Chapter 752: The History of the Four Crocodiles

According to the information that Du Xinghe got from Xiao Tianlang before, Arrow Target signed up for the competition of "Sound of China" for a total of 17 newcomers this time, and 15 of them stood out from each competition area and entered the top 100 finals. Of those 15 people, 11 advanced to the final 48, which is the most of the big four record labels.

In addition to the arrow target, the performance of the contestants of Guoyu this time is also unusually outstanding. In the first round of the top 100 battle, there are two singers from national entertainment in the top ten, namely Wu Taixi, who ranked third, and Liu Rongjia, who ranked fifth. Both of them belong to the type with great potential, and in the following rounds, according to their style, they should play better and better.

The purpose of this draft of "Sound of China" is to select a person who can represent and lead hundreds of millions of fans in China to sing cheering songs for the Chinese men's football team, so in fact, such conditions are very suitable for singers of Chinese entertainment. Because this kind of talent is not to choose the best voice, handsome and beautiful image is also an important part of determining whether the singer can go to the end.

As we all know, the singers of national entertainment are either super handsome guys or super beauties, and their appearances are extremely outstanding, and such singers are the most suitable for this talent show. And when the singers of national entertainment not only have appearance, but also have excellent musical literacy, then their lethality is too great. is like Wu Taixi, the third-ranked and currently highest-ranked male singer, who rushed up with his super handsome appearance and extraordinary musical literacy.

According to the previous standards for Chang'an Taiwan to organize such a large-scale event draft, and considering the traditional idea that men should be responsible in the minds of most Chinese people, it is very likely that the overall champion of "Sound of China" will be a male singer to win the championship. Because whether it is a male fan or a female fan, there will be no opinion on a responsible male singer to lead them to sing cheering songs, but if it is a female singer who takes on this task, it is estimated that many male fans will find it not enjoyable, so the winner of this draft is likely to be a male singer.

And Wu Taixi is undoubtedly the most competitive among the top 48 male singers. Later, there were 7 singers from Guoyu who advanced to the top 48, five of which were male singers.

A total of 9 singers from Guoyu were shortlisted for the final 48, followed by 11 shortlisted targets, ranking second among the four major record companies.

BV and Chrono each had 7 singers in the final 48.

BV only had 7 singers shortlisted for the final 48, and the results could only be described as unsatisfactory. To know. They sent a total of 20 singers to participate in the competition of "Sound of China". Among them, 18 singers were shortlisted for the final 100 finals.

But in the first round, only 7 of the 18 singers were left to the end, and such a high elimination rate made BV feel very annoyed. And they are the highest-ranked singers. is only ranked 7th Lu Zecheng. This ranking is the lowest of all the big four record labels, and they even have a singer from a non-big four record label (He Luzhong in sixth).

BV was originally bound to win this competition, and the purpose of this competition was to select people. In their opinion, the most suitable artists for their company are because their artists can sing and dance, and they are the easiest to shine in large-scale events. And the newcomers they launched are all good at singing and dancing.

Although it was previously considered that the final top 100 final battle might take the form of unplugged, such a comparison is not suitable for dancing players, but they have done a lot of unplugged training for their singers, as well as to achieve the best hot dance and singing effect.

It's a pity that it's really time to play in the arena, BV's hot dance singers don't play too well while dancing and singing in an unplugged environment, at least compared with Liu Rongjia, a hot dance player of National Entertainment, their singers are obviously shorter, and their singers are very similar, and a large number of them have been brushed off, which is inevitable.

Compared with BV, Chrono can advance to the top 48 of 7 singers, which should be considered a satisfactory result, because only 10 singers in total have advanced to the final top 100 competition. Except for Chu Yinan's abnormal performance, which made them regret, other powerful singers were all promoted.

The attitude of the other three predators who attach great importance to this competition of "Sound of China" is slightly different, although the era also attaches great importance to this large-scale talent show that may launch a new generation of singers and queens, but their attention to Cheng Dù is much weaker than that of the other three predators.

The other three predators all pushed at least 15 newcomers to participate in the preliminaries of this competition, but only 12 singers were pushed to participate in the competition. This number is already much less than the other three crocodiles.

