John Days was a pure businessman.

Yes, Li Qian knew in his previous life that Hollywood's glamorous clothes are of course centered on artists, but in fact, the people who really control those countless movies are often not filmmakers, but outright businessmen like John Deiss.

If you have to explain, I can only say that he is a businessman who understands movies better.

The characteristics of businessmen are: baht must be compared, one yard to one yard.

Of course, to a certain extent, this is also because after the development of the American film industry to the current level, after nearly a hundred years of accumulation, relatively complete rules and regulations have been formed in all aspects, so in the Chinese who have become accustomed to relatively loose things, talk to the Americans about things...... It's too cumbersome and too detailed.

The crew of "Titanic" will provide comprehensive support for Li Qian and Liao Liao's trip to the United States, which is a pre-agreed premise, but how to support and to what extent is not enough for both parties.

As a result, the other side then sent a professional negotiating team from the United States, including a lawyer, a negotiator, and up to three negotiators, including music professionals and 20th Century Fox Group staff who specialize in handling logistics matters. The final negotiation result, even Li Qian and their arrival in Los Angeles should stay in which hotel, what kind of living standards they should enjoy during their stay, how many assistants or escorts should be within their scope of responsibility, how each person is treated, and even what kind of vehicle should be equipped when traveling, or how much transportation expenses should be allocated each week, were all negotiated in detail and recorded in the contract。

In her words afterwards, "The big international company is really not boasting, it is really a one-size-fits-all...... I've seen it for a long time!"

A few days later, before the negotiations were over, Xie Mingyuan accompanied his old man and a pair of children to return to China in a low-key manner.

In the first month, when the media, music circles, and fans who were still in China were immersed in the shock brought by the album "Once You" and the record-breaking sales data of this album, Li Qian, Liao Liao, and Xie Mingyuan took the same plane, set sail from Shuntianfu, and arrived in the western city of the United States, Los Angeles, after a flight of more than ten hours.

Because it was only a short-term cooperation, the other party arranged two rooms and a suite in a hotel that is estimated to be a cooperative relationship for Li Qian and his party, one suite, where Li Qian and Liao Liao lived, and a business room, where Xie Ming lived far away.

Xie Mingyuan had traveled to the United States for a few months before, and had been to Los Angeles, this time, he was half the master, and spent two days taking Li Qian and Liao Liao around and looking around, and then they were ready to start making this album.

Of course, the soundtrack has to be done first.

The release schedule of "Titanic" has been finalized for May 14, so theoretically speaking, by mid-April at the latest, the release and editing version of this movie must be completely completed, and before that, the soundtrack, as well as the soundtrack of the entire movie, of course, can only be advanced and not lagged behind, because for this movie, special effects are a big head, and the completion of special effects means that the big work of this movie is over...... Therefore, there are only about thirty-five to forty days left for Li Qian's small team to make the soundtrack.

But luckily, it's not that hard.

The theme song of "My-heart-will-go-on" has been established, then, the main theme of the soundtrack of the whole movie is already there, if it is replaced by a movie, it already has a script, replaced by a novel, it already has an outline, and if it is replaced by a song, he also has a chorus part - in the studio provided by Rolling Stone Records, mainly Li Qian and Xie Mingyuan, it only took less than four days to finalize the soundtrack ideas for several other scenes!

Yes, similar to "Titanic", a milestone film with a good reputation and box office, its script, its shots, its special effects, its soundtrack, its editing, and even its relatively easy to find fault with the actors' performances, are absolutely classic models for filmmakers and musicians.

Li Qian was a musician in his previous life, and later worked as a filmmaker for about ten years - well, this is a relatively braggadocio statement, in fact, he is a TV person - "Titanic", or simply James Cameron, Spear Berg and other famous directors of almost every movie, he has watched and studied it over and over again, so for the soundtrack of this movie, although it is impossible for him to remember every note from beginning to end, but each soundtrack has a rough impression, but it is absolutely fine.

So, in fact, for Li Qian and Xie Mingyuan, the four days are mainly about watching the rough cut out of the 210-minute version of the movie, and Li Qian came up with his own ideas to persuade Xie Mingyuan.

With the idea settled, they quickly made up two soundtracks, and with the cooperation of Rolling Stone Records, they quickly recorded a demo to send to John Days, and then, finally, a week after coming to Los Angeles, Li Qian finally met James Cameron.

In terms of European and American races, he is not too tall, and he is a little fat, but his fatness, at first glance, will make people feel that it is strong-bright eyes, embarrassing beard stubble, when he speaks, full of passion, like a bell.

