Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings

Time flies and February arrives.

As the Spring Festival is approaching, all Chinese regions around the world have entered a festive atmosphere.

Wear new clothes, post Spring Festival couplets...

The streets and alleys are full of festive atmosphere, and the shops sell all New Year-related products.

Even major record companies have successively released various records with a Spring Festival atmosphere.

Among them, Zhuo Yiting is the most popular.

The singing voice of this little girl who only turned sixteen this year has really spread throughout all Chinese regions around the world.

Whether it’s Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United States and Canada, or even the mainland.

Her pure voice can be heard in the streets and alleys.

She single-handedly managed to support the record company, Golden Disk Leopard.

Let Haili Records behind it make a lot of money.

During this period, his cover of "Transformation, Girl's Mood" became even more popular. In the album, he sang "Moist Heart", "Heart Rain", "Ping Ju", "There is a Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind". " and other songs were once even more popular than the original singer.

In fact, because Zhuo Yiting's pure singing voice was so amazing, the audience once thought that she was the original singer of these songs.

The sales of her MV are simply unimaginable.

In every household with TV sets, VCDs and DVDs, her song MVs are played.

Zhuo Yiting is so popular that some media even called her a real female version of Chen Qiming.

He also said that Zhuo Yiting, a 16-year-old girl, has an unlimited future and she has already booked the position of the next Chinese music superstar.

Of course, there is one thing worth noting.

In fact, Zhuo Yiting is not just popular recently.

Zhuo Yiting is a child star.

She started recording records in 1988, when she was 7 years old, and subsequently acted in many TV series.

She became really popular in 1994.

This year, he officially transformed from his original role as a folk cover singer. During the Spring Festival at the end of 1993, he sang a New Year record and a duet Hokkien record.

The first album includes classic New Year songs such as "Congratulations and Congratulations".

The second album contains songs such as "Love in the Wind", "Don't Lose Ambition", "Love and Hard Work Will Win" and other songs.

Because her voice is in good condition, she doesn't look like a twelve or thirteen year old child at all.

She also officially became popular because of these two records.

Afterwards, she officially embarked on the journey of covering classic songs.

how to say!

As long as it is a popular classic song in the Chinese music scene, she has sung almost all of it.

These songs were originally classic songs. In addition, her voice was good, and VCD officially appeared at that time, the disc spread quickly, and piracy helped.

In just a few years, Zhuo Yiting has become one of the most famous singers in the Chinese-speaking region.

Yes, one of the most famous singers.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as there are Chinese people in places where you mention Zhuo Yiting, no one will know about it.

Especially in the past few years, Zhuo Yiting has started to grow up, and she has become more and more popular, especially in the mainland.

In fact, it is not that other companies have become jealous of Zhuo Yiting in recent years.

As far as Chen Qiming knows, no less than several records have approached Zhuo Yiting, wanting to sign her and create original records for her.

pity……

First of all, Zhuo Yiting's Haili Records doesn't care at all that Zhuo Yiting will not develop if she keeps singing covers.

In their eyes, Zhuo Yiting is gold, a piece of gold that only belongs to them, so naturally they will not let her go.

Haili refused to let her go, and the liquidated damages were so high that most record companies couldn't accept it. Slowly, naturally, no one thought about this issue anymore.

In fact, Chen Qiming had never thought about dealing with this record company, which was mainly engaged in audio and video.

I never thought I would deal with Zhuo Yiting.

But he didn't want to deal with it, Hailey thought.

On February 3rd, Haili Records made an appointment with him.

There were two people coming. In addition to Haili's person in charge, there was also Zhuo Yiting, a little girl who was only sixteen years old.

Well, they say she's a little girl, but she looks nothing like her.

Zhuo Yiting is very precocious.

She already looked like an adult when she was twelve or thirteen years old.

And now, he looks very mature.

"Mr. Chen, I'm sorry to bother you! I'm Huang Boguang! Tian Ren is the person in charge of Haili Records."

The person in charge of Haili Records was a bald middle-aged man. He enthusiastically held Chen Qiming's hand as soon as he arrived.

"Hello there!"

Chen Qiming shook hands with him and looked at Zhuo Yiting next to him calmly.

He was still very curious about Zhuo Yiting.

To be honest, in Chinese-speaking areas, Zhuo Yiting is definitely not inferior to Chen Qiming in terms of fame.

