China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 138 Kuangbiao’s ranking and the originator of the non-mainstream space

December 2008, 2.

The second day of the new year.

Lu Yuan and his cousin appeared at Pudong International Airport together, although one of them was going to New York and the other to Los Angeles.

But the two were still planning to travel together. Lu Jing bought a ticket to LA, planning to spend a few days there before flying to New York.

While waiting for the flight, Lu Yuan received a good news call from Max.

"land!"

"Unbelievable!"

"Do you know the latest rankings for this week?"

As he spoke, Max laughed three times. He didn't deliberately show off his words and just asked and answered his own questions.

""Counting Stars" has advanced 30 places, a full 30 places, ranking third this week."

"In addition, "Hall Of Fame" moved up fifteen places to No. 70, and "Natural" ranked No. 80 this week."

"Haha, Lu, do you know what the media calls you?"

"They all say that you are a musical magician from the East!"

"I can't wait to meet you!"

On the phone, even without meeting, Lu Yuan could hear Max's excitement.

Three weeks after the release of "Counting Star", the single ranked 53rd, almost breaking into the top [-], and it was achieved when Lu Yuan was absent for nearly two weeks.

In the first week, it ranked 91st, in the second week, it ranked 83rd, and in the third week, it ranked 53rd. With such a gorgeous curve, the potential of the championship single is clearly revealed!

As long as Xuanfa can keep up, it may take some luck to win, but breaking into the top three of the Billboard Hot [-] is a sure thing.

The top three in the B list TOP100 can at least bring tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of album sales (in the long term).

As head of Universal Music Asia, Max has been pushing Asian artists to enter the international market.

How could Max not be excited that the plan that had lasted for many years finally came to fruition and had the opportunity to explode?

The success of the international expansion plan will not only prove the correctness of the strategy, but also help his position within the group.

Overjoyed!

If Max were here now, he would love to hug Lu Yuan and kiss him twice.

"By the way, Lu, there is something that requires your authorization."

"what's up?"

"Lu, do you know MySpace?"

"MySpace?" Lu Yuan suddenly asked, "Is it the most popular social networking site in the United States?"

Although Lu Yuan has not registered for MySpace, he has heard of MySpace's name.

After all, it is one of the most popular social networking sites in the United States, and it still has a lot of cards.

Domestic social networking sites such as QQ Zone, Maopu, and 51com are all based on MySpace, which was modeled after Friendster.

There are a lot of articles in the world, and the Internet industry is similar. If you really get to the bottom of it, it is the same abroad. No one is nobler than anyone else.

"Yes."

Max suggested: "Lu, you may not know that MySpace originally started with independent music. They allowed musicians to create their own profile pages and upload MP3 songs.

Website users can decorate their personal space with MP3 songs uploaded by musicians. "

"Well, this sounds, maybe, a little complicated."

"However, this is not important. What is important is that MySpace's previous management was very irregular and full of pirated music."

"Last year, we joined forces with BGM, Warner Records, and EMI to put pressure on MySpace. Starting from the beginning of this year, songs owned by Universal Music Group must be uploaded by the singer themselves before they can be added to the background music by other users."

"In recent times, your three songs have been widely spread among young people, and a large number of pirated music sources are leaked on MySpace every day."

"In order to ban these pirated music sources, MySpace has spent a lot of experience." "In the past few days, the MySpace Copyright Department has been sending us emails, hoping that you will create a personal musician profile as soon as possible and upload the MP3 sound sources of those three songs."

After pondering for a moment, Lu Yuan asked.

"Max, after uploading it, will I get the money?"

"Of course!"

Max laughed loudly and said: "Although users use it for free, copyright fees are indispensable. Otherwise, wouldn't our lawsuit with MySpace be in vain?"

"OK, when I get to America, we will sign the authorization letter."

"Cool!"

As he spoke, Max suddenly became mysterious.

"By the way, let me tell you some news. This year, our four major record companies will jointly establish a new website with MySpace - MySpace Music."

"After the website is established, MySpace users will be able to pay to download genuine MP3 music through MySpace Music!"

"In the digital music era, no one can dominate alone. The good days of iTunes are over!"

Hearing Max's final gritted teeth, Lu Yuan smiled slightly.

Digital music underwriters, led by iTunes, have brought great losses to the record industry. Can Max not hate digital music?

After all, digital music has changed people’s listening habits.

Fans no longer need to buy records as they did in the past. They can listen to the latest and most comprehensive music with just a click of their fingers.

The digital music underwriter, which occupies the traffic entrance, has naturally replaced countless large and small video stores and become a giant underwriter.

In the past, recording giants like Universal Music naturally held an advantageous position in the face of small and medium-sized audio and video companies.

But entering the digital music era, the status has experienced a two-level reversal.

iTunes and Amazon MP3 occupy most of the market share, but have become a strong party, accounting for more revenue.

In addition, the price of digital music singles is much lower than that of physical records, resulting in record company performance declining continuously.

In short, the relationship between Universal and iTunes is very delicate, with both cooperation and hostility. The history of the two's grudges could not be fully described in dozens of pages.

After a while, the two exchanged a few words and ended the call.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yuan glanced at his elder sister.

"Sister, do you usually use MySpace?"

"MySpace?"

Lu Jing shook her head: "I don't need it. There are too many non-mainstream ones there, and the personal page is too gaudy and ugly."

"I'm more accustomed to blogging than this."

"Oh, by the way, the recent popular tweets are also good, very short and very nice."

Complaints aside, Lu Jing and Lu Yuan carefully discussed the specific situation of MySpace.

The biggest feature of MySpace is that users can change the design of their personal space at will through code.

Insert pictures, dynamic pictures, music players, video MTV codes, modify font size, artistic words, luminous words, etc.

As for modifying the layout and adding and deleting modules, these are the most basic things.

After listening to Lu Jing's popular science, Lu Yuan had only one thought.

Isn't this the America version of [non-mainstream QQ space]?
Ok.

There is a saying that [non-mainstream QQ space] is very popular, which is also true. The cool style is very in line with the preferences of young people.

Young people in China like it, and young people in Europe and the United States also like this coffee.

MySpace personal page, maybe there is a clue?

(End of this chapter)