Chapter 318

"Fake Monk" is about to hit the market.

Qi Jie, who had finished her vacation before the Golden Melody Award Ceremony, came back from Jinan Mansion to sit in town, feeling confident, nervous, regretful, and helpless—she, and everyone in the company who had heard "Fake Monk" "Almost all the people who wrote this album gave it a very high evaluation!

In fact, even if there is no unanimous praise from everyone, just because there are nine songs in this album that come from Li Qian's lyrics and music, and Li Qian personally leads the vocals, it is enough to give Qi Jie extremely strong confidence.

However, when the album is actually released, she will still be nervous.

Because almost every expert, when mentioning the four beauties, will always subconsciously feel that they, and their works, should have appeared more than ten years ago, and should have appeared in the years when rock bands were at their peak .

If so, the Four Great Beauties will be a rock band that can compete with the Flying Band, and "Fake Monk" may not be able to challenge Dugu Qiubai's "Drive Pig West".

but now……

When it comes to these four words, many people will sigh, and then stop talking.

But Qi Jie knew their subtext. She has been in the industry for more than two years, and from the very beginning, the starting point is very high. The people around her, from Li Qian, to Liao Liao, He Runqing, are all the most outstanding figures in the music circle, so she knows What is that sentence that everyone did not say?

But now... rock and roll is gone.

In other words, there is no market.

The current music world is already the era of love songs, and the era of fast songs.

Therefore, Qi Jie was full of confidence on the one hand, but on the other hand couldn't help being nervous.

She has confidence in Li Qian, but she is well aware of the power of the market, so she is very afraid that this album, which must be extremely good, will be coldly received by the market.

More than anyone else, she hopes that Li Qian will continue to be strong, and she is also more afraid than anyone else that Li Qian will fail in music, even if it is only this one time - because in her heart, Li Qian must never fail !

So, even though she knows it's over and it's useless to think about it, when she's alone, she can't help but think: What if this album had been released in November last year?

Probably... no, not probably.

With "No Place to Shame" and "Nothing", when this album first came out, it would definitely trigger a wave of rock frenzy in China-but now, what is available on the market is only a pirated copy. Although it seems to be very hot and popular, what if everyone just likes these two songs instead of Li Qian's rock?

Human emotions are contagious.

As the general manager of the company, Qi Jie's face was sullen, and the whole company became tense.

At this time, probably only Li Qian and Liao Liao could really take things seriously, right?

The two of them are still enthusiastically helping He Runqing make a new album... Qi Jie feels helpless just thinking about it.

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In the domestic music scene, as long as rock music is mentioned, the name of the Feixiang band has to be mentioned.

Because they were not only the rock band with the greatest influence and the highest achievements in the most prosperous years of rock music in China, they were even regarded as the representative and banner of that era by many fans, and even internationally, they were also considered to be Chinese rock music. Representatives, enjoy a very high reputation.

In terms of purely talking about status in the world, in today's domestic music scene, Liu Mingliang, the king of male singers, and Da Zhenzhen, the eldest sister who has always been considered a banner figure among female singers, are all juniors in front of him, and they are all in public. The venues have always regarded themselves as fans of the Flying Band, which shows their admiration for the Flying Band.

Moreover, putting aside all the imaginary things such as pioneering, historical achievements, and status in the world, and simply talking about sales and market appeal, in the past 20 years of development history of the domestic music scene, the Flying Band is absolutely head coffee!

They are the first to win six platinum in the history of domestic record sales, and this record was held by them alone for eight years. It was not until eight years later that they were tied by Liu Mingliang and Liu Tianwang—it was tied, Instead of surpassing!

Of course, when the music scene came to the mid-1990s, with the development of the economy and the explosion of the entire record market, new album sales records were constantly created. The six-platinum record jointly held by Liu Mingliang and the Feixiang band is very It was about to be broken, and up to now, the six-platinum sales have even withdrawn from the top five in the record sales history list.

Liao Liao's three albums have all surpassed the six-platinum record. Among them, her second album "The Sound of the Waves" has exceeded 10 million copies only in domestic sales. The first album "Grateful Heart" after switching to Minghu Culture, although it has been on the market for less than a year, the sales volume has reached an astonishing 7 million copies, and it is about to break 8 million. It can be said that in the future, this album will It is not a big problem for the album to break through the 10 million mark.

Coupled with Wu Xingwusu's "Sisters and Sisters Stand Up" and "The Boy Opposite Look Over", they also successfully broke through the 8 million and 7 million mark, and they are still selling. He Runqing's " "Dream Chaser" has already broken through 5 million copies so far, at most in the first half of this year, it should be able to break through 6 million copies smoothly, and in the long run, her album will sell 7 million, or even 8 million Zhang, it's all reasonable.

