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I’ll edit in the morning, I need sleep right now, please pardon any error you encounter, gn
Originally, when Shi Fei was recording the songs, Song Yiyuan had already made a deal with Yunyue Music; the music would be uploaded to their website, and of course, the copyrights would be on their side as well.
After the music was uploaded, it would be publicised for three days on the big cover of the app and webpage, and then other data would be pushed.
The contract was signed, but then they backed out of it.
They said that there was a bug star releasing a song in recent days, so they need to publicise for him, so he should upload the songs to the website first, and then they’d arrange the publicity for him when the publicity space wasn’t tight.
There was a period of time for new songs to be released, and if you missed the best time for publicity, it wouldn’t be easy for your song to become popular again unless you met a very good opportunity in the future.
When they signed the contract, it was agreed that no matter when Shi Fei released music, as long as they didn’t encounter a superstar or a god like Shen Qingran, they would ensure that Shi Fei had three days of big promotion and other promotions.
Song Yiyuan asked them when they could arrange for promotion, but there was no definite time from their end, indicating that there was a problem.
Song Yiyuan became suspicious and left Yunyue Music Company amicably on the surface. Behind their back, he spent money to enquire, and this inquiry made him angry.
Originally, Yunyue Music Company gave all the promotion for the next week to Lu Rongrong.
Lu Rongrong debuted four years ago and attracted a lot of otaku fans with her sweet appearance and voice. She was a fantasy object in the hearts of many men.
The company’s publicity for her over the years had also been good, but unfortunately her own foundation wasn’t strong. She had no problem singing sweet songs with her appearance and voice, but once she changed her style, it was easy to have a scene of collapse.
The company also knew her shortcomings, so the songs they chose for her were basically the kind that she could handle.
Because she had no particularly popular music works that were widely known and passed down by word of mouth, her popularity had always been in the quasi-first tier, and there was still a distance from being a true first-tier star.
Last year, she participated in a well-known variety show called “Let’s Travel Together” and won the love of a large number of netizens with her casual persona as a tomboy. She expanded from being an otaku fan to a lot of variety show fans.
Along the way, she had become a top-tier flower, known as one of the four flowers along with Yu Wenwen.
Although her music still had no works that could be passed down orally, they were able to surpass 12 million copies during the pre-sale period of last year’s album with the support of numerous fans. Within a week of its official release, the album sold over 2500 copies and achieved a good sales record of 40 million copies a month later.
The company had probably found the right direction. This year, it signed a second-season contract with last year’s “Let’s Travel Together,” which would be broadcast three days later. When the two sides interacted and promoted it, it was certain that this year’s sales would exceed last year’s results.
Compared to the likes of Shi Fei, who hadn’t sold an album yet and had only popularity but no works, they were of course more willing to choose Lu Rongrong, who was 100% capable of earning money.
Even so, Song Yiyuan could understand that websites were meant to make money, and it was impossible for them not to make money. If it was a big deal, their album “18” would be released a few days later, just after the promotion period of Lu Rongrong ended.
But there were some people who couldn’t tolerate Shi Fei; they wanted to cut off the publicity this time and planned not to give Shi Fei’s music a big push for three months after it was released.
Otherwise, half a month later, superstar Tang Kun’s new album wouldn’t be licensed to Yunyue Music Network.
Tang Kun had been in the industry for more than ten years and had achieved fame as a teenager with many classic songs. He had a large number of die-hard fans covering all age groups. Unlike many popular celebrities, he was a true superstar and had won numerous prestigious music awards.
When Tang Kun debuted in his early years, he was an artist at Tianxing Media. After several albums became popular, many of his songs became memories for a generation, establishing his position as king. In order to retain him, Tianxing Media also invested money and gave 2% of the company’s shares.
Plus, over the years, Tang Kun himself privately bought another 3%; he was now also a major shareholder of Tianxing Media.
Lu Rongrong was an artist of Tianxing Media.
The fact that Tianxing Media had started a plan targeting Shi Fei was very popular.
Most of the people in the industry knew about the grudge between Shi Fei and Tianxing Media, and everyone thought it was normal that Tianxing Media would intercept Shi Fei’s resources.
Originally, this industry was realistic; whoever had the ability had the right to speak.
This kind of thing could also be tolerated. With the two profitable signs of Lu Rongrong and Tang Kun placed there, there was nothing to say about Yunyue Music Network’s choice; after all, he probably would have chosen the same way.
What made him angry was that Tianxing Media used this tactic to suppress them again.
Song Yiyuan took out a bottle of ice water from the refrigerator and drank it all in one gulp, yet he still wasn’t relieved. “What a shameless company; they used this trick once, and now they are still using this trick to deal with you.”
Shi Fei sat in a chair, reading a book, and responded calmly, “What are you so angry about? Tianxing Media has long been torn their disguise, and it was only a matter of time before they confronted us again. If they could use this trick against you back then, it’s normal for them to use this trick against me now. No, it’s us.”
When Song Yiyuan was also an artist of Tianxing Media, he thought that the conditions there were too harsh, and he wasn’t willing to renew his contract at the end of the contract. No matter how Tianxing Media tried to force and entice him to stay in the company, he chose to go it alone and set up his own studio.
He originally thought that with his years of experience in the entertainment industry, he could still do well by signing a few promising newcomers and cultivating them well.
As a result, Tianxing Media directly chose to block him, using it to warn those who intended to leave.
He encountered the same situation as Shi Fei now when he wanted to use the album he had prepared before going solo to launch the studio’s first shot.
