Chapter 351

"Zhou Mo returned to Beijing suddenly due to changes in the industry, the leader picked up the plane and hugged and kissed as if no one was around"

"Zhou Mo returned to Beijing, suspected of leaving Minghu Culture, Li Qian picked up the airport, and the two embraced tightly at the airport"

Such a headline, such two people, coupled with absolutely authentic and credible photos, in the past, this must be a gossip news that is qualified to be on the headlines of the entertainment section.

Coupled with the fact that "Woman's Flower" and "Witch's Tears" were in an inseparable battle in the market, just this one incident was enough for the reporters and editors of the entertainment section to compare the sales of the two albums, the market response, and the industry's evaluation. , and the past gossip between the three of them, etc., are all pulled over and integrated into one furnace, forming a whole layout of looking at pictures and talking.

But right now, no.

News related to Sony occupies almost all the entertainment pages. It seems that everyone in the pop music world has already connected with Sony. Some successful singers are either rumored to be in contact with Sony, or simply "XX has been confirmed to join Sony, and the industry giant has added a new general." .

So in the evening paper of that day and the newspaper of the next day, although as many as seven or eight media reported the news of Zhou Mo and Li Qian kissing at the airport, most of them only gave a relatively inconspicuous position , the largest report, only occupied a quarter of the page.

And just like that, most of the reports were also linked to Sony’s recent drastic changes, even though they were purely guesswork and nonsense—for example, “Zhou Mo decided to renew his contract with Sony, and Li Qian personally went to the airport to persuade , the two quarreled fiercely at the airport", or something like "Zhou Mo returned to Beijing and laughed and said that he was a husband and wife, Sony has long lost the general" and so on...

Of course, most of these are small newspapers, big newspapers are not so shameless and purely made up.

Of course, no matter what, every reader who will turn to the entertainment page still knows one thing, that is: Zhou Mo has suddenly returned to Shuntian Mansion!

As for Li Qian's classmates at the Film Academy, they also understood why Li Qian, who had never skipped classes for two years since entering school, suddenly took a day off.

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Sony's huge changes are still fermenting, and the industry is panicking.

In the face of such turbulent waves, it seems that everything has become a little insignificant.

In the turmoil of the entire industry, there is probably only Minghu Culture that can stand alone. Other companies have either been poached, or are always in danger of being poached, and have to be forced to take Offer a high-priced contract and complete the renewal of the contract with the singer under his own banner in advance.

As for Minghu Culture, the three new personalities Ri Leng, Zhao Yuan and Zhuang Meiyue were hard to find any value before they became popular. Rose Power has just signed a contract and hasn’t even released an album yet. Although they are favored by the industry , but after all, they haven't proved their strength yet, so they can't do anything. As for the four beauties... no one would be stupid enough to dig.

The entire Minghu Culture, although it became the second largest album sales company among the major domestic record companies last year, it relied on only two singers, namely Liao Liao and He Runqing.

When there was no news of Sony contacting the two of them for a long time, the media gave their valuations one after another. Everyone believed that according to the quotations Sony made to other singers before, to dig these two people, even if emotional factors were not considered, they had to be Hemorrhage is impossible, among them, Liao Liao is worth at least 60 million for 30 songs, and even Sony has to raise the price to 80 million to really make this national queen fall in love, and He Runqing must also be worth 30 songs Song 50 million to 60 million level.

However, considering the relationship between Liao Liao and Li Qian, Liao Liao would probably not choose to quit even if Sony offered 100 million yuan. Before Qian's personal operation, she indeed ushered in the second take-off of her singing career. At this time, let her return to Sony... Considering Li Qian's kindness to her, this price is really not good Very open.

Therefore, after the analysis, everyone was suddenly surprised to find that Minghu Culture had nothing to dig for!

In fact, amidst the turmoil in the industry, Minghu Culture is indeed sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. After the mentality of the staff in the company has adjusted, all work is proceeding steadily step by step. Not at all affected by the noisy and chaotic sounds from the outside world.

Under the joint efforts of Liao Liao and He Runqing, Zhao Yuan's new album has entered the country rapidly, and under the guidance of the two queens, Zhao Yuan, who has always been rebellious, is also very obedient, and he does not dare to blow his wings at all. No ability to fry wings.

Zhuang Meiyue's album and Ge Rilen's album have also started recording.

They are newcomers, and they have no experience in making albums before. Every detail needs to be adjusted slowly, and they need to slowly find the feeling, so there is no rush for this matter, and there is no need to rush.

In addition, the new album of Rose Power has almost completed song practice, and plans to enter the studio recording stage of the album in early June. Of course, Li Qian did it himself.

Time soon enters June.

On June 2nd, Friday, Xie Mingyuan officially resigned from Sony Records.

On the same day, despite Kazuichi Watanabe's strong condolences, a considerable number of musicians chose to leave Sony Records. In fact, as early as before and after Sony's press conference, Sony was staring at the singers of the major record companies, but the major record companies had already focused on the group of outstanding musicians and producers of Sony.

Sony has changed from being dominated by Chinese capital to being dominated by Japanese capital. Most people will stay, but there will always be a group of people who will choose to leave, and they will choose to leave. They are all quite powerful music people.

The importance of these people to record companies is no less than that of famous singers.

Therefore, the major record companies have made moves.

For Minghu Culture, Qi Jie personally led the team out. He Runqing, Sun Meimei, Liu Mei, and Li Jinlong were all instructed by Qi Jie to run around and act as lobbyists. Even Cao Zhan was so entangled by Qi Jie that he had no choice but to bite the bullet and help her make phone calls, make appointments, treat guests, and eat...

