1993 My China Entertainment Age

In the morning of September 2005, 1.

Century Records.

Jiang Xiaofeng invited Dao Lang and Xin Jiang to come to Yanjing and signed a digital music contract in the office.

The so-called digital music, in fact, is mainly cell phone ring tones.

In fact, as early as 2003, Huaguo Mobile approached Jiang Xiaofeng, hoping to obtain authorization from Century Records for wireless value-added services.

Unlike traditional record companies such as Warner who reject digital music, Jiang Xiaofeng did not reject Huaguo Mobile, and even took out 50 songs from the company for experimentation.

As a result, he found that: firstly, Huaguo Mobile, as a monopoly channel provider of digital music, has the ability to eliminate piracy; secondly, Huaguo Mobile proposed a distribution ratio of 15% to 85%. 85% of the income, and the content provider is divided in half.

In other words, content providers can get 42.5% of the income, which is much higher than about 100% of the income from selling albums.

So, at the beginning of 2004, Jiang Xiaofeng chose Huaguo Mobile, embracing the rising digital music without restriction.

New songs such as Jiang Xiaofeng's "Nocturne", "Actor", and Zhou Jielun's "My Site" are all best-selling songs on the annual CRBT list.

As a result, in 2004, Jiang Xiaofeng's personal digital copyright authorization brought 2000 million yuan in revenue to Century Records.

Ranked second is Zhou Jielun. His digital copyright authorization has brought in 1300 million yuan for Century Records.

And Tan Jing's digital copyright also brought 600 million yuan in revenue to Century Records.

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All in all, because of the mobile ring tones and the cooperation with Huaguo Mobile, every singer of Century Records has gained a huge amount of income.

And Jiang Xiaofeng's Century Group, also because of the cooperation with Huaguo Mobile, gained nearly 2004 million more revenue in 7000, and it has become the benchmark among local record companies.

The ambitious Jiang Xiaofeng invited Dao Lang to Yanjing this time because he also wanted to drink some wine with him and talk about digital copyright cooperation by the way.

These days, few singers take digital copyrights seriously. They feel that they are all pirated things, which are not worth mentioning at all, and they don't believe that there will be copyright fees.

After hearing Jiang Xiaofeng's words, Dao Lang couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Jiang Dong, you asked me to come here just to talk about this..."

Jiang Xiaofeng took advantage of the wine and said, "Don't underestimate this digital music, I can let you earn 10 villas in Xinjiang."

Although Dao Lang didn't know much about digital music, he still believed in Jiang Xiaofeng. After all, Jiang Xiaofeng was not only his boss, but also one of the few mainstream musicians who supported him.

In Dao Lang's heart, Jiang Xiaofeng is his benefactor, noble person, and the backer for him to gain a firm foothold in the music scene. If even Jiang Xiaofeng is not trustworthy, then he has no one in this circle who can trust him.

If it weren't for Jiang Xiaofeng, Dao Lang might have been squeezed out of the music scene by the wave of people in the mainstream music scene. It is because of Jiang Xiaofeng's support and encouragement that Dao Lang has not quit the music scene.

In order for Dao Lang to sign the contract with Huaguo Mobile, Jiang Xiaofeng also gave Dao Lang a brief look at the income details of other singers in the company in 2004.

After Dao Lang watched it, he no longer had any doubts. Under the witness of Jiang Xiaofeng, he signed a digital music contract with Huaguo Mobile very readily.

After signing the contract, Jiang Xiaofeng chatted with Dao Lang about next year's concert.

Prior to this, Jiang Xiaofeng's Century Records team had been preparing for Dao Lang's national tour concert.

If there is no accident, Dao Lang's national tour concert will be held in Beijing, Shanghai, Xiangjiang, Taibei and other places in 2005.

In addition, there was another thing that made Jiang Xiaofeng very happy.

That is, his "Song Not For Whom" sold 2004 million copies in 248, 246 more than the [-] million copies of Zhou Jielun's "My Site", which can be said to be a narrow victory over Zhou Jielun.

The record sales champion in 2004 was Dao Lang's "The First Rain in 2002". In 2004, it sold a full 280 million copies without piracy.

March 1th, late.

Although the end of the new year is approaching, Zhou Jielun, who finished filming the movie "Initial D" in Dongying, did not return to Taiwan to celebrate the new year immediately, but rushed back to Yanjing to attend the company's annual meeting.

In the past year, for Zhou Jielun, it was also very fulfilling and fulfilling.

Because in 2004, Zhou Jielun not only held a concert tour, but also participated in the two films "Waiting Alone" and "Initial D", and released a best-selling album with a sales volume of more than 200 million - "My Site ", and filmed Pepsi and other advertising endorsements.

Although Zhou Jielun's "My Site" lost to Jiang Xiaofeng's "Song for No One" by a slight disadvantage, for Zhou Jielun, 2004 was an unforgettable year after all, and it was also a year of gaining more than losing one year.

Zhou Jielun's not only regret in 2004 was probably that he lost to Jiang Xiaofeng again in terms of record sales.

After the annual meeting, Zhou Jielun not only took the initiative to toast Jiang Xiaofeng, said some words of blessing and gratitude, but also secretly asked Jiang Xiaofeng: "Brother Feng, I'm ready, will I release another record next year?"

Jiang Xiaofeng knew that Zhou Jielun wanted to surpass himself, so he smiled wryly and sighed: "Jielun, it's not that Brother Feng doesn't want to release a new album, it's because he really doesn't have enough time and energy."

"Besides, I've given you many chances, but you didn't grasp it..."

"Besides, my withdrawal is also an opportunity for you. I believe that starting next year, you will be the king of the new generation of Chinese music..."

"I have swept the Chinese music scene for 11 years. I think it's time for me to quit. It's really not decent to compete with young people like you for resources..."

Facing the boss of Versailles in front of his eyes, Zhou Jielun couldn't say anything to him. Who told him to be Jiang Xiaofeng?
Zhou Jielun could only sigh regretfully: "Okay, Brother Feng, I can only say that I am very disappointed."

Jiang Xiaofeng smiled, patted Zhou Jielun on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Don't be disappointed, your spring has just arrived!"

Hearing Jiang Xiaofeng's words, Zhou Jielun's heart was inevitably touched.

Moreover, even if Jiang Xiaofeng left, the Xiangjiang music scene completely declined, and only Eason Chan struggled to support it, it did not mean that Zhou Jielun had no rivals in the Chinese music scene.

At least in the current Chinese music scene, besides Dao Lang from the same company, singers including Wang Lihong, Tao Zhe, Lin Junjie, etc. are also eyeing the flourishing Zhou Jielun.

With Jiang Xiaofeng's withdrawal, the Chinese language will inevitably form a new situation, just like in the late 80s, Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung quit the singer one after another, creating a new pattern of the four heavenly kings in the 90s. (end of this chapter)