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Teacher Zhang Qimei told Zhou Huiru about Lin Mu’s situation and learned that Lin Mu was only a senior student in the composition department and had composed three songs that might become classics.

Zhou Huiru became very interested in Lin Mu and asked Teacher Zhang to help make an appointment with Lin Mu. She wanted to have a detailed discussion with Lin Mu. On the one hand, she wanted to buy the three songs.

On the other hand, I also want to see if I can sign Lin Mu to Xingyue Entertainment to become a professional songwriter.

It's just that she was in the capital today and not in the capital. She made an appointment with Teacher Zhang. When she returns to the capital tomorrow, she will invite Teacher Zhang and Lin Mu to have dinner together in the evening, and then have a detailed discussion with Lin Mu during the meal.

The next afternoon, Lin Mu received a call from Teacher Zhang, asking Lin Mu to go out for dinner with her in the evening and meet the president of Xingyue Entertainment Company.

Lin Mu has learned from the Internet that Xingyue Entertainment Company is one of the top entertainment companies in China, focusing on the development of music and supplemented by film and television development.

In terms of achievements in music alone, Xingyue Entertainment can be ranked among the top five in China. If music and film are counted together, Xingyue Entertainment can also be ranked among the top eight.

Originally, Xingyue Entertainment could be ranked among the top five, but at the end of last year, the chief composer of Xingyue Entertainment.

Wang Minghua, a quasi-composer of Xingyue Entertainment, was poached by Thunder Entertainment, which ranked first in the Chinese entertainment industry, causing the overall strength of Xingyue Entertainment to decline.

According to the entertainment companies in China, a top-ranked entertainment company that focuses on music development will have at least one or two songwriters who are good at music.

Only three to five gold medal composers, a dozen ace composers, more than ten or twenty intermediate composers, and several junior and intern composers can support the development of a large entertainment company.

In order to fill the vacancy left after the quasi-composer songwriter of Xingyue Entertainment was poached, a composer to replace Wang Minghua was found.

Zhou Huiru, the president of Xingyue Entertainment Company, has also been very busy recently. She has made appointments with several songwriters who are on the same level as Wang Minghua, but none of them resulted in good results.

Other great songwriters have their own contract companies or personal studios, and they have little intention of joining Xingyue Entertainment.

If you want to poach people forcibly, you will need to pay a huge price. In that case, the expenditure and income may not be directly proportional, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Seeing that he could not poach outstanding songwriters, Zhou Huiru, the president of Xingyue Entertainment, revised his poaching plan.

Adjust the poaching target to those gold medal songwriters who are not songwriters, but who have the potential to grow into songwriters.

After a period of hard work, Zhou Huiru successfully recruited two gold medal songwriters, preventing Xingyue Entertainment's strength from declining so much.

After she learned from her best friend, teacher Zhang Qimei, that there was a composing genius among her students, the kind who could do both lyrics and music, and had already composed three songs that might become classics.

She wanted to buy these three songs, and at the same time she also wanted to meet the genius songwriter her best friend said, and see if she could sign this genius songwriter to her company.

Although she hasn't met Lin Mu and those three songs yet, she doesn't doubt her best friend's vision at all.

She and teacher Zhang Qimei were admitted to the Composition Department of Yangyin University together. They lived in the same dormitory with two other best friends for more than a year. Everyone knew each other's vision and composition ability.

In China, the social status of composers and gold medal screenwriters is quite high, and their status is higher than that of singers and actors.

Those superstars will make friends with them, hoping to win their favor and get the songs, scripts and other works they created.

Composers in China are generally divided into six levels. The lowest level of composers are those who have just graduated from school, which is what people call intern composers.

Generally speaking, songs created by intern composers can only account for about 10% of the song's revenue after release.

If a new singer sings, the singer can only get up to 10% of the song's income, and the rest of the income will belong to the company.

Of course, there are exceptions, and the specific income sharing still needs to be negotiated and decided between the songwriter, the singer, and the company.

However, this split is the split model for most trainee songwriters in the entertainment industry.

Next are junior songwriters who have released at least one song with over five million downloads in one month.

After the songs written by junior composers are published, they can receive up to 20% of the song's income.

Then there are mid-level songwriters who have published at least five songs with more than 5 million downloads within a month. Mid-level songwriters can get 30% to 40% of the song income.

Then there are senior songwriters who have at least ten songs with over 10 million monthly downloads.

In the mouths of various large and small entertainment companies, composers and singers, senior composers are also called ace composers, and they can get 40% to 50% of the song income.

There are also gold medal songwriters who have at least ten songs with monthly downloads exceeding 20 million. Gold medal songwriters can get about 60% of the song's revenue.

Finally, there is a company's top-level songwriters. To become a top-level songwriter, one must have at least 30 songs with more than 20 million downloads.

Comprehensive songwriters are the face and pillars of an entertainment company. After the songs they create are released, they can earn at least about 80% of the song's revenue, and some songwriters can even earn 10% of the song's revenue.

The company they work for will provide free recording and release of songs, and the singer will also perform for free.

Although the company and the artist do not receive income from the song, they will gain a lot of exposure and popularity.

As long as they have exposure and popularity, they will be invited to many endorsements and other activities, and most of their income sources will come from this.

In fact, there is another level above the quasi-qudad songwriters, which is the real qudad. However, there are no songwriters of this level in China yet.

Because Blue Star's cultural and entertainment development has stagnated before, currently there are no composers at the level of music dads in China.

In today's China, among all the entertainment companies, the highest-level songwriters are only quasi-qu dads. For real songwriter dads, quasi-qu dads can only be regarded as fake songwriter dads.

Because it is too difficult to become a legitimate and authentic songwriter. The difficulty is really prohibitive for many songwriters who are both accurate and fake songwriters.

