Chapter 74 Big Contract, Half Pot of Yarn

After leaving for just five days, Li Jinlong returned to Jinan Mansion with the sisters of the Five Elements and My Elements Group.

When he came back this time, he brought Li Qian a big contract.

After signing the contract, Li Qian officially became the producer of the second album of Wu Xing Wu Su.

According to the rules of making music in China, the producer and the producer are often held by one person, and that is the greatest power. Once the two positions are separated, it must be because of the joining of big-name musicians, then The separated producer will be fully responsible for music affairs and has the final decision-making power, while the producer will stand behind the scenes and be responsible for other powers besides the music content of the album, such as financial power and personnel power.

To use a similar analogy, a record producer is similar to a film producer, while a producer is similar to a film director, and a singer is an actor.

Of course, unlike many movie directors who do not actually have the right to finalize the final cut of the movie, record producers, especially many big-name producers, such as Li Qian, who has signed this contract, must have the final say on the content of the album. right.

In short, as soon as this contract was signed, Li Jinlong changed from the immediate boss of Wuxingwusu to the big housekeeper serving Li Qian and Wuxingwusu, and then went to be responsible for the preparation and management of other affairs. The boss at work became Li Qian.

Of course, signing this contract means that Li Qian and Wuxingwusu have become a community of interests.

Wu Xing Wu Su's album was a hit, and Li Qian made a fortune.

But if the album sells poorly, Li Qian may not even get a penny, and he has been working for nothing for several months, and even included several songs.

Specifically, according to the conditions proposed by Li Qian at the beginning, the other party did not change a word and implemented the contract: based on the unit price of 10 yuan, if the new album sells 1 million copies, Li Qian gets 5 points, and the account will be 500,000 yuan. If 2 million copies are sold, Li Qian gets 7 points, and the credit is 1.4 million. If 3 million copies are sold, Li Qian can get 10 points, which is 3 million!

As for the 5 million copies... If they can really sell that number, according to the high royalty of 15 points stipulated in the contract, Li Qian's income from making this album for Wu Xing Wu Su will be as high as 7.5 million!

This income model is completely different from selling songs for how much a song costs!

Even those songwriters who are quite powerful and well-known, so they can sell at a relatively high price, as long as they are not qualified enough to get a sales share, then I am afraid that they will write dozens of works for several years It may not be possible to get this number!

Of course, judging from the current domestic market, even if Li Qian makes a move, even if he does his best, he is not sure that he will be able to get such a scary enough sales data.

Is Liu Mingliang good enough?

That is the king of music, and in terms of sales, it is also the absolute NO.1, but his top-level sales, that is, the album that once set a domestic record of 370,000 copies in a single week, was released in 1992. Up to now, it has been more than three years, and the sales volume is only six platinum.

Moreover, this is one of only three six-platinum albums in China.

In addition to his album, it took eight years for Flying Band's "Driving Pigs West" to get six platinum with difficulty, and Zhao Xinfu's masterpiece also took six full years to get six platinum.

Further down, although there are as many as eight albums that can get the five-platinum certification, but... that's right, all of them are male singers! Liu Mingliang, Zhao Xinfu, Hu Yang, Flying Band...

The highest level among female singers is Zhen Zhen's four-platinum and two triple-platinum, He Runqing's two four-platinum and two triple-platinum, Feng Feifei's three-platinum and Zhou Mo's three-platinum.

As far as the singing group is concerned, the current domestic record is the first album of the "Sisters Tao" group of Cinda Records. However, they have only obtained the gold record certification after more than half a year on the market. So far, they have been on the market for two It's been more than a year, but there is still no news of getting a platinum record...

This is the current market situation that Li Qian and Wuxingwusu will face next.

Of course, except for Li Qian himself, no one would expect them to make a five-platinum record. Even the sisters of the Five Elements and My Elements combination absolutely cannot have that kind of extravagant hope.

Insane, they just hope that they can get a platinum certification!

If they were lucky enough to get two platinum... that would already mean that they were very popular, so what else would they want?

People like Liu Mingliang, Zhao Xinfu, and Flying Band are already phenomenal, sounds that belong to a certain period of time, and it can even be said that they represent the pinnacle of folk songs, country songs, and rock and roll respectively.

