When everyone outside was discussing "Jurassic Park".
People in the new world are very busy.
Han Zhou’s first album is finally going to be released four years after his debut.
To be precise, it was originally agreed that it would be released at the end of the year, but there was no movement in December.
Then everyone thought it was the end of the Chinese New Year, but there was no movement from Han Zhou in the twelfth month.
This is obviously a let-down.
Until now, no one has discussed this matter much.
However, in the past two days, people have been sending news in advance and risking their lives to reveal it.
"Brother Meng, Han Zhou's first album is in production. I'm risking my life to release it. I might get fired if I'm not careful."
The comment section is crowded with people.
"Protect our scouts!!!"
"Brother, do you have any more information? You didn't just get a cover photo, did you? Who wants to see the cover photo that Old Han took to show off?!"
The person who leaked the information said: "I can only say that I looked at the playlist but didn't listen to it. I think Han Zhou is very crazy. I can't say more about the details. Besides, if I am really held accountable, I can't afford to pay the compensation!"
Han Zhou's album returned to the public eye.
As soon as the news came out on the Internet, it became popular instantly, and all news media and bloggers began to publicize this matter.
Many UP hosts started posting videos to make guesses.
After all, Han Zhou already has countless classic songs, which ones will he put in the album? Or will he not choose any and write a new album from scratch?
News was flying everywhere, but the New World remained silent.
To be honest, does Han Zhou need any promotion for his album?
unnecessary.
Do you need to go to the radio station to do a program? Do you need to go to the TV station to promote it?
Neither is necessary.
But in the end there were still some people who were not afraid of death and revealed more information.
“Eight Chinese songs on Side A.”
The B side didn’t say that.
A lot of young fans were confused when they watched it.
"Side A? What does that mean?"
Someone told them: "In the past, how many songs could be stored on the front of an album and how many songs could be stored on the back? The front was called Side A and the back was called Side B?"
In the imagination of teenage fans, it was completely impossible to imagine what this thing was.
What's the meaning?
Flip the earphones over and put them on your head?
Or turn the computer over and put it on its side? What's going on?
But older fans understand that Han Zhou is still used to writing sides A and B when writing albums.
Meaning, there may be two themes for this album.
All albums have a theme, every album has one, but there is not necessarily only one theme.
Many people even thought that, given Lao Han’s personality and habits, the album would not be named something like "The Awesome Album" or "The No. 1 Music Album in History", right?
The discussion is very heated.
Han Zhou's album is still being produced step by step.
Vinyl record, CD, tape, digital version, USB flash drive, five versions.
China's technology is now advanced, and basically no one listens to CDs or tapes anymore. No one even uses USB flash drives, let alone the outdated vinyl records.
But Han Zhou's albums are not only sold in China, but all over the world.
Nowadays, most Americans still have VCDs and DVDs at home. Cassettes? Really! Record players? Quite a few.
When the news fermented to an unprecedented level, even the international version of Yinlang and Twitter fell.
Too many people discussed it.
Although "Singing" is recording the revival match and Han Zhou is not participating, An Lan is still participating.
At the concert, reporters all ran to ask An Lan if she knew the inside story and which songs would be performed.
Can An Lan tell them? No.
"I have no idea."
Reporter: "An Lan, as far as we know, every time you release an album, there will be a duet song. Will you participate in Han Zhou's album this time?"
An Lan: "Yes!"
reporter:"???"
"So you don't know the song title?"
An Lan: "I don't know."
The reporter was helpless. You were just pretending not to know. You could never wake up someone who was pretending to be asleep.
On the first day of March, the album was officially released.
A whole quarter late.
Global distribution.
A die-hard fan of Han Zhou, although he usually claims that he doesn't spend money on Han Zhou, he is just a fan who loves Han Zhou for fun.
But, he runs faster than anyone else!
…
Lin Jiao stood outside the bookstore, looking at the long queue and feeling dizzy.
The clerk held a loud speaker and said: "Don't push, don't push, line up in an orderly manner!"
"Hey, new friends, those standing outside the white line don't have to queue up. I just told you that you will definitely not be able to buy a seat in the queue."
"The music app has an electronic version, hurry up and buy the electronic version!"
Lin Jiao looked around, where was the white line?
Someone pointed at the third of the dragon and said, "Fuck!"
The people behind noticed it.
ah?
This is... a waste of time!
Someone reminded: "Hurry up and go to the video store to check it out."
"No, it's a different era now, are you sure there are still video stores?"
I opened the map navigation and saw that they really were there, but there were only a few of them.
The crowd dispersed.
Lin Jiao saw it and thought, forget it, she could forget about going to the video store. If she took a taxi now, how could they catch up if they drove?
Lin Jiao was thinking about it, and suddenly remembered that she still had the vinyl record.
Although it is reasonable that not many copies can be made, many people certainly don't think of this.
