After failing the college entrance examination, he became a big star

Chapter 22 Hierarchy
From the TV station to the Teachers College, it takes more than 40 minutes to ride a bicycle.

In past and future lives, this was Li Kai's first time taking a girl by bike. Although he didn't have any special thoughts in his mind, he still vaguely looked forward to the wonderful touch of being surrounded by Qianqian's jade arms.

But the fantasy is beautiful, but the reality is too skinny.

From the beginning to the end, He Jingyun was holding on to the corners of his clothes with both hands. Even though he was already riding smoothly enough, when the road was uneven, he would inevitably bump up, and the T-shirt was pulled down, and it was a full size bigger. , don't mention how uncomfortable it is.

And along the way, Li Kai didn't chat with Xu Qiaoling about selling songs, but from Xu Qiaoling's mouth, he got a deeper understanding of the situation in the music industry.

It turns out that the world music circle has a clear hierarchy.

Leaving aside foreign countries, domestically speaking, there are hundreds of record companies everywhere, roughly divided into five levels, studios, third-tier, second-tier, first-tier, super-tier one, and officially recognized, only third-tier and above.

Strictly speaking, the studio is just equivalent to a department in the record company, which independently completes the production of the record, and then cooperates with a certain record company, and the record company completes the follow-up release and publicity work.

Second- and third-tier record companies are basically located in second- and third-tier cities, and they are qualified to release their own albums, but in fact, they largely depend on the distribution channels of upstream record companies.

Only first-line record companies can truly independently complete record production and subsequent release promotion, and very few have their own record production factories.

Most of the headquarters are located in the capital. In addition, there are also domestic first-tier cities such as Shanghai, Shenhai City, and the provincial capitals of several relatively developed coastal provinces.

There are five super-first-line record companies in the country, known as the five giants, all of which are in the capital.

As far as singers are concerned, they can be roughly divided into six levels, underground singers, newcomers, third-tier, second-tier, first-tier, and super-tier one.

Underground singers are a general term for singers who have not released their own records (including singles). Many of them are the objects of temporary contracts with record companies. Go sing a demo and so on.

Newcomers are selected from underground singers and sign a formal contract with the record company. Because they have never released a record before, they will usually release a single to test the water first. The success of the test will determine the fate of the newcomer. Some skyrocket , and some go straight into the mortal world.

Third-tier singers have released at least one record with a sales volume of more than 20, but they are not satisfied with the so-called gold sales of 50.

Owning one gold album, but less than three, is regarded as second-tier. Although there are many people, it is only an excessive level. When official statistics are used, it will be counted as second-tier, but regardless of the number of fans, endorsements, and the price of commercial performances. There is a clear gap in the second line.

Second-tier singers, with more than three gold records, that is, sales exceeding 50, are dissatisfied with the so-called platinum million sales, or one platinum record.

Possess two platinum albums, which are at the first-tier level and also at the excessive level.

First-line singer, at least three platinum records, or a double platinum record.

Chaoxian is called the king of heaven and the queen of heaven, representing the pinnacle of the Chinese music scene. There are six people in total, four of them are heavenly kings, and two are queens of heaven. double platinum.

Of course, the above are only the most critical sales standards in the classification of singers, but they are not the only ones. There are also factors such as social influence, industry reputation, awards, whether they have faded out for a long time, or the sales of follow-up albums have declined, etc., for comprehensive evaluation!

As for songwriters, producers, etc., there are also grades in the circle. Xu Qiaoling probably doesn't know much about it, so she didn't elaborate.

The bicycle stopped at the school gate, Li Kai called He Jingyun aside and said, "If the price is right, I'll sell the song, what do you think?"

"This is your original work, I have no objection." He Jingyun didn't expect Li Kai to ask her.

Li Kai shook his head: "I can't say that. This song is our competition song. It was chosen by Ms. Xu because of your singing in the competition. As a member of the group, you should have the right to speak. If you want to keep it This song will not be sold."

He Jingyun looked at Li's serious expression, which seemed to be false, and then looked at Xu Qiaoling who was standing there looking forward, but did not come. She was quiet for a moment, and then said: "Then I will give you all the power, and you will decide."

"it is good."

He Jingyun waved goodbye and rode into the campus alone.

Li opened the cart and walked towards Xu Qiaoling, and suggested, "I know there is a teahouse nearby, about 500 meters away. Shall we talk while walking?"

Xu Qiaoling nodded.

So, the two walked along the campus wall. The temperature dropped a lot at night, and there was wind again, which made it very comfortable to blow on them.

"Miss Xu, if you didn't give us full marks tonight, we wouldn't be able to get the first place, thank you."

Tonight's rematch, the judges scored a total of only two super high scores of 9.5 or more, one was given to the NO. , from her personal point of view, she has to bear a lot of pressure.

At that time, Li Kai didn't quite understand why the young female judge would give the perfect score, but now he has a general understanding. Regardless of whether the song "Our Love" can be sold in the end, this unexpected perfect score is the result of the Yunkai group winning the rematch tonight. The key is that this favor must be recognized, and the past cannot be vague.

Xu Qiaoling lowered her eyes and said, "I'm just scoring according to my own heart."

Li Kai smiled, and didn't mention it again: "Miss Xu, are you going to release a solo album, I want to make sure first, how much power do you have in choosing songs for the album?"

Xu Qiaoling replied: "I want to release a single, and it will be released in ten days. I have already recorded it, but I am not very satisfied. I heard your song tonight. I really like it and want to buy it." Re-record."

"Single, are you a newcomer?"

"No, I have already released a single before, and it has sold more than 6 units required by the company. I originally released an album, but for some reason, I still release a single this time."

Li opened his eyes, "Single, then there's no need to worry about the title song, it will be released in ten days or so, and it will be in early August, so it agrees with him."

"Then you can make the decision on this single? That is, if you want to reverse the re-recording, can the company agree?"

"can."

Li Kai pondered for a while, and said: "I still need to confirm two things, first, the price, and second, I want to hear you sing a song."

The first point is secondary, but what Li Kai really cares about is the latter point, whether "Our Love" is a golden song, no doubt, whether it will be an instant hit, but that is not necessarily the case.

The most typical example in the previous life, the song "In the Spring" written by Wang Feng, Wang Feng did not sing popular, but was sung by the rising sun masculinity, single-round singing skills, Wang Feng, who was born in a major, is definitely better than the rising sun masculine, the reason for not being popular is because of his personal style And vocal characteristics are not suitable for this song.

Taking "Our Love" as an example, after Feier Band changed the lead singer, their singing skills were not bad, but the response was far worse than the original lead singer.

The biggest purpose of selling songs is to make a debut. To put it more bluntly, that is, if the song becomes popular, he will have a reputation in the music circle, and the record company will take the initiative to find him, and he can really step into the music circle.

(End of this chapter)