Chapter 587: It's Not Good to Hear, It's Called Evil!

"Hello, Brother Guofeng!"

"Good morning Guofeng!"

"Good morning, Heavenly King!"

In fact, it was past ten o'clock in the morning, but when Zheng Guofeng walked into Xinda Records, a large group of people still raised their heads to say hello, and they all said good morning.

Although "Winter Rose" has sold 8 million copies so far, and the second album "Temperature" has been released for half a year, and the shipment volume has exceeded 5 million copies so far, making him firmly into the ranks of first-line singers.

In addition, he personally arranged most of the composition and a small part of the lyrics for his two albums. He can be regarded as a representative of the new generation of singer-songwriters, and his status in the industry is slightly higher than that of singers with the same sales volume. Even after "Temperature" became popular, he was praised as the "little heavenly king" of the new era, but he personally did not have any arrogant attitude. Even when facing the greetings of ordinary employees in the company, he responded with a smile. Sometimes I pay out of my own pocket to invite everyone to dinner, so I have a very good relationship with the company's top and bottom.

Along the way, greeting everyone, the door of the general manager's office suddenly opened. Guo Xiaomei, the secretary of Zhou Zhao, the general manager of Cinda, poked her head out, "Guofeng, Mr. Zhou asked you to come here!"

Zheng Guofeng agreed, walked over, and walked towards Zhou Zhao's office, while not forgetting to give Guo Xiaomei a handsome smile, "Ms. Xiaomei, good morning!"

Pushing the door open, Zhou Zhao stood up with a smile, holding a CD in his hand, "I knew you had to come at this time, hey, the album you want is on the market!"

Zheng Guofeng walked over and said, "Mr. Zhou, good morning!" He took it over, and when he saw it, his eyes widened, "Wow, sister Zhou's new album is out?"

Zhou Zhao almost laughed angrily, "Are you crazy about writing songs? Today is already the 27th!"

Zheng Guofeng shrugged, "There are so many people, and you want a lot of songs, so of course you have to write as hard as you can!"

Zhou Zhao smiled, seeing Zheng Guofeng bowed his head to appreciate the CD cover in his hand, with admiration on his face, smiled, and put his arm around his shoulder, "Come on, sit down, sit down, I'll ask you something."

The two sat down, Zheng Guofeng looked up at him, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Zhao prepared his words carefully, and then said carefully: "I heard that you have a good relationship with Sima Duoduo recently? It seems that you have agreed to write a song for her?"

Zheng Guofeng looked at him, "Hey, it's agreed, Mr. Zhou, the company doesn't care about my personal affairs!"

Zhou Zhao quickly raised his hands, "It doesn't matter, of course it doesn't matter, I'm just asking!"

Before "Winter Rose" was released, Zheng Guofeng met Zhou Zhao. He didn't even dare to show his atmosphere. He's a young singer, and he's a newcomer. It would be great if I could give you a chance to release an album. How dare I mention it? A request from this to that? But two albums in a row have sold well, and Zheng Guofeng is already the only singer below Zhao Xinfu, Hu Yang, and Huang Yuqing among the current male singers in China.

Even in terms of sales, he is half a chip higher than Zhang Chang, Zhao Yuan, Ge Rilen and others who are also in the front line. In addition, he is a singer-songwriter. In many people's minds, he is the " "Little Heavenly King" is already qualified to kick Liu Mingliang, who has not released an album for the past two years, and has entered the top four male singers in the music industry. The so-called "Four Heavenly Kings" are also true.

So under such circumstances, even as the boss of Cinda Records, Zhou Zhao treated his pillar with great respect, and he let go of all restraints to the maximum.

You know, currently under Cinda, Zheng Guofeng's two albums have sold nearly 14 million copies, and the MV sales have exceeded 2 million copies. After more than a month, the shipment volume has only reached 3 million copies! The actual market sales are estimated to be just over two million copies—compared with the popular niche Zheng Guofeng, there is already a big gap!