The singers of the era are competitive, 10 out of 12 people have advanced to the final top 100 battle, and seven of the 10 singers who have been shortlisted have advanced to the final top 48, such efficiency is enough for the senior management of the era to be satisfied.

As mentioned earlier, if you want your singers to stand out in this level of talent competition, you have to pay a huge amount of publicity costs, although there is no shortage of money in the era, but they only sent a few singers to participate in the competition this time, and the biggest reason is because of money, the budget given by their senior management is too small, which is not enough to support their participation department to push more newcomers to participate.

Among today's four major record labels, the internal strife of the era is the most. This is not unrelated to the diversified development of the company itself.

Among the four major record companies, the reason why the arrow target is the best is the leader, a very important reason is because this record company is like their LOGO logo, which is an arrow shot at the arrow target, which means that their goal is very specific and precise, and their business is the same, only making music, and music-related industries, and not involving any other industries. Their business focus is on records, and they don't involve outside of Asia, they only need the Asian market, and for so many years, they have been working hard to make Chinese records, so they have achieved the results they have now.

Unlike Target, the other three labels are diversified.

As soon as you hear the name, you will know that this company is involved in other entertainment industries in addition to music, such as movies, media, newspapers and magazines, etc. They even have three fashion clothing brands under their umbrella and operate more than 100 clothing stores across Asia.

However, the music record industry is still the most important part of the business field of national entertainment, and their revenue related to the record and music fields accounts for more than 75% of the group's revenue, which shows how large the share of the music industry is in national entertainment.

Like China Entertainment, the music industry accounts for more than 75% of BV Group's total revenue. BV Group has a large number of foreign shares, so this company, like China Entertainment, is a global entertainment group, with tentacles not only entrenched in Chinese-speaking areas, but also monopolized the entertainment market share in many non-Chinese-speaking regions. For example, the Japanese-book record market has always been monopolized by BV. 60% of Japan's top first-line artists are owned by BV. BV not only monopolizes the Japanese-based record industry. Moreover, it has a monopoly of more than 50% of the market share of the Japanese-Japanese film and television industry.

BV is not only a predator in China's record industry, but also a bigger and only predator in the Japanese entertainment industry. Of course, the ultimate boss behind BV is the Zhang royal family. They have been using BV to control the entertainment industry in Japan.

In this plane. Hi-moto is like a dog. The United States is the master with the gun, China is the hunter with the gun, and the Americans let it be called. It has to bark at China, but as soon as China shoots, it will be frightened and shrink back, surviving in the gap between the two powers, and the repression of Japan itself is probably beyond the comprehension of anyone else in the world. But there is no way, who made them choose to take the road of militarism-nationalism-righteousness in the first place? Although they have ceded the island of Kyushu to China for colonization, in order to offset part of the war reparations, this is far from enough, and now the Japanese economy is developing at a very fast rate, but they have to pay 10% of their national income to the Chinese government every year to pay the rest of the war reparations, so that it will take a full 100 years to pay off their debt to China.

Just imagine, the Japanese people, who work hard every year to earn money, will eventually have to pay 10% of their income to China to pay off their predecessors' debts? How can they be normal in their hearts? And they don't dare to complain about it, because China has been comparing them with guns, and if they dare not give money, the whole country may be colonized by China, and then it will not be a matter of paying 10% of their income every year.

Under such heavy pressure, the whole of Japan and Japan could only struggle silently, striving to pay off the war reparations and recover Kyushu Island as soon as possible.

The crazy endless work has made the Japanese economy soar, but also made most of the Japanese themselves have psychological distortions, so they must rely on the entertainment industry to vent their pain.

The BV, which was secretly acquired by the Zhang royal family in the early years, played this role, and they provided the most perverted entertainment culture to the Japanese people to vent the dark side of their hearts to relieve the pressure of the whole society.

It is to be said that the sun-nature-color-emotion-industry of the previous plane is breathtaking, but this plane is even more so, because the sun-myself of this plane is a hundred times more depressing than the sun-myself of the previous plane. After Du Xinghe only watched the Japanese-Ben A-V movie of this plane once, he vowed never to watch it again, because he really couldn't accept the kind of perverted Cheng Dù that made people vomit.

