In the office on the top floor of the Superstar Building, Li Wenxing saw Carla away, and then began to receive Lilian.

Lillian, full name Betty Lillian,

Unlike Kara, although they are hired and subordinate to each other, Li Wenxing is not familiar with each other to the extent that he can directly call each other by name.

Calling each other 'Betty' alone is really too intimate, with the age difference between each other, it will be very strange, the other party is already thirty-five years old, the mother of three children, Li Wenxing has no choice but to call her Ms. Lilian.

Lilian turned out to be an executive at Columbia Records, and she took the initiative to submit her resume to apply, which is a job-hopping behavior in the same industry, which is very common in Mi Guo.

Li Wenxing doesn't know why the other party jumped ship, and this is not the point, as far as the current point of view, the other party is still very capable, and his connections are also very strong.

At that time, Li Wenxing sat opposite Lilian and talked about the future development direction of superstar records.

Lilian's figure and appearance actually do not conform to Li Wenxing's aesthetics, she is too thin, which makes her look dry and lacks beauty.

Li Wenxing's favorite Western woman should be the kind of relatively plump, such as Ruth in "Titanic", with round breasts and hips.

Therefore, when Li Wenxing was alone with Lily and talked to An, it can be said that he didn't have any desires at all, and he was really just a businessman for his superiors and subordinates.

"I don't know much about the specific operation of the record company here in the United States, I only know that it is different from my hometown, especially the priority and secondary positioning of singers.

It doesn't matter, I'm not bored to challenge the rules of the industry, I'm more than happy to do things.

However, I hope that on this basis, there can be some innovation, and the rules are meant to break through, otherwise sooner or later they will be eliminated by the development of the times and the market.

Take the five Michael brothers as an example, only signing their album contracts and performance contracts obviously cannot maximize the benefits of superstar records.

I hope you will pay close attention to the acting studio that you co-founded with the five Michael brothers, and dig deep into all the potential commercial value of their group.

In other words, for every ten cents they earn in the future, they must have nine, seven, and six points from Superstar Pictures, and the proportion can gradually decrease as their value increases.

The rest is to copy this model, you can train new singers, you can also dig up famous singers, but you will definitely not accept the kind of people who purely rely on the company's resources and only regard superstar records as a springboard and an object to be attached to.

Whether it is songs, channels, marketing operations, and public relations capabilities, these are all core assets of the company, and only choose to cooperate with those who are willing to sign in, and others should not dream.

When the time is right, I will buy and control other record companies and integrate their music libraries and channels.

For the selection of singers, it is better to lack than to abuse, superstars do not need so many second-rate and third-rate singers to fill the façade, you can see superstars as a brand, and it is a high-end brand, and all singers who come out must be kings.

The rest, it's up to you to grasp it,

Again, I'll give you a year, during which time I won't interfere in the specific operation of the company.

This time next year, I will accept the results, and if the results are satisfactory to me, I will divide the option reward pool for you and your team by 10%.

When I integrate other record labels and start the IPO plan, each and every one of you will be multimillionaires. ”

Don't talk about life, don't talk about ideals,

The first time I talked to the director of this superstar record, Li Wenxing came up and went straight to the point, drawing cakes and talking about money.

Unless you meet an ideal person, this is the right way to open the conversation between the boss and his subordinates in the American workplace.

It's just that although Li Wenxing's previous words are beautiful, what he said will not challenge the rules of the industry.

But his decisions, such as opening a studio with singers, are still challenging other people's rules.

However, it is more obscure, more relaxed in terms of form and cooperation terms, in fact, it is still a change of soup without a change of medicine, and he wants to completely control the singer's career.

It also caused Lilian to frown when she heard this, she originally only thought that the purpose of Li Wenxing's establishment of this studio was just to better serve singers, similar to setting up a perfect logistics team for singers.

But now that I listen to it, it's not a team, but I want to run it directly as an independent subsidiary.

In fact, it is to treat singers and artists as partners, let them invest in technology, and superstars invest in 'assets', and then negotiate investment and income sharing, and then operate as a company to specialize in the product of 'singer'.

It sounds good, but if you run a record company in this way, it's very good for the company.

In the past, record companies could only sign album contracts with outside jungler singers, make albums like gambling, and wait for the copyright income after the songs were put on the shelves.

As for the singer's other income, the record company has no chance of getting involved in it, such as performances and endorsements, and these revenues are not related to the record company.

But this new model is different, directly adopting the way of cooperation, there is no dead end in all directions, as long as the singer earns money in the entertainment industry, the profit must be shared with the record company, and the record company still takes the lion's share.

Maybe the famous singer can't stand this kind of cooperation, which is almost equivalent to squeezing, extreme squeezing, but what about the new singers? They must be happy to sign a contract.

You must know that the platform of Superstar Records is very attractive, there is no shortage of excellent songs, there is no shortage of distribution channels, and the public relations ability is even stronger, simple and rude, desperately throwing money,

There is no such generous boss, good songs don't need money, and the news headlines are bought casually, even album records, directly making profit channel merchants fifty percent of five, and as a result, two groups of newcomer singers were smashed out in half a year.

This is a gospel existence for rookie singers and underground singers who are still debuting.

Of course, this mode of operation is not the first of its kind to Superstar Records, and the global record industry has developed for so many years, and there must have been countless people who have adopted this model, but they have all failed without exception, otherwise the status quo of the industry would have been different.

However, the success of superstar records, no matter what the reason for the success, the selection of singers is excellent, the songs produced are excellent, the channel resources are excellent, the practice of spending money on public relations is excellent, in short, it is a success.

Then, it is foreseeable that if Superstar Records really operates according to this mode of operation, it will definitely attract attention and will be pushed to the forefront of the wave.

Then, if it fails, it can only be an accidental phenomenon, being classified as a loser who challenges the rules of the industry, being ridiculed by others from time to time, and what if it succeeds?

"Good boss, I will work hard for you and will not let you down. ”

As above, many thoughts went back and forth in her mind, and Lillian resolutely responded to the young boss's orders.

Be a pioneer in changing the status quo in the industry? Try it for a while, and even if you fail, at least you can keep a job, a job that is relatively free and unfettered. You have to find the latest chapters by yourself to read books?