All in all, Liao Liao stayed in Jinan Prefecture for fifteen days.

  After the tenth day of the lunar month, the Spring Festival Gala of Huaxia TV will enter the final stage of rehearsals. For this gala, which is obviously more upscale than the other three galas, even superstars like Liu Mingliang and Zhen Zhen do not dare to show off their airs. Liao Liao also has to go back and be managed by the program team from the first overall rehearsal.

  As Li Qian's agent, Qi Jie will go to Shuntianfu with Liao Liao this time. On the one hand, she wants to formally spread her identity as Li Qian's agent through Liao Liao's channel, so that in the future, if anyone wants to find Li Qian, they can directly contact Liao Liao or Cao Cen without having to go around in circles. On the other hand, she will represent Li Qian to finalize the last details of the cooperation contract with Huage Records, such as payment methods and times.

  Then, it is said that the Spring Festival Gala will complete its final formal recording on December 28th of the lunar calendar. By then, Liao Liao will return to her hometown in Northeast China for Chinese New Year, while Qi Jie will go back to Jinan Prefecture. This is still because it's said that the higher-ups have once again rejected the proposal for a live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala and will continue to use pre-recorded broadcasts. Otherwise, Qi Jie could come back, but Liao Liao would have to spend New Year's Eve in the performance hall of Huaxia TV.

  Li Qian had classes during the day and couldn't see her off, so he said goodbye to them a night in advance.

  Everyone eats and drinks together, chats and laughs, and there's no sorrow or farewell. After all, after the solar calendar April, Li Qian will definitely go to Shuntian Prefecture to sign up for professional exams at several art schools. At most, it's just two months, and everyone can meet again.

  Li Qian's maturity and calmness are a given, Liao Liao is only in his early twenties but he isn't the type to dwell on things. After that awkward incident, both of them adjusted quickly. Whether it was the three of them having dinner together or just the two of them practicing singing again, they were all carefree and lighthearted. They chatted and laughed as usual, no one brought up what happened intentionally.

  It was that night, after dinner, went back and practiced singing for a while. Liao Liao got up to bid farewell. After sending her out the door, Li Qian also washed up quickly and lay down to sleep. In the middle of the night, however, Liao Liao suddenly sent another text message: That time, I bit on purpose!

  The next morning when he woke up and saw the message. Li Qian couldn't help but smile bitterly.

  …………

  Liao Liao came to Jinan Prefecture and stayed for over a dozen days, but almost nothing was known about this outside.

  Moreover, during her stay in Jinan Prefecture, apart from causing Li Qian to miss a few performances of the wedding band led by Wang Huaiyu, she did not have any impact on Li Qian's studies and life.

  Even so, although it was only a short half-month period, and there were only two weekend breaks of four days, which allowed the two people to fully devote themselves to practicing singing. The rest of the time was just the two hours after dinner before going to sleep. However, the two people still felt that they had gained a lot - although the contract had not been formally signed yet, Li Qian had already prepared works for Liao Liao's next album, and she had practiced to the point where she could record at any time, and there were already four songs.

  To be honest, compared to working with those five girls from Wu Suo's Five Elements, helping Liao Liao as a producer is much easier.

  This time, Liao Liao went back and Li Qian handed over the remaining six songs prepared for her new album, along with all the arrangements. By the time Li Qian went to Shuntianfu to take a professional exam after the New Year, she estimated that she would have already figured out most of the songs, and if there were no major problems, she would only need Li Qian's help to adjust her emotions before officially starting recording.

  Yeah, Liao Liao's next album, Li Qian gave her the name "Tao Sheng Yi Jiou".

  Just as Li Qian and Liao Liao first talked about this album, he set a consistent goal and direction for the album. For the selection of songs on this album, Li Qian was also very cautious. After repeated consideration, it was finally determined that in addition to ensuring that the selected songs would win Liao Liao's favor and be suitable for her performance, as the producer, Li Qian also tried his best to make this album have a variety of styles like a hundred flowers blooming, but without any disorder.

  Of course, after selecting songs and repeatedly deliberating, Li Xian still has full confidence in her next album.

