

In 60 days, more than 500 copies were sold, with an average of eight copies sold in a single day. Even if the latter one is not sold, more than 500 copies are sold in a single store, and it can still be ranked among the top five annual sales of a single store in a cross-century audio and video store.This year, the worst-selling album in Lao Wu’s store was Yang Kun’s album of the same name.

When this album was released, Lao Wu felt that Yang Kun had been a talent before, and then he made it into thirty albums.

Three months have passed and the thirty CDs have not been sold out.

Not even ten pieces can be sold in a month.

Really can't be sold.

For other new singers like Cao Lue and Xiao Jingteng, when they released songs, Lao Wu didn't buy them at all.

Don't dare to purchase goods.

I'm afraid I won't be able to sell it.

Although he is not short of money, he occasionally gets upset when he looks at the inventory gathering dust.

Today, the sales volume of Lao Wu's store is still supported by more than [-] familiar faces such as Lu Yuan, Wang Fei, Zhou Jielun, Zhang Liangying, Hu Yanbing, Xu Song, JJ Lin, Wang Lihong, Wang Sulong, Fei Lunhai, and Mina.

Among them, albums by Lu Yuan and Jay Chou are the best-selling. Even if they are records that have been released for several years, people will occasionally come to buy genuine CDs.

The two old albums can probably sell dozens to hundreds of copies a month.

"Boss, Lu Yuan's new album is almost out of stock."

Just as Lao Wu was remembering the past, the cashier Xiaomei ran up to him panting.

"Huh? Out of stock?"

Old Wu said in surprise: "Didn't I win [-] tickets? They were sold out in one day?"

"They're almost gone." Xiaomei gestured, "There are only sixty or so left. I guess they'll be sold out when the students get out of school."

"okay, I get it."

Lao Wu slowly took out his cell phone: "I'm going to call someone to replenish the goods. I think they can be delivered around five o'clock."

"Oh, boss, I'm going back then."

"Go."

Immediately, Lao Wu called the supplier. This time, he ordered a little more, directly ordering [-] albums.

Five hundred sheets should be able to be sold within a week, right?

Today is the album's release day, and sales data cannot be used as a reference. After all, the release day is often the day when sales explode.

After the launch day, sales will get lower and lower.

however.

Old Wu miscalculated.

Five hundred albums, it didn’t last a week.

9 month 12 number.

On the fourth day after the album was released, while fishing in Miyun, he suddenly received a call from the store clerk Xiaomei.

Lu Yuan's album is almost sold out again.

There are only [-] or [-] copies left in the inventory of "Practice Without Stopping".

After hanging up the phone, Lao Wu called the supplier again and placed another order for [-] sheets.

In other words, if Lu Yuan's album was left to others, it would be impossible for him to order hundreds or hundreds of copies at a time.

Seeing Lao Wu finish the phone call, the fishing friend Lao Zhang next to him couldn't help but asked curiously: "Xiao Wu, isn't your store running out of stock? Why do you still need to restock temporarily?"

"Because of Lu Yuan."

Old Wu chuckled.

"Lu Yuan?"

Lao Zhang murmured: "This name is a bit familiar. By the way, I remembered it. Is Lu Yuan the big singer who was on the network?"

"Yes, Lao Zhang, this is your memory."

Old Wu laughed and gave a thumbs up.

At the same time, he also felt Lu Yuan's influence again. Even Lao Zhang, an old-fashioned man in his 60s who never paid attention to entertainment news, actually knew Lu Yuan.

Don’t blame other people’s albums for selling.

(End of this chapter)