"Of course I know Yuan Xiaotian, but why did Uniasia ask me to make his album?"

Du Xinghe felt a little inexplicable, although Uniasia Records is not a super record company like the Big Four, but relying on Uniasia Entertainment Group, Uniasia Records is also prosperous in the Xiangjiang area.

This record company has released a lot of blockbuster albums for well-known film and television stars, and their creative ability is quite good, if they want to praise Yuan Xiaotian, their own team is enough to make a popular Cantonese album for Yuan Xiaotian, how can they ask him to make a Zuò album?

He has recently become famous in Fuwan, but in Xiangjiang, he should not be well-known, after all, there is still a big difference between the audience groups in the Cantonese-speaking and Chinese-speaking areas.

In this plane, before 1842, Xiangjiang, like the previous plane, was also a small fishing village. In 1842, the Treaty of Nanjing-Beijing ceded Xiangjiang Island to the British, and Xiangjiang officially became a British colony.

Later, in the 1860 Treaty of Beijing, the southern part of the "Kowloon Peninsula" boundary street was included in the Hong Kong Colony and handed over to British administration.

In 1898, the Qing government and Britain signed the last unequal treaty with the previous one, the "Treaty on the Extension of the Boundary Site of the Hong Kong River", which stipulated that from July 1, 1898, the Kowloon Peninsula would be leased to the north of Boundary Street, south of the Shenhe River and more than 200 outlying islands in the vicinity for a period of 99 years.

In the previous dimension, China took advantage of the provisions of the "Special Article on the Extension of the Boundary Site of the Hong Kong River" to recover sovereignty over the Hong Kong River in 1997.

In this plane, Britain after the end of the Second World War. That is, at the end of the 40s, he took the initiative to return the Xiangjiang area to the Zhang Dynasty.

At that time, due to the sudden rise of China's national strength, the British really did not dare to occupy the Xiangjiang River anymore. Because their MI5 Bureau got the exact news that if Britain did not return Xiangjiang in a senseful manner, China would send troops to India to take over the British colonies in India under the pretext of helping the Indian people relieve the war.

Using India as a springboard, China had to sweep through all British colonies in Asia and Africa, and it had to keep the prairie fire burning all the way to Britain itself.

At that time, the CI5 Bureau got a strategic map and learned the ultimate strategic goal of the Zhang dynasty. It was to colonize all of Scotland and Ireland in the north of England. This shocked the British authorities greatly!

Although it is impossible to identify the authenticity of the strategic goal map of the Zhang dynasty, considering that Britain has just experienced the baptism of World War II, and the Zhang dynasty has vaguely exuded the arrogance of a new Nazi empire that wants to dominate the world, Britain does not dare to touch the brow of the Zhang dynasty. The Xiangjiang area was returned to China along with the huge amount of real estate capital in the area. It can be regarded as a counter-compensation to China.

Now. Xiangjiang has been back in the arms of China for nearly 45 years, but due to the local colonial history and a lot of foreign cultural shock, this pearl island has been made. Unlike other Cantonese-speaking areas, the culture is in a class of its own. In particular, entertainment culture has borrowed a lot from foreign cultures.

Due to its British colonization, the English language in Hong Kong has a high rate, although English has long been classified as a stigmatizing language and has been removed from the list of official languages by the Hong Kong government. However, due to the large number of local ghosts, it is an important springboard for foreigners to come to China, so that English is still a necessary and important communication language in the current Xiangjiang area, second only to Cantonese and more popular than Chinese.

There is also this trend in the record market, where Cantonese albums occupy an undoubted dominant position, and the remaining narrow market space is occupied by Chinese records, Hokkien and other other local Chinese language records, as well as foreign Chinese records.

The second highest selling record is not a Chinese record, but an English record! Because there are many fewer local Chinese speakers than English speakers, most of the people in Xiangjiang can speak English, but very few can speak ordinary Chinese.

This is a clear difference from other large Cantonese-speaking cities such as Guangcheng.

