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Chapter 132 Debut Album
"I heard you talking bad about me when I came in, Maddy."

Before Madison could finish his final words, the door of Zhao Youzhen's office was pushed open again.

This time, it was the smiling face that the girl from Long Island had been thinking about for more than a week.

"Going to buy you coffee."

Han Yi put the Starbucks paper bag in his hand on the desk, and took out the four cups of coffee one by one in order.

"Youzhen's super large iced Americano, Billy's super large vanilla cold brew...and Madison, you know what you're going to get."

"What will I get?" Madison asked, standing with her hands behind her back, tilting her head.

"Mudslide cocktail." Han Yi put the matcha latte on the corner of the table closest to Madison, "Green."

"Take me for a Morty."

Madison grumbled under his breath, lifting his drink to his mouth.In front of outsiders, she knows very well how to maintain the normal distance and chatting methods that should be maintained between the boss and the artist.

Even if it is a joke, there will be no overstepping.

But that's just her on the surface. If someone can see her inner fairy tale world, they will find that the princess living in the castle is dancing and singing happily.

There are also many colorful birds that only appear in Disney animations.

He also remembers my favorite drink!
The joyful Madison obviously ignored the fact that Han Yi also skillfully recounted the other two girls' favorite drinks.

"Shall we go to a meeting now?"

Of course, for Pisces girls, no matter how exaggerated the plot in their hearts is, it will not affect their calm appearance.Madison took a sip of her latte, looking more concerned with work.

"It's almost three o'clock."

"Let's go." Inserting the straw into the iced latte and shaking it, Han Yi cast a consulting look at Zhao Youzhen.

"Are you done with your work, Yujin?"

"I spent five minutes watching this little baby jump up and down."

Yuzhen pointed to Bili who was sitting on the sofa with the signature pen in her hand, and smiled.

"So it should be over."

"Hey!" Bi Li drew out her voice in dissatisfaction, "Who is the little baby?"

"Oh, sorry, I wasn't precise enough."

Youzhen turned the pen in one direction and aimed at Madison.

"There are two."

"I want to protest, but I have to get my manager's support later in the meeting, so..."

"Wubba Lubba Dub Dub."

Han Yi spoke with Madison almost at the same time.

"I knew it, watch less cartoons, girl."

While teasing, Han Yi took the lead and opened the glass door.

"Let's hurry up, ladies, there will be a preparatory meeting later... Billy, where's Phineas?"

"He's at band rehearsal, he'll be here in half an hour."

"Okay, just wait here, we'll come to you after we finish solving Madison."

"Okay big bro."

"Sounds like it might be a little dangerous to me."

After a few easy jokes, the three of them arrived at the large meeting room at the door of Room 1000, and the heads of various departments participating in the meeting had already taken their seats.

Karen Guo, Head of A&R Department of Han Music, Adrian Nunes, Head of A&R Department of Han Publishing, Christopher Stewart, Ray Romulus and Abu Thiam, are today providing creative planning and The key figure of the song resource.

"Our girl is coming."

Seeing Madison Beal walk through the door first, Adrian Nunes laughed and clapped.

"Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas... Congratulations!"

"Not my first tour, ladies and gentlemen."

Amid the gradual applause from the crowd, Madison lifted her skirt gracefully, bent her knees, and made a ladylike gesture of thanks.

"But this is the first national tour, if I remember correctly."

Taking the main seat, Han Yi added with a smile.

"And a Honda Civic tour."

Honda Civic Tour is the annual concert plan of Honda America since 2001. Every year, they will sponsor a North American tour in the name of its Civic brand. In 2001 it was Blink-182, in 2005 it was Maroon 5, and in 2006 It's The Black Eyed Peas, Paramore in 2010, One Direction in 2015... Although it can't be said to be the top concert tour, as long as it is an artist that Honda Civic chooses to sponsor, it shows that the volume of the year is not much worse, at least in Pollstar's annual concert box office rankings can be among the best.

"Indeed."

Madison nodded in agreement. Some of the opening guest work arranged by Scooter Braun before was just one or two performances in a single city for a certain star.Following Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas through 44 cities in one breath like this is a novel experience that Madison has never experienced.

More importantly, as a round of tour held in medium and large stadiums, Live Nation's performance price for FUTURE NOW: THE TOUR hot guests is also quite good, 3000 US dollars per show, Madison-Bill and Billy- Eilish is both, which means that the two girls can each get a performance fee of 13.2 US dollars for a tour of more than three months.

Of course, the performance fee is not the main gain of being an opening guest.The precious experience of performing live for thousands of audiences every night, as well as the relationships, exposure and popularity accumulated during the trip, are the wealth that Han Yi wants Madison and Billy to get from this tour.

"Thank you so much for the great opportunity you've given me, Yujin, Karen, Adrian, Chris, Ray, Abu, not only working as the opening guest on the tour, but all of you for the Madison Beer brand during this time I will remember all the sacrifices I have made, and I am deeply grateful.”

