Chapter 50

Ma Xiang, the deputy manager of the production department, came in.

Seeing that there are so many people in the boss's office, he was stunned for a moment, but immediately realized that they were all acquaintances in the company, so Dang even complained about his grievances, "Mr. Zheng, Manager Sun called me just now, He said let me come to you to find a way, but Sony refused to arrange production, saying that it is the fastest and the fastest, and we can only start our order until Friday! You say... this is not a card. Neck! That's good, their own company's records are obviously not in a hurry, and they can only be piled up in the warehouse even if they are produced, but they just continue to produce! Our "Liao Liao" is obviously going to be sold out soon , but still have to wait! No, Manager Sun went to the company early in the morning without even coming, but it was useless! He was stuck talking and waiting in line! Mr. Zheng, see if you can give Sony Make a phone call or something..."

Zheng Changsheng nodded slowly when he heard the words, turned around and sat down.

Things seemed to be getting worse, and all kinds of abnormalities and accidents appeared one after another, but at this moment, Zheng Changsheng suddenly calmed down.

At this time, he picked up the delivery notice on the table, shook it, and said, "It's not immediately, but it's sold out!"

Ma Xiang was taken aback when he heard the words, and hurried over to take the pick-up notice. After only one glance, he couldn't help but smacked his teeth, said "tsk", and said, "This is too scary... I don't remember when it was listed on the market." About two weeks? In my impression, it seems to be... Hey, Lao Liu, I remember that you said in a previous meeting that the sales volume of Dongguan Bookstore is about 20 times that of the overall sales in the market? Now Dongguan Bookstore is out of stock. , does that mean that our first batch of 200,000 tapes and 20,000 CDs have also been sold out?"

Liu Zhongxin nodded upon hearing this, "Probably so."

But at this time, Yang Fan interrupted and said: "Actually, besides delivering the survey results, I have something else to say. I was in the office just now, and I have received calls from four provincial dealers to urge the goods. According to what they said, they have already started to sell out of stock on a large scale. I guess that even today, there will be calls like this from quite a few stores!"

Everyone showed surprise when they heard the words, and almost in unison, they all turned their heads to look at Zheng Changsheng.

Zheng Changsheng tapped his fingers on the table slowly. Although he couldn't hide the turmoil in his heart, his expression was surprisingly calm. After a while, he opened the drawer and took out a small humidor from inside. Then he opened the box and took out a cigar.

Several people in the office stared at him blankly, with different expressions on their faces.

But Zheng Changsheng acted as if nothing had happened. He took out the cigar cutters slowly, cut off the seal, struck a match, first slowly burned the cigar in a circle, and then put it in his mouth, puffing. lit.

There is a lot of smoke.

The air-conditioning wind keeps blowing away the smoke, but it pushes it more evenly in front of everyone in the room.

Most of the people in this room are old smokers. When they asked about the smell of this cigar, instead of feeling choking, they enjoyed it quite a bit. Only Zhao Meifeng first subconsciously covered her nose, and then coughed chokingly Twice.

Then, the room fell silent.

There were obviously several people anxiously waiting for something, but no one spoke, so that the only silence in the room was the sound of Zheng Changsheng smoking a cigar and the gentle sound of the air conditioner blowing the air.

Suddenly, Zheng Changsheng raised his head, as if he wanted to say something, but he turned to Zhao Meifeng and asked her first: "Meifeng, what's the matter with you? Or are you here for this album?"

Zhao Meifeng fanned the smoke with her hand and said, "I came here for this."

While speaking, she handed over the newspaper in her hand.

Zheng Changsheng frowned, but immediately picked up the newspaper to read it, and then narrowed his eyes again.

It's actually the music section of "Artist Weekly", it's the headline commentary on the front page, it's an article signed by Xie Jinshun!

This old man is known as the "Father of Pop Music"!

At the beginning of the domestic popular music in the 1970s, it was the old man who went all out and shouted, and finally let the government begin to fully liberalize the control of the music industry, and at the same time liberalize the access mechanism of private capital, which finally formed the self-promotion. Since the 1980s, domestic pop music has experienced wave after wave of great prosperity.

