1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 217 Album Release

"Comrade Xia Tian, ​​please reconsider it. We are really sincere!"

The main thing is that the audio-visual publishing house is in a difficult situation now, and the new leader needs results!

"You can put forward any conditions, and we will try our best to agree to them!"

We can discuss it if you have anything to say!

"Our leaders are determined to make progress, and there will definitely be many areas for us to cooperate in the future!"

We are all friends, please help us, and we will never let you down in the future!

At the end, the manager of the audio-visual publishing house dropped a bombshell: "We can also negotiate, we can also share the profits!"

Xia Tian was confused: Huh? !
But the other party really dared to make conditions!

The great writer Jing Hongke’s novel “Kunlun” is very popular now and is sold out in the market!
The literary circle is now discussing your royalties and profits. It is said that you can earn hundreds of thousands in one go!
We can also split it!

We'll also give you a share of the new album!

That’s right, the martial arts novel “Kunlun” has been sold out recently, and even the publishing house in Shanghai contacted Xia Tian and asked him to print an additional 30 copies!

When advertising in newspapers at that time, the slogan used was "A pioneer in the country, the first in royalties."

The circle was already shocked at that time.

But most people are cheering, after all, this has opened up the ceiling and is good for all writers.

But the fact that 20 copies were sold out was a bit scary. Many people counted on their fingers and their eyes were red and bleeding!
If the second batch of 30 copies were also released, Xia Tian could imagine what the situation would be like.

At first I didn’t expect it to be so popular. I thought it would take a year or two to sell 20 copies!
Book lovers are too crazy!

And now, Manager Chen from the Audio-Visual Publishing House has obviously made up his mind.

Xia Tian had no choice but to have a detailed chat with the other party and learned that his new leader was new and needed to achieve some results. He was also young and daring.
Then the leader made an appointment with Xia Tian through Ye Jing and others, and they had a meal together, got to know each other, and chat.
It turned out that he was the brother of one of Ye Jing's friends, his last name was Liu...

Finally, we discussed: let's release an album! You make money, I get results! We are all brothers!
……

On April 4, the Patent Law was implemented, and at 1 a.m., there was a huge crowd of people in front of the acceptance office of the Yanjing Patent Office.

I didn’t expect there were so many patents waiting to be registered!
On April 4, the 3 copies of Kunlun printed by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House were released.

My goodness, some colleagues in the newspapers have already started to complain.
Of course, not all of them are sour. Some people also say that making too much money is not good and is not conducive to writers' creation. I would like to advise some young writers to stop at the right time and donate all of it!

I can't take care of them in the summer, because I have to release an album. I have to think about what songs to release!
What Brother Liu meant was very simple: You are so popular, you can sing anything you want!
In the summer, I thought about picking up my previous songs and putting them together to make an album.

Before he could sort things out, a strange thing happened in Yanjing.

The British band Wham! held a concert at the Workers' Stadium, becoming the first pop music band in the world to knock on our door!
The original price of the ticket was 5 yuan per ticket, which is equivalent to half a week's salary for an average Chinese person, but scalpers sold the tickets for 25 yuan per ticket.

I didn't go there in the summer, but I heard that the Western audiences in the venue danced to the music.

However, when the Chinese audience was so excited that they tried to stand up and cheer for the first time, they were stopped by the uncle in the hat who was maintaining law and order at the scene.

The first concert of a Western pop band ended perfectly in a slightly awkward manner.
This American fashion has also begun to have many domestic fans.

……

On April 4, Xia Tian started recording songs in the recording studio, and the band was found from the song and dance troupe.

We finished recording everything on the 26th, basically one song a day, it was pretty fast!

The band members felt very sorry: I had only been enjoying this small meal with the foreign workers for a few days, and it’s over?!

Generally speaking, even if the requirements for album quality are not so strict now, it will still take at least a month.

That’s great, it’s not even half a month yet!
If it weren’t for the band accompaniment which takes time to get familiar with, we could have recorded it faster in the summer!
After all, he doesn't need to spell out each sentence, nor does he need to adjust the sound or anything like that.

Xia Tian: Isn’t it easy to sing? The songs in front are all ready-made, with arrangements, and only six songs need to be re-written. I have a good idea of ​​what to do.

This album has 12 songs in total with mixed styles.

It would certainly be confusing in later times, but it is almost the same now.

Side A: "Chinese", "Singing Masks", "Dingjun Mountain", "Wujiapo 1984", "Three Passes", "Huangmei Opera"

Side B: "Understanding You", "Chi Ling", "Chi Le Chuan", "Xin Tian You", "Castle in the Sky (Lyrics Version)", "On the Waterside (Teresa Teng's Song)"

The new songs here include "Understanding You", "Chi Ling", "Xin Tian You", "Chi Le Chuan" and "Castle in the Sky", which have only been sung in the competition.

