China Entertainment’s Born Protagonist

Chapter 293 Music Company
After seeing Zhang Nanyi walking into the company, Yao Qian took the initiative to step forward and said in English: "Mr. Zhang, let me introduce to you. This is our Global Senior Vice President of EMI, Mr. Gilburn-Allen. He Responsible for marketing and commercial promotion.

EMI attaches great importance to your English album. When they learned that you wanted to produce an album, the headquarters specially sent Mr. Gilburn to come and discuss it with you in detail. "

Yao Qian's words were polite. It was true that EMI valued Zhang Nanyi's album, but it didn't mean that the global vice president came over to discuss cooperation before the album production started.

Apparently he was here in Sanbao in advance and learned about some of the songs in Zhang Nanyi's new album. Yao Qian felt that the quality was very high and had the potential to be a hit, so he communicated with the headquarters to apply and sent heavyweights over.

Normally, Yao Qian should be happy that the headquarters came to support him, but there was no joy on his face, and after seeing Zhang Nanyi, his smile was very forced.

"Hello Mister Zhang, it's nice to meet you. The professionals at the headquarters have listened to two songs from your new album. The quality is pretty good. We hope to reach a cooperation with you."

Compared with Yao Qian's politeness, Gilburn, who is from Britain, is obviously a Westerner and goes straight to the point.

Moreover, his attitude is a bit condescending, and the songs that praise Zhang Nanyi are all described as "not bad".

It gives the impression that we, EMI, can cooperate with you because we think highly of you.

Zhang Nanyi said expressionlessly: "Nice to meet you, Mr. Gilburn. Let's have tea in the office."

Yao Qian noticed that the atmosphere was not harmonious, and he immediately said: "Great, Mr. Zhang is known as the tea-making fairy in Japan. I can drink the tea made by Mr. Zhang today, and I finally got what I wanted."

Zhang Nanyi and Yao Qian met several times, each time either at the venue or in the hotel. They never made tea together.

Gilburn doesn't know how to make tea, and he doesn't take the so-called tea-making fairy's name very seriously. He is in the market and knows a lot about the promotion and packaging of singers.

In his opinion, Japan's so-called tea-making fairy is just a promotion packaged by Zhang Nanyi's team.

This promotion was very successful, making Zhang Nanyi's popularity reach the national level in Japan.

Zhang Nanyi simply ignored Gilborn. When he came to the office, he made no special preparations and just made tea as usual.

Sanbao was used to Zhang Nanyi making tea and showed no expression.

This was the first time for Yao Qian to see Zhang Nanyi making tea, and he felt that his reputation was well-deserved. He was originally very irritable, but after seeing Zhang Nanyi making tea, he calmed down.

As for Kilbourne, a white man from London, he had little experience with making tea.

If the United States is a cultural desert, then Britain is not far behind. It’s just that the British royal family likes packaging.

Compared with making tea, Kilbourne was more interested in the "dragon-like" coffee table in Sanbao's office. He asked several times. It was in line with the British habit of stealing and robbing. When he saw something good that he was interested in, he would "collect" it. .

After everyone sat down for a round of tea, Gilborn showed his professional side and asked: "Zhang, what is the overall style of your new album, or do you have any expressive demands? We need to communicate honestly." Tailor-made promotion plan.”

Zhang Nanyi glanced at Yao Qian and said calmly: "The expression of the new album has been reflected in the album name, We Are Young.

This album of mine is to sing the voices of young people from their perspective.

I elaborate on this sentiment from two aspects. One is growth. Young people face the confusion of the future and need self-affirmation and encouragement.So there are many inspirational songs in this album, such as the theme song "We Are Young", as well as "Fire", "I just wanna run", "Be What You Wanna Be", etc. These songs inspire young people to move forward bravely. , pursue the ideals you want.

The other is love. When they are young, everyone will encounter unforgettable feelings. Songs such as "Apologize" and "What are words" in the album tell the various feelings of young people facing love.

I think growth and love are things that young people will experience, and they can arouse everyone's emotional resonance to the greatest extent.

