Chapter 197: Surrender

After the success of "Music Bank", Wu Ming and Star TV were happy, and Shao Yifu and Wireless naturally had a headache.

Even though "Music Bank" airs on Sunday afternoon, there are slightly fewer viewers watching TV at that time than in the evening. But more than ninety percent of the ratings are enough to make "Music Bank" a trump show.

To Shao Yifu's slight relief, the ace show "Music Bank" was only broadcast on Sunday, otherwise he would have to sleep hard.

Shao Yifu, who refused to admit defeat, naturally let Wireless plagiarize "Music Bank" and created a column of singer charts "Golden Songs".

It's a pity that Shao Yifu is still unwilling to spend more money, so the production budget of "Golden Melody" is very tight, and the studio equipment and stage are also very old, which is not as good as "Music Bank". After the show was broadcast, the effect shown was too different. It's the same as the show of the two eras.

Singers who want to hit the charts and viewers who watch the show are naturally more inclined to "Music Bank", which is many times more well-made.

However, the show "Golden Songs" does not limit the songs sung, even if it is a cover song, it can be on stage, and it still attracted a group of singers. And those record companies that were put on the line by Star TV were not willing to give in to Star TV from now on, so they mixed up with wireless and banned their singers from participating in "Music Bank".

It's just that what disappointed Wireless and those record companies was that because of the publicity of newspapers and magazines, the audience knew that the songs sung on "Golden Songs" were cover songs, coupled with various public opinion guidance, most people looked down on this show. As a result, the ratings of "Golden Songs" are very low, only two percent.

In the office, Wu Ming, Huang Xizhao, and Zhou Liang Shuyi are talking about the ratings of "Music Bank" in the past two weeks.

"Hahaha!" Wu Ming said sarcastically with a smile on his face, "Those bastards still think that we can't play without them." Now it's time to know that you'll regret it!"

Huang Xizhao nodded and smiled: "Now Starlight Records is one of the top record companies in Xiangjiang, even if other record companies prohibit their singers from participating in the "Music Bank", we have enough singers to support the operation of the "Music Bank". ”

At first, other record companies banned their singers from participating in "Music Bank", but Huang Xizhao was worried. If Wu Ming hadn't stopped him, he would have come to the door to discuss with those record companies.

However, after the second broadcast of "Music Bank", it still stabilized wireless with 80% of the ratings, and Huang Xizhao completely relaxed.

The corners of Wu Ming's mouth curled slightly, and he said with a smile: "I have spent a lot of money to make other newspapers and magazines in Xiangjiang boast about original music, and try my best to belittle cover songs. This is equivalent to the public opinion of the entire Xiangjiang is on our side, how can the wireless "Golden Song" be undefeated.

If Shao Yifu was willing to spend a sum of money to buy equipment for "Golden Songs" and repair the broadcast site, the situation might be much better. But no matter how good the ratings of this show are, there is only one episode a week, and Shao Yifu will not spend more money for such a program. ”

In fact, as Wu Ming said, there are a number of singers in Xiangjiang after all, and the most suitable program for the list is once a week. If there are more, the quality of the program will decrease, and the ratings will also decrease.

"Golden Songs" loses and loses, no matter what, "Music Bank" only has one episode a week, and it is broadcast in the afternoon, not in the evening. The loss of wireless is actually not very large.

But if it costs a lot of money to produce the column "Golden Songs". If you win, it's just a return to the status quo ante, and there is not much interest to speak of, it's just a wedding dress for the record company. It's even worse if you lose, spending a lot of money and not getting a good result.

You must know that the latest set of studio equipment and gorgeous stage scenes of "Music Bank" cost tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars. After that, the production budget for each episode of the programme is not less than HK$600,000.

After careful consideration, it is not surprising what choice the old fox Shaw would make. If it weren't for the promotion of original music, Wu Ming would be reluctant to spend so much money to produce such a show.

Zhou Liang Shuyi smiled, and then said worriedly: "But it's not a way to go on like this! After all, those record companies control three-quarters of the singers in Xiangjiang, if it continues to be so deadlocked, there will be no new singers on stage in our "Music Bank", and sooner or later it will not be able to do it!"

Indeed, "Music Bank" is a song charting show, not a concert. The songs that appear on the show must be new, and the same singer can't be there all the way from start to finish.

According to the regulations, a song can only appear in four episodes at most, and it will be banned from appearing in "Music Bank". This is also to prevent the show from becoming a concert for some famous singers. So although Starlight Records is strong now, there are not so many singers who can fully support this show.

Wu Ming smiled slightly when he heard this: "Don't worry, I have been prepared for this situation, so the albums of the singers under Starlight Records have not been released, and "Music Bank" has only begun to be released one after another after the broadcast.

According to my estimates, Starlight Records can also support more than a dozen episodes of "Music Bank", that is, three or four months. For such a long time, those record companies couldn't stand it. ”

Things were as Wu Ming expected, and after more than a month, the various record companies relented. Because Wu Ming spared no effort to suppress it, the ratings of "Golden Songs" could not rise at all.

Newspapers and magazines have also continued to tout original music and belittle cover songs for more than a month, so that these record companies have not dared to release albums containing a large number of cover songs for a period of time, for fear of hitting the streets after release.

However, the influence of "Music Bank" is growing, and the number of viewers has been increasing. Starlight Records' original music recordings have all achieved good results with the help of Music Bank.

In fact, Wu Ming also paid a great price for this, you must know that Wu Ming only mastered one-third of the paper media in Xiangjiang, and two-thirds of the paper media was not in Wu Ming's control. It costs a lot to get those newspapers and magazines to help. In just one month, Wu Ming paid nearly hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars in advertising fees.

This made other record companies angry, and they all hated Wu Ming for doing such a lack of morality that harmed others and was not beneficial to himself. It's not that they didn't buy newspapers and magazines, but only a few newspapers and magazines would speak for them, and most of the newspapers and magazines were on Wu Ming's side.

This is all because the advertising expenses spent by Wu Ming's family in various newspapers and magazines every year are very large, and in order not to lose Wu Ming's big customer, they can only reluctantly cut their love

These record companies were afraid that Wu Ming would just go down with them, so they had no choice but to give in to Wu Ming, release the ban, and no longer prevent their singers from participating in "Music Bank".

Alas, I've been dizzy for the past two days. In the evening, I finally reconciled with my girlfriend. Tomorrow we can get back to normal updates!