Besides Zheng Guofeng and Flying Band, Cinda Records, as one of the three oldest record companies, has no singers under its banner who can sell more than three million copies!

From this we can see how important Zheng Guofeng is to Cinda Records!

Not to mention that Zheng Guofeng is still a very good songwriter. With his creation, Zhou Zhao can exchange a lot of useful favors with other record companies. In addition to a perverted new song machine, even Sony Records wanted to get Zheng Guofeng's creation.

Hearing Zhou Zhao once again admitted that he didn't care about his personal affairs, Zheng Guofeng said: "Actually, I don't have a deep friendship. In March, Sister Zhenzhen held a small party. I met there and met twice. A few days ago, we made an appointment to have dinner together, and she asked me to sing a song, and I agreed."

Zhou Zhao said "Oh" when he heard the words, smiled, and asked tentatively: "Then when you chatted, did you talk about, for example... how does Sima Duoduo feel about Sony?"

Zheng Guofeng understood immediately, but he said at the time: "Hey, hey... Mr. Zhou, I have no problem with whom you want to dig, but don't pull me in, I don't participate in this kind of thing!"

As he said that, before Zhou Zhao could speak, he said again: "But, we talked about her own problems. She signed with Sony for two albums in three years, and it should expire this winter. , the plan was to release the second album this spring, but she also wrote songs herself and asked someone to make an appointment, but she never got enough of an album, so she kept procrastinating and procrastinating, maybe it will be postponed automatically. The album will not be released until winter or next spring, and it will be considered due when the album is released."

Zhou Zhao nodded upon hearing this.

Back then, Sony’s aggressive digging, except for Minghu Culture, all major record companies lost a lot of singer resources. Hua Ge was quite generous, and backhanded Hu Yang. In the past two years, it is still a tiger. On Xinda's side, thanks to the sudden rise of Zheng Guofeng, the foundation was supported. However, the Flying Band, which had placed Zhou Zhao's high hopes, was discouraged by Li Qian's "Once Upon a Time You". The album was delayed again and again, and finally released last winter, but it is difficult to have the momentum of watching the world like a tiger.

Therefore, it is something that Zhou Zhao has been preparing and planning to backhand the two Sonys at the right time.

As a former member of Wuxingwusu, Sima Duoduo went solo after signing with Sony. Although the sales volume of her last album was not outstanding, it is estimated to be around three million copies so far, but as a genre singer, her faint literary youth Temperament, although it is difficult to become popular, but the audience in the market is relatively stable. If Zheng Guofeng writes songs for her, it is not impossible to expect five million copies.

Simply put, it's definitely worth digging for!

However, now it seems that the time is not too ripe.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhao smiled, patted Zheng Guofeng on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "I understand! Guofeng, thank you! Okay, go and listen to the album, Zhou Mo's new album, the whole country is looking forward to it, ha ha! By the way, you can go to the audition room to listen, no one will snatch that big stereo from you!"

"Really? Thanks!"

While talking, Zheng Guofeng got up and was about to leave, but Zhou Zhao suddenly stopped him, "By the way, remember to come back and tell me your evaluation after listening, remember, it's very important!"

Zheng Guofeng smiled, "You don't even need to listen, I can give you an evaluation right now! It's great, super great, incomparably great, and it will definitely set off another 'Zhou Mo craze'! This album can make Zhou Mo go further. Go up to a level and be directly tied with Liao Liao!"

Zhou Zhao was a little stunned, and couldn't help laughing, "Is it true, are you? You didn't even hear it, so you're so sure?"

Zheng Guofeng laughed, "Because she is Zhou Mo! Others rely on good songs to become popular, but Zhou Mo is not. Whichever song she sings, she will become popular!"

"Others are popular singers, but she can be popular! Because she only relies on her own voice, no matter what song she sings, it's all good!"

Speaking of this, he shook the album in his hand again, and said with a smile: "What's more, the leader's full set is arranged! It's called evil if it doesn't sound good! It's called evil if it doesn't sell well!"

