According to Cao Ke's experience, the two thousand people in front of him cannot be the end point at all. The number of these people may have doubled again in less than a morning. Lewen Novels |
While Cao Ke was complaining endlessly, the cell phone on his hip rang.
He woke up with a start and quickly answered the call. After a few hums, he hung up the phone. Then he turned back to the security guards behind him who were already preparing to attack and said, "Follow me."
After speaking, Cao Ke took the lead to walk out of the store, and a security team of twenty people quickly followed.
The unusual movements here were observed by the surrounding fans, especially those who had been buying albums at the music supermarket all year round. They were all like police dogs, keenly aware of something, and all of them screamed with excitement.
One spreads to ten, and ten spreads to a hundred.
Soon, all the fans at the scene seemed to have exploded, shouting "Li Qing"'s name.
Cao Ke led a group of security guards to the roadside and stood there quietly waiting under everyone's gaze.
In less than a minute, a brand new shiny black nanny car arrived on Yingbin Avenue in the distance.
When the car stopped on the side of the road, Cao Ke quickly stepped forward to open the door.
With a swipe, the car door opened.
Wei Hai and Pei Sitao, dressed in white shirts, black trousers and a pair of leather shoes, were the first to step out of the carriage.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Qin, dressed as a professional elite, also appeared in the eyes of everyone.
Many fans still remember Liu Qin deeply, because in many news revelations, her manager sister Liu Qin appeared very frequently.
Finally, a young man wearing a pure white short-sleeved T-shirt, light blue jeans, and white sneakers jumped out of the car.
While shaking hands with Cao Ke, he looked at his watch and said with a smile: "Hi, Brother Cao, am I not late?"
Cao Ke quickly smiled and said: "Just right. I can see that you are a punctual person."
It was the first time for Li Qing and Cao Ke to meet each other. They were strangers to each other, so they didn't say much. Under the escort of security guards, Li Qing walked into the music supermarket while smiling and waving to the fans around him.
Compared with the thin body a year ago, Li Qing's body after long-term exercise now looks much more majestic. His height has also changed slightly from a year ago, and is now nearly 1.85 meters. Such a height makes his whole person look tall and three-dimensional.
At that time, the screams at the scene gradually increased in decibels, and the surrounding area was deafening, causing many vehicles to stop briefly on the street.
Everyone looked at that handsome face, and their eyes burst out with sparkling light.
However, no one rushed over.
Everyone is lining up in an orderly manner.
Let’s not talk about the more than 20 strong security guards next to Li Qing. Just talking about the queue, many people have been waiting in line for more than an hour. How could they throw away the fruits of their labor because of a momentary fever.
Sitting at the autograph table, Li Qing raised his head and looked at the dense queue outside the cordon. Although there was a faint smile on his face, his heart gradually began to boil with excitement.
This scene, this moment, this moment.
He didn't know how long he had been waiting.
Although it was the first time for Li Qing to release a new solo album, he showed no signs of stage fright. After taking the tea cup from Liu Qin, he took a sip, raised his hand to look at the time, and nodded to Cao Ke.
Cao Ke understood, took a deep breath, and began to signal the security to remove a cordon.
The huge queue of fans who had been waiting in line for three or four hours finally started to move at this moment.
The general process of the autograph session is that fans purchase one or more albums on-site, and use the stamped tickets issued by the staff of the video store to gain entry to the autograph session.
With the shopping receipt, fans can get the singer's autograph.
No matter when and where, as long as the singer has a book signing at the music supermarket that day.
Because it was the first day of autograph signing, there was no pre-sale in advance, so the fans at the scene first purchased the album at the counter next to it, and after getting the shopping receipt, they were able to enter the signing area, and then got Li
Qing's autograph.
Because we were queuing up to buy, the order was good.
Therefore, although the procedure may seem a little cumbersome, it does not slow down the process at all.
Soon, the first girl shopping for albums came into Li Qing's sight.
Her appearance was not outstanding, she was ordinary, about 1.6 meters tall, and her figure was thinner than some people. But as soon as she opened her mouth, her loud and thundering voice immediately startled Li Qing.
