Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 73 Compare Prices

After seeing off the fat boy, the staff at the back continued to let the fans in.

The second fan who came in was also a boy, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a good-looking appearance.

Compared to the fat boy's nervousness, this boy was not nervous at all, but rather calm and confident.

"Mr. Zhou, I'm a tour guide and I really like your songs."

The boy handed the tape to Zhou Ziheng for signature.

"Thank you! What's your name?"

Zhou Ziheng was not surprised why a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old stopped studying and went out to work.

This is a very normal thing in this era.

During this period, there were countless people in Guangzhou who went out to work at the age of 16 or 17.

"My name is Zhang Songwen, you can call me Awen!"

Zhou Ziheng, who had just asked the name casually and was planning to write a blessing message on the tape, immediately looked up at the other person when he heard this.

After taking a closer look, he realized that although the boy was young, he did look like the later generation's big boss Gao Qiqiang.

"Are you a tour guide? Not a student of acting?"

Zhou Ziheng was a little confused.

Didn’t Gao Qiqiang graduate from the Beijing Film Academy?

Could it be that I remembered it wrong?

"A student of the acting department?" Zhang Songwen looked confused. "I do like movies, but I'm not in school anymore."

Zhou Ziheng saw that he didn't seem to be lying.

Although he was confused, he did not dwell on it. He wrote a blessing on the tape and said:
"You have a good appearance, you can consider becoming an actor."

As he said this, he handed the tape back to the other person.

Although I am very happy that I have a future star fan.

But Zhou Ziheng did not think of interfering in the fate of others.

You need to walk on your own on the road.

Besides, he has met too many celebrities after traveling through time, and he even personally received the Guangdong New Song Chart Best Male Singer trophy from Andy Lau.

Ranked among the top ten singers of 1992 selected by CCTV.

Cui Jian is his good friend and Faye Wong is his partner.

With this start, there is absolutely no need for him to care about a future star.

Now, he is a star.

One of the most popular songs in the mainland... Star.

The signing event went on smoothly.

One after another, fans came forward to ask Zhou Ziheng for his autograph.

Some of them were excited, while others were nervous.

There are also those who want to kiss him madly after seeing him.

Everyone has their own unique faces, and so do fans.

Starting at eight in the morning, Zhou Ziheng's autograph session lasted until four in the afternoon.

I took a break for lunch and spent the rest of the time signing autographs.

To be honest, Zhou Ziheng in his previous life always thought that a book signing event was just a matter of signing a name.

If he had so many fans, he would be willing to sign for three days and three nights.

However, when the book signing event actually happened to him, he realized that it was not that simple.

I signed for eight or nine hours straight from morning to night.

At first, he wrote a blessing for each fan.

As he signed, he felt his wrist ache and started to sign only his own name.

In addition, at the beginning, he was able to deal with his fans with a smile on his face throughout the whole process.

Because he laughed too much, by the afternoon, his face felt stiff and sore, and he really had no interest in smiling anymore.

Having experienced it personally, Zhou Ziheng finally understood why those stars in later generations would smile when signing autographs in the morning, but would just put on dead faces in the afternoon.

However, although it was hard work, the results of this book signing event were very gratifying.

At the end of the day, a total of 4,100 tapes were sold at the signing event.

This is not the 9.9 yuan price in an ordinary electronics store.

Instead, it was a signed tape priced at thirty dollars.

Four thousand one hundred tickets, the price is about one hundred and twenty thousand.

For the organizer, New Yangcheng Records, this is definitely a very impressive result.

Although they needed to pay Zhou Ziheng 30,000 yuan, overall, they still made a profit.

At the end of the signing event, Zhou Ziheng sang a song "Sad Pacific" live and gave some gifts prepared by the organizers to the fans on the scene, thus ending today's signing event.

In late May, "Pacific Heartbreak" continued to be popular.

"Goodbye Kiss" has been knocked off the charts in many places.

Most importantly, in the latest weekly "Oriental Time and Space Tape Sales Chart" published by China Television News, "Pacific Rim" surpassed "Goodbye Kiss" for the first time and achieved the top sales.

Currently, the total order volume of "Pacific Heartbreak" has exceeded one million copies.

It truly achieved a direct proportional ranking between sales volume and song charts.

And this sales volume will obviously not be the final sales volume.

With Zhou Ziheng’s recent massive promotion and his songs dominating the charts.

It is obvious to the naked eye that the order volume of the tape "Sad Pacific" is increasing in large quantities.

