HuaYu97: Starting as a Singer

Chapter 398 [398] Do you understand the value of the title "Famous Young Chinese Musician"?
Zhou Jielun was amazed; he hadn't realized that foreign languages ​​could be learned this way! He plans to seriously study its feasibility when he gets back.

After discussing learning foreign languages, Chou Chieh Lun asked Qi Yuan, with a cocky expression, how the songwriting for his new album was going.

Judging from his expression, he is clearly confident in his new album.

He showed off two new songs that he thought were really cool to Qi Yuan, one called "Bronze Lamp" and the other called "Judgment Day".

Qi Yuan looked surprised.

He'd never heard of either of these songs in his previous life? Are they new songs written by Jay Chou again?
He asked Jay Chou to explain the stories behind the two songs.

After listening to Qi Yuan, I can be certain that these two songs are indeed newly written.

It's estimated that he copied "Dong Feng Po" and "Yi Fu Zhi Ming" in advance, so Jay Chou created two new songs to fill in those gaps.

In high spirits, Chou Chieh-lun sang two short verses with Chi Yuan on the spot.

"Bronze lamp, its rust imperishable, illuminates a thousand nights of white hair..."

These are the lyrics to "The Bronze Lamp," written by Fang Wenshan.

Chou Chieh-lun transforms into an archaeologist, establishing a timeless spiritual connection with a lover from a thousand years ago through a bronze lamp; in terms of quality, it is no less impressive than "East Wind Breaks".

Last time, Qi Yuan copied "In the Name of the Father" and gave it to Zhou Jielun, who particularly liked this dark style of song.

"Judgment Day" is clearly another dark-themed song.

"Who is defending me? Who is listening? Who is condemning my past with silence?"

The protagonist of this song is not a murderer; he is an ordinary person living in a moral gray area.

He yearns for kindness, but is forced to do bad things to make a living.

In his dream, he was brought to court and faced judgment from his own conscience.

Qi Yuan fell silent: "..."

He just knew that if he copied this kid's songs, the kid would be able to create new ones.

In that case, he won't be polite.

It just so happens that his Chinese major lacks Chinese-style songs.

Starting with his second album, every album of his has featured at least one Chinese-style song, which has become a rule.

Why not just copy Jay Chou's future song "Blue and White Porcelain" and use it as a trump card?
Anyway, Zhou Jielun can write more. If we put some pressure on him, maybe he can write even better.

Including "Blue and White Porcelain", Qi Yuan's fifth album has thirteen songs. Let's make it an even number and copy Xu Song's "Rain on Qingming Festival" as well.

After chatting with Jay Chou, the Tao-Wang duo came along.

Both of them had the idea of ​​expanding into Europe and America.

Tao Ze faces a more difficult situation; his record company is too weak and cannot provide much help for his expansion into Europe and America.

In comparison, Wang Lihong is in a much better position. He is the top executive at Sony in Taiwan and has the backing of Sony.

With Qi Yuan's success as a precedent, Sony hoped that Wang Lihong would expand his business beyond Sony.

When Wang Lihong first switched to Sony, he successfully transitioned to a new role thanks to his nickname "Little Qi Yuan".

If we want to go overseas, we can simply copy Qi Yuan's approach again and adopt a strategy of targeting Japan first and then Europe and America.

Japan is Sony's home base.

Aside from not being able to get Chen Kaige to help with the film production, Wang Lihong was better than Qi Yuan in every other aspect.

Therefore, Wang Lihong is very confident about entering the Japanese market.

Qi Yuan said, "I hope to see you in the American music scene in a year or two. It's time for musicians in the Chinese music scene to go out and explore the world."

He personally wasn't very optimistic about Wang Lihong and Tao Ze's journey to the US, but he secretly hoped they would succeed.

This includes Jay Chou, who is currently learning English. ...

The scale of this celebration banquet was unprecedented in the history of the Taiwanese music scene.

The owner of Rolling Stone, Lao Duan, Luo Dayou, Liu Ruoying, Ren Xianqi... all came.

Yao Qian from Virgin Records brought Elva Hsiao to show her support.

Basically, all the major record companies had their executives and artists attending.

Warner Music is a very well-known brand in Taiwan.

In the past year or two, even Rock Records, the top record company, has started to decline, and its key figure, Jonathan Lee, has left the company.

While most record companies are declining, Warner is still on the rise.

Qi Yuan not only took off on her own, but also helped her fellow female artists in the company to soar. Executives from various record companies were incredibly envious of Warner Music and Zhou Jianhui.

Recently, new news has been circulating in the industry: Zhou Jianhui will be promoted to President of Warner Music Asia Pacific on January 1st next year.

Anyone with eyes can see that this president was promoted based on Qi Yuan's performance.

After Zhou Jianhui took office as the general manager of the domestic department, Qi Yuan alone contributed more than $4 million in revenue to Warner.

The appointment won't be finalized until the second half of the year, and Zhou Jianhui kept a low profile, not making any deliberate publicity.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhou Jian spent tens of millions of NT dollars to hold a celebration banquet for Qi Yuan.

Some people in Taiwan want to suppress Qi Yuan, so Zhou Jianhui actively contacted Warner Music (USA), hoping that Time Warner Group could step in and create some pressure in the United States.

Warner Music (USA) was willing to cooperate, but Time Warner Group, a behemoth, was in complete disarray.

Last year, when Time Warner and AOL merged, they encountered the same problems that followed the merger of Warner Music and UFO Records in Taiwan. The huge differences in corporate culture and business models made it impossible to integrate them, and instead exacerbated the internal strife.

Warner Music was a subsidiary of Time Warner, which currently has a market value of $3500 billion. Two years later, Time Warner sold Warner Music to alleviate debt pressure and raise funds, with the transaction price being $26 billion.

Warner Music's current value is probably just over $20 billion.

Nobody listens to what Warner Music says.

After all, Time Warner understood the principle of "pacifying the internal before fighting the external," and decided to deal with internal strife first.

However, after Qi Yuan's celebration banquet ended, news came from the mainland.

After becoming a huge hit in Taiwan, "Meteor Garden" became a hit in Hong Kong as well.

Full of confidence, Chai Zhiping sent the drama to the mainland for review, hoping to enter the market and capture this largest market in Asia.

The result was rejected because it was deemed to mislead teenagers.

Chai Zhiping almost vomited blood.

Even if Chai Zhiping completely changed the storylines about school violence, flaunting wealth, and puppy love, and had F4 remake a new version, it wouldn't work.

Since there are no problems, the process still needs time to complete.

Don't ask, the answer is that it's going through the process, which could take three to five years, or it could take ten or twenty years.

Some people in Taiwan are starting to get nervous.

They underestimated Qi Yuan's influence in mainland China.

What is meant by a famous young Chinese musician?
Do you understand the significance of adding "China" before "famous"? Is this something you can suppress at will?

You can use hidden rules to prevent Qi Yuan's promotional activities, commercial activities, and concerts in Taiwan from passing the review process, but we can still let you go through the proper procedures.

Qi Yuan remained calm when he heard the news. Now that you know he heard he was restricted, why isn't he panicking at all?
Let the dust settle; his title as a renowned young Chinese musician and his 'lucky' nature will come into play.

(End of this chapter)