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Chapter 719 "Baby" won the Billboard Zhou crown!

In the office, several people are seated.

Li Zhifan spoke first: "Director Zhang, my matter..."

"Don't worry! Don't worry!"

Before Li Zhifan finished speaking, Director Zhang spoke first, "The cartoon has already been reviewed by the TV station, and it will start broadcasting on New Year's Day, so I'll join you in the queue! You don't know, the domestic cartoon industry is still very prosperous. , more than a dozen cartoons are sent every month, maybe only a few are shown on our channel, and yours is really out of the ordinary."

"Thank you, Director Zhang!"

After Li Zhifan finished speaking, he looked at the other two, and immediately said, "Thank you, Secretary Jin and Acting Director, too."

"Haha, no thanks, let's sign the contract quickly!"

Director Zhang stood up and said, "I still have to go to Lao Zhou's place. Once I hand in this contract, I can officially schedule the film."

"Success!" Li Zhifan said with a smile, "Since Director Zhang is so happy, I won't say much, come and sign!"

There are several contracts, including a copyright contract, a sharing agreement, a film purchase agreement, and a distribution agreement.

The cartoon "Little Pig Peggy" not only sold the premiere rights to CCTV, but also sold the distribution rights of other domestic TV stations to CCTV. Just ask CCTV for authorization, but after CCTV distributes, the copyright proceeds need to be shared with Page Culture Studio.

As for the surrounding copyrights, it is still in the hands of Page Culture Studio. It will be up to Page Culture Studio to decide whether to authorize or do it by itself.

……

Li Zhifan handed in the song for the Spring Festival Gala the next day, but it was just a sample, and he hadn't found anyone to arrange it yet.
But maybe only Li Zhifan has this privilege, just listening to the demo, the Spring Festival Gala program group passed the review.

As for the composition work, the program group also sent the CCTV Symphony Orchestra to contact Li Zhifan, and emphasized that Li Zhifan is fully responsible.

On the other hand, "Coco" did not get a very good film schedule in China, only getting 10%.

If it wasn't for Li Zhifan, maybe it wouldn't even be [-]%. The main reason is that this is an animated film, and for domestically released animated films, no matter which country it is produced in, the premiere schedule does not exceed [-]%.

But it's not completely hopeless, as long as the follow-up box office is good and the appearance of a dark horse can still be raised, the film schedule can still be raised.

In other countries, the film schedule of "Coco" is also the same, and some are even lower, only a few tenths of a percent.

In the following days, Li Zhifan felt relaxed and at ease, as if he were on vacation.

I get up every day to arrange songs with the CCTV Symphony Orchestra, and then I will be fine.

Occasionally, it will be announced to appear on a variety show, and it will not be outside, it will be indoors, just to promote "Coco".

Under such circumstances, Hua Na approached Li Zhifan and proposed the idea of ​​holding a concert.

Of course not right now. The preparatory work for a concert lasts from three months to one year. It is necessary to design the brand of the concert, formulate the development route of the concert, and communicate with venues in various cities across the country. To produce the content, every musician has to finalize and contact each musician. The musicians for the concert are not found casually, and it is even more impossible for Li Zhifan to take care of it all by himself. No matter what, you have to find it internationally.

After the band is finalized, the songs are rehearsed. Some songs need to be re-arranged, and even if some songs are made according to the original version, the music director has to be asked to design according to the theme of the concert.

Including the order of the tracks, it is also determined by the music director. Not only must there be a coherent theme, but it can also ensure that Li Zhifan will not use too much force in the first half of the concert, resulting in collapse in the second half.

But it’s also easy to say for Li Zhifan, after the music director has designed a major theme and a small theme, when setting songs in the theme, if the songs in the past cannot be used or are not enough, Li Zhifan can also come out with suitable new songs to fill in. .

This is where Li Zhifan mastered bugs so well.

Now that we have decided to hold a concert, it must not be possible before the year, it can only be held after the year.

Hua Na immediately contacted several performance companies in China. Each company has different channels to divide the cake in the performance market across the country.

