Back then, whenever Chinese rock music was mentioned, no matter which angle you approached it from, the 1994 Hong Kong Coliseum concert was an unavoidable topic.
This concert marked a peak for Chinese rock music, becoming a landmark in the rock scene.
It was a sign of reaching its peak, but also a sign that Chinese rock music was beginning to decline.
After this concert, Chinese rock music entered a complete winter and began to wither away on its own.
This concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum has also had a huge impact, even more so than the last one.
As the saying goes, those who are near the water get the first taste of the moon, and the first and most directly affected are the towns and villages.
After the concert ended, a large number of fans flocked to the still-open record stores in the night market, looking for the album "Northeast Rock".
Rock music isn't popular in Hong Kong. Most of the rock musicians on Hong Kong Island are struggling underground, so rock albums don't sell well in Hong Kong, especially since this is a mainland album with a Northeast rock cover.
Even if the store has stock, the inventory is not large. After more than a month of sales, it has basically cleared out most of its stock.
Apart from a small amount of unsold stock, there was practically nothing left. Faced with the influx of customers, these shop owners had no choice but to urgently place orders with Silver Elephant Company.
The album's distributor in Hong Kong was Golden Dream, which resulted in Golden Dream receiving orders for tens of thousands of copies of the album the very next day.
Jinmeng Company immediately contacted the factory to start working overtime to produce the product.
The first batch of reissued albums received rave reviews after entering the market, and it seemed that overnight, everyone in Hong Kong became a rock fan.
Even some arrogant music critics in Hong Kong have started writing endless inspirational articles praising the album.
This further boosted the album's sales, which exceeded 100,000 copies in just over ten days.
And the album also began to become popular in Green Island and Southeast Asia.
If the people of Xianggang let him smell even a glimmer of a business opportunity, they will pounce on it like a cat smelling fish.
Faced with such a great demand for rock music, the people at Jinmeng Company worked with lightning speed, as if they had wheels of fire under their feet. As soon as the concert ended, they began to repair and restore the audio files, removing any background noise.
In just five days, the cassette tape version of the concert was released to the market.
This speed is a bit too fast. Liang Liang characterized this hastily released version as a bootleg copy.
He thought that something released in such a rush must be terrible, but when he got his hands on it, the sound quality was not bad, at least it was passable.
This album, dubbed "The Rise of Mainland Rock in '94," triggered a buying frenzy among Hong Kong residents as soon as it was released.
In just a few days, sales exceeded 300,000.
For a city with a population of only seven million, this is a rather terrifying ratio. To put it simply, it means that one in every twenty-odd people in the US owns this album.
The most unexpected result of the two albums, "Northeast Rock" and "The Great Power of Mainland Rock in '94," was that they sparked a love for rock music among Hong Kong people.
Some underground rock bands on Hong Kong Island also benefited, and their albums, whether public or underground, reaped the rewards.
The biggest beneficiary was naturally the band B-An.
The B-An band appeared as guests at the Hong Kong Coliseum concert, which in itself was an advertisement.
After the concert, their previous albums also sold well within ten days, and the cumulative sales of these albums exceeded 10,000 copies.
This further enhanced their reputation on Hong Kong Island.
The concert album was also released in the mainland market through Pacific Audio-Visual Company. However, Pacific Audio-Visual Company processed the album again, making the sound quality even better than the Hong Kong version.
The album was also renamed "The Power of '94 Rock in China".
The album was released simultaneously in Guangzhou and Beijing on December 27th.
The day after Liang Liang and his band finished their concert, they spent the day sightseeing in Xianggang. The band members, who were visiting Xianggang for the first time, naturally wanted to see what this bustling world was like and buy some small gifts for their relatives and friends to take back.
Nineteen Jinmeng Company and they split the profits.
The concert generated a profit of HK$1.5 million.
The revenue-sharing agreement signed by both parties is a 40/60 split. Jinmeng is responsible for all the operations of the concert, including Liang Liang and the others' round-trip airfare, so it is very reasonable for them to take 60%.
In this way, they received HK$600,000, which, according to the exchange rate between Hong Kong dollars and Chinese dollars at the time, could be exchanged for 650,000 Chinese dollars.
Each band received nearly 140,000 yuan.
Since the Black Panther band is affiliated with Pacific Entertainment, how they distribute their money is their own business.
Liang Liang immediately distributed the money to Han Chuang and Xu Wei's Black Island Band.
Xu Wei and Lan Sha each had five people, and each person received more than 27,000 yuan.
The four members of the Hanchuang Band each received more than 36,000 yuan.
The Blue Shark band didn't take the money seriously. They've had times when their share of the profits exceeded a million, so they didn't care much about a few tens of thousands.
But for Hanchuang and Black Island, this is different; it's the biggest income they've seen so far.
Everyone looked radiant.
But that wasn't the most exciting thing for them. What made them happy was that Golden Dream Records offered their two bands some great contracts.
After negotiating with Zhang Yong and Liang Liang, Le He signed a three-year contract with Jinmeng Company.
Han Chui also became the manager for both bands.
I wonder if he can manage to keep up with all this. He should probably start his own talent agency.
Xu Wei did not sign a contract; he plans to think it over further and decide on his future after the New Year.
Now that the concert is over, the money has been divided, and the contracts have been signed, it's time for them to head home.
The Hanchuang Band and the Black Island Band returned to Lianwan first, while the Blue Shark Band and Xu Wei went to the Pacific Ocean.
Blue Shark came to Guangzhou to support their album launch, while Xu Wei was there to discuss releasing a solo album with Pacific.
With "Northeast Rock" and this performance in Xianggang, Xu Wei has risen to fame. Pacific is preparing to release an album of his to see if they can capitalize on this momentum.
Besides promoting the band's album, Liang Liang also had an important matter to discuss with Liu Wen.
Liu Wenming will retire on May Day, and Liang Liang wants to discuss with him the issue of how to continue contributing his remaining energy.
After this year, the music scene in the south should shift northward, and Liang Liang feels it's time to open a record company.
He planned to send Liu Wennong to Lianwan and give him the position of general manager of his audio-visual company.
He doesn't lack funds, singers, bands, or songs; what he lacks are distribution channels and connections.
Liu Wen possesses both of these qualities.
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