"Li Qing, I am your loyal fan. My name is Wei Jing. Today is my eighteenth birthday..."
She couldn't suppress the excitement in her heart and said loudly: "Li Qing, I really like your songs. I really like them so much that I can't sleep. I really hope that one day I can walk side by side with you on the beach. That
Sometimes, we watch the sea together, blow the wind together, and..."
Wei Jing ignored the feelings of others, as if she wanted to tell Li Qing all her thoughts at this moment, so much so that she even forgot to hand the two albums she was holding tightly to the staff.
MSG?
Good name…
Li Qing looked at her with a smile and listened quietly to everything Wei Jing had to say. It wasn't until the fans lining up behind him complained a little that he smiled and said, "Happy birthday to you, Wei Jing."
Wei Jing was speaking as if no one was around, but at this moment, all her actions suddenly stopped.
She blinked her eyes and suddenly shed tears. She quickly handed the two albums to the staff and said excitedly with a tearful voice: "This is the first blessing I have heard today, and the best blessing I have heard in eighteen years."
The best blessing I have ever heard, thank you, thank you, Li Qing, I will definitely support you and will always support you!"
After Li Qing took the album handed over by the staff, he signed his name on the album cover, and then wrote in beautiful small letters next to it: "Happy 18th birthday to Wei Jing."
, forever young, forever happy!”
Wei Jing left crying, but the smile on her face was unparalleled, as if she had received great encouragement and sustenance. Her whole body was full of energy, like a child who had not grown up, happy and jumping.
Jump away.
The way she laughed and cried made the fans behind her feel the same way, and it was accurately recorded in the shots of all reporters.
On the side, Song Xueqi, the editor-in-chief of "New Entertainment Weekly" winked at her assistant Ah Shuang.
Without saying anything, Ah Shuang turned around, picked up the camera and voice recorder, and chased in the direction Wei Jing left.
There are no fewer than five reporters who behaved in the same way as Shuang.
This is the first fan to get Li Qing's autograph. At the same time, it also shows that this person named Wei Jing has been standing in front of the music supermarket since it was dark in the morning and has been queuing alone for nearly four or five hours.
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Waiting for four or five hours, without even eating breakfast, just to get an autograph from Li Qing...
Reports of fan deeds like this are definitely something that many fans of Li Qing would love to see.
The second fan at the autograph session was much more straightforward than Wei Jing. She was also a girl, in her early twenties, with a quiet appearance, carrying a fan's bag, and looked like an office worker, silently
Handing the album over, she answered whatever Li Qing asked.
She bought an album and a cassette.
When Li Qing signed the album, he watched the girl quickly tear open the package of the cassette, take out the Walkman from the bag, put the headphones into her ears, and then eagerly put the cassette into the Walkman
inside.
After a while, her calm face finally showed a hint of joy. She took the signed album, thanked Li Qing, and turned around to leave.
What a quiet female fan...
Many reporters were moved by this.
…
Then, the third, fourth, and fifth fans came forward...
Li Qing's originally regular hand speed began to speed up his signing after a short warm-up period.
The two characters "Li Qing" are artistic signatures.
He started practicing this kind of signature a year ago, and until now, the names he signs are not said to be vigorous and powerful, but they are definitely beautiful above the standard.
However, Li Qing could not recognize this ghostly glyph-like font except that it was his own name. He had replaced it with the signatures of other artists. He asked himself that he would definitely not be able to recognize it.
As time goes by.
Soon, the record of the first hour of signings came out.
One thousand, two hundred tickets were sold in a single hour.
This record is almost the same as Bao Yunyun, or even slightly worse. At this moment, Song Xueqi and others in "New Entertainment Weekly" who were waiting for the sales record results were surprised.
However, when they saw the "Purchase Restricted" banner posted on the door of the music supermarket behind them, many people suddenly understood.
Under the purchase restriction, Li Qing's sales are almost the same as Bao Yunyun's. Once the sales are opened, won't this sales volume skyrocket?
You know, many fans are not satisfied with just buying two albums. If there is no purchase limit, it is very possible for a fan to buy eight, ten, or even more albums.