There is no doubt that he is extremely appreciative of Li Qian's soundtrack ideas and the samples he has come up with so far, and he is extremely satisfied with Li Qian's work progress.

Of course, don't look at everyone talking happily, but after chatting for a while, he quickly said goodbye - if it was Chinese, in this case, it would be about having a meal and a glass of wine together to talk about friendship, but James Cameron seemed to be very busy, and Li Qian was just here to be a passerby, and he didn't have the idea of having a deep friendship with the other party, so ...... In a hurry, shake hands, everyone sits together and chats, and then everyone continues to work and go about their own work.

At this time in China, on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the dragon raised its head, and on Tuesday, the ninth day of March in the Western calendar, the annual Golden Melody Awards ceremony was held again as scheduled.

On the side of Minghu Culture in advance, of course, they received invitations, but in the end, the people who went to the scene could only be led by Qi Jie and Zou Wenhuai, including Cao Zhan, Wang Huaiyu, He Runqing and Rose Power, all dressed up.

As for Zhou Yan, after reaching a tacit cooperation agreement between Minghu Culture and Sony Records to make money, Watanabe and the others can almost turn a blind eye to her still in the contract period and He Weishang appeared in the queue of Minghu Culture during the non-compete agreement. After all, even if Zhou Yan's tour only opens ten or eight concerts, it is a lot of money.

"Once You" is an album that was only released on February 10 this year, according to the selection criteria of the Golden Melody Awards only selecting works that have been publicly released from January 1 to December 31 in the past year, this album is not listed, and can only participate in the next year's selection, but even so, Minghu Culture still swept a number of heavyweight awards in one fell swoop.

Album of the Year, Super-star.

Combination of the Year, Rose Power.

Best Female Singer of the Year, Zhou Yan.

Best Rock Album of the Year, "Fake Monk".

The best rock band of the year, the four beauty bands.

In addition, six of the top ten golden songs of the year also fell directly into the name of Minghu Culture.

"Super-star", Rose Power, No. 1 of the year.

"Woman Flower", Liao Liao, second of the year.

"Meet Ninety-Eight", Liao Liao, Zhou Yan, the third of the year.

"Don't-break-my-heart", the Big Four Beauty Band, the fifth of the year.

"The Price of Love", He Runqing, eighth of the year.

"Nothing", the four major beauty bands, the ninth of the year.

In addition, there is "Witch's Tears", which will definitely be counted under the name of Sony Records, the fourth of the year.

In the past year, Xinda Records has won the best newcomer of the year, Zheng Guofeng, although he is smiling, Zhao Xinfu once again won the honor of the best male singer of the year, highlighting his status as an unparalleled chief male coffee in today's domestic music scene, and also made Sony Records, which has been unlucky since the beginning of the Spring Festival Gala program, have some comfort.

Of course, everyone knows that unless it is so dense and can have another phenomenal album within this year, otherwise, next year's Golden Melody Awards will definitely be the world of the four major beauty bands - I feel a little helpless when I think about it, obviously the market of the year has just begun, and the good things that everyone is holding in their hands have not yet been smashed out, and the commanding heights of the entire market have been held in advance by others!

But on the contrary, everyone knows, even if it is as powerful as Sony Records, it is clear that they are powerless to change this.

Because the album "Once You" is so popular!

After selling for five days in the first week, they swept down 147269 amazing sales in Dongguan Bookstore, won 114892 copies in the second week, and in the third week, except for Minghu Culture, almost the vast majority of people in the entire domestic music scene were expecting this album to fall below six figures at least, 103548 right?

For three consecutive weeks, this album has exceeded 100,000 copies in a single week for three consecutive weeks!

In the fourth week, after such a violent explosion of this album, the momentum of rushing sales has decreased slightly, but it still won 89,551 copies of sales - this sales volume is already twice the peak weekly sales of Liao Liao, the only top A+ star in China!

Moreover, as early as before the official release of the sales data for the fourth week, on Thursday, March 4, Qi Jie held a press conference on behalf of Minghu Culture, officially announcing that the global shipment of the album "Once You" had exceeded 13 million copies as of 3 pm on March 2!

The so-called shipments only mean that they are sold to distributors from Minghu Culture Company, and it does not mean that all albums have been sold. As far as this album is concerned, 13 million copies have been shipped, which means that the actual sales of this album have basically reached 10 million copies.

This is a desperate result.

Before this album was born, Liao Liao was the only A+-level singer recognized in China, and her nearly four or five albums have achieved stable sales of more than 10 million copies, He Runqing is considered A-level, and the first album of Rose Power's debut was a big hit, so it only took one step and also stepped into the A-level, they all belong to the group that has already sold more than 10 million copies, and then, either other albums are also steadily moving towards 10 million copies, or the future is unanimously optimistic about the industry.