The killing power of a superstar wasn’t insignificant.
Fans covered a wide range of ages, and many young girls who used to be fans of him and others had become mommy fans over the past decade. They may not be able to stay up late on the charts like girlfriend fans of popular celebrities.
However, the spare money in their pockets was more than most young people.
Many students may save money on snacks by buying magazines and albums, while for many mothers, it may just be a lipstick.
That was the power of a superstar.
Not to mention those who were moms back then; more than a decade had passed and some had become grandmothers; their children have grown up and had their own lives; and their pensions were enough for their own daily expenses.
Buying albums during leisure time to support the idols they loved when they were young was also a memory. At their age, many times, buying albums wasn’t related to music but only for a sentiment to support the people they had loved for many years.
After Song Yiyuan opened his own studio, his first album ran into Tang Kun’s album, and they used the same formula, which was a network-wide ban.
All websites were uniformly cooperating with Tang Kun’s promotion, squeezing Song Yiyuan’s album to the point where it didn’t even have any dregs left.
The start was not successful, causing significant losses to Yiyuan Studio. In addition, several new artists who were originally signed and had achieved some success after training were all poached by Tianxing Media, which directly brought Song Yiyuan to the brink of bankruptcy and closure.
If it weren’t for his unwillingness, Song Yiyuan would have wanted to close down and switch careers, feeling like he couldn’t hold on several times.
Luckily, the studio was slowly brought back to life by the addition of Shi Fei and the others.
Song Yiyuan saw that Shi Fei still had the mood to read. He couldn’t help but be anxious: “With this situation, do you still have the mood to read? I’m so anxious.”
Shi Fei looked up from his book, looked at him, and said, “Brother Yiyuan, what do you think will happen if Tang Kun is no longer a superstar?”
Song Yiyuan wasn’t sure why he was asking, but he said, “Tang Kun is one of the pillars of Tianxing Media; if he were to be taken down, then Tianxing Media would suffer a huge loss of energy, and the development of their company would be greatly affected.”
If a pillar like this had been a smaller company, it might have just gone bankrupt. The revenue brought in by one Tianxing superstar in a year could be the sum of several first-tier stars.
This really wasn’t an exaggeration; a superstar like Tang Kun, who had been around for many years with so many classic music works in his youth, would be able to keep him clothed and fed for the rest of his life.
Even if his musical works in the past few years were not as good as they used to be, relying on the popularity that he had accumulated over the past decade or so would be enough to keep him in his position as a king.
If one wanted to bring him down from the pedestal, ordinary scandals wouldn’t work at all. Netizens had a very high level of trust in him, let alone someone who has been a king for so many years and had connections and financial resources. Even if they really dug up his black materials, they may be cut off before they were released. Their social network wasn’t something they could compete with.
“You want to dig up scandals about him? I don’t think that’s a very effective move.” Song Yiyuan politely spoke his mind, saying, “A person like him who has accumulated credibility for more than a decade, unless he has made an unforgivable mistake, can’t be hurt.”
A typical celebrity may make a mistake in their sentence or simply like the wrong picture, which could ruin their image.
But it wasn’t so easy for powerful celebrities. Those small and insignificant rumours were useless, and even some powerful celebrities had been caught cheating and abandoning their wives and children during marriage. After a year or two of silence, they could still return to the stage and the audience forgave them.
This was the difference between a superstar and a normal star.
“Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it. Extreme love can naturally turn black, “said Shi Fei with a sly look on his face.”Do you think if a superstar’s album data strength is overshadowed by a new singer, his fans will be disappointed? And then they will turn to anti-fans?”
Song Yiyuan thought for a moment and said, “No, the fans will only think that it is a brain-damaged fan who manipulated the data and then feel sorry for their own idol.”
Shi Fei: “Why don’t you talk according to the script?”
Song Yiyuan said, “I’m just being honest. If a newcomer singer’s stats beat a superstar, fans and netizens will only think that the newcomer’s marketing is really good, and the newcomer has a lot of brainwashed fans. Then this newcomer will just be insulted.”
This was the reason why he couldn’t even fight back then.
But Shi Fei didn’t care. “I don’t believe it; I just want to give it a try. Brother Yiyuan, since Yunyue Music Network won’t help us promote our new song, why don’t you cancel your contract with them first and then help me find out which music platforms Tang Kun has signed with and which ones he hasn’t?”
Song Yiyuan asked uncertainly, “Xiao Feifei, do you really want to do this? Have you thought about what will happen if you go so hard?”
Shi Fei closed his book and said indifferently, “The drums of war are set at our doorstep; can I choose not to meet them? If I don’t meet them, I will definitely lose, but if I meet them, I may still win. Do you think my lyrics and music will be worse than Tang Kun’s?”
“Of course not; the music of the two of you cannot be compared together at all.” To put it bluntly, in these two years, Tang Kun had just been chewing on his old money, but even so, the power of a heavenly king was not comparable to the average newcomer.
One slip up, and he would flip over.
Even if the contract with Yunyue Music Network was resolved successfully, even if the album was released on other platforms, as long as Tang Kun repeated the same trick, it was still useless.
No matter how he looked at it, there was no way to win this battle, but Song Yiyuan still got up and went to prepare for the release of the contract.
Even if what Shi Fei said was already the case, they must try to see if there was a glimmer of hope.
In any case, he had long been looking at that Tianxing Media and Tang Kun. If he succeeded, he would have gotten revenge.