But even so, Li Qing's sales record is unparalleled.
You know, because the album "Li Qing" contains fifteen genuine music videos, its price is marked at 35 yuan.
This price is more than double the price of an average singer's album.
For example, Bao Yunyun's "All Living Things", although this album sold about 1,500 copies in the first hour of its release, the price of this album is 15 yuan a piece.
In other words, Bao Yunyun's new album has sold 1,500 copies, with a total value of only 22,500 yuan.
But even though Li Qing's new album of the same name only sold 1,200 copies in the first hour, due to price reasons, its total sales were nearly double that of "All Living Things"!
Although they were outnumbered in terms of quantity, they were completely victorious in terms of sales amount.
Of course, if you follow the Music Association's algorithm, no matter how much you price an album, as long as you don't sell one million copies a day, you won't be certified as a platinum record.
Therefore, the current sales situation is still very serious...
Li Qing was worried beforehand that Universal Music would not be able to keep up with its production capacity, and used this as an excuse to postpone the release of the new album for a while.
However, this proposal was rejected by Zhang Zitao, CEO of Universal Music Hong Kong.
The other party swore that the production capacity could definitely keep up.
However, it turns out that plans cannot keep up with changes and everything is just a good wish.
Otherwise, there would be no purchase restrictions today.
It was not until yesterday that Zhang Zitao called with great embarrassment and admitted that there had indeed been an error in the estimate.
At present, Hong Kong and Taiwan do not have any supply problems. Only the mainland is experiencing supply shortages.
However, such a mistake was not too big. Universal also urgently made additional investment and added an additional production factory in mainland China to ensure that this embarrassing situation would disappear in three days.
Compared with Zhang Zitao's anxiety and regret, Li Qing has nothing to worry about.
Although he was just as disgusted by the "hunger marketing" model of some companies in his previous life, there is no doubt that the "hunger marketing" model will cause an explosive increase in the value of the product and maintain a high selling price for a period of time.
and profit margins, increasing people’s purchases.
Although in detail, the current situation is passive "hunger marketing", the effect is not much different. After three days, once the purchase limit ends, a larger wave of purchases will come.
"How much?"
In the second hour after the autograph session, Cao Ke asked the staff nervously.
"Sales are very stable, almost the same as the first hour. Basically all fans will buy two albums and four cassette sets." the staff member replied.
When Cao Ke heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
If calculated based on the sales rate of 1,200 pieces, today's supply can last for almost eight hours.
In this way, the purchase limit is maintained for four days, which is obviously not stressful.
Until the end of the morning, Cao Ke thought things would go as he imagined.
However, it's noon, after dinner time.
When Cao Ke arrived at the autograph session, he was shocked to find that the number of people queuing in the small square had increased instead of decreasing.
The original team of more than 2,000 people showed no signs of decreasing. Instead, more and more people began to gather in the team from all directions.
So much so that the small square, which was originally a little loose, suddenly became crowded.
In October, the heat of midsummer has not completely faded away.
The weather was still a bit sultry, but the boys and girls at the scene didn't seem to care at all, they were all crowded together... The entire small square was like a huge oven, exuding an astonishing temperature.
Li Qing also had some sweat stains on his forehead, but with Liu Qin and others fanning him from time to time, he didn't seem to feel any sadness.
It's just that the constant signing all morning made his wrist a little sore.
He thought he could bear the pain in his wrist, but every time he signed autographs or spoke to his fans, his throat began to dry up slightly, so that in the end, he spoke less and less.
However, thinking of Bao Yunyun's powerful "Desperate Sanniang" style, Li Qing seemed to refuse to admit defeat, and a surge of strength kept pouring out of his heart, allowing him to persevere.
Therefore, after having a simple Chinese meal, he ignored Cao Ke's dissuasion and continued to sign at the desk.
However, the scorching heat at the scene gradually made some girls in the small square who were infirm and without any means of shade unable to bear it...
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ps: Thanks to jeffreyjoshu for the reward, and thanks to the enchanting butterfly for the reward. This chapter is two chapters in one...