Chapter 133 Parting Ways

The next morning, Qi Jie came to Changsheng Records together with Li Qian and Liao Liao.

Li Qian and Liao Liao are of course going to start recording the new album, and try to complete the recording of this album during the time when Li Qian is staying in Shuntianfu to take the art test. As for Qi Jie, according to the agreement between the two parties yesterday, he went straight to the office of the general manager Chen Changsheng as soon as he arrived.

Ten minutes later, she walked out of it.

Of course, Chen Changsheng also followed, but after finding Li Qian in the recording studio, this layman who always behaved in Shanghai style only asked one sentence, "How sure are you?"

In the room, the producer Zhao Meifeng and the sound engineer didn't understand what they were talking about at all, but Li Qian answered him after thinking for a while, saying, "It's 50-50!"

Then, after only a short thought, Chen Changsheng immediately made a final decision: "Then it's settled!"

So, before everyone was aware of it, the two of them outlined mountains, rivers and rivers in a few words in this album battle that was destined to make a big impact in the Chinese music scene.

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On the second day after arriving in Shuntian Mansion, before going to the Forbidden City, Li Qian and Wang Jinglu had already gone to Shuntian Film Academy and Huaxia Drama Academy to submit the registration forms respectively, but the exams would not be formal until April 16th. So before that, Li Qian had seven or eight days to supervise this album for Liao Liao.

Because all the songs have been passed through in one day yesterday, so starting from today, the producer Zhao Meifeng joined in, together with the sound engineer, the recording team composed of four people immediately started running at full speed.

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On the afternoon of April 8th, Wu Xing Wu Su was officially notified by the company: their new album will be supervised by Du Xiaoming, the music director of the company, and Li Jinlong will continue to be the producer!

Moreover, the company has already reserved thirteen songs for their new album, and even the accompaniment of these works has been prepared, the only thing left is the recording! And when they finish recording, ten to twelve songs will be selected from these thirteen songs to make a new album, and the remaining one to three songs will be reserved for sales commemorative editions. Even the choreography of several fast songs and dance songs has been completed ahead of schedule, requiring them to rehearse the dance after finishing the recording of the album.

As for Li Qian - he felt that the company's offer was too low, so he had already refused to continue the negotiation, so he was unable to participate in the production of Wu Xing Wu Su's new album.

Upon hearing the news, the five girls of Wuxingwusu were stunned.

Although they were able to react quickly, judging by the company's well-prepared posture, it is obvious that the preparations for their new album must have already started quietly. In fact, although they have not received relevant information before, I can also vaguely guess that even if the next album is only considering the issue of profit sharing, the company may only invite Li Qian for a few songs, but right now Li Qian is completely excluded from their new album, and even Not even a single song, not even a producer, still stunned a few girls all of a sudden.

"Why?" Wang Jingxue was the first to stand up, chasing Huang Dazhong and asking, "Why is this?"

Because he was afraid that others would not be able to suppress the five elements and my principles, Huang Dazhong, the general manager of the company, announced the news to them personally, but Huang Dazhong couldn't help frowning due to Wang Jingxue's fierce reaction.

Of course, there are many reasons why Huage Records can be released, but Wang Jingxue's excited posture, and the other girls, although not so intense, are still shocked, let Huang Dazhong know that this Chaos is inevitable!

Fortunately, facing the company's number one cash cow, Huang Dazhong and Huage Records are fully prepared to deal with it. Therefore, Huang Dazhong and Wu Xingwusu's agent Wu Jie took turns to analyze various reasons one by one——

You are the five elements, you can’t become the five elements that only rely on one person to survive. After leaving Li Qian, with the strength of Huage Records, you have the ability to continue to build you, until you really become the top of the Chinese music scene. Absolutely heavenly group!

The company, including you, can continue to cooperate with Li Qian in the future. The relationship between us has not broken down, it's just that we can't agree on the price of this album.

The company believes that you need more diversified styles, and you can't just stay in the styles that Li Qian created for you in the last album. In the face of this ever-changing market, if you do not advance, you will retreat!

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And so on, blah blah.

Of course, the final trump card must be profit.

It is of course a great pity that Li Qian can no longer work on the next album for you, but his departure has also greatly reduced the company's profit pressure. Two percent will be rewarded to you, so that your share ratio will reach ten percent of the level of big-name singers!

At the same time, the company has decided that in view of your great contributions to the company, the company will take 10% of your brokerage income and return it to you, that is to say, the company's original 50% Cheng and the other 10% of the brokerage contract, the 60% will be returned to you in proportion to a total of 6% of the share, that is to say, your future commercial performances and endorsement income will have Forty-six percent belongs to you!

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On the afternoon of the day when he was notified, Wuxingwusu chose to go on strike temporarily.

Then, on behalf of the five of them, Wang Jingxue called Li Qian who was in the recording studio.

