154 [Open a record company]
As soon as he thought of this, Li Yange looked at the time on his wristwatch. It was 9:30 in the morning, and it was still early. He turned around and walked out of Sanlitun, stopped a bread taxi, and prepared to go to Polykin's office.
Half an hour later, Beijing Polygold Office.
At this time, Yuki Fujiwara had not come back. The person who received Li Yange was a man named Ryunosuke Mitsui, who was in his thirties and was transferred to Beijing in April this year. When Li Yange was recording an album, he had met him several times and was not very familiar with each other.
Seeing that Fujiwara hadn't come back yet, Li Yange actually didn't want to say anything, but he couldn't resist Ryunosuke Mitsui's enthusiasm and said that he would help send a telegram to Fujiwara Yuki before he told the band about it.
"Li Sang is talking about Baojia Street Band?"
Listening to Ryunosuke Mitsui's tone, it seemed that he knew the Baojia Street Band. Li Yange couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Mr. Mitsui has also heard it?"
"I know one thing, but I didn't expect that Li Sang is also the founder of this band."
Ryunosuke Mitsui smiled and explained: "Before Manager Fujiwara went to Japan, he told me to find as many singers or bands with potential in the mainland as possible. An employee of our office recommended me to go to a dance hall, and the one who performed on the stage was the Baojiajie Band."
Polykin has been in Beijing for several months and has been dealing with relevant departments before and has not focused on singers.
It was not until last month when Fujiwara Yuki returned to Japan that he reminded Ryunosuke Mitsui and the employees of the office to find some potential singers to sign the contract.
If you want to talk about the most popular singers in Beijing, in addition to major art troupes, there are naturally the most popular singers in some dance halls.
For this reason, Mitsui Ryunosuke has been going to various dance halls in Beijing with a mainland employee almost every day to find potential singers. He happened to see the Baojiajie Band once.
"Mr. Mitsui went to the dance hall to see their performance?"
Ryunosuke Mitsui praised: "Yes, although I don't understand Chinese and I don't understand what I sing, but I can also feel it from the music. This is a very thoughtful band, let alone Li Sang, you are the founder of this band."
Li Yange asked, "When Mr. Yi Mitsui sees, can the Baojiajie Band sign Polykin?"
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Ryunosuke Mitsui was a little hesitant. It was much more difficult to promote rock bands than to promote pop singers. Moreover, before leaving, Fujiwara Yuki asked him to find more singers rather than rock bands.
"To be honest, Li Sang has no intention of signing a rock band in the mainland for the time being. But I can't make the decision, maybe when Mr. Fujiwara comes back, he may not change his mind."
"Then I'll trouble Mr. Mitsui. I still have something to deal with, so I won't disturb Mr. Mitsui's work."
"I'll send you Li Sang."
"No need for Mr. Mitsui."
Repelling Mitsui Ryunosuke's idea of giving him away, Li Yange turned around and walked out of the Polykin office.
When he arrived on the road outside, Li Yange turned around and glanced at the signs hanging on both sides of the office, and shook his head slightly. He could understand Ryunosuke Mitsui's hesitation. Rock music is not very popular in China at present.
In addition to Beijing, because of the relationship between Cui Jian, the earliest rock musicians, is quite popular, other regions are mainly composed of songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan singers.
In addition, after a few years of reform and opening up, most people did not understand what pop songs were. Pop music is in its infancy, which led to the popularity of cover imitating Hong Kong and Taiwan singers.
In recent years, with the familiarity of pop music, many pop singers have been born. For example, Zhang Qiang, who appeared in the US Time magazine last year, sold his first album "Tokyo Night" by more than 2.5 million.
And Li Lingyu, the queen of sweet songs who plays the "Jade Rabbit Spirit" in Journey to the West, her first album "Oriental Rookie Li Lingyu" released in 1985 also exceeded one million copies of sales.
So this is also why Ryunosuke Mitsui is not optimistic about rock bands, because almost all the popular albums in China are pop singers.
After stopping at the gate of Polygon Golden, Li Yange touched his chin. Thinking of the booming music market in the mainland in the next few years, he gradually had an idea in his mind.
It seems good to open a record company?
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A few days passed in a blink of an eye.
Cui Jian sent Xue Ke to bring good news, saying that they had convinced the Asian Games team to agree to hold the fundraising concert, and the venue was no longer the abandoned factory before, but was transferred to the Beijing gymnasium.
The Asian Games group originally wanted to find more singers, but the fundraising concert was relatively hasty, and this was the first time that the leaders above decided to take a few more shows in the future, so they decided to follow Cui Jian's intentions and focus on rock concerts.
Seeing that the concert was regular and the Asian Games group helped, Xue Ke led Dou Dawei, Fang Yuanchao and others to follow Cui Jian to the gymnasium for rehearsals every day, or to go to Sanlitun to see the renovation of the bar, and there was no time to come over to ask if you could sign a contract.
"Ten thousand, ten thousand, two thousand...twice."
In the room, Li Yange looked at the thick stack of hundreds of yuan bills on the bed and scratched his hair. The money was a bit small.
There is about 10,000 yuan here, which was sent to him by Li Dongqing, saying that it was so long after the New Year and the profits from the summer vacation.
The remaining five thousand yuan is the share of some of the album sales sent by Polygon.
The album "Yan Ge" has sold more than 23,000 copies in Japan. Although it is still being sold out, as the album is released longer and longer, it is estimated that it can sell up to 30,000 copies, which is exactly the same as the number of albums produced by Polykin.
Polykin had long expected this, and it would be great to short the album. Although the profit was relatively small, this was the first time that mainland Chinese musicians have come to Japan to release albums. They can make some money without losing money. Polykin's senior executives are still quite satisfied with this.
Although Li Yange was a little disappointed, he had psychological expectations before. Although it was very rare to sell 30,000 copies, it was better than being able to sell it. In addition, the final record can be divided into tens of thousands of dollars, which is not unacceptable.
Just as he was about to ask Li Yange to come out for dinner, Cheng Shaojun saw a pile of hundreds of yuan bills on the bed. He couldn't help but widen his eyes and said in surprise: "Yange, why is there so much money? Where did it come from?"
"The album is split." Li Yange said casually while sorting out the money.
"Since so many records? Didn't you sell so many records?" Cheng Shaojun was surprised. Didn't he say that it was not selling well? How could he share so much money?
"Although the album sales are not high, I'm dividing it in Japanese yen, which is a lot of it to convert it into RMB."
Originally, Li Yange wanted Fujiwara Yuki to help him exchange it for US dollars, but now the ratio of Japanese yen to RMB is higher than that of US dollars, so all Fujiwara Yuki was exchanged for Japanese yen.
Cheng Shaojun asked, "Then why don't you deposit it in the bank?"
"It was taken out of the bank." Li Yange looked back at her, remembered something, and said, "Shaojun, I may have a job here recently, but it's not a dance."
When Cheng Shaojun heard that he had found a job, he lit up: "It's okay not to dance, what kind of job is it?"
I have been idle at home for two months, and Cheng Shaojun has been depressed for a long time.
"I'll tell you when I'm sure, right? Let's go and have a meal first."
Immediately, Li Yange grabbed Cheng Shaojun's hand and walked towards the inner room of the main hall.
Chapter completed!