After failing the college entrance examination, he became a big star

Chapter 171 Shocking the Music Circle

"Break, break the record, and it's still a big break, increasing the original record by more than [-]%."

"Your votes, 21734, No.2 Luo Cheng, got 10932 votes, which is less than half of yours. Even this year's Xiaonian Gala in Xijiang Province, the most popular program winner, Liu Huiying, the top streamer, only got 18923 votes."

That night, Li Kai left the TV station, instead of going with Ni Houdao and others, he took a taxi home by himself. At around [-] o'clock the next morning, Ni Houdao called, his voice full of excitement.

Li Kai listened silently, and when he came to an end, he just smiled and said: "Okay, the last stage of the promotion has ended successfully, and I can finally relax completely. What should you do? I haven't been home for a long time. Stay a few more days and return to the company next Wednesday or Thursday."

Ni Houdao snorted: "You don't want to go back with us. Tomorrow Monday, the sales report will be released."

Li Kai asked: "Will the sales data be different because I am at home or in the company?"

Ni Houdao was choked and coughed twice: "That's all right, contact me anytime. Well, when you enter the company, I have something to talk to you about."

"What's the matter, can't you talk on the phone?"

"Let's wait for you to join the company, don't rush for a few days."

"It's mysterious, that's it."

After hanging up the phone, Li Kai lazily stretched out facing the abundant sunlight outside the window.

The topic of the wind vane of the Chinese music scene seems to be the hottest topic in the recent period, although those popular songwriters and singers counterattacked strongly and formed a reversal trend.

But it is undeniable that the fires of "Qilixiang" and "Norwegian Forest" still had a huge impact on the pattern of lyrical slow songs dominating the Chinese music scene.

Li Kai's album sold more than 30 copies in a single week, ironically proving the fact that other genres besides lyrical slow songs can also be accepted and loved by the public.

With the power of an example, there will be people who will dare to follow suit.

Among the singers who announced their release in April, there are as many as 8 albums featuring non-lyrical slow songs, which is unique in the past four years.

It can be said that the first shell of the current music scene has been broken, and more and more challengers have appeared!

But this is not enough. Up to now, no second-tier top singer has announced that he will try a new style of music. This can be regarded as the second shell of the current music scene.

These people stand tall, naturally they have more worries, and they are still on the sidelines with apprehension.

Will Li Kai's album dive?What kind of height can sales reach?
These are all questions. In short, only 30 sales in a single week may make them act, but it is not enough to make them act.

According to the default rules in the music industry, the estimated total sales of an album is based on the sales in the first month, which is 2.5 to 3.5 times. Within the first month, there will be various variables in the weekly sales.

Ever since, on Sunday, the public opinion war over the music style came to an end, and the eye-catching positions of various entertainment newspapers were once again covered by "The First Heavenly King VS The Newcomer King", "Four Immortals Melee", "The Newcomer King Album No. [-]" Focus on clearing the two rankings, and whether it can reach a new high" is occupied by topics like this!

The entire music circle suddenly became silent, and everyone was silently waiting
Monday, ten o'clock sharp.

Last week's sales table was released on time!

Ranked first, Li Kai's new album "New Era", 329123.

Ranked second, Liu Mingliang's new album "Love Fire", 283451.

Ranked third, Zhou Ziming's new album "Love to the Depths", 102387.

Ranked fourth, Michelle's new album "To Love Smartly", 81023.

As for the fifth-ranked album, sales dropped to less than 5 copies.

The tenth album sold less than 3 copies.

The whole music circle was shocked!
Liu Mingliang's new album broke gold within ten days of its release. In the third week, the sales fell. This is not surprising. It can still maintain an astonishing sales volume of 28 copies, which shows the super popularity of this No. [-] king. At the same time, it is also a high certification of the quality of this album!

According to the average level of first-line top streamers, the sales volume in the first week was about 13 copies, while Zhou Ziming's was only 10 copies, which is low, but it's not too far off the mark.

