Chicago 1990

　　 "His Majesty the Emperor pointed out the way, and the rest of the work needs to be done by our own efforts, and we can't always bother him."

Song Ya chuckles as the gentleman helps Sloan put on a coat, and Eisner gives the direction to solve the problem. Only Eisner’s Disney can reverse the relationship between supply and demand for the new exclusive in a short time.

Out of stock, true out of stock will cause the overall sales data of the new project to be weak, but there is no doubt that it can solve the biggest problem in front of me, the anger.

The album's popularity in the second-hand market and the emergence of long-sales and scalpers rearranged in front of the audio-visual store will indisputably prove that APLUS is not out of fashion, and dispel the main rumors of the five major manufacturers: APLUS is using out of stock as an excuse To deceive and conceal the fact that the sales of new specials are not good, and that they are out of date.

As long as he is not angry, there will always be sales of records. At first, he was blinded by the eight-year traditional publicity habit, but Eisner dialed a little and immediately reacted.

I also blame the five combination punches too fast and too violently. Although the rich three generations are neurotic, their abilities and energy are top-notch, Song Ya thought.

Now there is only one left to give play to his subjective initiative. So many of his subordinates are not vegetarians. He doesn't want to lose and sees the hope of winning, so he will continue to do it.

"It is hard to imagine that 1998 has passed in such a busy and chaotic manner."

Holding Sloan's scented shoulders with both hands, she went all the way down and took out a banknote from her coat pocket, "The price will increase this year."

"Memorize this first."

Sloan handed over a speech to interrupt.

"’THoldUS has indeed encountered a little trouble in its production. Our manufacturer, Seagram Universal’s North Carolina plant has encountered a suspected man-made power outage. We are currently cooperating with the local police investigation..."

Out-of-stock pots cannot be backed, and there are natural objects that are good for dumping pots. It is also not important whether it is true or not. There is a high probability that the production line is out of power and nothing can be found. Whether the truth emerges or not, it is very late. Something up.

In an interview with reporters, Song Ya hid Disney’s behavior of sealing production lines and recycling records. He talked openly and called out loudly: "But I want to solemnly guarantee that insufficient production capacity is only a short-term phenomenon, and we are working hard to resume supply. Level. Fans, please don’t panic buying! Don’t increase the price to buy on informal channels! Don’t trust or condone those scalpers! It’s just a normal music CD, this is not a collectible or investment item like a star card At present, the most important thing is to let those who want to buy it."

Without a word of truth, he and Disney also joined forces in a combo punch.

A few days later, Daenerys' two brothers appeared on Michigan Avenue, a street corner not far from the Bronfman Symphony Center.

There is a lot of people here, but the sky is under heavy snowfall. The two of them dressed like penguins bloated, shivering with their necks shivering and kicking their feet to keep out the cold, and there is a wall covered with plastic sheet behind them. Carton.

A car slid in front of them sneakily, the window opened a slit, and a hundred-yuan bill came out from it.

The older brother quickly took it, turned around and took out four'tHoldUS album CD boxes from the cardboard box and stuffed them in.

"WTF?" The window of the car opened a little wider, and a white male poked his head out of it, "I won't buy this Nger..."

"What do you want!?" The second brother glared with his neck, if it weren't for business, he would start beating people on the spot.

"The kind wrapped in a small plastic bag..." The white man hinted by pressing one nostril with his index finger.

"We don't sell, get out!" The eldest brother said righteously, and at the same time he stretched his hand into his coat and took a gun. The white man immediately stepped on the accelerator and ran away with four CDs.

The brothers happily collected the hundred-dollar bill.

I thought that 3,000 albums were in my hands. I didn’t expect that nightclub DJ was a standard idiot. It’s useless to regret it now. They make more retail sales and keep some inventory because this new album from APLUS is now one a day. The price, at least in Chicago.

This business is simply picking up money. They are very active and don't hesitate to work hard against the wind and snow.

After having fun with each other for a while, the second brother ran outside the video store on the other street to observe, "Oh!" The crowd in the same snow line over there was sighing neatly because there was a'tHoldUS Today' hanging at the door of the store. Sold out brand.

"I heard that they are sold over there!" The second brother shouted cleverly, soliciting business.