In addition, Zhao Xinfu, Zhou Yan, Huang Yuqing and others are all A-level, they are all very powerful, but they have never had a single album sales record of breaking 10 million copies - as for the once best-selling Wuxing Wusu, because of the ups and downs in album sales, it has been reduced to A-, and last year, after the collision with the power of roses, they were directly kicked off the clouds and fell to the B- level.

However, now, just as the appearance of Liao Liao's "The Sound of the Waves Remains", which sold tens of millions of copies, suddenly broke the inherent level of the entire domestic music scene, "Once You" sold to such an extent that the previous default evaluation criteria in people's hearts suddenly lost their balance - the four major beauty bands that sold tens of millions of copies worldwide in less than a month, and at least seven million copies in China, and the four major beauty bands that broke 100,000 copies in a single week in Dongguan Bookstore for three consecutive weeks, how can the level not be lower than Liao Liao?

If Liao Liao is A+, then what are the four beauty bands?A++?

Then, if the four beauty bands are re-evaluated as A+, Liao Liao will definitely be reduced to A-grade!

In this regard, there is still a little confusion in the industry, and everyone just knows tacitly: the coffee position of the four beauty bands is one level higher than Liao Liao's single person!

Of course, for other record companies in China, although the four beauty bands are very strong, as long as no one deliberately jumps out to stimulate them, it is estimated that they don't even have an album a year, so the commanding heights of the market are occupied by others, and in the next year, although the albums of the four beauty bands will dominate the market for a long time, but after all, when the strength is exhausted, it cannot continue to sell well, and Liao Liao and He Runqing have no planned new albums or will not be released until the end of the year, so they can stand up and support Minghu cultureThere is only one rose power to dominate the market, and there is still a lot of market space left for everyone.

In particular, it is said that Minghu Culture is going to push a few newcomers this year - Minghu Culture is bold enough, but of course they have bold confidence, but for so many record companies and singers in the industry who want to compete with Minghu Culture for the market, this is not only very dangerous, but at the same time it is a major opportunity that should not be missed!

In April, it is said that Lake Culture will launch a female singer - another female singer! Why is it a female singer —— called Zhuang Meiyue, many companies in the industry have collected her relevant information, many people analyze that the girl's voice and number of paths, it is difficult to become a popular type in the market, so, April was not too popular in previous years, and suddenly it has become the time for major companies to launch new albums!

And the most important of them all...... Sony Records has locked in April for the little diva Li Xinru!

Everyone can smell the smoke that has already diffused!

In June, Minghu Culture is said to be another newcomer, of course, this time it's finally a male singer! And this time, Huang Yuqing, the little king of Sony Records, is said to have set the release date of the new album at the end of June and early July - Obviously, Sony Records still attaches great importance to the male singer launched by Li Qian's ratings, and even doesn't dare to play such a big name as Huang Yuqing directly, but gives a relatively vague date, which should have reserved a certain amount of reaction time for himself.

However, it is conceivable that once the rookie male singer and his album on the side of Minghu Culture are not so good enough, even if it is just average, with Huang Yuqing's current status and appeal at that time, this "end of June and beginning of July" will be locked up as "end of June"!

Of course, according to the news coming out of Sony Records, they seem to be pushing a newcomer this year, but the specific news is not known to the outside world, and there are only some faint gossip at present...... It is said to be an idol artist signed by Sony in Japan.

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The Golden Melody Awards are a vanity fair.

Those who come have won the honor have to laugh, and if they can't get the honor, they still have to laugh.

And whether or not they can get the honor they want to get, every time they see someone on the podium, everyone can't help but make their own calculations in their hearts - this is another battlefield where there is no gunpowder smoke in the open, but gunpowder smoke everywhere in the secret!

The absence of Li Qian and Liao Liao, of course, attracted a lot of speculation, and the media also extended various explanations afterwards, some people said that they went out for their honeymoon, others said that they went to celebrate, and some people said that they were actively preparing a new album for Liao Liao, ready to release it coldly, and smash Sony Records...... In short, there are various theories, and so on.

However, no one thought that at this time, Li Qian and Liao Liao, while steadily advancing the soundtrack of "Titanic", had really begun to prepare for Liao Liao's new album.

Only this time, it will no longer be a simple Chinese album, but a global album.

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I didn't update it yesterday, and there are very few tickets, so ask for a few tickets!(To be continued.) )