"Look at it, there is a fork spring that can be pressed down on the position of the earpiece on the telephone," Disco pressed on the fork spring, "Long press is hang-up, if you want to make a call, you have to press this fork spring continuously." For example, if the first two numbers are 35, then you have to press three times in a row, pause for one second, and then press five times in a row, and so on. In this process, you have to be careful, and if you press the wrong button, you will have to start from the beginning. ”

"Does this really work?" It's the first time Yu Tong has heard of being able to call like this.

"You'll find out if you try it."

Yu Tong called the communication room on the first floor according to the method he taught, and it was really connected!

"That's a good idea!" As if he had gotten some new toy, Yu Tong called home and his cousin's house again.

Seeing that she still wanted to press the fork spring, Disco pressed his hand up and said, "Team Yu, it's almost done." Save some phone bills for your organization. ”

Yu Tong learned a new skill, sat back in his chair in a good mood, and finally had the heart to talk to him about the progress of the tape.

"The sample of your previous chorus with Lao Huang, as well as your photos, I have already sent them to several audio-visual publishing houses and audio-visual companies."

Disko waited, "And then?" ”

"There is a publishing house in Tianjin that is interested in cooperating with us," Yu Tong raised his hand to stop him and continued, "but the requirements for publishing fees are more demanding, and I want to talk to them again." ”

"What conditions did they make?"

"For newcomers, they can only release 200,000 audio tapes for the first time, and the one-time buyout fee is 3,000 yuan."

Disco doesn't know the market, and I heard that it can send 200,000 tickets, and I think it's a lot.

"The one I helped Chen Yujiao contact just now can send 500,000 tickets for the first time."

Nowadays, the audio market is developing rapidly, and singers who are a little famous can sell 700,000 copies casually when they release an audio tape.

She is very optimistic about the combination of Di Ergou and Lao Huang.

After receiving the quotation from the publishing house, I felt that the other party was humiliating people and treating her as a fool.

Knowing that Disco didn't understand this, she tried to explain simply: "What they mean is that 3,000 yuan will be completely bought out and 200,000 will be sent to you." As for how many more tapes people will send in the future, it doesn't matter to us. ”

"Why don't they publish more?"

"I'm afraid you are newcomers and can't sell it." Yu Tong said, "People don't want to take this risk. If we want to publish more, we'll have to pay for it ourselves. ”

Disco was still very convinced of Tong's vision, he twisted his eyebrows and thought for a moment and asked, "Team Yu, do you think our tapes can really be sold?" ”

"As long as you cooperate with tacit understanding and publicity, let alone 200,000 tickets, it is not impossible to have 1 million tickets."

"If, I mean, if the first 200,000 copies, we'll only charge a 1,000 yuan for the publication. If there is an additional print in the future, let the publisher give us a sales commission, and how many copies will be printed, how much will be raised, do you think they can agree? ”

Chapter 28

The ideas offered by Disco are a win-win for both the artist and the publisher.

Today's genuine audio tapes cost about five yuan for domestic cassettes and eight to ten yuan for imported cassettes.

If you can reach a sharing agreement with the publisher, even if you can only pay five cents per box of audio tapes, you can sell 100,000 more copies and you will have 5,000 yuan in revenue.

Disko's idea is good, but it's a bit bookish, and it's difficult to put into practice.

"The number of cassettes distributed is up to the publishing house, he released 500,000 copies, but told us that only 200,000 were distributed, what can you do with him?" Yu Tong shrugged his shoulders and said, "The factories are all theirs, and only the internal knowledge of how much goods are shipped from the factory every day." We can't go to the factory and the distribution department to keep an eye on them, and there is no serious unit to supervise them, so the fixed price is the most cost-effective at present. ”

And they are all newcomers to the audio-visual publishing industry, even Lao Huang, who has won many awards, is still young in the eyes of industry insiders.

Newcomers are not eligible to make a request to the publisher.

Audio-visual publishing houses and record companies are almost all state-owned enterprises, and the publishing and distribution contracts signed with singers are all standardized.

Disco and Lao Huang have not yet asked the family to modify the face of the contract for them.

Yu Tong felt that all the actresses under her were added together, and there were no two male actors to worry about her.

Lao Huang is a good thing, Xiao Di is too thoughtful, and when the two are combined, the power is double.

However, Yu Tong was really concerned about the matter of filling audio tapes with them.

After returning home that day, she found Director Bai.

"Milk, do you have any ready-made tunes?" Yu Tong diligently pinched Director Bai's shoulders.

"What are you going to do?"

"I want to give Huang Wei and Xiao Di an audio tape, there must be seventeen or eighteen songs on both sides of one tape, can't they all cover other people's songs?"

This topic really happened to step on Director Bai's nerves.

Director Bai sneered: "Your pop music, isn't it a pop 'ripping tape'? You'd better let them pick up the straps and go! ”

"The reason for picking up the tape is that there is no original repertoire, and with you, a great composer, here, how can we use the tape?"

The so-called stripping is a cover.

Those from Hong Kong and Taiwan are from abroad, and those from the mainland are from Hong Kong and Taiwan. As long as it is a song that is somewhat famous, it can be rearranged and found to be covered.