For example, in Guangcheng, Shencheng and other cities in Guangdong Province, the daily communication language of people is also Cantonese in the same vein as Xiangjiang, but unlike Xiangjiang people who do not understand ordinary Chinese, most of the people in these places can understand Chinese and can hold their mouth and speak two sentences of Chinese. This is also the sales of Chinese records in these areas are quite good, accounting for about a quarter of Cantonese records, unlike Xiangjiang, where almost no one buys Chinese records.

Compared with the Chinese record market, the Cantonese record market is much smaller, but it is still a piece of cake worthy of the attention of record companies and singers.

Cantonese albums of popular singers can usually reach millions of sales, such as the king of singers of the level of Andy Cheung, Cantonese albums will be favored by fans in Chinese and Cantonese-speaking regions, and can easily sell more than 10 million copies.

Therefore, record companies have always released records for popular singers in Chinese and Cantonese, and the two versions must be relatively different, so as to mobilize more fans.

The Chinese record market and the Cantonese-speaking record market are very surprised, and the cloud world is just starting now, and it can't take care of the Cantonese-speaking market.

Hongyan Records is a local record company, and the releases for singers are generally Chinese albums and Hokkien albums, and it has rare experience in the Cantonese-speaking market.

However, Luo Haichao mentioned to Du Xinghe that if "Little Bird" released a Cantonese album, he could help Cloud World introduce the Cantonese record company in Guangcheng to do it.

Du Xinghe has never taken care of this, and now he heard that Xiangjiang's Uniasia Records is going to help "Little Bird" promote the Cantonese version of the record, he is naturally happy, after all, Xiangjiang's entertainment industry is a leading in Cantonese-speaking areas, whether it is a movie or a record, it is like this.

If a big company like Plaza Premium can release a Cantonese version of "Little Bird", "Little Bird" is likely to become popular in Cantonese-speaking areas, especially in the Xiangjiang area.

However, the other party asked him to make an album for Yuan Xiaotian, which Du Xinghe was a little confused. He has indeed become a bit famous in Fuwan recently, and people in the industry also respect him, but the cultural forms of the Xiangjiang area and the Fuwan area are very different, although the insiders have intersections, but his name will not spread to Xiangjiang so quickly, right?

A big company like Uniasia took the initiative to ask him to make an album for a newcomer who was about to be popular, which is too risky!

Lin Jianguo said to Du Xinghe Road: "You are now popular in Xiangjiang." Just like in South China, they all want to make an album for you! ”

As soon as he heard Lin Jianguo's words, Du Xinghe immediately realized something, it must be that this uncle blew him into the sky in front of his friends, plus "Little Bird" was indeed crazy in the Chinese area, which made the other party consider using him to make an album.

In fact, on the sales list of 100 cities, the Chinese version of "Little Bird" actually has sales in the Xiangjiang area, probably only selling double-digit sales every day, and by March, the total sales should reach 3,000 copies. This sales are in the Chinese records of the Xiangjiang store. It's already quite a big sales. You know, there are many popular singers whose Chinese versions of records are sold in Xiangjiang, and they may not be able to sell 1,000 copies a year.

In comparison, the sales of 3,000 copies of "Little Bird" in more than three months are enough to attract the attention of local musicians in Hong Kong.

However, "Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream" sold very poorly in Xiangjiang. Because there is no Cantonese version of "Bao Qingtian" in Hong Kong. This makes the locals in Xiangjiang still very little aware of this song. In addition, Zhai Xiaofeng is a newcomer and has no popularity in Xiangjiang, so it has become a matter of course to sell on the street.

Hongyan also knew that there was no market on the Xiangjiang side. So I didn't put it in the plan at all, but just symbolically put a small amount of goods in a few big record stores over there. March, the first month of the first month, only sold a pitiful 21 copies of "Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream" in Xiangjiang.

But even so, Lin Jianguo still used "Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream" and his friends around Asia to brag about Du Xinghe. After all, this is the album that Du Xinghe has done in the true sense.

In the eyes of the outside world, "Little Bird" thought it was made by Xu Nuo, a talented creative woman. Including Lin Jianguo, they all thought that "Little Bird" was written by Xu Nuo under the guidance of Du Xinghe, and it didn't make much sense to use "Little Bird" and Xiangjiang people to blow Du Xinghe's talent.

