Chapter 140: Digital Album
Chen Lihui's speed was very fast, and after Ye Wenxuan informed him, he appeared at school at noon the next day.
Liu Pian is going to write a song for Wenxuan again!
That's a good thing!
The original decision to arrange Ye Wenxuan in Liu Pian's bedroom was really right, and now it seems that these two boys get along very happily.
Love for a long time!
For Liu Pian's talent, Chen Lihui is also convinced. But what he values more is Liu Pian's voice and his appearance. What he thought was: This kid can eat with his face, why do he have to think about writing songs?
It's just so well written....
When Liu Pian saw Chen Lihui, the uncle had the "kind" smile of Maitreya Buddha on his face, and he looked at Liu Pian as kindly as his own son.
"Uncle, can you stop staring at my face all the time? It's not the first day we've met. ”
"Hehe, I'm not happy. ”
"Then you can have fun with yourself, I'll go. Liu Pian was about to leave.
"Ahem, let's get down to business. Chen Lihui put on a straight face and said, "Wenxuan told you, he still has four songs left on this album, if you win them all, I can take out 400,000 yuan to buy the singing copyright!"
400,000 songs, 100,000 songs, is not a low price in the industry.
Liu Pian is also more satisfied with the price.
But Liu Pian is more active now, and she is not satisfied with just paying money with one hand and selling songs with the other.
"Uncle Chen, I also want to be an album producer. Liu Pian said directly.
"Producer?" Chen Lihui looked surprised.
"Producer!" Liu Pian said in a deep voice: "Ye Wenxuan's album, I want to create it myself!"
This is an idea that Liu Pian thought about for a long time after Ye Wenxuan's invitation to sing last night. If you just sell songs, you can't enter the circle.
Liu Pian wanted to participate in it and see it in person.
Maybe I'll release an album in the future, so it's time to learn from the experience in advance.
Chen Lihui stopped talking and thought slowly. He didn't doubt Liu Pian's ability, he had already released a few singles, he could still make songs, and as the person in charge, he could also help.
He just wondered why the Willow liar was suddenly so warm-hearted? Didn't this kid hate himself for bothering him before?
"Are you serious?"
"Of course. I wrote the songs, and I wrote the songs, so I must have the most say in how I arrange and sing the songs, right?"
Chen Lihui nodded, but hesitated, "This matter...."
"Can't you?"
Chen Lihui smiled bitterly, "I'll just tell you this, Wenxuan's album is already in charge, and a music producer invited by the company is the art director." Although I am the person in charge, it is not easy to change people casually, after all, it has been discussed a long time ago, and they are quite famous in the circle....."
"I said that, you understand, right?" Chen Lihui's face was full of apologies, "Liu Pian, it's not that I doubt your ability, it's really this thing..."
Liu Pian interrupted and said helplessly, "Uncle Chen, don't say it, I understand." ”
"It's good that you understand. Chen Lihui said, "That's it, although there is no chance for this album, but Wenxuan's next album, I invite you to help, how about it?"
Liu Pian smiled, "Okay, let's talk about it when we have a chance later." ”
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Subsequently, the two agreed on a time to take the song, and Chen Lihui left the school.
The headquarters of Tenwa Entertainment is in Ejo, but it also has an office in Kyoto, but the place is very small. Chen Lihui, as Ye Wenxuan's agent, basically followed Ye Wenxuan, and wherever Ye Wenxuan was, he was there.
Back at the apartment, Chen Lihui took out his mobile phone and made a call to Du Feiming first.
Du Feiming is the artistic director of Ye Wenxuan's album, responsible for the production of the song. Although Chen Lihui is the general manager, he manages other chores, such as the expenditure of album production costs, etc., and will not interfere in the production of songs.
As a well-known independent producer in the circle, Du Feiming has helped many first-tier and second-tier singers tailor-made albums. He doesn't know how to write lyrics, but he knows how to arrange, he understands the domestic pop music market, and he has a great team under his hands, from arranging to recording and mixing, all kinds of people.
"Hey, Xiao Chen, I have already contacted Tong Gao, and he promised to help Ye Wenxuan write two songs. Du Feiming was a little embarrassed and said, "It's just that the price is a bit high, and it costs 150,000 songs." ”
Chen Lihui was stunned, he was about to tell Du Feiming that he had made an appointment with the song.
Tong Fei knows that a relatively famous lyricist in China has written some famous songs. But a word, the price of 150,000, that's still a bit much. Liu Pian's kid with a song is only more than 120,000.
"Mr. Du..."
