Chapter 1275 New Era

"His Majesty the Emperor has pointed out the way, and we need to work hard to complete the rest of the work, and we can't always bother his old man."

Song Ya smiled and helped Sloan put on his coat in a gentlemanly manner. Eisner gave the direction to solve the problem, and only Eisner's Disney can reverse the relationship between supply and demand of the new franchise in a short time.

Out of stock, although the real out of stock will lead to a sluggish overall sales data of the new album, but it can undoubtedly solve the biggest problem in front of you.

The price increase of the album in the second-hand market, as well as the long queues of buyers and the emergence of scalpers at the door of the audio-visual store, will irrefutably prove that APLUS is not dead, and break the main rumor of the five major manufacturers: APLUS is using the shortage as an excuse Deceiving and covering up the fact that the sales of the new album are not good and outdated.

As long as he is not angry, there will always be sales for the record. At first, he was blinded by the eight years of traditional publicity habits, but Eisner immediately reacted with a little touch.

It's also to blame for the five combined punches coming too fast and violently. Although Fu Sandai is mentally ill, his abilities and energy are all top-notch, Song Ya thinks so.

Now it is left to play his own subjective initiative, and it is not a vegetarian for so many subordinates to make suggestions. He does not want to lose, and he sees the hope of winning, so he will continue to work hard.

"It's hard to imagine that 1998 has passed in such a busy and chaotic way."

Holding Sloan's fragrant shoulders with both hands, she walked down the road with ease, and took out a note from her coat pocket, "The price will increase this year."

"Let's memorize this first."

Sloan interrupted by handing over a speech.

"The production of 't Hold US did encounter a little trouble. Our manufacturer, Seagram Global's North Carolina factory encountered a suspected man-made power outage. We are currently cooperating with the local police in the investigation..."

Out-of-stock blame can’t be blamed, and there are natural targets to blame. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a fact or not. If the production line is powered off, there’s a high probability that nothing can be found out. Whether the truth can surface or not, it’s still very late. something happened.

In an interview with reporters, Song Ya concealed Disney’s behavior of sealing production lines and recycling records. He talked eloquently and appealed loudly: “But I want to solemnly assure here that the lack of production capacity is only a short-term phenomenon, and we are working hard to resume supply. Level. Fans, please don’t follow suit! Don’t increase the price to buy from informal channels! Don’t trust and indulge those scalpers! It’s just an ordinary music CD, it’s not a collectible or investment product like a star card , the most important thing right now is to let people who want to buy it buy it.”

Without a word of sincerity, he and Disney also teamed up to punch a combo.

A few days later, Daenerys' two older brothers showed up on a corner of Michigan Avenue not far from the Bronfman Symphony Center.

The flow of people here is relatively large, but the sky is snowing heavily. The two of them are dressed like penguins, shivering with their necks shivering and kicking their feet to keep out the cold. carton.

A car slid up in front of them stealthily, the window was opened a crack, and a hundred-dollar bill protruded from it.

The eldest brother took it quickly, turned around and took out four 't Hold US album CD cases from the cardboard box and stuffed them in.

"WTF?" The car window was opened a little wider, and a white male poked his head out, "I won't buy this Nger..."

"What do you want!?" The second brother raised his neck and glared, if it wasn't for business,

He was about to beat someone up on the spot.

"The kind packed in a small plastic bag..." the white man hinted by pressing one nostril with his index finger.

"We don't sell illicit drugs, get out!" The eldest brother said righteously, while reaching into his coat as a gesture to draw a gun, the white man immediately stepped on the gas pedal and ran away with four CDs.

The two brothers happily put away the hundred-yuan bills.

I thought 3,000 albums were thrown away, but I didn’t expect that the nightclub DJ is a standard idiot, it’s useless to regret it now, they make more retail sales, and they still keep some stocks, because this new album of APLUS is now one a day Prices, at least in Chicago.

This business is simply making money. They are very active and do not hesitate to work hard in the wind and snow.

After playing and having fun with each other for a while, the second brother ran to the video store on another street to observe, "Oh!" The crowd who lined up in the snow over there were also sighing neatly, because there was a 't Hold A brand that is sold out today in the US.

"I heard they sell it over there!" The second brother called out cleverly, soliciting business.

The disappointed crowd dispersed, and some of them followed in twos and threes with half-belief. Soon, they formed a semicircle in front of the cardboard box.

