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"Zhou 嫫 suddenly returned to Beijing due to changes in the industry, and the leader picked up the plane to hug and kiss as if no one was around"

"Zhou Ai returned to Beijing, suspected of going to Minghu Culture, Li Qian picked up the plane, and the two hugged at the airport"

Such a title, such two people, coupled with absolutely credible photos, if it were left in the past, this would definitely be the gossip news that qualifies to make the headlines of the entertainment page. `

In addition, at a time when "Women's Flower" and "Wizard's Tears" were inextricably battling in the market, this incident was enough for the reporters and editors of the entertainment edition to compare the sales, market response, and industry evaluation of the two albums. , as well as the past gossip between the little three, all pulled over, merged into a furnace, and formed a whole page to look at the pictures and talk.

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 been linked with Sony. Singers with a little success are either rumored to be in contact with Sony, or they simply say "xx has been confirmed to join Sony, and the industry giant has added another general." .

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

And just like this, the vast majority of reports are also linked to Sony's recent dramatic changes, even though they are purely speculation and nonsense - for example, "Zhou Ai decided to renew her contract with Sony, and Li Qian personally went to pick up the plane to persuade him again and again. , the two were arguing fiercely at the airport" and so on, and for example, "Zhou Ai returned to Beijing to laugh and say that the husband and wife will follow, Sony has already lost a great general" and so on...

Of course, most of these are small newspapers, and big newspapers are not so shameless and purely relying on nonsense.

Of course, no matter what, every reader who will turn to the entertainment page still knows a little bit. That is: Zhou Hao suddenly returned to Shuntian Mansion!

As for Li Qian's classmates at the Film Academy, they also understood why Li Qian, who had never been absent from school for two years, suddenly asked for a day off.

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A huge change for Sony. The fermentation is still going on, and people in the industry are panicking.

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

In the turmoil of the entire industry, it can be alone. `There is probably only one Minghu Culture. Other companies have either been poached, or are always facing the danger of being poached, and have to be forced to come up with high-priced contracts and complete them in advance with their own singers. Renew.

As for Minghu Culture, before the three new personalities Ri Leng, Zhao Yuan and Zhuang Meiyue became popular, it is difficult to say that they have any value to be dug up. Rose Power has just signed a contract and has not even released an album yet. Although it is favored by the industry, after all, it has not proven its strength, so it is impossible to start. As for the four beauties... no one is stupid enough to dig.

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

When there was no news of Sony's contact with the two of them, the media gave estimates one after another, and everyone thought it. According to Sony's previous offer to other singers, to dig these two people, even if emotional factors are not considered, it is necessary to bleed heavily. Among them, Liao Liao is worth at least 30 to 60 million yuan, and even Sony has to raise the price to 80 million to be able to really impress this national queen, and He Runqing must be worth 30 to 50 million yuan. 60 million level.

But considering the relationship between Liao Liao and Li Qian, even if Sony came up with 100 million. Liao Liao probably won't choose to change jobs, and He Runqing also joined Minghu Culture after paying for the early termination of the contract with Sony, and before Li Qian's personal operation, he did usher in the second take-off of his singing career. This At that time, let her go back to Sony... Considering Li Qian's kindness to her reconstruction, this price is really not very good.

Therefore, after the analysis, everyone was suddenly surprised to find that there is nothing to dig out of Minghu Culture!

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

Under the cooperation of Liao Liao and He Runqing, Zhao Yuan's new album came into the country, and under the guidance of the two queens, Zhao Yuan, who has always been unruly, was also very obedient, and did not dare to fry his wings at all. There is no ability to fry wings.

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

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

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

Time is fast into June.

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

On the same day, despite Kazuichi Watanabe's great consolation, 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, and the major record companies had already been eyeing Sony's outstanding musicians and producers.

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 those who will choose to leave are still quite powerful groups of music. people.

These people are no less important to the record company than those famous singers.

Therefore, major record companies have made moves.

On the Minghu Culture side, Qi Jie personally led the team out. He Runqing, Sun Meimei, Liu Mei, and Li Jinlong were all instructed by Qi Jie to turn around and run around as lobbyists. Even Cao Zhan was entangled by Qi Jie and 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 attracted by Xie Mingyuan during his tenure, or they had a close relationship with Xie Mingyuan. Of course, a word from the boss of Xie Mingyuan is better than a hundred words from Qi Jie.

So, just two or three days of effort. Among the musicians who left Sony Records, except for the top ones, because there was a non-compete agreement signed in the original contract, they left within one year. Apart from joining related companies to engage in similar work, others are quickly divided up by several record companies in the industry.

