China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 511 Inspection
Max Hall eventually left China with regret and loss, although he successfully negotiated a contract.

But at the same time, he received another bad news.

Within five years, Lu Yuan will quit the music scene and stop releasing songs.

that's terrible!

Both for the world and for him personally.

Today, Max Hall is one of the vice presidents of Universal. His most important achievement in reaching his current position is the discovery of Lu Yuan.

Without Lu Yuan, he would not be what he is today.

Therefore, apart from official duties, he also admired Lu Yuan privately. He really liked those songs.

such a pity.

Regarding the matter of retiring, Max Hall did not urge him. It was not that he was not trying his best, but that it was useless.

But visiting is indeed a necessary business activity.

He is just a shareholder and does not interfere with the development direction of the company, so why go there and make a profit?
As a mascot?

How can there be so many things that both want, want, and want?

The title of workaholic is spread from East to West.

Xingyue Pictures, Xingchen Cinema, Starlight Records, Canxing Culture, Morningstar Fund, Happy Twist, Galaxy Music, Kugou Music, and Changhe Games are all on the inspection list.

As the saying goes, when the leader talks, subordinates break their legs, and the big boss wants to inspect, the heads and core backbones of each branch immediately get into high spirits.

Yuan Tao started crying as soon as he entered the door.

After a brief stroll around, Lu Yuan and Yuan Tao went to the general manager's office. There was still some time before the meeting. The two sat in the office and chatted for a while.

Fortunately, Xingchen Media has been developing at a high speed and has not been established for a long time. If Xingchen Media was a company established for more than 20 years, it would probably be internally rigid.

The outside world has said it is incredible that Lu Yuan can persist for so long.

As for start-up companies such as ByteDance, Magnesia, Magnesium Films, Xinli Media, and MiHoYo, Boss Lu has no intention of inspecting them.

No need.

Counting the time, he hasn't been to the record company for more than a year.

To be fair, even if Lu Yuan told him to quit the music scene this year, he would not be unable to understand.

……

Nowadays, although there are various problems within Xingchen Media, the situation of reporting to the group to keep warm is not too serious.

The bigger a group becomes, the more likely it is to avoid mountain-headism.

Starlight Records.

The first stop Lu Yuan inspected was the record company. Although he often went to Starlight Recording Studio, Starlight Records and the recording studio were not in the same place.

Inspection is something that many people hate.

After bidding farewell to Max Hall, Lu Yuan focused his attention on company affairs and was preparing to launch a round of inspections.

It’s so hard for record companies.

Publishing records has almost become a money-losing business, because the budget is getting higher and higher, the investment is getting higher, but the album sales are visibly declining.

After Yuan Tao took over Starlight Records, he signed several newcomers one after another.

Liang Bo, Zhang Bichen, and Ren Ran who signed contracts last year have all released new albums, and their physical album sales are roughly between 20 and 30.

The sales volume of 20,000 to 300,000 yuan may not seem high, but it is actually very impressive.

Wang Banbi's album "Nothing for Life" released in 11 was sold for more than a year, and the album sales exceeded 32 copies.

Although Wang Banbi has many scandals and has been involved in plagiarism scandals, compared to the group of musicians who debuted in the 90s, Wang Banbi's appeal is not to say the first, but at least he is in the top three.

Xu Wei's new album "At This Moment" released last year only sold more than 25 physical records.

As for musicians such as Na Young, Tian Jin, Park Shu, and Dou Wei, they have not released an album for a long, long time.

Even when songs are released, they are in the form of singles.

For example, the theme song of a certain drama, or the song of a certain party. Nowadays, the list released by Galaxy Music has been recognized by most people, even those fans of idols have to recognize it.

The data published by others are authentic and verifiable. There are occasional errors, but the errors are very small and conform to the laws of statistics.

Therefore, many established singers try not to release albums.

As long as you don't release an album, you won't lose your spot.

Previously, Naying tried to release a single, but after seeing the impressive sales, she immediately gave up her plan to release an album.

Let's do a variety show.

Although it is not a national variety show like "The Voice" or "Singer", Canxing Culture is not the only one in the world.

With her status as a celebrity, which show wouldn’t work for her?
The recording fees offered by Lantai Music are not low, as much as several million per season.

Faced with Yuan Tao's cry for poverty, Lu Yuan said nothing.

Music doesn't make money, but Starlight Records makes money by being signed by a singer's agent.

The first batch of signed musicians such as Xu Song, Wang Sulong, Li Ronghao, and Zhao Lei have never planned to start their own business.

They know very well whether the company treats them well or not.

No matter how popular and popular those people with their nostrils turned upward and bad reviews are, they will not be signed to Starlight Records.

Among the various branches, Starlight Records is the only company that does not have high-intensity KPI pressure.

There are KPIs, but they are not the kind of KPIs that need to be completed desperately.

After chatting for a while, Lu Yuan flipped through the latest sales statistics report.

The sales of Mina's newly released album are unexpectedly good.

One month after its release, the physical album sold 20+, the digital album sold 17+, and the total sales reached 37+.

If Mina was open regularly, sales would probably be higher.

Lu Yuan only provided two songs for this album, one is "I Met a Beam of Light" and the other is "Lesions".

of course.

It's a song written while wearing a vest.

Except for Mina, not even anyone from Starlight Records knew about it.

These two songs are both hot songs for singing in the future. They are not too difficult to sing and are more in line with Mina's vocal range.

However, Mina is not the best-selling singer.

Zhao Lei's new album "Jim's Restaurant" has been released for two months, with physical sales of more than 38. Looking at the folk music circle, this result is definitely a leader.

Including digital albums, total sales easily exceeded 50.

After reading the data on paper, Lu Yuan listened to the new albums of Li Ronghao and Xu Song.

He had never heard any of the songs in these two albums.

It's a new song!
A song that never existed in a previous life.

Not only Xu Song and Li Ronghao, a lot of "new songs" have appeared in recent years, many of which are excellent works.

Compared with the original timeline, the Chinese music scene has become much more prosperous.

Although the album sales are not comparable to those in Europe and America, compared with the previous life, they are much, much better.

Those outstanding independent musicians at least don’t have to worry about whether they have a good meal or not.

About an hour later, when Boss Lu took off his headphones, Yuan Tao asked expectantly.

"what do you think?"

"good."

Lu Yuan nodded with satisfaction: "If you have a breakthrough, it's good to try more new elements. It doesn't matter if you fail. The Chinese music scene will still have to look at them in the future."

Rely on them?
Yuan Tao keenly captured the key points.

What does it mean?
(End of this chapter)