Michelle is similar to Zhou Ziming, with sales of 8 copies in the first week, which is lower than the first-tier average, but there is no excessive deviation.

To sum up, the sales volume of a super-first-tier company is normal, or even high, and the sales volume of a first-tier top-tier company and a first-tier mid-tier company are also normal, but low.

Under such circumstances, Li Kai, who was in the same period, jumped up and outshone the crowd with a terrifying weekly sales of nearly 33!

Although everyone knows that Li Kai's third hit has passed the two rankings, and Li Kai's second hit has been a big success in publicity on Hong Kong Island. Li Kai has created a record of winning votes for the best program selection at Xijiang TV's Yuanzhong Festival Gala
However, few people foresee that Li Kai's album can reach another level after selling 30 yuan a week, and even overwhelm the No. [-] Heavenly King.

After 18 days of being on the market, the total sales volume has reached over 73 copies. Even if there are another four days, the piracy protection period will be over, but everyone knows that no matter how diving, the monthly sales will break through the platinum is already a certainty!
Monthly sales broke platinum, not counting Liu Mingliang's album. The last time it appeared was a year and eight months ago. Su Yaqing's post-seat album sold 101 million copies in the first week, and it will soon break platinum.

time record.

There was 3 minutes of absolute silence at the high-level meeting on Monday. Then, Qiao Li reiterated in a resolute voice that she demanded that the company strictly investigate the behind-the-scenes mastermind who spoke out for Li Kai without authorization, and that Liu Duan, the deputy director of the marketing department, should do something about it. A temporary suspension will be issued until the mastermind behind the scenes is found out.

Before, Qiao Li's request was opposed by many high-level executives. Unless Mr. Ren made a decisive decision, the vote would definitely fail, but now, in the face of Li Kai's incredible sales results, all All the senior executives fell silent, and even the two songwriters kept their faces sullen and didn't say anything.

In the end, Mr. Ren made the decision and agreed to Qiao Li's request.

Suteng Records.

It was also the high-level regular meeting on Monday, and there was a few minutes of silence.

In the end, Wu Han nodded to Cao Meng, Cao Meng understood the meaning, this was his approval of his resolute opposition to Shuteng Records' meddling and crushing on Li Kai.

Cao Meng sighed, and said, "Time Records is about to release the King of Heaven."

The hearts of all the executives sank, and they all looked at Cao Meng.

Cao Meng's old face showed bitterness: "You don't need to look at me, you all understand what I mean in your heart."

Everyone was silent.

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly became heavy.

Wagner, Nisso, Rolling Snow, Becca, these are the giant record companies.

There was no sound of throwing cups or cursing in the lounge or office as last week.

But when a major songwriter and songwriter in the industry, as well as individual executives, came out of the lounge and office, they had the same gloomy expression.

There was a heavy atmosphere in the company.

And on this day, two first-tier record companies, a second-tier top streamer, and a first-tier singer announced that the album will be released in April. The two titles of the album will try other genres other than lyrical slow songs.

There are faint cracks in the second shell of the current music scene.

As a person who shocked the entire music circle, Li Kai couldn't really relax at home.

After eleven o'clock, he received a call from Su Ting. Su Ting was very emotional and kept talking. It was Li Ran who ran into the room and asked him to eat, so he interrupted Su Ting and said before hanging up the phone. Voice: "Congratulations, this month's bonus is expected to reach 6 figures, remember to treat guests to dinner."

After lunch, his copy machine rang five times in one afternoon. Qiao Li, Ni Houdao, and the musicians from Rolling Snow Records and Becca Records who had contacted him before, added another one this time, Nisuo Associate Director of Records.

Li Kai called back one by one.

The conditions for Rolling Snow Records have been improved, singer appointments, first-line top-tier standards, but the premise is still that the songwriters agree to sign a piece. Of course, the songwriter appointments have also been improved, giving him the minimum standard for big names in the circle, a song 1.5 divided into.

