Chapter 717: Audition
On the evening of July 22, Ye Zi completed the mastering of Zhang Lei and Zeng Chun's new album, which took only 24 hours. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ye Zi is very familiar with these two albums, all the songs of Zeng Chun's album were recorded by him, and half of the songs in Zhang Lei's album were completed by Ye Zi, and Ye Zi has already been in Xiong for the production of the mastering tapes of these two albums. Moreover, Zhang Lei and Zeng Chun only released tape albums, and only needed to make a small number of CD albums for commemoration, and the requirements for quality were not as high as Ye Zi's album, plus Ye Zi was familiar with the road after completing his own album mastering, which could quickly complete this job in such a short time.
On the morning of July 23, Ye Zi held an album preview in the villa recording studio.
For the promotion of the album and the future release of the album, in addition to Zhang Lei, Zeng Chun and Zhu Fengbo, Ye Zi also specially invited Chen Zimo, Zhou Fang, Lu Zheng, Yang Qingsong, vice president of Shencheng Audio-visual Company, Tang Xu'an, vice president of Yunnan Provincial Audio-visual Company, and others to participate in this audition.
After the audition, everyone was very satisfied with the quality of the two albums. As the parties, Zhang Lei and Zeng Chun are not to mention. However, Zhang Lei and Zeng Chun did not consider the idea of publishing a CD album, and the two record company managers all expressed regret, and Mr. Chen Zimo, Mr. Zhou Fang and Mr. Lu Zheng also felt that they could try to release it at the same time, and only Mr. Zhu Fengbo recognized this approach very much.
In fact, whether this approach is appropriate, just look at the sales of Ye Zi's new album. Compared to cassette albums, which sell at least tens of thousands of boxes, CD albums sell only a few hundred copies a day, which is really not worth mentioning. This is still Ye Zi's best-selling album, replaced by Zhang Lei and Zeng Chun, you can imagine what the results are. In the current mainland of China, CD albums can only be used as a supplement to tape albums to meet the needs of a small number of fans, and the vast majority of fans can still only afford the price of tape albums. And compared with the price of a CD motorized for a few thousand yuan, the price of a tape recorder of a few hundred yuan or more than a thousand yuan is much closer to the people.
Ye Zi knows this best in his heart, and he absolutely supports Zhang Lei and Zeng Chun's considerations. It will take at least another five years for the initial popularization of CD players in mainland China to be fully popularized...... It seems that the Internet era has been ushered in before it has time to be fully popularized, and it cannot be popularized. However, the popularization of another way, the full popularization of VCD/DVD compatibility mode, has been truly realized in China nationwide.
But that was also many years later.
So at present, it is enough to release a tape album, and there is no need for Zhang Lei and Zeng Chun to release any high-priced CD albums. Although high-priced CD albums earn far more than the windfall profits of tape albums, 200% or even more than 300%, if they can't sell a certain amount, it can't make up for the cost of the record factory to start suppressing CD albums, and the gains outweigh the losses.
Ye Zi's album was released in Hong Kong for the first time, and the production cost of the CD album did not need to be borne when it was released in mainland China, so that the tape album and CD album could be released simultaneously. Without such conditions, Ye Zi would definitely choose to only release tape albums.
When he was still auditioning, Yang Qingsong expressed a particularly strong interest in these two albums.
In the past two days, Tang Xu'an of Yunnan Provincial Audio and Video Company is grinding hard with him, hoping that the two companies can cooperate and jointly win Zeng Chun's album, Yang Qingsong originally had some ideas about this. After hearing the effect of the master tape this time, this idea has basically been fully formed, and the cooperation between the two sides - feasible.
So after the audition ended, Yang Qingsong immediately pulled Tang Xu'an to whisper a few words, and then the two found Tantai Wenhui to borrow an "office", and couldn't wait to chat with Teacher Zhu Fengbo.