In the end, Li Qian also called Xie Mingyuan.

Those people were either recruited by Xie Mingyuan during his tenure, or they had a close relationship with Xie Mingyuan. A word from the boss, Xie Mingyuan, is of course more useful than a hundred words from Qi Jie.

Therefore, in just two or three days, among the musicians who left Sony Records, except for the top few, because the original contract signed a non-competition agreement, they were not allowed to join the relevant company within one year of resignation. Apart from engaging in similar work, the others were quickly divided up by several record companies in the industry.

Producers, musicians, signed authors, together, a total of 14 people resigned from Sony during this turmoil, four of them have to abide by the non-compete agreement and cannot be producers for the time being, and the remaining ten people, Cinda snatched three, Huage snatched one, and Minghu Culture's family snatched four, including a well-known producer in the industry, a contracted author and arranger, and two of them were all A well-known recording engineer and sound engineer in the industry.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that among the four industry-leading record producers who signed a non-compete agreement with Sony Records, except for one who chose to take a year off before considering working again, the others All three of them chose to become contracted creators of Minghu Culture.

Yes, creators, contract writers, not producers.

The existence of the non-competition agreement prevents them from engaging in record production work for any record company within a year, but it does not restrict them from engaging in other jobs. Now that they have left their jobs and lost their jobs, they write a few songs in exchange for money. I can't control it.

So, after a weekend, the production department of Minghu Culture suddenly became stronger!

Previously, because of the existence of Li Qian, although Minghu Culture signed a limited number of authors and the level of works was also limited, but in terms of creation, it was never considered a shortcoming. Only the production department was always there. Restricting the continued development of Minghu culture, in order to solve this problem, on the one hand, Li Qian has to produce three or four albums every year;

But now, with the addition of such seven people, in terms of the current number of singers in Minghu Culture, they are full almost overnight!

Needless to say, the three producers are each of the level that can lead the way alone. Frankly speaking, they are all stronger than Li Jinlong. The addition of two top recording engineers also makes Minghu Culture's existing recording hardware equipment. It all kicked off—yes, three producers signed up to be creators, but from the beginning, everyone was talking about the work of a producer, and he came to be a producer.

As for the non-competition agreement, as long as the album released within the last year is not signed, what can Sony Records do?

In addition to being unjustifiable, the so-called non-compete agreement has always been difficult to restrict people.

So, that's it, when the outside media is still reporting on the strength of Sony, when such a large number of elite musicians leave Sony, it can definitely be called a blood loss, but it is only in some reports. When the language is over, unconsciously, Minghu Culture has made up for its last shortcoming.

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Monday, June 5th.

Another busy week has begun.

On Monday, Dongguan Bookstore's sales rankings were released on time, and the new albums of the two days later continued to lead the list hand in hand.

"Women's Flower" dropped slightly to 39,549 copies. Although it has dropped 40,000 copies, it still continues to sit firmly at the top. In contrast, Zhou Mo, who has just climbed to a new level, seems to be a little hotter , "Witch's Tears" only slightly dropped by 9 copies from last week, ranking second with 33,159 sales.

To some extent, Zhou Mo is gradually narrowing the gap between her and Liao Liao little by little, week by week, one by one.

Within three weeks of being on the market, the total sales of the two albums at Dongguan Bookstore were 122,970 and 94,290 copies respectively, and it can almost be announced that they have won double platinum in national sales hand in hand.

In terms of the sales of the singer's new album in the first three weeks alone, Liao Liao is still the number one in the domestic music scene overall, and number one in singles. He Runqing and Wuxingwusu followed closely behind, and after that, it was the turn of Zhao Xinfu and Zhou Mo.

Therefore, as soon as the sales came out, Zhou Mo's status in the domestic music scene and the value in the eyes of major record companies immediately went up to a new level--Liao Liao, He Runqing and Zhou Mo, the three most stable queens, Liao Liao and He Runqing couldn't dig anymore, and the only one, Zhou Mo, seemed to be difficult to dig, but after all, she had never expressed her opinion, so even if it was just for the possibility that the possibility was not great, it was already done. It is worth the high prices that major companies have paid for it.

Not only is she very popular, but her albums are also selling more and more, and now, the data for three consecutive weeks has proved that she has the ability to continue to sell well!

Therefore, Xinda took the lead and directly quoted an astonishingly high price of 60 million for 30 songs!

According to this price, even if they really signed Zhou Mo over, and the new album maintained astonishing sales like "Witch's Tears", they would almost have to step on the breakeven line. For money, I can only count on Zhou Mo to accept a few more commercial performances, or open a concert to collect money. However, it is well known in the industry that Li Qian's two women are surprisingly unwilling to take commercial roles - but even so, Xinda's offer is still extremely firm.

Still the same sentence, as one of the three major record companies in the industry, with such a big business, so many singers, and so many musicians, they must have someone who can carry the flag!

Even if they knew that they would lose money if they dug it, they still had to dig it!

And then, Huage Records, which has always been at odds with Minghu Culture, to be precise, with Li Qian, also made a move, and once it made a move, it was a bigger deal-twenty songs, 55 million !

It is equivalent to 2.75 million per song!

All experts know that this is a price that is sure to lose money!

In other words, even if the record company can use internal resources to produce the album as much as possible, reduce all expenses as much as possible, and control the cost to a very low range, but the production of an album will cost 27.5 million yuan to the singer alone. It means that they have to sell about 11 to 12 million copies of the album before they can almost pay back.

At present, even if Zhou Mo can continue to make efforts to ensure that her next album will be as popular and long-selling as this "Witch's Tears", she has not reached the equivalent level of tens of millions of sales.