In the eyes of everyone, they are already impossible to be surpassed in their respective fields!

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After signing the contract and keeping his own, Li Qian came up with three new songs in one breath.

Next, his task is to listen carefully to the six songs that Li Jinlong brought over that have been prepared before, and try to select one or two works that can be used in the future, which can be regarded as helping Huage Records and Huage Records. Li Jinlong, the producer, minimized the previous production loss, after all... the money has already been spent.

And the task of the Wuxingwusu sisters is... to practice songs, practice songs, practice songs!

As for Liu Jinlong, his task is even heavier, because he has to go back to Shuntian Mansion to be the accompanist, um, the accompaniment for five songs including "Sister and Sister Stand Up" and "Let's Swing the Oars" .

After all, the two songs that have been recorded before are just demos. One is the live recording of the singer with the accompaniment. Even if there is a post-production process, it is impossible to fully meet the requirements of the studio album. Second, come to Shuntianfu Over there, the musicians that can be contacted by the Huage Records headquarters must be of a higher level than the musicians who were temporarily recruited to form a team here in Jinan Prefecture, isn't it?

So, of course, keep improving!

Of course, in fact, even if it is the recording of the accompaniment, it should be the job of Li Qian, the producer, but who told him that he is still in school, it is impossible to go to Shuntian Mansion to do this job, so he had to leave it to Li Jinlong to do it for him. , he is only responsible for the review of semi-finished products, and if he does not approve, he will attach guidance and send it back.

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September 11, Saturday, morning.

After rushing to Laodou Records in the morning to give Wuxing Wusu sisters singing guidance all morning, Li Qian declined their manager Wu Min's invitation, and completely ignored Zhou Pingping, Sun Ruoxuan, and Xie Bing's pitiful attitude. In his eyes, there was only one sentence left, "Don't try to take the opportunity to eat your apples, just eat your apples honestly. Before leaving, Brother Jinlong specifically told me to help him watch your apples!", poked ruthlessly After breaking their plan to eat with Li Qian and take the opportunity to have a big meal, they went downstairs and rode their bicycles to Jingsanxiaoweiliu.

He went over at this time, first, he made an appointment to have a meal at Cao Zhan's place, and second, that's right, to send and invite songs.

Sending songs is to help Cao Zhan repay the romantic debt he owed back then, and inviting songs is his duty as the producer of Wu Xing Wu Su's album.

However, riding this way, from Laodou Records to Buwen Bookstore, is a full seven or eight kilometers away. He often exercises and punches, but he doesn't feel tired. The main reason is that it took a full twenty or thirty minutes. What a waste of time.

In fact, while waiting for the red light, he saw the cars of various brands parked at the intersection. He was really moved and wanted to buy a car. It's because he didn't expect that there would be so many jobs in the follow-up, and he thought that there would be a quiet year of high school in the next year.

But now, it’s okay when he was in school. He feels quite comfortable and enjoys riding a bicycle to and from school. The most important thing is that when riding a bicycle, he has a strange feeling of blending into the times and finding his youth. The comfortable feeling of putting young leaves in the old cabbage.

It’s just that on weekends, I have to go back and forth to Laodou Records every day. The problem of riding a bicycle is too time-consuming. If Lao Cao calls again and makes an appointment to watch a movie together, let’s go together. Where climbing, fishing, etc., then simply wait for someone to drive to pick them up.

This feels a bit suffocating!

But after thinking about it carefully, Li Qian decided not to buy a car until he graduated from high school.

Pretentious or not, those who are fanciful but not fanciful are not considered, mainly because of the mental stereotypes accumulated over the years-you are a high school student, driving a car! Do you think this is America?

About half an hour later, he rushed to the Buwen Bookstore. Because he had made an appointment in advance, Cao Zhan had already ordered takeaway for two people, so Li Qian went upstairs and handed Cao Zhan the songbook he had prepared a long time ago. Pick up the chopsticks and start eating.

