Chapter 522 Let the Chinese Singer Be the Guest

Zhou Yan accompanied Wang Zuxian to buy clothes. Just after coming out of the mall, he received another call from Xu Xiangjie.

Huanyin Company's annual leave is over and work has started today. Xu Xiangjie should be here to report on work.

Although Huanyin is a branch of Zhou Entertainment, and the general manager of Zhou Entertainment is Xu Junrong and the boss is Zhou Hong, Xu Xiangjie now reports directly to Zhou Yan on most business matters. Everyone is used to it and does not think he is skipping levels.

The main reason is that Xu Xiangjie has a lot of things to communicate directly with Zhou Yan.

After the annual leave, when he started working, Xu Xiangjie was in a good mood and said with a smile, "Boss, good luck in the new year."

Xu Xiangjie is not old, and Huanyin is now developing rapidly, so he is very motivated.

If the company did not stipulate that work should start on the eleventh day of the lunar year, he would have wanted to start work after the Chinese New Year.

"Have you distributed the red envelopes for the start of work?" Zhou Yan asked with a smile.

Xu Xiangjie is not only in charge of the art department now, but also the entire Huanyin. Although he is not the general manager yet, he does the work that the general manager should do. It is natural that he is in charge of the distribution of the opening bonus.

And according to the current situation, he will sooner or later become the general manager.

"It has been distributed, and everyone is very happy to receive the bonus."

The opening bonus is not much, only a few hundred yuan in RMB, but everyone is very happy to have the opening bonus.

"You called me just to say good luck to the opening, is there anything else?" Zhou Yan asked.

"Nothing special, mainly to report the progress of several tasks, Zhou Chuanxiong's new album is being adjusted, and his personal image has also been transformed."

After signing Zhou Chuanxiong last year, Xu Xiangjie reported to Zhou Yan that Zhou Chuanxiong had a new album called "My Heart is Too Messy" that he was working on.

After Zhou Chuanxiong was "sold" to Huanyin, he ran to Xu Xiangjie eagerly, hoping that Xu Xiangjie could support him to finish this album.

However, after Xu Xiangjie reported to Zhou Yan, Zhou Yan asked them not to rush.

Zhou Yan said not to rush, but Zhou Chuanxiong was very anxious, because he had almost prepared the new album. If Huanyin did not help him, all his previous efforts would be in vain.

After telling them not to rush, Zhou Yan first took the songs in Zhou Chuanxiong's new album and took a look.

In fact, the overall problem is not big. It is Zhou Chuanxiong's old style, which is not particularly eye-catching, but there are also popular elements, such as "My Heart is Too Messy" and "Warm Wind", which are actually in line with the public taste nowadays.

However, Zhou Yan felt that the whole album was too homogenized. After listening to several songs, it felt like a song.

There are only ten songs in the album, which is a small number. If the songs are more homogenized, it will give fans a bad feeling.

In addition, Zhou Chuanxiong's current image is also a bit problematic. Regardless of whether he is ugly or not, he has no characteristics anyway, and it is difficult for people to remember him.

Therefore, Zhou Yan gave them two suggestions.

First, start with the songs in the album, either reduce the homogeneity of the songs or increase the number of songs.

The former is actually a little more difficult, because Zhou Chuanxiong is not a contestant with a variety of styles, and his homogeneity is difficult to change.

Zhou Yan also knew that it was difficult for him to change, so he gave another option, which is to increase the number of songs, changing the original ten songs to twelve or even thirteen songs.

Although homogeneity cannot be changed, if there are two or three more songs in the album, the fans will feel very different, and winning by quantity is sometimes very useful.

Second, change Zhou Chuanxiong's image, such as growing a beard, cutting short hair, etc. Zhou Yan did not elaborate on this point, and asked them to contact the stylist to do it.

Regarding the first suggestion, Zhou Chuanxiong was very happy to hear it, mainly because Zhou Yan was willing to let him increase the number of songs in the album.

Although Zhou Chuanxiong's songwriting is highly homogeneous, he is very fast and has a very high output. It is too easy to ask him to write a few more songs for the album.

