Today at 0 o'clock in the morning, Jay Chou 's new album "'s greatest work " is officially available for digital album pre-sale on QQ Music , Kugou Music , Kuwo Music, Migu Music and other platforms, priced at 30 Yuan.
After nearly 4 hours, QQ Music, Kugou Music and Migu Music have sold more than 850,000 copies, nearly 55,000 copies and more than 21,000 copies respectively. As of press time at 10 p.m., the QQ music platform’s sales record has reached 1.95 million (calculating this into a turnover of 58.5 million).
This is Jay Chou's 15th album, and Jay Chou's last full album was "Jay Chou's Bedside Stories" released on June 24, 2016, which was already 6 years ago. Over the years, fans have been hoping for the stars and the moon. Finally, this year - at the end of June, Jay Chou officially announced the news of his new album. The new album will be released in full on July 15th.
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is nicknamed "semi-retired" by fans, but every time major platforms including Apple Music announce various lists, Jay Chou's name is always on the screen. Jay Chou's name is always on the screen. The influence of the works is evident, and the music was born in the past 20 years or so, and their vitality is amazing.
In the 6 years since he has not released a new album, Jay Chou has occasionally seriously "business". In 2019, Jay Chou brought " Say Goodbye, Don't Cry ", a duet with Mayday Ashin , and in 2020 it was "Mojito" 》 was launched, and both singles were sold online. The former sold 5.5 million copies in less than 2 hours, and the latter sold nearly 1.4 million copies in 3 hours (the official free MV was also released at the time).
Although the total pre-sale volume of "The Greatest Work" is a little smaller this time, on the one hand, Apple Music will also be available later, and this is a complete album, so the threshold for buying a single is still higher.
In fact, even according to the current data of the QQ Music platform, "The Greatest Work" has surpassed "Jay Chou's Bedside Stories" with a total sales of 39.78 million, and has already topped the Chinese music world digital album sales list TOP5.
Extended reading: The single "Light Spot" by Xiao Zhan was launched in May this year. The unit price is 3 yuan. The current sales volume is 160 million. It is currently the first recorded digital album sales in the Chinese music industry; the second place is Also released in May this year, Cai Xukun 's complete album "Mystery" was priced at 26 yuan on QQ Music, with current total sales of 75.67 million.
And compared with all other high-data stars, Jay Chou's new singles and albums are "breaking the circle" every time, and are "perceivable" to more people on a larger scale. We can truly feel the correlation around us. The discussion and the impact it brings are truly top-notch.
This may be Jay Chou's worst album, and we need to continue to lower our expectations.
But this may still be Jay Chou's worst album, or at least the one with the lowest surprises.
With the pre-sale of this digital album, the complete track of "The Greatest Work" has been officially announced. The new album has a total of 12 songs, including 6 new songs and 1 piano-played song Intro. The new songs include the title song "The Greatest Work", whose MV was released in advance on July 6.
The other 5 "old songs" include the already released "Mojito" and "Say Good or Not Cry" - this is indeed the current usual method of operation: collect the scattered singles and release a full-length album together, each A wave of announcements can be made at every stage. The problem this brings is that the new album is not surprising enough. It is difficult to say whether the other five new songs in a week can support the expectations of this album.
Extended reading: If you have purchased "Mojito" and "Say Good or Not Cry" from QQ Music and Kugou Music before, the purchase price of this album will be reduced by 3 yuan each, which can be stacked (that is, 27 or 24 yuan) ).
But it is worth noting that according to this algorithm, 6 new songs are sold for 24 yuan, which is actually 4 yuan per song - this is 1 yuan more than the current "industry standard" of 3 yuan per song on the market. This is actually It's repricing.