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Although Yang Qingsong did not discuss the release of the album with Zhang Lei for the first time, Zhang Lei was not worried at all. Just yesterday, he and Xie Yun have signed brokerage contracts and record production contracts with Wenhui Entertainment and Unisplendour respectively, and now, they are also singers with the support of the company behind them. Although Wenhui Entertainment is still very famous in Xiangjiang and Shencheng; Although the framework of Unisplendour has just been built, and it is still a baby among many record companies, whether it is Zhang Lei or Xie Yun, they are all full of confidence in their future. They don't care about the current strength of Wenhui Entertainment and Ziguang Company, they completely believe in the ability of Wenhui and Ye Zi and Cui Zhengguang, even Xie Yun, who is very good at calculating for himself, has no doubt about this.
After signing with the company, things like album release and record promotion no longer need them to do it themselves, Shu Yi and Cui Zhengguang will work together to do all these things well. Oh no, it's wrong, it should be Shu Yi and Ye Ying who will work together to do these things well.
After receiving Cui Zhengguang's call, Ye Ying had already rushed back to Shencheng and officially accepted her position in Ziguang Company. At present, Cui Zhengguang is still working with her to build some preliminary work of the company's framework, in this process, Cui Zhengguang will take her to familiarize herself with some basic businesses of the record company, which Cui Zhengguang has already become familiar with in the process of running the two small companies, and there is absolutely no problem when he is Ye Ying's teacher. After Ye Ying is fully familiar with the business, Cui Zhengguang will hand over all the administrative affairs of Ziguang Company to Ye Ying, while he himself will basically get rid of these specific things, focusing on controlling all the major policies of the three companies, as well as the joint cooperation between the three companies.
This is a very important thing, once Cui Zhengguang completely kneaded the production studio and recording studio left by Ziguang and Sun Yun, a record company with sufficient creative ability, production ability, and can complete all the production parts of the singer's album will be born soon.
After contacting and communicating by phone, Mr. Sun Yun was very supportive of Cui Zhengguang's idea.
After Zhang Lei's album mastering is completed, from tomorrow Cui Zhengguang will take the sample of the album and Ye Ying to visit the large record companies in Shencheng with record distribution capabilities, the most important of which are the record factory Shencheng Branch, Shencheng Audiovisual Company and Shencheng Audiovisual Publishing House. In the past six months of making accompaniment tapes, Cui Zhengguang has long been quite familiar with the business personnel of these record companies, and this time he will introduce these business personnel to the company's upper leaders.
According to Cui Zhengguang, although Ye Zi has a relationship here and a way to directly talk to the other party's senior management, in many cases, the relationship introduced in this way has too many personal contacts, which is far less than the relationship that he ran out of himself. To this end, Cui Zhengguang and Ye Ying will brave the scorching sun and shuttle between the east, west, north and south of Shencheng.
This is, of course, a great thing.
In this regard, Ye Zi can only reluctantly admit that he can't catch up with Cui Zhengguang in terms of business management.
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On the side of Wenhui Entertainment, because she is the first batch of singers signed by the branch, Shu Yi has decided that she will personally serve as the agent of Zhang Lei and Xie Yun. As a disciple of Wenhui of Shantai, even if she has not yet obtained the international broker certificate, Shu Yi is also a real broker with a formal broker certificate issued by the relevant departments of Xiangjiang, and she is fully qualified to serve as an agent for two people, Zhang Lei and Xie Yun are of course overjoyed. The assistant candidates for the two have not yet been selected, and Wen Wen is helping to inspect and train.
After signing the contract, Shu Yi has simply made preliminary plans for the two.
Xie Yun's recent task is relatively simple, he has to complete all the production of his new album as soon as possible, and at the same time do some preliminary publicity under the company's arrangement, the most important of which is of course to hit the charts in various places.
Zhang Lei's matter is more urgent, he now first has to determine the distributor of the album, and then start the promotion of the album and release the album as soon as possible. This time needs to be as fast as possible, after discussing with colleagues in the company, Shu Yi preliminarily decided that the release time of Zhang Lei's album should not be later than September 1, and it should be as early as possible.
Otherwise, Zhang Lei will not be able to enjoy the dividends brought by the release of Ye Zi's new album.
(To be continued.) )