Chapter 753: The Death of the Ages
Don't look at the era of being crushed by the cloud world recently, as if it is easy to bully, but in fact, the strength of the era in the record circle is second only to the arrow target. Their great king, Zhu Hanqing, is currently the only male singer in the Chinese music scene who can compete with the singer Zhang Dehua.
In the ranking of the Four Heavenly Kings, Zhu Hanqing is the first. In terms of singing strength, Zhu Hanqing is by no means inferior to Andy Cheung, if it weren't for Andy Cheung who won the championship of that draft contest that year and sprung up, he would definitely not be able to suppress Zhu Hanqing.
The system that ran Zhu Hanqing in the era was not weaker than any of the target departments. However, because there are too many internal disputes in the era and now, they cannot be condensed into a rope, and all parties within the company have different intentions, and their internal friction is too strict.
Just like Fu Xiaotian's group of people are always "bullied" by the cloud world, other people are watching with the attitude of watching jokes, and even fall into the trap for Fu Xiaotian and them, instead of reaching out to the cloud world together.
If there weren't so many disputes within the era, the cloud world would have been crushed to death a long time ago. But it's a pity that the internal struggle in the era is too strict, and they don't have the heart to care about external enemies like the cloud world at all, they spend all their minds on the civil war.
The reason why the founders of the target resigned from the era was actually due to the infighting of the era. Infighting is a tradition in the era, and this bane is not left by others. It was Mr. Nian Genghua, the founder of the era, who single-handedly contributed to it.
At that time, the era monopolized the record market in the south, and was the first predator-level company in Chinese pop music, and no other company could compete with the era in the field of pop music.
Nian Genghua maintained the combat effectiveness and competitiveness of his subordinates. The three factions are deliberately supported, allowing them to restrain each other, compete with each other, and fight from within to stimulate each other's fighting spirit and stimulate the vitality and potential of the enterprise.
The old gentleman's idea was good, he wanted to take the form of healthy competition to keep the company alive, and this competition was indeed healthy in the first few years, but since the ban issued by the Zhang royal family, many companies have turned to the pop music market. After the cup of pop records. The internal competition of the era has changed its flavor.
Previously, they did not have the pressure of external competition, and it would be good to concentrate on internal competition, but after the ban was issued. The external competition of the years also began to become fierce. Under two-phase pressure. The factional strife of the era has become unusually cruel. There are many great singers who end up ruining their futures because of factional struggles.
is like Andy Cheung's brother, a popular singer earlier than Fang Yajun and Andy Cheung - Shi Renjie, who was a gold medal singer of the era at that time. One of the main male stars of the era, but because the maker he was with lost power, Shi Renjie had no chance to release films at all, and was finally forced to leave the circle. He can't join other factions if he wants to, he has already branded the traces of the previous faction on his body, and there is no chance to turn over. Such a brutal competition is comparable to the struggle between some political, political, factional, and factional factions.
In that era, I was not afraid that you would not come out, but I was afraid that you would be on the wrong side. And even if you are now in a state of infinite beauty, as long as the line in your faction falls, then you will immediately fall into the eighteenth layer of hell, and you will never be able to turn over. In such an environment, how can singers and musicians make good music?
At that time, Mr. Nian Genghua had a stroke and could no longer control the overall situation of the company, and the situation of factional strife intensified and finally became out of control.
The group of people who had a passion for music at the arrow target couldn't stand the internal competition environment of the era at that time, so they resolutely resigned, and raised funds to redeem their singers, and finally they founded the arrow target together, taking advantage of the opportunity of the infighting and the great development of pop music, they rose in one fell swoop and became the first brother in today's Chinese music scene.
Today's four major predators in the Chinese music scene, BV and Guoyu are in a hostile and competitive relationship, because their business philosophy and the type of singer are in direct conflict; And the age and the target are also a kind of hostile relationship, because of the historical relationship between the two companies.
The internal competition mechanism of the era was not until Mr. Nian Genghua died and his son Nian Gongcheng took over the company. But at that time, the era had already been caught up by the newly planted arrow target and the national entertainment and BV that changed to records.
