Chapter 75: Judges' Audition
The fourth song is "Red Sun", which is a classic work of the era, and it is also the famous work of the original singer Li Keqin, which made Li Keqin, who was originally unknown and retired, rise again, and accompanied countless audiences through the eventful years.
The lyrics are passionate and motivating, and compared with the first three love songs, the lyrics of this "Red Sun" are Wan Feng's favorite.
He looked at it over and over again, picked up the score again, and studied it for a while, during which several senior executives of the company also came in one by one, greeted Zheng Qian, and shook hands with each other, but everyone saw that Wan Feng was studying these songs seriously, so they didn't bother, and quietly waited for Wan Feng to finish reading.
After a while, Wan Feng took a deep breath, and there was an irrepressible smile on the corner of his mouth: "These four songs are good, each of them can be used as the title song, all in one EP, it's a bit overkill-Qianzai, don't you think about it anymore? Come to me, your talent can be more shown......"
Zheng Qian smiled silently, Wan Feng saw this, and sighed: "Even so, I am no longer reluctant, but one thing you must know is that we are only responsible for distribution, and the follow-up publicity depends on you." ”
Zheng Qian said: "I understand. ”
Next, Wan Feng asked several colleagues to look at the remaining four songs one by one, and after some discussion, he said to Zheng Qian: "We decided to put six songs in this EP, and also take out the song "I Really Love You" that you sang at Andy's concert before, what do you think?"
"I Really Love You" has occupied the top three on RTHK's song list for more than a month, and now although it is gradually declining, it is still hovering firmly in the top ten, and it is already a well-known song for many Hong Kong people, and it can also be promoted in this EP.
Zheng Qian nodded: "Yes!"
Subsequently, the two sides began to sign a contract for this cooperation, because Universal Music is the producer and distributor, so the share accounts for the majority, and the channel provider will settle 70% after settlement, and the remaining 30% will be settled to Yuexiang Entertainment after tax, Zheng Qian has no objection, this is already the final result of many bargaining discussions, and the two sides signed a contract on this.
The contract stipulates that 50,000 copies will be printed in the early stage, and relying on Universal Music's strong distribution channels, these 50,000 records will be sold to Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and other places.
In the absence of publicity, Zheng Qian is already very optimistic about Zheng Qian with 50,000 mini records in the first printing, after all, Zheng Qian is just a newcomer to the Southeast Asian market.
The following week, Zheng Qian and his party stayed in Hong Kong to record six songs and shoot the EP poster.
In order to save costs, Universal Music did not attach images to these six songs, but only found suitable movie pictures in its copyright library to add, each song is three to five minutes, except for Zheng Qian's singing, there is not a single photo of Zheng Qian in it, all of them are urban characters and landscapes, etc., which can be called quite simple.
However, the cover of the album still carries a personal poster of Zheng Qian, and the surface of the record is the number of tracks.
On the fifth day, Zheng Qian had already recorded these six songs, and the rest was handed over to Universal Music to produce.
Absolutely self-fending.
Of course, Zheng Qian will not sit still, after recording the portfolio, Zheng Qian got in touch with Andy, it would be too wasteful to have connections, and Andy is still famous for helping others.
However, after hearing Zheng Qian tell the cause and effect, Andy was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "Gold will shine wherever it goes, you can get a 30% share from Universal, which is already very good, ordinary newcomers don't have this share, even if I personally come forward to help you find other companies, it will probably be the same, but Universal Music has a wide range of channels, and it is the most complete, it is the leading leader in the Hong Kong record industry, and if you cooperate with them, as long as the works are of high quality, they will always become popular......"
After hearing Zheng Qian's intention clearly, Andy agreed very decisively, "I will help you contact the song radio station, and we will record a show together when the time comes." ”
"Brother Hua, you are so righteous!"
Zheng Qian raised his thumb and praised: "If you need my help in the future, just ask! You know, I can't do anything else, so I'm better at writing songs." ”
Andy smiled and waved his hand: "My focus in the future will be on movie shooting, and I won't make new albums for the time being, but I can't say for sure what will happen in the future, maybe I will need your help with the theme song of the movie in the future." ”
Liu Yihua has been in the Asian music scene for 20 years, leaving countless classic repertoire, and he has reached the top of the music world, and his ambitions for the music industry have almost dissipated, and now he just wants to achieve higher goals in movies.
After getting Andy's accurate reply, Zheng Qian was also relieved, but he also made preparations for the second song, and hired a large number of water armies to "paddle" wildly in major forums in Hong Kong after the release day, and he must save the reputation of this EP to the highest in word of mouth, and then develop more "tap water".
Of course, the premise is that the quality of the mini album itself is good enough, otherwise this trick will definitely be dead if anyone uses it.
It is estimated that the entire entertainment industry will dare Zheng Qian to pat his chest to ensure the quality of this EP, he dares to say that every one is a classic among classics!
A small EP gathers the representative works of Beyond, Eason Chan, Leslie Cheung, Hacken Lee and other superstars, as well as Andy's personal endorsement, if it can't be popular, Zheng Qian swears to wash his hair upside down.
Time flies.
A week later, Zheng Qian returned to the mainland and began to participate in the recording of the second audition of "Chinese Idol".
According to relevant reports, during the primary election, nearly half of the contestants in "Chinese Idol" have been eliminated, and the first producer audition was even more cruel, many contestants who concealed information in the video materials, sang falset-to-tune in the video, and repaired their voices also had a big overturn at the audition site, and all kinds of strange players abounded, so that after the first official audition, nearly ninety percent of the contestants did not qualify for the promotion and were eliminated.
Originally, there were 30,000 players in the Beijing competition area alone, but after the first round of auditions, there were only more than 3,000 people in an instant, nearly ten times as many people were eliminated.
This time, the judging audition is divided into three stages, the first stage, everyone will perform in the order of each person's number, 5 people will perform in a group, and only one person in each group can advance.
In the second stage, the 600 players who have been promoted, and then in the order of numbers, 5 players are divided into a group, a total of 12 groups for PK performances, and the top 20 players in the competition area are directly selected by the judges.
The third stage is the battle for the top 10 in the region.
It is worth mentioning that the top 20 in each region will be separated from the ground audition, and the individual performance of the contestants who perform well in the audition process will have the opportunity to be broadcast in the new column "Idol is Coming" launched by Shonan Satellite TV from 6 to 6:30 every night.
This move means that Shonan Satellite TV began to brew popularity for popular players until the top 10 in the competition area were selected.
At that time, there will be a separate two-hour broadcast of the feature film of "Chinese Idol" every Friday night, which also means that a powerful star-making machine is in operation.