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490 [Rijin Doujin]

The plane landed at Guangzhou Airport. After Kang Jianfei negotiated the investment in "Journey to the West" with CCTV, he took Li Ningyu and Zhang Mingmin to Guangzhou...

Why did Zhang Mingmin stay with Kang Jianfei?

The answer is simple. Kang Jianfei is about to sign Zhang Mingmin to Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records. The former specializes in Mandarin songs, while the latter will produce Cantonese songs for Zhang Mingmin.

The year Kang Jianfei traveled to Hong Kong, Zhang Mingmin, who was working in an electronics factory, participated in a singing competition and was spotted by Hong Kong Eternal Records.

Deng Bingheng, the boss of Eternal Records, was also a whimsical person. At that time, Hong Kong was already dominated by Cantonese songs. He saw that campus folk songs in Taiwan were very popular and thought that singing Mandarin songs in Hong Kong would have a better future.

So, Deng Bingheng gave Zhang Mingmin a Mandarin folk song "Country Road", and the result was self-evident. He threw it on the street and even his mother didn't recognize it.

Later, during the Sino-British negotiations, Deng Bingheng felt that this was an opportunity that could be exploited, so he asked Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling to compose a patriotic song for Zhang Mingmin.

Needless to say who Huang Zhan is, everyone knows him. Wang Fuling is also a first-class composer in Hong Kong and Chen Xunqi's mentor. Chen Xunqi learned all his music knowledge from Wang Fuling.

The two wrote a song "My Chinese Heart". When it was released in 1982, it was still a huge hit. It wasn't until Huang Yihe accidentally heard this song that he invited Zhang Mingmin to participate in the 1983 Spring Festival Gala, "My Chinese Heart".

》 was known and sung by hundreds of millions of people overnight.

As the singer of "My Chinese Heart", Zhang Mingmin is not well-known in Hong Kong. Even the lyricist Huang Zhan himself is still unaware that "My Chinese Heart" has become a hit in mainland China.

Although "My Chinese Heart" has sold over one million records in mainland China, Zhang Mingmin received very little money, and the songwriters Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling did not receive any royalties.

What makes Zhang Mingmin even more desperate is that Eternal Records, which has been taking good care of him since he participated in the Spring Festival Gala, directly put it in cold storage because Eternal Records needs the Taiwan record market and does not dare to release records for Zhang Mingmin, a left-wing singer.

So Zhang Mingmin has been miserable in the past two years. He is very popular in the mainland but can't make any money. When he returns to Hong Kong, he can't release records. He can only run around and sing, and sometimes he has to work to earn money to support himself.

Now that Kang Jianfei sent out the invitation, Zhang Mingmin seemed to have grasped at straws and agreed to join Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records without even thinking.



There are very few people flying in the mainland, and even fewer people fly in the first few days of the first month. Kang Jianfei, Zhang Mingmin, and Li Ningyu simply took a chartered flight.

It wasn't until he walked into the airport lobby that he gradually gained some popularity, and Kang Jianfei was recognized in three seconds.

"Zhang Mingmin!"

"Li Ningyu!"

"Michael!"

Most of the people in the hall gathered around. Because "The Royal Sisters" was a hit in mainland China, everyone knew Kang Jianfei as the second male lead in the film, but they only knew that Kang Jianfei's character was named Michael.

The trend of star-chasing has not yet formed in the Mainland, but when meeting a famous star across the country, ordinary people will still rush forward excitedly. This has nothing to do with whether they are star-chasing or not, but rather the Chinese people's inherent talent - watching.

Now Kang Jianfei, Li Ningyu and Zhang Mingmin were being watched, with few asking for autographs. They were all pointing around, and only the bolder ones took the initiative to strike up a conversation.

Fortunately, there were not many people in the airport hall, and there were only about twenty people watching them. Kang Jianfei quickly led the two of them out of the encirclement.

"Lingyu, how does it feel to be a big star?" Kang Jianfei asked with a smile after getting in the car.

"That's it, I don't feel anything." Li Ningyu said insincerely. She still has various news reports about herself in her bag, which she specially collected, cut out and pasted in her notebook.

Zhang Mingmin summed up: "It's too easy to become famous in the mainland. After I participated in the Spring Festival Gala in 1983, I would be recognized wherever I went on the mainland."

From a certain perspective, what Zhang Mingmin said is true. In the 1980s and 1990s, mainland China was indeed extremely famous and extremely profitable, but only if you had vision, brains, and connections. At this time, many civil servants or factory workers

, they can earn several times their salary as long as they go to sea, but few people are willing to abandon their iron job and work alone.

Those who want to be famous rely more on connections. For example, Mao Aming, the first sister in the music industry, there was a singer who sang better than her and was more qualified. As a result, an old lady appreciated Mao Aming and squeezed the way of another singer, leaving Mao Aming

She went to perform in an international competition and became famous after winning an award. The female singer who sang better than Mao Amin twenty years later became a housewife who had difficulty supporting her daughter in school.

The most important reason why Zhang Mingmin became famous is that he came across a good song. Otherwise, given his appearance and singing skills, he would never be famous in his life.

Xiongfei Record Company is nominally affiliated with Guangzhou Record Company, and the company's address is also close to it. The house it rents is the former Guangzhou Record Factory. Now the company has no equipment, and "Dream Water Village" is still in Guangzhou.

Recorded in the recording studio of /State Records.

The person who drove to the airport to pick up Kang Jianfei was Ye Zipei's former driver Liang Yong. Now this man also works at Xiongfei Records, and his salary has been doubled.