At that time, the company was out of balance due to strict internal friction and strict income and expenditure, and the revenue of the record industry became worse and worse due to fierce external competition, so Nian Gongcheng, the second-generation head of the era, made a decision that has been criticized by some conservatives of the era - to expand the non-entertainment industry business and carry out the transformation of the group's large business. In an era when other companies were sharpening their heads and drilling into the record circle, this record predator, who still maintained a leading position at that time when the skinny camel was bigger than a horse, actually wanted to change careers to do something else!
This decision completely made the era hand over the throne of the boss of the record industry. Although in later years, after repeated setbacks in other fields such as real estate, FMCG, and precision manufacturing, they regrouped and recaptured their best record industry, their defeat has been irreversible, and they have been completely surpassed by the target and can no longer catch up.
Although from today's point of view, the era is still the company with the highest total assets and the richest among the four major record companies, their position in the record industry can no longer catch up with the target.
After years of mergers and reorganizations, the company is now a large group of companies headed by a board of directors formed by the heads of several large companies.
For example, Du Xinghe sang with Gao Yilin, the little king of the era, on the Henderson Plaza in Sioux City, and the Henderson Center where they were located at that time was the commercial real estate project of the real estate company in which the era group was a shareholder.
There are many projects in other industries such as these. At present, the revenue of the music-related field accounts for more than 95% of the company's total revenue, and they are still a dedicated music company, while the music-related revenue of BV and China Entertainment also accounts for more than 75% of the group's total revenue. That's a pitiful 40 percent.
Although music-related income is still the largest income of the era, it is proportionately speaking. Era is no longer a professional record company, but a miscellaneous aircraft carrier, look at the products of the projects made by the era to know how miscellaneous this aircraft carrier is - they have commercial real estate projects in several large cities in the south, which is another major part of their business, which is quite profitable, but the others are not. They produce mineral water, milk powder, shampoo, toothpaste, and even sanitary napkins, although these daily necessities and fast-moving consumer foods have their own brands, not called era mineral water, age milk powder, age sanitary napkins. But they all belong to the Chrono Group.
Besides. They also built an electronics factory to provide foundry of core components and display screens for the largest pager manufacturer in China. Last year, they wholly acquired the largest pager display manufacturer in the South. At present, it basically monopolizes the supply of display screens for major pager brands in the south. This one sounds cool and should be very profitable, but actually. The pager is almost obsolete. If the transformation of these manufacturers is not good. This will be a huge challenge to the financial income of the era.
Not only got involved in the electronic products industry, but also acquired two old watch companies and entered the watch manufacturing industry. But watch companies have been hit by pagers in recent years. The market is also shrinking rapidly, and if mobile phones can become popular in the future, watch companies will be even more impacted. I don't know what the high-level of the era thinks, they always collect some sunset industries, these sunset industries seem to be very cheap at purchase prices, but in fact they are all big burdens, and the era of pressure will become more and more breathless.
In addition to music, they also do business work in many fields such as film, media, newspapers and magazines, but each line of work is not as exquisite as music.
Although many of the businesses expanded by the era are worthy of criticism, the era has done something that has been praised by everyone, that is, public welfare and charity projects. Because the scale of the group is the largest of the Big Four, they have swallowed up many large enterprises, and now they have reorganized into a big predator in many fields, so their public welfare projects are the largest among the Big Four. They give back to society the most.
Although the financial pressure of the years has been greater in recent years, the years have never reduced their spending on giving back to the community, and they have also increased the scale and amount of charitable projects every year.
It is precisely because of the charity projects of the era that it is very good that in the eyes of the public, the era is a big record company that deserves their respect and support, and this respect and support has a significant effect on the sales of the era's records.
However, the huge charity project has also brought a great financial burden to the Age Group. Today's era may seem like a huge one, but those who know the age know that the era has become more and more like a paper tiger.
For example, in such an important competition as "Sound of China", the cost of the promotion department of the era to their promotion department is the lowest among the four major record companies, which also directly leads to the fact that the newcomers in the era are the least. Because under the limited promotion costs, it is impossible to launch more newcomers in the era, and they can only spend every penny on ideas, and strive to do more promotion for these newcomers.
To say that the artists of the era are also quite competitive, including Wu Zhilong, they have strictly abided by the participation strategy formulated by the era team, except for Chu Yinan's abnormal performance, the other singers of the era who should be played have almost been played, but because some people's strength is really not comparable to the final 48 that they have been promoted, so they were eliminated, but most of their participating singers have been promoted, and the promotion rate is the highest among the four major record companies.