The disappointed crowd dispersed, and a part of them followed in twos and threes suspiciously, and soon formed a semicircle in front of the carton.

"Is it genuine?" someone asked.

"Look for yourself!" The boss took out a box and stuffed it into his hand. "Twenty-five dollars! It's gone when it's sold out!"

"Wow."

The business of pirated physical CDs in the United States is rampant, but it is not daring to have manufacturers producing printed simulation CD boxes, built-in lyrics paper and other peripheral content. Therefore, most of the pirated hawkers only get bare-film CDs. In the CD bag, handwritten the album name with an oil-based marker.

When the exquisite genuine CD came out, the crowd sighed, "How many do you have?" a middle-aged white man asked.

"Hehe." The second brother kicked the carton cheerfully.

Another white man who seemed to be his friend reached out to lift the plastic sheet.

"Hey! Don't move!" The boss just stopped, his wrist suddenly felt cold, he fixed his eyes, **** it! A pair of silver bracelets.

"Chicago Police Department." Plainclothes showed a police badge, and other onlookers dispersed.

‘The chaos in the sale of APLUS’s new album continues. Today, the Chicago police arrested two criminals who were suspected of stealing an album CD pre-ordered by APLUS Chicago Fan Club. The case was worth tens of thousands of meters...’

In the ABC news screen, the two brothers were being stuffed into a police car by plainclothes police officers. The police then showed thousands of CDs from where they hid their things. They were piled on the table. ABC photographers would be very good at finding them. The angle looks quite shocking on the TV screen.

"Hahaha! Thank you ABC friends for me."

Song Ya saw this scene with great joy. Using social news to bring the goods is Daniel's good game, called law enforcement. In fact, he is out of stock and endorsing the album and continues to instill this impression on the public.

"Daenerys? Did you catch your brother? Okay, I know, don't worry... I say hello, I won't be too embarrassed."

In a good mood, Song Ya is very talkative. After all, Daenerys has done a great job in her fan organization. "Have you done it?" He put down the phone and asked.

"All right."

Rashida obediently turned the computer monitor to show him, it was for his long-posted new content on OpenDiary's personal Weblog page, some close-up photos of the new Japanese version of the CD, Rashida also added some pointers and labels on it Text, such as:

‘Looking at the code on the inner circle of the disc, this figure shows that it was manufactured by JVC’s Japanese CD factory and is exclusively for the sub-market. ’

‘Pay attention to the laser anti-counterfeiting code on the back cover. The Japanese CD is in this place and will reflect its unique pattern in the sun. ’

"The Japanese version of the CD cover is slightly different from the rice version..."

"Very well done." Song Ya rubbed her blonde hair with satisfaction, sat down and began to crackle typing.

'The Japanese version of the CD is also an original genuine product. Please believe that there will be no problems with its quality. I know that fans want to get my new album as soon as possible. This is my urgent transfer from the book. The air freight and taxes are all I paid for it personally, and everyone will be able to buy it at the original price soon. Thank the issuing company for their tolerance and help! Once again, please do not increase the price! This is tolerating unhealthy hype! ’

Finally, click Send, and a beautiful Weblog log with pictures and texts is born.

Acting in a full set, at least you have to show an eagerness to alleviate the shortage of stocks to please the fans who are waiting to be fed, as well as the attitude of fighting the Erdao dealers.

Disney has no problem with its energy in the book market, and production there is proceeding normally.

In fact, the dealers really return very few products. Disney’s gameplay is not new. It can’t hide from the eyes of the industry. They all guessed that the supply of goods will be deliberately stuck in the future, so they played the daily limited set tacitly. The store brings traffic.

"Waste! It's good now. Our production line has been closed. The Big Five cannot expand production because Disney does not really want to increase the order to ease the shortage, and we can't contribute to the sales of APLUS albums."

The clock was set back to January 1, 1999. Little Bronfman looked at the scene of the line on the TV screen and glanced at the vice president of Universal Music angrily. "The tacit understanding of the other four major players will not last long. Sooner or later they will be there. Disney’s order has been succumbed. In this situation, once APLUS’s new exclusive supply is released, sales will inevitably blow out! Look at your bad idea!"

"I..." The vice president was aggrieved and afraid to argue.

"What bad idea?"