Therefore, Liao Liao's three super albums and Wu Xingwusu's two super albums together undisputedly occupy the top five in the record sales chart in history, making Liu Mingliang and the Flying Band jointly maintain the top five. Six platinum sales records, only to fall back to sixth and seventh.

And next, let's not talk about the new album, only the albums that have been released on the market. Needless to say, He Runqing's "Dream Chaser" surpasses the record of the Flying Band, and it is no longer a problem. Last year, Zhao Xinfu's "Dream Man" was no worse than He Runqing's "Dream Chaser". It sold five million copies even before "Dream Chaser". A year may not be enough, and it is only a matter of time before it exceeds seven platinum.

Although Li Xinru's famous album "Marry Me" is a bit lacking in stamina, it will hardly sell after four million, but in time, it must break through the five million and six million mark, and it will not be a problem. .

As for Huang Yuqing's solid accumulation, although he may not be as strong as Li Xinru's momentum, but his stamina is stronger. It has been nearly a year and a half since the album was released, and it has easily exceeded 6 million copies. They will soon surpass the Flying Band and Liu Mingliang one by one.

In this way, to put it bluntly, the sales of six platinums seem to be becoming less and less valuable.

But if you do a little analysis, you will understand: when the Flying Band sold six platinum, how big was the entire recording industry market?

You know, during the years when the Flying Band was at its peak, they were once known as the "half of the country" in the domestic music scene! Although this statement is definitely exaggerated, but as the saying goes, it is also known how important their six-platinum record is!

It can be said that when it comes to weight and influence on the entire music scene, there is only one Liao Liao. Three consecutive albums have been sold at a high price. In more than three years, they have contributed to the entire domestic record market. With a total sales of more than 27 million copies, they can barely compare with the Flying Band.

As for the others, even Wu Xing Wu Su has contributed a total of more than 18 million copies to the record market in the past few years, which is still slightly lower than the 6 million copies of the Flying Band. inferior.

To put it simply, during the years when Feixiang was at its peak, almost everyone in China listened to Feixiang, and there was a feeling of "if you don't listen to Feixiang as a fan, what kind of fan are you?" And the red is like the five elements and my elements, and it can't reach this level.

However, how did the Feixiang band become popular and the Feixiang band's absolute status in the arena?

First, it is the direction of the trend of the whole world.

With the advent of the era of industrialization, rock music, which has a rebellious spirit in its bones, is full of various mockery and criticism of the industrial age, and soon swept the whole world.

As the representative and banner of domestic rock music, the Flying Band just followed the trend at that time.

Second, of course, because the rock and roll of the Flying Band is good enough.

Like "Driving Pigs West", it is even a masterpiece that can make domestic rock music enter the world's rock music hall! It is a super heavenly disc that has been branded into the soul of the domestic music scene!

However, the flying band is still there, but rock music has declined rapidly.

When many people mention rock and roll, they will say: Rock and roll never dies!

So, the decline of rock music in China, even at the worst time, there were only two rock music albums released in a year, is it because rock music is dead?

Obviously not.

Music is always inseparable from the soil of life.

The rapid economic development can cover up many social contradictions, but the contradictions are always there, even about money, about morality, about the conflict between industrial society and agricultural society, about freedom, about love...etc. Topics, even gradually become more and more prominent with the rapid development of the economy.

It can be said that there are always things that rock music can criticize, and there are always things that rock music can praise.

They just lack a pair of eyes that can discover them, a pen that can record everything, and a mouth that can shout everything.

The Flying Band's status in the domestic music scene is unparalleled, but after a few years of their heyday, and after a few albums that made it almost unattainable for future generations, they soon semi-retired.

In a few years, no album came out.

Rock music, with the withdrawal of the Flying Band, was fading away, and even fell at a speed far faster than when it rose.

In the final analysis, it is only because the Flying Band has poured all their talents into those few hall-level albums, and as they become popular, with their fame and fortune, they gradually break away from the lives of ordinary people. They have no longer been able to write classics handed down like "Driving Pigs Westward".

Over the years, countless fans, especially those of the older generation, who have experienced the fiery era of rock music, are almost always looking forward to the comeback of the Flying Band, and almost all the time looking forward to the resurgence of rock music. When it is booming, it shouts its cry, and it is lonely and angry.

