To be honest, winning the Grammy Award for Best Newcomer is definitely a significant effect on Chen Qiming's career.

In the weeks after the Grammy awards, Chen Qiming's global fame has risen significantly.

Even "Storm and Clouds", which was already on the verge of being released, ushered in a small explosion at the box office in North America.

The same goes for sales figures for other records and the like.

However, Chen Qiming himself didn't pay too much attention to this matter.

The day after the Grammys, he flew back to Treasure Island, recording the two Japanese and Korean albums while starting to lay out his own record label.

The name of the record company, Chen Qiming, named it "Starting Point Records".

Inject 20 million Taiwan dollars, and the address is not far from Fulong Company.

In fact, Chen Qiming didn't want to open a record company on Treasure Island at first.

He has connections on the treasure island, but it is much worse than the small group of Ge Fuhong and others.

He was very worried about being run on by Ge Fuhong and others.

However, after thinking about it for a long time, he finally chose to open the company on Treasure Island.

The reason why the final decision to open in Treasure Island is mainly because in the next few years, the focus of the Chinese music scene will gradually be shifted to Treasure Island.

Although Hong Kong has not admitted it, there is a fact that in the past two years, the Cantonese record market has begun to decline significantly.

This can be seen from the fact that a large number of singers in Hong Kong have begun to shift their focus to Treasure Island.

Cantonese divas like Wang Jingwen even went directly to Treasure Island to develop.

Even Chen Qiming himself, in the past few years, he has only released a few Cantonese songs, and the other songs are all in Chinese.

The main reason for this is that the Cantonese market is too small compared to the Chinese market.

Especially for Chen Qiming's existence, which is based on millions of sales at every turn after the release of the record, instead of spending time to release a Cantonese record, which can only harvest hundreds of thousands of millions of sales in the end, he should release a Chinese album casually, and the sales volume is at least two or three million.

Well, although a bit exaggerated.

But Chen Qiming is such a dick in the Chinese music scene now.

At present, Chen Qiming has released a total of four Chinese records, with a total sales of about 32 million.

Among them, "Star Storm" has the highest sales, reaching 11 million, followed by "Too Soft Heart", with a sales of a little more than 10 million.

The other two albums, "Fairy Tale" and "Trendy People", are 7 million and 3 million respectively.

There is no doubt that Chen Qiming's record data is rising in a ladder.

The average sales volume is 8 million copies.

Eight million, what is this concept?

It can be said that in the entire history of the Chinese music scene, and even in the history of Asian and global music, this is a very explosive existence.

Because of this data, some media have even claimed that whenever Chen Qiming releases a record, regardless of the quality of the record, the minimum sales will be 4 million.

In the Chinese market, Chen Qiming naturally will not waste time releasing Cantonese records.

Therefore, considering the audience, Chen Qiming finally chose to open the record company on Treasure Island.

Starting Point Records is not entirely new.

For Chen Qiming, starting from scratch is a waste of time.

As a result, he chose to acquire a small record label in Treasure Island.

The record label was originally a record production company with two recording studios.

Because of poor management, the boss was attracted by the factory opening craze set off in the mainland in just a few years, so he sold the record company to Chen Qiming.

Chen Qiming based on this to establish the starting point record.

After the initial establishment of the record company, it is naturally impossible for Chen Qiming to be alone.

Record producers, company executives, and recording engineers are all indispensable.

In order to get the record company up and running as soon as possible, Chen Qiming had to wield a hoe and start poaching.

The first is the record producer, who directly poached Chen Xiunan from Warner as the chief producer.

Then he dug Tao Zhe, who once wrote a song "Love is Simple" for himself, from Fulong Records.

These two.

Chen Xiunan's life at Warner in the past two years has been okay.

Since the UFO was acquired by Warner, the original generals of UFO have begun to be affected to varying degrees.

Originally, the gold medal producers of UFO either jumped ship to Rolling Stone, or were transferred to Warner Hong Kong, or continued to stay at UFO Warner.

Among them, Li Ziheng, who originally wrote a song "Wind or Rain" for Chen Qiming, jumped ship for various reasons and ran to Rolling Stone.

In May last year, Zhou Huajian's "Actually Don't Want to Go" was supervised by him.

