Chapter 536 "First Experience of Love" Is Released!

At the beginning of 2000, the domestic record market was full of restlessness.

Compared with 1998, the total domestic record market in 1999 was slightly reduced. This reduction is not enough to have a big impact on the ecology of the entire market. After all, the current domestic market is already large enough. However, even if the growth is completely stopped, the increase or decrease of the market by a few percentage points is actually a completely normal market self-adjustment.

Or, looking at it from another angle, even if He Runqing adjusted her solo album to be released in November last year, the increase in the overall market capacity brought about will probably reduce those few percentage points to the direct In that case, what will appear in the year-end report will only be a slowed-down growth rate—but Minghu Culture does not. Moreover, there was no other incremental entry in the market, which eventually led to the fact that after years of rapid growth, the domestic record market did not even have a buffer time to slow down growth, and it directly entered the era of negative growth!

The pressure this has brought to domestic record companies, large and small, is enormous.

The growth of the market will stop as soon as it is said to stop, but the plans made by various companies and the various costs paid in advance for a series of plans are impossible to recover, and even those plans have The contract is in, and it cannot be stopped just by saying it.

The agreed works, signed singers, completed albums, and scheduled release dates are basically things that are difficult to change. Of course, some things seem to be easy to change, such as the singer's personal style, it seems that it is OK to change a few songs and an arrangement style, but in fact, compared with those things on the surface, To change this, the risk is greater, and the singer himself may not be able to adapt.

As a result, the sudden negative growth caused panic in the entire market.

The big company is fine, with a big business, strong capital, abundant resources, and stronger ability to resist risks. Most of the contracted singers under its banner have a certain status in the world, and their own appeal is also strong. However, there are hundreds of small record companies in the country, but they all feel that they have stepped onto the edge of a cliff in one step-one is not easy to fall, and the body will not be broken, but it is very possible to go bankrupt.

It can be expected that in the market in 2000, there will be no growth in all likelihood, and some of them may be negative growth. Therefore, the competitive pressure between singers and record companies will suddenly increase. big.

In China at present, Minghu Culture is the leader in the total sales volume of the record industry. Last year, not only the "Once Upon a Time You" by the Four Beauties and "Girls' Dormitory" by Rose Power swept the entire Chinese cultural circle, Liao Liao's debut The international album has swept the world. Even the three newcomers released at one go, Zhuang Meiyue, Ge Rilen and Zhao Yuan, have also found their own position in the market, and the album sales have achieved great success.

In addition to Minghu Culture, Sony Records is of course still second to none. Even in terms of the number of singers and the company's internal soft and hard power reserves, Sony Records is still ahead of Minghu Culture. Over the past few years, the internal adjustment and integration have been basically completed. Although in terms of overall quality, their singers are slightly weaker than Minghu Culture, but they really have to work together. Little queen Li Xinru, veteran queen Zhen Zhen , Feng Feifei, plus Zhao Xinfu, Zhang Chang, Huang Yuqing, Zhou Feng, and Sima Duoduo, etc., it is really not necessarily afraid of Minghu Culture.

In the future, although Huage is already weak, it is no longer the domineering when the Five Elements and My Elements swept the world. At this time, there is only one Zhou Pingping's Five Elements and My Elements group, and it has long been reduced to a sales level of only one million copies of an album. An ordinary female singing group, but after all they still have a Hu Yang studio to support the scene, and there have been two budding newcomers in the past two years, and their sales are not bad.

As for Cinda Records, after being dug into the wall by Sony's hoe, it not only quickly launched a newcomer Zheng Guofeng, who was very popular, he was completely revived. Last autumn, after several years of brewing, the flying band came back , and finally fell to the ground.

Although the Flying Band has lost its vigor after experiencing various incidents such as internal strife and reconciliation, and even because the promised album was skipped, it was interpreted by the media as being afraid of the four major beauties bands. Negative influence, but Xiao Aiguo's musical talent is real.

Therefore, although the sales volume of the album is still a bit lower than that of the four major beauty bands, after half a year, they have sold five or six million copies after all, tying their previous best-selling record. In terms of the domestic music scene, they are stable There is no problem with the front line. Considering their special historical status in the development of the domestic music scene, the Flying Band after their comeback is still at the same level as He Runqing and Liao Liao.

These four record companies can be considered top in the domestic music scene.

In the past 1999, according to statistics from the Recording Industry Association, these four record companies alone have jointly won 76.4% of the domestic record market.

And in the new year, as the market stops growing, everyone realizes that the competition is bound to intensify!

At the beginning of the new year in February, Minghu Culture took the lead. He Runqing's new urban love song, which combines a certain jazz style and folk style, became popular, and the title song "Cloudy Sky" was praised as one of the best urban love songs in China in recent years. one. Even the opponents have to admit that even though He Tianhou is already 35 years old, her singing career is still at its peak.

According to the new album preview released by Minghu Culture in January, only in 2000 this year, Minghu Culture has already confirmed that they will be listed in succession this year, and there are as many as seven albums: He Runqing, Li Qian, Xie Bing, Wang Jingxue, Zhou Mo, Zhou Ye, Wang Nanhao. In addition, the new albums of Zhuang Meiyue, Ge Rilen, and Zhao Yuan are actively preparing and producing, and are expected to be released in the second half of this year or the first half of next year—except for one Liao Liao, this year is definitely Apart from taking a rest, Minghu Culture is almost fully attacking!

