China Entertainment 1997

Beijing, [Flying on Grass] private restaurant

Cao Xuan hurriedly entered the store with Zhu Jiang, and the store manager came to greet them. He found out where the private room was and hurried over.

A new waiter saw the two of them and whispered excitedly to the old waiter next to him: "Sister Wen, is it really Cao Xuan? Is he really the owner of our store?"

"Then there's still a lie."

Sister Wen is used to this. All new employees in the store, especially girls, basically have to come here once.

Not to mention them, even she herself was excited for a long time when she first came. Later, as time went by, she slowly calmed down.

The new waiter received a positive reply and immediately fell into a state of intoxication.

"Ah, ah, I like his songs the most. I have his posters on my bed. I didn't expect to see him in person today. Sister Wen, can I ask him for an autograph?"

"sure."

Sister Wen nodded and said with a smile: "The boss is a very nice person. Employees or customers in our store will be satisfied if they ask for his autograph. But you have to have a good look. If he is fine, go and ask for it. Otherwise, the boss will have nothing to do. The store manager will see it." Swearing.”

After saying that, she added: Xiao Liu, sister, let me remind you, the store manager also said before that when we work here, the salary is much higher than in other stores, and the work is also easy. During the holidays, there are also Red envelope.

But if you want to have sex for a long time, you must be strict with your mouth. Who you meet and what you hear are all rotten in your stomach. Otherwise, if you are found out, you will not only be expelled, but you will also be held accountable.

"I know."

Xiao Liu nodded nervously, and Sister Wen smiled and comforted: "You don't have to be afraid. I have been here for so long and I haven't encountered anything worth keeping secret. The store has always emphasized that it is just to prevent problems before they happen. "

Sister Wen's relief made Xiao Liu relax, and then she became active again.

"Sister Wen, when will the boss come out? Can I take a photo with him?"

"You just have to have a camera."

"Ah, forget it, even if I can borrow it, I can't stop him."

"Just accept it when you see it. The signature is not bad. Okay, the north box is evacuated. Follow me to clean up the room."

After they had cleaned the entire private room, Cao Xuan's private room door opened, and Cao Xuan personally escorted several guests out, chatting as they walked.

"Mr. Song, it's thanks to your help this time. Thank you very much."

"Needless to say, the quality of your TV series is good, so just send it here and ask your company to sign the contract later."

"Thank you very much, I'll make arrangements when I get back."

"Well, that Mid-Autumn Festival party that Director Sun asked me to ask about..."

"Don't worry, I will definitely be there."

Cao Xuan sent Minister Song and the two into the car, turned to look at Ding Ying and Jiang Yue who were following him, and clapped his hands happily.

"Done!"

Jiang Yue and the two were also very happy: "120,000 per episode, 3 million in total, Beijing and Taiwan are rich."

"Beijing and Taiwan sold 3 million yuan, plus the 2.4 million yuan that Qin Province spent so much money on. The Shandong Province side must sell at least 2.6 million yuan. We will make back our money in the first round of "Journey to the West"."

This price is better than Cao Xuan expected in advance. Cao Xuan is looking forward to the second round and pre-roll advertising revenue after the first round of ratings of "Journey to the West".

Ding Ying is a producer and knows the difficulties of distribution. Although he is happy, he also feels a little emotional: "It means that the boss has a lot of face and is allowed to go out for several performances. Otherwise, this show would not be sold so easily."

"That's not necessarily the case. Currently, the output of TV dramas cannot reach the TV station market. As long as the price is right, there is no need to worry about selling them."

Cao Xuan knew well that although he had contributed to the distribution, the quality of "Journey to the West" itself was indeed good, coupled with the general market environment.

Of course, without Cao Xuan, even if it could be sold, the price would not be so high, let alone the two big stations of Lu Province and Jingtai.

Therefore, Cao Xuan's contribution is not small, but Cao Xuan has nothing to be proud of.

As the boss, he hopes that he won’t have to worry about Fanxing’s distribution in the future. Fanxing’s own name alone can make TV stations rush for it.

Cao Xuan was busy talking just now and didn't eat much. There were many dishes on the table untouched. He asked the kitchen to reheat a few dishes and called Zhu Jiang to start eating.

