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

Chapter 182
There are two ways to break the game, the first one, Li Kai has already thought of it, the second one, Li Kai has not thought about it, Xu Qianqiu proposed, Feng Mo corrected it, and Li Kai also agreed.

However, this alone does not solve the fundamental problem!

He picked up the teapot, and while storing water for Xu Qianqiu and himself, he said slowly: "But you ignore it, I will not sign a songwriter contract with any record company, in the past, now, and in the future, Songwriter autonomy is my bottom line."

As soon as these words came out, Xu Qianqiu and the two suddenly fell silent.

Li looked at them with a calm expression: "To tell you the truth, before the three giants of Nisuo, Gunxue, and Becca, all musicians contacted me and wanted to poach me, but without exception they asked singers to make an appointment. , the songwriter agreed to sign with him, but I declined."

"Old Xu and I have already guessed this."

Feng Mo was not surprised, but frowned and said: "But, your singer is in the hands of Time Records, and the rights of the songwriter are in his hands. You can't get both, so why should others help you?"

After filling the water, Li Kai put down the teapot, looked up at him, and said with a smile: "Take you, Mo, as an example, I haven't signed any contract with you, but if you ask for a song, can I refuse?"

Feng Mo Miao understood, and twitched the corners of his mouth: "The record company will only talk about your interests, but will not be your friend."

At the beginning when Li Kai exposed SHF's lies, he clearly stated that he would only write songs for friends he recognized. This matter was not further fermented by the media due to the public relations of Time Records, but it was well known in the circle, and even used it as a gossip Talk about.
Li Kai is noncommittal, friends and non-friends, he has a steelyard in his heart, and if a record company helps him when he is in distress, he will definitely remember his love, but if Chi Guoguo's interests are exchanged, then forget it.

"Actually, I haven't fully figured it out so far. You two also said that the banning of my works is only a temporary thing. Those songwriters, no, can also be understood as the five giants. Why bother?"

This doubt has been lingering in Li Kai's mind. Fang Qiong, Xu Qianqiu, Feng Mo, and the news revealed to him are all the progress of the ban. As for the real reason, it is still a mystery.

Anyway, never just because he wrote a dozen good songs.

For one thing, each of those great songwriters has no less than ten classics under their names, and they all know without thinking about it. He is a rising star, so it may not be possible for them to admire him, so what Will they join forces to suppress?
Now, although he rejected the transfer invitations of three of the five giants, this does not mean hostility, and there is still the possibility of cooperation. Besides, aren't there two giants who have not extended an olive branch?
Feng Mo and Xu Qianqiu looked at each other, and there was a tangle in each other's eyes. After a while, Xu Qianqiu pondered: "It's just my personal guess. The current music style competition is caused by your album. , in the next April, the release time of the film has been announced, and the album focuses on non-lyrical slow songs. There are eight singers, four in May, and two in June. Your work will be blocked for a while, so that you cannot participate , Those popular songwriters regard you as a variable, and after these few months, perhaps the dispute over the style of music will come to a conclusion."

Li Kai digested it for a while, then nodded silently. This guess is not unreasonable, but he still feels that it is not convincing enough.

At this time, the waiter knocked on the door and came in, two steaming dishes were put on the table, Xu Qianqiu opened the wine, Feng Mo picked up the chopsticks and signaled Li to open and eat.

During the dinner, the topic of banning was not discussed anymore, but turned to Feng Mo's head. Feng Mo came out of the rivers and lakes again and wrote two songs for a rock band, which was also squeezed into the April release.

Eat, eat and chat, more than two hours, almost eight o'clock, Xu Qianqiu asked the waiter to pay the bill, and proposed to go to Ye Yimeng bar again, Li Kai asked Xue Bing to play billiards, so he declined.

When leaving the hotel and parting ways, Xu Qianqiu raised his mouth: "Last week, Time Records was very lively. Its streamer and Fan Xing transferred to Di Hao and Dai Shi, and introduced Deng Yaxuan and Mao Xingyu."

Li Kai was a little surprised: "Little Queen Deng Yaxuan, I heard that she is going to transfer to Rolling Snow Records?"

"It was rumored in the circle before, but it turned out that it was transferred to Time Records. Streamer went to Daishi Records. There was a bit of an exchange between the two companies. What happened three days ago, on the first day of joining the company, I got a little unhappy with Xiaolan."

Xu Qianqiu shook his head, didn't say much, and Li Kai didn't ask much.

Li opened a rental car, and Xu Qianqiu and the two watched him off. When the taxi drove away, Feng Mo frowned, and exhaled: "The kid took the initiative to ask, I almost said another guess we were talking about at that time. , Now I feel more and more that another guess is more likely than what you said."

Xu Qianqiu didn't deny it: "It's all guesswork. Telling it will only add a layer of psychological burden to him, but it can't be changed. Why bother?"

Feng Mo nodded helplessly, shook his head and sighed.

on Monday.

Li opened his eyes a little later, and arrived at the company already at ten past nine.