Cao Zhan was also hungry at first, and was about to start eating when Li Qian arrived. He took a glance at the songbook, but couldn't help being taken aback, and said, "You even finished the arrangement?" I looked at it carefully.

Moreover, the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became.

Seeing later, his fingers tapped lightly on the paper, as if beating time.

After watching the first time, he went back to watch the second time.

In ten minutes, Li Qian had finished his meal, but he was still watching with piercing eyes.

Li Qian didn't see him either, got up and opened the drawer to find his tea, boiled water and made a cup of green tea for himself, then sat on the sofa and looked at him with a smile while drinking tea to digest food.

After a while, as if he noticed Li Qian's eyes, Cao Zhan finally stopped.

He put down the songbook and looked at Li Qian, "Are you very interested in Buddhist things? Have you studied it?"

Li Qian smiled and thought he knew you had to ask this question, so he said: "It's not about research, I know a little bit, I just think this way should be more suitable for He Runqing's way, so I tried to write a song. , you can send it to others later, if you are not satisfied, then I will write in another way, and I will definitely help you pay off the romantic debt!"

Cao Zhan picked up the songbook and glanced at it again. After putting it down, he finally picked up his chopsticks and said, "Not satisfied? If you are not satisfied with songs of this level, let them find others to invite songs!"

After picking up some chopsticks, he turned his head and looked at the songbook again, chewed it a few times, as if he was reminiscing about something, then nodded, "Banhusha, what a great name! Great song!"

Li Qian smiled and said nothing, thinking, although in that time and space, this song was not really popular, but it was only limited by the extremely shrinking domestic market and the extremely developed Internet at that time. In this era, coupled with He Runqing's sweet voice, this Chinese style song may not be a big hit.

Of course, he came here this time, sending this song is just one of them, and more importantly, it is an invitation song.

So, while drinking tea, he smiled and said, "Brother Cao, we asked you to help write a song suitable for young girls as we said last time. How about it? Do you have any ideas?"

That's the question, Li Qianke didn't have the extravagant hope of getting the song right away.

Cao Zhan started to do rock and became famous, and finally released a record, and later returned to Jinan to write lyrical songs, folk songs and folk songs, and became famous instead. Of course, he is a good songwriter. But he may not be able to write a song suitable for a young girl group like Wuxingwusu, and even if he can write it, it must not be so fast.

But what surprised Li Qian was that as soon as Li Qian finished speaking, Cao Zhan pointed to his desk and said confidently, "Get it yourself!"

"It already exists?"

Li Qian was surprised and found the songbook on his desktop.

The song is called "Love Me!" "

After reading the songbook from beginning to end, Li Qian looked at Cao Zhan in surprise.

He has heard Cao Zhan's works, and many of them, from those rock works of his back then to those songs he wrote for others in recent years, he has heard almost all of them. Now this song "Love Me!" ", but it's not like his style!

Cao Zhan ate slowly, and he was only halfway through his meal. Feeling Li Qian's gaze, he chewed and swallowed the food in his mouth, and then drank his saliva, and then the old god said: "Your suggestion, let me I am down-to-earth. I went to kindergarten for a day, then went to my son’s junior high school to spend a day on the playground, and played a game with a bunch of kids. I wrote seven versions after I came back, and finally this I sang it to a few children, and they all said it was good, so I decided to give it to you!"

Li Qian couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, it seems that Cao Zhan really put in a lot of effort this time!

Is it because the last song was not well-known in Liao Liao's album, so subconsciously wanted to compete with myself again?

Musicians, this is not a bad thing, this kind of spirit is worth it! Especially his way of letting go of his airs as soon as he wants to do something, which many people who have been famous for a long time can't do it at all!

So, Li Qian shook the songbook in his hand and said with a smile, "That's it!"

Then he asked, "How much?"

Cao Zhan glanced at him, chewed for a while, swallowed, picked up the "Half Pot of Yarn" songbook at hand, and asked, "How much?"

Li Qian smiled when he heard the words, "Let them watch it!"

Cao Zhan put down the songbook, "Let them read it!"

Li Qian laughed out loud.

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This chapter is another 4,000 words! Striving for a monthly pass!

This chapter is another 4,000 words! Striving for a monthly pass!