As for the album style, this album has no special restrictions on the music form. Pop (pop), Jazz (jazz), R&B (rhythm and blues), Rock (rock), Soul (soul music), all forms are available. There is fusion.

But the overall style is fresh and artistic, and the rhythm and melody are generally more relaxed. "

After listening to Zhang Nanyi's words, Gilborn said confidently: "Very good, when promoting, I will use youth as the theme and focus on the two labels of love and growth.

The quality of your album is very high. In addition to arranging regular chart promotion, we will also send out some press releases, such as "Young people's favorite three sacred albums", "Top ten albums that must be listened to to understand love", "Top ten classics" "Inspirational Songs" and the like, put your albums and songs together with previous classics.

In addition, we will arrange for you to appear on some programs that young people like to watch and promote them on major platforms.

We at EMI have extremely rich promotional resources..."

Next came Gilburn's bragging. His expressive ability was very strong. In his description, EMI seemed to be the world's number one record company.

If he hadn't known that EMI would be divided and acquired in the future, Zhang Nanyi would have believed it.

Kilburn's final destination was three:
The first one was to demand that the global distribution rights for Zhang Nanyi's English album be given to EMI Records. He also specifically pointed out Japan and accused Zhang Nanyi of handing over singles to Japanese companies for distribution.

The second one is to sign Zhang Nanyi and make Zhang Nanyi a signed singer of EMI.

The third one is that EMI wants to buy the copyright of all the songs in Zhang Nanyi's English album.

The three demands were progressive, each one more excessive than the last. It was obvious that Gilborn's main purpose in coming here this time was to sign Zhang Nanyi and win the copyright.

Zhang Nanyi chuckled, "I don't necessarily want you to collaborate with EMI on my new album, but you made me a condition."

No wonder EMI will go bankrupt in two years. What kind of executives are these? I guess he has the same attitude towards other singers.After all, large record companies like EMI are used to being powerful.

After Gilborn finished speaking, Zhang Nanyi just drank tea without saying a word.

Yao Qian felt Zhang Nanyi's attitude and was secretly worried, but he was just a wage earner and had nothing to do in front of his superiors.

Seeing that Gilborn still wanted to talk, Zhang Nanyi stood up and said, "Mr. Gilborn, let's stop talking today. I have to record a song, so I have to excuse myself."

Zhang Nanyi had issued an eviction order, and Gilborn also felt it. His face was not very good, and he said a few words before taking Yao Qian away.

After the two left, Sanbao said: "Yao Qian's invitation to Gilborn this time can be regarded as a last ditch effort. I didn't expect the people at EMI headquarters to be so arrogant." "Last ditch? What do you mean?"

Sanbao said with a smile: "Warner's conditions for the release of your English album this time are much better than EMI's, both in terms of promotion resources and profit sharing, they are very good.

Moreover, they also proposed an idea, for you to come forward and cooperate with Warner to establish a new music company, and all subsequent music albums of you and Very Sweet will be represented by this company.

Warner provides channel and promotional support globally.

After Yao Qian learned about the conditions given by Warner, he became anxious, and then applied for the headquarters executives to come over. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be self-defeating.

EMI is indeed getting worse and worse, and Yao Qian actually wants to change jobs and leave. "

Zhang Nanyi was very surprised. He ignored Yao Qian's matter and asked, "What's wrong with Warner to give him such good treatment?"

Sanbao replied: "Warner Music was acquired by Bronfman Group last year, and subsequently experienced huge internal personnel turmoil, and almost all group executives were changed.

You know, in this kind of record company, the singers, producers and executives all have cliques or feelings. If the executives leave, the singers will not stay.

So Warner left many singers.

Take the Chinese-speaking area as an example. Zhang Huimei, Naying, Sun Yanzi, Sammi Cheng and others all left. Even the cooperation with Maitian Music ended, and all the singers from the mainland were gone.

The same is true abroad. Warner's operation has severely damaged his muscles and bones.

Therefore, Warner is in urgent need of strong players to join, and the conditions provided are very good.

