As soon as he thought of this, Li Yange glanced at the time on his watch, at half past nine in the morning, it was still early, he turned around and walked out of Sanlitun, stopped a van taxi, and prepared to go to the Polygram office.

Half an hour later, Beijing Polygram office.

At this time, Fujiwara Yuki has not come back, and the person who received Li Yange was a man named Ryunosuke Mitsui, in his thirties, who was only transferred to Beijing in April this year.

Seeing that Fujiwara hadn't come back yet, Li Yange actually didn't want to say much, but he couldn't resist Ryunosuke Mitsui's enthusiasm, and said that he would help send a telegram to Fujiwara Yuki, so he told him about the band.

"Li Sang is talking about the Baojia Street Band?"

Listening to Ryunosuke Mitsui's tone, as if he knew the Baojia Street Band, Li Yange couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Mr. Mitsui has also heard it?" ”

"I know a little bit, but I didn't expect Li Sang to be the founder of this band."

Ryunosuke Mitsui smiled and explained, "Before Manager Fujiwara went to Yumoto, he instructed me to find as many potential singers or bands as possible in the mainland. An employee in our office recommended me to a dance hall where the Baojia Street Band was performing on stage. ”

Polygram has been setting up an office in Beijing for several months, and has been dealing with relevant departments before, and has not set its sights on singers.

It wasn't until last month, on the eve of Yuki Fujiwara's return to the book, that he told Ryunosuke Mitsui, including the employees of the office, to look for some potential singers to sign up.

If you want to say that the place with the most singers in Beijing, in addition to the major art troupes, it is naturally the most small singers in some song and dance halls.

For this reason, for more than a month, Ryunosuke Mitsui has been going to various song and dance halls in Beijing with an employee from the mainland almost every day to look for potential singers, and one of them happened to see the Baojia Street Band.

"Mr. Mitsui went to the dance hall to see them perform?"

Ryunosuke Mitsui praised: "Yes, although I don't understand Chinese and can't understand what is sung, I can also feel from the music that this is a very thoughtful band, not to mention that Li Sang you are still the founder of this band." ”

Li Yange asked: "Then according to Mr. Mitsui, can the Baojia Street Band sign a contract with Polygram?" ”

"This..."

Ryunosuke Mitsui was a little hesitant, it was much more difficult to promote a rock band than a pop singer, and Yuki Fujiwara asked him to find more singers instead of rock bands before leaving.

"To tell you the truth, Li Sang, we have no plans to sign a rock band in the mainland for the time being. But I can't be the master, maybe when Mr. Fujiwara comes back, he will change his mind. ”

"Then it's troublesome to Mr. Mitsui, I still have some things to deal with here, so I won't disturb Mr. Mitsui's work."

"I'll send you Li Sang."

"No need, Mr. Mitsui."

Pushing off Ryunosuke Mitsui's idea of wanting to send himself, Li Yange turned around and walked out of Polygram's office.

When he got to the road outside, Li Yange glanced back at the signs hanging on both sides of the office, and shook his head slightly, he could understand Ryunosuke Mitsui's hesitation, rock music is actually not very popular in the current country.

Except for Beijing, where the relationship between the earliest rock musicians such as Cui Jian is more popular, other regions are still dominated by songs by Hong Kong and Taiwan singers.

In addition, within a few years of reform and opening up, most people don't know much about what pop songs are, and pop music is in its infancy, so cover songs imitating Hong Kong and Taiwan singers are all the rage.

In recent years, with the familiarity with pop music, many pop singers have also been born, such as Zhang Qiang, who appeared in the American "Time Magazine" last year, and the sales of his first album "Tokyo Night" exceeded 2.5 million copies.

and Li Lingyu, the sweet song queen who played the "Jade Rabbit Essence" in Journey to the West, her debut album "Oriental Rookie Li Lingyu" released in 1985 also exceeded one million sales.

So this is also the reason why Ryunosuke Mitsui is not optimistic about rock bands, because almost all of the albums that are currently selling in China are pop singers.

After stopping at the door of Polygram for a moment, Li Yange touched her chin, remembering the popularity of the mainland music market in the next few years, and gradually had an idea in her heart.

It also seems like a good idea to start a record label?

……

A few days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Cui Jian's Toxek brought the good news that they had persuaded the Asian Games team to agree to hold the fundraising concert, and the venue was no longer the abandoned factory before, but moved to the Beijing Gymnasium.

The people in the Asian Games team originally wanted to find a few more singers, but the fundraising concert was in a hurry, and this was the first time it was held.

Seeing that the concert was formalized, and there were people from the Asian Games team to help, Xue Ke took Dou Dawei, Fang Yuanchao and others, and every day they were either busy following Cui Jian to the gymnasium for rehearsals, or going to Sanlitun to see the decoration of the Qing Bar, and they didn't have time to come over and ask if they could sign a contract.

"Ten thousand, ten thousand...... Fifteen thousand. ”

In the room, Li Yange looked at the thick stack of hundred-yuan bills on the bed, scratched his hair, the money was a little little.

There are almost 10,000 yuan in it, which was sent to him by Li Dongqing, saying that it is so long after the year, plus the profit from the summer vacation.

The remaining 5,000 yuan is a share of the sales of some of the albums that Polygram sent him.

The album "Yan Ge" has sold more than 23,000 copies in the book, and although it is still being sold out, it is estimated that it can sell up to 30,000 copies as the album is released for a longer and longer period, which is exactly the same as the number of albums produced by Polygram.

Polygram has long expected this, it is already very good to be able to sell the album short, although the profit is relatively small, but this is also the first time that a musician from Chinese mainland has come to release an album, and it can make some money without losing money, and PolyGram's senior management is still relatively satisfied with this.

Although Li Yange is a little disappointed, he has had a psychological expectation before, although it is very rare to sell 30,000 copies, it is better than not being able to sell it, and the final record share can also be tens of thousands of yuan, which is not unacceptable.

was about to call Li Yange out for dinner, when Cheng Shaojun entered the door and saw a pile of hundred-yuan bills on the bed, his eyes widened, and he was surprised: "Yange, why is there so much money?" Where did it come from? ”

"The separation of the album." Li Yange said casually while sorting out the money.

"So much? Didn't you sell many records? Cheng Shaojun looked stunned, didn't he say that it didn't sell well? How can you divide so much money.

"Don't look at the album's low sales, but I'm divided into yen, which is a lot when converted into RMB."

Originally, Li Yange wanted Fujiwara Yuki to help him exchange for US dollars, but now the yen is exchanged for RMB, which is higher than the proportion of US dollars, so all of them are exchanged for Japanese yen.

Cheng Shaojun asked, "Then why don't you deposit in the bank?" ”

"It's taken out of the bank." Li Yange glanced back at her, remembered something, and said, "Shaojun, I may have a job here recently, but it's not in dance." ”

As soon as he heard that he had found a job, Cheng Shaojun's eyes lit up: "It's not dancing, what kind of job is it?" ”

has been idle at home for two months, and Cheng Shaojun has long been bored.

"I'll tell you when it's settled, right? Let's go, let's eat first. ”

Immediately, Li Yange took Cheng Shaojun's hand and walked to the back room of the main hall.

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