This is the physical version of Lao Han’s first album. I have to get one no matter what!
Lin Jiao remembered a high-end audio store she had visited before, which seemed to sell vinyl records.
Lin Jiao took a taxi and went straight there.
I never expected that there would be seven or eight people entering the audio store where no one had entered for three or five days.
When Lin Jiao entered, she heard the boss asking, "You're just buying vinyl records? You don't want a record player? How can you listen to them?"
The person in front: "Your record player is too expensive. I'll buy it online."
The boss asked back, "Aren't you afraid that the thing you bought online will scratch your records?"
The man in front was stunned for a moment: "That makes sense, how much is the record player?"
The boss smiled and said, "Expensive, cheap, or medium?"
"Medium."
Boss: “Nine thousand eight.”
The man in front of him suddenly lost his momentum: "Cheaper?"
Boss: “Eighteen thousand.”
"Will you fix it?"
"Fix it...right? Fix it!"
Lin Jiao took a deep breath.
I feel like my dream of buying Lao Han’s first album is about to be shattered.
However, Lin Jiao still moved closer and looked at the vinyl record.
I'd better just get one. So what if I can't listen to it?
When Lin Jiao saw the words written on the record, she was stunned.
The first song on the album cover is called "Rock on the New Long March" with an 80 marked at the end.
At the back it says 'Please listen using tape + radio'.
Lin Jiao looked at the second song on the album, which was called "Love Song 1990" with a 90 after it.
And then it says 'Please listen using cassette + Walkman'.
The third song is called "Seven-Li Fragrance" with a 00 at the end.
It says on the back 'Please use a CD+CD player or MP3 to listen'.
Lin Jiao didn't have time to look down, but instead looked up at the album title.
The album is called "Times".
"Boss, I want a vinyl record." Lin Jiao decided to buy the album.
After buying the album, Lin Jiao opened her mobile phone, searched for "Times", and then watched it while walking on the road.
After reading an article written by a music critic , Lin Jiao looked around and saw a staircase under the eaves of a roadside house that seemed suitable for sitting. So, she sat at the foot of the wall, holding her vinyl record, and read the music review.
The title of the music critic Qi Yang is [“Times”, a musical experiment by Han Zhou]
The first sentence of the opening is [Era, Han Zhou seems to be preparing to use eight songs to complete the summary of the history of pop music]
[It can also be said that he is challenging the era in our memory with his music. ]
[The year information is marked behind each song. He believes that his songs can challenge the entire history of music. ]
[When I wrote this, I had just finished listening to the first song "Rock and Roll on the New Long March" on a tape and cassette radio according to the instructions. Well, he won.]
Not everyone has all the equipment needed to listen to music, but veteran music critics definitely have them at home.
They love music and would listen to the sounds of the past from time to time.
The songs on Side A of Han Zhou's album were quickly summarized in a video.
Passerby fans who didn’t buy the album can only read the introduction, because currently there is no channel to listen to these songs.
"Rock and Roll on the New Long March" represents the 1980s.
"Love Song 1990" represents the 1990s.
"Seven Miles of Fragrance" represents the 2000s.
"Nanshan Nan" represents the 2010s.
"People Like Me" represents the 1920s.
The Sailor represents the past.
"Sir, Please Don't" represents the Internet.
"Blue and White Porcelain" represents the future.
However, many people suddenly lost confidence as they continued to analyze.
For example, "Sir, You Can't" is definitely not the best song Han Zhou can write, and it doesn't seem to be a song that was created to compete for the status of the number one online song.
And it's just for fun, just for fun.
Even this song was sung by Han Zhou and An Lan together. When they sang it, they gave up all singing techniques and sang purely to express their emotions.
When an album contains songs like "Rock on the New Long March" and "Blue and White Porcelain", it seems too strange to add "Sir, Please Don't".
People in the entire music industry are discussing this, and many big UP hosts are speculating about the purpose of this album.
Many people are wondering what this is all about.
There were so many people asking, that many people from the entire "Jurassic Park" crew were helping netizens to pass on their messages.
"Director Han, the fans asked me to ask on their behalf, what exactly is the new album going to express?"
"Lao Han, your fans are going crazy and have blasted my Weibo. Let me ask you something..."
Han Zhou finally found time on the set to write a very long article.
The name is "This is an album written for myself".
The first sentence of the song explains the theme of this album.
“This album is a key to unlock the memories of fans of every era.”
"As I grew up, music changed for me, from the styles of the 80s and 90s, to the styles of the ringtone era, to the styles of the Internet era, to the electronic album era, and then to the styles of the new Internet era."
"And the things I listen to music on also change. I have listened to music on a walkman, a repeater, a big speaker, an MP3, an MP4, on a computer, and on a mobile phone."
“So, I thought a lot when I was writing the album. I wanted to use one album to summarize the entire history of pop music, but then I realized I was overthinking.