Although he had heard Zheng Guofeng praise Li Qian more than once before, Zhou Zhao couldn't help but asked with a smile, "Is Li Qian's creation so good? Are you so convinced?"

Zheng Guofeng shrugged, but really frowned and thought for a while before answering, "I can only write and can only write one or two types of songs well, but the leader is omnipotent! All types, all The direction, the whole genre, the whole language...I don’t think it’s surprising that he will make a Spanish album for Liao Liao some other day, and then sell it! So, of course I admire him!”

After a pause, he smiled, "If the leader calls me personally and says, 'Guofeng, come to Minghu, let's write songs and play music together!' I'm sure I'll be moved, and I'll quit right away!” After finishing speaking, laugh Just run.

"Hey you……"

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The drums are clanging and the electric guitar is extremely ecstatic.

At the end of the song, Xiao Aiguo had a smile on his face, "Not bad, everyone is in good shape today! Zhou Er, the drums are playing very well!" Turning his head, he saw someone sitting on the sofa at some time. Manager Zheng Mo, he also smiled rarely, "Why, Lao Zhou urged you again?"

Zheng Mo smiled, "How can it be! Mr. Zhou said, "Traffic Light" is selling well, and you guys are long-term. New album, don't worry!"

Guitarist Ma Aishu smiled and said, "Stop talking nonsense, who asked you this, is Lao Zhou urging him to pick up work again? Did you make it clear to him?"

Zheng Mo still smiled, "I made it clear, I must have made it clear, but what Mr. Zhou said is also reasonable, think about it, the appearance fee for you is 1 million for one show, just for two songs Son, go there and yell twice, you can get one million, my lords! He Runqing and Zhao Xinfu, they only paid this price!"

Xiao Aiguo laughed, put down the guitar in his hand, and called everyone to come over, "Great old Zhou has stopped urging, you can't see the money, right?"

Everyone laughed when they heard the words.

But only Xiao Aiguo and Ma Aishu were joking lightly. Bassist Geng Le, keyboardist Wang Mingyun, and drummer Zhou Haihang, who joined the band last summer, all looked quite excited.

After all, no matter how big the Flying Band is, no matter how high the sales points are, if the album sells one million copies, it means an income of two million yuan, if it sells three million copies, it will only be six or seven million. If you want to draw a little, the agent will get a little bit, and when it falls into the hands of the five of them, it is only about one million yuan per person. Xiao Aiguo is the main creator, and he still has a share of the songwriting, but it's not much more! You know, it took more than a year to make this album!

Earn one million a year, is it less? Compared with ordinary people, there is a lot of sincerity!

But earning a million a year, how much?

In terms of the music world and the entertainment industry, it's really not that high! Especially in terms of the Flying Band's reputation for many years and their status in the arena, they only earn such a little a year, and they are almost catching up with beggars!

Others don’t know, but those young girls nowadays don’t have much talent, they just look more beautiful, cute, can dance, wink, and maybe they can’t speak Chinese well. Well, if you dare to release an album, it will still be popular! People are rushing to earn millions of dollars a year!

As for those singers whose reputation is similar to that of the Flying Band, or even slightly inferior back then, such as He Runqing and Zhao Xinfu, they released albums, appeared on shows, ran commercial performances, opened concerts, accepted endorsements, and all kinds of ways to make money , that is all to earn less than 20 to 30 million a year!

However, the Flying Band does not accept any commercials or endorsements, and does not participate in any variety shows or commercial performances. Now it is a comeback after quitting the music scene for many years, but the album sales are still the base before quitting that year. These days, I feel miserable a little bit.

Seeing those shitty people throwing money at them, unconsciously, some people can’t sit still, and start to worry—one million for a commercial performance, just two or three songs, back and forth Air tickets and five-star hotels are included. Although the company wants to take part of it, the agent will also take some of it. There is only one person left with less than 200,000 yuan! It doesn't take much in a month, and if you go to four or five commercial performances, you can catch up with a year's income!