On the night of the end of the recording of the Top 100 Battle on August 26, the big team of the era held a celebration banquet in a suburban club in Chang'an. The shortlisted singers and team members all participated, and this celebration banquet should have been very harmonious and inspirational, but because these shortlisted singers belong to different factions of the music department of the era, the kind of appearance between them and their praise still makes the atmosphere of the celebration banquet very discordant.
The tradition of the era has always been the internal competition system, which reached the peak of cruelty in the era when Nian Genghua was terminally ill, although it was slightly suppressed by Nian Gongcheng. But the system has been preserved. The so-called competition system is that in the same pit, two or more sets of radishes are always planted, so that they can compete for the best plan, so as to make the most effective products or works. In today's era, every position, including every singer, will be surrounded by very homogeneous and highly competitive competitors. Although this kind of competition is not as close to the point of life and death as it was back then, it is also quite cruel, and under this cruel pressure, many people of the era, including singers, have a bit of psychological distortion. Like Fu Xiaotian, it is even worse, not only is the internal competition very fierce, but the external also provokes the cloud world, and he is always crushed by the cloud world. I can't turn over. Not only is it laughed at internally by peer competitors, but also outside by the cloud world, that kind of pressure and grievance is really not something that ordinary people can understand. So much so that now, Fu Xiaotian, who can fight and fight, has been a little wilted. I don't want to go to war with anyone else.
Wu Zhilong is not. Wu Zhilong hasn't wilted yet. Now is the time for him to squander his blood, civil war and internal fighting, foreign war and external fighting. All made him very excited. Especially this time, he pressed Liao Nan and advanced to the top 48 in front of Liao Nan, which made Wu Zhilong extremely arrogant and excited.
has been trampled on by the cloud world for so many years, and now it has finally turned over! - This can be regarded as a turnover, Wu Zhilong is excited to fly this night, he drinks a lot, and he talks a lot, as if he won the championship, and the excitement is more than Jiang Li, who has the best momentum in the current era.
Jiang Li and the others and Wu Zhilong's Fu Xiaotian side are two factions, and seeing Wu Zhilong so "villainous", Jiang Li's team is completely disdainful. In fact, this is not bad, they disdain Wu Zhilong, at least they didn't harm Wu Zhilong.
The other faction has always been unaccustomed to Wu Zhilong's mixing up in the era because his mother is a high-level person, and he is quite unhappy with Wu Zhilong. This kind of unhappiness is hidden in their hearts, and the faces of the people in their team are pleasant, and they follow Fu Xiaotian's team to pat Wu Zhilong's sycophants, which makes Wu Zhilong very happy, and take the opportunity to fill Wu Zhilong with wine, trying to make Wu Zhilong's voice hoarse, so that Wu Zhilong will be folded in the later game. This kind of vicious scheming is very common in the era. This can also be seen how bad the internal environment is now.
Although Nian Gongcheng knew that the internal competition mechanism of the era was at risk of being out of shape, he could not do anything about it, because he himself had been kicked out by the heads of several major factions of the most important music department of the era.
At the beginning, the decision to transform into a diversified group was made by Nian Gongcheng patting his head, and until this year, the group of bigwigs in charge of music production in Age still felt that Age was overtaken by the target, and it was all Nian Gongcheng's super wrong decision to lead. This group of bigwigs regretted that they did not collectively resist Nian Gongcheng at the beginning, if they corrected internal contradictions and worked hard to continue to monopolize the Chinese music scene, then what would be the matter with arrow targets, national entertainment, and BV? They missed the best and last chance to succeed, which led to the current situation where the music department has to help other business divisions.
This group of music bigwigs have a cold grudge against Nian Gongcheng, so they kicked Nian Gongcheng out of the music department very early, doesn't that guy want to diversify the development of the era? Then he will be in charge of the development of diversity, and the music department will no longer allow Nian Gongcheng to interfere.
Although Nian Gongcheng is very angry at the rebellious behavior of this group of bigwigs in the music department, there is no way, the idea of diversification has been proved to be wrong, and it may drag the era into the risk of disintegration, and now the one that can save the era, or maintain the era is still a first-class group company, is the most profitable music department. He didn't dare to offend the group of bigwigs in the music department now, otherwise this group of people would be like the group of people who were the target at the beginning, and in a fit of anger, they left their jobs in anger and set up their own music company, and that era would have completely collapsed. Although this risk is very small, because the major factions of the music department are very different, it is impossible to leave together, so they will not give up their fat nest to their opponents, they want their opponents to leave, they are in charge. This situation is very different from the group of people who were the target at the beginning, very united, very purposeful, so the possibility of repeating the mistakes of the past is relatively small.