Liu Zhiwen told Zhou Ziheng that if the trend continued, by the end of June, the order volume for this tape should exceed two million copies.

As for whether there will be more orders in the future, it depends on the saturation of the market.

If there are still fans in the market who want to buy this tape and the orderers still have stock, the order volume will definitely continue to increase.

But if the market is already saturated, two million may be the final sales volume.

Regardless, the tape "Pacific Heartbreak" was clearly a success.

The sales volume of two million is a rare achievement for tape sales in the mainland.

The first tape, "Wandering Song", sold for 1.7 million.

The box office for "The Waves Remain" which he co-starred with Yang Yuying was 2.1 million.

Now "Pacific Heartbreak" has achieved another success and is expected to break two million copies or even higher.

The results of two and a half times proved that Zhou Ziheng has become the most popular singer in mainland China.

Because of the great popularity of the three tapes, the Guangdong media even shouted the slogan of "No. 1 in the Mainland".

The high sales of the tape and the high ranking of the song on the radio charts naturally brought many benefits to Zhou Ziheng.

First of all, his next few signings were more popular than the last.

There were no less than a thousand people attending each session, and more than four thousand tapes were sold.

Among them, the most popular one is in Shenzhen.

The signing event in Shenzhen attracted more than 3,000 people, and more than 8,000 tapes were sold that day.

In a word, Zhou Ziheng has really made a name for himself in the mainland.

The song is popular, the person is popular, and the tape is popular.

June 15th.

Pacific brought good news to Zhou Ziheng. The order volume of the tape "Sad Pacific" officially reached the two million mark, which was only 200,000 copies away from this year's most popular tape "Kiss Goodbye".

It seemed that Zhou Ziheng actually had a chance of defeating Jacky Cheung.

On the Pacific side, a celebratory banquet was held for Zhou Ziheng at the White Swan Hotel.

Most of the Guangdong music scene was invited.

"Congratulations, Hengzai!"

"Your tape is so popular, the sales volume won't reach three million!" At the White Swan Hotel, Zhou Ziheng, as the protagonist of the day, accompanied by Liu Zhiwen, held a glass of wine and talked with the guests who came to congratulate him one by one.

Li Guangping is the representative of the planning department of China Record Corporation.

When he saw Zhou Ziheng coming, he immediately laughed and congratulated him.

"Thank you, Brother Guangping, for your support. Isn't Brother Xiaoqi with you today?"

Zhou Ziheng looked around but didn't see Chen Xiaoqi.

"He brought his company's singers to hold an exchange meeting. People in the north all want to learn about our record operations and creative methods, so they invited him to hold an exchange meeting," Li Guangping explained.

"He originally wanted to invite you, but he knew you were too busy, so he didn't invite you!"

"I am indeed a little busy here, but as long as Brother Xiaoqi and Brother Guangping ask me, I will put down what I am doing no matter how busy I am."

"That's not necessary. You have your own things to do. How can we trouble you?"

While chatting with Li Guangping, Liu Zhiwen suddenly patted Zhou Ziheng and pointed to a place not far away.

Zhou Ziheng looked over there and saw Zhang Peiren from Moyan Culture, also known as China Fire Records, chatting animatedly with Tong Sunan from Cailing Records.

Liu Zhiwen whispered:
“I heard that Magic Stone is planning to release Wakin Chau’s “Flower Heart” in mainland China.

This album's reputation in Hong Kong and Taiwan is no less than that of "Goodbye Kiss".

If it is successfully released in the mainland, this tape will probably be your biggest competitor next time."

Zhou Ziheng nodded.

This is true.

The tape "Flower Heart" was definitely one of the best-selling tapes in 1993.

It and "Goodbye Kiss" were very popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This tape was released in Hong Kong and Taiwan in April, but due to various reasons, it has been delayed until now and is expected to be released in mainland China.

Currently, on the mainland tape market.

The most popular tapes are undoubtedly "Pacific Heartbreak" and "Kiss Goodbye".

These two tapes have been the most popular tapes in mainland China since May.

The sales of both tapes exceeded two million, making them the two tapes with the best sales data so far this year.

The tape that followed was of Pacific's signed singer Lin Yilun.

His "Love Birds" was also released in May. From obscurity at the beginning, the number of orders has now exceeded one million.

It is the most popular tape besides "Kiss Goodbye" and "Pacific Heartbreak".

The competition among the three tapes was already fierce in the market, and now "Flower Heart" has joined the fray. One can imagine the subsequent market chaos.

