Chapter 145: Self-directed and self-acted
"This song is gone!" Ken Carlyle waved his fist into the air, this "I'myours" can be said to be the most high-quality song he has ever had in his hands since he made music for so many years, with such a song and the confidence of another Grammys, but he knew that such a song would obviously not be given to Cobby Carlyle, otherwise Li Jingming would not wait for Coby Carlyle's record to be released.
On September 1st, Koby Carlyle's debut album was also the first full-fledged album, and it can be said that making a regular album without testing the waters at the beginning of his debut like this is as dangerous as climbing a cliff with his bare hands, but when others know that Kobey Carlyle's father is Ken Carly, the winner of the Grammy Award, it is not so surprising, although the record producer wrote Cobbie's own name, but the outside world mostly regards this album as Ken Carly's contribution to his daughter.
Li Jingming made good on his promise, and Apple's online platform and Facebook homepage all recommended the "Coco", and the week-long online offensive was extremely powerful, especially in places with high Internet penetration rates such as the United States. The first 55,000 physical album sales, the title song "Bubbly" ("Sunshine Smile") 490,000 downloads, and the second title song "Realize" (originally the title hit of the seventh album) achieved even better, with a full 520,000 downloads, which is undoubtedly a myth for newcomers.
LKM is the Guangguo Music Company has gradually entered people's field of vision, and there are countless independent music studios of all kinds in the United States, but LKM is the first one that has the strength to make such a big noise, and many independent musicians who are not interested in the business model of big music companies have set their sights here, hoping to realize their music dreams with the help of Guangguo Music's channels.
It is also the first album of the newcomer, and the sales of Kobi Carylle in the United States do not seem to be as good as Lee Jingming's in South Korea, as if the music industry in the United States is not as prosperous as in South Korea, but the two are not comparable at all. Officially, because the music industry in the United States is too developed, there are a lot of big gods and small gods, and there are too many people who listen to music, so there are so many people who are at a loss what to do, so the sales of Cobbie Carlyle's 55,000 copies are magical, and the Korean music industry is fixed with so many companies and so many singers, basically forked to coordinate with each other to sell albums, you must know that the Korean music industry in 07 years has not yet had the prosperity of shijie idols a few years later.
For a period of time after Lee Ching-myung left South Korea, the sales of "Confession" were very good, but it only exploded at the beginning, and the sales of 120,000 copies in the first week fell sharply, and the statistical curve was as exaggerated as bungee jumping, all because of the emergence of a "divine comedy", that song called "Tellme". JYP's girl group Wondergirls took the retro style route and soared into the sky, after several tribulations, this group finally began to shine dazzlingly, so dazzling that when Jessica called Li Jingming, she would complain about two sentences and then ask Li Jingming to invite songs.
Under the attack of "Lies" and "Tellme", Li Jingming's "First Confession" began to show a decline, after all, Li Jingming is not in South Korea, and the other two play songs every week, and they also perform on the street from time to time, so South Korea is now completely the world of these two songs, and most of the stores are infinitely circulating these two songs, and it is difficult to sell under the overwhelming publicity offensive, and Li Jingming's "Daoxiang" has become a bit similar to literary movies, and has entered an embarrassing situation of applause or not, no one can find fault with this song, However, in the sound of haode, sales have been falling.
As of September 30, the sales volume of September in a month is the first in "First Confession", the second in "Always", and the third in "Thewonderyears", but the discerning person knows at a glance that soon this ranking will be reversed, the song "Tellme" is so popular, not only Koreans, many foreign netizens have also begun to imitate the cute dance of the five girls, and uploaded it to the Internet as a video, which has formed a social phenomenon. For a while, Wondergirls went directly from a "bad luck group" to a "national sister group".
Li Jingming doesn't care about these at all, it's just some trivial things, the little money he makes from selling albums for 200,000 or 300,000 is just a drizzle for him, and what's the use of being popular in South Korea, what is the situation of Wondergirls in the future, and he knows the future very well.
There are many music festivals in the United States, and there are many famous ones, and Li Jingming is now setting his sights on these music festivals, and Li Jingming will definitely not do it to participate in the American singing show, because it will be branded as an "idol", not a real idol, but a kind of singer. The United States is the country of the draft, although the draft arose in the United Kingdom, but in the United States it has become unprecedentedly prosperous and radiated to the entire shijie, the concept of idol was transmitted from the United States to South Korea, and now the American singing show is basically equal to the talent show. Li Jingming was reluctant to be on the show, but he couldn't put the song on the Internet, so he was ready to participate in the music festival, if the time came, the tuning fork music festival was the most haode choice, but it was held in early September, Li Jingming just arrived at the school and ran to the music festival is not like a word, so he couldn't make the trip, zuihou Li Jingming's choice is the CMJ New York Music Festival and the Austin Music Festival.
