From late March to April, Shen Miaomiao's new songs almost dominated the charts on major music radio stations across the country.
"Today You Will Marry Me", "For the Rest of My Life", and "Slowly Falling in Love with You", these three chart-topping songs swept through all the major charts, almost occupying the top three positions.
The new songs of Jin Haixing, Park Shu, and Huaer Band were all firmly suppressed under the body.
One word to describe it!
fire!
Two words to describe it!
It’s hot!
Three words to describe it!
Unstoppable!
Soon, the time came to April 15th, at nine o'clock in the morning, and the album went on sale on time.
Long queues formed outside many of the video stores and Xinhua Bookstores across the country, and pirate dealers were also crossing the sea, showing off their magical powers in preparation for finding the master tapes.
This is all money!
Who doesn’t like free money?
The sooner you get the master tape, the sooner you can record it.
The sooner you record, the sooner you can make money!
However, this time, Warner's prevention work was extremely strict, and every designated processing factory was personally monitored by someone.
Don't think about master tapes or anything like that.
However, the problem in Taiwan Province has not yet been resolved, and goods transfers have also occurred in Hong Kong, Macao, and Southeast Asia.
Sales in Taiwan and Southeast Asia exploded, immediately disrupting the original production plan.
Those who sell genuine tapes make more money than they sell pirated ones!
The key is, they are still legal.
Even the pirated copies are out of stock, how can I return the genuine ones?
Immediately afterwards, a chain reaction occurred in the market.
The genuine ones are so expensive, why should I buy them?
"Xiao Wang, do you have the tape of "囍"?"
The price of albums in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia is higher than in the mainland. In other words, you can make more money by selling albums there.
"yes."
"Okay, a box costs three and a half yuan, so half of it is five hundred and twenty-five yuan."
Therefore, all Warner can do is urge manufacturers to speed up production.
"Brother Shen, how much do you want?"
While they were talking, Xiao Wang came to the counter holding a cardboard box.
This time, the market in Taiwan Province has completely exploded.
However, without the master tape, it is not difficult for the pirates. Without Zhang Butcher, can we still eat pigs with hair on them?
After working in the industry for so long, this was the first time that Shen Dongliang saw a pirated tape, and he had to wait for a week.
From his perspective, it feels a bit exaggerated.
"Of course there are tapes of Xi!"
After pondering for a moment, Shen Dongliang revealed a number.
He has no concept of creation costs or intellectual property rights.
'A country bumpkin is a country bumpkin.'
"Hey, Brother Shen is back?"
"I want half."
Do what you do, love what you do. Since he is in the business of reselling Walkmans, Shen Dongliang naturally has to pay attention to the most popular albums nowadays.
As a result, the tapes sold on the market cost ten yuan a box!
Five times the profit!
"Three dollars and a half?"
Wait a week, there is only one explanation.
Shen Dongliang said with a surprised look on his face: "Is this thing so popular?"
Even though it may not seem like a lot of money, it is enough for several days of food.
Xiao Wang has no intention of explaining to Shen Dongliang, who is Shen Dongliang?
Do you want to tell him that much?
As for the production cost of the album, I'm sorry, but Shen Dongliang doesn't pay attention to it and doesn't understand it. In his opinion, selling something worth 2 yuan for 10 yuan is a huge profit.
Therefore, there was a shortage of goods.
The counters that Shen Dongliang and the others work with sell all these high-quality goods.
In order to prevent shortages in the mainland market, Warner had to expand its production locations.
"This album is very popular recently. There are three hundred boxes in this box, which I specially left for you."
Yesterday, Shen Dongliang returned from the Northeast. He had just rested for a day and rushed to the wholesale market without stopping.
"囍" is the most popular album at the moment.
Therefore, Warner will of course produce goods in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia first.
He is in this business, how can he not know the profits in it?
If you want to adjust the goods, there is no way.
Anyway, as long as it works.
People who buy pirated tapes don’t have such high pursuit of sound quality.
"But who made you my brother Shen?"
Huaqiangbei.
As the forefront of reform and opening up, any hot album on the market can be found in this category.
And this is also the view of most people.
The shortage situation in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan has not yet been resolved, and there are also reports of shortages in inventory in the mainland.
In fact, there is also a shortage of genuine tapes.
"If someone asked me, I would definitely say no."
When he left, he didn't forget to reply.
It’s not impossible to rip it directly from tape!
If the sound quality is a little worse, then it’s a little worse.
Make money!
certainly.
Therefore, Xiao Wang just responded casually.
Steal money!
Even if a portion is given to dealers, the issuer can earn at least double the profit.
"If you miss this batch, you will have to wait for a week for the next batch."
Isn’t it just a few songs?
Is it necessary and sought after so much?
Although Shen Dongliang was curious about why the album was so popular, he did not spend the wasted money to buy the album.
The albums released in Taiwan are different from those in mainland China. One is a simplified Chinese version and the other is a traditional Chinese version.
With such a large-scale recording volume, the production cost of a tape can be reduced to less than 2 yuan.
Pirated tapes are also out of stock, or in short supply.
The production capacity is basically occupied by genuine tapes. Pirates want high-quality "ripped" supplies and can only wait.
Make money!
In just one week, the 150,000 albums in stock were sold out.
A box goes up by 30 cents, and a box of 150 is 45 yuan.
Make money!
Thanks to the efforts of pirate dealers across the country, in less than half a month, various pirated tapes began to be circulated across the country.
Although Warner has recorded a full one million copies and has a very sufficient inventory, one million copies is not too much when looking at Asia as a whole.
Now he only thinks about making money.
When he heard that the other party only wanted half, Xiao Wang raised his eyebrows and secretly complained at the same time.
Shen Dongliang frowned and said, "Isn't it only three and two yuan per box before? Why has the price increased?"
Xiao Wang took the cigarette with a smile, lit it with a lighter, and then walked toward the counter with the cigarette in his mouth.
“It’s hot!”
"Brother Shen, three hundred tapes, how many do you want?"
A few days ago, he was running a solo gang in the three northeastern provinces, and he saw with his own eyes the grand scene outside the video store.
May 1st.
Then, eat the popular ones and drink the spicy ones.
"The kind that's in short supply."
Shen Dongliang came to the counter and gave the clerk a cigarette in a familiar manner.
'I don't know anything about it.'
"ah?"
"This is the market now. If you don't want it, I will put it away."
With that said, Xiao Wang picked up the box on the counter and made a gesture of moving it back.
"want!"
"want!"
Seeing this, Shen Dongliang quickly raised his hand and shouted.