Becca Records' conditions are similar to Rolling Snow's, but the singer's contract is higher, and several sharing clauses exceed the first-tier top streamers and are close to the standard of quasi-kings.

It was the first contact with Nisuo Records, and the offer was exactly the same as that of Rolling Snow.

The conditions offered by the three giant record companies cannot be said to be insincere, but they are precisely against Li Kai's two bottom lines.

First, the autonomy of songwriters, and second, the duration of the singer's contract. The three giant records all require 5 years.

This is also doomed, he can't agree.

After dinner, just as he was about to go downstairs for a walk with Li Ran, the copy machine yelled again. Li Kai didn't want to pay attention to it, but he took it out and changed his mind.

This call has to be returned.

He walked into the room, picked up the phone and called, and when the other end was connected, he called out, "Brother Weidong."

The one who copied him was Liu Mingliang's manager, Shan Weidong.

"Congratulations, last week's sales hit a new high, 33 copies, almost surpassing Mingliang's performance last week. When I was chatting with Mingliang in the afternoon, he said that he broke into a cold sweat because of you."

Shan Weidong's voice was very gentle, without any hypocrisy, exchanged a few words with Li Kai, and then cut to the topic: "The TV series "Blood and Rain in the Rivers and Lakes" will be released in another week, and the theme song is you and Ning Lan The duet, this Friday, the crew has a promotional event in the capital, it seems that Ning Lan has been invited, will you go there too?"

Li Kai made an uh, and slapped his head: "Sister Ning mentioned it to me before, but it was only last Monday. I almost forgot, and I will go. Since I promised Ning Jie, I must not break my promise."

As he said that, he sighed in his heart. He originally wanted to join the company on Thursday, but now he will be a day earlier.

Shan Weidong smiled: "Mingliang was busy promoting the album before, and you were the same, now you are all busy, this time you come to the capital, stay a day or two longer, Mingliang wants to treat you to dinner, Let's chat, how about you, do you want to give me some face?"

Li stared blankly, and immediately agreed: "That must be done."

To be honest, he also thought about meeting Liu Mingliang and expressing his gratitude to the latter.

As for who treats the dinner, it doesn't matter.

"Okay, then it's settled. If you want to participate in the promotional activities on Friday, let's set it on Saturday. I will let you know the specific time after I arrange it."

After saying this, it should be time to end the call, but Shan Weidong didn't. He was silent for a while, and then said: "There is something about you. On New Year's Eve, Ming Liang wanted to tell you immediately. It’s about you, but I stopped you, you were in the publicity period at that time, after you learned about it, it might affect your mood.”

After a pause, he continued: "But this matter, I should let you know, and the sooner the better, well, the Spring Festival Gala on the [-]th was originally a duet between you and Michelle, and Time Records also announced it before, But only one day later, it was clarified again that your quota was topped by Liu Guang."

After a pause again, he said: "Ming Liang has some personal friendship with the assistant director of the Spring Festival Gala. During the interval between performances, they chatted casually, and learned from the assistant director that the Spring Festival Gala team called your name and asked for a duet." , As for the duet female singers, there are no hard and fast rules, as long as they are above the top of the second tier."

Li Kai's heart was shocked, there was such a thing, and his name was named, which meant that the quota for this Spring Festival Gala was not the company's, but his Li Kai's. Deprived!

"Later, the chief director nodded, and then Liu Guang and Michelle were allowed to sing duet. It is unknown who convinced the chief director."

Shan Weidong sighed: "Your album is selling well now, maybe the company's senior management will talk to you, such as contract issues, you know what you know."

Li Kai understood the meaning, let out a long breath, and said, "Thank you."

Shan Weidong laughed: "You're welcome, see you on the weekend."

After hanging up the phone, Li Kai's complexion gradually darkened, and a burst of anger surged in his heart, and at this moment, the copying machine started beeping again.

Li Kai picked it up casually and looked at it, his pupils shrank slightly, and left a message asking him to call back, signed: Mr. Ren!
This is the first time that the general manager has personally approached him!
(End of this chapter)