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- After celebrating the return of Xiangjiang, Cao Xuan plunged into the search for cooperation with a record company.
In 1997, digital music had not yet emerged, and records were slowly transitioning from tapes to CDs.
The Chinese music scene is basically dominated by major record companies such as Polygram, Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI, Sony, and Rolling Stone.
Most of these large record companies have their headquarters in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and the company's contracted singers are mainly singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
However, with the rise of the mainland music scene in the past two years, they have also set their sights on the mainland music market and began to enter the mainland one after another, signing contracts with many well-known mainland singers to seize the territory.
For example, Liu Huan, who is acquainted with Cao Xuan, is currently in active contact with Sony, and Polygram and Warner have also cast olive branches on him.
Other well-known mainland singers have basically been poached, and many people are quite excited.
After all, the channel resources of major record companies are very generous, and they can even allow mainland singers to go to the center of the entertainment industry today-Hong Kong and Taiwan, and even expand to the entire East Asia.
Wang Fei, the queen who was dug out by Polygram, is the best example.
For a while, many record companies in the mainland were in turmoil.
? In 1997, there were not too few local record companies in the mainland, with a total of about 60 scattered, mainly distributed in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, especially Beijing and Guangzhou.
Leaving aside some leather bag companies and unprofessional studios, there are probably about 35 to 40 companies that can really operate and release albums.
Among them, there are 14 in Beijing.
The most popular record company is [Chia Tai International]. They released Sun Yue who sang "Wish You Peace" two years ago, and this year they signed a contract with Man Wenjun, who was a mess in the Youth Song Competition.
Last year, [Ryefield Music], which was led by "Short and Tight", was also very popular. Pu Shu and Ye Bei, who were launched, are currently relatively new stars in the music scene.
In addition to Zhengda and Maitian, there are several record companies that are not weak, and basically have a few first- and second-tier singers under their banners, which can be regarded as large and medium-sized record companies.
And below these record companies are small record companies.
Most of the small record companies do not have the strength to independently package singers, at most they sign a few newcomers to scratch the lottery ticket.
Their main business is more about cooperating with independent singers, producing songs, publicizing and selling, copyright management and so on.
Cao Xuan is mainly looking for this kind of small record company.
Of course, he also went to those large and medium-sized record companies, and the result was not surprising. The other party either refused, or wanted to sign a management contract with Cao Xuan, and the terms were very harsh.
? In the era when the Internet was not yet emerging, singers generally had to rely on several publicity channels such as radio, television, and media magazines if they wanted to become popular.
Most of these channel resources are monopolized by those large and medium record companies.
The record company holds the lifeblood in its hands, and naturally occupies a dominant position in the relationship with the singer.
Famous singers are fine, but unfamous and rookie singers, because they have to rely entirely on the resources of the record company, have no right to speak at all, and can only be at the mercy of the record company.
Take the contracts that Cao Xuan obtained from those large and medium-sized record companies as an example, which are almost equivalent to a contract of sale.
No contract period is less than 5 years, and more than 10 years are everywhere. Albums, commercial performances and other types of income, singers can only get 5~10%, very few are 10~20% %
There are even some record companies that don't give singers any cut directly, and only pay salaries.
The basic salary is 500 per month, including room and board, and there are no other additional terms, such as salary increases year by year, bonus performance, making achievements to replace generous contracts, etc.
In other words, if a singer becomes popular, as long as the record company does not give a salary increase, even if he becomes popular, he will still get 500 per month.
Fortunately, the times have changed, otherwise everyone would have to hang street lights
Cao Xuan would never sign such a squeeze contract like a contract of selling himself.
So he has only one way left, find a small record company to cooperate and release a single by himself.
After a few days of unannounced visits, as well as information obtained from many sources, Cao Xuan finally settled on a suitable record company - [Lanqi Records].
This record company is small in scale, but it was established very early. It was established in the early 1990s, before the popularity of pop music in the mainland.
At first there were two bosses, and the name of the company [Lanqi Records] was formed by taking one word from each of the two bosses' names.
But later, because of Lan QiyiOpen a record company.
Jiang Yue was even more overjoyed.
Don't look at how Jiang Yue gave Han Qi the Lion's Roar just now, like a grandson, but it's about music appreciation, but she trusts Han Qi's eyesight very much.
At the same time, Jiang Yue also understands Han Qi's criteria for criticizing songs better than anyone else.
Except for his beloved rock and roll, Han Qi treats other genres of songs with a very critical eye, and even some recognized classic songs are often unscrupulous.
"Ten Thousand Reasons" was not approved by a large number of people in his mouth, or even affirmed, which is really rare in Han Qi's song critic career.
Jiang Yue politely asked Cao Xuan to wait a moment, then dragged Han Qi to the outside of the office and asked.
"You tell me the truth, can this deal be done?"
Han Qi wiped his face, looked at Jiang Yue's earnest eyes, nodded with difficulty, and said honestly.
"From the perspective of popular business, I even think this song is not weaker than "The Heart Is Too Soft", but the specifics depend on the luck, but even if it is not popular, it should not be a big problem to pay back.
It's evil, where did such a strange talent pop up, why haven't I heard of it before. "
Han Qi muttered to himself, while Jiang Yue next to him almost went crazy with joy.
Comparable to "The Heart Is Too Soft"! ?
That song made tens of millions of profits for the record company behind it.
"Ten Thousand Reasons" doesn't need much, it can make Lan Qi one-tenth of "The Heart Is Too Soft", and she offers Cao Xuan as the God of Wealth.
Without further ado, Jiang Yue went into the office to discuss the specific terms of cooperation with Cao Xuan.
? First of all, the single sales share is not controversial, and it is directly in accordance with the general rules in the industry.
The real crux of the negotiation between the two parties was that Lan Qi wanted the copyright of "Ten Thousand Reasons", which Cao Xuan could not tolerate.
The sales of singles can't get the big head, he is all pointing at the copyright and commercial performance, if it is sold out, Cao Xuan is still playing a fart.
But Jiang Yue is bound to win, ordinary songs are fine, "Ten Thousand Reasons" is expected to be a big hit, if she doesn't intervene, she will regret her death later.
The two sides could not stop arguing, and finally each took a step back.
Cao Xuan agreed to let Lan Qi manage the copyright of "Ten Thousand Reasons" and enjoy 30% of the copyright dividends for 5 years.
At the same time, Lan Qi must also ensure that he will use all his resources to promote "Ten Thousand Reasons", Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and various central radio stations to ensure a certain share of publicity.
Both parties found a law firm, drew up a contract, Cao Xuan signed it, and then shook hands with Han Qi and Jiang Yue and his wife respectively.
"Happy cooperation."
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