superstar director

Chapter 445 Sales soar

"--Yesterday morning, music genius Ning Sheng held a press conference at Huijie Records to officially announce that he will retire from the music scene and work behind the scenes after this global farewell tour. Affected by the news of his retirement, the sales of Ning Sheng's two new albums have experienced a miraculous surge, and the sales of all Ning Sheng's previous albums have also increased significantly. Countless fans want to buy a set of all Ning Sheng's albums as a souvenir—— "

The entertainment news on TV is almost all news about Ning Cheng's retirement, and similarly, whenever Ning Cheng appears now, there will definitely be hundreds of paparazzi reporters flocking to him, making Ning Sheng now every time he goes to do a tour for the tour. During the rehearsal, there were more than ten bodyguards leading the way, otherwise, the distance from the car door to the entrance was a few meters away, it would be like an endless purgatory, with all kinds of sounds, flashing lights, microphones, crowds of people, Every time Ning Cheng went in, the crowd dispersed, and he could see several miserable people whose expressions had changed.

Since that press conference, Ning Cheng has never accepted any interviews, especially when he saw the news on the Internet that some female fans were crying and their eyes were red because of the news of his retirement, he felt very uncomfortable. , As for the news fabricated by reporters and paparazzi because of his retirement, they don’t even want to read it. They just ask his team to update some photos of their rehearsals and performances on his Weibo every day. Everyone, "Although Ning Cheng has retired, he is still there, just changing his life and changing his identity!"

And when Ning Cheng was frowning and stepped up his rehearsal tour under the harassment of media reporters, Ning Sheng's two new albums were like sports cars with fuel tanked up, rushing furiously on the highway, driving all Other people's albums are left behind.

In the new week, Ning Sheng's Mandarin album "Goodbye" sold more than 70 copies in one fell swoop in China. This is because the news of Ning Sheng's retirement was only revealed on Thursday, and the real sales surge was actually only on Friday. Saturday and Sunday were just three days, but in these three days, nearly 50 copies were sold, which shows the impact of this news on fans.

In addition, the two-week total sales volume of this Mandarin album in other Asian regions has reached nearly 80 copies, while in the Western and European markets it has sold nearly 50 copies in two weeks. The total global sales of the Mandarin album "Goodbye" reached nearly 40 million copies in two weeks, and because the news of Ning Sheng's retirement was only exposed, and the word-of-mouth of the album's songs has just spread, the real volume of album sales will be in the next The outbreak continued for two to three weeks.

Looking at the singles charts of the music charts in China and other Asian countries, Ning Sheng's Mandarin album directly ranked in the top ten. Whether it is the number of downloads or the number of auditions, it is more than other singles. A difference of millions.

In Europe and the United States, the Mandarin album "Goodbye" is more than a step behind the English album "Don't Cry".

Ning Sheng's Mandarin album "Goodbye" achieved the best result in the top [-] album sales in Western countries, while the English album "Don't Cry" is just like "Goodbye" in Asia. It is like a momentary nuclear bomb in Western music. The world exploded.

In the first week, sales were not good due to limited publicity channels. However, in the second week, the album's theme song "Don't Cry" swept the number one single on the music charts in many Western countries, and the number one on demand on radio stations. After numerous honors such as being the audition champion of various music websites, this English album was obtained at the fastest speed, and set off a huge wave of rock and roll in people's communication through the Internet!
In the first week of its release, the album "Don't Cry" only ranked No. 32 on Billboard's album sales chart. However, just one week later, it entered the top five directly on Billboard's album sales chart in the second week. In the third place, there is only a gap of 10,000+ cards between the second place and the first place.

And after the third week, Ning Sheng's English album "Don't Cry" directly rushed to the highest position on the music charts of Western countries, whether it was an authoritative list like Billboard, or a regional list in Canada and other countries, This English album swept the music charts of various western countries with the madness and power of rock and roll, firmly sitting at the top of the list.

And on Billboard, the largest music sales list in the western world, "Don't Cry" sold 110 million copies in the third week, becoming the only album in the past five or six years that sold over one million in a single week, and it was at the top of the list. On the list, the total sales from the second to the tenth are still a full [-] copies short of Ning Sheng's album.

Despite the so-called "at the end of the crossbow, it is impossible to wear Lu Jin", compare the sales of a newly released album with the sales of other albums that have been on the market for three or four months, or half a year.It is certainly unfair, but you must know that even the new album of European and American singer Guo Guojie, which has been well received this year, has the best weekly sales performance on the Billboard album sales list, only 45 copies!And the world superstar rock band Linkin Park's highest weekly album sales record is slightly higher than hers, and it's only just over 50 copies!But that album was the culmination of three years ago.

Undoubtedly, in the past five or six years, that achievement was once considered to be a super record that no one could catch up with in the Internet age of the new century!On Billboard's list of all-time album sales records for a single week.It made the list!

Moreover, in the Internet era after 2010, there is only one album that has sold more than 50 copies in a single week!
However, just over three years later, Ning Cheng hadn't released a song in Europe and America for many years. Everyone almost forgot about Ning Sheng. Many Europeans and Americans have forgotten Ning Sheng's identity as a singer. The identity of Hua Xia's director is well known, but now Ning Sheng's English album "Don't Cry" has become popular overnight.In just one week, it not only broke the super record of Linkin Park's album list in one fell swoop.And it doubled the number in one fell swoop!

Now, this sales data record.It was raised to 110 million at once!
Even though it will take a few more weeks for the national sales data to be calculated, according to the estimated sales data of various record companies, the global sales of the album "Don't Cry" this week are likely to be at the top of the list. Between 300 million and 400 million sheets.