For example, some performance companies have a good relationship with the cultural departments of the major cities in the Northeast, so other performing arts companies have to cooperate with them if they want to carry out cultural performances in the Northeast, and some have very good channels in the major cities in the South. Some have strong resources and channels only in the capital city or Shanghai stock market, and can not only arrange performances, but also arrange distribution.

So this time Hua Na is the organizer, and the following co-organizers will find about seven or eight companies to share the cake of Li Zhifan's concert together. It is precisely because Hua Na has always insisted on this cooperation model that it can stand firm Mainland development.

However, after several companies met for a meeting, it was discovered that the venues that can hold concerts next year will be after April, and they have already been booked out before then.

Especially for big cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the earliest to be settled is the capital, which is also in April, and there is only one place with 8 people in the national body.

The latest is Shenzhen, and the time is already in July.

Hua Na, Beijing Branch.

"Zhifan, that's the timetable. If it's feasible, let's make it like this. We won't be able to squeeze in any further!" Huana General Manager Xie Ronghua took out a tentative timetable and handed it to Li Zhifan.

These performances are confirmed by the performance companies after checking the venues in various places, including 33 second-tier and above cities in the mainland. The second-tier and lower cities have not yet planned. If the early performances are sold well, they can be extended downwards. Contact three Venues in fourth-tier cities will increase the number of sessions.

For the first time, there were 33 concerts, and 7 of them were in stadiums with more than 5 people. This is unique in the entire entertainment industry, but these performance companies have no doubts about Li Zhifan's ability , Some performance companies have even offered to buy out Li Zhifan's box office for a certain show or several shows.

"The first game is April 4?"

Li Zhifan counted the days, "Want to wait so long?"

"Long?"

Xie Ronghua couldn't help being speechless, "It's not too long, is it? If there is an extra show, maybe it will be next year!"

"Why don't you drive abroad first?"

Li Zhifan tapped his fingers on the table and said, "There are also many foreign Chinese, so they should be able to drive it?"

"foreign?"

Xie Ronghua scratched his head, "It's not so good abroad, right? We haven't achieved any results in our country. If we go abroad rashly, if the sales are not good, it will affect the sales of domestic concert tickets."

"Why don't I release some English songs? Check out their bulletin board?"

Li Zhifan said directly, "Then find a few big American brands to cooperate with, and you will be able to attract popularity!"

"You're thinking too...uh!"

Xie Ronghua swallowed the words "it's too simple", and changed his words: "It's good, but the bulletin board is not so easy to get on, are you sure you can get on it?"

"It's a little meaning, American audiences are also audiences!"

Li Zhifan said with a smile, "Well, I'll go back and prepare the song. You contact a foreign performance company, and after the next year go directly to the foreign country, and then link up with the domestic performances to make this a world tour concert."

"what!"

Xie Ronghua opened his mouth wide in surprise, "Then, then you go back and write! For foreign performance companies, I will contact the head office and let them take care of the arrangements."

Huana's head office is also an old-fashioned music company in the United States. It belongs to one of the eight largest companies in the world. However, its branches in all regions of the world are self-sufficient and distribute dividends to shareholders every year. For example, Huana in Greater China has shareholders other than the head office in the United States. In addition, there are several small shareholders, even individual shareholders.

However, the headquarters does not take care of the affairs of the branches, and only the head office will focus on joint promotion.

……

When he got home, Li Zhifan had another job to do.

Since he is going for the US billboard this time, he will only pick the top singles or runner-up singles over the years, regardless of whether these songs are liked by mainland audiences or not, as long as they can be liked by foreigners. That's fine.

The first song I chose was Boss Huang's "Shape-of-You", which is the annual champion single of the American Billboard in another world. won the championship.

The second song is "Closer", which entered the top ten of Billboard in both 2016 and 2017. The original song is a song sung by men and women, but Li Zhifan has become his solo here, and then he added the harmony. The final effect Not too much.

In addition to this kind of hit single, there are also some old songs, not as good as the theme song "Happy" of "Despicable Me 3", "Baby" by Bieber, and "Love-" which he won the championship in 2016. Yourself".

