At eight o'clock in the morning on January 1, 2000, there was already a line of people in front of the Beijing Music Supermarket. At a glance, the entire line looked like a winding dragon with no end in sight.
Countless fans looked up eagerly, waiting in the cold wind for the autograph session to begin.
At 8:10, Li Qing's team arrived early, making all the fans present cheer.
General manager Cao Ke quickly stepped forward to greet him. Li Qing smiled and said, "Mr. Cao, Ma Gan, please send someone to buy a hot drink for all the fans and friends at the scene!"
Hot drink? Cao Ke was stunned.
Li Qing said again: "Charge it to my account."
Cao Ke came back to his senses and laughed: "It's rare for you, Li Qing, to care about your fans like this. Okay, I'll let someone make arrangements right now."
When cups of hot drinks were handed to the fans who were queuing up at the scene, countless fans were moved to tears.
Many people came to the music supermarket early to queue up without eating breakfast. In addition, it was a cold winter, and their feet were already freezing. Now after a cup of hot drink, they only feel warm all over, which further strengthens the idea of chasing stars.
After Li Qing arrived, he didn't keep the fans waiting. The autograph session, which was originally scheduled to start at nine o'clock, started at 8:30.
The long queue moved slowly.
Li Qing was sitting inside the music supermarket with the air-conditioning heating, so he didn't feel how cold it was. But he still couldn't bear it when he saw some fans' lips turned purple from the cold. He often signed a few more blessings on the album and smiled with the fans.
Shake hands and hug. In this way, the signing speed will naturally slow down.
It is a habit for domestic singers to hold autograph sessions in music supermarkets. It stands to reason that for a big-name singer like Li Qing, just signing autographs for two or three hours and making gestures is enough.
After all, for a popular singer like this, time is extremely precious. A few more announcements can make more money than signing hundreds of records.
But Li Qing did not do this. After the morning passed, he was still signing autographs unremittingly.
As usual, reporters from "New Entertainment Weekly" came to the music supermarket to take photos, and completely captured Li Qing's actions such as delivering hot drinks in the cold wind and signing autographs in advance.
When Song Xueqi, who was sitting in the interview car, saw this scene, she couldn't help but sigh. This is the attitude an artist should have. Li Qing seems to have these five perfect qualities of gentleness, courtesy and humility.
In the afternoon, Li Qing ate his food and signed for more than four hours before finally calling it a day.
The fans at the scene were considerate of Li Qing's intentions. Even if there were fans who did not get autographs, they did not complain at all. Instead, they asked Li Qing to pay more attention to his health.
On the second day, the third day, and the fourth day, Li Qing started one signing event after another in major cities across the country.
Every time you go to the first city or arrive at a city, you will inevitably be warmly picked up and dropped off by thousands of fans.
Thousands of people!
Many people skipped classes and went to the airport or signing event just to catch a glimpse of Li Qing.
Li Qing's new album "Descendants of the Dragon" was released less than five days ago, and all fifteen songs in the album have topped the national radio song charts.
The first one on the list is "Fairy Tale", which is now popular all over the country. If this song moved everyone very much when it was on the list, after it was officially put on the market, "Fairy Tale" and its
The mv is like a tear bomb, thrown at every audience who watches the "Fairy Tale" mv for the first time.
All over the country, in first- and second-tier cities, as well as in third- and fourth-tier cities, in streets and alleys, in major shopping malls, and on school radios, the song "Fairy Tale" is played on a loop. The song's popularity can definitely be described at the speed of light.
Therefore, it is absolutely undisputed that it ranks first on the national radio song charts.
The second place is "Ten Years", which came from behind. Although its popularity cannot be compared with "Fairy Tale", it is still the most common song on the streets. Next, there are "Descendants of the Dragon", "Jiangnan",
These three songs from "Qili Xiang".
It can be said that the top five songs have now become popular songs all over the country. As a Chinese, if you can't hum a few lines of these songs, you really have never been in China.
Even in fifth-tier edge cities, these songs are gradually being transmitted to more and more people.
And ranked sixth is "Free Like the Wind".
The seventh place, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting".
The eighth place, "Birch Forest".
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Until the fifteenth place "Spring Ni", all the top fifteen positions in the national radio song list were occupied by Li Qing's new album.
This time, it was even more fierce than when one of Li Qing's albums was released, and it didn't give other singers a chance to breathe.
A second-tier singer had just released an album less than half a month ago. Although he knew that he was no match for Li Qing, he never imagined that the moment Li Qing entered the charts, he would go from the bottom of the original list to the top of the list.
Those who were hit on the list disappeared without a trace.
Industry insiders have warned before that today's record market has gradually slumped, or it can be said to be polarized. Popular singers can make a lot of money, but slightly inferior singers have no room for survival at all.
Release an album and throw it out on the street.
If it weren't for the sake of qualifications, nowadays, even second-tier singers would not release new albums easily.