"Is it genuine?" Someone asked.

"See for yourself!" The boss took out a box and stuffed it into his hand, "Twenty-five dollars! It's gone when it's sold out!"

"Wow."

The business of pirated physical CDs in the United States is rampant now, but manufacturers are afraid to produce peripheral content such as printed imitation CD boxes and built-in lyrics paper. Inside the CD bag, with the album title handwritten on it with an oil-based marker.

As soon as the exquisite genuine CD was displayed, the crowd sighed, "How many do you have?" A middle-aged white man asked.

"Hey." The second brother happily kicked the cardboard box.

Another white man, who appeared to be his friend, reached for the plastic sheeting.

"Hey! Don't move around!" Just as the boss stopped, his wrist suddenly felt cold, and he took a closer look, damn it! A pair of Hiti silver bracelets.

"Chicago Police Department." The police badge was displayed in plainclothes, and the other onlookers scattered.

"The chaos of APLUS's new album release is still going on. Today, the Chicago police arrested two criminals. They were suspected of stealing the album CD pre-ordered by the APLUS Chicago fan club. The value of the case was as high as tens of thousands of dollars..."

In the news footage of ABC station, the two brothers were being stuffed into a police car by plainclothes police officers. The police then showed thousands of CDs seized from their hiding place and piled them on the table. The ABC station cameraman was very good at finding them. From the angle, it looks quite shocking on the TV screen.

"Hahaha! Thanks to my friends at ABC for me."

Song Ya was overjoyed to see this scene. Using social news to bring goods is Daniel's specialty. It is called law enforcement. In fact, he is endorsing the album's shortage and demand, and continues to instill this impression on the public.

"Daenerys? Is it your brother who was caught? Okay, I see, don't worry... I'll say hello, I won't embarrass them too much."

The mood is right, Song Ya is easy to talk, Daenerys has made great contributions to her fan organization after all, "Is it done?" He put down his phone and asked.

"alright."

Rashida obediently turned the computer monitor to show him the new content he posted on OpenDiary's personal Weblog page, some close-up photos of the Japanese version of the new album CD, and Rashida also added some arrows and annotations on it text, such as:

'Looking at the code on the inner ring of the disc, this number indicates that it was manufactured by JVC's Japanese CD factory, and it is exclusively for the book market. '

'Pay attention to the laser anti-counterfeiting code on the back cover. The Japanese version of the CD is in this place, and it will reflect a unique pattern in the sun. '

'The CD cover of the Japanese version is slightly different from the rice version...'

"Well done." Song Ya rubbed her blond hair with satisfaction, sat down and started typing.

'The Japanese version of the CD is also an original and genuine product. Please believe that its quality will not have any problems. I know that fans want to get my new album as soon as possible. I will pay for it personally, and everyone will be able to buy it at full price in no time. Thank you for your tolerance and help! Once again, please do not buy at a premium! This is condoning unhealthy hype! '

Finally, click send, and a beautiful Weblog log with rich pictures and texts is born.

Acting in a full set, at least I have to show an attitude of eager to alleviate the shortage of goods to please the fans who are waiting for food, and to fight against second-hand dealers.

Disney's energy in the book market is fine, and production there is going on normally.

In fact, dealers rarely return goods. Disney’s gameplay is not new. They can’t hide it from the eyes of the industry. Stores bring traffic.

"Trash! It's okay now, our production line is blocked, and the Big Five cannot expand production, because Disney doesn't really want to add orders to alleviate the shortage, and we can't contribute to the sales of APLUS albums."

Turning the clock back to January 1, 1999, Bronfman Jr. looked at the queuing scene on the TV screen, and glanced angrily at the vice president of Universal Music, "The tacit understanding of the other four can't last long, and sooner or later they will be in the same room. Disney succumbed to the order, and in this situation, once the supply of APLUS's new album is released, the sales will definitely explode! Look at your bad idea!"

"I..." The vice president dared not argue aggrievedly.

"What bad idea?"

Doug Morris came in with a smile rubbing his hands, glanced at the TV screen and understood everything, but he didn't mention this, "Don't worry about these small things, boss, today is our big day, and we're all waiting for you."

"Um."

Bronfman adjusted his suit and followed him out of the room to the press conference.

