Chapter 154 - 155. Album sales (1/2)
Chapter 155. Album sales
”People heard it, people liked it, people are buying it.”
Director Kang exclaimed excitedly as soon as Ren entered the PR Team office.
”Is the album sales increasing that much?”
”It is not just increasing!! We have sold 20,000 copies in two days, including the digital albums and the hard copies.”
”Isn't that good?”
”Yes, it's much better than we have thought.”
After the broadcast of Music count, people flocked towards the online sites to buy the album of «A born star».
The response towards it was also heated as there were many people praising the album and loving the songs.
There were comments about it on many online forums and blogs.
”I think we can probably cross the 100,000 mark. That will gave our album a silver record.”
Music records were categorised into four records, Silver, gold, platinum and crown.
Getting a silver record means the sales of 100,000 including both digital sales and the hard copies.
A gold record means the sale of 500,000 and a platinum record means the sales of at least 1 million copies.
The crown record was the highest with a sales of 10 million records. It was nearly impossible to do it in this age, where there is piracy in almost everything.
”Well, we will get the silver record, but it's hard to get the gold record.”
Director Kang said dejectedly.
About 70% of an album sale would be in the first week of its release. After that, the songs will be available on almost every pirated sites.
Piracy was a thing that was really fatal for every singer.
”Anyway, it's good that our songs are in the music rankings but Chen Hao's 'perturbing', is still in the first place.”
On the music rankings, Chen Hao's title song 'perturbing' was still in the first place. It was because of his fandom buying huge amounts of albums.
While his single was in the first place, 'Are you listening?' and 'With you' were supposedly on the 5th and 8th ranks.
It was more surprising considering that Ren and Xiao Rin were not singers and the album was the album of a musical drama.
”It does not seem to come out soon.”
”Yes, his album sales are already over 40,000. His fans are really scary. I had heard that many are buying his album twice or thrice.”
”That's crazy.”
”Yes, hardcore fans are not called hardcore for nothing, but we are slowly achieving our goals, so I don't think it would be fatal for us.”
Director Kang said as she cupped her hands.
Their goal from the start was not getting first place in the music rankings or beating Chen Hao.
Their goal was to gain publicity for «The stars above», as the main goal was to make the movie a hit.
If the movie becomes a hit, then the album sales will go up again and their main source of profit would be from the box office of «The stars above».
”Still, I wanted to beat Chen Hao at least.”
Director Kang laughed when she heard that. She can see that Ren was slightly bitter because of his earlier defeat.
”Well, we can just wait and see for now. Anyway, you were on a break today, right? Why are you here?”