Because to become a real music dad, you need to compete for the new song chart for twelve months in a year. The new songs released every month must be ranked at the top of the list for twelve consecutive months and win twelve consecutive championships. Just fine.

And once a company's quasi-composer wants to attack the real composing dad, other entertainment companies will unite and send out their own company's quasi-composer-level songwriters to attack, and they will not easily let you play twelve times in a row. It has won the first place on the new song chart every month.

If any company's top-notch composer wins the title of real composer, then this entertainment company's ranking in China will be unconditionally ranked at the forefront of all entertainment companies, at the top of the list, and truly a top performer. To the nominal double income.

Once there is any major festival celebration in the country, he will be invited to be the person in charge of a certain aspect, responsible for creating works in his specialty and performing them at the celebration.

At the same time, the Chinese cultural department and the Cultural and Entertainment Association will issue an honorary certificate of"National Creative Artist" to prove his identity.

Similarly, a large entertainment company needs at least one or two top artists to support the company's appearance.

If it is a company that mainly focuses on music, it must have at least one king or queen, which is what people often call the first-tier company.

There are three to five first-tier singers, seven or eight second-tier singers, a dozen or so third-tier singers, several fourth-tier singers, new singers, and intern singers, and there are even dozens or hundreds of people.

For example, Thunder Entertainment, which ranks first in China, although they mainly focus on film and television development, supplemented by music development.

They have two top performers, a movie king and a movie queen, and they also have a top singer.

There are also many first-line actors and singers (four or five), second-tier actors and singers (seven or eight), third-tier artists more than ten people, fourth-tier artists, several new singers, actors, and intern artists.

An entertainment company like Xingyue Entertainment, which focuses on music, has a king and a queen, three first-tier singers, five second-tier singers, eight third-tier singers, four-tier singers, more than ten new singers, and two intern singers. More than ten people.

I heard that there is another level of artist above the super first-tier artists and kings and queens, which is the legendary emperor-level artist. However, it can be said that no one in Blue Star has reached this level yet.

All the countries on Blue Star have experienced stagnation in the development of entertainment. Now, whether they are actors or singers, they are basically all capable.

It's not like the traffic on earth, where the real ability is not outstanding, as long as you have a pretty face and the capital to promote you.

Regardless of whether you can sing or not, whether you can act or not, you will become a traffic superstar.

Even if you can't sing or are tone-deaf, don't worry if your singing voice sounds like a ghost or a howl, because there are millions of tuners at your service.

Similarly, even if you can't act, it's not a problem if you can't remember even the most basic lines. As long as you are not mute and can pronounce 1234567, it is enough, because dubbing will be done later.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Lin Mu followed Teacher Zhang to a private restaurant not far from the school. He opened the door and entered one of the private rooms. He saw that there were already two people sitting in the private room.

One of them is a young lady in her mid-twenties wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses.

The other person was a middle-aged woman with good temperament in her forties. Lin Mu estimated that this person was Zhou Huiru, the president of Xingyue Entertainment Company.

And the young lady wearing glasses should be her assistant or assistant secretary.

Sure enough, under Teacher Zhang's introduction, Lin Mu knew their identities, and Lin Mu and the two of them shook hands and got to know each other.

Only when Lin Mu was about to call Mr. Zhou, he was interrupted by Zhou Huiru. She said that she and Teacher Zhang were very close best friends.

And Lin Mu was a student of Teacher Zhang, so she asked Lin Mu to call her Aunt Zhou instead of calling her President Zhou so formally.

The young lady's name was Li Zimeng, and she was Zhou Huiru's assistant. Zhou Huiru asked Lin Mu to just call her sister, and they called her Lin Mu and Xiaomu.

Lin Mu called the donkey Zhou Huiru Auntie Zhou, while Li Zimeng called her Sister Li.

The four of them took their seats respectively, and at the same time notified the waiter to start serving the dishes, and several signature dishes of the private restaurant were served one by one.

Everyone was chatting while eating. Zhou Huiru originally wanted to persuade Teacher Zhang and Lin Mu to drink some wine, but Lin Mu didn't like drinking.

Finally, Zhou Huiru ordered a bottle of red wine, and Lin Mu, Teacher Zhang, and Aunt Zhou each poured a glass. Li Zimeng didn't drink, and she would have to drive later.

Don’t drive when you drink, don’t drink when you drive, everyone knows the dangers of driving after drinking.

While eating and drinking, Zhou Huiru first briefly introduced the current situation of Xingyue Entertainment Company to Lin Mu.

Today, Xingyue Entertainment is 67% owned by Zhou Huiru. However, Xingyue Entertainment is not a listed company. She only has absolute ownership and voice.

The company now focuses on music development, which accounts for 70% of the company's development capital, and is supplemented by film and television development, which accounts for 30% of the company's development capital.

There is a king and a queen singer under its banner, but the company currently does not have top artists in film and television.

There are three first-tier singers, five second-tier singers, two actors, eight third-tier singers, five third-tier actors, dozens of fourth-tier and new singers, actors and intern artists.

In terms of songwriters, Xingyue currently does not have a top-notch songwriter. There are three gold medal songwriters, two of whom Zhou Huiru recently hired from other companies.

There are five senior composers, ten intermediate composers, and more than twenty junior composers and intern composers.

Although there are not many artists, all the functional departments are fully equipped and all the departments should be included, such as the Publicity Department, the Artist Department, the Advertising Department, and the External Relations Department.

There are many film and television departments that should be included, such as screenwriting, set management, logistics, editing, dubbing, etc.

Lin Mu had a general understanding of the situation of Xingyue Entertainment Company. At this time, everyone was full of wine and food, so they continued chatting while drinking tea and eating.