My personal suggestion is that we work with Warner to set up a new music studio and create a new music brand.

It just so happened that EMI's Yao Qian was about to change jobs, so we poached him. He will be responsible for management and distribution, and I will be responsible for music affairs. You won't be too busy, and you can just write songs occasionally.

If you don’t want to write songs in the future, our company can also explore other musicians.

Although record companies cannot make a lot of money, if they are run properly, they can still make very good profits. "

Zhang Nanyi thought for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, you can have a chat with people from Warner. If you want to establish a new company, do it as soon as possible.

What I value most is Warner’s channels and resources, and it’s best if this can be written into the contract. "

"no problem."

Sanbao nodded happily, and the two finished their tea, went to the recording studio, and began to discuss the song recording.

Zhang Nanyi's new album has a total of 15 songs. In addition to the two previously released singles "Dancing with Your Ghost" and "You are beautiful", there are also 13 songs.

"We Are Young", "Fire", "I just wanna run", "Here With You", "What are words", "Be What You Wanna Be", "Apologize", "Free Loop", "Your Bones" , "Flower Dance", "Revolution", "Counting Stars", "Hall Of Fame".

These songs are basically Omi's classic hits, which have good reputation and popularity. Of course, Zhang Nanyi is looking for good ones to copy.

Among them, the one that is less popular is "Flower Dance". This song is close to pure piano music. Except for an English dialogue at the beginning of the lyrics, there are no lyrics at the end.

This song was composed by Japanese singer Dj Okawari in a previous life. The whole song is ethereal, natural and very beautiful.

Zhang Nanyi changed the previous dialogue into Tibetan and Chinese. He planned to use this song as one of the interludes in the new movie "Heavenly Road". Putting this song in the album can also be regarded as promoting the new movie.

In addition to changing the dialogue in Flower Dance, Zhang Nanyi also made some small changes to the lyrics of other English songs to make the lyrics more in line with his perspective and experience.

I stayed in Sanbao's studio for a day and did not start recording songs. Zhang Nanyi's songs were given to Sanbao relatively late, and the arrangement work of some songs was not completed.

So Zhang Nanyi and Sanbao worked together to perfect the arrangement of the song first.

After only one day of arranging work, Zhang Nanyi quit. He hadn't been to the company for two or three months, so it was impossible for Zhang Nanyi to spend too much time on arranging.

Anyway, I have explained the general situation clearly to Sanbao. After he has finished the arrangement, Zhang Nanyi will record the songs again.

On the morning of January 1, after Zhang Nanyi had breakfast, he first drove the three very sweet people to school, and then came to the company with Liu Xiaoli.

As soon as she sat down in the office, Yang Tianzhen knocked on the door and came in. A woman followed beside her.

This woman looks very similar to Li Binbin, especially between the eyebrows and eyes. They are almost carved from the same mold, but there is a difference in the chin. Li Binbin’s chin is very pointed and the mandibular line is softer, while her chin is wider and the mandibular line is softer. The lines are very angular, somewhat similar to Qin Lan.

It is this that makes her look less bright and more calm and intellectual than Li Binbin.

Just by looking at this appearance, Zhang Nanyi knew who the visitor was, but he did not take the initiative. He maintained his boss's demeanor and allowed Yang Tianzhen to introduce him.

"Mr. Zhang, this is Miss Li Qian, the agent you have always been very optimistic about."

As soon as Li Cong entered the door, he saw Zhang Nanyi. This man was not only tall and handsome, but also had the bearing of a superior.

Just in terms of momentum, he is much stronger than the big and small kings of Huayi.

Upon hearing Yang Tianzhen's introduction, Li Cie immediately said respectfully: "Hello, Mr. Zhang, I am Li Cie. I work as an agent at Huayi. I am honored to be valued by you."

Li Cong originally prepared a set of gorgeous rhetoric, but after seeing Zhang Nanyi, he completely changed it.

She suddenly felt that she said too much and it didn't make any sense.Li Cong's intuition told her that she should be simple and direct in front of Zhang Nanyi.

(End of this chapter)