As for Chen Xiunan, he was sent to Hong Kong by UFO Warner last year, and was reused for the monster image record "Desire" that was responsible for Aaron Kwok's overhaul.

Compared with Chen Xiunan's life, Tao Zhe's life is not so good.

After the song "Love is Simple" he wrote for Chen Qiming became popular, he was immediately reused, and Ge Fuhong transferred him from Chen Qiming to be in charge of the company's newcomer record production.

It's a pity that he didn't have any good songs in the past two years, so he was gradually buried in the company.

Both of them have a good relationship with Chen Qiming.

As soon as Chen Qiming called, the two left Warner and Fulong one after another, and came directly to the starting point record.

And except for these two.

At the end of February, after Chen Qiming completed the production of two Japanese and Korean records, Liu Ciwei, who served as the general manager of Fulong Company, also chose to jump ship and came directly to the starting point as the manager of the starting point record.

For Liu Ciwei, in fact, Chen Qiming did not take the initiative to dig him.

He took the initiative to contact Chen Qiming.

After Chen Xiunan and Tao Zhe ran to the starting point of the record, he called Chen Qiming directly and expressed his hope to come over.

Compared with Chen Xiunan and Tao Zhe, they were calm when they jumped jobs.

Liu Ciwei's job hopping really caused a storm.

It seems that before leaving, Liu Ciwei talked to Ge Fuhong about the issue of shares, but Ge Fuyou refused.

In a fit of anger, Liu Ciwei contacted Chen Qiming, and when this guy left, he wanted to take Takeshi Kaneshiro and Sun Yaowei away.

These two are artists brought by him in Fulong, and they have a good relationship with him, as long as they are willing, it is really possible to follow.

And Takeshi Kaneshiro and Sun Yaowei are now Ge Fuhong's treasures.

After Chen Qiming left, Fulong Records was completely supported by the two of them.

If they were taken away by Liu Ciwei, at that time, you can imagine what kind of turmoil would happen in Fulong.

However, after Chen Qiming knew that he wanted to take people away, he rejected his idea of taking people to change jobs.

Chen Qiming and Ge Fuhong are considered to be peaceful separation, but he doesn't want to split up, and the relationship between the two sides is like fire and water.

If Liu Ciwei really brought Takeshi Kaneshiro and Sun Yaowei to Qiming Records, when the time comes, the two sides will definitely turn their faces.

Therefore, Chen Qiming rejected Liu Ciwei's proposal.

In the end, Liu Ciwei could only leave alone and came to the starting point of the record.

……

Start Records, in an office on the second floor.

Chen Qiming sat at his desk, and across from him sat Liu Ciwei and Chen Xiunan.

After the company's front desk poured a cup of tea for the two of them and went out, Chen Qiming took out two documents from the drawer and handed them to the two.

"The company is also preliminarily established, both of them are the veterans of the company, and before I came, I said that I would not treat you badly.

This is the share transfer contract that I have prepared, two of you take a look. ”

When Liu Ciwei and the others, who were still sitting casually, heard this, their faces immediately turned happy and they took the contract from Chen Qiming.

When the two opened the contract and read it, the joy on their faces was even stronger.

Liu Ciwei put down the contract and said directly: "I am looking forward to the future development of the company!" ”

Obviously, he was very satisfied with the shares that Chen Qiming gave him.

Per cent.

This is Chen Qiming's respective shares to the two of them.

Some people may think that the giving is too high.

But the real situation is that these two people are definitely worth the price, at least, in Chen Qiming's opinion.

Chen Xiunan, a gold medal producer of flying saucers, can control the company's record production department.

Liu Ciwei, agent, manager, and variety show café, not to mention other places, in Baodao, his connections are definitely the first ranks.

In the future, there will be new people in the company, and he will be indispensable in the early stage of development.

In addition, most of Chen Qiming's own energy must be focused on singing and acting, and when the time comes, the operation of the company will basically depend on these two people.

If you want the horse to run, you have to give the horse grass, which is what Chen Qiming thinks.

He is not like Ge Fuhong, he likes to eat alone, and the people in the company are all workers.

Talents like Liu Ciwei and Chen Xiunan, Chen Qiming feels that it is definitely worth giving them a certain amount of shares.

