Chapter 425: Target: Giant
After Zheng Zhenkun proposed to re-hold the singer talent show, he stared at Chen Lang to see how Chen Lang reacted.
Although Haishan Records has changed its name to Haishan Rolling Stone Records, and he is no longer the largest shareholder of Haishan, Zheng Zhenkun doesn't care much about this, for him, continuing his music dream is the biggest pursuit in this life.
once made a mistake in his decision-making and put Haishan Records in a quagmire, and almost recovered, Zheng Zhenkun was extremely annoyed and frustrated.
Fortunately, in the end, Chen Lang's appearance saved the dying Haishan, and also rejuvenated the new Haishan, once again becoming the hegemon of Taiwan's music scene.
In particular, Chen Lang signed a contract with all the musical talents of Rolling Stone for the new company, and the music created made Zheng Zhenkun excited, and being able to see such excellent music works made Zheng Zhenkun feel like drinking elixir.
Zheng Zhenkun knew that the Duan brothers and Luo Dayou and others were real musicians, musicians who were like-minded with him.
Now he doesn't have to shoulder the company's profits and losses, he can fully immerse himself in his favorite music, which makes Zheng Zhenkun very happy, and at the same time, Zheng Zhenkun also wants to carry forward this pure music, so that the Chinese music scene can produce more pure music.
Therefore, after Haishan Rolling Stone Records has a large number of outstanding music creation talents, Haishan Rolling Stone Records still needs to continue to replenish fresh blood and need more excellent singers.
However, Zheng Zhenkun and Luo Dayou and others need excellent talents, so there are very few signed singers in the company.
The trainee system proposed by Chen Lang made Zheng Zhenkun see the opportunity to absorb newcomers, but these newcomers still need a long time of training.
However, the singers selected through the singer talent show often have a considerable foundation and strength, and at the same time, their psychological quality is also much stronger, as long as they are a little sculpted, they can become an excellent singer.
Now that Haishan Rolling Stone Records has also regained its vitality, it has the time and ability to discover new talents.
For Zheng Zhenkun, who wants to promote excellent pure music, the importance of outstanding newcomers is no less than that of the company's superstar singers, so Zheng Zhenkun wants to restart the singer talent contest jointly organized by the company and Taiwan TV.
It's just that Zheng Zhenkun, who was staring at Chen Lang, was very puzzled at this time, because Chen Lang's reaction was a little strange.
After listening to the opinion, Chen Lang was first stunned, obviously a little unexpected, then annoyed, then fell into contemplation, and finally seemed to be a little excited?
Seeing Chen Lang's constantly changing expression, Zheng Zhenkun, Duan Zhongyi and Chen's father were all very puzzled.
Seeing that Chen Lang seemed to be still immersed in his fantasies, Chen's father had no choice but to cough in a low voice, which woke Chen Lang up.
Chen Lang, who came to his senses, didn't explain when he saw the doubts of the three people, but nodded and said, "This is indeed a good way, Mr. Zheng, if you don't say it, I haven't even remembered it, I completely agree with this matter, but there are a few questions." ”
"Lang Lang, you ask." Zheng Zhenkun was very happy to hear that Chen Lang agreed with his proposal.
"First of all, after all, our cooperation with Taiwan Television has been interrupted for a long time, if we restart the cooperation, is there no difficulty?" Chen Lang asked.
"No problem, no problem at all, because Taiwan TV has the same problem as us.
Now there are still three strongest record companies in Taiwan, in addition to our Haishan Rolling Stone Records, there are also Korin Records and UFO Records, and Taiwan also has three major TV stations: Taiwan Television, China Television and China Television.
Kolin Records has always maintained a cooperative relationship with China Television, and their Colins Rookie Contest has continued from the 70s to the present.
In the 70s, Kolin, Haishan and Lisheng were known as the three major record companies, and the competition between them was very fierce, and all three cooperated with TV stations to hold a singer rookie competition, and at that time, our three records almost divided 80% of the singers and newcomers in the Taiwanese music scene.
It's a pity that Lisheng and Haishan have fallen into a predicament, and the singing contests of both have ended without a hitch, only the Rookie Contest of Corin has persisted to this day, which is also the oldest singer talent competition in Taiwan.
Originally, Lisheng cooperated with China Television, but after its decline, it was replaced by the newly established UFO Record Company, and now the rookie singer competition held with China Television is actually selecting materials for UFO.
Now only Taiwan Television has no partner, and after Haishan fell into a predicament, Taiwan Television also wanted to find another partner, but there were almost no record companies in Taiwan with qualifications and scale, so it was delayed.
Now that Haishan Rolling Stone Records has risen, Taiwan TV has once again started to cooperate, and Taiwan TV has already passed with us in this matter, so there is no problem at all. Zheng Zhenkun explained.