Milan was probably the first person to listen to the master tapes. After listening to each song, he praised them all.
When she heard the last song, she laughed: "You can actually sing covers? And you sang a cover of Teresa Teng's song?!"

Covering Teresa Teng's songs is a trend these days, but this is the first time a male singer has done a cover.

Xia Tian also laughed: "Teresa Teng... who doesn't love her?!"

Milan nodded, feeling that there was something else behind the words.

Brother Liu is in his thirties and is in the prime of his life. He is eager to make achievements and is very decisive.

After finishing the recording here, they immediately started giving instructions to the people below, and started working!
And at the same time they started promoting it - that's right, they started promoting it before there was even a tape.

The person in charge is Manager Chen Yang who persuaded Xia Tian in the first place.

Since they are trying to take advantage of the summer's popularity, they naturally have to run crazy summer advertisements.

Within almost a week, all the print media in Yanjing published advertisements for Xia Tian’s “music album”; even the radio had advertisements!

Yanjing City Television also had a text report.

It means that his thinking is not broad enough, otherwise Brother Liu might ask Xia Tian to shoot a MV commercial!
Even Xia Tian, ​​such a cautious person, was stunned when he saw this scene - Damn, are you playing such a big game?

If this doesn’t sell well, wouldn’t that mean… wait, it seems like no one cares.

If you fail, just change your unit and start again.

The cost of trial and error is very low!
……

While we were recording the album in the summer, the crew of Red Mansions had finished filming a series of scenes in the Land of Illusion, and the only scene of Qin Keqing left was "The Funeral".

But she doesn't need to appear on camera, just a coffin will be enough!

It was at this time that Zhang Lei quietly found Director Wang, looking guilty and embarrassed: "Director, I might, might have to go abroad..."

Director Wang was shocked. "Ah? When?"

Zhang Lei blushed: "Next month..."

Director Wang didn't say anything, but he was glad in his heart: Fortunately, Xia Tian predicted your prediction, otherwise it would be a troublesome thing!

Going abroad is a big deal these days, you can't stop me, right?
Besides, you can't stop it!

Fortunately!

Now is the hottest time to study abroad. From the release of the "Interim Regulations on Self-funded Study Abroad" at the end of last year to the end of this year, the total number of students studying abroad has reached 3.8. The number has skyrocketed!
On May 5, "Chinese Entrepreneur" magazine was launched. Shougang Director Zhou appeared on the cover of the inaugural issue and became a prominent figure in the economic world.

However, Xia Tian always feels that those who go surfing at this time are prone to drowning.

On May 5, Wang Ruohai treated all his friends to drinks because his novel of more than 5 words and 47 chapters, "Plainclothes Policeman C", was published!

But at this time he was no longer wearing a uniform. He was transferred to the Kunlun Hotel under the public AN system as a manager - he had the same job as Brother Liu, but his family background was not as good as his.

This is where they have dinner together in the summer, the first joint venture five-star hotel in the country.

On May 5, Xia found a new magazine at the newsstand and bought it for Milan.

That cover is comic style~
Orange-red background, a young man holding a stick and looking up, a girl hiding behind him, and the Bull Demon King coming on a cloud from the sky~
This is the first issue of the comic magazine "Fairy Tale King"! 28 cents~
Later, this first issue was auctioned for 10 yuan.

Buy five, keep one for collection, read one, and keep the remaining three as gifts. A true sense of the times!
Milan really liked it after reading it, and went to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to subscribe to the magazine that day.

I heard that Zheng Yuanjie also grew up in the compound.

When I was a child, I was quiet and had low self-esteem, and I often talked to my thumb.

He joined the army at the age of 15 and worked as a ground crew repairing aircraft. His master was named Shu, and he eventually became Shuke's inspiration.

On the train back home in 1981, he came up with the idea of ​​Pippi Lu, but he did not become famous after writing it. In the same year, he wrote for 16 magazines, but the remuneration was only two yuan per thousand words.

This year, he decided to write a journal by himself, referring to the summer royalty system and sharing the profits with the organizers - the summer royalty system has given great encouragement to many people!
So he made his own handwritten magazine at home, using his son's doodles as illustrations, and the more he looked at them, the prouder he became.

After promoting it everywhere, the Shanxi Provincial TUAN Committee finally decided to give it a try...

The first issue of "Fairy Tale King" sold 13 copies! Three years later, the sales of a single issue exceeded one million, and countless young people followed his pen to heaven and earth.

After the comic magazine came out, he made over 100 yuan a month! It is said that he even bought the th private car in Yanjing.

Just like the interviews for summer novels and albums, many people heard it - the sound of the glacier cracking.

(End of this chapter)