Of course, Chen Qiming is not a fool, in order to prevent the two of them from running away with the shares in the future, he also set a lot of clauses in the contract.

For example, performance terms, such as the company's revenue terms.

Anyway, in order to get five percent of the shares, the two of them have to work.

At the very least, the work must be done well, and if the revenue is not up to standard, then you will naturally have to take less money.

The two of them were very satisfied with the five percent of the shares, and basically did not mention the terms in it, and signed it directly.

After putting away the contract that belonged to the company, Chen Qiming began to talk about another purpose of looking for the two of them to come over today.

"When the company is founded, the first record will definitely pass.

What are your thoughts on my first record? ”

He looked at the two of them.

In fact, Chen Qiming already had a preliminary idea in his heart.

But after all, the company has just been established, and it is the time to gather people's hearts, and he definitely can't play Yiyantang, so he plans to discuss it with the two of them.

"Although we don't have the ability to distribute, with your appeal and influence, after the record is produced, those companies that have the ability to distribute will definitely rush to get the distribution rights.

So, we don't need to worry about that.

Now, there's one thing we need to consider.

That is, whether to release Chinese or English records first!

Personally, I think it's better to release Chinese records first.

Your appeal in Asia is now unmatched, and the Chinese market is very simple for you, and fans will buy it.

This can make the company accumulate word of mouth more securely. ”

Liu Ciwei was the first to speak.

He wanted Chen Qiming's first record at the starting point to be a Chinese record.

"I think it's okay to take a risk."

Chen Xiunan lifted his glasses and said:

"Amin just won the Grammy for Best Newcomer, and his EP has been out for more than six months.

I think what we should do now is to release an English record to stabilize the European and American markets.

After all, fans are very forgetful, and as you can see, the pace of renewal in the European and American markets is very fast, and a large number of outstanding newcomers debut every year and achieve very good results.

If Amin doesn't release an English record, I'm afraid it won't be long before those fans in Europe and the United States forget about him. ”

"I know the English-speaking market is important, but it's imperative that we make a company sign!

English records are so adventurous! If you fail......"

Liu Ciwei said with a frown.

"The signboard thing is actually not that important, I think, with me, the signboard of the starting point record will be known sooner or later."

Chen Qiming took over the conversation and said.

He's confident.

It's not self-confidence, that's the truth.

What does he Chen Qiming exist now?

The first person in the Chinese music scene, the most popular superstar in Asia, the first annual sales in the world last year, the winner of the Grammy Best Newcomer, and the most popular Chinese superstar in Europe and the United States.

Many titles and achievements have made him shine, and he has attracted attention almost everywhere he goes.

And then there's his terrifying and amazing creative talent.

It can be said that in the entire Chinese-speaking region, there is no company that will attract more attention from newcomers than his company.

Not to mention newcomers, they are now some first-line singers, and I am afraid they all have the idea of joining the starting point record.

This is the appeal and influence of the golden melody making machine.

"You mean to make an English record first?"

Liu Ciwei looked at Chen Qiming.

"Yes! That's what I'm going to do! Chen Qiming nodded.

After a pause, he explained: "My English record sales may not be as good as Chinese records.

But the price of English records is much higher than that of Chinese records. ”

The price of a record is not set in stone.

It is distinguished by the local economy as well as the popularity of the singer.

Let's talk about Chen Qiming's current record.

In Baodao, one of his records can be sold for 120 Taiwan dollars, which is about 30 yuan.

In Hong Kong, the price will be slightly lower, around 25.

Then there is the mainland, where the price will be even lower, only about 20 per piece. (PS: VCD is popular now)

This is the price in Asia.

And Europe and the United States!

In Europe and the United States, according to Warner, Chen Qiming can now sell for twenty dollars a piece.

The gap, that's the gap, the gap from the economy.

Therefore, if Chen Qiming releases English records, he may sell less, but the profits he obtains are not inferior to those of Chinese records.

If nothing else, let's talk about Japan.

At the end of the year, there are only three or four million highest-selling records a year.

In this case, why does Chen Qiming still need to expand the Japanese market?

The reason is not that in Little Japan, records are more expensive, as long as they sell for two million, it is almost equivalent to selling seven or eight million in Chinese-speaking areas.

(End of chapter)