For the 80s, I wrote "Nothing" and "I Finally Lost You".
For the 1990s, I wrote "Goodbye Kiss", "Sad Pacific", and "The Sound of the Waves Remains the Same".
“I can’t summarize the history of music with one album, nor can I represent an era with one song.”
"But I can use a song to make everyone feel the memories and feelings of the past."
"So, I picked a song that was best for the radio and put it in the 80s, wrote a song that was best for a record player and put it in the 90s, and wrote a song that was best for a CD and put it in the 00s."
"So, if I can't even choose which song represents which era, how can I want to challenge music history with an album? The music critics and UP hosts who made such speculations have miscalculated."
"I wrote the song for everyone to listen to, not for awards or honors, so everyone should just listen to the song."
Han Zhou was really telling the truth.
It’s like when choosing online songs, there are many excellent works to choose from.
As soon as it is released, fans will feel like they are back fifteen years ago.
However, when An Lan was preparing with Han Zhou and knew the framework, she asked if the chorus song could be in the style of an online song.
She wanted to sing.
Han Zhou chose "My Sir, Please Don't Be Like This" without hesitation.
Because An Lan grew up listening to online songs, this feeling is deeply ingrained in her memory and can never be erased. Even now that her musical literacy has reached this level, she still doesn't think that the songs she listened to as a child are bad.
Therefore, it was impossible for Han Zhou to use his own memory to defeat other people's memory.
Even a song as awesome as "Rock on the New Long March" may not convince all fans of the 1980s, after all, there were so many good songs back then.
So, this album is just as Han Zhou imagined.
Each song needs to be listened to with different equipment and felt in different environments to get the best feeling.
Han Zhou tried it himself. He listened to "Rock on the New Long March" directly on the computer with high-fidelity headphones, but he couldn't get the same sound as when listening to it on an external portable radio.
For the song "Sir, Please Don't", the worse the headphones are and the more noise there is, the more it sounds like the first time I heard it.
But Han Zhou felt that he still had to give an explanation to the long-awaited fans.
So, in the 2010s, the song "Nanshan Nan" was specially selected.
Instead of "The Hill" or "Love Offering" that I really wanted to put in the album.
The former is profound, the latter is fun.
In the end, Han Zhou chose a folk song to represent the 2010s.
There is also "Blue and White Porcelain", which represents the future.
Han Zhou always knew that Chinese music must retain Chinese characteristics in order to have a future.
The music style of "Blue and White Porcelain" is considered to be the pinnacle of Chinese style.
Han Zhou has not released this song yet, waiting to put it in his first album.
After Han Zhou posted a long article.
A fan of Han Zhou's fan card at level 13 said: "The case has been solved. Han Zhou was here to sell music equipment."
Someone else complained below: "Fuck! So to listen to this album, I have to buy a radio and a CD player?"
Some people also took out a very worn out old Walkman and posted a photo: "Brother, look what I found!"
Next, the entire comment section began to reminisce.
Someone posted a photo of a repeater: "I lied to my mom that I bought it to listen to English tapes, but ended up using them all to listen to Zhang Ceyong, hahahaha!"
Someone posted a photo from the non-mainstream era: "Back then, my space background music was still songs from the Internet."
Someone took out a photo from many years ago, in which he was wearing bell-bottom pants, carrying a radio that was said to be a portable radio, but was actually a water dispenser, a red vest, and dancing with sunglasses on: "I was only 19 that year, and I am 61 this year."
Han Zhou’s other fans never expected that Han Zhou even had fans in their sixties who came to pay tribute to him.
Soon, everyone seemed to have regained their former happiness during the discussion.
Whether it is the old internet song era that has passed ten years ago.
The ringtone era has been over for 20 years.
It’s been forty years since the first year of pop music.
Happiness, it seems, is as easy to retrieve as memories.
Many people now know the charm of this album.
Han Zhou has never thought about being number one, this is what the music critics said.
Han Zhou never thought about having the best-selling album, it was all the fans who said so.
Han Zhou can do whatever he wants in his own world. The album is just a toy that he shares with everyone after he has had enough fun.
As always, mental illness...
But, it was only after this that many people became even more confused.
With this purpose in mind, I made an album called “Times”, the theme of which is indeed very interesting.
They are unique in the history of Chinese music.
But will fans really buy into this?
Wouldn't it be enough to take out the tape and listen to Chen Feng? Wouldn't it be enough to take out the CD player and listen to Chuck Yong?
Why buy a new album to get back the feeling of the past?
Let’s not talk about anything else, just say that Zhang Ceyong’s own fans, will they go to an outdated CD player to listen to his songs! ?
Are Chen Feng’s fans really still listening to the tapes?
So where does the terrifying click-through rate on their music app come from?
It is clear that time has passed and now is a new era...