During this period, the waiter Xiao Liu boldly came over to ask for an autograph, and Cao Xuan readily agreed. Xiao Liu was so happy that he walked out of the box in a daze holding the autograph.

While eating, Cao Xuan also explained the distribution work of "Journey to the West".

The premiere time has basically been decided in late October, and the specific date still needs to be negotiated with the three TV stations.

After all, it is a small-budget drama. The TV station did not pay enough attention to it, and Fanxing did not have much publicity budget, but it still secured the crew two variety show opportunities and certain media resources.

Fanxing needs to contact the crew. It is best to invite more main creators to participate, especially popular actors such as Huang Haibin and Ren Quan, which will be helpful for publicity and exposure.

Speaking of publicity, "Young Bao Qingtian" has been confirmed to premiere on September 14th on Modu Channel and Beijing Channel. Jade Channel is slightly faster and is expected to be launched in early September.

Cao Xuan doesn't need to worry about Jade Channel, but these two TV stations still have to run promotions.

Starring two big names, Cao Xuan and Chen Daoming, "Young Bao Qingtian" is well-known, and TV stations also attach great importance to it, arranging many variety shows and promotional activities.

Fortunately, Cao Xuan's songs are almost recorded, and half of the promotional venues are in the capital, otherwise the release of "Bright Stars" might be delayed.

What worries Cao Xuan now is the MV shooting. If he shoots all 10 songs in the album by himself, it will take a month. So Cao Xuan is just waiting for someone to shoot the MV this time.

He only participated in two of them. For the rest of the songs, he just found a curtain or scenery to sing, and then edited and inserted them into the MV. It could be done in a day or two.

The two MVs in which Cao Xuan personally participated are the first title song "Ten Years" and the story-telling "Fireworks Easily Cold".

The MV heroine Cao Xuan still chose Zeng Li and Hu Jing willfully. Although Zeng Li was involved in scandals before, since he said he would make them his MV heroines, he would keep his word.

Either he will only sing, not participate in the MV plot himself, and appear as a bystander. But if he plays the male lead, the MV female lead will be Hu Jing.

Anyway, the first two were done like this, and the scandals have been spread, so this time is not far behind.

On the contrary, maybe the more upright he is, the outside world will not think much about it. The trick of being dark under the light sometimes achieves better results than hiding it.

………

While promoting "Young Man Bao Qingtian", recording albums, and preparing for concerts, he also has to research and design the performance content and program flow of the tour concert. Which singer he wants to hire as an assistant performer must be decided in advance.

Cao Xuan, who had just relaxed for a month, started to be busy again in late August.

Cao Xuan is busy, and others in the music industry are not idle either. Since May, major singers have begun to perform "you sing and I will appear" on the charts.

The first is Kelly Chen. She and Karen Mok have been particularly active in the past two years. They have released several Mandarin albums, focusing on the mainland, Taiwan and Southeast Asian markets.

In May, she released a new album. The title song "Better Than Dance" quickly became popular due to its cheerful and magical lyrics, becoming the hottest new song of the month.

At that time, Milk Tea Rene Liu's "Later" dominated the list, Xu Huaiyu's "Flying Apart", and Lin Yilian's "At least I Still Have You" were also on the list.

There is also Li Wen, who is gaining momentum, and five female singers are in a group.

The only male singers in the top ten on the list are Ren Xianqi and Lin Zhixuan who sang "Single Love Song".

This situation of rising yin and declining yang has become even more severe in June.

Mainland China's popular new generation singer Jin Haixin released her masterpiece "So Proud".

Many people may not know this singer in later generations, but he is very popular nowadays.

The first album "Wake Up the Ears" was released last year and became an instant hit. It also made it onto the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.

This year's "So Proud" was once again a great success. It topped the charts in June, and the media commented that Jin Haixin was the mainland's female version of Cao Xuan.

However, Jin Haixin did not maintain Cao Xuan's dominance at the time. Not long after she killed the list, a new person was born.

Unpopular singer Sun Yanzi landed in the mainland with her famous song "It's Dark", which directly overturned Jin Haixin.