Today Seagram Global Group’s acquisition of Polygram is officially completed. There is no Polygram in the world, only Universal Music Group. When the reporters saw him, they immediately pressed the flashlight. Doug Morris led other executives to applaud. Very enthusiastic.

In a better mood, he was confidently let to the center, and took a group photo with Doug Morris and other high-level executives.

"As the world's largest record company, we will uphold the philosophy of providing the best music for our fans..."

He took out the manuscript paper from the inner pocket of his suit and began to deliver a speech: "I don't deny that the record industry is facing a major crisis. When the traditional marketing communication model is being impacted, we need an integrated marketing communication concept that adapts to the new market environment..."

"We also have the responsibility to fight resolutely against a series of market chaos, malicious hype, piracy, Internet sharing, etc... This is the mission entrusted to us by this era!"

"Everyone knows my stance on the Digital Millennium Act, not my personal alarmism, the malicious sharing of the Internet will cause us more trouble in the future, so we have been engaged in a difficult legal battle, and we need to win in the short term. To a better jurisprudence that is more beneficial to our record company and all musicians..."

"Welcome, Mr. Samuel."

At the same time, Song Ya greeted his accountant Samur DiPiasa in the conference room. The Yongdao he worked for had just merged with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Now it is PricewaterhouseCoopers. His position has not changed, but his power has changed again. increased.

"Welcome, let me introduce you, Norman Zheng, our partner of Metropolis Publishing in Asia. And... our partner in South America."

Before the meeting, he introduced a Chinese and a Latino to everyone, "please sit down."

Standing at the end of the long conference table, he said sonorously to the senior executives under him: "This time my new album has encountered a lot of difficulties. I think it's time to announce our cooperation on the first day of 1999. will officially have its own publishing company, even if it will be very weak at the beginning of its birth."

“But our advantage is flexibility. We will adopt the partnership model in Asia, South America, and Central and Eastern Europe. We will continue to borrow Disney’s distribution resources in developed regions such as North America, Western Europe, and Benzi. In some regions such as Silla, we will cooperate with local strong players such as Samsung company cooperation."

"We will pay special attention to the Internet sales model, and we have established long-term cooperative relationships with some online dealers."

"This is not an ambitious challenge to the Big Five. We only focus on solving the problems we actually encounter at the current stage. Of course, we also hope to establish good relationships with other collaborators and strive to be represented by more record companies and The distribution work of the singer..."

"I would like to invite one of our shareholders, Mr. Daniel Glass, who is also the former president of Sony Columbia Records, to speak."

Under the watchful eyes of all the high-level executives, he smiled and applauded Daniel and gave up the stage to Daniel.

"I am very happy that APLUS's new album has been widely and enthusiastically sought after and welcomed. At present, the deliberate suppression of large companies will be our main enemy... But I am honored that my colleagues from Disney Records are also present, and we will work together to overcome the difficulties. this difficulty."

"In underdeveloped markets, rampant physical piracy is still an urgent problem to be solved... As for online sharing, I don't think fans can always hold their computers to listen to songs, right?"

Daniel joked, and the participants laughed at the right time, "They will still buy physical records after hearing the music they like in front of the computer. The desire comes precisely from the fact that they first listened to a song that was distributed for free..."

"I think this is our opportunity. The Big Five are already irresistible behemoths under the traditional model, but in the new media and new channels, there is still a lot of room for us before the arrival of the next century..."

'click. '

Outside the meeting room at this time, in the audio studio of A+ Records, a technical nerd engineer who was fishing for fish found that everyone in the chat room was circulating a download link. He clicked on it, downloaded and installed it, and found that it was a client called Napster,' This software uses peer to peer, that is, end-to-end peer-to-peer computer network technology, P2P...' written in the self-introduction item of the client.

He casually searched for the boss's song in the upper search box, and countless songs with the same name were refreshed on the lower page. He no longer needed to search for download pages or FTP sites on the Internet. He clicked on the top one, and the software started downloading immediately, and the following display Out of simple percentage progress, numbers run very fast.

"Wow..." It's amazing, he sighed, and tried to download other songs, which were very convenient.

"Huh?" The network maintenance staff of A+ Records suddenly discovered that the company's external access had changed, so he went to the computer room to check the switch.

"What's wrong?" the colleague asked.

"It's nothing... I don't know what happened, the number of concurrent connections suddenly soared so high." He replied suspiciously.