Having said that, Madison glanced at Han Yi, who had been poking his chest with his hands and making "me, me" mouth shapes, and showed a narrow smile.

"Yes, boss, you have to thank them too."

Although she was joking, Madison Bill knew very well who in this conference room she needed to thank the most.

Relying on his status as the major shareholder of Mad Decent, he won the feat position of "Cold Water", and then used UTA's relationship to help her and Bi Li get 44 hot performances.

Without Han Yi, his career would never have revived in such a short period of time.

"Thank you."

As far as his mind was concerned, Madison looked at Han Yi and said softly.

"At HMG, I feel more valued than ever...it really feels like home here."

"If you are sensational, wait until the meeting is over."

The straightforward Karen Guo couldn't bear this kind of scene the most, she waved her hand and said.

"Listen to the song we found for you first, maybe after listening to it, you won't thank us."

"I highly doubt it, but..."

Madison spread his hands.

"Come on, let's listen."

"Let's first talk about the song that has been confirmed, "Stay"."

Emma Morris, who was sitting at the end of the conference room, quickly turned on her mobile phone and connected to the JBL Xtreme placed in the center of the conference table via Bluetooth.That's right, record companies don't have monitor speakers worth tens of thousands of dollars everywhere. Listening to songs with this portable Bluetooth device is the daily routine of meetings.

"Waiting for the time to pass you by,

Hope the winds of change will change your mind.

I could give a thousand reasons why,

And I know you, and you've got to..."

"Most of you already know this, but I'll say it again. This Future Bass is from a good friend at Interscope, our boss is very close to Mr. Jovin, and I happen to have some old acquaintances at Def Jam. "

Turn down the volume of the demo and play it in the background, explains Karen Kuo.

"Def Jam originally wanted to pair with an artist within the group. It is said that Alessia Cara was the most favorite candidate, but Yi and I...we owed some favors, or asked others to repay the favors. The feature has been brought over."

"This song really has the potential to be a hit single."

When the drop sounded, Zhao Youzhen listened attentively and sighed.

"The vocal slice at the beginning is very memorable, and the structure is simple and direct. It also meets the needs of the radio station, the characteristics of the list, and the public's aesthetics. The chorus part of the vocals in 45 seconds, and the drop in the slice in 1 minute and 05 seconds, if placed If you listen to it on the radio, there are two highlights within 20 seconds that attract listeners to stay."

"Combined with the recent popularity of Zedd, if we help Def Jam to make a joint announcement of this song, the results should be quite amazing."

"That's why I have to take this song."

Han Yi took over.Even if some songs reach the top of the chart, you can't figure out why they exploded, but some songs, you can tell that the results will never be bad the first time you listen to them, because they almost perfectly meet all the requirements of modern pop music.

"Lean On" is that kind of song, and so is "Stay."No need for seven years of advanced information. Anyone who hears Zedd's demo will admire the German producer and his creative team's keen sense of pop.

In other words, if the song doesn't catch on, there's no need for HMG and Def Jam's marketing and promotions department to continue to exist.

For this single, Han Yi mentioned it once to Jimmy Yeowen at UTA's welcome party, and once again after Yeowen and Yang Academy's workshop, and asked Karen Guo to talk to her former colleague Matchmaking, and then snatched the feature rights from Alessia Cara.

"It's undoubtedly the jewel in the crown, but..."

Karen Kwok will always be the one who throws water at the parade.

"It couldn't have been our first promotional single."

"Why not?" Madison was a little puzzled, "The demo already sounds complete."

"Demo is fine, but Zedd's release schedule is pretty full," Adrian explained. "In mid-July, he and our two newly signed silver-haired guys have a single coming out."

"Grey?"

"Yes, Grey." Adrian nodded, ""Starving", Hailee-Steinfeld, Zedd and our Gray. The master tape copyright is on Hayley's Republic Records. As for the music copyright, the main share Here we are. The Trevasa brothers are not only producers, but also creators."

If the normal development of the previous life was followed, Gray should have signed a contract with Island Def Jam by now, becoming Zedd's fellow apprentice.In the field of electronic music, it is not uncommon for top 3 DJs with heavy performance tasks to find creators and producers to cooperate with, or even directly buy the works of behind-the-scenes gunmen.From Steve Aoki, R[-]HAB, to Zedd and even Diplo, gunmen have been used extensively.

The music released by Zedd has been questioned from the very beginning that it was made by the gunman. Some early classics "Clarity", many music fans pointed out that it was produced by Porter Robinson.In the past two years, Porter Robinson's personal career has taken off, and Zedd has found another group of "creative partners" to continue his release frequency, and this group of creative partners is Gray.

"Let's not forget Gray doing the rest of his music."

This Diplo's teasing of Zedd is a manifestation of Gray's musical talent, and it is also the reason why Han Yi urged Adrian Nunes to sign this creative combination.

