Chapter 426: Great Harvest!

John Dyce was a pure businessman.

Yes, Li Qian knew in his previous life that Hollywood's well-dressed clothes are of course centered on artists, but in fact, the people who really master the countless movies are often not the filmmakers, but John Days Such a businessman through and through.

If I have to explain, I can only say that he is a businessman who knows a lot about movies.

The characteristic of a businessman is that every penny must be compared, and one yard is equal to one yard.

Of course, to a certain extent, this is also because after nearly a hundred years of accumulation, after the American film industry has developed to the current level, it has formed relatively complete rules and regulations in all aspects. Therefore, after getting used to the relatively loose From the Chinese point of view, talking about things with Americans...is too cumbersome and too detailed.

The crew of "Titanic" will provide comprehensive support for Li Qian and Liao Liao's trip to the United States. This is a major premise agreed in advance, but how to support and to what extent is not enough for both parties to know. Understand.

So, the other party then sent a professional negotiating team from the United States, including a lawyer, a negotiating expert, and as many as three people, including music professionals and the 20th Century Fox Group specializing in logistics. The negotiating team including the staff—the final negotiation result, which hotel Li Qian and the others should stay in after they arrive in Los Angeles, what kind of living standard they should enjoy during their stay, and how many assistants or escorts they should have in their area of ​​responsibility Within the period, everyone's treatment, even what kind of vehicle should be equipped when traveling, or how much transportation expenses are allotted each week, have been negotiated in detail one by one and recorded in the contract. The degree of cumbersomeness made Minghu Culture's negotiation team headed by Qi Jie a little confused at first, and then unconsciously became intimidated.

In her words afterwards, "This big international company is really not bragging, it's really strict... I have learned a lot!"

A few days later, before the negotiation was over, Xie Mingyuan accompanied and escorted his father and a pair of children, and returned to the country in a low-key manner.

It was still in the first month, when the domestic media, music scene, and fans were all immersed in the shock of the album "Once Upon a Time You" and the record-breaking sales data of this album, Li Qian and Liao Liao and Xie Mingyuan took the same plane and set sail from Shuntianfu. After more than ten hours of flight, they arrived in Los Angeles, a city in the western part of the United States.

Because it was only a short-term cooperation, the other party arranged for Li Qian and his party two rooms in a hotel that probably had a cooperative relationship, a suite for Li Qian and Liao Liao to live in, and a business room for Xie Mingyuan to live in.

Xie Mingyuan had traveled to the United States for a few months before, and he had been to Los Angeles. This time, he acted as a half-master himself. He spent two days taking Li Qian and Liao Liao around, looking around, and then , they are ready to start making this album.

Of course, you have to do the soundtrack first.

The release date of "Titanic" has been finalized for May 14, so theoretically speaking, at the latest in mid-April, the release cut version of the film must be completely completed, and before that, the soundtrack, as well as the entire film Of course, the sound track of the movie can only be advanced and not behind, because for this movie, the special effects are a big deal, and the completion of the special effects means that the big work of the movie is over... So, leave it to Li Qian and the others This small team has only about 35 to 40 days left to make the soundtrack.

But fortunately, it is not difficult.

If "My-heart-will-go-on" is established as the theme song, then the main theme of the soundtrack of the entire movie already exists. If it is replaced by a movie, it already has a script, and if it is replaced by a novel, it already has With the outline, and replacing it with a song, he already has the chorus part—in the studio provided by Rolling Stone Records, mainly Li Qian and Xie Mingyuan, it only took less than four days to complete the song. The soundtrack ideas for several other scenes have been finalized!

Yes, similar to "Titanic", a milestone movie with a perverted reputation and box office, its script, its shots, its special effects, its soundtrack, its editing, and even its relative The performance of actors who are relatively easy to criticize is an absolute classic model for filmmakers and musicians. Since the film was released, it is undeniable that it is a must-see and must-see for almost all filmmakers in the world. A film that must be studied and studied.

Li Qian was a musician in his previous life, and later worked as a filmmaker for about ten years—er, this is a relatively bragging statement. In fact, he is a TV personality—"Titanic", or simply James Cameron , Spielberg and other famous directors, he has watched and studied almost every movie over and over again. Therefore, it is impossible for him to remember the soundtrack of this movie from beginning to end. Every note, but every piece of soundtrack has a general impression, but it is absolutely fine.

So, in fact, for Li Qian and Xie Mingyuan, these four days were mainly about watching the rough cut 210-minute version of the movie, and the process of Li Qian coming up with his own ideas to convince Xie Mingyuan.

After the idea was settled, they quickly compiled two soundtracks. With the cooperation of Rolling Stone Records, they quickly recorded a demo to send to John Dyce. Then, finally, after a week in Los Angeles, Li Qian Finally met James Cameron.