Who can not be moved by this?

It is said that He Runqing is continuing a variety show in the south. She has to record several days of the show every week. The time is already very tight, but she still doesn't want to be idle. She flies around the country when she has time, running commercial performances! People are also taking this price alone, even a little higher, so the flight is more than one million yuan, who wouldn't be greedy?

Especially Geng Le, who still owes a lot of foreign debts!

Everyone sat down, but the atmosphere was more or less dull.

Xiao Aiguo is the soul and leader of the band, and he more or less understands the thoughts of the band members. In fact, at this time, he really wants to say, "I have no objection to you going to accept commercial performances, but I Don't go!" But he also knew, what about the band, if he, the lead singer, didn't go, why would they want their bassists and drummers to go?

But the problem is, it's not that he doesn't want to make money, but he just doesn't like those showy variety shows, and those who go everywhere with just a few words and songs to make money.

In his own words, he wants to earn money standing up, but once he starts accepting commercials to perform on shows, he has to let the program crews and performers fiddle around. In his heart, it belongs to kneeling and earning money. money!

Therefore, he was extremely conflicted.

At this time, Zheng Mo's eyes rolled around the faces of several members of the band, as if he sensed that something was going on, and couldn't help adding more anger, "I know, Flying Band is a master-level band of domestic rock music, let's play It's Fan'er, once you go out to accept commercial performances, on shows or something, you may feel that you have lost your value!"

"But we can't compare with Li Qian. He doesn't have to accept commercials and can't perform on shows, but he owns a company, and he runs his own shows! How does this compare? I heard that the German Volkswagen drove him He paid 20 million yuan a year as an endorsement fee, and asked him to be the image spokesperson of the public, but he pushed it! Think about it, what kind of confidence is he? Can you accept fewer orders? If you receive ten orders a year, that is ten million!"

After a pause, he continued: "Besides, what is a commercial show? Isn't it the face-to-face interaction with fans? What does rock music pay attention to? In the West, Europe and the United States, rock music has the habit of road shows! Isn't it important to communicate with fans? On-site interaction? Isn’t it the style of the scene?”

Hearing this, even Ma Aishu, who has always been the most supportive of Xiao Aiguo, was a little moved. He couldn't help turning his head to look at Xiao Aiguo, and said, "What Old Zheng said...does it make sense?"

Ma Aishu was moved, and Geng Le, Wang Mingyun, and Zhou Haihang had always expressed their hearts. Now, Xiao Aiguo felt completely isolated.

When he was struggling in his heart, he turned his head and saw the small bag brought by Zheng Mo on the coffee table. He reached out to take it, opened it, and saw the box of unopened CD, his eyes lit up immediately.

"Better!" he said.

Zheng Mo turned his head and glanced at his hand, pursed his lips, and said, "It is said that Li Qian took the shot himself! He is a great talent, he is a leader in songwriting and singing, and he is good at making TV dramas. Recently, it is said that he is going to make a movie again. He is a student of photography, so taking a cover photo is a trivial matter! Besides, my own woman, if I look at her all day, I know what she looks the most beautiful of course!"

Xiao Aiguo smiled, he still remembered the little girl when she first debuted.

There is a stubbornness in the greenness.

Of course, at that time, the Flying Band was in full swing, and Zhou Mo had only released one drama-style album, and it was said that it was basically not very popular!

Shaking the CD in his hand, he said, "Old Zheng, thank you!"

Zheng Mo said with a smile: "Hey, you said something about what you said the other day, and I have been paying attention to it all the time. Today is the first day it is listed. It is said that many places are out of stock. I am giving you an advance notice. You booked!"

Xiao Aiguo nodded, stood up suddenly, and said, "Let's go, no more practice, go home and listen to music!"

Everyone was stunned.

After getting up, Xiao Aiguo was about to leave, and said, "I'll think about what Old Zheng said." After finishing speaking, he got up, walked around the people beside him, and walked out of the Flying Band's studio without bringing anything.

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