Doug Morris walked in with a grin and rubbed his hands. He glanced at the TV screen and understood everything, but he didn't mention this, "Don't worry about these little things, boss, today is our big day, we are waiting for you."

"Ok."

Little Bronfman puts on his suit and walks out of the room with him to the press conference site.

Today, Seagram Universal Group’s acquisition of PolyGram is officially completed. There is no PolyGram in the world. Only Universal Music Group. When reporters saw him, they immediately pressed the flash. Doug Morris spurred other senior executives to applaud. Extremely warm.

In a better mood, he was sent to the center with ambition to take a photo with Doug Morris and other senior officials.

"As the world's largest record company, we will uphold the philosophy of dedicating the best music to our fans..."

He took out the manuscript paper from the inner pocket of the suit and began to give a speech: "I don't deny that the recording industry is facing a major crisis. When the traditional marketing communication model is under impact, we need an integrated marketing communication concept that adapts to the new market environment..."

"We also have the responsibility to fight resolutely against a series of market chaos, malicious speculation, piracy, Internet sharing, etc...This is the mission given to us by this era!"

"Everyone knows that my attitude towards the Digital Millennium Act is not my personal alarmist. Malicious sharing on the Internet will cause us more trouble in the future. Therefore, we have been engaged in a difficult legal battle. We need to take action in the short term. To better, it is more conducive to the jurisprudence of our record company and all musicians..."

"Welcome, Mr. Samuel."

At the same time, Song Ya greeted his accountant Samuel Di Piasa in the conference room. Yongdao, where he worked, had just merged with PricewaterhouseCoopers. It is now PricewaterhouseCoopers. His position has not changed, but his power has changed. increased.

"Welcome, oh, let me introduce you, Norman Zheng, our partner of Metropolitan Publishing Company in Asia. Also..., our partner in South America."

He introduced a Chinese, a Latino to everyone before the meeting, "Please sit down."

Standing at the end of the long conference table, he said loudly and forcefully to the senior executives: "This time my new project has encountered a lot of difficulties. I think it's time to announce on the first day of 1999. It will officially have its own issuing company, even if it will be very weak at the beginning of its birth."

"But our advantage is flexibility. We will adopt a partnership model in Asia, South America, and Central and Eastern Europe. We will continue to borrow Disney’s distribution resources in developed regions such as North America, Western Europe, and Benzi. We will cooperate with local powerhouses such as Samsung in some regions such as Silla. Company cooperation."

"We will pay special attention to the Internet sales model. We have established long-term cooperative relationships with some online distributors."

"This is not an ambitious challenge to the Big Five. At this stage, we only focus on solving the problems we actually encounter. Of course, we also hope to establish good relationships with other partners and strive to represent more record companies and The singer’s release..."

"Now I have one of our shareholders, Mr. Daniel Glass, the former president of Sony Columbia Records, to speak."

Under the gaze of the high-level staff, he smiled and applauded at Daniel, and gave the stage to the opponent.

"I am very happy that APLUS's new album has been widely and enthusiastically sought after and welcomed. At present, deliberate suppression by large companies will be our main enemy... But I am honored that our colleagues from Disney Records are also here, and we will join hands. This difficulty."

"In underdeveloped markets, rampant physical piracy is still an urgent problem...As for online sharing, I think fans can't always hold their computers to listen to songs, right?"

Daniel joked, and the attendees laughed at the right time, "They still buy physical records after they hear the music they like in front of the computer. This mode of communication is not necessarily detrimental to us. Data from our online sales partners shows that most customers buy Desire comes from the fact that they first listened to freely distributed songs..."

"I think this is our opportunity. Under the traditional model, the Big Five are already irresistible behemoths, but in new media and new channels, before the next century, there is still a lot of room left for us..."

‘Click. ’

At this time outside the conference room, in the audio studio of A+ Records, a technical nerd engineer found that everyone in the chat room was circulating a download link. He clicked on it, downloaded and installed, and found that it was a client named Napster. This software uses peertopeer, that is, end-to-end peer-to-peer computer network technology, P2P..."It is written in the client self-introduction item.

I searched for the boss’s song in the upper search box. The lower page refreshed countless songs with the same name. There is no need to find download pages or FTP sites on the Internet. He clicks on the top one, and the software starts downloading immediately. With a simple percentage progress, the numbers run very fast.