"Starving" and "The Middle", just the music copyright of these two hit singles, can earn back the US$50 advance payment from Han Publishing.

More importantly, Han Yi is very optimistic about the dual strength of the silver-haired brothers on stage and behind the scenes. Many singles released by themselves have the potential to become hits, but they lack the operation of a strong team.

With proper publicity and promotion, coupled with some singing guests with traffic, Gray will become the next The Chainsmokers... No, in 2016, it should be said that it is not unimaginable to keep pace with The Chainsmokers.

Han Yi not only wanted to eat the cake of electronic music, but also to come up with new ideas.

"In addition, according to the team at Def Jam, Zedd will release a collaborative single with "League of Legends" in September, and we don't want to crowd the holiday radio playlist after October 10th, so the fastest The release time will have to wait until the end of January next year."

In the United States, starting from October 10th, radio stations have started to release Christmas singles with strong festive atmosphere one after another.Unless they are really big-name superstars, few musicians are willing to release new singles during the three-month period from mid-October to mid-January.

It's hard to get radio play, and you can't beat "Christmas Kills."

"When are we going to release this album?" Madison asked, raising her hand.

"What are your thoughts?"

Han Yi threw the question back.

"You're the one who's going to put your name on the album cover."

"I think, maybe next February would be better?" Madison thought for a while, and carefully suggested, "Before this year's tour, release a promotional single to see the effect, and if possible, release a second single in September." After Christmas like this, once the third single, namely "Stay" is released, the album can also be officially released."

"Karen?"

"I think it's okay." Karen Guo folded his arms and shrugged. "As long as we can decide on the first two promotional singles today, everything will be in time."

"What options do we have?"

"Grey has another song, 'I Miss You,'" Adrian said. "This song needs female vocals, and the mastering rights and music rights are completely on our side."

"I've heard that the mixing of this song is very clean and the quality is particularly high." Speaking of this, Christopher Stewart shook his head, "However, the overall style is not suitable for a promotional single... I can't say the same, if The album's performance is good, and it's okay to be the fourth and fifth promotional singles, but it's not suitable for the lead."

"I agree." Abu Thiam echoed, "The chorus part is still a bit lacking in popularity, and the work has a stronger personal style. I think this should be the reason why Zedd didn't label him."

"Over Cheat Codes, there is a demo that is being polished. I think it's not bad." Adrian looked at the laptop in front of him, and tapped the screen.

"I also want a female singer."

"Cheat Codes, huh?"

Han Yi pondered for a moment and said.

"Let them not rush to finalize that song. When will our music creation camp start?"

"Just next week, a place has been found in Pacific Palisades."

"Lauv will be here, right?"

"Yes, from New York."

"Write it down—be sure to ask him to meet with Cheat Codes to see what he thinks about this song, especially the vocal melody." Han Yi urged seriously, "This is very important, I think his Indie pop combined with Cheat Codes' Tropical House should be able to collide with very interesting sparks."

What fun spark?

"No Promises".

If Adrian-Nunez hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten that Cheat Codes was a collaboration with Lauv this year.

It just so happens that both groups of artists have now signed contracts with themselves.

What a coincidence?
"That song, depending on the speed of production, if it is fast enough, it can be put before the start of the tour as the first promotional single. It just so happens that no matter whether it is Cheat Codes, Lauv or McGrady, they need to release their first promotional single as soon as possible. song."

Ali Love is a total newcomer. Madison Beer, at least so far, is relying entirely on her social media updates to support her popularity. As for Cheat Codes, she was released as an independent artist on Spinnin Records and Kris Kross Amsterdam in February this year. "Sex" has been well received and has so far been certified platinum in the UK and gold in the US. It has entered the top ten in the UK singles chart, and its online play volume has exceeded 2 million.They desperately needed a single to continue the momentum of "Sex" and make Cheat Codes officially among the hottest producers.

"At the end of June, this song. At the end of July, "Cold Water". If it works properly, Madison will have two singles on the chart at the same time..."

Han Yi made a rough calculation in his mind. If we look at the historical results, by the end of August, not only will there be two songs on the chart at the same time, but Madison Bill will probably become a single with two singles on the top of the Billboard singles chart at the same time. Ten supernovas.

So……

"At this time, we can bring out another style from the album."

"Which style, indie pop? Or a slow love song?"

Madison sat up straight and asked curiously.

"It can be said that there is a little bit, and it can be said that there is none."

Han Yi's right index finger twirled in the air, indicating the next demo in Karen Guo's playlist.

"It's still going to be a joint release with Interscope, and producer The Futuristics did a song for Horch before."

"It's going to be a mix of electronic pop, indie pop, modern R&B and pop rap."

"The rapper you're working with is Machine Gun Kelly."

"The song is called... 'Bad Things'."

　The company has been quite busy recently, and we are going to take a tour tomorrow, so I have recently entered a state of consumption and storage, and may only guarantee one update every day until Monday. Sorry everyone, I will write well and explode when I come back!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)