Some people may wonder that the five major international record companies have already set up branches in Asia, and with their rich and wealthy style, why is there no international giant company in Taiwan's three major record companies?
When it comes to these, we have to talk about the Taiwan authorities' control over the entertainment industry.
Many things in Taiwan took the "lifting of martial law" in 1987 as a turning point.
Political, economic, social, and the record industry, which is based on music culture, is also bounded by this, and it was very different around 1987.
Before the lifting of martial law, Taiwan's record industry, like the mainland, was strictly controlled by the authorities, and overseas companies could not directly conduct business on the island, and their products needed to be manufactured, distributed and sold by Taiwanese enterprises, which was the so-called "agency system."
It is a miracle that Chen Lang was able to acquire Haishan here, because Chen Lang, who is a Hong Kong native, is also a foreign investor in Taiwan.
The reason why Chen Lang was able to acquire Haishan Records undoubtedly has a lot to do with Zheng Zhenkun's connections.
In order to be able to promote Chen Lang's acquisition and save the terminally ill Haishan Records, Zheng Zhenkun can be said to have done everything he could to launch all his relationship intercession, and at the same time the first fund he got from Chen Lang was used to get a relationship.
Now Haishan Rolling Stone still belongs to Zheng Zhenkun, a Taiwanese, but there are two letters LL on the company's logo, and the relationship between Taiwan and Hong Kong's entertainment industry is inextricably linked, so the Taiwan authorities turn a blind eye.
Because of the existence of the "agency system", many powerful international record companies cannot directly enter the Taiwan market, and can only hand over their business to Taiwan's record companies.
Taiwan's local companies, which have obtained the agency rights of international record labels, have grown rapidly because of this.
UFO Records, which has just been established for more than a year, is one of them, with the agency rights of large companies such as Warner Records in Taiwan, as well as the agency rights of other small and medium-sized companies, so that UFO, which has just been established for more than a year, can suddenly rise to become one of the three major record companies in Taiwan.
But after the lifting of martial law in 1987, everything changed, and the Taiwanese authorities abandoned control of the record industry.
At that time, the international record giants basically completed the group integration, and five large record groups dominated the global record industry, with abundant funds and momentum.
Under such a situation, the major international record studios have driven straight into the market and officially stepped onto the big stage of Taiwan's record industry.
The five major companies have established their own Taiwan branches by means of acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, and the recovery of agency rights, etc., to directly operate their businesses.
Among them, some typical examples are the direct reorganization of Qifei in 1989 by PolyGram and the merger into the related businesses of Golin and other companies to establish PolyGram Taiwan Branch, and EMG and BMG took back the agency rights of the previous Rolling Stone to establish their respective Taiwan branches.
As the two most original record companies in Taiwan, Rolling Stone and Flying Saucer in the previous life suddenly Alexander, facing the pressure of the five major international record companies, they have only two choices: lie down and obey, or fight hard.
The Rolling Stone records in the previous life can be described as domineering and exposed, and chose the most direct and violent way of resistance.
In just a few years, he has opened branches in countries and regions such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and Hong Kong, and has frantically expanded its overseas territory and fought head-on with international record companies in all places where Chinese records can be sold at a high price.
Rolling Stone Records' way of fighting was too bloody and looked glorious for a while, but it was so big that it was dying by the end of the 90s and became a weak giant, if it weren't for the fact that after 2002, Rolling Stone Records successfully entered the mainland market to make money, the company would have bled too much and died.
The managers of UFO Records are more conservative, they don't have the momentum of the Rolling Stones, so in another time and space, it took nearly 10 years for Warner Records to eat it all together.
It was still early 1984, three years before the Taiwan authorities deregulated, and at that time, the five major international record companies would directly swallow up the Taiwanese record market, and Taiwan's local record companies had little to fight back except for Rolling Stone.
However, at this time, because of the addition of Chen Lang, the most creative Rolling Stone Records and Haishan Records, which had declined and disappeared in their previous life, were integrated.
With Taiwan's strongest local original ability and Haishan's strong distribution capabilities in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, Chen Lang finally has some confidence in facing the impact of the five international giant record companies, not to mention that there are still three years of preparation time.
The current Haishan Rolling Stone is very similar to the Rolling Stone in the previous life has opened branches all over Southeast Asia, although the comprehensive competition has not yet begun, but the competition between Hong Kong and Southeast Asia is about to begin this summer.
Chen Lang is confident that his record company will definitely be stronger than the Rolling Stone in his previous life, although he is not sure of winning the fight with the five international record giants, but at least he will not lose too badly.
However, if you want to truly become an international giant company, even if Chen Lang has the memory of his previous life, it is a difficult thing, there are too many uncertainties and difficulties and obstacles, but you have to try once to be willing, otherwise what is the point of being reborn.
However, it is still early days, so let's gain a foothold in Asia first.