In terms of European and American races, he is not too tall, and he is a bit fat, but his fat makes people feel strong at first glance——sparkling eyes, embarrassing beard stubble, When speaking, he is full of passion and his voice is like a bell.

Undoubtedly, he highly appreciates Li Qian's soundtrack ideas and the demos he has produced so far, and is extremely satisfied with Li Qian's work progress.

Of course, it doesn’t matter that everyone chatted happily, but after chatting for a while, he left quickly—if he was Chinese, in this case, he probably wanted to have a meal and a glass of wine together to talk about friendship , but James Cameron seems to be very busy, and Li Qian is just here as a visitor, and has no intention of getting close to him, so... in a hurry, shake hands, and everyone sits down and chats, Then everyone continued to work and busy themselves.

At this time in China, on February 2 of the lunar calendar, the dragon raised its head, and on March 9 of the Western calendar, Tuesday, the annual Golden Melody Awards ceremony was held again as scheduled.

At that time, Minghu Culture had of course received invitations, but the people who finally went to the scene could only be led by Qi Jie and Zou Wenhuai, including Cao Zhan, Wang Huaiyu, He Runqing and Rose Power, all dressed up to attend.

As for Zhou Mo, after Minghu Culture and Sony Records reached a tacit cooperative money-making agreement, it is difficult for her to appear in the queue of Minghu Culture during the period of her contract and He Weishang during the period of the non-compete agreement. Bian Heyi and others can already turn a blind eye. After all, even if Zhou Mo's concert tour only held eight out of ten concerts, it would be a lot of money.

"Once Upon a Time" is an album that was only released on February 10 this year. According to the selection criteria of the Golden Melody Award, which only selects works that have been publicly released from January 1 to December 31 in the past year, this album is Those who are not included can only participate in the next year's selection, but even so, Minghu Culture still won multiple heavyweight awards in one fell swoop.

The best album of the year, "Super-star".

Group of the Year, Rose Power.

The best female singer of the year, Zhou Mo.

Best Rock Album of the Year, "Fake Monk".

The best rock band of the year, the Four Great Beauties.

In addition, six of the top ten golden songs of the year also directly fall under the name of Minghu Culture.

"Super-star", Rose Power, No. 1 of the year.

"Female Flower", Liao Liao, the second of the year.

"Meet Nine Eight", Liao Liao, Zhou Mo, the third of the year.

"Don't-break-my-heart", the top four beauty bands, the fifth of the year.

"The Price of Love", He Runqing, eighth of the year.

"Nothing", the four beauties band, the ninth of the year.

In addition, there is also "Witch's Tears", which must be included in the name of Sony Records, and it is fourth in the year.

Cinda Records has won the best newcomer of the year Zheng Guofeng in the past year, of course he is smiling, and Zhao Xinfu once again won the honor of the best male singer of the year, showing that he is an unparalleled leading male singer in the domestic music scene The status also gave some comfort to Sony Records, which has been in a bad situation since the beginning of the Spring Festival Gala show review.

Of course, everyone knows that unless there is another phenomenon-level album released this year, next year's Golden Melody Awards will definitely be dominated by the four beauties. Obviously, the year's market has just begun, and the good things that everyone has held in their hands have not yet been released, and the commanding heights of the entire market have already been held in their hands in advance!

But unfortunately, everyone knows that even the powerful Sony records are very clear that they are powerless to change this.

Because the album "Once Upon a Time You" is so popular!

After selling for five days in the first week, they swept an astonishing 147,269 copies at Dongguan Bookstore, and another 114,892 copies in the second week. By the third week, except for Minghu Culture, almost the vast majority of the entire domestic music scene Everyone is looking forward to this album at least falling below six figures, right? But, no! In the third week, this album still achieved an astonishing sales of 103,548 copies in a single week!

For three consecutive weeks, this album broke 100,000 copies in a single week for three consecutive weeks!

In the fourth week, after the album experienced such a violent explosion, the momentum of rushing sales decreased slightly, but it still managed to sell 89,551 copies. With this sales volume, it was already the only top A+-level celebrity in China. Liao Liao's peak week sales have doubled! You can imagine how much impact it will bring to the music industry, especially the internal practitioners in the music industry!

Moreover, before the official release of the sales data for the fourth week, on last Thursday, that is, on March 4, Qi Jie held a press conference on behalf of Minghu Culture, officially announcing that the album "Once Upon a Time" will end The global shipments at 3:00 pm on March 2 have exceeded 13 million copies!

The so-called shipment volume only means that Minghu Culture Company has sold or wholesaled to dealers, and it does not mean that all albums have been sold out. There must be many sales stores with different albums. There is a small inventory, but considering that now, the media is still frequently reporting that "Once upon a time" is in short supply and even sold out all over the country. In fact, everyone believes that for the "Once upon a time" album For example, 13 million copies were shipped, which means that the actual sales volume of this album has basically reached 10 million copies.

