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Chapter 575 - 348: A Waterloo in Sales? (Request for Subscription)_2

Chapter 575: Chapter 348: A Waterloo in Sales? (Request for Subscription)_2

In the end, Fang Yuanyuan added a lot more items to her shopping cart, then found out she still had about ten thousand worth of credit left.

"There’s roughly ten thousand left..."

Fang Yuanyuan scratched her head and looked at her roommate Xiao Ping and another roommate.

Both of her roommates indicated that this year’s Double Eleven, they were planning to buy these items; buying anything extra would be beyond their affordable range.

Of course Fang Yuanyuan understood her roommates.

"Hey, Yuanyuan, haven’t they recently released the Fruit 12 phone? If you buy the pro version, it will cost around ten thousand, how about buying a new phone? Your current phone is too laggy."

Roommate Xiao Ping suddenly remembered and suggested to Fang Yuanyuan to change her phone.

"Yeah, this phone does need to be replaced. Let’s just get a Fruit 12 pro then." Hearing this, Fang Yuanyuan was suddenly enlightened and added a phone to her cart, which brought the total to just over fifty thousand, exceeding the limit by three hundred yuan.

After choosing her shopping cart, as it was almost 12 o’clock, she definitely couldn’t miss the second-kill discount.

So Fang Yuanyuan sent a message to Principal Ding: "Principal Ding, it’s almost twelve o’clock, and I’m about to get ready to snap up shopping, can I send you the link to the shopping cart then?"

"Of course."

Ding Yue responded to Fang Yuanyuan’s message.

It was almost midnight.

When midnight struck, many online merchants would immediately start all their promotions, and many items would be on flash sale, and others would require late payments after a deposit is made. The quicker the payment, the bigger the discount.

Double Eleven events were basically like this. If one was lucky, there might even be chances for free shopping.

However, for Fang Yuanyuan, she had already been very lucky, having been selected by Principal Ding as the only student to have her shopping cart cleared.

As twelve o’clock approached, Ding Yue was not concerned about flash sales or other Double Eleven promotions.

Ding Yue didn’t have anything he needed to buy. What he wanted to focus on now was the official online release of Lin Zhirou’s "Blue and White Porcelain."

Ding Yue had a premonition that perhaps after it was released at exactly midnight, the sales might not be very high.

After all, most people were going to online shopping platforms to make purchases. Only a small portion of people who particularly liked the song "Blue and White Porcelain" and weren’t planning to "chop their hands off" this year, would go to NetEase Cloud to purchase "Blue and White Porcelain" for listening.

While other people were opening shopping apps at this time, Ding Yue was opening the NetEase Cloud APP.

It was time.

Start NetEase Cloud!

After entering the NetEase Cloud APP, Ding Yue indeed saw an banner ad on the homepage. This was basically the standard for the online launch of Lin Zhirou’s song.

But this time the banner ad had some elements related to opvo phones.

Ding Yue clicked directly on the banner ad on the homepage and was redirected to the purchase page for "Blue and White Porcelain."

[Please select to purchase 1+ song!]

Price: One Yuan

The usual single shot price for releasing a single is one yuan, if users want to buy several more times and then give it to their friends, they can select the + symbol after the quantity.

Many celebrity fans often buy hundreds, thousands, and even crowdfund tens of thousands or millions to boost so-called sales figures, for their idols. It’s outrageous!

However, even so, Ding Yue had a hunch that if there were any celebrities releasing new singles during this period, they would probably be overshadowed by Lin Zhirou’s "Blue and White Porcelain", right?

After Ding Yue placed an order for "Blue and White Porcelain", he began to play and listen to it.

Although Lin Zhirou’s rendition of "Blue and White Porcelain" was somewhat different from the version by Director Zhou in his previous life on Earth, she managed to bring out the same feeling and charm.

