Chapter 46: Rapid progress
Since Li Qian's studio was registered and established in 96, to today's Minghu Culture Company, this small hill has been established for a year and a half, and its signed artists have also included a rock band, a girl group, and eight other independent artists, the company's production department, after repeated expansion, now has a team of more than 20 people, even in terms of scale, it is already a medium-sized, even large record company.
However, a more serious problem than all other large and medium-sized record companies is that Minghu Culture Company has been relying too much on individual ability and motivation until now - from this point of view, Minghu Culture Company can only be classified as a small record company.
In short, without Li Qian, the company would be almost inoperable.
Therefore, the operation of the whole company, especially the work rhythm of the core business of music production, had to be arranged and adjusted to the maximum extent according to Li Qian's schedule.
As a result, Li Qian's schoolwork is busy, and many things in the company have to move forward little by little, and the pace is extremely slow, and Li Qian can go back to the company as soon as he is free, even if many times he simply goes through it, sometimes he nods directly, and sometimes he just mentions a few words, and then goes back to modify, and the business progress of the entire company will suddenly increase to a fairly fast speed.
Therefore, don't look at the scale of Minghu Culture Company, but the more core the management, the more aware it is: there is a shortage of people in the company!
What is lacking is not ordinary staff, not ordinary arrangers and musicians, but masters who can be completely independent like Li Qian. Especially, the producers!
In view of this, up to Qi Jie, Liao Liao, down to Li Jinlong, Sun Meimei. In the past half a year, he has been unremittingly searching and searching in the circle, trying to dig up a few masters, even if the core business is still inseparable from Li Qian, but at least some ordinary businesses must be able to operate normally when Li Qian is too busy.
Pity. The music circle is originally a circle of talents, and it is the most typical industry that thrives and abandons because of people. In other words, the level of personal ability, in fact, is the most critical for both large companies and small companies. It is even more important than the capital chain and sales channels required for the normal operation of the company.
If you have to benchmark, then. A musician is to a record company what a technical department is to an industrial company.
And to a large extent, every musician with a unique style is a unique technology with global patents, which you can't learn, and the copycats are not like copycats.
And the record, that's what sells.
Therefore, in the music circle, if there are some outstanding characters, it doesn't matter if they are famous songwriters. Famous arranger, famous producer. Even the famous musicians, they all have their own mountains. Large, medium and small record companies are also very tight about them, and it is difficult to poach people, even second-tier characters.
And it's just that. Even if there are a few that are not part of the record label system...... The reason why he is not there must be a special reason, either he is not short of money, or he is mixed with the state system, or he is a bull fork with an abnormal temper. People don't bother to deal with these record companies at all! In short, other companies can't be invited, and Minghu Culture is still out of play.
As a result, the problem of lack of people has always plagued Minghu culture.
This year is not bad, the whole company is just gradually getting on the right track, in 1997, the company only released two albums, and did a concert of He Runqing, and the other is to take on the soundtrack of three TV series and a movie, the work is not too much, the ordinary people in the company are also enough, Li Qian stayed in the company for a few more days, and it was basically done.
But what about next year?
Next year, in 1998, there will be at least five albums planned to be produced and released, including "Fake Monk" by the four major beauty bands, and one of them is to choose one of the three new recruits recently signed by the company to test the market.
And from a more long-term perspective, the three people of the Rose Power Group, Xie Bing, Wang Jingxue and Sun Ruoxuan, have also signed with the company as individual singers, so next, the personal development direction of the three of them must also be done, and then, what about the other two newcomers? Even if they don't release an album in 98, they can't stop releasing in 99, right?
Therefore, if the problem of lack of people is not solved, it is no longer a simple matter that Li Qian will be too busy and tired, and it has involved the development prospects and prospects of the entire company.
Li Jinlong is currently the manager of the company's production department, he is a person with long sleeves and good at dancing, responsible for some basic things in Zhang Luo, that is not to say, almost everything, never let Li Qian worry about it, but his personal talent in music, and the ability to grasp music, to be honest, is not enough to support one side alone.
However, at present, Minghu Culture can't dig up other people, so Li Qian came up with a temporary relief solution: push He Runqing to the background and start working part-time as a producer.
On November 12th, He Runqing's national tour officially began, and for the next five weeks, she has been running around in the field, and after more than 30 days of work, the national tour has run down, except for many fans who have watched the live video of the Beijing station dialed out by Shuntianfu TV, they will regret the absence of the four beauty bands, basically everything is going well, and the concert guests must be replaced every time they change their stops, which is also the rule of peers in the industry, no one can pick anything.
Therefore, everywhere she went to the concert, her popularity was almost bursting, and the result was that not only Minghu culture and performance merchants made a lot of money, but He Runqing's popularity and influence have also reached the peak state in recent years.
After a month of running and hard work, it is said that whoever is replaced will have to rest for a while, but He Runqing has always been a workaholic, and the success of the national tour has made her career almost peak. So, after returning to Suncheonfu, she only rested for three days, and then returned to the company and began to return to work.
And when Li Qian told her about his plan, she agreed almost without thinking.
Previously, when she made an album with Liao Liao and Li Qian. I've been interested in the behind-the-scenes production, and it's a good idea to have the opportunity to experiment with it myself.
Her strength in the music industry for more than ten years, her diva-level status and influence, and many realizations during the completion of this transformation have made Li Qian full of confidence in her producer career.
In fact, she was responsible for the recording of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" interlude. For a new producer, it can be said that the completion is quite beautiful! Occasionally, Li Qian pointed out that with her rich experience and high understanding, she also quickly understood that when she went back to make corrections, Li Qian immediately gave her a thumbs up.
