Two days later, on November 13. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhou Jielun's debut album "JAY" was officially released on all channels. Of course, for the time being, it is only in Wanwan, because the website and payment system in the mainland market are still under construction, and the offline channels have not yet been rolled out, so it will not be able to start until January next year.

It is also a good thing to warm up in Wanwan for two months, and at the same time put some popular auditions on the mainland Internet, so that consumers know the existence of a singer like Zhou Jielun.

And at that time, the mainland piracy market was also relatively cautious, and it was rare to steal the tunes of a newcomer foreign singer, so it didn't matter if it dragged on for two months. After all, pirates are also afraid that they will not be able to sell too many pirated discs, and they will lose money in vain. It wasn't until after 2003, when MP3 downloads were rampant on the Internet, that the cost of piracy was almost reduced to zero, and pirates began to be picky.

In just its first week, "JAY" sold nearly 40,000 copies on the island, surprising countless music critics - a statistic that can already be compared to the strongest singer of the year.

After all, except for the title song "Lovely Woman", which still seems to be decent, the other music styles are very abrupt, which completely creates another era. For example, the spicy chicken of "Indian Old Turtledove" is simply a thing in the eyes of music critics!

In contrast to the surge in sales, there are criticisms from musicians such as "slurred speech" and "no thickness in their voices".

In fact, many people who didn't like Zhou Jielun's music later said that he was slurred and his sentences were vague, but they didn't understand his characteristics and caused misunderstandings: because most of the languages in the world, English Yi and Fusang, do not have one, two, three or four sounds, and only Chinese has such a rich level, so the ideographic concentration of unit syllables in Chinese is much higher than that of other languages. However, it is precisely because of the abundance of Pingxuan that traditional Chinese is not suitable for the obvious Westernization or Fusang singing method of RAP.

Zhou Jielun's RAP, in order to highlight its characteristics, deliberately uses a slightly "overkill" anti-flat expression technique: the original word should be changed to 仄, and the original word should be changed to Ping, but it unexpectedly brought infinite artistic expression tension. In contrast, the side effects of "slurred speech" caused by it are nothing.

As for the Chinese style that is not yet obvious in "JAY", it is relatively easy for music critics to accept it.

Gu Cheng appreciates this point. A person's greatest contribution to the art of music is not whether he has a good voice, but whether he has created a new mode of musical expression for his mother tongue. This kind of attempt, this kind of innovation, this kind of courageous effort to move forward without knowing what the future of the business is, is all worthy of respect.

Gu Cheng, as an existence determined to be the savior of the entertainment industry, naturally encourages this kind of innovation.

While Zhou Jielun's record sales soared, Hu Zongxian's mood was a little complicated at Alpha Records, but on the whole, he was still pleased with his protégé.

However, Yang Junrong, the general manager of the company, was not so relaxed, he was surrounded by a deep self-blame: why did he sell out Zhou Jielun's mainland agency rights at a price of 500,000 annual sales promises?

And the first sign is 6 years, which is almost as long as the contract period between Alpha Records and Zhou Jielun. As long as Eslite Audiovisual does not fail to meet the sales target in the future, Alpha cannot terminate the contract......

"I didn't expect that Dalu Cai's eyes to be so poisonous that he beeped the dog. Alas, a miscalculation. ”

Sighing and sighing, Yang Junrong's character is still okay, he can afford to put it down, and he will not do things that break the contract. He just lamented that he couldn't get the best deal for the company.

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The flowers bloom at two ends, one on each branch.

After signing Zhou Jielun, the biggest "black swan event", Gu Cheng's work in Wanwan became easier. I can spare more time every day for email remote control and command my cousin in China to take care of Legendary Entertainment's business.

Now that November is halfway through, Legendary Entertainment's deleted closed beta has officially ended. This is followed by a one-and-a-half-month public beta test before the official fee-based operation.

The game account characters practiced during the open beta period can be retained until the official fee, so the player density will naturally go up to a higher level. Judging from Pan Jieying's daily telephone porridge report, the number of people online at the same time during the evening peak hours of "Legend" has steadily exceeded 30,000, and it is absolutely no problem to reach 50,000 in December. As for the number of active accounts that month, it reached nearly one million - this data is far more than 4 times that of the peer game "Dragons", which has just entered the closed beta.

At present, within Legend Entertainment, the assessment index of "the number of active users in the month" is still relatively rigorous. It refers to logging in to the game for more than 3 days in the current month and having been online for at least 5 hours. This can basically squeeze out the water that is discarded after testing the water for a few minutes and feeling that it is not fun.

Other game companies in the circle are still using "even if you log in once this month, no matter how many minutes" to characterize the "number of monthly active users", which is obviously the old mentality before the bursting of the Internet bubble: unwilling to seek truth from facts, just trying to do a good job of data, get a higher valuation from venture capital, and cheat more investment.

As everyone knows, the behavior of falsely reporting data is completely self-deceptive in the cold winter without venture capital.

Because Gu Cheng was temporarily busy with games, Lin Zhiling on the Wanwan side was a little idle and at a loss, just reading books every day, calling friends in the circle, and learning how to be a good agent and scout.