"Wow..." It was amazing, he sighed, and tried other songs, which were very convenient.

"Huh?" The network maintenance staff of A+ Records suddenly found that the company's external access had become stuck. He went to the computer room to check the switch.

"What's the matter?" the colleague asked.

"Nothing... I don't know what's going on, the number of concurrent connections suddenly soared so high." He replied suspiciously.

In Silla, in Sehan, which was spun off from Samsung Group for a few years, technicians are demonstrating a new walkman to the company’s senior management. "This is the MP3 player we developed. It can hold data files and play Songs in MP3 format are very portable, and the sound quality is not as good as that of CDs, but ordinary people can hardly notice the gap, and they will not be bothered by the vibration problem of CD players..."

The technician connected the small speaker and pressed the play button to demonstrate, ‘Wow, ah, ah, ah, ah...’ APLUS’s Cup of Life resounded through the office.

"boss."

"what is the matter?"

On January 2nd, Bronfman Jr., Barry Diller and others landed in Chicago on a private jet. A subordinate came to report, “Redstone’s Viacom just announced that it will spend 34.4 billion and CBS (Colombia). Broadcasting company) merger, the transaction will be completed by January 1st next year."

"Oh?" Little Bronfman looked at Barry Diller, and Redstone didn't deal with him either.

"It seems I am going to lose the support of CBS in public opinion." Barry Diller smiled lightly, "It sounds like it's not good news."

"Of course not." Little Bronfman replied quietly.

"Don’t worry, my friend John Malone’s TCI company just submitted an application to merge with ATandT at the cost of giving up the equity of the telecom operator Sprint. It will be approved by the regulatory authorities next month. The total amount involved in all transactions is about 500. 100 million dollars."

Barry Diller showed off: "Just not touching the monopoly line."

"Oh? Congratulations to Mr. Malone for me..." Little Bronfman thought for a while, "No, I can make an appointment another day? I personally talk to him, as if I haven't played golf with him yet."

"Uh...well." Barry Diller had to agree.

"APLUS! Look!"

In Song Ya’s office at A+ Records, Sloan rarely showed unusual excitement. She typed YAHOO’s website address on the keyboard. On the home page, YAHOO put the Weblog website under Litman Media at the top of the weekly featured website. This is a big killer for them, as a reward for helping to spread the word to Disney in the Digital Millennium Act, and still struggling to withstand the Recording Industry Association lawsuit.

"The number of new registered users is increasing very fast! Hahaha!"

The Babelsons, the founders and managers of OpenDiary, called and were also very excited about the report.

"Good job!" Song Ya scraped Sloan's nose happily.

Sloan immediately left his lap with a look of disgust.

"Boss boss..."

Just in time, Linda, the president of A+ Records, knocked on the door. She twisted the bucket and came in and reported triumphantly: "The billboard singles chart is out, and Low is in the air!"

"Haha! Second?"

Song Ya clapped and clapped, R Kelly and Celine Dion's I'mYourAngel, the strong teammate, is in the limelight. He doesn't expect to surpass Low in the first week of a series of troubles.

"No, third, second is BabyOneMoreTime by JIVA record rookie Britney Spears."

"Haha! All right..."

"You are still invincible in Beimi!"

"Of course..."

"Oh boss, you don't know how worried I am now..." Aunt Hei embraced emotionally, "Now everything is over, so good."

"Hey, okay Linda, in eight years I haven't met anyone who can challenge me." Song Ya slapped her on the back, bragging cheekyly, "I can always win, don't I? Don't worry. "

"Ohbaby! Baby! HowwasIsupposedtoknow, Thatsomethingwasn'trighthere..."

Taiwan, from the Disney Mickey Mouse Club, the cute blond sweetheart with double ponytails is singing and dancing on the show, performing her debut single: The First Confession of Love.

"NomatterhowhardItry, Youkeeppushingmeaside..."

In another small TV station, UU Reading www.uukahnshu.com, David Geffen’s ex-girlfriend, the queen of 50s, Cher Cher, is also performing hard. Her new electronic dance song Believe has a poor performance on the charts, only ranked Fifty people outside, do not see any career rejuvenation, hope to become popular.

Derry was even more miserable. He led the only remaining white apprentices, rushing around in Detroit local radio and other places to receive announcements, performing hard work and hitting charts.

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