HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 287 [287] The Power of Luck: Even in the End Times, Qi Yuan Can Sell More Records

"How many copies were sold?"

Qi Yuan looked up at Zhang Hao.

Qi Yuan's sales expectations for the fourth album are not as high as those for the third album.

Last year's "Wish" sold over eight million copies across Asia, breaking his personal record.

Pirated copies are impossible to quantify, but they are definitely more numerous than legitimate copies.

Last year, Amy Chang's "Can I Hold You, My Love?" sold a total of eight million copies across Asia.

That's what Forward Music and Amy Chang's team said publicly. However, according to media reports, the actual number of copies sold was only around three million, indicating a significant discrepancy.

With the increasing number of MP3s this year, even if Qi Yuan's fourth album is of high quality, it won't sell eight million copies, and it will be difficult to sell even five or six million copies.

The record market has fallen by 40%, and no matter how great an album is, its sales cannot match last year's.

Qi Yuan had prepared herself mentally and lowered her expectations.

However... he seems to have underestimated his fans, as well as the power of the 'rich woman killer' and 'good luck'.

"As You Wish" sold 520110 copies in mainland China, 159200 in Taiwan, 95200 in Hong Kong, and 173312 in other countries and regions, totaling approximately 95 copies. It should have no problem breaking 500 million copies within the sales period.

Zhang Hao looked refreshed and his complexion was much rosier.

We are now in the decline of the Chinese music industry. It is already an incredible achievement for an album to sell 500 million copies of its official print version.

MP3 and pirate manufacturers are competing with record companies for market share, and many small record companies are preparing to close down.

The first day's sales gave Qi Yuan a pleasant surprise.

Qi Yuan also saw some interesting news.

A Taiwanese counterfeit goods manufacturer caught fire in the middle of the night for unknown reasons, destroying some production equipment. Fortunately, the fire was put out in time and no one was injured.

News also came from the mainland that some small pirate factories had been raided.

"..."

Qi Yuan was dumbfounded.

Is this the power of good luck? Did luck make his records sell more?
In fact, for Qi Yuan, the revenue from record sales is not a large proportion.

There are too many upstream and downstream aspects to the record production and sales. If Warner gets 40% of the revenue from a single record sale, that's considered good.

Qi Yuan wanted to split the profits with Warner Music, with the company taking the lion's share. Selling a million records wouldn't make much money; it was far less profitable than holding concerts and doing endorsements.

On the other hand, with the record sales figures looking good, Qi Yuan felt more comfortable and was more motivated to go to autograph sessions.

Pengcheng's Little Pony contacted Qi Yuan, excitedly telling him that QQ might have found a profitable business model.

This year, China Mobile separated from China Telecom and began exploring mobile value-added services.

Little Pony and his team noticed NTT DoCoMo's 'i-mode' model and planned to launch the 'Mobile Dream Network' service in conjunction with Shenzhen Mobile.

Simply put, QQ users can send messages to their computers via SMS.

Users who activate this feature pay 5 yuan per month, with Tencent and China Mobile splitting the revenue 20/80.

Don't underestimate this 5 yuan; next year, Tencent will achieve annual profits of tens of millions thanks to this business.

With Qi Yuan as their spokesperson, QQ has significantly more users than in the previous life, and the profits will be even higher.

As it turns out, Qi Yuan's previous judgment was correct.

Previously, Little Pony couldn't hold on any longer and kept saying that if Qi Yuan didn't invest, he would sell QQ at a loss.

Qi Yuan had agreed to invest, but Xiao Maju was worried that Qi Yuan would take control of his company. Xiao Maju was overthinking it; he offered his seat to Qi Yuan, but Qi Yuan refused to take it.

Tencent's most valuable asset is its founder, Xiao Maju, and his team. If he and his team were to disband, how much more effort would Qi Yuan have to expend? It's much more comfortable to be a hands-off manager.

To prevent the foal from causing trouble, Qi Yuan requested a veto right, and with his previous eligibility to participate in decision-making, Qi Yuan retained certain rights.

In short, Qi Yuan was even happier after receiving the good news about the foal.

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On the Chinese internet, Qi Yuan's fourth album, "As You Wish," has sparked discussion among netizens.

"A new breakthrough, a new musical style, and a new hero emerges. It's amazing. At the beginning of the year, I said that 'Wish' was the best album I bought this year, but now I want to take that back. 'As You Wish' is the best album I bought this year."

"I'm so tired of listening to 'Susan Says' and 'The Flower Field Mistake'. I really want to know what mistake Qi Yuan made in the flower field."

"My favorite song is 'Love Wrong,' the final high note is so satisfying, it's a pleasure to listen to it every time."

"Now I'm even more looking forward to Qi Yuan's English songs. I really like English songs. I hope Qi Yuan's foray into the European and American music scene goes smoothly and that he can bring glory to the country."

These days, making a low-budget film and winning an award at an international film festival is considered bringing honor to the country when you return home.

In the eyes of netizens, it would be an honor if Qi Yuan could break into the Western music scene.

Of all the music videos on the fourth album, "Grey Avatar" may not be the highest in quality, but it certainly generated the most discussion.

This is QQ's promotional song, and many netizens are already QQ users.

Many people watched the "Romantic Love" music video before registering an account to become a QQ user.

Netizens have been trying to find love online but haven't succeeded yet. The "Gray Avatar" video tells everyone that online dating never ends well, leaving everyone completely disillusioned.

Depend on!
Qi Yuan, did you do this on purpose or by accident? You tricked everyone into coming here to kill them, didn't you?

Many female fans were also moved to tears by the music video for "Gray Avatar".

"Gray Avatar" is essentially a remake of "Fairy Tale".

The music video is just as good as "Fairy Tale," but the song itself is much worse. Plus, "Fairy Tale" raises people's threshold for tears, so the tear-jerking effect is only about 50-60% of "Fairy Tale," but it's still enough to make some female fans with low tear thresholds cry.

Then these female fans went to watch "Hua Wuque" to relax.

The first dozen or so episodes of "Hua Wuque" are very entertaining, and each episode can make everyone laugh out loud. Will the Qi Fan couple die this time?
However, what happened next showed everyone that they were being a bit too naive.

In episode 20, the fairy maiden, whose popularity was second only to Hua Wuque, had her powers drained and died shortly after her wedding.

This is the fairy played by Gao Yuanyuan, and the ratings broke new records the night she left the show.

This character is so lovable—lively, cute, innocent, and kind. Audiences these days have relatively simple values ​​and really like this kind of fairy-like character.

The death of the fairy made everyone cry, even more so than last year's "Fairy Tale" MV.

Everyone thought that the fairy's departure was the limit, and that no one else in the main characters would die.

Then... Evil Tongtian died tragically, and Su Ying was bitten by a man-eating flower, her body turned into pus, and she didn't even leave behind a corpse.

Fan Xiaopang's Tie Xinlan was strangled to death by Jiang Yuyan.

The Qi-Fan couple storyline once again came to an end with Fan Xiaopang's death.

The more fun everyone had in the first dozen or so episodes, the more they cried as they watched the later episodes!

Wang Pangzi, who lacked martial ethics, taught mainland audiences a lesson, showing them that a TV series can kill off all the characters except for the title.

Netizens in mainland China are in a state of shock. Leukemia, car accident, being strangled to death—is Fan Xiaopang going to unlock 108 different ways to die?
Fortunately, Hua Wuque and Xiaoyuer joined forces to kill Jiang Yuyan in the end, which relieved the audience's anxiety.

(End of this chapter)