Usually, singers are willing to add more songs to the album, but the company may not be willing to do so, because adding one more song will increase the cost of the album a lot, and this money is the company's investment in the singer.

Regarding the second point, Zhou Chuanxiong was very distressed at first. He had no idea how to change his look, especially when he heard that he might have to cut his hair short, his scalp was numb because he knew that he would not look good with short hair.

But the boss said so, he could only cooperate with the stylist to make adjustments.

"What is his look now?" Zhou Yan was concerned about the look first.

"He has a little beard, which looks better than before."

Zhou Yan smiled, and he did grow a beard.

"What about the songs?"

"I made some adjustments. I reduced two songs from the previous playlist and added four more. Now there are twelve songs."

"Well, send me these twelve songs later." Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "Also, don't use his stage name Xiaogang when releasing the new album this time."

"Want to change his stage name?" Xu Xiangjie asked curiously, "What would be better to change to?"

"No need to change, just use your real name."

Xu Xiangjie smiled, "Indeed, his real name is pretty nice, and he has the same last name as you bosses."

Since his official debut, Zhou Chuanxiong has been using the stage name "Xiaogang".

The reason why he chose such a stage name at that time was also related to Zhou Chuanxiong's own experience. When he was eighteen years old, he participated in an inter-school music composition competition and hoped to join the Little Tigers, but he gave up in the end and did not join.

The name "Xiao Gang" sounds quite juvenile.

It's just that after so many years, Zhou Chuanxiong is already twenty-seven years old, and he is no longer the boy he was back then. If he still wants to follow the same route at this time, it will definitely not work.

Originally, Xu Xiangjie wanted to give Zhou Chuanxiong a stage name that was more mature and had the feel of an idol drama, but after hearing what Zhou Yan said, he also thought his real name was pretty good.

"Is there anything else?" Zhou Yan asked.

"Well, there's also the fact that Mayday are preparing their own album."

"What's the clue?"

"Not yet."

In fact, the members of Mayday had been clamoring to make their own album before. Of course Zhou Yan had no objection to this. He just told them that they could make an album, but they had to write the songs first and send them to him.

As a producer, he would help them choose songs.

If the quality of the songs is not up to standard, the album should not be released.

Ever since Zhou Yan said this, they have been under great pressure, because Zhou Yan's level is too high, and they are afraid that Zhou Yan will not like what they write.

Therefore, after such a long time, they have not shown Zhou Yan the songs for the album.

Zhou Yan didn't care about this. The boys in Mayday were still young. There was no need to release an album for them too early. It was better to let them practice and accumulate experience.

"What about everyone else, how is Wang Lihong's single release going?"

"I was about to report this matter. Wang Lihong's single will be released on the 15th next month."

The single they are talking about is "How Long Will I Love You", which will be released in North America soon.

Zhou Yan counted the days, and there was still nearly a month until the first of next month.

"How is the propaganda work going?"

"It has just started. The popularity of "All of Me" is very high this time, so the promotion work should be easy."

"You still need to be more careful. Now that you've decided, don't worry about spending money. This song is very important to Wang Lihong's future development in the European and American music circles."

Originally, Xu Xiangjie was quite relaxed, but after hearing what Zhou Yan said, he became more stressed again. He was afraid that if he didn't do well later, he would disappoint Zhou Yan.

"Don't worry, boss, we will not take it lightly. We also leave the publicity matters to professional people, and Tomson is also very helpful to us."

Tomson developed earlier in Europe and the United States, and there are places where it can help Phantom Sound.

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If nothing else, it can at least help them contact professional companies and prevent them from being ripped off.

Tomson has cooperated with Sony Music, Columbia Records and Warner Music, and Tomson doesn't care much about the relationship between these cooperations. After all, their music industry is basically dominated by Zhou Yan alone.

Therefore, these relationships can be shared with Phantom Sound.

…

Zhou Yan hung up Xu Xiangjie's phone, and Wang Zuxian next to him smiled and asked, "Is the song sung for Wang Lihong going to be released in the United States?"

"Yes." Zhou Yan nodded, "In the middle of next month, fans in North America will be able to hear the theme song of "Space Traveler"."

