Chapter 276 Finalize the First Album
In the afternoon, the recording of the official version of Where Is The Love studio was completed. The CNA insurance company has sent a professional security team to wait outside. All the master tapes of A+ Records that have not been released by Sony Columbia Records have been heavily insured and commissioned by this Chicago consortium-related company. After Song Ya's first album is released, the track management rights of the songs in the album will be transferred to Sony Music Copyright Company (no affiliation with Sony Columbia Records).
"Please sign if there is no problem."
In the security room of the CNA company's vault, a person in charge handed Song Ya the document.
The metal storage drawer was placed on the workbench. After Di Lai and others cooperated with the company's professionals to check the integrity of the master tape one by one, they nodded to Song Ya to indicate that there was no problem.
"Please send it to Sony Columbia Records within the specified time." Song Ya asked while signing.
"Mr. APLUS, please rest assured."
Professional security personnel came in with a heavy safe. In addition to the password, the box must have three keys to open at the same time, and Song Ya was also assigned one.
After finishing this matter, he led his singers, important staff, lawyers, accountants and others to the airport and flew directly to New York.
"The turmoil seems to be calming down." Samuel, managing partner of WingCoopers Midwest, also accompanied him on the same plane.
"Yeah." Song Ya replied casually.
"You don't care?" Samuel asked.
Song Ya replied: "I only care about my first album now, I don't want to fail."
"You are very focused, APLUS, this is a very good quality." Samuel glanced at the white clouds outside the window: "Are you worried about Motura?"
"He always worries me, the way he behaves, his power, his character..."
Suppress once, force myself to modify the release method of Empire State Of Mind once, Motura's raids are always without warning but can accurately grasp the timing, due to the timeliness of the current popularity of Where Is The Love, Song Ya is afraid that the opponent will come again so all of a sudden.
"He should have no motive to ruin your business this time." Samuel said: "Your interests are currently the same,
And... well, miss. He stopped the first-class flight attendant who kept walking around Song Ya's seat, "Can you please give us some private space?" "
"I'm sorry, sir." The beautiful blond girl had to walk away in embarrassment.
"And Motura's power was hit hard last month." Samuel said in a low voice.
"Oh?" Song Ya, who had a ghost in his heart, was very happy to hear this kind of news, "What do you say? Nothing major happened in the record industry last month, right?"
"Last month, John Gotti, the 'Godfather of Chinese Clothes' of the Gambino family in New York, was found guilty, and the last mafia godfather who likes to use violence to solve problems, the Italian underground in New York is about to ebb."
"Is Motura still related to the Mafia?" Song Ya knew that Motura was of Italian descent, but he never expected that he would have a relationship with the Mafia.
"There are rumors, you know, how can most people dare to verify it for themselves?"
Samuel said: "You don't have to be too afraid of Motura, as long as your first album can sell tens of millions. Just think about how MJ treated him...and twenty years ago, Motura wanted to marry The daughter of the president of ABC Records chose to convert to Judaism. With a series of unreligious actions after his divorce, his marriage seemed to be just a tool for him to pursue his career upwards. The perception of him by the Jewish upper class would only get worse and worse. "
"This guy……"
Hearing this kind of anecdote, Song Ya laughed. She didn't expect Motura to have the past of being a "door-to-door son-in-law". "Even if I can reach the status of MJ, I won't treat Motura like that. It's completely meaningless." Release the MV without the other party's permission without telling the company's president and manager? Song Ya can't do such a useless thing.
"You are very cautious." Samuel nodded approvingly: "Apart from the two points I mentioned, Motura has a third backing..."
"The capital of the book." Song Ya has experienced Benzi's trust in Motura, which is the most important basis for his power in the recording industry.
"Our cooperation will be perfect APLUS." Samuel ended the conversation.
'APLUS! May I ask if you really finished writing Where Is The Love within ten minutes? '
‘APLUS, please share your views on the Los Angeles incident! '
"It is rumored that your album will be released in the near future, can you confirm it?"
Song Ya smiled and waved to the reporters who came to block him, and left quickly.
When he arrived at the large meeting room of Sony Columbia Records headquarters, Motura was already waiting with a large team, and they and Song Ya's staff began to deliberate on the content of the first album and the publicity strategy in great detail.
"Beautiful Girls has a lot of potential. Have you thought about saving it for the next album, just in case something happens? You know, many singers have a blockbuster first album and then a mediocre second album. With this song , your second college can at least maintain a certain amount of sales."