  After all... those songs were too powerful!

  There's "Afraid of the Dark Woman" continuing Liao Liao's light rock style urban love song, and "Loess Plateau" continues with a Northwestern folk ballad. This album can already be sure to gain a lot of fans' immediate favor, accumulated over time. As another Chinese-style song, like "Tao Sheng Yi Jiou", which was once very popular in another era, it's definitely not worse than "Unfinished Love".

  But if that's all, then Liao Liang's second album can only be considered a tie with the previous album in terms of song selection and production standards. Considering the first album had a good impression bonus, this album may even make fans feel it's not as great as the first one.

  However, "Afraid of the Dark Woman" is not as hard-hitting and intimidating as "Obsession", "Wildflower" plus "Cheers, Friends", because the focus and main theme of this album are not light rock love songs.

  It started moving towards two extremes - yes, one end was sentimental folk songs and the other end was violent rock.

  If it's said that the three light rock love songs in Liao Liao's first album were a huge hit, and to some extent, it was due to the novelty of the melody, then on this album, Li Qian and Liao Liao will join hands to challenge the traditional strong points of the domestic music scene!

  In terms of folk songs, "Du Kou" is a must-mention. The classic song, combined with Liao Liao's voice, which has already been shattered by Li Qian, will not be the kind of song that makes people crazy and love it, but its heat continues to play out, and it is absolutely not to be underestimated.

  Then there is "Better Days".

  Yes, for this song, Li Qian's impression is really too deep.

  In the time and space he had experienced before, about 90 years ago, this song was popular all over the country with a certain hit TV series. In that year, the sales of the original tape of this song reached around 250 million boxes, and its influence lasted for several years after it was still sung by people, absolutely worthy of being called the national divine song of that era!

  It can be said that even if Liao Liang's next album only has this one song, Li Qian can guarantee that it will definitely become a hit! After all, even without the boost of a popular TV drama, a national anthem is still a national anthem. From lyrics to melody, this song is destined to be a huge success in the Chinese music scene.

  Even so, Li Qian still felt that it was not enough. So, the third folk song he brought out was "What a Big Tree" - no matter what the original reason for creating this song was, in the end, it became a red hit and became the theme song of Teachers' Day, which is definitely undeniable. In addition to this, it was also once considered one of the best public welfare songs in the Chinese music scene!

  So, with "Du Kou" plus "Ku Le Nian Hua", and adding "Hao Da Yi Ke Shu", Li Qian has absolute confidence that he can hold up the banner of folk music and stand firmly!

  As for rock, he brought out two works for Liao Liao, namely "Come Back" and "I'm Ugly But I'm Gentle". The former may not be a huge hit, but for professional listeners who like rock music, it's absolutely a soul-stirring work. With Liao Liao's vocals, even Li Qian is extremely looking forward to it. As for the latter, its classic degree doesn't need any adjectives to describe it at all.

  So, with these two songs, Li Qian believes that Liao Liao can absolutely inject a strong stimulant into the domestic rock music that has been declining, and successfully plant her flag on the top of the rock mountain!

  From one end to the other. The tracklist of this album goes like this: folk - country - Chinese style - light rock - rock. Actually, up to this point, this album is already strong enough.

  But it still lacks some absolutely popular elements.

  So, in between Chinese Wind and Light Rock, two more popular golden songs need to be added.

  That is: "Hand in Hand" and "When Dreams Wake Up"!

  The former, in the time and space that Li Qian has experienced. One of Su Rui's masterpieces, which was popular all over the country in '93. The latter is simply a masterpiece with sales of over 10 million copies in the history of Taiwan's record industry! It can sell over 1 million copies on an island with only 20 million people, but what about in the domestic market where everything else is similar, but the population exceeds 1 billion?

  So, an album with ten songs, at least five of which are masterpieces that can sell the entire album with just one song, plus Liao Liao's singing skills and his newly gained fame, Li Qian believes that even if it's just a continuation of the glory, it would be an insult to this album, it must and will definitely sell well again!