In other words, Lin Zhirou truly captured the essence of the song. Ding Yue, as someone who liked Director Zhou’s music, thought that Lin Zhirou’s version was not worse than Director Zhou’s, and they could be mentioned on equal terms.

While listening to "Blue and White Porcelain", Ding Yue returned to the homepage of NetEase Cloud to see if there were any other new songs.

There really were!

A certain young male star group released a single, and also a young male star released a single.

For Ding Yue, boy bands seemed to be a case of quantity over quality. The young male stars tried their hand at everything - acting, hosting, singing - appearing to be Jacks of all trades, but were actually quite lacking in talent. Yet, they seemed bent on dipping their toes in every field, appearing exceedingly impressive.

These young starlets, hyped solely by their fan base, had no acting skills nor singing abilities. However, their songs still managed to dominate the charts on many music apps.

Absurd!

Also, the big flop of Director Ma Wenhai’s movie, "Space Fortress", Ding Yue believed, was largely because the leading role was given to a young male star whose acting skills were at odds with the tone of the film.

Ding Yue looked at the singles sales chart of one such boy band and was startled to find that the top user had purchased 100,000 copies at once!

Does this mean that this single by the "Practice Boy Group" had sold over one hundred thousand copies in less than a minute?

At first, Ding Yue found it hard to believe. But when he checked today’s NetEase Cloud daily sales chart, he realized it was true.

And it wasn’t just a hundred thousand!

The single by the Practice Boy Group, named "subzero", had sold 157,934 copies!

Yes, hundred and fifty thousand!

The song ranked second was another single by a young male star, "Activate Hope", with over seventy thousand sales.

Both these singles were released at midnight on November 11th.

In addition to this, "Blue and White Porcelain" was also launched exactly at midnight. However, Ding Yue noticed that the current sales of "Blue and White Porcelain" were just over six thousand.

Yes!

In almost a minute or two, only approximately six thousand people had purchased "Blue and White Porcelain".

Indeed, these numbers were a bit low compared to the preceding "Fragrance of Rice" and "Confession Balloon".

Ten minutes passed.

The Practice Boy Group’s single "subzero" had already exceeded 300,000 copies, while another young male star Han Hao’s single "Activate Hope" had surpassed one hundred thousand sales.

And Lin Zhirou’s "Blue and White Porcelain" just broke ten thousand.

Seeing these figures, Ding Yue was not surprised.

After all, Ding Yue was prepared, since the song was released at midnight when many people were probably asleep.

Even if they hadn’t gone to bed, they were all busy shopping for flash sales on e-commerce platforms.

A sale of over ten thousand in just ten minutes should theoretically be pretty good.

As for the reason why the Practice Boy Group’s single "subzero" broke the record with a sale of over 300,000, it goes without saying.

"Can they really create so much hype?"

Ding Yue couldn’t help but mutter.

Just then, a Whatsapp voice call came on Ding Yue’s phone. He looked and to his surprise, it was from Wen Ruohan.

"Aren’t you asleep yet?"

Ding Yue was somewhat puzzled but still answered Wen Ruohan’s Whatsapp voice call: "Hello, Wen Ruohan, why haven’t you gone to bed yet?"

"Principal Ding, I’m waiting for the release of ’Blue and White Porcelain’. It’s been ten minutes, and it’s just hit ten thousand sales. The others have over three hundred thousand sales; didn’t we just crash and burn this time?"

Wen Ruohan asked anxiously on the voice call.

From her tone, she seemed quite worried and upset. After all, the highly anticipated song "Blue and White Porcelain" from her school was not performing as expected.

The most important thing was the comparison; one has over three hundred thousand sales, and another has over hundred thousand.

Such a contrast inevitably made Wen Ruohan feel very uncomfortable.

"A disaster?"

Upon hearing this, Ding Yue couldn’t help but chuckle and said, "Wen Ruohan, there’s no need to be so pessimistic. Go to bed early, and you’ll know the sales when you wake up tomorrow."

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