However, the facts have proved that although their talents have long been exhausted and declining, the Flying Band is indeed a group of musical geniuses that no one in domestic rock music can match. Before them, domestic rock music was only underground music, but after them, rock music still had to be forced to return to underground music.

After the group of rock bands headed by Flying Band fell, the number of rock players in China will only increase in the past ten years, not decrease. There are also some who have released albums. However, not even one can win the entire market There is no resonance, not even an album that has sold more than two million copies.

Until the sudden appearance of "Nothing" and "No Place to Shame", it can be said that almost all the fans who came from that era were refreshed.

How popular are these two songs?

Although the current sales on the market must all be pirated copies, and they must not come from a single pirated version, so the sales volume cannot be counted at all, but the ranking of the Golden Songs on-demand list of the Voice of China Radio Station can be used as reference data.

Since these two songs appeared at He Runqing's concert in November last year, and the live video of the concert was broadcast on Shuntianfu TV station not long after, the pirated versions of these two songs began to appear rapidly.

Then, on the Golden Melody on-demand list, these two songs rushed up almost overnight.

In the beginning, "Nowhere" was airborne to the top of the list, and "No Land" came in third, but soon, "Nowhere" counterattacked and overtook. From then on, "Nowhere" came first, and "Nothing" came second. These two songs began Dominating the rankings for twelve weeks! Up to the current March, it has been nearly four months and sixteen weeks, and "No Place to Shame" is still ranked third, and "Nothing" is still ranked fifth!

Many people in the industry said that if at that time, even if they randomly put together eight other songs and released this album, then even if there was an impact of piracy, the sales volume of this album would be at least three times. Millions of copies are on the way!

If that's the case, the Four Great Beauties will become the first rock band in China to sell over two million albums in the past twelve years!

As for the sales of pirated copies - just look at the street audio-visual stores in the big and small cities in China in the past few months, and almost every one of them is playing these two songs. The sales volume of "Big Collection" is at least seven to eight million, or even tens of millions.

However, what is regrettable is that it seems that the four beauties bands did not take the pirated versions to market. They just allowed the pirated versions of the two classics to sell wildly in the market, while slowing down, Slowly making their album, thus missing out on the sales boom that would be brought about by those two works.

And now, finally, the album they made slowly is going to be released.

After "Nothing" and "No Place to Shame", can they still come up with not to mention surpassing, even works of the same level? How will their new album start?

It can be said that although there is no fanfare publicity, the entire music scene is extremely concerned about this album.

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Immediately, the major record companies have already obtained the "Fake Monk" that was released at the beginning of the year.

Immediately, musicians, singers, and music critics in the music circle also got this album one after another.

And the first time, no matter how busy the person is, they will immediately come to their listening device.

On the morning of March 14, 1998, it can be said that almost all professional musicians in the domestic music circle held such a freshly released album in their hands.

On its cover, the five members of the Four Great Beauties Band are arranged in an upside-down "person" character. Yu Bojun is at the back left, Wang Huaiyu is at the back right, Cao Zhan is in front of Yu Bojun, Liao Liao is in front of Wang Huaiyu, and Li Qian, standing Among them, arms folded. Each of them is looking forward with a blank face - and this photo is black and white.

In the middle of the photo, there is a beautiful and neat lower script, which says - fake monk.

Of course, there is no doubt that calligraphy, of course, is black.

There is nothing wrong with a black and white cover for a rock album, even a cliché, but the neat calligraphy seems a bit contrary to common sense.

Rock music, and brush calligraphy... It doesn't seem to have much to do with it.

So when unpacking the outer plastic packaging, many people were subconsciously surprised.

Of course, this is not the point, everyone knows, the point is the song inside.

As long as the work is good, no matter what kind of cover it is, it will be regarded as a classic by fans, and as long as the work is unsatisfactory, no matter how characterful the cover is, it will be scolded.

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At the headquarters of Sony Records, when the album was bought, Xie Mingyuan rubbed it in his hand for a moment, then ordered someone to summon the company's producers, singers and management, and opened the listening room.

Therefore, Xie Mingyuan, Watanabe Kazuichi, as well as a group of producers and executives, as well as Zhao Xinfu, Zhou Mo, Feng Feifei, and Zou Wenhuai, who happened to be in the company at the time, came to the audition room one after another.

While at Huage Records, Huang Dazhong stared at the album with complicated emotions for a few minutes, but then he could only sigh and called everyone to the audition room to listen to this substantial new album together.

At Cinda Records...

Records in Asia...

On Changsheng Records...

Many play buttons were pressed back and forth, and after a moment of silence, a piece of music that was not intense began to play.

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