Chapter 131 Overseas Distribution
After the second monthly exam, the time will enter December. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoDecember is the last month of the Gregorian calendar year, which means that at the end of the year, the major performance markets will start to be lively again. Artists who are not well-known enough have begun to compete for performance opportunities everywhere, and popular artists are waiting to be fought for by various performance units, as has been the case over the years.
After releasing a new album last year, Xiao Yao wrote more songs for others than he sung. Counting the songs he participated in the chorus, that is, "Maiba" at the New Year's Eve party, "The Great Wall" in the electronic music program, "How Lucky" when playing a flash mob with fans, "One Night in Yanjing" in the art examination room, "Fly Higher" when the art examination was unveiled, and "You at the Same Table" in the knowledge competition program, these songs were all recorded in the official version, plus "Love Has to Be Necessary" sung to Sun Tingting alone in the United States and "American Airlines Broke My Guitar" in the spoof video These two songs, which have not yet been recorded in the official version, are not enough for the number of an official album.
Like the songs in the previous album, these songs are also from folk, rock, Beijing rhyme, rap, electronic music, pop dance music, love songs, all styles, Xiao Siqi, who wanted Xiao Yao to win a best album award, also learned the lesson that Xiao Yao's first album style was too mixed, and did not rush to let Xiao Yao make up a second album.
Although he did not officially release a second new album this year, whether it was sung by himself or written for other singers, the songs he wrote have achieved a very good response, the performance of two music reality shows in front of and behind the scenes, the incident of catching a thief on the subway, the strange behavior of playing flash mobs with fans, the titles of two champions, the performance in the special feature of two puzzle knowledge contest shows, especially a spoof video that caused the stock price of an American airline to fall, The international hot events that apologized in public made Xiao Yao a topic of conversation throughout the year.
Although Xiao Yao is now a freshman in the Shenju Performance Department, his identity as a singer is still there. With his popularity this year, he is naturally the object of various performance units.
According to Xiao Yao's fame and popularity, ordinary performances will not rashly throw an olive branch to Xiao Yao, and those who dare to invite Xiao Yao to perform are only a few New Year's Eve party program groups on Star Satellite TV.
At this year's New Year's Eve party, several highly competitive satellite TV stations also sent invitations to Xiao Yao to participate in the New Year's Eve party at the beginning of the preparations for the party. Because Xiao Yao took two singers from the studio and a folk orchestra to perform five tracks in a row at the New Year's Eve party of Shonan Satellite TV last year, the group brushed a wave of presence, and the effect was very good. The program teams of several satellite TV New Year's Eve parties also specially noted in the performance invitation: Xiao Yao is welcome to design the program content by himself, and once again bring singers and musicians from his own studio to perform together.
It mainly requires a singer to form a group to participate in the performance, which is unthinkable in the preparation of performances in previous years. But the program teams of these satellite TVs have done just that. In addition to the good results of last year's program and everyone's confidence in Xiao Yao's program design, another reason is that all the current music artists in Qijia Studio are popular singers and musicians.
At this time last year, both "Women's Music Workshop" and Chen Chen were newcomers who had just debuted and were generally famous. But these two groups of artists then appeared on the Spring Festival Gala that year, and this year's development is also quite smooth, and their fame is already blameless. Needless to say, Xiao Siqi, Xiao Yao and Fan Linxuan are famous, even Gong Chen, who only joined this year, with the blessing and escort of Xiao Yao's songs, with her amazing performance and single sales in the two music reality shows, her popularity this year is better than last year's Fan Linxuan and several draft champions this year. Any group of singers or musicians in this studio who attend their family's New Year's Eve party alone will have no problem with their reputation, and they will only be happier if they come together.
After a month of military training and two months of study, Xiao Yao has been a student for three months, and he has already had some quiet thoughts at this time. Especially after getting the first overall score in the whole department in the monthly examination for two consecutive months, Xiao Yao felt that he had no problems in his studies, and he was even more eager to try without worries. Last year, I participated in the New Year's Eve party to help the studio's "Women's Music Workshop" to promote the party, and this year, when I heard Fang still report a bunch of performance invitations for the New Year's Eve party, Xiao Yao wanted to play for himself.
"Then which satellite TV's New Year's Eve party are we going to?" Fang still asked Xiao Yaodao.
Hearing that Xiao Yaoken was willing to participate in the New Year's Eve party, Fang Yi, who had been idle for a few months, and Pei Minyi, who had been completely idle for a few months, were very happy. But the top five star satellite TV in the ratings all sent Xiao Yao an invitation to perform, Xiao Yao not only decided to participate in the New Year's Eve party of satellite TV, but also had to decide which one to participate in.
It is said that he performed very well on Shonan Satellite TV last year, the cooperation between his studio and Shonan Satellite TV has been good, and there is an old acquaintance of Wang Yuan and Uncle Wang as the leader, so he can give some care and convenience, Shonan Satellite TV should be Xiao Yao's first choice. But with Xiao Yao's character, how could he be so boring.
"For this year's New Year's Eve party, we will go to Donghai Satellite TV in Shencheng. Xiao Yao had obviously thought it through.