Of course, this is far away, in short, BV's branch in Japan is quite perverted, and the executives in China are affected to a certain extent, and they are also very strict with their artists. It is said that all the artists of BV, both men and women, have undergone very perverted special training, and this perversion is not the erotic kind, but the excellence in dance.

Today's BV, as long as it is positioned as a hot dance-type artist, regardless of men and women, everyone can play a single leg, and the front and back splits are like playing. Since the Fang Yajun incident, their company's management of artists has become extremely harsh and strict, and it is even close to semi-military management.

BV's artists are the most stressed among the four major record companies, and of course, the artists who mix up from BV also gain the most. Among the four major record companies, BV gives the highest share to first-line singers, on the contrary, they give the lowest share to new singers in the trainee category. Polarization is very strict. This is also a big reason for the psychological imbalance of BV artists.

In short, because of the background of Japanese capital, BV is a very perverted company in the eyes of insiders.

Compared with BV, the era is even more perverted in the eyes of insiders in the Chinese music circle.

Different from BV, the metamorphosis is mostly due to harshness. The perversion in the eyes of insiders is because this company always does some unexpected perverted things.

I think that at the beginning, more than 20 years ago, the era was the only super predator in the Chinese music scene, and there was no record company at that time.

Nowadays, the position of the arrow target in the record industry has exceeded the era, and it is better than the blue, although the total assets of the arrow target are still beyond the era of diversified development. But the weight of the target in the record industry. It's already a notch ahead of the era.

When the era was the hottest, BV was still filming small A-V in Japan, and only one company in China could compete with the era, but at that time, China Entertainment did not attach so much importance to records. Because the film market was booming at that time. Most of the entertainment companies are making movies. The name of the national entertainment is International Entertainment Group, and it must also be mainly making movies.

Later, it was because of a ban-broadcast order introduced by the Zhang royal family in the mid-60s that suppressed the momentum of film development. A lot of companies have just turned around and made records.

Domestic films of that era were actually very vigorous, with films of various themes emerging in an endless stream, including a large number of political-political-ideological-ideological-aspiring films, and many movies that ridiculed and criticized the Zhang royal family. At that time, Chinese society had the opportunity to become more open.

But it's a pity that in the end, with the end of the big idea-trend-movement, the domestic cultural market has been put into the cold palace, especially the film market, many movies with themes are not allowed to be filmed, as long as there is a little insinuation, it will be killed.

Until now, although China's film market has recovered, there is still a high-voltage line, and no film company is willing to touch it, that is, there can be no content involving the Zhang royal family or anything, especially the insinuations that are smart are not acceptable, otherwise no theater will dare to let it go.

In today's movies, including novels and other art forms such as music, you can scold the government, you can scold the politicians, you can scold the people you want, but you can't scold the Zhang family, not only the Zhang family, but you are not allowed to praise, you are not allowed to comment, you are not allowed to express any opinions about the Zhang family.

In any theme of art, the Zhang family is a big taboo, as long as you touch it, you must not have good fruit to eat, and you can't make a fart if you want to.

On the surface, the Zhang family is like being separated from society, except for the history of the founding of China mentioned in school textbooks, you can't find any trace of the Zhang family in any newspapers, magazines, television, and movies in today's society. The Zhang family hardly came out to speak, as if they were really in the wilderness.

But as long as a politician with a little insight knows, such a Zhang family is actually more terrifying, because they have been watching you silently, holding a sword in their hands that can judge you.

The topic is further away.

Back to the entertainment market.

Today's film market in this plane is much larger than the record market, but this is all after suffering the ban-broadcast ban of the year. If it weren't for the ban-broadcast order back then, the current Chinese film market would be even more vigorous and huge.

It was precisely because of the ban-broadcast order that year that the Chinese record market achieved a short golden period of development.

The Big Four record labels almost all grew from that period.

Although the scale of the group was much larger than that of the era in the early years, because of the sudden collapse of the film industry, the giant of the film industry suffered huge losses.

