Chapter 474: "Zhu Xian"
"The boss behind LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records is actually a little talent!"
"The two veterans of Huaxing Records have left collectively!"
"Lang Lang, Ah Sam, Zhen Ni, two kings and one queen shocked to join the Hong Kong branch of LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records!"
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On the second day after Chen Lang held a press conference to announce the official establishment of the Hong Kong branch of LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records, several news announced at the meeting shook the entire Hong Kong music scene and became the front page headlines of many media newspapers, instantly attracting the attention of countless people.
In these reports, first of all, I will give you a detailed introduction to how Chen Lang turned decay into magic two years ago, and reorganized the quagmire Haishan Records into the current LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records, so that one of the three hegemons of Taiwan's music scene in the 70s was revitalized and once again ranked among the three major record companies in Taiwan.
Later, he introduced that LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records has established branches in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Hong Kong, becoming the largest record company in the Chinese music scene so far.
At this time, the Chinese music scene, the mainland pop music is still in its infancy, and the pop music of Hong Kong and Taiwan is gradually rising and has become the mainstream of the Chinese pop music scene, but because it has just risen, all the major record companies have relatively shallow qualifications, and they are mainly based on stabilizing the local region.
Even in the glorious 70s, Haishan Records, known as the kingdom of music, did not set up branches in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and other places, but only chose to cooperate with local channel dealers to release records, of course, this is also related to the international situation and the development of the times, but there was indeed no multinational or regional large record company in the Chinese music scene before.
In everyone's eyes, the big international record companies are the five giant record companies in Europe and the United States, represented by Polygram, BMG, CBS/Xinli, EMI and Warner, and the Chinese-based record companies are not large record companies at all.
However, now because of Chen Lang's involvement, the music kingdom of the 70s, Haishan Records, and the largest Chinese record company in the future, Rolling Stone, have merged into one record company, and the channel plus talent has exploded with amazing energy, coupled with Chen Lang's ambition, so the LL Haishan Rolling Stone Record Company will appear at this time.
In everyone's eyes, it is also a matter of pride to have a Chinese-based multinational record company, but in the eyes of the world's five giant record companies, LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records is a huge threat.
Because this Chinese record company itself is from this land, everyone has an invisible sense of identity, this is people, and there is also the fact that the channels of this record company are all over Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and as far as Taiwan is concerned, it is better than any international giant company, which is considered a geographical advantage, and now the official Asian music market is booming period, the market is getting bigger and bigger, this is the time.
With the right time, place and people, unless there is some irresistible external sabotage, it is difficult to fail, so it is a headache for the giant record companies that covet the Asian record market.
Of course, in the eyes of Hong Kong citizens, LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records is a bit far away, but the Hong Kong branch is indeed a first-class record company as soon as it is established, because there are two kings and one queen of songs, which is a clear proof of strength.
Coupled with Chen Shufen and Chen Liuquan, two industry veterans, as well as a gold medal creator such as Gu Jiahui, who cooperated with Chen Lang, this record company has directly become the third largest record company in Hong Kong after Polygram and Huaxing.
Of course, as one of the bosses of the company, Chen Lang makes everyone envious and jealous, in addition to his outstanding writing and musical talents, he also has such a strong ability to make money, especially on the last day, which is the most important ability in Hong Kong, which worships Jin Yuan.
Think about it, Chen Lang has reorganized Haishan Records for nearly 10 million Hong Kong dollars in less than two years after his debut, and two years ago the newspaper also reported that Chen Lang is the youngest multimillionaire in Hong Kong, but many people don't believe it, and now they are finally convinced.
Count Chen Lang's current industry, LL Entertainment Commodities Company, LL Publishing House, LL Film Company and LL Haishan Rolling Stone Record Company, Chen Lang, who has not debuted for four years, has already given everyone too much amazement, so that everyone has to be jealous of God's favor for this kid.
Just when the outside world was frantically reporting the news of yesterday's press conference and envy Chen Lang, Chen Lang was a little depressed, because he had just received a call from Taiwan's Zheng Zhenkun.
Yesterday, after Chen Lang admitted that he had become the majority shareholder of the Hong Kong and Southeast Asian branches of LL, some people accused the Taiwan authorities of Chen Lang for violating Taiwan's regulations on record companies.
Chen Lang said that when he injected capital into Haishan Records, which was in trouble at the time, he did not ask to become the majority shareholder of the company, but put forward the requirements of becoming the major shareholder of the major branches in the future and putting the letters LL in front of the record company, which in the eyes of many people is simply a lie.
invested nearly 10 million Hong Kong dollars, but at that time there was nothing to gain, only a naming right and there is no ethereal branch shareholder that still belongs to the future, obviously this is nonsense, and the rise of LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records in Taiwan in the past two years has been too rapid, which has made many international giants who cannot officially intervene in Taiwan's record companies red, so it is logical to be reported.
But fortunately, there is also a strong enough relationship Zheng Zhenkun dredged the relationship in time, and after the 5 million Taiwan dollars were smashed, the Taiwan authorities issued a public announcement, saying that there was no breach of contract by LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records, which could be regarded as calming down the matter.
