Unboxing, Director!

Chapter 28: Little Spring Festival Gala and a Huge Increase in Net Worth
The time has come to September 2th.

The latest issue of "Audio and Video World" released the Chinese music album sales chart for January.

This list is recognized as the most authoritative list in the industry.

But even so, the list is divided into self-composed music tapes and imported music tapes.

That is, there are two lists: publications by mainland companies and imported publications.

It goes without saying what the purpose is of not putting them together.

First is the self-composed music tape:

First place: Chen Ming's "Pearl Tears"
Second place: Wei Wei's "Dedication"

Third place: Lu Jiang's "Fairy Tale"

Fourth place: Mao Ning's "Mao Ning in the Heart"

Fifth place: Sun Yue "Happy Chinese New Year 98"

Sixth place: Huang Lei's "Singing While Walking"

Seventh place: Sun Nan's "See You There"

43th place: Wang Feng, "No. Bao Street"

Ninth place:
"Fairy Tale", which was released 8 months ago, still ranks third.

Its strength is also envied by many mainland singers.

But what is even more enviable is the list of imported music bands:
First Place: Lu Jiang (Lu Jiang)

Second place: Ruan Danqing and Valen Hsu, "My Fair Princess"

Third place: Richie Jen's "Love is Like the Pacific"

Fourth place: Li Wen, "I'm Still Your Lover"

Fifth place: Andy Lau in "Silly Child"

Sixth place: Zhang Huimei's "Holding Hands"

7. Celine Dion's "A Time to Remember"

8th place: Na Ying's "Conquer"

Ninth place:
Since its release on December 12rd.

"Lu Jiang" topped the album sales chart for the second consecutive month.

At the same time, the sales data of the top three companies formed a cliff-like lead over the following ones.

According to the data provided by Zhou Jianhui.

The top three albums all showed a trend of rising against the trend starting from late January.

The reason is self-evident.

The students are on holiday.

"My Fair Princess" began to dominate the screen, and its real popularity had just begun. It was also because of this that the "My Fair Princess" album jumped directly from tenth to second in January.

This also benefited the MV of "Lu Jiang" which was aired on various TV stations.

At the same time, "Lu Jiang" is a new album, and its sales potential and popularity are far from exhausted.

Needless to say, Richie Jen is the most popular star in "Love is Like the Pacific".

As a result, the sales of the three albums in January exceeded 1, far exceeding the 40 of the fourth place.

The total sales of "Lu Jiang" in Asia has officially exceeded 150 million.

This data has enabled Lu Jiang to firmly establish his position as a top singer in mainland China.

Those who used to say that Lu Jiang stepped on Yehenara to get to the top are now silent, because sales represent everything.

The sales volume of 150 million was also at the top level in the entire Chinese music scene in the 90s.

Therefore, Lu Jiang has completely broken through the restrictions of mainland singers and firmly stood at the T1 level of current Chinese pop singers.

Also because "Lu Jiang" was released in December.

Therefore, the current sales momentum is far more sufficient than that of other albums.

In other words.

Lu Jiang had already established a defensive momentum in early 99.

In the coming year, if other top singers want to achieve the top sales, Lu Jiang will be a huge mountain standing in their way.

Whether it can create a situation as disappointing as "Heart Too Soft" in 96 and 97, which made people completely give up competing for sales, depends on the luck of "Lu Jiang" in the future.

If he is lucky, and the influence of "Lu Jiang" remains strong throughout 99, and its sales continue to lead by a large margin, then by the end of the year, if Lu Jiang calls himself the new king who can stand on equal footing with Richie Ren, it is estimated that there will be basically no objection.

However, a more pragmatic approach would be to release another album of similar quality to "Lu Jiang".

In other words, Lu Jiang is actually only one album away from becoming a T0-level superstar.

Warner's Zhou Jianhui has hesitated to speak out on this issue many times.

Needless to say, Lu Jiang knew what he was worried about.

I just want to ask if Lu Jiang has any ideas for new songs, if he has any hope for the next album, and whether he can reproduce the miracle of "Lu Jiang".

It’s just that because "Lu Jiang" has just been released for two months, he is really embarrassed to bring up this matter at this time.

However, he has also started collecting songs on the market in case of emergency.

But what he didn't know was that as long as he opened his mouth to ask, Lu Jiang would give him a super shot of adrenaline.

Because up to now, Lu Jiang has collected four or five treasure chests, from white to blue. The quality of the songs is as guaranteed as always.

Even if it were to be made into an album now, the only disadvantage compared to "Lu Jiang" would be the number of songs.

But now is not the time to talk about this. Even if he did, he wouldn't produce it now.

Isn’t it just one album away from becoming a superstar?