This result is simply disappointing.

Before this album came out, Liao Liao was the only domestically recognized A+ singer. Her nearly four or five albums have sold more than 10 million copies. Because the first album was a big hit, it only took one step to reach the A level. They all belong to the category that has already sold more than ten million copies. Then, either the other albums are also steadily moving towards tens of millions, or the future is blocked. The industry is unanimously optimistic.

In addition, Zhao Xinfu, Zhou Mo, Huang Yuqing and others are all at the A- level. They are all very capable, but they have never had a single album that broke the sales record of tens of millions. Wu Xing Wu Su, who had previously dropped to A- due to fluctuating album sales, and last year, after colliding with Rose Power, they were directly kicked off the cloud and dropped to B-.

However, now, just as Liao Liao's "The Sound of the Waves" has sold tens of millions of copies, which suddenly broke the inherent level of the entire domestic music scene. The default judging standard suddenly lost its balance—the four major beauties bands that sold 10 million copies worldwide in less than a month, the four major beauty bands that sold at least 7 million copies in China, and the four major bands that broke 100,000 copies in a single week in Dongguan Bookstore for three consecutive weeks. The Great Beauty Band, how can it not be lower than Liao Liao?

If Liao Liao is A+, what are the four beauties? A++?

Then, if the four beauties are re-evaluated as A+, Liao Liao will definitely be reduced to A grade!

Regarding this, the current industry is still a little bit confused, and everyone just knows tacitly: the status of the four beauties is one level higher than that of Liao Liao alone!

Of course, for other domestic record companies, although the Four Great Beauty Bands are very powerful, as long as no one deliberately jumps out to stimulate them, it is estimated that they may not even have an album a year, so the commanding heights of the market are occupied by others In the next year, although the albums of the Four Great Beauties will dominate the market for a long time, after all, when their strength is exhausted, it cannot continue to sell well, and Liao Liao and He Runqing There is no new album planned or it will not be released until the end of the year. The only one who can stand up for Minghu culture and dominate the market is Rose Power. There is still a lot of market space left for everyone.

In particular, it is said that Minghu Culture will introduce a few newcomers this year—Minghu Culture is bold enough, but of course they have bold confidence, but for so many record companies and singers in the industry who want to compete with Minghu Culture, this is not enough. Very dangerous, but at the same time a major opportunity not to be missed!

In April, it is said that Lake Culture will launch a female singer——again! Why is it a female singer again! ——My name is Zhuang Meiyue. Many companies in the industry have collected relevant information about her. Many people have analyzed that the girl's voice and style are hard to become a popular type in the market. Therefore, in previous years, she was not too popular. In April, it suddenly became the time for major companies to focus on releasing new albums!

And the most important of them...Sony Records has locked April for the little queen Li Xinru!

Everyone can smell the smell of gunpowder smoke that has been diffused!

In June, it was said that Minghu Culture was another newcomer. Of course, this time it was finally a male singer! But this time, Huang Yuqing, the little king of Sony Records, is said to have set the release date of the new album at the end of June and the beginning of July—obviously, Sony Records still attaches great importance to the male singer released by Li Qian. Yes, he didn't even dare to directly confront such a big card like Huang Yuqing, but gave a relatively vague date, which should have reserved a certain amount of reaction time for himself.

However, it is conceivable that once the new male singer from Minghu Culture and his album did not perform well enough, even if it was only averagely good, with Huang Yuqing's current status and appeal at the time, this "end of June and July At the beginning of the month", it will be locked as "the end of June" soon! And only when the other party shows a sufficient level, will Huang Yuqing be pushed back to July.

Of course, according to the news from Sony Records, they seem to be promoting a newcomer this year, but the specific news is unknown to the outside world. There are only some vague gossip... It is said that it is a Japanese Sony Signed idol artist.

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The Golden Melody Awards are a vanity fair.

Those who come here will laugh if they get the honor, but if they don't get the honor, they still have to laugh.

And regardless of whether they can get the honor they want, every time they see the people on the podium, everyone can't help thinking about their own calculations in their hearts-this is another case where there is no gunpowder in the open. , secretly but full of gunpowder on the battlefield!

The absence of Li Qian and Liao Liao, of course, has attracted a lot of speculation. Afterwards, the media also extended various explanations. Some people said that they went out for their honeymoon, others said that they went to celebrate, and some said that they were actively He is preparing a new album for Liao Liao, preparing to release it out of the blue, and smashing Sony records... In short, there are various theories.

However, no one thought that at this time, Li Qian and Liao Liao, while steadily advancing the soundtrack of "Titanic", had really started preparing for Liao Liao's new album.

Only this time, it will no longer be a pure Chinese album, but a global album.

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