So, under Li Qian. For the time being, it can be said that Minghu Culture Company finally has another qualified producer.
And then. When the time entered 1998, throughout January, Cao Zhan and Wang Huaiyu were busy doing the later stage of "Fake Monk", while Li Jinlong was busy with the soundtrack of the entire "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", He Runqing was busy supervising the production of six episodes, and Li Qian was busy with the recording of the theme song and interlude of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". On the one hand, he had already started to help Liao Liao rehearse the song.
In the previous three albums, "Liao Liao", "The Sound of the Waves Remains", and "Grateful Heart", Liao Liao is almost one step at a time, and every step is extremely stable. Up to now, she has properly stood at the highest point of the entire domestic music scene. But the more this happens, the more difficult it is for her album to make.
Therefore, although her new album can use other people's works, the role of producer must be Li Qian. If it weren't for Li Qian, even Liao Liao himself would be unsure.
You know, you will fall heavily when you climb high.
In today's domestic music scene, even if the old guy is old, when he sees Liao Liao, he can't put on a stand, after all, he is already an unprecedented national diva, but then again, being polite in person does not mean that people are really polite, in the domestic music scene today, I don't know how many people are looking forward to Liao Liao falling from the highest point!
Although Liao Liao's status is today, just a slightly worse album sales are not enough to affect her status, as long as it is not a collapse in sales and word-of-mouth, then she is still the number one diva in the world. However, the embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, whether it is Liao Liao or Li Qian, or from the perspective of the positioning of the flag bearer of Minghu Culture Company, for the time being, everyone does not want to see Liao Liao's album sales decline.
Even if it's just the same as the previous one, it's good enough!
But obviously, Liao Liao still wants to go further!
Because next year's opponent is Zhou Yan!
In her logical terms, she wants to completely kill that woman! Let her know that the diva and the diva are also different! Let her not dare to provoke again on the album in the future life...... And so on, a lot of cruel words.
Because of this, although Liao Liao sang several TV series theme songs in the past 1997, she was not ready to include them in the new album, because she was afraid that the old songs that had already appeared would affect sales and word of mouth.
And "The Sky of History" will not be broadcast until the summer vacation, and no matter how much she likes it, she can't accept it.
Therefore, in addition to the previously determined to use "The Moonlight's Walking Board", "The Sun Comes Out of the West" and "The Wind Comes Back", her solo version of "Meet Ninety-Eight" will be included.
In addition, the first main song of the whole album is responsible for carrying the flag, of course, the song that is the title of the album, "Woman Flower" written by Li Qian to her. Then, "Seeing Flowers in the Fog" and "Wild Lilies Have Spring" are folk songs, "Walking in Style" are the main pop songs, and "The Most Romantic Thing" and "Across the Sea to See You" are the main pop love songs.
The whole album, after the initial recording of a sample, Li Qian personally convened the high-level people within Minghu Culture, including Cao Zhan and others, to listen, everyone agreed that it was amazing!
So, while helping Liao Liao to guide and adjust, Li Qian successfully recorded the theme song and interlude of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that he was responsible for, and on the other hand, he was seriously coping with the exams at the end of the semester...... It doesn't take long, Li Qian's other growth may not be there, and his driving skills have made great progress again, which is true.
However, it is precisely this kind of busyness that makes all the work of Minghu Culture move forward rapidly, in Qi Jie's words, it has laid an excellent foundation for the full-scale outbreak next year.
It's just one thing, Li Qian has promised Xie Bing to accompany her to buy a puppy, but it has been delayed until the Spring Festival, and it has not yet been fulfilled.
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Throughout January, the recording of the theme song and interlude of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was basically completed, and the soundtrack of the whole drama has also been advanced to more than 40 episodes, and it is expected that it will be completed before the end of March after the year.
In January, after Liao Liao finished recording "The Sky of History", he only had time to record two songs, and he was forced to interrupt the recording of the new album, because the Spring Festival Gala has entered the final rehearsal period, and big-name singers such as her and Zhou Yan must also participate in rehearsals and walks in person.
Liao Liao is going to the Spring Festival Gala, Huang Wenjuan must follow, and He Runqing also received an invitation to go up and sing her most popular song "Dream Chaser" this year, so the company's two queens are going to the Spring Festival Gala, and Qi Jie, the general manager, volunteered to lead the team.
And but, I don't know why, after Tao Huijun came to Shuntian Mansion, it seems that she really put on a posture of not going back, although she hasn't changed her house yet, but she actually insists on not going back to Jinan Mansion during the Spring Festival! And it is said that Wang Jingxue and Wang Jinglu's father will never come to Shuntian Mansion!
This matter involves things within other families, even if it is a close relationship, it is inconvenient to put a beak, Li Qian naturally will not ask more and say more, but in this way, Wang Jinglu seems to be in a dilemma, in the end, although everyone is persuading her to go back, she doesn't know what to think, she actually decided to stay in Shuntian Mansion and celebrate the holiday with her mother and sister.
As a result, Li Qian had no choice but to return to Jinan Mansion alone.
But before leaving, he thought about it, and saw that he was about to leave the city of Shuntianfu, but he turned the steering wheel back, and when he arrived downstairs to Xie Bing, he called her and said, "Come back to Jinan Mansion with me for the New Year!"
Ten minutes later, Xie Bing, who was still alone in the room and felt a little lonely, was already dressed up and jumped downstairs with his small suitcase.
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This month's monthly pass is a bit miserable...... (To be continued.) )