After the fashion show, Ning Weimin obtained sales data showing that a total of more than 42,000 tapes were sold at the Workers' Stadium in the past two days.

If you add in the recent sales of more than 30,000 discs in major audio and video stores in Beijing.

"Zhang Qiang's First Album - Invincible Youth" has shipped nearly 80,000 tapes in one place in Beijing.

What kind of number is this?

Don’t forget, these days, the capital’s permanent population is only nine million.

In other words, one person out of one hundred and twelve people spent money to buy Zhang Qiang's tape.

If we subtract the elderly, middle-aged and children, and only count young people, the ratio can be reduced to almost 45:1.

This density is very beneficial for the wide spread of something!

What's more, Zhang Qiang's voice is so unique and has super obvious characteristics. You will never forget it after listening to it.

To put it in a non-derogatory sense, it is really a wonder of the domestic music scene in this era, a unique product of the times.

In addition, the songs she sang were all disco pop hits carefully selected by Ning Weimin from around the world based on the characteristics of her voice.

What is disco?

From a certain perspective, it is not music for the ears, but music for the body.

Unfortunately, the domestic environment at this time was still quite closed, and not many people had heard of it.

The combination of these comprehensive factors resulted in the album's reputation exploding.

Young people who had been isolated from the outside world for too long couldn't wait to get close to disco and embraced Miao Han.

To put it bluntly, it was Zhang Qiang who made the young people of that era rediscover themselves and feel freedom.

Therefore, in just one week before the performance, sales of Zhang Qiang's tapes in various small video stores skyrocketed.

In Xidan Shopping Mall, Dong'an Market, the small building of Wangfujing Department Store, and the audio and video counters outside Tianqiao Department Store, from the time the doors open to the time they close, no one asks about Zhang Qiang's album.

The purpose of those people's purchases was quite clear. In addition to Zhang Qiang's tapes, they wanted everything else.

Although not many people still know Miao Han's name, they just heard your songs, and there is at least some blindness and trouble in finding the direction.

But fortunately we can't ask by humming.

Any song other than Zhang Qiang's album is so ordinary and the melody is so unforgettable that even a young person will be disgusted by it.

The people who sell tapes are all young. People of similar age can easily get the right number by chatting with each other.

Just like that, before June of 1985, Zhang Qiang's tape showed the characteristics of a 100% hit and completely became a "viral spread".

In just one week, less than 70,000 units were sold in the capital.

And very slowly, in view of the poor sales momentum, small audio and video stores and audio and video counters have also stopped actively playing Miao Han's songs to increase sales.

It can be said that when the department stores, barber shops, clothing stores, tailor shops, restaurants, hot drink shops, and hypermarkets in the small streets and alleys of the capital followed suit, they all stopped playing Zhang Qiang's songs.

When the train travels from north to south, you can hear "Love Him Too Hard to Say", "A Fire Outside Winter" and "Annoying Autumn Wind" at almost every stop.

Ning Weimin's initial thoughts came back to him, and he admired Miao Hanxin's expert vision and courage.

I always look at the latest sales channel data, and I know that Zhang Qiang's tape is not popular yet, and it is very popular.

Seven million tapes sold nationwide are definitely a problem.

The doubts I faced now were, apart from understanding how Pilka could be so lacking in foresight and courage.

If it weren't for Zhang Qiang's album, how popular would it be at the end?

At the same time, I don’t have any ideas on whether I should recommend that Pilka increase the number of small issuances.

As for Pilka himself, I am actually not very surprised that Zhang Qiang’s tapes are so popular.

Because that was not something I expected.

You know, Zhang Qiang's first album - "Tokyo Nights", which has no history, was extremely poorly produced.

And you didn't have a clear idea of ​​your own style at that time, and you didn't cover any outstanding songs.

But just like that, 7.7 million copies were sold.

That number is almost the same as "Yi Wai Xiang", which achieved Jay Chou's Asian album sales title decades ago, with sales of 7.8 million copies in mainland China.

Since Miao Hanxin has not done all that should be done and can be done now, it can hardly be said that Zhang Qiang was packaged in one step.

Is it possible that there is still no sales as before, and the winner is Jay Chou, right?

If he had sufficient funds and was worried about leaving the country, Pilka would not even have the guts to reduce the circulation to seven million plates.

So speaking of it, there is really nothing to be unhappy about. This is not the fashion show organized by Feng Chaonianton Company that put Zhang Qiang in the spotlight of a niche stage.

The results I achieved by using my authority that time seemed to you to be quite perfect.