Since its inception in 1980, the CMJ New York Festival has endured with hundreds of bands every year, a small space of 300 people, but hundreds of performances on different themes, and the festival is very competitive, as every year the four major records are looking for new talents. The Austin Music Festival in Texas is a different story, with tens of thousands of fans gathering for two weekends in mid-October, a scene as grand as South Korea's Lunar New Year passenger scene.
The invitation to the two music festivals was just that, and so many friends in the music industry of Ken Carlyle easily helped Li Jingming get the qualification to perform. Lee Kyung-ming has been busy with the executive production of "Juno" recently, and he is also practicing the song "I'myours", which is a pop style with a bit of a minor key, and it is not easy to master the scene of tens of thousands of people with such a song that does not have a hot point.
In the middle of October, the whole of New York was shrouded in a musical atmosphere on the 16th, and Union Square Park was full of people, although each show only had a capacity of 300 people, but there will be hundreds of such performances in total, which are nicknamed music marathons, not only the performances are running a marathon, but the people who listen to the songs are the same, but the excitement brought by music can make these fans crazy and happy without the slightest sense of exhaustion.
Li Jingming has seen a big scene, a small scene of 300 people, and the scene of South Korea's singing shows is bigger than this scene, so Li Jingming's typhoon is very confident, but as soon as he goes up, he will be cold, because his appearance is problematic. People who like music are generally more simple and less racist, and there is no problem with Asian faces like Li Jingming, who perform at major music festivals in the United States every year with a lot of Asians and Asians, and the problem is that on his guitar, he took a folk guitar to the stage. The CMJ festival doesn't stipulate the style of performance, but unless it's a specific theme or a tribute to a senior, the festival usually comes to play rock, hip-hop and so on, but the people who come to the festival and sing folk songs are really outliers.
Where does Li Jingming care about the eyes of these people, he closed his eyes and began to brew emotions, and he was happy when these people were quiet, which was conducive to his performance. As soon as the guitar sound of the prelude passed, after Li Jingming spoke, it became quieter below, not too ugly, but it was so good to hear that others were stunned, for more than ten seconds, the audience was silent, and they all looked at Li Jingming in a daze, and then there was a loud whistle from Leng Buding, and then everyone came to life as if they had been dispersed, and the screams and cheers were endless.
"I'myours" is not the type that gets more and more flavorful the more you listen to it, but a "strong" song that can firmly grasp people's ears at once, and that kind of light and sweet sound can arouse people's hearts to like it instinctively, and these people who have listened to rock for a day suddenly hear a relaxing song like "I'myours" as if they had to eat an ice cream on a hot day, and this is a good song that people can't refuse.
The most attractive part of the CMJ Music Festival is that the scouts of the four major record companies gather here, for example, there are now six scouts out of 300 people, and when they see Li Jingming's handsome face and hear this song that can be described as perfect, their eyes have changed, and they can emit a ghostly light like a hungry wolf. One of the most important qualities of being a talent scout is a vicious vision, not only to see people accurately, but also to listen to songs, many top talent scouts in big music companies are not even inferior to top music producers, because they master the introduction of new talents in music companies, and many well-known musicians are dug out by them.
"Let's go, let's go!" A big white man hurriedly squeezed in front of Li Jingming after he stepped down, he was in a very high position, and soon arrived at Li Jingming's side, grabbed Li Jingming's shoulders and walked to the side, and shouted in his mouth, "Our company is very well treated, give you 80% of the share, join our company." ”
Li Jingming was carried out by this big man like this, and his face still showed interest.
Li Jingming's kung fu don't talk about this big man, he can be knocked down with another dozen, even if he doesn't do it, there are four guards watching below, the reason why this white man was not beaten is because he is an employee of LKM at all, this is Li Jingming's self-directed and self-made play. Li Jingming understands the weight of this song, Ken Carley has a lot of resentment because Li Jingming didn't give this song to Kobby Carly, and can make a Grammy Award holder show such a strong regret, the quality of this song Li Jingming is still counted, so he knows that after the performance at the music festival, there will definitely be scouts coming to him, so in order not to waste too much time dealing with talent scouts, he came to such a play. weishenme doesn't directly state that he is an artist under Guangguo Entertainment (LKM's parent company)? Because Li Jingming wants major music companies to keep an eye on him, Li Jingming is also ready to use these people's liliang to promote it.
When major music companies compete for a potential newcomer, they not only compete by offering tempting conditions, but also say good things in the media to gain the favor of the newcomer, which can show that their company attaches great importance to this newcomer, and Li Jingming is preparing to use such unspoken rules to let the four major records be a free coolie to help him do publicity work.