Producers, musicians, and contract writers, together, there are a total of 14 people who have left Sony during this turmoil. Four of them had to abide by the non-compete agreement and could not be producers for the time being. Of the remaining ten, Xinda grabbed three, Huage grabbed one, and the Minghu Culture family grabbed four, and one of them was a small player in the industry. Famous producer, one contract writer, arranger, and two more. They are all famous recording engineers and sound engineers in the industry.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that 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, the others The three of them later chose to become the contract creators of Minghu Culture.

Yes, it's the creator, the contract writer, not the producer.

The existence of a non-compete agreement makes them prohibited from working in record production for any record company for one year. But it doesn't restrict them from other jobs. They have left their jobs now and are unemployed, writing a few songs in exchange for money. No one can control it.

So, after a weekend, the production department of Minghu Culture suddenly increased in strength!

Previously, because of the existence of Li Qian, although the contracted authors of Minghu Culture were limited, and the level of works was also limited. However, in terms of creation, it has never been considered a shortcoming. Only the production department has always restricted the continued development of Minghu culture. In order to solve this, Li Qian has to produce three or four albums every year. , On the other hand, he had to catch He Runqing and Liao Liao's strong men, only to barely support the current situation.

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

Needless to say, each of the three producers can take the lead on their own. Frankly speaking, they are all stronger than Li Jinlong. The addition of two top recording engineers has also made Minghu Culture's existing recording hardware. It's all in action -- yes, the three producers signed on to be creators, but from the very beginning, everyone was talking about the work of the producer, and he came to be the producer.

As for the non-compete agreement, as long as the albums of experts in the last year are not signed, what can Sony Records do?

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

So, that's it, when the outside media was still reporting on Sony's strength, when such a large number of elite musicians left Sony, it can definitely be called a blood loss incident, but it was only reported in some reports. When the language was over, before I knew it, Minghu Culture had made up for its last shortcoming.

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Monday, June 5th.

Another busy week has begun.

On Monday, the sales chart of Dongguan Bookstore was released on time, and the new albums of the two major divas continued to lead the list hand in hand.

"Women's Flower" dropped slightly to 39,549 copies. Although it has already dropped 40,000 copies, it still continues to sit firmly in the first place. In contrast, Zhou Ai, who has just climbed to a new level recently, seems to be a little hotter. , "Wizard's Tears" only slightly dropped 9 copies compared to last week, ranking second with 33,159 copies sold.

To a certain extent, Zhou Hao is gradually narrowing the gap between her and Liao Liao bit by bit, week by week, one by one.

Three weeks after the listing, the total sales of the two albums in Dongguan Bookstore were Zhang and Zhang, and it was almost announced that they had achieved double platinum in national sales hand in hand.

In terms of the sales volume of the singer's new album in the first three weeks, Liao Liao is still the No. 1 overall in the domestic music scene, and the No. 1 single. Followed by He Runqing and Wuxing Wusu, and then, it was Zhao Xinfu and Zhou Concubine's turn.

Therefore, as soon as this sales came out, Zhou Hao's status in the domestic music scene and value in the minds of major record companies suddenly rose to a higher level - Liao Liao, He Runqing and Zhou Hao, the three most stable queens, Liao Liao and He Runqing are already unable to dig, and the only one Zhou Ai, although it seems that it is not easy to dig, but after all, she has never expressed her position, so, even if it is only for the possibility that is not very likely, she has already It is worth the high prices that major companies have opened for it.

Not only is she very popular herself, but her albums are also selling more than one album, 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 in making a move and directly quoted an astonishingly high price of 60 million for 30 songs!

At this price, even if they really signed Zhou Cong, and the new album still maintains astonishing sales like "Witch's Tears", they almost have to step on the breakeven line, if they want to earn For money, I can only count on Zhou Concubine to take a few more commercial performances, or to make money from the opening concert. However, it is well known in the industry that Li Qian's two women are surprisingly unwilling to accept commercial performances - but even so, Xinda's offer is still very firm.

Again, as one of the three major record companies in the industry ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ has such a big business, so many singers, and so many musicians, they must have a presence that can carry the flag!

Even if they know that they will lose money if they dig it, they will dig it!

And then, Huage Records, which has always been with Minghu Culture, to be precise, has a bad relationship with Li Qian, has also shot, and once it is shot, it is a bigger hand-Twenty songs, 55 million!

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 as much as possible to produce albums, compress all expenses as much as possible, and control the cost to a very low range, but to make an album, it will cost 10,000 yuan just to pay the singer. It means that they have to sell the album to about 10,000 copies before they can almost return to the original.

At present, even if Zhou Ai can sustain her strength and ensure that her next album will be as big and long-selling as this "Witch's Tears", she has not reached the same level of sales of tens of millions. (To be continued.)

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