163. Survival of the fittest
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"Hello Li Xiang, it's the first time we met, please take care of me in the future. ”
Just as Li Xiang was chatting with Jiao Andong and the others, a young man who also participated in the trial meeting stepped forward to greet Li Xiang with a very polite attitude.
Li Xiang saw him when he came in, and felt familiar, but he didn't know him.
It's hard to describe this person as handsome, but very personal.
His eyes were narrow and long, like peach blossom eyes but not peach blossom eyes, until the three words Danfeng eyes flashed in his mind, and Li Xiang found the most suitable adjective. That's right, this life is a pair of red phoenix eyes.
When he spoke, his eyes were half-narrowed, and his eyes were even narrower, with his attractive facial features, he should have been a handsome idol, but the fly in the ointment was that his mouth was a little crooked when he spoke.
Although Li Xiang didn't know him, Zhao Qiran knew him, and he invited him.
"This is our senior brother, Yuan Qiuchang. Zhao Qiran introduced Li Xiang. Li Xiang came late, and he was not present when he was introduced before.
Li Xiang was suddenly, he said how to look familiar, it turned out to be Yuan Qiuchang!
Yuan Qiuchang is the overall champion of the third season of "Today's Star", and he also signed a contract with Miya Entertainment.
Yuan Qiuchang is also a singer-songwriter, and what makes him unique is that before participating in "Today's Star", he was the lead singer of an underground band. After winning the overall championship of the show, he signed a contract with the whole team of four people to Miya Entertainment, and the current development is not satisfactory, because their songs are very niche, which may be a common problem of underground bands, but the audience does not buy the personality they think.
Yuan Qiuchang is not bad, such as the champions of the first and second seasons, but now they can't be seen, and the company still has these two people, but they have almost disappeared.
Graduation season in college is breakup season. In the same way, when the talent show ends, it is also the moment when most of the contestants take a curtain call.
At the end of the third season, Yuan Qiuchang released the digital music album "Wei Live", which barely won the gold record, that is, the sales reached 1 million copies, but it was less than 2 million copies, and he missed the platinum record.
The music industry around the world has a uniform measure of music albums, with more than 1 million copies sold being gold records, more than 2 million copies sold being platinum records, more than 4 million double platinum records, more than 6 million being triple platinum records, and so on......
Huaxia's record sales record is 15 million copies set by Liu Guanglun and three others, known as the "Voice of the Times" historic record, and it is a physical record.
At that time, digital records had not yet appeared.
Li Xiang chatted with Yuan Qiuchang, and Yuan Qiuchang called the other three members of his band over to introduce them. The three of them didn't seem to be very interested in Li Xiang, and Li Xiang just shook hands, fortunately, and didn't say much else.
"Underground bands, they are always not interested in mainstream singers, don't mind, in fact, people are not bad. Zhao Qiran explained in a low voice.
Li Xiang suddenly, compared with Zhao Qiran, he seems to be understood by everyone as more mainstream, because he has sung a proper main theme song like "I Love Your Motherland". For underground bands, they may scoff at it in private.
Compared with these three people, Yuan Qiuchang obviously wants to integrate into the mainstream circle more, otherwise he would not participate in "Today's Star", but his brothers seem to think that his music is more pure and a little repulsive.
Li Xiang didn't think much about them anymore, because someone came over again. These people are not singers, but album producers, in fact, a big purpose for them to participate in Zhao Qiran's audition meeting today is to "meet" Li Xiang. When I first came, I heard that Li Xiang couldn't come, and I was sorry, but suddenly I saw him come again.
Usually, Li Xiang comes to the company relatively rarely, and he is protected by Zhou Ni, a strong agent, so he can't find it if he wants to. Today is a rare opportunity. Their purpose is very clear, that is, they want to be the producer of Li Xiang's new album.
Everyone knows that Li Xiang's new album will definitely be able to become a platinum record, and now the question is only how many times platinum it is.
Regardless of how many times the platinum is used, for the producers involved, this is a beautiful difference, and it is a pearl that they embellish in their careers, and they have to tighten it.
Don't look at Liu Guanglun and others who once set an exaggerated record of 15 million, it was a glorious period, every industry is a wavy development curve, and now the entire music industry is in the lower band of the wavy curve, that is, the trough. Since the retirement of the previous superstar Liu Guanglun, the entire Chinese music circle has been competing with each other, and dragons and snakes are mixed.
Qin lost his deer, and the world chased it. Everyone wants to be the next king or queen of heaven, but no one can do it yet, even if it is very prosperous, but it is like a comet fleeting, and there is no dominance.
To become a king or diva, the first sign is to have a five-fold platinum record with sales of at least 10 million copies, otherwise the threshold will not be entered.
Li wanted to be polite to these people, but he didn't say a word about his promise. After the audition meeting, he went out to lunch with Zhao Qiran and others. Zhao Qiran was treated.
Li Xiang didn't dare to drink anymore, and Su Rui and Shi were also banned by their agent. Drinking alcohol hurts the throat, and they used to have no agent, no one to restrain them, and now they are being controlled.
At the dinner table, Li Xiang asked what was going on today, but Zhao Qiran didn't know much about it, and said that the biggest possibility was that he had offended these people. Some singers who debuted early in Miya Entertainment asked him to write songs, but obviously, he didn't help write them. I have just debuted, where is there a song for others, if it is after becoming famous, it is possible to write one or two songs for others.
Li Xiang groaned twice in his heart, he had also rejected many people, and when he held an audition meeting, these people would also show him a face
When he went back, Li wanted to listen to Zhou Ni's introduction. She is the "old man" in Miya Entertainment, and she sees it more thoroughly.
"What Zhao Qiran said offended people is on the one hand, and on the other hand, some singers are dissatisfied with the company. Zhou Ni introduced.
A company's resources are always limited, in the past, when there was no Li Xiang and others, these people could get three points of resources, but now they have signed seven people in one go, maybe they can only get two points of resources, plus the company's deviation, even only one point.
Miya Entertainment is the first entertainment company in China, but the history is very short, only 10 years, in order to quickly gain a foothold, in a short period of time, eyebrows and mustaches grabbed a lot of people. The level of these people is uneven, after all, where can really high-level singers be poached by honey buds in batches, just like a pyramid, there must be a few top artists, and more artists are hovering in the second, third, fourth and fifth lines.
Over the years, Miya Entertainment has been striving to be the first and catching up with its peers as the primary goal, and now 10 years have passed, it has stabilized its position and stood on the line of the first gear, and it is time to sort out internal management and survival of the fittest. Some artists who have been messing around for a long time have been put on the company's purge list.
There are some rumors within the company, and these people are grouped together, relative to them, Li Xiang and others, as the company's newly signed singers, represent a new force, and they are two opposite sides.
If you explain it this way, you can understand why none of these senior singers came. It's not so much to give Zhao Qiran a good look, but to give the company a hidden demonstration.
Zhou Ni said: "Wait and watch the show." ”
Li Xiang didn't ask much, he couldn't control these things, and he didn't bother to know, and out of sight was clean.