Chen Lang is also guilty of this, he is still too young, too taken for granted, thinking that he can hide from everyone by making up an excuse, but he is still too tender, fortunately there is Zheng Zhenkun, the great god, otherwise the good situation of LL Haishan Rolling Stone Records is likely to be buried by himself.
After Chen Lang hung up the phone, he was secretly annoyed, it seemed that he still lacked experience in these aspects, so Chen Lang sat sullenly for two hours until the calls from various friends came.
"Lang Lang, congratulations on the opening of your new company, I wish you a good start and a wide range of financial resources."
"Thank you, Rong Zai. By the way, the company is about to make a movie and wants to ask you to play a role, do you have time? ”
"No problem, I'm always available."
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"Lang Lang, I opened another company, you are really a rich man, I am not allowed to borrow money from you in the future."
"As long as Amei you sign into my company, I will borrow as much as I want."
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"Lang Lang, congratulations on the opening of your new company."
"Andy, if you want to make a record in the future, just talk to me."
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"Stinky boy, don't talk to me when you start a record company."
"Teacher Gu, I'm not afraid that you will be busy, there will be more opportunities to cooperate with teachers in the future."
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Chen Lang and a group of friends in the circle congratulated the phone and kept ringing, which made Chen Lang's depressed mood be well alleviated, and while accepting the congratulations, Chen Lang also completed the invitation of the movie actor.
Leslie Cheung and Chen Baiqiang are Chen Lang's friends, knowing that Chen Lang is looking for him to make a movie, he agreed without saying a word, and Chen Lang also asked Xu Guanjie to help him invite Xu Xiaofeng.
Although Xu Xiaofeng and Chen Lang have met, they are not familiar with each other, but Xu Xiaofeng and Xu Guanjie have both been in Polygram and Kangyi Chengyin Records, and the two are more familiar with each other, and it is more secure for Xu Guanjie to help say that Xiang.
Now there are still three main members of the crew of the movie "Merry Christmas", one is the director Gao Zhisen, the other is the actor Mecca, and the other is Wang Jiaming, who plays the little bald head.
The little bald Wang Jiaming has asked the company to look for it, I don't know if I can find it, if I can't find it, I can only change to a child, the difficult thing is that Gao Zhisen and Mecca are both from Xinyi City, and it may be a little difficult to take over to help his film company film, Xue Tianlan has not responded so far, I don't know what the result is.
Later, Chen Lang also received a call from Qi Wenjie of Yulang International, and after 34 months of distribution, the comic "Zhu Xian" has come to an end.
On November 11, 1981, Singles' Day, the comic "Zhu Xian" was published, and then it was released at a rate of one volume a month, and now in August 1984, 34 months have passed, that is, 34 copies have been issued, and September will be the day when the 35th volume of the finale of "Zhu Xian" will be released.
Now "Zhu Xian" has become a classic that has to be mentioned in the history of Hong Kong and even Asian comics, which not only makes the exaggerated style of Hong Kong comics turn to realistic and gorgeous, but also shows the Chinese culture and Taoist fairy rhyme to the fullest, so that the whole of Asia can have a little understanding of Chinese mythological beasts and Taoist culture.
At the same time, in terms of sales, "Zhu Xian" also created the best results in Chinese comics.
In Hong Kong, "Zhu Xian" set the highest single-volume sales record of 250,000 copies, in Taiwan, "Zhu Xian" set the highest single-volume Hong Kong comic sales record of 500,000 copies, in Southeast Asia, "Zhu Xian" set the highest single-volume Hong Kong comic sales record of 620,000 copies, and in Japan, "Zhu Xian" set the highest single-volume Hong Kong comic sales record of 1.25 million copies.
The highest sales of "Zhu Xian" appeared in the fourth volume of "Seven Veins of Huiwu", and the highest single volume sales of Hong Kong comics were maintained by 250,000 copies of "Seven Veins of Huiwu", and at the same time, including Hong Kong, the sales of this volume reached 2.51 million copies, which is also the highest sales of a single volume of "Zhu Xian" in Asia.
It stands to reason that with the development of the plot of "Zhu Xian" and the continuous spread of fame, sales should be higher and higher, and this is also true, but it is pirated comics that grow crazy, and the sales of genuine comics have declined because of crazy piracy after the fourth volume, and the lowest sales of a single volume in Asia are even just over 1 million copies.
Because of piracy, the sales of the comic "Zhu Xian" have plummeted by more than 50%, and it is still because everyone's awareness of genuine version is too weak and they love to take advantage of small advantages, Chen Lang was like this in his previous life, but now it is his turn to suffer.
At the same time, the cost of comic piracy is low, unlike the cost of record piracy, which is too high, resulting in little profit, pirates naturally give up pirated records, so that the piracy rate of records is less than one percent, of course, "Zhu Xian" is too popular is also an important reason, which makes Chen Lang and others cry and laugh.