But Nian Gongcheng is still very taboo about this kind of thing. If there is a split in the current era music department, then the entire era group may have to pay a heavy price for it, and may even be wiped out directly. So Nian Gongcheng completely delegated power to a few bigwigs in the music department, let them do whatever they want, as long as they can make money for the era.
As a result of this decentralization, the internal strife within the music department has become more and more intense, and the expected healthy competition has almost turned into a feared vicious competition. But Nian Gongcheng can't do anything about it. Those bigwigs can make trouble whatever they like, and now he only needs to be responsible for the development of other business divisions.
The burden of other business divisions is now Nian Gongcheng's big problem, and he has always believed that the era should become a diversified group, and he has been working in this direction. So all his energy now is turning the tide of other careers. In his opinion, as long as the era can have another stable and strong profit point, no longer relying on the music department to drag a large group forward, but relying on two or more feet to walk, the development of that era will enter a new and broader stage of rapid development. At that time, it doesn't matter if he takes back the music department by force, or kicks out the group company for the music department that he has always been unfavorable.
Unlike his father, Nian Genghua, who is a musician who loves music, Nian Gongcheng is an entrepreneur full of wolf ambitions, and he is bent on replacing the era into the ranks of China's top enterprises. If you want to enter the ranks of China's top enterprises, it is impossible to achieve it just by making music. For a truly mega-corporation, the music business is simply insignificant, and the production capacity of music is too far from that of a real light and heavy industry, so he is bent on forming a truly competitive and diversified group for the times. In his plan, the music department of the era was just a money bag, not the real direction of development.
It is precisely because of this development strategy that people in the circle are not very optimistic about the future development of Era Records, and those who are familiar with the Big Four know that the current status of Era Records can still be carried with the arrow target, but as the development of the era is more and more in the direction of moving away from music, the competition within Era Records is becoming more and more intense, and the internal friction is becoming more and more strict, and the future of Era Records will be very likely to be very variable.
Du Xinghe had already learned about this from Xiao Tianlang, so he dared to take the cloud world and the era to confront each other. He hoped that the cloud world could become a sharp sword, piercing into the decaying body of the age, and completely disintegrating this predator. Because of their vicious competition, it is harmful to themselves, to other companies, and even more to the entire Chinese music scene.
Du Xinghe also got a news from Xiao Tianlang that he didn't know whether it was true or not, this so-called not knowing whether it was true or false, not that he didn't believe what Xiao Tianlang said, but that Xiao Tianlang couldn't judge the truth of the news. Xiao Tianlang also inquired about the news from within the era.
According to a very small gossip, Zhu Hanqing, the super king of the era, wants to change jobs after the contract expires. The 8-year brokerage contract signed by Zhu Hanqing and the era will expire in August next year, and it is rumored that Zhu Hanqing is secretly contacting the arrow target, and he wants to jump to the arrow target after the contract expires, and he will not survive in the black smoke miasma of the era.
Du Xinghe was quite shocked by such news, you know, the transfer of a big king is an extraordinary thing, and it is a completely earthquake-level event in the music world! It has the potential to change the entire record industry!
If Zhu Hanqing jumps to the arrow target, the arrow target will be invincible! not only has Andy Cheung, the world's No. 1 singer, but also Zhu Hanqing, the world's No. 2, plus their own great king Bartley, as well as a diva and many powerful singers, such strength can even compete with the other three crocodiles!
If the championship of the "Sound of China" competition is won by the newcomer of the arrow target again, then the development of the next ten years, the arrow target will be a peerless strength!
Monopoly is not a good thing in any industry. This is especially true in the record industry. Even if the bigwigs of the arrow target are sincerely making music, the many drawbacks that monopoly will breed will definitely limit the development of the Chinese pop music scene.
No record company other than Arctic Target wants that to happen. Xiao Tianlang didn't want to see such a situation, so he would reveal this still uncertain news to Du Xinghe very early. (To be continued......)