When those who were skeptical thought about this, they understood the first sentence Han Zhou said.
The meaning of this album in terms of behavior is more meaningful than the meaning itself.
If Han Zhou hadn’t suddenly released this album.
How could a fan dig out a Walkman from more than 20 years ago from a dusty storage room at home?
If this album had not been released suddenly, which seemingly energetic young man would release the photos taken during his non-mainstream Funeral Love era?
Which elderly fan, whose hair is 50-50 between white and black, would produce a photo of himself wearing a vest and bell-bottom pants while carrying a radio?
The whole album was, without a doubt, written for fun.
Many people have felt Han Zhou’s mentality, which is completely different from that of ordinary singers.
Han Zhou, he never thought about the sales issue for even a second.
Because he has the confidence not to think.
So, he wrote an album that no one else could ever write.
He made an album with a theme that no other music company would ever think of.
But, laymen watch the excitement, while experts look at sales.
Everyone is still waiting to see the sales feedback from the first day.
And the new world didn't keep everyone waiting for long.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, sales in various places had almost stopped, and only the numbers of online electronic albums were still changing.
But the statistics have been released.
In China, Time magazine sold a total of 3.37 million copies in all formats! ! ! !
This number makes everyone in the industry suffocate.
I can't breathe at all!
The album that was the world's number one two years ago sold 1.2 million copies in one year!!!
Last year, An Lan's "Falling in Love at First Sight" sold 1.39 million copies on the first day, breaking the new century global record.
Today, Han Zhou's "Times" broke the global single-day album sales record!
Decades ago, American pop superstar Michael Hopkins' album "Shock" sold 65 million copies worldwide, setting a record of 4.4 million copies in total global sales on the first day.
But even a pig’s brain would know that the first-day sales in a single region must have been broken by Time!
To know the exact amount of excess, you have to check the news from decades ago.
And everyone began to care about one issue.
Can Han Zhou’s album sales in other countries around the world break the record of “Shocking”?
In other words, can the rest of the world's countries combined reach 1.05 million?
Everyone looked at the follow-up of the form.
United States, 1.04 million!
This...almost all the US market has already filled this number.
Although Han Zhou doesn't have a dedicated fan base in East Asia and Southeast Asia, he still has a lot of fans. It's impossible that he can't get 10,000 tickets, right?
And what about the European continent?
Everyone's scalp felt tingling as they watched.
In China, a record is considered platinum if it sells one million copies, and 3.35 million copies were sold in a single day.
In the United States, a record is considered platinum if it sells one million copies, and 1.04 million copies were sold in a single day.
Gold record in England achieved.
Deutsche Platinum Records achieved.
French Braised Chicken achieved a Golden Record.
Canada, Platinum achieved.
Even the Sakura Country has achieved platinum!
After looking at the statistics, it was found that "Time" achieved platinum records in thirteen countries and gold records in nine countries in a single day!
One day!!!
It’s not accumulated over one year!!!
Someone asked in the comments: "That's not right. What time is it in the US now? Is it still morning?"
What's wrong with you? You just reached platinum?
Someone climbed over the firewall to see it: "Wow, the electronic version sold 700,000 copies in three hours after it was released. I believe this statistic is true!!!"
People in the industry simply couldn’t understand it.
I've seen outrageous things, but I've never seen anything this outrageous.
No, why?
Have you ever been to French Braised Chicken or Interland? They are locals, why should they pay for your album?
Even if your B-side is an English song? !
Many people got the physical album again and turned to the B side to listen.
English song?
Who said the B side is an English song.
One song in Russian, one in Sakura language, one in German, one in French, and four in English.
Do you know what Han Zhou’s fans in other countries around the world think?
"Ah? Han Shen's first album is not entirely in Chinese. There are songs in other languages. Is that impossible?"
"Ah? Han Shen even wrote a song that I can understand without looking at the translation?"
“Buy it for me!!!”
"Brothers, hurry up and buy the album, let Han Shen see our spending power!"
"Don't you understand Han Shen? He loves money the most! If we don't let him see our spending power, he won't come to our place to hold a concert in the future!"
"Hurry up and open the album. Play it everywhere! Let others listen to it and entice others to buy the album. Hurry!"
"Although I admit that I was selfish at first, but after listening to it, I found it really good. I'll buy it now!!!"
Other fans who were swaying in the air listened and said: "It sounds really good. Let's buy it and try it."
It's clear that with the song's popularity in these countries, sales aren't going to slow down any time soon.
Anthony once said that Han Zhousheng was born in the wrong era, otherwise he could challenge Michael Hopkins.
But what Han Zhou wants to say is that he was born in the right era, with a more developed network, a faster process of becoming popular, and more mindless publicity.
Not to mention challenging and surpassing Michael Hopkins.
But, I definitely make more money than him from releasing an album.