And because of her song style, she may be more famous than Chen Qiming among the older generation.

However, for such a famous singer, Haili never thought of releasing an original album for her to help her establish a foothold in the music world. Instead, she just let her sing cover songs, and she has always stood at the bottom of the music world. Really, this is incredible.

"Mr. Huang, I didn't know why you asked me out..."

Sitting at the dining table, Chen Qiming asked aloud.

In fact, he probably understood the other party's purpose.

Haili Records is a weird record company.

They are famous for their love of prostitution.

Their favorite thing is to find record companies to buy the right to cover classics.

They have purchased the cover rights to many classic songs from Baodao's record companies.

This is how the right to cover Zhuo Yiting's songs came about.

In the entire Baodao music scene, there are only a few companies that own a large number of song copyrights.

One is Baodao Warner, which evolved from UFO, the other is Baodao PolyGram and its branch in Baodao, then Shanghua Records, and then Chen Qiming’s current Qidian Records and Baodao’s leader in the 1980s. Rolling Stone Records.

Among them, PolyGram and Warner, needless to say, International Records have a huge copyright library.

And then, if we talk about the record company with the most classic songs in its copyright library, it is naturally Qidian Records.

Not to mention the classic songs created by Chen Qiming in recent years.

The record copyrights that Chen Qiming obtained from Huaxing Records alone are very large.

And among all the record companies in Baodao.

Warner and PolyGram are international record companies, and they generally never let their song copyrights leak out.

This can be seen from the fact that most of the classic songs of their singers have not been covered by Zhuo Yiting.

Then came the Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones have always aimed to build the largest copyright library in the Chinese music industry, and naturally they will not let their songs leak out.

Therefore, in the end, only the starting points of Shang Hua and Chen Qiming are left.

Among them, Shanghua need not be mentioned at all.

Haili basically relies on their copyrights.

Taking a closer look at Zhuo Yiting's cover songs, basically all of them come from Shanghua's songs.

For example, Gao Shengmei, Meng Tingwei and a bunch of Hokkien singers in Baodao.

Therefore, it goes without saying that Huang Baiguang's purpose of looking for him now is to buy the copyright.

"Mr. Chen, it's like this. We want to talk to you about the song copyrights of Qidian Records. We want to invest in purchasing the cover rights of your company's songs!"

Huang Baiguang raised his glasses and stated his purpose.

"Do you want to buy the cover rights to a certain song, or do you want all the rights?"

Chen Qiming asked calmly.

Copyright for a cover of a song is completely different from ownership.

For a song, as long as the price is right, Chen Qiming will not refuse.

Not only him, but also companies such as Warner and PolyGram.

If it's just a cover copyright of a song, it's usually possible to negotiate as long as the price is right.

But if it’s all copyright, forget it.

"So, we want to get the cover rights of all the songs from your record company, Mr. Chen!"

Huang Baiguang said without thinking.

"I'm sorry, if it's just one song, we can still talk about it. If it's all songs, I think it's better to forget it!"

The sale of cover rights is generally not worth much.

A song can sell for thousands or even hundreds of dollars at most.

For the money, he let the songs in his copyright library leak out. Chen Qiming was stupid to do this.

You know, selling the cover rights means that the cover version will become an independent version, which can create independent income, and this income cannot go to Chen Qiming.

After a pause, Chen Qiming added: "If you are willing to give up half of the income share from the cover, I might consider it!"

Zhuo Yiting's covers are actually very profitable.

Especially after VCD and DVD have become increasingly popular in recent years.

How many copies of Zhuo Yiting's cover record can she sell?

To be honest, no one has counted this data, only Haili herself knows it.

But judging from the fact that her songs are everywhere on the market, this is definitely not a small number.

Of course, piracy must be excluded.

Especially in the mainland, piracy is quite common.

Some pirates in the Mainland have set up companies for piracy. You can imagine how much money they make from piracy.

The more popular a singer is, the more serious the piracy is.

Chen Qiming was deeply affected by this. Every time he released a record, he would send a large number of people to destroy the pirate dens.

Last year alone, they found out that he was piracy of his records, and they destroyed no fewer than ten places, and found millions of pirated copies.

The same goes for Zhuo Yiting.

