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Chapter 191 Music Director’s Problem

The royalties for "Fights Break the Sphere" came out on August 5th. There is no royalties settlement for Traditional Chinese publishing, so the income is much lower than last month.

But neither Chen Li nor Yan Xin cared much.

Last month, there was a traditional Chinese manuscript fee settlement for the first half of the year. It is normal to have more.

They had expected this month's fee to be high, and it wouldn't be much higher.

On this day, the two of them went to Yangcheng again. Chen Li was going to Baijingyuan to take over the house and buy some furniture to decorate the empty house.

Yan Xin just went to the company to take a look, meet with several of the company's contracted singers, and discuss future development plans.

By the way, I would like to share with you the songs that I have “composed” during this period.

During this period, he copied dozens more songs.

For some songs, I only remember the melody, but forget many of the lyrics.

But it doesn't matter.

No one stipulates how lyrics must be written.

Now he is the original author, he says what the lyrics are like, that’s what they are.

As long as you can remember most of the lyrics, and the rest that you can't remember completely, just edit them according to the original meaning.

Sometimes the editor remembers forgotten lyrics.

Sometimes you can’t remember it, so just make it up yourself.

He can complete the lyrics by himself.

If you are not sure, sometimes you will ask Chen Li for advice and ask him to polish the specific words and sentences. You don’t need to be very good, as long as you can get by perfunctorily, that’s fine.

The most important thing about a song is the melody rather than the words. Just being able to remember the melody of the song is enough.

In addition, the company also purchased some songs - works posted by netizens on the Starlight Music Forum.

Some of it is because the quality is really just okay, it doesn't sound great, but it's still passable and not unpleasant.

Some of them are popular works on forums and have a lot of discussion. Although they don't think that kind of work sounds good, but there are so many people supporting it, so they can give it a try.

It doesn't really matter if it sounds bad, sometimes it's just a gimmick.

As long as there are many people supporting it, there is a reason for its success.

For example, "My Skateboard Shoes" became popular for no apparent reason later on. It's really ugly to listen to, but it's also really popular.

This kind of work is also in great need of the company.

When choosing to buy those works, the company actually knows that it will basically not make any money.

But I did it anyway.

One of the main reasons is to use this method to encourage the creative enthusiasm of netizens and attract more music-related professionals to this website and publish their music works on this forum.

Just relying on one person, even if he is good at copying songs, cannot support the scale of a company.

What's more, the number of songs that Yan Xin can remember by himself is very limited, and half of them are old songs from the past, so there is no way to plagiarize them.

Singing some songs that are not so good will not have that great impact on the singer, as long as he can release a high-quality song every once in a while.

No singer can make every song sound good.

This can also fill up the company's music library.

How to choose songs has a three-fold mechanism.

First of all, Xie Jun, the music director and legal director of Starlight Entertainment, made the choice with the perspective of a professional musician.

Because in the early days, the people who posted works on the forum were all amateur players who were at the same level as Yan Xin. When they posted lyrics or a singing demo, they basically had no knowledge of music theory.

What Xie Jun has to choose is whether there is anything that can be remedied by recomposing the music.

Yan Xin didn't know much about music theory, but he copied all the popular songs he had heard in his previous life. If there was anything wrong, it was just that he sang out of tune.

What netizens upload are all their own original creations, and some of them are just random and cannot be saved even if they are saved.

What Xie Jun wants to choose is those that can be repaired.

Then Yan Xin, Xiao Yin and other amateur listeners will choose which ones they think are acceptable.

Finally, several of the company's contracted singers will choose which ones they can sing.

After three levels of selection, decide to purchase.

There is no fixed price. Depending on the quality of the song, the song will be bought out directly and the remuneration will range from 500 to 3,000.

Of course, the announcement on the website is not like this. According to the announcement on the website, the reward for buying out a song can be as high as 100,000 yuan.

If you can't reach that price, it's not because the company can't afford the price, but because you haven't reached that level yet.

After those songs were recorded, they were not released on other platforms. Instead, they were released directly on the original song download page of Starlight Network. They can be listened to online for free. If you want to download them, you have to spend 20,000 gold coins to download them.

The songs put on QQ Music are all songs copied by Yan Xin himself.

This is a song that aims to bring popularity to the singers of our company. Of course, it must be placed on a platform with high traffic to achieve better results.

Of course, these songs will also be posted on their own website.

At this time, it is free to publish songs online. Singers can upload to whichever platform they want, and they can also upload to multiple platforms.

Even ordinary people can upload classic songs sung by celebrities.

For some things that are destined not to be popular, it doesn’t make much sense to put them on platforms with high traffic. It is better to put them on your own website in the name of exclusive resources to contribute some data.

The traffic of the website is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of real online people is also getting higher and higher.

The income of several singers signed by the company is also getting higher and higher.

When we first wanted to sign them, except for Xiao Yuan, the others were not very happy. They felt that the company was too cruel and that the contract was a contract of betrayal.

But now, the bar singers in the circle are envious of them, and even if they want to sign in, they can't. Only then do they realize how lucky they are.

Yan Xin has no idea of ​​signing more singers for the time being, unless he encounters one that shines in his eyes, then he will sign it and pool his resources to support it.

I haven't encountered anything like that, and these five are enough for now.

——The main reason is that he doesn’t have much inventory left, and supplying these five items for three to five years is enough.

If there were a few more, his stock would be completely eaten up.

If you sign a contract but have no ability to make the other party develop well, you will delay the other party and waste your own money, so it is unnecessary.

This time I went to the company for an afternoon of free talks. Everyone generally had strong confidence in the future and was in a positive spirit, which made Yan Xinyou very happy.

However, he found that Xie Jun, the music director, was not feeling quite right. Although he often had a smile on his face, he would occasionally show a negative expression.

I couldn't help but think: "Did he discover any hidden dangers in the company's development?"

After the symposium ended, he stopped Xie Jun and said: "Director Xie, you are not in the right mood today. Is there something wrong with the company?"

Xie Jun was stunned for a moment, with a wry smile on his face: "The company's development is booming, and no problems have been found for the time being."

"But I see you look sad sometimes, what's going on?" Yan Xin asked.

Xie Jun hesitated for a while and then said: "It's not the company's business, it's my own business... My girlfriend who I've been dating for several years ran away with someone..."

(End of chapter)