Seeing that her attitude was quite correct, Director Bai asked, "What style of tape do they want to produce?" ”

"It's similar to most cassettes on the market, just pop music."

According to Yu Tong's idea, their first tape doesn't need to be too unconventional, cover some pop songs, and add one or two original new songs, it's fine.

Once this tape is released, even if there are only two new songs, it will be quickly "ripped off" by others.

The audio-visual market is like this, and new songs that have just been launched will be covered immediately.

In the first 20 years, composers like Director Bai created songs that were all publicly owned, and there was no concept of private ownership.

Therefore, there is a trend of plagiarism in cover songs on the market, and no one thinks it is wrong, everyone copies each other.

Because of this, she doesn't want to invest too much in the newcomer duo.

If you give more, it's cheaper for others.

When Director Bai heard that they were going to sing popular songs, he lost his spirit, "You can find someone else, the songs I wrote are old-fashioned and not popular." ”

Her manuscripts are all revolutionary songs and mass songs.

"Why can't it be popular! "Sending You a Bouquet of Roses" that you wrote before, isn't it very good, and it won an award! ”

Director Bai only felt that that song was her black history, and every time others mentioned it, she felt uncomfortable once.

Originally, I wanted to get close to the style of young people and try it.

As a result, she didn't like to listen to what was written.

I don't know how the award was awarded, the judges really have no aesthetics.

"You go to the creative studio to find Chen Jiangfei, he is young, and the music he created is suitable for you. And he couldn't stay in the studio for a long time, and I heard that he wanted to join some kind of band and write pop songs. Director Bai just wanted to push out this hot potato, changed the topic and asked, "Which audio-visual company do you want to cooperate with?" When will the song be recorded? ”

"In Tianjin, the specific conditions have not been negotiated yet, and they are a bit powerful in reducing prices. I want to settle down the playlist first and let them practice in advance. ”

Director Bai disagreed: "Xiao Di has become a little famous recently, but he is only in Beijing, and the audio-visual companies in Tianjin don't know him, so of course they want to lower the price." Why don't you look for it in Beijing? ”

"Beijing is pressing harder, and the conditions for 'China Singing' to open are 200,000 tickets for the first time and 2,000 yuan for buyout."

"It's the first time I've released an audio tape, what's the economic loss!" Director Bai is quite experienced in this, "China Singing is a veteran state-owned enterprise, editing, recording, and technology are the best, and it also has its own factory, which can reduce a lot of trouble for you!" ”

Some small publishing houses only have the right to publish, but not the right to distribute, and it may take half a year for an audio tape to be produced.

Pop music is characterized by its ability to become obsolete quickly.

By the time their tape hit the market, some of the songs might have become obsolete.

Yu Tong is a complete novice in the publishing industry, and several songs created by Director Bai have been published, and some experience can still be listened to.

Grandpa Yu saw that she was busy publishing audio tapes all day long, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Tong, how much can you put in your pocket when you release audio tapes?" ”

"The actor and the company are two and one plus five."

"What about you?"

Yu Tong: "......"

Pierced in the heart.

She gets nothing but a fixed salary and a small commission.

However, the face still has to be maintained, Yu Tong said awe-inspiringly: "I can get rich experience in publishing and distribution!" ”

*

Although he did not receive tangible financial benefits, Yu Tong was still very concerned about the business of publishing audio tapes.

Soon I made an appointment with Chen Jiangfei, a young songwriter in the creation room, for two new songs he wrote.

Chen Jiangfei, whose works have never been published, attaches great importance to this and gives Yu Tong two of his most satisfactory works for free.

Disco just paid a huge amount of training fees to Xiaoliu yesterday and successfully sent his sister to the flight attendant training class.

At this time, when he was called to the office by Yu Tong, he not only had a cleaner pocket than his face, but also had a foreign debt of 300 yuan.

He thought that Yu Tong had arranged some kind of lucrative job for him, and when he received the news, he ran over in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he sat down, he was told that he and Lao Huang were about to have their own exclusive songs.

When they heard the good news, their faces were immediately full of joy, this is an original song! Never been sung before!

From now on, it's their own song!

However, when they saw the title of the song, they were silent.

These two masterpieces, one is called "Love You, Love You, I Really Love You", and the other is called "Beautiful Girl, Look at Me".

Disco asked: "This Comrade Chen Jiangfei is unmarried, right?" ”

Lao Huang replied: "Twenty-eight years old, unmarried young man. ”

There is a strong sense of grief between the lines.

"What," Disco tried to suggest, "Team Yu, let's change the name of this song, shall we?" ”

"Respect the original, you can use it for free without changing a word, and if you have changes, you have to calculate the money." Yu Tong comforted, "The title of this song is also very good, it is clear at a glance." ”

"I can't sing this kind of song," Lao Huang let out a long "huh", "It's too much more than the sound of the glamour, it's too unstylish!" ”

"Don't just look at the title of the song, in fact, Chen Jiangfei is very talented, and these two songs are quite good."

At least as a pop song is qualified.