In addition, Li Zhifan also turned over some god-level singles by female singers, such as Adele's "Rolling-In-The-Deep", which is an English song that appears most frequently on the audition stage in a different world. Almost every audition There are all shows, and this song has appeared on the stage of Good Voice for four consecutive years.

There is also Reddy Gaga's "Poker-Face", the brainwashing song of poker face, if it does not appear in this world, it would be too boring, even if Li Zhifan is a male singer, he can translate this song to fit himself , with ease.

Li Zhifan intends to make an EP of these seven songs, but the speed of release is one song at a time. If the effect is good, there will always be a song that can hit the Billboard champion next year, right?
At least, he has to get one of the monthly champions, right?

After being picked out, Li Zhifan started recording. This time he did not fly to the United States to record, but produced on the timeline, and did not invite external forces. All were internal people of the company, led by Li Zhifan, and personally acted as the producer.

A week later, Li Zhifan released his first English song - "Baby".

In addition to Ding Ri's singing part, the original version also includes Usher's rapping. For this part, Li Zhifan invited the famous American rapper Ives to help out, but the recording part of Ives was completed in the United States, and then through the Internet After the transmission, after the production is completed, Huana will contact the US headquarters for release.

For Ives, this time it is just to return Hua Na's favor, to do a little favor, and to make a little money. He never thought about what kind of sensational songs this Chinese singer can bring, nor did he think about the songs he recorded. How influential this song will be in the future, because he didn't even hear the complete track, but only got a piece of Rap lyrics and less than 1 minute of music.

When Ives first heard the song, it was only a day ahead of the American audience.

After listening to the whole song, Ives was stunned, and suddenly his blood surged.

"What? Is this the song I recorded?"

"How come? This song is going to be released, and it will definitely dominate the Billboard champion list!"

With the keen intuition of a musician and years of experience as a singer, Ives felt that he had got a very important opportunity, and this opportunity came after he had already got it.

More importantly, he had never seen the person who sang with him!
Eight o'clock the next morning.

The song "Baby" was released worldwide.

Relying on Huana's strong publicity ability and the brainwashing effect of the song, the song "Baby" immediately washed the ears of listeners around the world.

It’s just a simple version of the MV. After it was launched on Youguan.com, it received 4000 million hits in one day, which not only broke the odds of Chinese following suit, but even made it into the top ten of the record list.

On the same day, Ives received countless telephone interviews.

Facing these reporters, Ives was very happy, and tried his best to praise and promote Li Zhifan on the phone. In fact, he simply read Li Zhifan's information and didn't know anything about him, but anyway, there is no need to brag about other things during the interview. Just blow his musical talents.

Hua Na also never expected that the song "Baby" would be so popular as soon as it was launched, so they rushed to make all the peripherals related to Li Zhifan, and asked colleagues in the capital branch to take Li Zhifan to take a set of photos , to conduct deeper publicity on the US Internet.

In addition to publishing some photo photos, this in-depth publicity also contacted him with the endorsement of some American national brands, and these national brands are already international brands.

The first endorsement is the car brand with the second annual sales volume in the world-George car!
Of course, this sales volume is mainly in American countries. It can only be ranked third in China, and fourth in Europe. Japan and South Korea are even lower, and they are often outside the top ten. However, they are too few and their purchasing power can be ignored. .

In addition to the negotiations with Huana, George Auto wanted to pick up the plane to further develop the Chinese market, and chose Li Zhifan as its spokesperson, so Li Zhifan was a good choice for them.

On the third day, while Li Zhifan's endorsement commercial was still being filmed, the song "Baby" won the Billboard's weekly chart and squeezed into the top three positions on the monthly chart.

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Huana headquarters and Beijing Huana branch.

Two groups of people opened champagne to celebrate through the video.

"Oye! It's No. [-] on the weekly list!"

"Haha, the monthly list has also entered the top three!"

"Li, I heard that you have prepared seven songs!"

The person in charge at the headquarters smiled and said, "Make it slowly, we will do our best to push it!"

"It's almost done!"

Li Zhifan said with a smile, "It is estimated that all will be released next week!"

(End of this chapter)