Shengtang Company is a film and television entertainment company, and it is natural to develop the record business, but that should be a matter of waiting for the "Toy Story" movie to be filmed in a few years. As for the reason, it is still what Lucas worried about, writing
Songwriting is a highly professional job, and not everyone can do it. Even if you can write a song, it may not be accepted by everyone. After spending a lot of money, it will be in vain.
Only Sun Mingren knows the good songs written by Liu Lang. Liu Lang owes most of the credit for Ye Jinsheng's current achievements in Hong Kong. Each of his songs has become a classic and is extremely popular.
However, both Sun Mingren and Lin Guodong saw Liu Lang's ability with their own eyes today. The song "Something Just Like This" shocked the audience. The level of lyrics and music was beyond imagination, especially the Transformers were mentioned in it.
The company made a hidden advertisement.
At that moment, Lin Guodong felt that his boss also had unparalleled talents in composing music and lyrics. If this was the case, then why not set up a record production department? Lin Guodong even felt that his boss should not focus on anything else.
In terms of machinery, if he put all his energy into Shengtang Company, it is very likely that Shengtang would already be a big company in the United States.
Of course, this idea was just a thought for him. He had no right to control what the boss wanted to do, and he didn't dare to control it. His IQ was much better than his own.
Lucas was shocked by the words of Lin Guodong and Sun Mingren.
"Jimmy, you performed a song at the Los Angeles Fire Department? What song? Sing it and let me hear it!"
"Mr. Lucas, the song created by Mr. Liu has already reached the level of Grammy Award. There is no problem. If this song is made into an MTV single, it will sell at least one million copies!"
Quentin Tarantino said from the sidelines at this time.
"A million pictures? What basis do you have?"
Lucas looked at Quentin Tarantino.
Liu Lang introduced Quentin just now, but Lucas didn't pay attention. There are many people like this in Los Angeles. They all have a dream of directing, but few of them have real talent and knowledge. But now that Jimmy has taken a liking to him, he doesn't care.
Say more.
Now this young guy actually said that a single can sell one million copies. You must know that sales of 500,000 copies are at the level of gold records, and one million is platinum sales. You said one million copies is one
A million copies? Do you think you are a senior analyst at Gallup?
"George, how do you like this song? You can find out by watching the news in the Los Angeles Times tonight... This song is also a project that our Shengtang company will prepare soon. What about charting and publicity matters are waiting for Ye Jin
After he was born, he is an expert in this field, much better than us!"
"Then... well, anyway, you promised not to cut the production budget of "Toy Story". As long as this doesn't change, I won't object to anything you do!"
Since everyone no longer objected, we discussed the issue of the record business budget, and finally decided to spend half a million US dollars first.
Half a million US dollars is actually a lot of money. Nowadays, the most popular record companies usually charge this production fee for a record. Of course, this has to be a well-known artist. If it is an ordinary artist, it will be much lower.
The reason why he spent so much money is because Liu Lang knew that this song would definitely become popular, so he had to make it feel like it was born out of nowhere, so as to create the greatest impact.
Now there is only this song, which cannot be produced in the form of an album, so it can be produced in the form of an MTV. The actors will receive half a million US dollars. The expenses of the MTV and the expenses for promotion should be very generous.
Once the budget is determined, the next step is to study how to carry out this business.
Everyone except Liu Lang believed that the company should establish a new record business department and let Ye Jinsheng be the head of this department, but Liu Lang had different opinions.
Liu Lang proposed the establishment of an independent subsidiary to be responsible for the record business. This subsidiary is of course affiliated with Shengtang, but it has independent financial, organizational, personnel and other departments, similar to Wan'an Company and Wan'an Software Technology Co., Ltd.
relationship.
The advantage of this is that the record business will not be interfered by other business departments and can develop with higher efficiency.
Many other large companies have done this. For example, Warner Bros. Pictures has Warner Music Co., Ltd., and film companies such as Fox and Universal also have this structure. However, it seems to be too early to apply it to Santang.
Some, after all, Shengtang is still too small.
In fact, Liu Lang did this mainly for Ye Jinsheng.
During more than a year in Hong Kong Island, Ye Jinsheng built Jingsheng Culture to a large scale. Although many of the ideas came from Liu Lang, creativity does not mean wealth. Wealth can only be obtained through practice. This is what Ye Jinsheng did.
Very good, and his vision is very accurate. The artists he signed are all the "Kings and Queens" in the future. He does not have Liu Lang's foresight ability to select them completely among hundreds of young artists.
It depends on ability.
Moreover, Ye Jinsheng was able to put aside his original achievements and come to the United States, which also shows that he trusts himself and cannot be treated unfairly, whether in public or private life.
So Liu Lang planned to set up a branch company, let Ye Jinsheng be the general manager, and give him all the rights. He could report directly to him, so that he could work freely.
Of course, since it is a branch, there must be a share ratio. Liu Lang decided that Shengtang would hold 90% of the shares and give Ye Jinsheng 10%.
Others didn't have any objections to Liu Lang's decision.
"Jimmy, you do trust this person... but what are his abilities? Is he trustworthy? What if he disobeys you if you give him such great power?"
Lucas was a little worried about the other party's character.
"Don't worry, George, there is no problem with Ye Jinsheng's character. He has already developed very well in Hong Kong Island and has his own entertainment company. If it goes public, it will have a market value of almost tens of millions of dollars.
But now there is some chaos there. There are gangs everywhere, especially in the entertainment industry. Many companies are controlled by gangs. Even famous stars will be blackmailed. This person has a high-level background in our country. Generally speaking, no one dares to touch him.
He, but he still decided to give up the company there and run to the United States to start over. Do you think he is a villain?"
"Well... according to what you said, he is really not a bad person... It turns out that you also have gangs in China! Isn't your country the strictest country in the world? Why are there still gangs?"
"Haha, George, I'm talking about Hong Kong Island. They are not yet part of our country's territory. They will not return until 1997, and by then those gangsters will have disappeared!"