Lin Jianguo relied on the explosive sales of "Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream" in the Chinese region, and the album of Fang Yajun, a super diva who also has a top status in the Xiangjiang region, was produced by Du Xinghe, and touted Du Xinghe's talent, which was favored by Uniasia Records, hoping to invite Du Xinghe to work on Yuan Xiaotian's first album.

"How about it, Adu, do you want to make an album for Yuan Xiaotian? The treatment is easy to talk about, this is Yuan Xiaotian's first time releasing an album, and Huanya especially hopes to make him an instant hit. They want to inherit Yuan Xiaotian's work on the production of Mandarin Cantonese albums to our cloud world. These two albums are going to be done well, but they can make a lot of money! We can talk to them about a high share. ”

Lin Jianguo persuaded Du Xinghe endlessly, in his eyes, this matter is very troublesome, if they can break into the Cantonese-speaking record market through Uniasia, it will be of great benefit to the singers of Cloud World to release albums in the Cantonese-speaking region in the future.

Du Xinghe's point of interest was not like this, but asked Lin Jianguo: "You said that this is Yuan Xiaotian's first album?" Can he sing? ”

"Yes! It's a good song! I listened to the song we sang together at the karaoke here last night, Yuan Xiaotian's young man sang well, no worse than Zhai Xiaofeng! Lin Jianguo said conclusively.

For Lin Jianguo's amateur ears, Du Xinghe didn't have confidence, and it was still a noisy place like karaoke, so he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Uncle Lin, let's think about this matter in the long run." ”

Lin Jianguo heard that Du Xinghe had no intention of doing this, and hurriedly persuaded: "Don't think about it in the long run!" This is a good opportunity for our company to get involved in the Cantonese record market! I have blown you to the sky with my friends, you can't drop the chain at this time, I have heard Ma Tingting, Xu Nuo, and Lu Qin all say before, the Cantonese songs you create are all first-class, even more eye-catching than Chinese songs! You should have no problem making a Cantonese album, right? ”

Du Xinghe said helplessly: "Of course it's no problem for me to make a Cantonese album, the question is who do I make a Cantonese album for, if it's a mature singer, I'll just make it for him, you said that you now let me make a Cantonese album for a film actor who is not a professional singer, doesn't this give me trouble!" Don't make the album by then, I will be angry to death by Yuan Xiaotian, or beat him to death angrily, making a lose-lose situation, how will this end? Even if I make it for him, will this be issued, won't it self-destruct the signboard of our cloud world? Uncle Lin, you can't just see that this is a good opportunity for our company to get involved in the Cantonese record market, and you have to rush forward. Eat the rice one bite at a time. We can't be fat in one sitting, right? We're just starting out now, and now we're big enough, and if we want to take a bigger step, we might get the egg! ”

Lin Jianguo was speechless by Du Xinghe, and after a moment of silence, he asked Du Xinghe: "You said so much, just because you were worried that Yuan Xiaotian would not be able to sing, right?" ”

Du Xinghe read Yuan Xiaotian's report from the magazine. According to the semi-black article in the very reliable gossip magazine "Southern Entertainment", Yuan Xiaotian was a bad teenager. When he was a minor, he was sent to a juvenile detention center for intentional wounding. After coming out, he joined a big local gang in Xiangjiang - [Baile]. Originally, he was a boy of Baile, but later because he was handsome, he gradually entered the entertainment industry. The Xiangjiang film industry in this plane is similar to the previous one, and a large part of the market is controlled by the local underworld. Even a lot of the movies are made with gang investment.

Du Xinghe has no opinion on the origin of the star. He'd already experienced these things once in the previous plane. There are many Xiangjiang male stars in the last plane. It's all about black.

In this plane, the Underworld is an invisible organization that is officially defaulted to and is prevalent everywhere.

It's not just Hong Kong. Fuwan, Guangcheng, Beiping, Shenhai, and even the capital Chang'an all have well-organized triad groups.

There is even a legend that the leader of the Black Dragon Society, the largest underworld organization in China, is an important member of the Zhang family. This shows how huge the black-social organization of this plane is.

In such a society, celebrities are born in clubs, and Du Xinghe is not surprised.

