China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 506: Physical records are becoming increasingly depressed
The fifteenth day of the first month.

VG Club.

"Hey, Xiao Xu, did you get up so early today?"

ROTK turned his head and glanced at the alarm clock on the wall, and then looked at the little brother in confusion.

"Well, I'm going to the video store to buy an album."

Xu Linsen put on his coat and walked out the door.

"Who to buy..."

Halfway through the words, ROTK suddenly said: "Oh, Lu Yuan is releasing an album today, right? If you want to buy it, bring one for me."

"OK."

Xu Linsen made a gesture and then walked out of the base gate.

The record industry is really over.

When Xu Linsen stepped into the video store and saw the sparse flow of people, he couldn't help but be surprised.

The boss smiled helplessly: "Usually there is no one in the store for a long time. Young man, you are also here to buy Lu Yuan's new album, right?"

Next, Xu Linsen went to two stores successively, and it was not until the third one that he found a video store that was still open.

For an eighteen-year-old boy, more than ten thousand is already a lot.

The base provides food and accommodation, and as long as you don't spend money arbitrarily, you can save at least half of the more than 10,000 yuan.

Xu Linsen nodded: "Yes, boss, how did you know?"

Seeing the flow of people in the store, the record store owner couldn't help but feel a little sad in his eyes.

After walking out of the villa area, Xu Linsen waved down a taxi and then skillfully reported a list of addresses.

After saying that, Xu Linsen turned around and went to the place designated by the boss.

About ten minutes later, he arrived at his destination.

"bawl."

The boss pursed his lips: "Everyone here is just like you. The third row of shelves over there are filled with Lu Yuan's albums, both in Chinese and English."

"Boss, are there only so many people today?"

"That's quite a lot."

Last year, he officially joined VG and became a professional player in VG's DOTA2 division. He is quite handsome and has received the title of e-sports Longrich.

Although he has just entered the professional arena, as the high-scoring player in DOTA1, his transition has been very smooth.

Because Wang Xiaocong disrupted the situation, the salary of DOTA2 professional players has also increased. Even a professional player like him who has just entered the game can get a salary of more than yuan a month.

There are not many singers that can be sold now. The times are developing too fast, and many customers are too lazy to buy things offline.

"Thank you."

However, what was surprising was that the video store was missing. He ran to the next door and asked, and then he found out that the store had been closed for more than two months.

Many people choose to shop online.

Platforms such as Dangdang, Ali, and JD.com account for at least one-third of sales.

He entered the audio and video industry in 98 or 99. Although piracy was crazy at that time, there were few channels for information dissemination.

There are not many entertainment options.

Television, music, and radio take up most of the entertainment time. Nowadays, there are too many forms of entertainment.

Key records are inconvenient.

Who doesn’t want to take a CD player out with them?
Ten years ago, it was fashionable to have a CD player, but now it is old-fashioned to have one.

Mobile phones, MP3 and other digital music players are the mainstream.

Therefore, even pirates rarely pirate albums nowadays.

If you don’t make money, why do you pirate?

Even pirates are about to withdraw from the record industry. You can imagine how cold the business of record stores is. Lao Ding still opens the store now, purely to pay for his feelings.

The same goes for people who buy records. Except for some audiophiles, most people also buy records for the sentiment.

Half past nine in the evening.

Before Lao Ding officially closed the business, he uploaded today's sales data to Galaxy Music's database. There was also a subsidy for data entry. Although it's not much, only three hundred yuan a month, it's still enough for him, no matter how much he spends on cigarettes a month.

……

Twelve o'clock in the morning.

Galaxy Music updated yesterday’s sales data on time.

Nowadays, audio and video stores have also entered the Internet era. Various data statistics cannot be said to be real-time. The data will be released every other day, so there is basically no problem.

Huang Xiaosong is an entertainment reporter. As it approached twelve o'clock, he opened the official website of Galaxy Music on time.

00:01 pm.

Refresh.

The latest data was released, he clicked on the daily list, and a row of tables instantly appeared in front of his eyes.

Sales daily list.

The first place, unsurprisingly, must be Lu Yuan, but the data is impressive.

736 photos.

Less than a million.

This is also Lu Yuan's worst data in the past three years.

But compared to others, this is an insurmountable number.

The single-day result is higher than the cumulative sales of 99% of singers.

Milk Tea Lun has not released an album for more than a year, and Wang Lihong has not released another album since "Eighteen Martial Arts".

In over two years, only one greatest hits album has been released.

The same goes for JJ Lin. The latest studio album was released on December 2011, 12. The album released last year was also a collection.

On the contrary, newcomers such as Li Ronghao, Xu Song, Wang Sulong, Xu Liang, Mina, Chen Chusheng, Hu Xia, Yu Kewei, and Deng Ziqi still maintain the rate of one major per year.

However, their album sales also failed to sell.

Only Xu Song and Zhao Lei have albums with more than one million copies, and they are early releases with cumulative sales in several years.

There are no albums that have exceeded one million within the year.

of course.

It's not all bad news for the record industry.

If digital album sales are included, Xu Song, Wang Sulong, Deng Ziqi, Hu Xia, Meina and others all have albums with sales exceeding one million.

It is no exaggeration to say that singers signed by Starlight Records account for half of the mainland music scene (sales).

As for independent musicians/independent label singers such as Wan Qing, Escape Plan, Ren Ran, Zhuang Xinyan, Cheng Ju, etc., their sales are not very good.

But the Midi Music Festival and the Strawberry Music Festival are getting better and better.

They also have a group of fans who are very loyal.

As the sales data was released, a large number of music reviews appeared on the Internet.

[Big Mouth: I’m glad that I can still hear songs like this in this era. Lu Yuan’s new album almost made me dream back to twenty years ago]

[Third Cousin: The Chinese version of "Big Dream" "7 years", I highly recommend this album, Lu Yuan once again surprised people]

[Jin Zhaojun: I like the song of the same name in "The World" the most. The bitterness of time, the sweetness of years, the world is worth it]

[Xiao Li Fei Dao: I didn’t expect that this album would bring out so many old friends, haha, glad, glad, this album is really good and sounds good]

[Li Wan: I’m here to join in the fun too. None of the ten songs is superfluous. I suggest you sing them on repeat]

[Deng Ke: I didn’t expect that this album would bring out so many seniors. Lu Yuan is really awesome! 】

……

At first, this part of the music reviews did not attract the attention of the outside world, but as Xiaoke, Zhang Yadong and others interacted with them, their identities immediately aroused the curiosity of netizens.

Xiao Ke and Zhang Yadong are both Lu Yuan's royal producers, but their respect is beyond words.

As netizens dug deeper, they became more and more surprised.

Damn it!
(End of this chapter)