Chapter 256: Meeting

After breakfast the next day, Feng Shaoxian and Chen An came to EMI with Ye Liangchen, Xu Wenqi and Song Jia, who came over early in the morning. It is worth mentioning that Song Jia is not here to join in the fun this time, she is the person whom EMI named to meet, which is also the reason why Feng Laohui went together.

Although I haven't seen him for three whole months, Ye Liangchen is in the limelight, and his name is mentioned almost every day by the company. Moreover, Chen An has communicated with the company about the EP album plan before, and EMI attaches great importance to this, and has vacated 2 recording studios early, one recording vocals and the other recording instruments, and the band and related staff are in place.

The scores of "Hair Like Snow" and "Pear Blossom Fragrance" have been given to the company, and the accompaniment has nothing to do with Ye Liangchen, because he doesn't need accompaniment at all to record songs, and he doesn't need to supervise the shed.

Ye Liangchen walked into the recording studio prepared for him under the leadership of the staff, sat on a chair, put on monitoring headphones, and became familiar with the microphone, after all, he hadn't used it for three months, and after the audition, it officially began.

This is the first time Xu Wenqi has walked into a record company, and the first time he has seen the recording process of the song with his own eyes, and he feels both novel and a little shocked. The novelty was that she had never even seen most of the equipment and instruments here, let alone the names; What shocked her was that she needed so much equipment to record a song, and she thought that she would just be able to put on the accompaniment and hold the microphone like in the practice room. In addition, Song Jia, a "senior" with a little experience, explained to her that when Ye Liangchen finished recording the first song, she had already adapted to the environment here.

On the morning of coming to the provincial capital, the three of them made an appointment to meet in the waiting room of Shuangcheng Railway Station, Chen An and Xu Wenqi arrived first, the two sat on the bench in the waiting room, Chen An asked Xu Wenqi if he also wanted to be a singer like Ye Liangchen, if he was interested, he might have the opportunity to let her try. Xu Wenqi's eyes lit up first, and then he shook his head gloomily. She explained to her teacher that she would love to give it a try if she wanted to, but that something had happened to her family recently, and she might not have time to take care of it for the time being. Xu Wenqi didn't elaborate on what was going on at her house, so Chen An didn't ask any more, and it didn't take long for Ye Liangchen to arrive.

Because of this, Chen An originally gave up the idea of fighting for Xu Wenqi in Baidai, but Xiao Song Jia, who came with him, unexpectedly gained something.

After arranging Ye Liangchen there, Liu Feng, deputy general manager of EMI Habin Branch, personally interviewed Song Jia and his teacher Feng Shaoxian.

As the most influential TV music program in Chinese mainland today, the China Young Singer Grand Prix has naturally attracted great attention from major record companies. Since learning that the winner of the special award of the 8th Big Red Eagle Cup Youth Song Contest is Song Jia, Liu Feng has been thinking about this girl, but Harbin is thousands of miles away from Yanjing, and he has no contact information, so he can only be anxious. Unexpectedly, Ye Liangchen chose to record a song at this time, as the heroine of Ye Liangchen's first MV work, the two naturally have a close relationship, so don't use Ye Liangchen's light to invite Song Jia.

When he learned that Song Jia's original song "Walking the World" was not completed in his hands, Liu Feng was ecstatic and immediately proposed to sign a contract. Feng Shaoxian and Song Jia were also overjoyed, when they were in Yanjing, there were two well-informed record companies looking for them, but the scale was not large, and Song Jia was studying in Shenyang, a little far away from Yanjing, and the most important thing was that there were no relatives there, so they did not agree. With the experience of helping Ye Liangchen sign the contract last time, the two sides soon reached a consensus and signed a three-year contract.

The release of "Walking the World" was also quickly agreed, let Song Jia prepare for a day, record it tomorrow, and add it to the upcoming EMI New Year special before and after the Spring Festival, this special album was originally created by EMI for Na Ying, Faye Wong, and Ye Liangchen, but the plan can't keep up with the rapid change, and now it is the time when "Walking the World" is gaining momentum, and adding it to it can be regarded as conforming to public opinion, and those who win the hearts of the people can make a lot of money.

It took Ye Liangchen less than an hour to record the song, and the second song is scheduled to be recorded after lunch, followed by the meeting time, and the content of the meeting mainly has several aspects:

First, personnel arrangement, adding an agent for Ye Liangchen;

second, it uses intuitive and detailed data to show Ye Liangchen's achievements from September 1, 1998 to January 31, 1999, including the results of the Chinese song charts, total sales, etc.;

Third, it summarizes the praise and media attention received by "Dongfeng Po" and its MV and "Thousands of Miles Away" in the past six months;

Fourth, the release plan of the first EP album;

Fifth, the MV of "A Thousand Miles Away" is being filmed.

As soon as he heard that there were so many major items in the meeting, Ye Liangchen's head was big.

It's no wonder that EMI, normal signed artists don't say that they come to the company every day, but there is definitely no time to come to the company for a few months, and every content of the meeting is directly related to Ye Liangchen, and some will even affect his future development. It is not difficult to see from the content of the meeting that EMI has increased its support and packaging for Ye Liangchen.

As a result, as soon as the first item began, Ye Liangchen raised an objection. Although the company pays the salary, he still has reservations about this agent, and he said this: "I'm just a singer, not a star, I just want to sing well!" ”。 Of course, EMI respects the wishes of the parties, claiming that this agent is only the agent of Ye Liangchen as a singer performing or releasing records, and whether to entrust him to act as an agent for other possible development fields, such as advertising, film and television, etc., is entirely based on Ye Liangchen's personal preferences, and the company does not interfere, and the agent has no right to make claims without permission; And because Ye Liangchen has a personal assistant (EMI's positioning for Chen An), so if Ye Liangchen doesn't have the time or willingness to give full authority to a personal assistant, Ye Liangchen doesn't even need to meet directly with the agent, of course, the company does not recommend this, and it is more effective and direct to communicate face-to-face when necessary.

Oh, that's okay, free labor shouldn't be in vain, and it can also make teachers worry less.

The second item is composed of N sets of data and tables, which is very detailed. In the past, Ye Liangchen mostly heard about the relevant situation from Chen An, and Chen An himself was also a second-class dealer of news, all in all, Ye Liangchen was very surprised to see this set of data:

1998 sales statistics (1998.9.1-1998.12.31): 170,000 copies of "Dongfeng Break", 40,000 copies of "Thousands of Miles Away";

1999 sales statistics (1999.1.1-1999.1.31): 70,000 copies of "Dongfeng Break", 50,000 copies of "Thousands of Miles Away"; (To be continued.) )