"Listen to me first. Du Feiming interrupted, "There are still two songs, I will use the relationship, and then find a big name in the circle to write it, and then ensure that Ye Wenxuan's album will sell well." ”
A big sale?
Chen Lihui shook his head, now is not the era of records, it is a big seller, it would be good if the physical record could sell 10,000, and if the digital album could sell 500,000 copies, then Ye Wenxuan would be considered lucky.
In the age of digital media, online digital albums have also been born in previous years. As the hottest singer in China and the first singer to try digital albums, Lu Huarong's first digital album "Bedtime Story" sold 2.2 million copies on major music platforms at a price of 20 yuan each, becoming the first online double platinum digital album!
While it had something to do with his terrifying fan appeal and the gimmick that it was his debut digital album, it was a big hit. At this time, major domestic singers also tried digital albums, but none of them sold 2 million, and very few sold 1 million.
Even Lu Huarong himself did not exceed the number of 2.2 million again.
Generally speaking, a digital album sells 50 copies, which is already a hot seller.
After all, there are a lot of pirated copies now, not to mention that digital albums will be available for free in a few months, so why spend money to buy them?
A lot of people think so.
Spending money on digital albums has no other purpose than listening to and downloading them in advance.
However, there are exceptions, like some large companies, their Chinese songs are always charged on major platforms. In this case, you either give money or listen to piracy.
But this is a minority after all, usually after a few months, the music platform will buy the copyright and give it to passers-by for free, but it won't let you download it. Some songs must be a member of the platform to listen to you.
Ye Wenxuan has now released a total of three albums, all of which are packaged and sold to the platform, and they are free to listen to by passers-by, but they need to pay for downloading, and even the first album is completely free, and there is no money to download, Tianyu Company only charges a little copyright fee from the platform. After all, it hasn't been long since he debuted, and he has no confidence, so he needs to use this to earn fame.
Many online singers' songs are not bought on the platform without copyright, and they are all hung on the platform for passers-by to listen to for free. In the eyes of the platform, these unknown online singers, your songs are not hung up, no one listens to them anyway, and I don't expect you to bring traffic and popularity to our platform.
Liu Pian's two songs are free, whether you listen to or download. Maybe you can talk to the platform about the conditions in the future, but definitely not now.
This time, Ye Wenxuan's new album, Tianyu Company is ready to try to sell it online. Although I don't expect to recoup the cost of the album, I can recoup a little bit of the cost if I can sell as much as I can.
After all, singers don't mainly rely on this to make money.
And Tianyu prepared a total of 1.5 million production costs and 800,000 publicity costs this time. Among them, the cost of the producer accounts for the majority, and the quotation for Du Feiming alone is 50. Because the quality of the producer determines the success or failure of an album by 50%, if you use a big-name producer, it is already a gimmick in itself.
Liu Pian's four songs of 400,000 yuan are a special case, and this price is considered a high price in the industry. Chen Lihui still likes the quality of Liu Pian's previous songs, which can be popular on the Internet. Secondly, Chen Lihui is optimistic about Liu Pian and the relationship between Liu Pian and Ye Wenxuan.
Tong Fei 150,000 songs, that is the top price in the industry.
And I don't know if there is a good song of Liu Pian's kid.
Chen Lihui thought about it, and still said truthfully, "Mr. Du, I have already made an appointment for four songs. ”
"Have you made an appointment?" Du Feiming frowned, "Who are you dating out?"
"Speaking of which, you may not know it, it's a friend of Wen Xuan, named Liu Pian. ”
"Sorry, I haven't heard of it. Du Feiming's tone was full of disdain, Ye Wenxuan's classmates? Isn't that just a freshman? What kind of good song can this be about?
"Xiao Chen, you listen to me, use Tong Fei's songs, don't use Liu Pian's, how old is he, what good songs can he write?"
Chen Lihui was a little displeased, but Liu Pian is also a person I value, "Mr. Du, some time ago, the highly rated song "Serving the Country with Loyalty" was written by Liu Pian, and he also wrote "Stubborn" and "If" ..... before."
Hearing "Serving the Country with Loyalty", Du Feiming's eyelids jumped, and he didn't listen to Chen Lihui's later words.
That military song is widely spread in the army, and it is so popular that it can't be done.
"So... Then he still has some ability. Du Feiming snorted and said with a smile, "That's it, when his song is written, you can show it to me, and then I will decide whether to use it or not." ”
"Okay. ”
"So be it, I'm still busy here. ”
Hanging up the phone, Chen Lihui walked to the window, and after a long silence, he called Ye Wenxuan again.....
"Wen Xuan, where is it?.... Bedroom?.... Liu Pian is not next to you?... Let me tell you something.... It's about your new album producer...."