The car drove through a busy street, and the song "Dream of Water Town" came from the side of the street. Liang Yong turned on the car radio, and the song "Dream of Water Town" was also played on it.

There is a kind of song that does not even need much publicity to make people forget it, so that it is played all over the street.

For example, Priscilla Lin's "Qian Qian Que Song", such as Dao Lang's "The First Snow in 2002", etc., "Dream Water Country" is also such a song. In another time and space, in the 1990s, "The First Snow in 2002"

When "Dream Water Town" first came out, for a long time you could hear this song on TV, radio, in streets, alleys, karaoke, and even in schools and factories, no matter where you went.

Now that we have the platform of the Spring Festival Gala for promotion and China Record Corporation for sales, "Dream Water Village" can definitely blossom across the country overnight.

When China Record Company released "My Chinese Heart" for Zhang Mingmin, it was still called China Record Company and had not carried out corporate reform. However, local record companies and record factories at the provincial and municipal levels in various places, although nominally belonging to China Record Company,

But the management of each other is very chaotic.

Therefore, "My Chinese Heart" was very chaotic when it was released. The sales volume on paper only exceeded 1 million. Counting the number of local record companies, the sales volume of that record was at least 2 million or more, and it might even be sold.

More than 3 million copies were received.

Now after the reform of the record company system, distribution and promotion are much smoother, and the phenomenon of high sales has been curbed. "Dream Water Village" sold 140,000 copies on the first day of the new year.

You heard it right, sales of 50,000 copies in Hong Kong are considered platinum albums. Many singers spend their entire lives never getting it. "Dream Water Village" sold 140,000 copies in mainland China on its first day.

Due to the lag in publicity, many people did not know that "Dream Water Village" had been released on tape on the first day. The single-day record sales on the second day of the first lunar month soared to 160,000, and only fell back to 110,000 on the third day of the first lunar month.

Said sales volume.

In just three days, most of the first batch of 400,000 copies of "Dream Water Village" were sold. Supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country are in panic, and factories are now rushing to produce it.

Nowadays, the price of genuine tapes in mainland China is terrifying. A radio only costs more than 100 yuan, and a movie ticket costs 50 cents, but a box of genuine tapes costs 5 yuan.

You heard it right, the average monthly salary of workers at this time was only a few dozen yuan, and a box of tapes cost 5 yuan. You may think the price is outrageous, but it is actually a matter of value.

Twenty years later, if you buy a cassette tape and you don’t like it, you will listen to it for a few days and then throw it away. But now, in people’s eyes, cassette tapes are like furniture and electrical appliances. They are items worth keeping for a long time. Basically, if you buy one,

You can listen to it for several years with just one box.

Excluding the accounts of China Record Corporation, Guangzhou Record Company, as well as supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country, in just three days, Xiongfei Records had more than 500,000 yuan in its accounts, and what Kang Jianfei promised at the time was to give Li Ning

Jade 1% profit share.

It is a profit share, not a royalty share from record sales. In other words, if Xiongfei Records receives 500,000 yuan, then Li Ningyu personally can receive 5,000 yuan.

It's not that Kang Jianfei, a capitalist, is too evil-minded, but that the form of Xiongfei Records is very deformed. It is nominally a branch of Guangzhou Record Company, a subsidiary of China Record Corporation, and several percent of its profits are directly divided between the two previous companies.

To go, we still need various channels to open up relationships. I really don’t dare to give the singer too much money.

And even a 1% profit share is a huge number that can make people jealous in terms of the prevailing wages in the mainland.

Nowadays, in an era when households with 10,000 yuan can report, Li Ningyu became half a household with 10,000 yuan in three days. I don’t know how eye-catching this news was when it spread.

Since she had to visit the company these days, Ye Zipei was not at the company. When Kang Jianfei brought the two singers to Xiongfei Records, there were only two liaison officers working here, making and answering phone calls from time to time, recording and counting records from all over the country.

Information from all over the place.

Kang Jianfei asked Zhang Mingmin to initial a contract, then counted out a thousand yuan and gave it to Li Ningyu, saying: "It will take a month or two to wait for the distribution of the records. You can use this money as pocket money to buy something home."

Visiting parents.”

Nowadays, the third set of RMB is still used, and the maximum denomination is only 10 yuan. If you throw out 1,000 yuan, it will be a thick stack.

Li Ningyu took the envelope excitedly and pulled out a stack of dark bills. She had never seen so much money since she was a child. She swallowed and said: "This... this is too much, what should I do?"

I always feel uneasy, like stolen money."

This was the first time Kang Jianfei saw a singer who thought he got too much money. He smiled and said, "Just take it, but don't tell anyone. If anyone asks, just say you only got a few hundred yuan."

"I know, I won't talk nonsense." Li Ningyu nodded seriously and cutely.

The faster money comes these days, the easier it is to arouse jealousy, and he might be reported one day. Li Ningyu's father is an old factory worker, and his annual salary is just over 1,000 yuan. She can think of the 1,000 yuan in her hand.

And know how heavy it is.

Kang Jianfei realized that this girl was cute and said with a smile: "Okay, wait for Sister Pei to arrange work for you, then you can go back to Shanghai to celebrate the New Year with your family tomorrow."

Li Ningyu originally had a bad impression of Kang Jianfei, but now she has completely changed her mind. She even has an inexplicable admiration for him. She carefully put away the money, raised her head and smiled sweetly at Kang Jianfei and said: "Thank you, Mr. Kang." (To be continued.)

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