How popular is this song? Jay Chou, who is known as half of the country, has won countless awards in his music career, but he has never won the best new artist.

Because almost all the Best Newcomer Awards in the Chinese music industry in 2000 went to Sun Yanzi.

According to incomplete statistics, Sun Yanzi won fifteen newcomer trophies in one breath with "Heihei", and Xiao Zhou followed Sun Yanzi for a whole year.

In addition to Sun Yanzi, Hong Kong diva Mok Wenwei also produced her most popular masterpiece "Fruits of Midsummer".

Under the siege of two king-level songs, Jin Haixin could only retreat.

The strong debut of three female singers turned the entire ranking into a competition for female singers.

The only remaining players, Lin Zhixuan and Ren Xianqi, were successively squeezed out of the top ten.

"Single Love Song" was released last year, but its potential has been lost. However, Xiaoqi Ge, the king of kings, is still popular. After a few days of respite, he returned, but he was trembling when surrounded by many female singers.

Finally, at the end of June, another male singer entered the top ten.

Wang Lihong entered the stage with "Descendants of the Dragon".

It has been said before that Xie Feng was badly beaten by Cao Xuan, but in fact Wang Lihong was not bad either.

Although his song was not copied by Cao Xuan, he was robbed of endorsements. Wang Lihong was able to become famous in mainland China, and Wahaha's advertising bombardment helped him a lot.

Now Cao Xuan has become the spokesperson of Wahaha and dominates the mainland music scene. Wang Lihong has been firmly suppressed by Cao Xuan several times when he released albums. His development in the music scene has always been tepid, much worse than before.

Until this time in "Descendants of the Dragon", Wang Lihong finally got rid of Cao Xuan's shadow and finally became popular.

But Wang Lihong was not happy for long. A group of female singers were besieging her in front of her, and she finally got through July.

In August, four kings and queens including Ren Xianqi, Wang Fei, Liu Tianwang and Naying released a new album together.

"Blowing Waves", "Love Letter to Myself", "It's not a sin for a man to cry" and "Betrayal" are all songs of excellent quality.

Especially "Blowing Waves" and "It's Not a Sin for a Man to Cry" are also considered masterpieces of Xiao Qi Ge and Liu Tianwang, and are widely sung.

However, the most popular song in August is not the masterpiece of the two kings, but "Courage" by Liang Jingru.

Six Eyes Flying Fish and Liang Jingru give you the courage.

One song can create two popular memes that are well-known on the Internet, which shows the influence of this song "Courage".

In fact, the song "Courage" was also the most popular song in 2000. Liang Jingru, whose debut album last year had a mediocre response, became famous with one song and immediately became a little queen in Taiwan.

The limelight has eclipsed Sun Yanzi, Jay Chou, Cai Yilin, Elva Hsiao, Wang Lihong and other future kings and queens.

It's a pity that the follow-up songs didn't keep up, and other singers came up with hit songs one after another, and were overtaken one after another.

But even so, among the four major and three minor queens in Taiwan Province, the only one who can stabilize Liang Jingru is Sun Yanzi.

Although Cai Yilin is slightly more famous, she is on par with Liang Jingru in other aspects. Even many people in the industry look down on her, thinking that she is a dancing queen, not a singing queen.

The whole month of August is a fight between gods and goddesses. The new generation, the Mesozoic generation and several veterans such as Liu Tianwang and Wang Fei are competing to kill each other on the ranking list.

Moreover, there are several singers ready to perform at any time in September, which is not a bad thing.

The intensity of competition in the entire music industry is more than one level higher than last year, and even Cao Xuan felt a little tight-throated when he saw it.

The beginning of the golden age of the Chinese music scene, it is indeed well-deserved, with too many good songs.

Fortunately, the album in Cao Xuan's hand was hard enough, otherwise he might not have been able to hold it down.

The outside media and the public are also very happy to see the fight in the music industry, and are very much looking forward to the release of Cao Xuan's new album.

The second peak showdown between Nan Ren and Bei Cao was also besieged by a large group of Cenozoic and Mesozoic people. Everyone wanted to see who could break out of the siege in the end.

The golden age of the Chinese music scene has officially begun...

It’s the last day, I’m begging for monthly tickets ▄██●