Motura was actually very optimistic about this saliva song, and the first disagreement between the two sides was about this song.
"Forget it, I managed to get ten songs together, Mr. Motura." Song Ya declined.
"Didn't you also prepare two more mediocre songs?"
Motura excitedly searched out the documents related to the two guava songs in case of accidents, "Even if you use them to replace Beautiful Girls, your first album is already very strong, Where Is The Love...Wow wow wow Wow, when I heard this song yesterday, I felt like I heard MJ’s We Are The World! Next year’s annual single award may be yours again, and We Are The World won it!”
Song Ya observed coldly, Motura's excitement should not be a disguise, and his suggestion to put Beautiful Girls in the second college seemed to be entirely out of good intentions, "I'm a newcomer, I can't think so far, I just want to try my best to Keep things simple."
He thought about it but still refused, a good song is there, who knows when Motura will seize the opportunity to reenact the scene of Empire State Of Mind.
"Hahaha! You are always so stubborn about APLUS... Okay! Just do it according to your opinion, who made you a big star!"
Motura laughed and said, and everyone in the office laughed in agreement.
He got up to open a bottle of champagne, poured the wine, and handed Song Ya a glass, "And that song Want to Want Me, I also like it very much, the kind of song that is as eager as a cat's claw to scratch its heart to meet with a lover Emotion, haha, it’s too precise and in place! Don’t worry, your first album will be a hit, and Sony Columbia Records has plenty of resources.” He raised his glass to Song Ya.
"Uh..." Song Ya clinked glasses with him, "Thank you for your compliment, Mr. Motura."
"But it seems unnecessary to put the other two backup versions of Beautiful Girls. They will compete with each other and blur the focus of the audience, which is very detrimental to the song's charting." A Sony Columbia Records executive said.
Song Ya thought about it too, and it was indeed a little thoughtless, "Let me discuss it with my subordinates for ten minutes."
He called Hayden, Yeremov and others outside, and after a brief discussion, he came back and agreed with this opinion.
"What is the approximate budget for publicity and distribution?" asked the senior executive of the publicity and distribution department.
"Eight million." Motura had already considered it, "MJ's Dangerous first publicity fee is only more than 20 million, what do you think? APLUS."
Then there is the promotion fee for the first album. Song Ya’s so many singles basically don’t use the huge resources of Sony Columbia Records, and even the MV doesn’t cost too much money, but an album with more than a dozen songs sells expensively. We can no longer use the ordinary publicity method. He is not a signed singer of Sony Columbia Records, and A+ Records is not a subsidiary company of the other party. If the publicity fee exceeds the previous contract, it must be shared by both parties.
Song Ya looked at Hayden, Yeremov, Samuel and others, and nodded in agreement after getting a positive answer, "Yes."
"Hey! I just like you so simply APLUS! Where Is The Love, Where Is The Love..."
Motula was humming and almost dancing. It can be seen how much joy the song Where Is The Love brought him, and the whole meeting room was infected by him, "I know your boy is in money." Never mind! How about having all the big names on our label re-do Where Is The Love with you sometime?"
"Uh, I still need to make a careful evaluation of this matter. Can we not talk about it for now?" Song Ya declined again. Only the chorus part of this song is sung. There are not many rap singers in China, and he doesn't want to give up the wonderful chorus part at all, otherwise if others sing better than him, it will be bad for the audience to have a contrasting mentality.
"Okay, okay, do as you want." Motura is very easy to talk now.
After intense discussions and calculations, the dance music remix version of I Feel It Coming was also removed. Song Ya’s first album will have a total of fifteen songs, including ten singles, one studio version, and four remix versions. CDs and vinyl records will be released at the same price of 14.99 knives in the early stage, and a much more expensive MD version will be released later. Sony Electronics will also provide a part of the subsidy according to the sales of MD discs. The cheapest and most easily copied cassette version will be delayed. It was released a long time later.
The CD track arrangement will be:
Where Is The Love
Remember The Name
Feel It Still
Beautiful Girls
Show me the money
Trumpets
Want to Want Me
I Feel It Coming
i hate u i love u
Empire State Of Mind
I Feel It Coming Studio Version
Feel It Still Dance Remix
Trumpets Dance Remix
Want to Want Me Dance Remix
Remember The Name Dion Wilson Remix