In Silla, Sehan, which was separated from the Samsung Group for a few years, technicians are demonstrating a new Walkman machine to the company's senior management, "This is the MP3 player we developed. It can hold data files and play music. Songs in MP3 format are very portable, and the sound quality is not as good as that of CDs, but ordinary people can hardly notice the difference, and they will not be bothered by the vibration problem of CD players at all..."

The technician connected the small speaker and pressed the play button to demonstrate, "Wow, wow, ah, ah, ah..." APLUS's cup of life resounded throughout the office.

"boss."

"What's up?"

On January 2nd, Bronfman Jr., Barry Diller and others landed in Chicago in a private plane, and a subordinate came to report, “Redstone’s Viacom has just announced a 34.4 billion and CBS (Columbia) broadcasting company) and the transaction will be fully completed by January 1 next year."

"Oh?" Bronfman Jr. looked at Barry Diller, and Redstone didn't deal with him either.

"It seems that I'm going to lose the support of CBS in public opinion." Barry Diller smiled indifferently, "It doesn't sound like good news."

"Of course not." Bronfman Jr. replied calmly.

"Don't worry, my friend John Malone's TCI company has just submitted an application to merge with ATandT at the cost of giving up the equity of the telecom operator Sprint. No accident, it will be approved by the regulatory authorities next month. The total amount involved in the transaction is about 500 100 million knives."

Barry Diller bragged: "Just don't touch the monopoly line."

"Oh? Then congratulate Mr. Malone for me..." Little Bronfman thought for a while, "No, make an appointment another day? I'll chat with him in person. It seems that I haven't played golf with him yet."

"Uh... okay." Barry Diller had no choice but to agree.

"APLUS! Look!"

Song Ya was in the office of A+ Records, and Sloan was rarely excited. She typed the website of YAHOO on the keyboard, the home page, and YAHOO put the Weblog website under Littman Media at the top of the weekly featured website. This is their big killer of drainage, as a reward for helping to spread the word to Disney in the Digital Millennium Act, and still struggling to withstand the lawsuit of the Recording Industry Association.

"The number of new registered users is increasing very fast! Hahaha!"

The founder and manager of OpenDiary, Mr. and Mrs. Baburson, called and also reported very excitedly.

"Nice job!" Song Ya happily scratched Sloan's nose.

Sloan immediately walked away from his lap with a look of disgust.

"Boss, boss..."

Just in time, Linda, the president of A+ Records, knocked on the door. She came in with a bucket on her waist and reported triumphantly: "The Billboard singles chart is out, and Low is airborne!"

"Haha! Second?"

Song Ya clapped and clapped. R Kelly and Celine Dion's I'm Your Angel teamed up with the queen, and he didn't expect to surpass Low in the first week when he encountered a series of troubles.

"No, third, second is Baby One More Time by JIVA Records newcomer Britney Spears."

"Haha! All right..."

"You are still invincible in Beimi!"

"Of course..."

"Oh boss, you don't know how worried I am these days..." Aunt Hei hugged her emotionally, "It's all over now, it's great."

"Hey, it's okay Linda, I haven't met anyone who can challenge me in eight years." Song Ya patted her on the back, bragging cheekily, "I can always win, can't I? Don't worry. "

"Oh baby! Baby! How was I supposed to know, That something wasn't right here..."

Taiwan, Disney's Mickey Mouse Club, cute blonde sweetheart with twin tails is singing and dancing on the show, performing her debut single: First Speak of Love.

"No matter how hard I try, You keep pushing me aside..."

On another small TV station, David Geffen's ex-girlfriend, Cher Cher, who is in her fifties, is also performing hard. Her new electronic dance song Believe did not perform well on the charts, ranking just outside the fiftieth place. The hope of any career rejuvenation and success.

It was even worse for Derry. He led the only remaining white apprentices, rushed around to receive announcements on Detroit local radio stations and other places, and worked hard to perform and hit the charts.

Hi! My name is.. (what?)

My name is.. (who?)

My name is..

Slim Shady

Slim Shady is the nickname of his apprentice, similar to his other personality in the song who turned on the spitting mode. The white voice Rap is very crisp, the rhythm is also good, and it also has a sense of playfulness.

Hi! My name is.. (huh?)

My name is..(what?)

My name is..

Slim Shady

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