A few days later, when the game's open beta had been steadily arranged and Gu Cheng was re-emptied, he found that it was not a way for Lin Zhiling to hang like this. So he thought about it, and with the mentality of having dates and no dates, he arranged a new task for Lin Zhiling: to go to the circle to find street artists who are currently unsuccessful and have trouble with existing brokerage companies, and to inquire about the film and television projects that are currently being raised in the Wanwan entertainment circle.

When Lin Zhiling collects this information back, with Gu Cheng's keen eyes, he can naturally pick out if there are any dry goods worth investing in.

On the other hand, this kind of targeted effort can also make Lin Zhiling grow faster. Much more useful than she snuggled up there behind closed doors and reading biographies and textbooks of various successful agents.

Lin Zhiling felt that this job was very interesting, so she took the hospitality money advanced to her by Gu Cheng, and immediately looked for all the resources she knew in the circle every day, invited guests to eat and drink coffee, and explored news and business opportunities.

Lin Zhiling already has the talent of a courtesan, with a high degree of education, and an aura of intellectual courtesy. However, for more than a week, many people in the Wanwan entertainment circle have heard about it: there is a boss from the mainland who started an Internet company, and he has recently been looking for projects and artists worth investing in the circle.

Soon, the project information on Lin Zhiling's desk was piled up.

It was already late November that day, and Gu Cheng felt that there was nothing to do to stay in Wanwan, so he was ready to sweep all the news that Lin Zhiling had collected, and if there was nothing worth voting, he would return to China.

Lin Zhiling watched with a little apprehension as Gu Cheng glanced at the documents and threw them away, nervous as if he were a little daughter-in-law.

After all, there are not so many good projects in this world, and Gu Cheng is nothing more than in the spirit of picking up leaks and understanding the world first. Among the film and television dramas and artists that Lin Zhiling found that seek investment, one out of 20 can be reliable, even if he has vision.

Jolin Tsai...... What is the current situation of this female singer I asked you to inquire about? Your report does not say that she is free, nor does it say which agency she is in which agency she released the film, it is unclear. ”

Gu Cheng first swept away the things he commanded and cared about the most. Then questioned Lin Zhiling one by one.

After all, there are not many singers in this era who can make him remember his name, except for Zhou Jielun, Wanwan only knows one Jolin Tsai.

Lin Zhiling patiently explained: "This Jolin Tsai debuted last year, and she has been a little popular for a while. The reason why I fill in her financial status is because she really doesn't work with any economic companies to release records now, but it's not a free ......."

"Be specific. Gu Cheng motioned for Lin Zhiling to sit down and speak slowly, while he took a sip of black tea, feeling that the situation seemed a little interesting.

Lin Zhiling said: "That's right, Jolin Tsai's agency is called Loud Studio, and it was signed before her debut in 99. After releasing two records, Jolin Tsai said that the company squeezed her too hard, and after becoming famous, she had to release films at a rate of 2 records per year, and she didn't like many songs, thinking that the company overconsumed her 'otaku god and goddess' attributes.

So she issued a statement in August that she would no longer cooperate with the current brokerage company, but the contract had not expired, so now she is spending time at home. ”

With such an explanation, Gu Cheng understood: he didn't breach the contract, but he didn't send the disc, so he consumed it.

But this is just Jolin Tsai's unilateral public statement, which does not rule out the possibility of her beautifying her character.

Gu Cheng didn't know the inside story of this history, and he didn't want to guess.

In essence, he still appreciates those artists who are angry. Especially in the current environment of the times, it is a lot of risk for a brokerage company to spend money to package a SOLO artist, which is similar to venture capital. Although the rise of the Internet has made the asking price of artists higher and higher, Gu Cheng feels that the behavior of "using investors as venture capitalists when borrowing money for packaging, and using the other party as a loan bank after making money" is definitely unjust.

It is precisely because of this consideration that he admired Kwon Bo-ah's righteousness at the beginning, and also strongly persuaded Kwon Bo-ah to sign a long-term contract with S-M.

If Jolin Tsai can't prove her trustworthiness, even if she knows that signing this female singer can make a lot of money, Gu Cheng is unwilling to sign.

He thought for a while and asked, "So, is that Jolin Tsai currently in contact with other brokerage companies?"

Lin Zhiling answered this question very simply: "I haven't heard of it, it should be An An living there now, studying by himself." ”

In this way, Gu Cheng has a little more confidence in Jolin Tsai.

He commanded, "Then dry her for a year." If she can endure loneliness and have no action, it can prove that she is really dormant because she doesn't like to be overconsumed by the agency and doesn't like the music style picked by the other party. If she can't bear the loneliness, it proves that she is because of injustice, and after becoming popular, she wants to fly high and get more shares. ”

If it is dormant because of his creative concept and his unwillingness to be defined as an "otaku killer", Gu Cheng feels that this is completely forgivable. Let time tell.

Jolin Tsai's matter can be regarded as a turning page, Gu Cheng continued to look down, and other female singers were not outstanding. After watching it, he continued to watch the film and television works that are currently being filmed and invested in the Wanwan circle.

After flipping through a dozen things that had no way to make money, his eyes fell on a preparatory offer called "Meteor Garden".