In other words, in addition to Billboard's single-week sales data, in terms of global sales data, this album is almost destined to surpass the record of 300 million copies that was once considered unattainable!
This series of data, this series of new records, is enough to make the entire music world lose its voice!

On the other hand, the European and American media published their own professional comments on Ning Sheng's new album, which has created countless records, and specifically commented on the appearance of this new record. The evaluation of "Sweet Child O' Mine", "November Rain" and "Fade to Black" and other hard rock and heavy metal rock with different styles, the critics have expressed a certain degree of dissatisfaction, and even questioned This kind of messy hedonism and self-destructive songs sell well, will it ruin the healthy music atmosphere of the world music scene?

And one of them is said to be a comment from a big guy in the circle, and it also mercilessly ridiculed the disordered style of the entire album, thinking that combining heavy metal works like "Fade to Black" with hard rock songs Feng's "Sweet Child O' Mine" is included in this album. There is no doubt that the producer's mind is confused and he can't distinguish the different types of the two songs. The sales of the album were bluntly praised. After all, for musicians, the better the music market, the better everyone's life will be.

Then, without a doubt, he congratulated on behalf of the entire American pop music circle for the new historical record created by this album, and predicted that this album would break a series of music records in North America and even in the world!
On the whole, many of these comments in North America are even contradictory. Although it seems that there are praises and criticisms, trying to make an appearance of being objective and true, it is difficult to cover up its own It is full of loopholes, the more expert people can see it, although some people obtained this sales data and knew this amazing sales record in the first time through their own methods, but only one night time.The media still couldn't fully react, at least they couldn't really calm down and analyze this new record seriously and calmly.

They looked a little panicked!
However, this is only the beginning.

After this issue of the Billboard bestseller list, it starts the next day.In an instant, a large number of comments came out!

It seems that such a new record that suddenly appeared out of thin air, suddenly stimulated something!
About "Sweet Child O' Mine", "November Rain" and "Fade to Black" these rock songs with different styles, about the inconsistency of the style of the whole album, about the value and significance of "November Rain", about this album The astonishing weekly sales created, regarding the new identity and abilities of Ning Sheng, a Chinese in front of everyone, people seem to think of Ning Sheng's grand occasion when he released his mini-album and participated in the concert in North America.Wait, wait, etc., of course, there is also the news that Ning Sheng is about to hold a global farewell tour and will retire soon... There are various theories, one after another, and so on.

Just this week, it seemed like all the media around the world was suddenly mobilized.Radio stations, TV stations, newspapers, magazines, everyone spoke one after another, with praise and criticism, praise and criticism, and many people even made predictions that were diametrically opposed to those of North American mainstream media: they believed that this album was just borrowed from Western rock music. The shell is just selling songs in the name of the singer's retirement.

And according to the market research done by the other party.Most of the buyers of this album are young people, as well as fans who bought it because Ning Sheng will retire and commemorate the reason. He believes that North America and Europe have the most mature rock music market, so fans can choose There are a lot of albums and singers, and the current high sales are only affected by the public opinion of Ning Sheng's retirement. Once this trend passes, everyone's enthusiasm will quickly fade.It doesn't have to be long, just this week.Sales of this album are bound to plummet!After all, Ning Sheng is just a Chinese, a director who has never released two official albums in North America before, and North American fans must not like Ning Sheng very much. Except for those Asian fans, he thinks that North American locals I'm not obsessed with Ning Sheng's dubious rock album!

And even in the next few days, the Voice of America released last week's on-demand list of golden songs again on time. Four songs including "Sweet Child O' Mine", "November Rain" and "Fade to Black", as well as "Don't Cry", all hit the list in one fell swoop.They are listed in the top four, and the other party still publishes signed articles one after another, insisting that this kind of third-rate music learned from Western rock is just a gust of wind blowing in the pop music world, and it will stop soon.

All kinds of voices came and went, noisy and chaotic.For North American musicians, just like the local national conditions, racial discrimination has always been a common occurrence, and Ning Sheng, a yellow race from China, is naturally one of them who is treated differently, even if they are concerned about the sales of Ning Sheng's album. Also dumbfounded and envious.

The album "Don't Cry" is like a thorn piercing the skin of some people in North America. At that moment, the inherent rejection reaction of the human body makes them hate the thorn!

It is also like a stone thrown into a calm lake. When the stone enters the water, the water splashes, and the fish and shrimp in the lake are all startled. Suddenly, the water splashes everywhere!

However, when a new week comes, that is, the fourth week of the release of the album "Don't Cry" in North America, when the billboard once again released the music album sales chart of last week, all fans, all media, all His tone of voice lost his voice for an instant.

Just this week, the overall sales volume of "Don't Cry" in chain stores and branches across North America was 1256896 copies!
After breaking the historical sales record created by Linkin Park last week, this week, instead of the sales plummeting as some people and some media predicted, he climbed a big sales level again!
In this week, it not only broke the new record just created by itself last week, but also pushed this record to an astonishing level of more than 120 million!
This is the first album on Billboard's sales chart to break 2000 million copies for two consecutive weeks since 100!

Although this album is already in its fifth week this week, if nothing unexpected, the North American sales volume of this album will definitely exceed 50 copies in this week, and even, if it is speculated to the extreme point, it will reach or even break through 60 copies. Ten thousand sheets is not completely impossible!Although compared with the third week, the fourth week's sales of more than one million sales have shrunk by nearly half, but this fifth week's results are also creating a new record!

You know, the sales of other albums in the fifth week are already hovering below [-] copies!
"Don't Cry" was released in North America for four weeks and won the championship for two consecutive weeks. The total sales volume in North America exceeded 50 million copies, and the cumulative sales in Europe exceeded 100 million copies in four weeks. It has broken through 300 million copies. Counting it, this English album has created a record of 650 million copies in the four weeks of global sales!

(End of this chapter)