In the end, the media was able to ignore the girl's existence, and with the help of Feng Chaonianton's company, Zhang Qiang's performance style was successfully preserved.

You must know that the new product launch conferences of Model Xiaosai and Feng Chaoniandun were broadcast live to the national audience.

Although the performance was mediocre and the effect was sensational, the criticism and opinions it generated were in vain.

In addition to the dangerous issue of the commotion at the scene that almost got out of control, the cultural management department was deeply frightened and expressed their satisfaction.

The feedback from the public is mainly focused on the degree of exposure of the models' clothing and the conservative style of the performance that the niche group is accustomed to.

Many conservatives thought that the busts and shoulders of those two performances were too exposed, and the calf slits of the tight skirts were too low.

I still feel that Zhang Qiang's style of wearing heavy makeup, perming her afro, wearing tight pants and sequined clothes off the stage, as well as the disco-style songs that you danced to are unconventional and unacceptable.

Many people exclaimed, how could such "bourgeois spiritual pollution" be allowed to appear on the TV screen?

To be honest, with such pressure from public opinion, Feng Chaoniandun Company must have been the organizer, and the costumes and entertainment programs were personally approved by Xiaoshi himself.

If it were any organization in the country, whoever hosted those two performances would be in trouble.

The organizer can definitely withstand such widespread doubts, and the relevant responsibilities will definitely be held accountable.

That's good. Let's stop holding the small model competition now. It will be completely ruined.

However, because "monks from far away can chant sutras", Feng Chaonianton Company, as a well-known international brand in France, has been deified in terms of its status in the domestic clothing field.

Because Xiaoshi has a prominent position in the international fashion industry and has won numerous awards, no one can question his professionalism and reputation.

Miao Hanxin held a press conference specifically for this purpose. The primary school teacher explained it from a professional perspective on clothing, and also popularized some of the international disco trends in the country. The noise and interference in society immediately decreased.

That's a lot.

Who said that the domestic fashion industry was not passed down from others and taught step by step?

In the domestic clothing industry, it is really hard to find a person with enough weight who can challenge the young master, or who can discuss things on an equal footing.

Even because a tragedy happened in Jinling this year in which a mannequin from an art academy was driven crazy, many people working in the clothing industry and teachers and students from art schools took the initiative to speak out on behalf of the elementary school.

Those people complained in unison that the country's thinking was too old-fashioned and rejected all foreign and emerging things.

No one has borrowed Liu Haisu’s words, saying, “The struggle of models has caused an uproar in China’s small underground ten years ago. How come the situation of models is still so difficult ten years ago today? What does that mean?

Your anti-feudal task is still very arduous."

Immediately afterwards, social public opinion underwent a wonderful change, and the power of support and approval ended.

At that time, perhaps it was considered that before Miao Hanxinton Company retreated to the mainland, its contribution to the development of the domestic textile and clothing industries was indeed quite small.

In addition, the domestic models selected by Xiaoshi through that competition will soon be taken abroad and onto the world's fashion stage.

That is also a rare opportunity that is not conducive to the republic's poor international image.

The following instruction is given: "Only before you fully understand emerging things can you objectively evaluate them. It is necessary to label them just because the national conditions are the same and they are moving, and it is even more important to see more and be less strange."

The controversy over that performance and the cultural controversy were settled.

So even Zhang Qiang benefited from it, because your performance was "bundled" with the fashion show, which meant that you unintentionally obtained a pass approved by the government.

Then, you will finally get the opportunity to enter the mainstream stage and enter the lens of the news media.

First, the radio station came to the door and invited Zhang Qiang to do a program.

In addition to interspersed playing of these songs from Zhang Qiang's album, the program is not a personal interview session.

Let’s talk about your personal life and how you ended up entering the music scene.

How did you not get the opportunity to sing at a domestic fashion event?

I asked you how it feels when your performance is so enthusiastically received by the audience.

Immediately afterwards, several Beijing newspapers and music magazines rushed to interview and take photos of Zhang Qiang.

Shortly afterwards, Beijing TV station invited Zhang Qiang to participate in a cultural gala hosted by the Capital City and broadcast live.

Although the labor fees and performance fees are a few dollars each.

But Miao Han became known to the minority because of the opportunities he had to appear in official media.

To use Lai Lai's words, it's not like he officially occupied a top spot in the music scene, skyrocketed in popularity, and gained fans like crazy.

Due to these combined factors, your album tape continued to sell poorly across the country, setting off a disco pop trend.

Perhaps it is not an exaggeration to evaluate Miao Han's debut as "overnight fame".
To be continued...