Why not collect a few more treasure chests before releasing the next album?

Strive to achieve complete victory in one battle.

As for now, Lu Jiang is of course more interested in making money.

"I believe that one day of love is worth forever

在 这 一 刹那 了 时间

We who don't know how to be gentle

Thought martyrdom was just an old rumor
How painful and deep can the sorrow of separation be?
When the dream is buried in the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River
心碎 了 才 懂

"

After the song was finished, the audience burst into applause.

The host, Sister Ni Ping, took over the situation and gave a very serious compliment to the camera: "What a beautiful Chinese style song, isn't it, audience friends? Let us once again thank Lu Jiang for the wonderful performance he brought us with applause."

"Thank you, thank you everyone!" Lu Jiang smiled and waved.

On the evening of February 2th, at 6:8.

Lu Jiang completed his first solo debut on CCTV in his career during the live broadcast of CCTV's "Variety Show".

Looking at the overall style of "Variety Show" from the perspective of later generations, apart from the rigid performance segments, the other interactive segments are actually relatively rigid and serious.

But no one will dislike it.

"Variety Show" is the ceiling of current mainland variety shows and is directly called the Little Spring Festival Gala in the industry.

Usually, those who appear on this kind of program are either superstars, or already-famous artists with extremely high national popularity, or eccentric people from the folk. All kinds of people gather together to bring high-quality experience to people across the country.

There is a lack of variety shows these days, and variety shows like "Happy Camp" are just getting started. For most ordinary people, if they want to see a high-quality star lineup composed of big stars, apart from watching the Spring Festival Gala at the end of the year, the only show that can satisfy their desire is "Variety Show".

In addition to the program format and lineup quality.

For many artists, appearing on "Variety Show" means being on the reserve list for the Spring Festival Gala.

Especially those episodes near the end of the year are more representative. The artists who appeared at the end of previous years can almost always appear on the Spring Festival Gala the following year.

Lu Jiang is very popular this year. Li Chao's stepfather said that he has entered the sight of the Spring Festival Gala director team, but unfortunately he became popular a little late and missed the last ticket for this year's Spring Festival Gala. If "Lu Jiang" was released in the first half of the year, Lu Jiang would probably have started the last rehearsals for this year's Spring Festival Gala.

Although he missed the last ticket, CCTV did not forget Lu Jiang and invited him to participate in the last live broadcast of "Variety Show" this year.

It goes without saying how much importance it holds.

These are the most direct improvements in status brought about by "Lu Jiang".

Of course, it is hard to say whether I can finally perform on the Spring Festival Gala. I will analyze the situation when the time comes.

But Lu Jiang was already very satisfied.

It’s not about licking CCTV.

But in the current era when there is an extreme lack of exposure platforms in the mainland, whether or not an artist has appeared on "Variety Show" can really have a huge impact on the artist's value.

After the live broadcast ended, Li Chao excitedly reported: "It jumped to 12!"

Lu Jiang was quite satisfied after hearing this.

After "Fairy Tale" became popular, his appearance fee soared to 5, and then gradually declined and stabilized at around 4.

"Lu Jiang" was released in early December, and his commercial performance quotes also rose steadily with sales.

After being forced to step on Yehenara to get to the top, his average commercial performance quotation directly reached 8.

Then by the end of January, the sales of "Lu Jiang" in Asia exceeded 1 million, and the commercial performance quotation finally reached 150, but this price was only temporary, just like the peak of 10 for "Fairy Tale", which could not last long.

Now, after the live broadcast of "Variety Show", Lu Jiang has achieved the ceiling appearance achievement in TV variety shows.

The commercial performance quotation finally broke 10 and reached about 12, and it was the starting price.

This is 12, which is already the ceiling level in the domestic entertainment industry. The paper data is higher than Liu Huan's.

Lu Jiang couldn't help but wonder, this was just a small Spring Festival Gala. If he performed on a real Spring Festival Gala, how much would his appearance fee increase?
“Advertising prices have also increased.”

At this time Li Chao said again.

"How much has it increased?"

"Brands that originally quoted prices are now generally increasing their prices by around 20%, and there are also about ten new brands joining the list."

Li Chao reported in detail.

A rough calculation shows that if Lu Jiang accepts the highest bids in each category, he can earn at least 700 million in one go!
Of course, reality doesn’t work that way.

When it comes to advertising endorsements, you have to consider them carefully and not just look at the money.

But even if he doesn't accept endorsements, his current income is already considerable.

150 million albums, each album is divided into about two parts.

It is said that the income from album copyright can be divided into nearly one million.

Next, I will continue to do commercial performances and take on advertisements.

We are very close to our goal of 10 million in assets.
(End of this chapter)