"I hope this single will be liked by fans and lay the foundation for the release of subsequent movies."

“‘All of Me’ has become very popular in the United States in the past few days, and the foundation has been laid.”

"I knew that "All of Me" would be very popular among European and American fans."

Zhou Yan gave a thumbs up, "Classmate Wang is indeed very discerning."

Wang Zuxian was amused by Zhou Yan's strange appearance, "Hui, you are so big."

…

In the past few days, the pop music scene in Europe and the United States has been buzzing with the popular song "All of Me" and Mariah Carey's upcoming "Bleeding Love", when a piece of news about another song suddenly appeared. out.

At first, when this news came out, no one paid much attention, but soon people discovered that this song, like the other two songs, was from the movie "About Time".

"What, another song is coming out?"

At jive company, Jeff Brown couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard the assistant's report. He had just called Zhang Youan, but unexpectedly another song from the movie came out.

"What's the name of the song? Who sang it?"

"The song is called "How Long Will I Love You", and the singer is a person I've never heard of. His name is Leehom Wang."

"As soon as you hear this name, you can tell that he is Chinese."

"It should be so. I haven't seen any information about this singer yet, but I believe there will be information soon. I will report to you as soon as I get the information about this singer."

Jeff Brown waved his hand, "No need to rush to report, this is not a very important thing. For us, what is important now is to know how many songs there are in this movie, and whether there are any songs that can be given to the Backstreet Boys." use."

The assistant licked his lips, "Should we not insist on asking the Backstreet Boys for songs? Maybe we can ask other singers in our company for songs, so that the scope is wider."

Brown curled his lips and said, "Of course I want to, but Y may not be willing. He has a good impression of the boys in the Backstreet Boys and is willing to give them songs, but others may not."

"Y's temperament is too hard to figure out." The assistant couldn't help but mutter.

Jeff Brown narrowed his eyes. He understood that it was not that Y's temperament was hard to figure out, but that too many people wanted Y's songs, and Y himself didn't make money by writing songs for others, so he seemed more casual.

Everyone wanted Y to help them write songs, but Y wrote songs randomly. Most of the time, he wrote music for film and television works and then made them into songs.

So this time Y's new movie came out, and several songs came out in succession. Jeff Brown attached so much importance to it. If he missed this opportunity, he didn't know when he would have the chance to get Y's songs next time.

But he had already called Zhang Youan, so it was not good to call again to ask for songs.

After a moment of silence, Jeff Brown asked, "When will this new song be released?"

"On the 15th of next month."

"On the 15th of next month..." Jeff Brown's eyes lit up, "Do Nick and his friends have a show in Los Angeles on the 16th?"

The assistant nodded, "Yes, on the evening of the 16th."

"Go contact the singer's company and see if he is willing to attend the show on the evening of the 16th as a guest." Jeff Brown said.

The assistant knew that Jeff Brown wanted to show goodwill to Y through this singer, but the assistant felt that it was meaningless to do so.

In his opinion, the relationship between the singer and Y was just an ordinary cooperative relationship, just like the Backstreet Boys and Y. What's the point of letting the singer be a guest for the Backstreet Boys?

Seeing the assistant hesitate, Jeff Brown urged, "Go now, if the other party is willing, arrange things."

Since Jeff Brown said so, the assistant didn't say anything else, nodded and walked out.

When the assistant walked out, Jeff Brown shook his head. His assistant's brain was still not flexible enough.

Leehom Wang is obviously Chinese. Y's previous songs were either given to Mariah Carey or Celine Dion, but now he gave them to a Chinese singer and asked him to release a single in the United States. It can be seen that Y has a special relationship with this singer.

Besides, even if Leehom and Y are just ordinary partners, it would not be a loss if he could be invited.

It seems that inviting him to participate in the performance is to let him take advantage of the fame of the Backstreet Boys, but in fact, because of "All of Me" and the unreleased "Bleeding Love", Leehom's song will definitely be very popular after it comes out.

This popularity can last for at least a few days.

It can even be said that Leehom may sing his new song for the first time in Europe and the United States that day.

Therefore, the other party may not be able to agree to this invitation. (End of this chapter)