"Are you sure?" Fang still looked at Xiao Yao and said, "We've never been to Donghai TV. ”
"I just have to go before I have never been. Xiao Yao began to count from house to house, "Shonan Satellite TV went to the New Year's Eve party last year, and it's not interesting to go to Uncle Wang's place when you get old." "The Voice" is from Zhedong Satellite TV, "One Stop to the End" is from Sunan Satellite TV, "Poetry Conference" is from Yanjing Satellite TV, four of the top five satellite TVs I have appeared, and I haven't been to Donghai Satellite TV yet. Moreover, I am now studying in college in Shencheng, so I am familiar with the local TV station, and it is very appropriate to have a good relationship. ”
"Makes sense. Fang still nodded. Anyway, with Xiao Yao's temperament, there are no problems such as recognizing life, not adapting to the water and soil, and it is difficult to cooperate, so that he can better expand his network resources in the circle by cooperating with a TV station that he has never been to.
"What about the program?" Fang still continued to ask, "The program team said that they want you to continue to perform in a group with the singers and musicians from the studio, and they also listed some repertoire that they want you to perform. However, they also said that you can also set the repertoire of the performance yourself, and if you have requirements, you can tell them in advance, and they will try to arrange and prepare, but they still have to review the content and quality of the program. ”
"There is no problem with the review, this is the process as it should be, and I also believe that the content and quality of my program are fine. Xiao Yao nodded, "But it's okay to form a group, I played it once last year, and I won't play it this year." If you really want to hold a family concert, it is better to ask my father to arrange a venue to organize a real family concert. I'm going to take Gong Chen to collaborate on a song this year, and then have a separate show. I don't care about the other singers and musicians in the studio, if you want to invite Donghai Satellite TV, let them contact them themselves, anyway, our program can't be connected. You help me contact Gong Chen's agent, Sister Yuzhi, and ask Gong Chen's schedule, if not, I will go on two shows alone. ”
"That's right. Xiao Yao added, "Gong Chen and I are collaborating on a new song, and Gong Chen has to spare at least a week to practice with me." You can help me and Gong Chen and Sister Yuzhi explain this clearly, and let them arrange the schedule. Also, I am a student, so I can only trouble Gong Chen to come to Shencheng for rehearsals with me. ”
"You have a new song to cooperate with Gong Chen, even if the schedule is occupied, they will push off the activities during the schedule and rush over. Fang still smiled, "It's just that you're cooperating with Gong Chen again? You're not afraid that Chen Chen and Fan Linxuan will be jealous? After getting along for so long, Fang could still joke with Xiao Yao more casually.
"Well, it's a song of the electronic YS brand. This song and "faded" are the same style, Fan Linxuan is not suitable, and Chen Chen has nothing to say. ”
"Faded, aren't we talking to American record companies about the overseas release of this song? Are you trying to add a bargaining chip to the negotiation?" Fang still immediately thought of Xiao Yao's purpose.
"Yes, it's just to let them know that YS's electronic music is definitely not a flash in the pan, and that if I can write one song like this, I can write a second one. Xiao Yao said with a smile.
When Xiao Yao put the four versions of the MV of "faded" on the video website PV in the United States, the number of clicks on these versions of the MV has been steadily rising. It's just that the protagonists in the video have always been masked, and although everyone has a good feeling about this song and this MV, the popularity of YS, a name that is not known in the music world, especially in the electronic music world, is still limited.
But during the summer vacation, when Xiao Yao proposed to shoot the MV for Keith Craig's band "Sugar" in the United States, he once mentioned that he had made MVs before, and he also found out the videos of these MVs and showed them. At that time, Keith Craig mainly watched the visual content of Xiao Yao's two MVs, as a rock musician, he didn't have any special feelings about that electronic music song at first. After the American Airlines incident, Keith Craig, who admired Xiao Yao more and more, turned out Xiao Yao's MV and watched it several times. After listening to it repeatedly, Keith Craig found that he also liked Xiao Yao's song. So, he reposted the MV of this song on his social account and recommended it to his fans.
Keith Craig had previously reposted Xiao Yao's spoof song video "American Airlines Broke My Guitar", and when he reposted the MV video of this song this time, some people naturally thought of Xiao Yao who wrote them "Sugar". It just so happened that Betty Bellet also revealed that Xiao Yao was a young genius photographer she met on the Eva show, and the photographer's work was signed by YS, and the author of this song was also called YS, and the string version of the MV actor also had a unique letter logo on his clothes. Only then did everyone realize that the author of the song and the masked man in this MV turned out to be the genius Chinese musician and photographer, the guy who used a spoof video to make American Airlines bow its head.
As a result, more and more people know and like this song. "faded", which had been in the works for a long time, began to rise sharply in the United States and even Europe, and the song also spread from a small number of electronic music lovers and string lovers to the ears of ordinary mass music fans.
Naturally, this situation has also attracted the attention of some record companies in the United States. Xiao Yao just released the MV, and the audio of the official recording version is still in his hand and has not been released, and there is no official version of the audio on the Internet. The infringement of picking audio from the MV is definitely not okay, don't look at this guy is just a young man in China, but he has a good relationship with top American stars like Keith Craig and his wife, and some time ago he caused the stock price of an airline to fall through a video, and the person in charge of the company apologized in public in the face of the media, obviously not a master who can be manipulated at will. So a record company contacted Xiao Yao through Keith Craig and Betty Bellaite to discuss the global release of the official version of the song.
Xiao Yao's distribution in Huaxia was naturally left to his own studio, so Xiao Yao instructed Fang to still negotiate with the American record companies he found only for overseas distribution outside of Huaxia. At present, the negotiations have not yet reached a conclusion, and the two sides are still in the stage of bargaining. So Xiao Yao just wanted to make another song with a similar style to add some bargaining chips to Fang Zhen's negotiations.