The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 107 The Record Company
But Xu Guanwu's eyes were fixed on the six people standing at the door. If he did not admit his mistake, this band was the Winner Five Tigers that the Hong Kong music scene had to mention, but there was an extra member for no reason.

After their debut, the Winner Five became popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Each of their records is quite popular, and they have repeatedly achieved sales miracles.Moreover, the movies they made were also quite popular, becoming the most popular group in the Asian music scene.

After the disbandment of the Winner Five Tigers, the members have developed independently, but they have all achieved quite impressive results.

Alan Tam is the Hong Kong singer after Xu Guanjie, and every record is very popular.Such as "Flowers in the Water", "If I'm Real" and so on, have achieved excellent sales results.In the 80s, together with Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang, he was one of the most popular singers in Hong Kong.

At the same time, the films starring him, such as "Little Life is Scared", "Yin and Yang", "Huang Feihong's Laughing Story" and so on, are all very popular.What's even more rare is that this person has been popular from the 20s to the 70st century, and he is still the pillar of the Hong Kong music scene, without the slightest feeling of being out of date, which is very rare.

After Zhong Zhentao came out of the Winner Five Tigers, whether he was filming Qiong Yao dramas in Taiwan or returning to Hong Kong to film movies, he has achieved very impressive results.Such as "Seven Days of Love", "New Fist of Fury", "The Man Who Doesn't Take Off His Socks" and so on.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the relationship between him and his ex-wife Zhang Xiaohui, which is more bloody than any Qiong Yao drama, more dramatic than any Hong Kong movie, and it is the source of gossip tabloids.

Compared with Alan Tam and Zhong Zhentao, Chen You's achievements in music are not very impressive after quitting the Winner Five Tigers, but he has achieved quite good achievements in movies.

He and Zhang Jianting co-founded the Eryou Film Company to shoot many urban emotional comedies, such as "One Husband and Two Husbands", "One Wife and Two Husbands", "The Man Who Doesn't Take Off Socks" and so on. They wrote, directed and acted together. , the films produced have achieved brilliant box office results, and they are the backbone of the Hong Kong film industry.

As for the other members, Xu Guanwu is not too familiar with them.

Being able to take the Winner Band under its banner is definitely a profitable business, so Xu Guanwu agreed immediately without any hesitation.

Seeing that Xu Guanwu agreed to accept them, the Wenna band couldn't help jumping up happily.

You must know that they also organized the Losers Band before, won the Hong Kong Band Singing Competition Championship, and recommended themselves to Polygram several times, but they were not noticed by the record company.

Now that they can be signed by the Xu Brothers Company, they really feel like a pie in the sky.

After so many reports, everyone in Hong Kong now knows that the Xu Brothers Company is very wealthy and powerful, and it is not weaker than Shaw Brothers Company and Golden Harvest Films.

Teddy Robin didn't stop them this time, but stood aside with a smile on his face.

After a while, he clapped his hands, "Okay, okay, stop jumping, thank you, Mr. Xu."

"Thank you, Mr. Xu!" The six members of Wenna Band shouted together.

Xu Guanwu nodded, "Wait until the superstar manager company signs the contract."

In a word, the Wenner Band was excited again.

"Okay, the last worry is gone before I leave Hong Kong." Teddy Robin laughed.

"When is your plane, I'll take you to the airport." Xu Guanjie asked again.

"No, I want to start alone." Teddy Robin said poetically, then turned and walked out.

Seeing his receding back, Xu Guanwu suddenly felt that his image was so tall.

Such a person with an open-minded attitude towards life really brought him a very different feeling.

"Sam, Teddy Robin is a wonderful person." Xu Guanwu smiled.

Xu Guanjie nodded, "He lives a smarter life than any of us."

When the six members of the Wenna band went upstairs to find a contract with the superstar manager company, Xu Guanjie asked a little puzzled: "Second brother, our company is not a record company, what is the use of this band?"

"Can't we set up a record company without a music company?" Xu Guanwu smiled, "I'm worth setting up a record company just for this band. Ah SAM, I'm very optimistic about the strength of these people, believe me, they will definitely become popular .”

"Really?" Xu Guanjie asked suspiciously.

Xu Guanwu nodded. He remembered that in the 80s Hong Kong film industry, New Art City had a record company called Xinyibao.

New Art City signed many popular stars at that time, such as Alan Tam, Lin Zixiang, Ye Qianwen, Zhang Guorong, etc., all of whom could act and sing.In order not to cause the loss of resources, New Art City signed their performing arts contract and record contract together, and cooperated with PolyGram to establish Xinyibao Records.

When Xinyibao Records was at its most prosperous, its sales volume was higher than that of its parent company, Polygram Records. It was a chicken that could lay golden eggs under Xinyicheng.

Xu Guanwu had no idea of ​​establishing a record company at first, but when he saw Winner Band, this idea immediately appeared in his mind.

"Anyway, I remember a lot of singers who were shocked for a while, why not sign them all into the company, wouldn't they make a fortune by then." Xu Guanwu couldn't help thinking.

"Second brother, it's not easy to set up a record company. We don't have recording equipment, recording studios, recording equipment and other hardware, and we don't have software such as lyricists, composers, arrangers, etc., and we don't have our own distribution channels." Xu Guanjie Said, "Even if there are singers, it's useless."

"Ah SAM, don't be so discouraged. We can build without us now, who didn't grow up from nothing?" Xu Guanwu smiled, "Besides, there are so many record companies in Hong Kong, do they all have their own distribution channels? Do you have recording equipment, a recording studio, recording equipment?"

"However, a large amount of money will be invested in the early stage, and it will be difficult for the new company to compete with a big record company like PolyGram." Xu Guanjie hesitated.

"Don't worry, Sam! There are at least 30 years of making money as a record company. In order to make money for 30 years, it is worth paying a little in the early stage." Xu Guanwu laughed.

Xu Guanjie didn't ask how the 30-year profit was calculated. He knew that the second brother's decisions generally could not be objected to. Besides, he said that he used his own money to build a record company. It was useless to object, so he had to close mouth.

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Although it is loud in words, it is really not an easy task to actually set up a record company, as Xu Guanjie said.

Recording equipment, recording equipment, recording studio and other hardware are easy to solve, as long as Xu Guanwu is willing to spend money.However, the software facilities of lyricists, composers, arrangers and distribution channels cannot be established in a day or two.

"The best way is to buy an established record company, which will save a lot of time." Xu Guanwu rubbed his chin and said.

The "Daily Daily" he bought before is a good example. This newspaper has its own printing factory, as well as mature editors, reporters, columnists, etc., as long as enough funds are injected, Xu Guanwu doesn't have to worry about other things. , Naturally, there are a large group of people serving him.

"It's better for someone to check which record company is good." Xu Guanwu thought so, and called Manager Fang from Stanley Market Research Company.

(End of this chapter)