What Du Xinghe cares about is that a newcomer like Yuan Xiaotian, who has changed from a boy to a new movie star, how can he have singing skills?

Even if a person with good singing talent does not receive professional training, it is difficult to master the song and become a professional singer.

Don't look at Liao Nan who is usually lazy and slippery, but when he should work hard, he will still work hard. Liao Nan's talent is extremely high, but it also depends on the accumulated training to fully exert it.

Yuan Xiaotian is a guy who has never practiced singing, Du Xinghe will never believe that he can sing good songs, maybe he can sing a few popular songs in KTV to familiarize himself with the public ear like Lin Jianguo. But for unfamiliar new songs, he is absolutely not good at mastering.

Du Xinghe persuaded Lin Jianguo and said: "Uncle Lin, our company is moving soon, there is a lot of work to be done in the future, and there is more money to be sent to the door, we can't make any more money, so don't look for more trouble first." ”

"I'm not looking for too much, I really think it's a good opportunity! Anyway, I can't say it clearly on the phone, I'll go back in a few days, bring Yuan Xiaotian over, and ask him to sing a few songs to you in person, and you'll know if he can sing or not! That's it first, hang up! Knowing that there was nothing to persuade Du Xinghe, Lin Jianguo hung up the phone hastily.

Du Xinghe smiled bitterly at Lin Jianguo's last words, if it was a singer he had never heard of a voice, he might still be a little curious when he came to him to audition, but Yuan Xiaotian, he had already heard his voice in the movie, and there was a warm clip in "No Bones", that is, Yuan Xiaotian sang to his dead girlfriend, and the singing voice was super similar to Ekin Cheng in the previous plane.

For this kind of sound, Du Xinghe is not too interested.

Speaking of which, Du Xinghe still likes the star Ekin Cheng more, after all, this big guy has acted in the "Crazy Boy" series that makes all school-age boys enthusiastic after watching it.

As the saying goes, if you don't know Chen Haonan, it's in vain to watch all the black movies. Chen Haonan's name is a thunderous name in the hearts of many people.

But aside from the movie, just talking about Ekin Cheng's music, there are not many that impress Du Xinghe, most of which are related songs of "Crazy Boy".

In addition to "Years of Friendship", "Burning Blood", "Sword and Sword", "Love and Righteousness", "Willing to Replace You", "I Wish You Know" and other related episode theme songs of the "Crazy Boy" series, Ekin Cheng's songs that left an impression on Du Xinghe are only "Insects Flying" in "Fengyun", and "Tiansha Lone Star" in "Chinese Heroes" and other movie episodes.

Aside from the theme song of the movie episode of the comic hero category, Ekin Cheng has only one song that has left a deep impression on Du Xinghe.

The name of this song is "My Song".

The lyricist of this song, Huang Weiwen, is very highly respected by Du Xinghe, and "Exaggeration" by E God is from the hand of this lyricist.

In the previous plane of Hong Kong, Wong Wai Man and Lin Xi are collectively known as the "two great men" of the Hong Kong poetry circle (Lin Xi's original name is "Leung Wai Man"), and they are one of the iconic lyricists in the post-HK Phil era. In addition to "Exaggeration", he has also written many golden songs, such as "Next Stop Diva" by Twins, "Good Breakup" by Lu Qiaoyin, "Unfortunately I'm Aquarius" by Miriam Yeung, "The Little Prince" by Huang Yaoming, etc.

This bald guy is not only active in the music industry, but also often makes guest appearances in movies, Cecilia Cheung's eldest brother in "Hedong Lion's Roar" is Huang Weiwen's cameo.

After Du Xinghe hung up Lin Jianguo's phone, thinking about Yuan Xiaotian's image, he couldn't help but think of many classic scenes from the previous plane "Crazy Boy".

Du Xinghe suddenly had an idea, if Huanya did not ask him to make an album for Yuan Xiaotian, but asked him to write a series of movies for Yuan Xiaotian that could make him popular, it would be much easier.

It's good that he directly moved the "Crazy Boy" series, and he can definitely make this plane popular with Brother Xinhaonan! (To be continued......)