The company's offer to Li Qian, and Li Qian's counter-offer, are all things that are impossible to hide from others. Naturally, it is impossible for Huage Records to tell five girls such a lie that is easy to break. So regarding Li Qian's announcement of withdrawal, of course they have nothing to say - not to mention the issue of the level of the share, Hua Ge did not allow Li Qian to enter the share, in fact, everyone understands, this is already clear to kick Li Qian's attitude is out.

No one can understand such a truth better than the five girls of Wuxingwusu, that is: without Li Qian, there would be no Wuxingwusu today. Therefore, based on Li Qian's achievements in the Five Elements and Wusu, and referring to his share of the previous album, you completely refuse him to enter the share of this album. For him, no matter how high the production fee is, the money for selling songs No matter how high the offer is, it can't erase the meaning of getting rid of Li Qian and doing it alone.

So, not to mention Li Qian, even a person with a little temper would not be able to stand this kind of treatment. With Li Qian's strength and talent, it is even more impossible for him to endure such humiliating treatment!

However, whether it's out of mutual affection or subconscious trust in Li Qian's works, the girls obviously don't want to see Li Qian quit the production team of their new album.

In this regard, the Wuxingwusu girls sat together and discussed the solution: they hope to be able to reconcile in the middle, even if the total price remains unchanged, Li Qian's income must be converted into components!

For this reason, they would rather reduce their sharing ratio to a certain extent.

But on the phone, Li Qian told them very clearly: Don't think too much, don't do too much, just record songs and earn money, and there will definitely be opportunities to cooperate in the future!

Then, three days later, when the agent Wu Jie brought the general manager Huang Dazhong's decision to increase the remuneration and share of the five of them, after Wu Xingwusu expressed his indignation, he could only choose to go down the slope. , returned to Huage Records that day, and began to resume work.

It can be said that this moderate incident was under the control of Huage Records from beginning to end. Whether it was Li Qian's being kicked away, or the Wuxing Wusu's being rubbed, even the music circle did not get any news at all, and the matter had been completely settled——wait until the next day, Huage Records announced that it would be replaced by When the company's music director Du Xiaoming led the official start of preparations for Wu Xing Wu Su's new album, the entire music circle suddenly discovered that Li Qian had already been kicked out without a word!

The outside world, even the media circle closest to the entertainment circle and the music circle, is very ignorant of this, but the music circle is in an uproar over this.

Then, the uproar turned to silence.

In fact, the reason is very simple.

Although Wuxingwusu is not what it used to be, it is still very weak in front of the giant Huage Records. What's more, even the combination of Wuxingwusu is completely owned by Huage Records, and the five girls are just a few names filled in. In a sense, if Huage Records really got annoyed, the other party could definitely bring in five newcomers and continue calling them Wuxingwusu.

Therefore, they can talk about the conditions, or they can go on strike to express their dissatisfaction, but at most that's all, just like when a child encounters something unhappy, adults will allow you to cry for a while, and allow you to play a little temper , He will even buy you some snacks and toys to coax you, but he will never allow you to fight against the company on major issues.

Therefore, at the press conference for the preparation of the new album, the five girls smiled sweetly and expressed their belief that with the addition of director Du Xiaoming, the album will definitely be better and more listenable.

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The recording of Liao Liao's new album is still in progress.

In the professional recording studio of Changsheng Records, Zhao Meifeng met such an obedient Liao Liao for the first time.

Li Qian said yes, this is OK, she listened to it herself, and said it was really good, OK. Li Qian said that there seems to be something wrong with you here and here, your relationship is not stable, you are off-line, you are too jumpy there, you have to suppress it, and start again... Liao Liao nodded obediently, and restarted obediently.

Then, in three days, their four-person working group actually finished four songs in one go!

Zhao Meifeng has been a producer for more than ten years, and has been in the music industry for sixteen or seventeen years. After more than ten years, she can guarantee that this is the most harmonious recording she has ever seen, and it is also the fastest in history. recording.

But unfortunately, the effect of the recording made her also have to be convinced, and she could only give her a thumbs up to praise!

Liao Liao's folk songs are free and easy and full-bodied, like a bowl of old wine; Liao Liao's rock and roll is grand and unrestrained, like a great river going east; Non-stop golden steps...

It's so beautiful.

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After working continuously for three days, everyone unanimously decided to take a day off in order to allow Liao Liao to recover her voice better and not to delay her future work progress because of her voice.

So, on this day, Li Qian came to Liao Liao's apartment as a guest.

At noon, the nanny hired by the company packed a table of good dishes for Liao Liao. Qi Jie even cooked a dish herself to show that she is now a qualified cook, but her dishes were not very popular .

After lunch, the nanny wisely ran to the second floor to clean up, while Li Qian, Qi Jie, and Liao Liao sat in the living room on the first floor drinking tea and chatting.

Well, Huang Wenjuan is in charge of making tea.

