For a new album by a relatively unknown singer to have nearly 600,000 pre-orders, that's already an excellent achievement.
But the best is yet to come.
Two employees from Haiyun Company entered the conference room and pasted a huge poster on the blackboard.
The poster naturally features two beautiful women, Xu Mei and Lin Hanrui.
Lin Hanrui was DJing, while Xu Mei was holding an electric guitar, both dressed in cool outfits and striking graceful poses.
"These two girls are great!" a distributor from the south exclaimed in praise.
This then sparked a chaotic cacophony of noise.
"She's quite pretty!"
"How beautiful!"
"This girl is really good-looking, and she's really got personality!"
"Real water!"
"Great brand, excellent quality!"
"Peugeot!"
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Liu Wen couldn't stand it anymore. What kind of nonsense was this? They were invited here to place an order, how did this get onto the topic of the girl in the comments?
He tapped the table: "Have you all had enough? Next, I'm going to introduce another album that will be released between November and December. Sorry, the poster just came out, and this poster will also be the cover of our album. Isn't it beautiful?"
So the compliments about the girl's beauty were repeated again.
Liu Wen wanted to slap himself. Why did he ask them why they were pretty?
"We sell CDs and CDs. Being pretty isn't that useful; there are plenty of pretty girls on the street. What we want to hear is the music. Now, I'll focus on introducing this album. Hanmei is a female electronic music group from our company. They mainly play electronic music, and needless to say, all their songs are written and composed by Liang Liang, so the quality is guaranteed. There's a saying that seeing is believing, and here, hearing is believing. Now, I'll show you their album CD."
Liu Wen then took out a CD and put it into the DVD player.
The projection screen first displayed the logo of Haiyun Audio-Visual Company, then the song catalog, and then the first song began to play.
The first song is "Help Help Help," which is quite famous in Lianwan.
This one song alone made these distributors restless.
Following "Help Help Help" were "Shalala," "Children of the Forest," "The Future Blooms in the Distance," and "My Heart Will Go On"...
The album by the Hanmei duo is also 60 minutes long, with nine dance tracks, each one stunning and more classic than the last.
The novel and unique arrangement, the deafening rhythm, the ethereal melody, and the two girls' costumes all complement each other perfectly.
This is simply a feast for the eyes and ears.
For a full hour, the dealers remained completely silent, watching intently from beginning to end, utterly dumbfounded.
After the album performance ended, these people seemed to be still immersed in the album, as if they were petrified.
Exhausted, Liu Wen banged on the table again: "It's dawn! Wake up, everyone!"
That shout was like a wake-up call, rescuing these people from their illusions.
"Holy crap! What did I just hear?" Some people were still in a daze.
"Liang Liang is indeed a genius. How did he come up with such a piece? It's brilliant."
"I never imagined that we could make music like this in China. The melody and arrangement are just as good as those abroad."
Liu Wen's presence here isn't exactly complimentary; no matter how eloquent the praise, it can't translate into sales figures.
"Alright! Let's get straight to the point. Now, how much of this album do you want?"
"Mr. Liu! What's the name of this album? When will it be released?"
"The album is called 'The Future is Blooming Ahead' and is expected to be released in October."
"Can this album be released first? If it's released first, I'll pre-order 80,000 copies!"
Liu Wen laughed: "The order of album releases can't be changed just by saying it. There are plans and steps involved, and that can't be changed."
"Oh! That's such a shame."
"Stop talking nonsense, let's see how much you all want now?"
The dealers started whispering among themselves.
"I'll order 30,000 plus 5,000!" someone was the first to place an order.
"I'll order 40,000, and the CDs will cost 5,000."
"I want 50,000 plus 5,000."
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The number of orders for Hanmei's album was significantly higher than that for Xu Wei's "Too Softhearted," with the minimum order being 30,000 copies.
After more than 30 distributors finished reporting their orders, the album received 1.48 million cassette tape orders and 200,000 CD orders.
The two albums together sold for two million cassette tapes and nearly three hundred thousand CDs.
Liu Wen was quite satisfied with this result.
With orders coming in, the pressure shifts to the pressing factory.
Xu Hebin has been here for more than half a month since Liang Liang brought him here. Although he is not very familiar with the work here yet, he has begun to train his own people in the audio-visual production factory under Liang Liang's guidance.
Working without your own team is certainly difficult, but having capable subordinates makes the work less stressful and smoother.
Once the production task was assigned, the audio-visual production team began operating at full capacity.
Although Xu Wei's album orders were only 600,000 copies, Liu Wen immediately set a target of one million copies.
Six hundred thousand is simply not enough to do anything. Liu Wen had some unspoken expectations for this album, predicting that its final sales would not be less than five million.
If it weren't for the fact that Hanmei's album would be released every month, and he was worried about delaying its release, he would have directly placed a target of five million orders, to avoid the hassle and waste of time when these brats placed additional orders later.
In addition to their own production, he also placed a production order worth one million with a record company in the Pacific.
This was prepared for distributors in the south, saving them the time and cost of transporting albums from the north to the south.
Before we knew it, it was September 1st.
Liu Wen held a symbolic launch ceremony in Lianwan City.
The launch ceremony was held at Bohai Square in front of the Maritime Ballroom. Xu Wei took the stage and sang several songs, followed by a signing ceremony for the launch.
The album "Too Softhearted" was officially released nationwide.
Trucks hauled audio-visual products out of the factory warehouse and transported them to wholesale outlets in various northern provinces.
When Xu Wei's album was first released in Lianwan on September 1st, the Blue Shark Band had already completed four of the five stops on their national tour in northern China.
After Qiqihar Station, they arrived at Harbin, the last of the five stations in Northeast China.
For Liang Liang, Harbin was not an unfamiliar city, especially in the realm of rock music.
Between 2000 and 2005, Harbin was the rock music stronghold of northern provinces and cities.
At that time, rock concerts in the three northern provinces were centered around Harbin.
But that was a few years later.
Harbin in 1995 did have rock bands, but there were very few.
It's no exaggeration to say they are extremely rare.
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