But Sony Records is not idle either. Their release plan for this year is as high as thirteen to sixteen new albums. Among them, just enough big names include Zhao Xinfu, Huang Yuqing, Zhang Chang and Li Xinru—in fact , Zhou Mo's contract was automatically terminated after the completion of the contract. The four of them are already the four trump cards with the most stable sales and the strongest market appeal under Sony Records.

Like Zhen Zhen and Feng Feifei, they have gradually turned to work behind the scenes, more and more began to serve as producers and supervisors. In November last year, Zhen Zhen even started to work as the deputy music director of Sony Records.

In February, He Runqing's new album quickly dominated the charts as soon as it was released, but just three weeks later, when the time entered March, it seemed to be aimed at Minghu Culture. Zhao Xinfu, the leading superstar among male singers, released his eighth album, and by virtue of his late release advantage, he knocked He Runqing off the list in one fell swoop.

He Runqing monopolized for three weeks, followed by Zhao Xinfu for two weeks, and then, the two albums began a long tug-of-war - for the two of them, this head-to-head confrontation is definitely not a pleasant one, and it is even an enemy. As a result of losing one thousand to eight hundred, the sales of He Runqing's new album will be affected, and Zhao Xinfu will definitely lose a certain amount of sales, but for Sony Records, they have to fight like this.

Because next April, Li Qian's first solo album will be released!

In the current domestic record market, although He Runqing and Rose Power are also very strong, but like Huang Yuqing, Zhao Xinfu and Zheng Guofeng, they still dare to choose the right time to head-on. Only Liao Liao and the four beauties , No one dares to touch it head-on, because whoever touches it will die.

But the problem is, even though Li Qian's personal album is only his first solo album after breaking away from the Four Great Beauties, its deterrent effect on the entire market and many competitors is still undiminished—who I don't know if the first solo album Li Qian made for himself will be particularly against the sky!

Moreover, no one dares to gamble!

Therefore, although Zhao Xinfu's new album is strong enough to dare to touch He Runqing, trying to use the advantage of a late release to try to compress her selling time, but he must allow himself a long enough selling time to try to stay away from the upcoming album. "The First Experience of Love" released at the end of April goes a little further, a little further.

However, although he was strong enough, he still couldn't completely suppress He Runqing.

He Runqing's "Cloudy Sky" has indeed been affected to some extent, but even in her sixth week, she is still clinging to Xinfu Zhao's new album "Love Doesn't Stop" and successfully made a comeback.

Then, the two albums fell in love and killed each other all the way.

You are number one this week, and I am number one next week, and it’s the end of April in one breath.

Of course, despite the fact that the two record companies are engaged in a life-and-death struggle in the market without seeing blood, when facing other things, their opinions and attitudes are still resolutely consistent.

In mid-March, led by Sony Records and Minghu Culture, more than 70 domestic record companies and as many as 140 singers jointly sued the largest Internet search engine company in China, Qiandu Search, which caused a sensation at home and abroad. Immediately afterwards, based on these companies and these singers, the entire recording industry united, including semi-official organizations such as the National Recording Industry Association, and joined forces with various organizations such as the National Film Industry Association and the National Publishing Association, and also Including dozens of domestic directors, hundreds of writers, screenwriters, and more than 20 film and television production companies, collectively petitioned, demanding that government departments strictly investigate all kinds of piracy and infringement on the Internet and entities. Suddenly, there was a shock The whole country's literary and artistic circles.

In just a few days, each unit made its own response.

Major Internet companies, including Sohu.com and Feixun.com, issued announcements one after another, stating that they would put an end to all forms of online piracy. A self-discipline announcement, although resolutely refused to admit the piracy of MP3 songs and various movies on the Internet in the past, it finally showed its attitude.

Immediately afterwards, seven or eight government agencies including the Ministry of Culture and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television jointly announced that they would jointly increase the investigation and punishment of various online and offline piracy, and within the following week, successively ordered the shutdown of many Home website, smashed the pirated production factories of multiple entities.

All of a sudden, in the past few years, with the development of the Internet, the online piracy of various literary and artistic works has been greatly curbed and cleaned up. Many offline piracy are also the key to catch and close , Punishment, punishment, and punishment, the entire domestic literary and art market is at peace.

The most intuitive reaction brought about by this nationwide movement is that the actual weekly sales and warehouse shipments of He Runqing and Zhao Xinfu's new albums have been on the market for nearly two months and more than a month respectively. The speed suddenly increased sharply again.

Against such a background, on Wednesday, April 27, 2000, Li Qian's first solo album "First Experience of Love" was officially released.

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On the morning of the 1st, I attended a wedding, three cups of wedding wine for 200 yuan, and in the afternoon, I went to help my nephew prepare for the wedding. After getting home, I slept for a full fourteen hours. On the 3rd, I drank with my brother-in-law. For the first time in the past ten years, I drank about 82, and I was paralyzed. This morning, another wedding...is this a holiday? This is much more tiring than going to work!