Moreover, it was this old man who first discovered the Flying Band, then made Liu Mingliang famous, and then Feng Feifei... Oh, by the way, he is also Zhou Mo's mentor! It is said that Zhou Mo pestered him for more than a month, but in the end the old man had no choice but to agree to make an album for her, and then Zhou Mo became famous!

Today, of course, this old man has long since quit the arena and no longer participated in any productions, and even his lyrics and music works have been almost cut off in the past few years, but the entire domestic music circle still regards him as the number one promoter of the pop music scene ! It was rumored in the industry that the total sales volume of various albums produced by him had already exceeded 100 million copies!

There is no doubt that this is the real Taishan Beidou in the domestic music scene!

It is said that even after he announced his retirement, some people waved their checkbooks and asked him to comment on works or albums, and some even simply offered him a review of 300,000 words, but the old man did not Never speak up easily.

But now, he published a directly signed article in the "Artist Weekly", praising a newcomer's first album!

Although he is not directly responsible for this aspect, Zheng Changsheng knows that no matter how unfamiliar he is, with his company's status and contacts in the industry, and with the few people in the company's publicity department, it is impossible to invite Move this old man out of the mountain!

Therefore, people are purely optimistic about and like this album!

Holding the newspaper in his hand, Zheng Changsheng glanced at the content in a hurry, got a general idea, and couldn't help but look up at Zhao Meifeng, "Huo! This old man is really... This page looks like it has two to three thousand words? But it's six or seven hundred thousand!"

Zhao Meifeng nodded and said: "I was shocked when I saw it just now. I really didn't expect the old man to be so fond of it! Uh, there should be newspapers in the Publicity Department, right? Xiao Wang should have it too, you haven't read it before. arrive?"

When she said this, Liu Zhongxin and Yang Fan from the Propaganda Department felt a little embarrassed.

But at this time, Zheng Changsheng waved his hand, and said indifferently: "It's not their fault, everyone knows that I have a low level of education and don't like to read newspapers, so gradually they stopped sending me newspapers." No, a few days ago, Lao Liu asked Xiao Wang to give me a newspaper and let me read a review, and I just glanced at it and threw it aside! The music critics... To be honest, everyone knows, They are lip service, and they know more than the average person, but how many people actually buy records after reading their reviews?"

Zheng Changsheng was just commenting casually, but he stopped slowly while talking, and then frowned tightly, as if thinking of something difficult.

At this time, Zhao Meifeng continued: "It is true to say that, apart from influencing people in the industry, music critics do not have much influence on fans, but it cannot be completely denied. The direction of the wind is quite precise. For example, this retired old man, I read his comment several times carefully, and I have to admit that when I was making this album with Liao Liao, I was indeed I lost my eyes, and I didn't see that those songs including "Persistence" and "Wild Flower" would be so popular! But fortunately, I finally didn't stop Liao Liao..."

She was rambling on and on, not sure whether she was blaming herself or showing off her achievements, but before she was allowed to continue rambling, Zheng Changsheng suddenly raised his hand to interrupt her, "Stop, stop, Meifeng, You stop first, you will have plenty of time later for you to self-reflect! I, I seem to... caught something..."

While speaking, his eyes suddenly lit up, and then he looked up at Liu Zhongxin, and said, "Old Liu, you and Yang Fan, you two immediately go and find out all the information related to this album in the last two weeks, which is the time since Liao Liao's album was released. Find out all the music reviews in newspapers and magazines!"

Liu Zhongxin and Yang Fan looked at each other when they heard the words, turned around and walked out.

After a while, the two of them came back with a bunch of things in their hands and put them on Zheng Changsheng's desk.

Magazines and magazines belong to one pile, newspapers and newspapers belong to one pile. Obviously, these things have already been sorted out, and even opened the page where the comments appear.

