Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 66 Sale

Chapter 66 Sale
Kaohsiung, Popular Records Store.

Zhou Xiaoli rushed to the store early in the morning to start her daily work.

She is a cashier at the Popular Record Store. Her daily job is to collect money and count the number of records purchased by customers.

Since the integration of Volkswagen Records and Rose Records and the establishment of the Music Billboard, every transaction that occurs at the cash registers of Volkswagen and Rose stores across the province needs to be counted every week.

Transaction records will be transmitted to the head office database host via VPN, and the back-end operating system will check the sales records with the front-end daily settlement every day.

At 2 a.m. on Friday, the database system will automatically schedule the processing of weekly sales statistics and rankings, and then publish the rankings on the Popular Rose Music website.

Because Volkswagen Rose has very strict control over data, every transaction record needs to be recorded.

This makes Zhou Xiaoli's daily work seem simple, but she has to be at the counter all the time.

So, every morning, she is one of the first people to arrive at the store.

"Brother Xiaowei, is the poster at the door in the wrong place? Why is JJ Lin's poster worse than that of Fahrenheit?"

After entering the store, Zhou Xiaoli immediately found Chen Wei, who was responsible for posting posters in the store.

She thought Chen Wei had put JJ Lin’s poster in the wrong place.

If it is really pasted incorrectly, it is no small matter.

As the largest record chain store in Taiwan, Popular Records has stores in major cities such as Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung, etc.

There are 11 stores in total, with nearly 150 million visitors per month, and they control more than 25% of the music market in Taiwan.

A large number of people gathered, and they were all music lovers.

This makes the poster space at the entrance of the Popular Records store an important advertising column.

The singer posters that can be posted on the door are either singers with hot sales, such as Jay Chou, who can bring huge profits to Popular Records.

Or you pay money to buy advertising space.

Especially the C-position posters that are changed every Monday, the advertising fees for the 11 stores across the province are hundreds of thousands of Taiwan dollars.

Therefore, for employees, there is no room for error.

If something really went wrong, and the center poster was placed in the secondary position, whoever was responsible would be deducted salary, which would be a small matter, and the person might even be fired.

Therefore, the first thing Zhou Xiaoli asked Chen Wei after she came in was whether he had made a mistake.

"You mean Fahrenheit? They are the center of this week's poster."

Chen Wei, who was restocking the shelves, couldn't help but exclaim in amazement when he heard this:

“I thought it was a mistake at first, and I asked about it.

I heard that this group’s company gave our company a considerable amount of advertising fees, and for the next month, their posters will be in the center.

Later I looked up the group.

Guess what, this band Fahrenheit has been extremely popular on the internet recently, with many die-hard fans promoting them.

On the Internet, even JJ Lin is outshined by them.”

As he spoke, Chen Wei handed over a CD, "Hey, this is their record.

Their company spent an unknown amount of money, but they asked our stores to play this album at least three times a day for the next month."

"Three times?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xiaoli was stunned, "Jay Chou's songs have never been let go like this!"

"That's why I said their company spent a lot of money!" Chen Wei also looked helpless.

As an employee, I have to spend at least eight hours in the store every day.

Let him listen to an album at least three times a day for a month.

It would be fine if the song was good, but if the quality was average, he could imagine how much torture these employees would have to endure in the future.

"The company shouldn't be so eager to recommend such a rubbish record..."

Zhou Xiaoli said this, but she was not sure whether the company would do this.

After all, it’s not like the company hasn’t promoted junk records before.

The entertainment industry is ultimately capital market marketing. As long as a record company wants to promote someone, there are plenty of ways to get his songs to appear in the public eye.

It's nothing more than spending more money. "Let's listen to it first! If the quality is really bad, we can report it to the higher-ups together."

As Zhou Xiaoli spoke, she opened the CD in her hand.

"You know what, these four guys are pretty handsome!"

When opening the package, Zhou Xiaoli naturally couldn't avoid seeing the poster of the four members of Fahrenheit.

Even though her first impression of the group was not very good, she had to admit that the group's looks were very good.

At least among the current Taiwanese and provincial groups, she hasn't found anyone more handsome than them.

Put the opened CD into the DVD player, click play, and the music prelude will begin.

"what……"

After hearing this prelude, Zhou Xiaoli and Chen Wei couldn't help but show a look of surprise.

Working in a record store every day, even if they don't understand music, after a long time, they will be able to distinguish which songs are good and which are bad.

Judging from the prelude of the first song on Fahrenheit's album, it is indeed a good song without exaggeration or understatement.

“Cyndi Wang sang with them!”

The pleasant prelude made Zhou Xiaoli couldn't help but look at the TV.

The MV of "Only Feelings for You" was playing on it.

The picture is very warm.

As the song went on, the four members of Fahrenheit took turns expressing their love to the unknown beautiful girl with the help of their strategist Cyndi Wang.

"Unsolved eyes, heart like a needle in the sea"

"Just guessing makes me lose my appetite"

“A little annoying, a little charming”

……

After listening to part of it, Zhou Xiaoli and Chen Wei tacitly agreed not to mention that the record was rubbish.

Instead, they each find something to do.

Zhou Xiaoli returned to her cashier position and waited for customers to come.

As soon as she returned to work, she saw three little girls walking into the record store hand in hand.

As soon as they came in, the slightly plump one among the three girls asked Zhou Xiaoli, "Sister, do you have any Fahrenheit records? Where are they?"

"Is Fahrenheit so popular?" Zhou Xiaoli complained silently in her heart and pointed in the direction of Chen Wei, "That's the pop record area, all Fahrenheit's records are there!"

Hearing this, several little girls chattered and walked over there.

"I'm not kidding, I watched their song 'Super Style' online and it was really good."

"I watched it on TV too. Their MV is so cool!"

After walking a few steps, one of the girls suddenly turned around and asked Zhou Xiaoli, "Sister, whose song is this? It sounds so good!"

Zhou Xiaoli smiled suddenly.

These girls are obviously fans of Fahrenheit, but they don’t know this is their song. It’s so funny.

She pointed at the TV over there, "Fahrenheit! Aren't you here to buy their records?"

"Oh! Is this song also by Fahrenheit?"

“It sounds so good!”

"I just said it wouldn't be a bad idea to come and buy Fahrenheit's records."

“I still have some extra money, I will see if I can buy JJ Lin’s Cao Cao later.

I quite like him, his song "Jiangnan" is my favorite! "