It is said that the number of Zhuo Yiting's records circulating in the mainland market is no less than tens of millions, and 90% of them are from pirated copies.

Let's put it this way, when you go to a certain city in the Mainland, even if the market seems to be full of so-and-so's records, as long as you look carefully, you will find that they are all pirated.

However, even if piracy is common.

One thing that is certain is that Zhuo Yiting's records are not for sale.

As long as your store is in place and the price is not too high, millions of sales will not be a problem at all.

"Mr. Chen, I'm afraid your proposal won't work. We are a small business. If we share half of your income, we won't even be able to drink soup!"

Huang Baiguang simply refused and shook his head.

How could he be willing to make hundreds of dollars in banknotes, and suddenly he could only make a few tens of dollars?

"Sorry about that!"

Chen Qiming stood up directly.

He came here today just out of curiosity. He really never thought about cooperating with Haili.

"Oh!" When he walked to the door, Chen Qiming suddenly turned back and looked at Zhuo Yiting, "Little sister Yiting, there is no future in singing covers. If one day you want to change your environment, you can come to Qidian Records. My door is always open for you. Open it! I will personally make a record for you when the time comes!"

After saying that, he quickly left the restaurant without eating.

On the spot, Zhuo Yiting's expression changed after hearing Chen Qiming's words, but after taking a look at Huang Baiguang, who looked ugly, she lowered her head again.

"Don't think about useless things. You still have a five-year contract with the company, and the liquidated damages are not a small amount.

Moreover, thinking about how you have become famous in recent years, the company has not sorry for you."

Huang Baiguang pushed up his glasses and warned.

What he said was not unreasonable.

Zhuo Yiting's success is really indispensable without Haili's support.

If Haili Records hadn't cooperated with Guangdong Yongsheng Records Co., Ltd. to shoot Zhuo Yiting's MTV album, which made her very popular in the mainland, she wouldn't be where she is today.

Not paying much attention to Zhuo Yiting, Chen Qiming left and went to Yongxiang Pictures.

After two weeks of consideration, Yang Dengkui and Wang Yingxiang finally decided to win the distribution rights of "The Lonely Agent" in Taiwan for NT$60 million.

The purchase of distribution rights for NT$60 million is only for the distribution rights of Baodao.

This set a record for the highest price paid by Baodao film dealers for foreign films this year.

The day after the two parties met, the news made the headlines of Baodao Entertainment Edition.

"Chen Qiming is making money faster and faster"

"Andy Lau set the highest price for a Hong Kong star's movie in Baodao, surpassing Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chen Qiming, Stephen Chow and others"

""Lonely Agent" was released in North America, with a final box office of 78 million US dollars, and Andy Lau became a favorite"

……

On the 4th, at Baodao Airport, reporters who knew in advance that Chen Qiming was going to the United States were already stationed here.

As soon as Chen Qiming appeared, he was immediately surrounded by reporters.

"Amin, "The Lonely Agent" was a hit at the box office in North America. How much money did you make from this movie?"

"Mr. Chen, Leslie Cheung said in an interview a few days ago that if you invite him to your movie, he will be willing to come even if it is a supporting role.

But as far as we know, it seems that you have never cooperated with him. Do you have a bad relationship with him? "

"Mr. Chen, yesterday Fulong's model Lin Chiling said in an interview that she was your first love. Is that true?"

……

All kinds of questions are ringing in my ears, some are sincere questions, some are scandals, and some are malicious topics.

Chen Qiming passed quickly with no expression on his face.

After squeezing into the airport, he confessed to Li Xiaowen:

"Call Fulon and ask what's going on over there!"

Chen Qiming knew that getting involved with Lin Chiling would cause problems.

I didn't expect it to come so quickly.

The entertainment industry is indeed a big mess.

Lin Chiling was still a relatively simple woman.

Unexpectedly, it had only been so long before the relationship between them was used to stir up scandals.

Although what she said is true.

But her indiscriminate way of speaking made Chen Qiming disgusted.

He hoped Fulong would tell her not to talk nonsense.

"I'll make a call!" Li Xiaowen nodded.

After nodding, Chen Qiming did not bring up this topic any further.

This was just a small episode and had little impact on him.

He now has to focus on preparing for the NBA All-Star Game performance the day after tomorrow and the Super Bowl on the 9th.

(End of this chapter)