“By the way, how is the matter of contacting a Hong Kong and Taiwan company to distribute “Sad Pacific” going?
If you don’t have any channels, I can ask my company to help you contact record companies in Hong Kong and Taiwan and try to get you good conditions.”

Liu Zhiwen also asked about the distribution of "Sad Pacific" in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This wasn't the first time he had asked this question.

Zhou Ziheng actually knew what he was thinking.

After seeing the popularity of "Sad Pacific" in mainland China, Pacific seemed to think that this tape would make a difference in the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets.

They have implicitly expressed more than once that they hope Zhou Ziheng will hand over the Hong Kong and Taiwan distribution rights of the tape to them.

“I have already contacted the right people and there should be news soon.

If you still have any promotional plans for "Sad Pacific", you can put them on hold for the time being and start again after the tape is released in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

If the tape performs well in Hong Kong and Taiwan, then your promotional plan should achieve better results.”

Zhou Ziheng seemed not to understand what Liu Zhiwen meant.

He really didn't want to respond to this question directly.

Pacific Records is definitely the dominant record company in mainland China at this time.

Whether it is publicity or channels, they are first-class.

But Hong Kong and Taiwan...

They really have no channels.

Even if the tapes are given to them, they will find other Hong Kong and Taiwan record companies to distribute them.

In that case, why doesn’t Zhou Ziheng find it himself?

He was not afraid of the Pacific Ocean becoming angry and embarrassed.

If Pacific really wanted to cause trouble for him because of this, then he could just opt ​​out of the contract.

And the Pacific Ocean is obviously not that stupid.

Even if they only had the rights to distribute the tapes in mainland China, they still made a lot of money.

Just from him, Pacific has made a profit of no less than 20 million in the past year.

If the other party didn't want such a huge benefit, he thought, other companies would accept it with a smile.

As for the distribution rights in Hong Kong and Taiwan, he does have news.

Chen Jiaying, a senior executive of Hong Kong Art Films and Faye Wong's agent, took the initiative to contact Zhou Ziheng after seeing the data of "Pacific Rim" and even though Zhou Ziheng didn't contact her, she has already rushed to Guangzhou.

He will go to discuss this matter with her tomorrow.

Whether this tape will be distributed by PolyGram or another company will be clear after we talk to Chen Jiaying.

"Mr. Zhou, we meet again!"

Laughter was heard and Zhang Peiren walked over.

"Mr. Zhang, it's nice to meet you here!" Zhou Ziheng clinked glasses with him with a smile.

"I heard that Mr. Zhou, you are looking for a distributor in Hong Kong and Taiwan for "The Pacific"?
Why do you need to look for anyone else? We, the Rolling Stones, can do it all!"

After Zhang Peiren came over, he spoke directly.

Zhou Ziheng's eyes flashed.

Sometimes, you still need outstanding achievements to attract people.

Zhou Ziheng had discussed this matter with Zhang Peiren before.

He once hinted that he wanted to work with the Rolling Stones.

At that time, Zhang Peiren just smiled and didn't say much about this issue.

Now, "Sad Pacific" is selling like hot cakes in mainland China.

The music style also fits in with Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Zhou Ziheng didn't even have to come to the door, he came on his own.

"We can talk when we have time!" Zhou Ziheng did not refuse.

One more choice means one more opportunity.

The conditions at Chen Jiaying's side may not be better than those at the Rolling Stones.

Now, he is the one sitting on the treasure.

It is his right to shop around.

Zhang Peiren looked at Liu Zhiwen and said seriously, "If you give this tape to us, Rolling Stone, to distribute, it will definitely sell well in Taiwan, not to mention other places."

"I hope so. Let's find a chance to talk the day after tomorrow." Zhou Ziheng was unmoved.

Everyone can brag.

A few days ago, the president of an unknown record company in Hong Kong came to me and said directly that as long as I gave the tape to them for distribution, they would make me the fifth king of heaven!

Zhou Ziheng would never believe in empty promises without any actual benefits.

He had eaten too much pancakes in his previous life.

"Then let's do it the day after tomorrow. You have my phone number and we can arrange the specific location." Zhang Peiren said.

He obviously knew that this was not the place for conversation.

But there was a Pacific manager standing next to him.

It is obviously inappropriate to talk about this kind of thing in front of him.

There should be another chapter of 4,000 or 2,000 words in the afternoon.

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(End of this chapter)