Liao Liao looked at Li Qian, didn't shy away from the presence of other people at all, and asked with a smile: "How is it? Is this house suitable? If you think it's good, you can move in after the college entrance examination. If Juanzi is driven away, even your agent teacher can move in, hey... what kind of expression do you have, two beauties live with you in an apartment, what else do you want?"

The little assistant Huang Wenjuan just sat there obediently with her head bowed, not daring to express any opinions.

After chatting and laughing, everyone's topic unknowingly came back to the music circle.

The function of downloading songs began to appear on the Internet, many companies in the industry jointly sued, and several companies suspected of spreading online piracy have been shut down. What Zhou Mo's news has been buzzing for a while, but she has never had the slightest intention to come back It means that it has become cold again now, but it is said that Sony is very close to Zhou Mo's manager. What is there to say that Wu Xing Wu Su will hold a press conference tomorrow to announce the start of preparation for a new album... and so on.

But after talking about it, it gradually talked about Liao Liao himself.

Liao Liao said: "When this album is finished, the contract I signed with Changsheng Records will be over. Although there is still more than half a year left in the management contract, but you also know that I only accepted two commercials. I haven't accepted any commercial performances, so there is not much difference between whether I have an agency contract or not! Next, I have to consider whether to change jobs."

Qi Jie asked her in surprise: "Mr. Chen doesn't want to keep you?"

Liao Liao shrugged and said, "Of course he wants to. He gave me an offer a few years ago, 15 million yuan, 30 songs, and then, um, the agency appointment is free. I can find an agent myself."

Qi Jie thought for a while, frowned slightly, and said, "That's 500,000 a piece? Is this... a buyout?"

Liao Liao nodded, "Well, buyout! But Lao Chen is not sincere, and he knows that no matter how high the price is, I will not sign a new contract with him until the album is finished. , so he is still pressing it! Sony’s price is not low, 40 songs for one mouthful, 30 million. But they also know that I still have an album to be released, so this is just a pre-arrangement. Not allowed! My new album is a big seller, so I can raise the price at that time, but with such an offer in advance, it seems that they have already shown their sincerity. If my new album hits the street... Hehe, anyway, when the time comes Let’s talk again, I’m sure we won’t be able to get such a high price!”

Qi Jie nodded. Speaking of this, she has just entered the industry not long after all. Although she has grown rapidly, she still lacks an overall understanding and grasp of the entire big music scene. Once the topic deepens, she gradually loses the right to speak. I can listen honestly.

But at this time, Liao Liao turned to look at Li Qian and said, "Hey, I seem to have mentioned this topic to you, but I still can't help but say, why don't you start a company! I don't want signing money, Just jump ship!"

Li Qian smiled when he heard the words, put down his teacup, thought for a while, and said, "Don't say I can't afford to start a company, even if I can afford to start a company, I can't afford to sign you. It costs tens of millions... You are very popular now! "

Liao Liao curled his lips and was about to speak, but unexpectedly, Li Qian continued: "However, I'm thinking about it, maybe I should set up a studio first."

Liao Liao's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he sat up straight at that moment, "The studio is also fine!"

Then, she couldn't wait to say: "Several people in the circle have already set up studios. Liu Mingliang's is considered semi-formal, and Zhao Xinfu's is more formal. They make their own albums, from inviting songs, selecting songs to arranging, all work. The studio is completed, and only when it comes to the stage of recording accompaniment and formal recording, will I rent a recording studio from another company to use. It is said that Zhao Xinfu plans to even build a recording studio himself this year, anyway, there is no need to get the top-notch one , the level of ordinary recording albums is as high as two to three million! Then, each album is signed separately, not only retaining the copyright, but also directly getting more than 20% of the share. Although the distribution is outsourced, in In that part, it is still inevitable that other companies will take the bulk, but 20% is not a lot! Several top producers in the circle also have their own studios! And it is said that in the past two years , Take the soundtracks of those movies and TV shows, theme songs, etc., and earn a lot of money!"

As she talked, she became more and more excited, and even winked at Li Qian, "You build it, build a studio, and I will be your first signed singer!"

Li Qian chuckled, raised his head, looked around the luxurious double-storey apartment, and sighed: "It's a pity, once you quit, you won't be able to live in such a good apartment! And it's free!"

Liao Liao stared at the words, "What is it worth, at worst, I will buy it myself!"

After a pause, she said: "An apartment like this is about two hundred square meters, uh...probably...uh..." She looked at Huang Wenjuan. Although Huang Wenjuan lowered her head, she raised her head quickly at this moment , whispered: "One and a half million!"

Liao Liao clapped his hands, "Look, it's only 1.5 million. Is it because you can't afford it, or I can't afford it?"

Li Qian nodded slowly upon hearing the words.

At this moment, without waiting for him to say anything, Liao Liao smiled suddenly, with a flattering expression on his face, and said, "Then what, Mr. Qian, Mr. Li Qian, I still have some spare money, can I invest in a stock?"

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