After Transmigrating Into a Male Idol Talent Show

Chapter 142

The official fan club established by Wei fans had a simple and straightforward name, but relatively uninteresting. However, some casual fans who didn't understand the importance of fan numbers set up their own fan clubs with fun names, attracting many meme-loving casual fans to join. This caused frustration among the major fans, who continuously posted on Weibo, urging the casual fans to join the official fan club.

[Choosing to Love You Every Christmas: Attention, all Wei fans! The fan club's member count and total contribution amount are in a battle. The Liao family is catching up too fast, and they are doing much better than us in terms of fan club building. There are always casual fans forming their own clubs and dispersing the fanbase! Don't divert anymore, help us! Supporting the group's sales is for our treasures, not for the group itself! To prevent trash groups from leeching off my baby, we need to show our strength. Those who create the club cannot withdraw, but casual fans who join can immediately withdraw and rejoin. Spread this message quickly!]

Casual fans who saw the message immediately reposted it. Indeed, many fans who were participating in fan club building for the first time didn't understand. After reading it, they left the fun-named fan clubs and joined the one created by the official fan club, concentrating their efforts to maintain the top position.

In addition to boosting album sales, casual fans buying a few extra copies had reasons. Compared to the more collectible physical albums, the upcoming fan signing events and meet-and-greet sessions were actually more enticing to fans. Although these events required purchasing tickets, it wasn't a matter of money; it was a matter of luck. Only fans who purchased physical albums had the chance to participate in the lucky draw for these events, and the more copies purchased, the higher the chance of winning tickets. This was a strategy to boost sales implemented by the company. Although the character cards included with the album were random, there was a one in nine chance of getting a card of one's favorite member. To avoid getting cards of other members, fans had to buy as many copies as possible.

Although fans could exchange character cards within their own fan groups on Super Topics, the problem was that relations between the various fan groups were tense, and there was mutual distrust.

The trend of physical albums had declined visibly after the impact of the internet age. Companies couldn't afford to let their artists starve, so methods to boost sales were unavoidable.

In the era of digital albums, New Harvest Entertainment had been quite bold, providing opportunities for new artists to release physical mini albums, and it had succeeded. Although the mini album only contained four songs, the price of 60 yuan was quite reasonable considering the production cost. Physical album sales were still prevalent mainly among Korean groups, while the Japanese market had clearly declined from its golden age. Korean groups offered physical albums in three different versions (A, B, and C), usually priced at least 1.5 times higher than 60 yuan.

Many current show fans were previously fans of Korean groups, so they were very accepting of this price and even considered it cheap. Many casual fans who purchased Korean group physical albums still had to go through purchasing agents, and the overseas shipping costs were considerable. Overall, even supporting two copies would be painful.

Stanning idols was always costly. Following domestic groups was much cheaper than chasing overseas groups.

Infinite9's popularity had a significant gap between the first and ninth members since the audition period, which could be seen from the number of fans. The differences in resources and exposure after debut also led to differences in the number of new fans.

Qin Lu had enviable film and television resources, while Liao Junchen secured a spot on a prime-time hot street dance variety show as a regular. Even as a newly debuted young artist, he became one of the mentors for the popular show. The overwhelming publicity made Liao Junchen's name known to many even before the show started recording, arousing curiosity.