Zheng Changsheng picked it up and flipped through each article. Perhaps Liao Liao's status in the arena is not enough for people to write comments to criticize. Therefore, almost all of these comments are vigorously praising the album "Liao Liao", some are praising Liao Liao's singing skills, some are Some people are praising the return of country songs, praising "My Hometown I'm Passionately Loved", some people are waving the flag for light rock, almost wanting to praise the three songs "Perseverance", "Wild Flowers", and "Cheers, Friends" to the sky Of course, there are also people who strongly praise the Chinese style of "Unfinished Love", thinking that this is the ultimate direction of Chinese music!

Of course, there are also a few articles supporting songs such as "That Summer", but the number is not many.

Zheng Changsheng flipped through it in a hurry, and read about twenty copies. He put everything down, raised his head and said to everyone: "Xiao Wang, Mei Feng, and Lao Liu, Yang Fan...you all come, one person at a time. Hey, classify these articles for me, I want to know how many copies there are in total, and which aspect they are praising, and how much they are... Let’s start!"

With a swipe, the boss said a word, and everyone was arrested.

About twenty minutes later, Secretary Xiao Wang collected everyone's data and combined them. After completing the statistics, he took the initiative to report to Zheng Changsheng who was standing by the window and looked out: "Mr. 43 reviews, all of which are positive, 16 of which are focused on praising the quality of the entire album, which is said to be a rare masterpiece in recent years, and 7 of which focus on Liao Liao's singing skills. In addition, there are a total of 27 single reviews, of which "Persistence "8 articles, "My Hometown of Passionate Love" 6 articles, "Wild Flowers" 5 articles, "Unfinished Love" 4 articles, "Cheers, Friends" 3 articles, and "That Summer" 1 article."

Zheng Changsheng turned around, looked at Liu Zhongxin with piercing eyes, and asked, "How many articles did you buy?"

The so-called buying is naturally an article written by a music critic who has paid for the company's public relations. Liu Zhongxin was naturally familiar with this matter, and immediately replied: "There are four articles in total. But you also know that there are many famous music critics and professors. Although we will not give money, when sending the audition CD, we will also A little gift will be added."

Zheng Changsheng took a puff of his cigar slowly, and then slowly spit it out.

It's done!

Now that the fog has cleared, many things are probably cleared up!

First, there are about 39 music critics who are still willing to take the initiative to write reviews for the album "Liao Liao" even though the company did not take money for public relations, and all of them are positive reviews, which shows that this album is very popular among professional people's favorite

Second, according to the survey results of the research company, nearly half of the fans bought this album through word of mouth among friends and were recommended to buy it. The direct influence of the company's publicity is not as good as the spread of word of mouth. the power of;

Thirdly, whether it is analyzed from the results of the survey or summarized from the number of comments made by music critics, it is clear that the real influence of this album lies in "Hometown of My Love", "Persistence" and "Wild Flowers". In "Cheers, Friends" and in "Unfinished Love";

The matter is so obvious that if you don't understand what's going on, you can hang yourself on the southeast branch.

In a trance, he suddenly recalled the day when Liao Liao came in with five songs, and then he scolded her severely, and he almost couldn't help but terminate the record directly.

Thinking about it now, I suddenly feel a little scared!

If I hadn't been able to hold back this breath back then, I would have directly scrapped this record...

Looking at it now, the 400,000 yuan is really worth it!

Thinking of this, he changed his mind, and suddenly thought of Liao Liao's insistence on those songs.

Well, when Liao Liao comes back this time, there must be a celebration party, should I tell Liao Liao to invite that high school student over then?

Well, it's still early, it's still early!

When Liao Liao comes back, we have to wait for a while!

But thinking about it this way, the thoughts in my heart gradually became smoother.

I can't even say that I have planned for a rainy day. In fact, I have been planning for many years. Until now, about Liao Liao's future, about the future of Changsheng Records... Zheng Changsheng suddenly felt that he seemed to have grasped something!

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I have written 5,000 words so far, but I haven't finished writing the things to be written in this chapter, and the time is up! I had no choice but to split the four thousand words into a chapter and publish it first.

Well, if you still have more ideas, then vote for more recommendations! I'll post the rest of the half tomorrow.