The atmosphere was no different. Apparently, the banning was still in the confidential stage of operation, and the people who knew about it were limited to the core executives of the record companies. On the weekend, Qiao Li and Li Kai had a phone call, but they also didn't know about it. It was Li Kai who took the initiative to inform .

Fang Qiong, Xu Qianqiu, and Feng Mo learned that it was all through personal relationships!

There were not many people in the office area, so Li Kai exchanged a few words with Lin Yue, then went to his seat, reached for the cup on the table, but found that there was no water in it, he couldn't help but startled for a moment, then shook his head and laughed.

On weekdays, as soon as she sat down, a cup of freshly brewed tea would be handed over to her. Su Ting had asked for leave to go back, and she would only be back this weekend. She was not used to being served by her little assistant.

"Li Kai, you finally showed up, come here, I have something to discuss with you." Just about to get up to pour water, Tan Guangyue walked in from the outside, seeing Li Kai, his eyes brightened, and he quickened his pace immediately.

"What's the matter?" Tan Guangyue pulled Li Kai and walked out, Li Kai slapped his hand off in disgust: "Don't talk about it, you have the demeanor of a big-name singer."

I followed Tan Guangyue to a lounge, opened the door and went in. There were two women sitting on the sofa, one was Tan Guangyue's assistant, and the other was about 30 years old. She wore a small suit on her upper body and a skirt on her lower body. She had short hair that reached her ears. He looks very capable.

"This is my lounge." Tan Guangyue mentioned, and then introduced: "This is Guan Ying, my manager."

As for the assistant, Li Kai knew him well.

Guan Ying stood up, nodded with a smile, Li Kai nodded back, walked to the sofa with Tan Guangyue and sat down, looked around, and praised: "There is an exclusive lounge, that's fine."

According to the company's regulations, second-tier singers can have a personal lounge, which can also be regarded as an office.

Before Ning Lan and Lu Binyou, now Tan Guangyue's first album has broken the platinum sales mark after three months, and has stepped into the second tier in one step, so he is also qualified.

"It's as if you don't have one. Fill out an application form and give it to Mr. Qiao, and it will be approved in three days." Tan Guangyue rolled his eyes. There was a regular meeting at ten o'clock. Now there are several commercial performances, and when the other party wants to sing the song "Dilemma", you, the original singer, are the right one."

Guan Ying quickly got into work, handed over a stack of copies, and continued: "There are four shows in total, not far from Shenzhen City, and they are all in surrounding cities. It's no problem to go there on the same day and return on the same day. The performance company quoted 30 yuan. .”

Tan Guangyue's current commercial performance price is 8 to 10, the highest is 12, and the other party offers 30, which seems to include Li Kai.

Guan Ying paused for a moment, then said again: "As for the price, you get [-]% and Guangyue gets [-]%, what do you think?"

This ratio is more reasonable, after all, Li Kai only sang one song, no, half a song.

Li Kai glanced casually, then nodded and said: "No problem, anyway, I plan to take on a large number of commercial performances in the future to accumulate some initial capital. Specifically, I will discuss with my agent, um, within a day or two, I will Get an agent."

Guan Ying responded.

Tan Guangyue asked curiously: "The manager has been selected, who is it?"

Li spread out his hands: "Whatever."

Tan Guangyue was a little stunned: "You mean audition. Damn, that's not a head-scratcher."

Li Kai's manager, that's definitely a hit!
"It's not that serious, I only give three points."

Li Kai has already thought about it. Since there is no suitable candidate, it depends on who is pleasing to the eye. From the beginning, it is a probationary period, and the salary does not need to be high. After the probationary period, if it is not suitable, change it. Add it from time to time.

"Three points is not too low." Tan Guangyue curled her lips. Brokers usually have five to ten points, but this is a rule, but Li Kai is not within this rule.

This guy not only has high record sales and high quotations for commercial performances, but also has great potential. He might be in the top tier with just one more record.

A top-tier manager, even with three points, earns much more than a top-tier singer's manager, ten points.

Moreover, there is a qualitative gap in status within the circle.

I didn't bother with this topic anymore, and chatted casually for a while. Qiao Li's secretary came to inform that the regular meeting was postponed.

Another delay, Tan Guangyue was not surprised at all, sighed: "I knew it, I knew it"

As he spoke, he looked at Li Kai, pretending to be shocked: "Last week's sales report was released, and the first month's sales of your album have been confirmed. The company and the circle are about to shake up again!"

Li Kai understood what he meant, breaking the platinum in three and a half weeks, against Liu Tianwang, everyone in the circle was eagerly watching, what kind of height can his album's first month sales reach?
Xu Qianqiu said, 110 million, 115 million, 120 million, 125 million, the higher you go, the difference of tens of thousands is the difference in grade.

To be honest, he was looking forward to it too!
Eleven o'clock.

Li Kai followed Tan Guangyue and others to the conference room.