  …………

  After seeing off Liao Liao and Qi Jie, Li Qian put aside all the things about the album and started to devote himself wholeheartedly to reviewing. After all, it won't be long before the final exam arrives! And considering that he will soon go to Shuntianfu to take the professional examination of the art college after the Chinese New Year, Li Qian knows that the time he can use to study seriously is really limited!

  Of course, even if he himself wants to be deaf to the outside world and only read the books of saints, it is fundamentally impossible to truly do so - in fact, whether or not he admits it, even before Li Qian debuted, he was already entangled in it, unknowingly becoming a part of the domestic popular music scene.

  …………

  With the arrival of another Monday, the album "Sisters Who Make Waves" which has been popular for a long time, once again appeared on the sales chart of Dongfang Bookstore, and it's still No. 1!

  25,885!

  Compared with last week, its sales are declining, but compared to 26,557 copies last week, the decline in both amplitude and speed is so low that it can almost be ignored!

  It's worth noting that its sales base is at least 20,000 copies. It has been on the market for four or five weeks and has only dropped by less than 1,000 copies per week! So far, not only has it firmly occupied the top spot on the sales chart, but it has also remained stable above 25,000 copies, which is simply driving other domestic record companies crazy with envy!

  First week 639 copies, second week 27194 copies, third week 30885 copies, fourth week 26557 copies, fifth week 25885 copies - in just one month, this album has sold as many as 1101160 copies in Dongguan Bookstore alone!

  Just this week, the National Association of Record Industry announced the national record sales data for some time ago, among which the one belonging to "Sisters Stand Up" was its first-week national sales volume of 10,225 copies and second-week national sales volume of 573,896 copies!

  At this point, even if someone was still hoping in their heart that the album would only sell well at Dongfang Bookstore and not necessarily conform to the so-called twentyfold law, they were thoroughly disappointed!

  Over 570,000 in one week!

  It not only directly killed the record of 370,000 copies in a single week maintained by Liu Mingliang for more than three years without any suspense, but also, compared to it, it can be easily found that its national sales have already reached more than 21 times the sales of Dongguan Bookstore in the same period! Moreover, all insiders know that this sales ratio is not completely fixed, it will vary from person to person and from album to album, but as long as the first week's data comes out, for an album, it will continue to maintain such a proportion within half a year, even if there are fluctuations, the amplitude will be very small!

  So, although there is only data for this week so far, it's already enough to prove that the album isn't just selling well at Dongfang Bookstore! Moreover, looking at its sales at Dongfang Bookstore over the past few weeks, its national sales during the same period are almost within reach!

  So, after the sales data was released, regardless of whether it was cheers or wails, almost all media outlets across the country unanimously believed that since this album was released on December 26th, Thursday in '96, by the end of January now, within less than five weeks of its release, actually just 32 days, its national sales data must have already exceeded two million copies!

  One month, two million sales, double platinum!

  At this point, even if it's just a concept of record sales, anyone who has a slight understanding would know that the seemingly high and unattainable sales figure of 5 million copies is only a small milestone for this album, and absolutely not the ceiling. Of course, it can't be called the end point either.

  It is widely believed in the industry that the final sales of this album should be around 6 to 8 million copies.

  As the national sales data of the Recording Industry Association and the nationwide media coverage came flooding in, the commercial performance price of Wuyin Wu Su also skyrocketed to 250,000 yuan per song and 700,000 yuan for a three-song commercial performance!

  This price is absolutely unprecedented in the domestic music scene!

  Just then, after politely declining Li Jindong's phone call inviting him to a celebratory dinner for Wu Xingshu's success, Li Qian plunged headfirst into the examination hall and began the second-to-last semester final exam of his high school career.

  PS: Been exploding for several days, exhausted to death, from the left ear to the left wisdom teeth to the tonsils, this road is so painful that I dare not even chew anything. The doctor said it was an internal fire, so... okay... obediently enter the medicine rhythm!

  Here, the knife wants to remind everyone that it is the time of year when the seasons change and the temperature fluctuates most violently. Although it's said that "spring cover and autumn freeze" is good for the body, one must also be mindful of their strength, pay attention to keeping warm, and get plenty of rest, or else you'll end up like me!

  Well, finally, that's all for today.