Because once it is released, it means losing money.
Losing money means losing your temper.
No artist is willing to admit that he is a has-been star, so they desperately accept announcements, some commercial performances, advertising contracts, or variety shows to increase their exposure. They accept all comers, even if the appearance fee is smaller.
They are afraid, afraid that they will become outdated.
At the same time, in Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places, Li Qing's new album has also launched a booming sales.
The scene is exactly the same as in the mainland. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, all the bookshelves with Li Qing's new album have been swept away. Fortunately, Hanhai has made preparations in advance and has sufficient supply. As soon as there is a shortage, the inventory will immediately fill the gap.
This allows Li Qing's new album to refresh sales figures every moment.
A week later, Li Qing's new album sales data were released. The single-week sales of "Descendants of the Dragon" in the music supermarket exceeded 450,000 copies!
Compared with the previous album "Li Qing", there are 100,000 more copies.
The most important thing is that the pricing of the album "Descendants of the Dragon" is exactly the same as the pricing of "Li Qing" at the time, both priced at 35 yuan each!
For example, although Cai Li's new album has sold nearly 400,000 copies in a single week, it is priced at 15 yuan each, which is incomparable with Li Qing's album.
In fact, in the industry, no singer's new album has ever reached such a high price as Li Qing's.
But the fans still have no regrets and are willing to buy Li Qing's album. Why?
It's not because fans have unconditional trust in Li Qing, but the entire album and fifteen songs are all independent music videos that have never been seen before, and some of them are as exciting as movies.
Such high-quality MVs and high-quality albums are something that almost no one on the market can do.
For many singers' new albums, most of them just shoot the MVs of six or seven new songs. Most of the other songs are filled with rough images. This not only ensures the cost, but also makes more money. Why not?
But Li Qing is different. Every song in his album has an independent music video. They are shot separately in various countries around the world. The cost is extremely high. The asking price is 35 yuan, which is understandable.
It is precisely because of such high prices that the sales of Li Qing's new album have broken the historical record of the music industry again and again in terms of overall sales.
In the second week, many popular variety shows including "Happy Camp" and "The King of Masked Singer" in which Li Qing participated were aired, causing "Descendants of the Dragon" to once again reach a new peak in sales.
In many places, there are areas that music supermarkets cannot reach, and that are also areas that promoters cannot reach, such as some fifth-tier cities or smaller counties. If people don’t watch the news, they won’t know that a certain singer has released a song.
Never released an album.
Although the Internet is gradually developing, remote and backward areas are still in blind spots. Most of the channels for people to obtain information are through television and newspapers.
Therefore, when Li Qing appeared in popular variety shows such as "Happy Camp" to promote his new album, many local distributors and countless fans suddenly woke up and hurriedly went to the market to find the new album "Descendants of the Dragon"
existence.
For this reason, in the second week, the sales of "Descendants of the Dragon" reached another peak, approaching 600,000 copies.
In two weeks, sales in the mainland alone exceeded one million!
This is a record once held by the Windmill Band, Leng Ling and other king-level singers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Now that the market environment is getting worse, such records have long since disappeared, but Li Qing still successfully won this honor.
, and is more valuable than the biweekly platinum record ten years ago.
In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao, Li Qing's new album is also like a scourge, out of control.
In just two weeks, 400,000 copies of the new album had been sold out, and Hanhai once again urgently mobilized supplies to ship to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macao.
So far, Li Qing's new album "Descendants of the Dragon" has sold a total of 1.45 million copies after fourteen days!
Li Qing once achieved a double platinum record in a single month, but this time, he is very pleased that his goal is triple platinum in a single month!
Having said that, Li Qing's first album "Li Qing" was released in October last year. As of now, although the sales volume has been difficult to increase, its total sales in various countries around the world have approached seven million copies.
It is only three million copies away from being certified as a Diamond Record!
This is already an extremely amazing record. You must know that in the entire Chinese music circle, only one person can obtain the diamond record certification.
Regrettably, judging from current signs, the album "Li Qing" is obviously unlikely to reach the height of 10 million copies in the next few years.
But "Descendants of the Dragon", which sells more fiercely than the album "Li Qing", is obviously very hopeful to reach sales of tens of millions of records from the current point of view.
You know, the song "Descendants of the Dragon" was included in the list of songs for the Chinese Olympic bid.
It is bound to be promoted indiscriminately all over the world. Wherever there are Chinese people, you will definitely hear this song that is unique to the Chinese.
Moreover, bidding for the Olympics is not a matter of one or two days.
Until July next year, the Olympic bid team will work hard to promote the dissemination of all Olympic bid songs.
And an extremely excellent song like "Descendants of the Dragon" is naturally the top priority on the promotion list.
In the past year and a half, as long as there is official promotion, the sales of albums like "Descendants of the Dragon" will definitely reach a level that no one can imagine!
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