More than half of the people came, but there were still many people who did not arrive, such as Chen Guang, Guan Siliang, Huang Xiaotian, and Deng Yaxuan.

When we were chatting just now, Li Kai had already heard from Tan Guangyue that Deng Yaxuan joined the company and was assigned to Qiao Li. I don't know who made the news. The company intends to promote Deng Yaxuan to a higher level. Quite fawning.

In addition, last Wednesday, on Deng Yaxuan's first day in the company, for some reason, her manager fought with Ning Lan's manager. Later, Deng Yaxuan went to Ning Lan's lounge in person, and when she came out, she was cold A face, obviously not very happy to talk about.

Li Kai didn't have a good impression of Deng Yaxuan, but he didn't comment either.

After Li Kai and the others sat down and listened to everyone chatting, they realized that Asu's first solo album had been recorded and was scheduled to be released next Tuesday.

Asu is from Taiwan, and usually keeps a low profile. Like the first single, this album is also in Cantonese.

The total cost of the album is 40, which is 10 higher than that of Tan Guangyue at the beginning, but it is only the standard of the third-tier mid-range, and he himself is quite nervous. Everyone's words are basically comforting and encouraging.

"Asu, don't worry, your album is in Cantonese, the pressure of competition is much less, and I won't say too much, the sales volume is at least 40, and the gold can be expected." Tan Guangyue interjected, without any hint of showing off, But to be honest, in the past few years, Cantonese songs have shown a decline, but at the same time, the guaranteed sales volume is higher than that of Mandarin albums, much higher.

It is not difficult to understand that there is a market for Cantonese songs, and there are few singers who release videos. Even if the quality is average, there will always be some fans who like Cantonese songs.

Asu smiled, and was nodding his head. What Tan Guangyue said was exactly what he was thinking, but Li Kai said abruptly, "Wouldn't it be good to postpone the release until April."

As soon as he opened his mouth, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Li Kai pondered for a while, and explained: "In March, big-name singers get together, and it's easy to be overwhelmed."

Lin Yue blinked: "But, Ah Su is a Cantonese album. The Cantonese album was released in March. So far, there are only four singers. Instead, it is a gap period. The market overlap between Mandarin albums and Cantonese albums is only [-]%."

Li Kai smiled wryly in his heart. The problem is that He Jingyun is going to release the film. When the single "Vulnerable Woman" came out, it directly made the album of the little king Wu Qiyuan take a dive. This time it is an album, what effect will it have? Don't dare to make judgments.

It was impossible for him to reveal the truth, but he didn't want to see Asu jump into the pit. While thinking about it, a group of people came in one file at a time.

What a long string.

The woman at the head was tall and beautiful, but her face was full of arrogance. It was Deng Yaxuan.

Behind her was her assistant, and behind her were her managers Gong Rihong and Chen Qian, who were talking in low voices, while Chen Guang and her assistant fell behind Chen Qian, the manager.

Behind them are Guan Siliang, Huang Xiaotian, and their assistants.

Without squinting, Deng Yaxuan walked to the first position on the left hand side of the conference table, slipped off her skirt, and sat down slowly.

Everyone was taken aback when they saw this, and then saw her manager and assistant sitting next to her. Lu Bin couldn't help frowning, and said, "The assistant is sitting over there."

Deng Yaxuan's assistant is Wu Xuemei, who is younger than Deng Yaxuan. When Lu Bin pointed in the direction, she was about to stand up, but Gong Rihong pressed her shoulder: "Xuemei, sit here."

Then, he gave Lu Bin a look, that look clearly said, none of your business!

Lu Bin's face froze.

Lin Yue hesitated for a moment, and reminded: "Yaxuan, your position belongs to Ning Jie."

Lin Yaxuan raised her eyebrows to look at her, and said lightly, "Ning Lan didn't come again."

Lin Yue choked for a moment and forced a smile. Among the singers in the department, she was older and more experienced, so she smelled a hint of unfriendliness.

She is not a competitive character, so she took the initiative to shut up.

But her assistant didn't realize it, and said a little annoyedly: "That's Sister Ning's special seat, even if she didn't come, it's still empty for the usual meeting."

As soon as the words came out, they shot one after another in a short time.

Gong Rihong said coldly: "Who stipulates that the seat must be empty if people don't come?"

There are indeed no regulations, but this is the consensus of the department, even Qiao Li agrees by default!

The little assistant was speechless, and his face turned red!
After Gong Rihong's voice fell, Chen Qian answered, "If people don't come, the seat will be vacant. The department has never stipulated this. Did you add it?"

After being questioned by Chen Qian, the little assistant's face turned even redder!

Before it was over, Guan Siliang suddenly snorted: "Lin Yue, you have to take good care of your assistant. Where is Sister Deng sitting? Is it her turn to point fingers?"

Lin Yue's face was already in a bad mood because of the assistant being embarrassed, Guan Siliang's questioning came at her again, his face darkened immediately, and he retorted: "However I manage the assistant, it's not your turn to tell me what to do."

(End of this chapter)