Guoyu has always paid attention to the image of singers, because their largest group of high-level executives are old-school leaders who have experienced the development of national entertainment films, their artists and singers in the early years were all movie stars who turned into singers, and their newly signed artists are also selected according to the standards of movie stars, the reason why they do this is to strive to return to the film industry one day, in that era, no one knew when the ban-broadcast order would end, so Guoyu originally just wanted to get through those days, Just go back to your old movie business. But I didn't expect that this ban was a few years old, and the focus of film entertainment in the southeast region was all inclined to Xiangjiang, and the Xiangjiang society at that time was relatively open, which was a system of one country, two systems, and movies could be played there, so many film talents in Greater China were concentrated in Xiangjiang, which directly contributed to Xiangjiang becoming a dazzling film capital.

Later, the ban-broadcast order ended, and no matter how much Guoyu wanted to change careers, it couldn't do so. Because of the loss of talent, but also because of the booming record market. In the days just after the ban, the record industry was far from the film industry, and the income from making records was much higher than that from movies, so most of the powerful companies stayed in the record circle, and they would not compete with the Xiangjiang Film Company, which had formed a scale, to make movies.

Seeing the potential of the record market, Guoyu also adjusted its main business direction to the record industry, and only divided a small part to continue making movies. Later, as the film market strengthened year by year, the TV and film department of Guoyu became a little larger, but this scale is still incomparable with their record industry. Now they have become absolute predators in the record industry, and in the ranking of companies in the film field, they are estimated to not even be in the top 50.

Although it has transformed into a record-based group, the selection criteria of national entertainment have been retained, that is, they have been using the criteria for selecting movie stars to select singers, their business ideas are not the same as the other three crocodiles, they are not sincere in making music, but sincerely in managing the image of singers, in their opinion, the image of singers is more important than music, a good singer image, as long as you can meet good songs, it will be popular and make a lot of money. But if a singer's image is not good, or there is a stain, then even if there is good music, fans will not buy it. In Chinese entertainment, the image of the singer is the first important, and the second is the musical talent.

It is precisely because of this business philosophy that the singers of National Entertainment pay great attention to the protection and management of their own image, for fear of being stained.

Chen Huilun is the little diva of Guoyu, and Guoyu has cultivated Chen Huilun for so many years, and it can be said that she has spared no expense to build, and it was not easy to cultivate her as a fashion leader, but because of the small stain on the previous record, Guoyu had to refrigerate Chen Huilun ruthlessly. This is enough to see how strict the senior management of Guoyu Entertainment is with the image requirements of its artists. This strictness is even more perverted than the perverted management of BV.

If an artist makes a mistake in BV, as long as they accept the punishment, then they can also recover the consequences, and BV will also help the artist to work hard to recover the consequences, after all, it is not easy to cultivate an artist, although the BV management is strict, they can leave a glimmer of life for the artist, and they are willing to tolerate the artist to make small mistakes.

But national entertainment is different, national entertainment cannot tolerate any stain, as long as there is a little stain on the artist, national entertainment will almost certainly be blocked or refrigerated, leaving no room for it.

Among the four major crocodiles, these two record companies can be said to be the most strictly managed, and even the most inhumane, but in a way, their resilience and combat effectiveness are also the strongest. After all, neither of these companies was a professional record maker in the first place, they were using their experience in other industries to break through the record industry. So they are still sticking to this management style that they have always had to this day.

Different from Guoyu and BV, the era and arrow targets in the same vein are the two most humanized management companies among the four crocodiles, and this humanization is related to their perceptual character of making music professionally.

If there was no paper ban back then, there would be no target now. If there was no paper ban back then, the era would probably be a monopoly in the Chinese music scene today.

In today's Chinese music scene, the musical strength of the arrow target is undoubtedly the leader, and the era, in terms of pure music literacy, is a predator who can compete with the arrow target. The singers of these two companies are far more pure music than BV and Guoyu, and the senior management of these two companies are the earliest pioneers of pop music in the land of China, although they later separated, but these two predators are still the most enthusiastic about the pursuit of music.

Although with the restructuring of the group in recent years, the senior management has changed frequently, and the group is no longer so specialized in music, and the tentacles of this group are now involved in many industries, but the group of people who make music are still the leaders of today's Chinese music scene, and they are not weaker than the music producers of the arrow target. (To be continued......)