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The recording era is over, this is the consensus among many Chinese singers.
In this highly prosperous Internet era, physical albums have completed the transition stage to digital albums, and the price of digital albums is far lower than that of physical albums.
In the era of records, physical albums can be bought for 60 yuan or more, but in the era of digital albums, an album can only be sold for 20 yuan, or 30 yuan at most.
What¡¯s more, taking into account inflation, 60 yuan was more valuable in the past, and 20 yuan now is just the cost of a takeaway meal, but the price of producing a song or a music video is constantly rising.
For digital albums, if you don¡¯t calculate later profits and only calculate costs and sales, more than 90% of singers will lose money.
For example, Zhang Xuehan, a popular queen not long ago, although her new album sold well and the company made a profit, it was entirely because of her popularity that she cut off a wave of fans.
The fact is that the quality of these ten songs is not high. None of the songs made it out of the circle, and there were not even many splashes. Although the company made money, the album was sold out.
To be honest, Zhang Xuehan did not want to make an album. Several popular singles have promoted her from a little diva to a real diva-level singer.
But due to the contract agreement with the company, she had to cooperate to release an album.
¡°In this day and age, it doesn¡¯t mean much for a singer to release an album! The only way to achieve success is to have a market effect if the song becomes popular!¡±
When Xia Fan learned that the company wanted him to release an album, he sighed deeply, feeling extremely unwilling to cooperate.
"Sister Stefanie, you must be very clear about who likes to release digital albums these days!"
Stefanie Lai flipped through the documents with an indifferent expression, a vague smile on her lips, shook her head and sighed: "I know. Real kings and queens of singers basically focus on singles. Today's market is keen on Those who release digital albums are all popular celebrities!"
"Looking at the album sales chart, the top ones are basically monopolized by those with the most traffic, but if you go to the roadside and ask these people what their masterpieces are, passers-by will basically look confused."
"We are all in the industry and we all know the ultimate purpose of these operations!"
After hearing this, Xia Fan crossed his legs and replied with all his heart: "Of course I know. Neither these traffickers themselves nor the companies behind them have ever thought about letting the songs in the album go out of the circle. They have a specific fan group. These are their customers.¡±
"To be precise, popular artists and companies work together to produce some featureless assembly line products and then sell them to fans, just to cut leeks."
"While these traffic stars are still popular and have a huge fan base, they are making crazy money. After a few years, they become obsolete and their fans go after the next generation of traffic. It will be difficult to cut the leeks."
After hearing this, Stefanie Lai looked indifferent and replied: "I understand your feelings of not wanting to release an album, even if it is a mini album. You may be angry that the company did not abide by this unspoken rule."
Xia Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.
"I know the general reasonif I had accepted the exclusive buyout of Penguin Music, the situation might have been different."
"That's definitely different!" Stefanie Lai nodded matter-of-factly, "The company will definitely ignore this clause automatically."
She knew very well that if Xia Fan was really unwilling to cooperate with the company in releasing an album, the two sides would have no choice but to argue endlessly or even go to court.
His situation is different from Zhang Xuehan¡¯s.
The latter stipulated in the contract that they must unconditionally cooperate with the company to release an album; while the former's terms were that Xia Fan himself must write the lyrics and music, and then the company would be responsible for the production and release an album within three years.
Xia Fan¡¯s contract with Times Entertainment has almost finished three years now. From a time perspective, even if there is a new album, it will not be able to meet the three-year deadline.
¡°However, the so-called contract still has the possibility of private negotiation.
As long as Xia Fan is willing to release an album, even if this time limit is exceeded, the company may default to not knowing.
But with Times Entertainment¡¯s current attitude, it doesn¡¯t matter whether it¡¯s sooner or later, but you have to release an album.
"Come out!"
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He still remembered that on the stage of "Brother Lang", Lu Ming, an executive of his old club, arrogantly shouted: I just don't respect the contract. If you have the ability, go to court and sue me!
Xia Fan can¡¯t do this kind of thing to slap himself in the face, but he¡¯s not polite either.?Directly exploited a contract loophole.
¡°A mini album is also an album, and I can only come up with three songs.¡±
Stefanie Li understood Xia Fan's attitude, curled her lips and smiled, and replied: "Okay, Xiaoxia, I will return your attitude to the company."
No matter in terms of emotions or interests, the agent is willing to stand by Xia Fan.
So when Stefanie Li replied, she deliberately pressed the hands-free button so that Xia Fan could understand what was being said.
The other party also playfully put his finger to his lips and softly said the word "shh", asking Xia Fan to keep quiet.
"Mr. Zhou, Xiaoxia has replied that he is willing to cooperate with the company to release an album!"
"Oh, that's great!"
The voice of Zhou Yongsheng, general manager of Times Entertainment, came over the phone, "Tell Xiaoxia that except for the songs he has to write himself, our company will try our best to cooperate with him for the rest."
"I understand this, I will tell Xiaoxia!"
"By the way, Stefanie. Xiaoxia, can you give me some time to reply? After all, writing ten songs is a lot of work."
"Ten songs?" Stefanie Li smiled slightly, looked up at Xia Fan, and then asked curiously, "Mr. Zhou, do you need so many songs?"
¡°Isn¡¯t there ten songs in an album?¡± Zhou Yongsheng asked in confusion.
"This" Stefanie Lai's tone became hesitant, "Mr. Zhou, Xiaoxia said that according to the contract, they only said that they would release an album, but they didn't say what type of album it would be."
¡°Whether it¡¯s a regular album or a mini album, it counts as an album!¡±
"Mini album? How many songs are there?"
"Three songs! Nowadays, many singers focus on mini albums in order to save time, energy, and costs! Only those popular stars like to release 10 songs in an album, and then cut off fans one by one."
"We, Xiaoxia, don't follow the traffic route!"
"I¡¡"
Zhou Yongsheng was speechless for a moment.
Times Entertainment is not a professional music company. Before Xia Fan came, their music business had been half-dead.
The last time we released an album for one of our artists was nearly ten years ago, and the singer was named Chen Dongliang.
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