The plane landed at Guangzhou Airport. After Kang Jianfei negotiated with CCTV to invest in "Journey to the West", he took Li Lingyu and Zhang Mingmin to Guangzhou.
Why did Zhang Mingmin go along with Kang Jianfei?
The answer is very simple. Kang Jianfei is about to sign Zhang Mingmin to Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records. The former specializes in Mandarin songs, while the latter uses Cantonese songs for Zhang Mingmin.
The year Kang Jianfeifei went to Hong Kong, Zhang Mingmin, who worked in an electronics factory, participated in a singing competition, but was attracted by Hong Kong Eternal Records.
Deng Bingheng, the boss of Yongheng Records, is also a whimsical person. At that time, Hong Kong was already the world of Cantonese songs. He saw that Taiwan’s campus folk songs were very popular and believed that singing Mandarin songs in Hong Kong should be more promising.
So, Deng Bingheng gave Zhang Mingmin a Mandarin folk song "The Road in the Countryside", which was self-evident, and his mother didn't even recognize him.
Later, when the Sino-British negotiations happened, Deng Bingheng felt that this was an opportunity to take advantage, so he asked Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling to create a patriotic song for Zhang Mingmin.
Needless to say, who Huang Zhan is, everyone knows him. Wang Fuling is also a top composer in Hong Kong and Chen Xunqi's mentor. Chen Xunqi's music knowledge was learned from Wang Fuling.
The two wrote a song "My Chinese Heart", which was released in 1982 and was still extremely frustrating.
It was not until Huang Yihe overheard the song that she invited Zhang Mingmin to participate in the 1983 Spring Festival Gala. "My Chinese Heart" was well-known and sung by hundreds of millions of people overnight.
As the singer of "My Chinese Heart", Zhang Mingmin is not very famous in Hong Kong. Even the lyricist Huang Zhan himself does not know that "My Chinese Heart" has become popular in the mainland.
Although "My Chinese Heart" sold over one million records in mainland China, Zhang Mingmin didn't get much money, and the songwriters Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling did not receive any royalties.
What made Zhang Mingmin even more desperate was that since he participated in the Spring Festival Gala, Eternal Records, which has been taking good care of him, directly refrigerated it, because Eternal Records needs the Taiwanese record market and dare not release records for Zhang Mingmin, a left-wing singer.
So Zhang Mingmin has been doing a very miserable life in the past two years. He is very popular in the mainland but cannot make money. He can't make records when he returns to Hong Kong, so he can only sing on the stage. Sometimes he also needs to work and earn money to support himself.
Now that Kang Jianfei sent out an invitation letter, Zhang Mingmin seemed to have caught a life-saving straw. Without thinking, he agreed to join Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records.
There are only a few people taking planes in the mainland, and there are not many at the beginning of the first lunar month. Kang Jianfei, Zhang Mingmin and Li Lingyu were simply chartered flights.
After walking to the airport hall, he gradually became a little popular. Kang Jianfei was recognized in three instants.
Zhang Mingmin!
Li Lingyu!
Michael!
Most of the people in the hall surrounded him because "The Royal Sister" was popular in the mainland. In the film, Kang Jianfei, the second male lead, is well-known, but only knows that Kang Jianfei's role is Michael.
The mainland has not yet formed a star-chasing trend, but when encountering famous big stars in the country, the people will still rush up excitedly.This has nothing to do with chasing stars or not, but Chinese people’s own talents are experiencing onlookers.
Now Kang Jianfei, Li Lingyu and Zhang Mingmin are watched, and few people need to sign. They all surround them and pointed at them. Only those who are more brave will take the initiative to chat.
Fortunately, there were not many people in the airport hall, and only twenty were watching them. Kang Jianfei quickly led the two of them out of the siege.
Lingyu, how does it feel to be a big star?Kang Jianfei asked after getting in the car with a smile.
That's it, it doesn't feel much.Li Lingyuyan said insincerely that there are still various news reports about herself in her bag, which she specially collects and cuts them and pastes them on her notebook.
Zhang Mingmin sighed: It is too easy to become famous in the mainland. After participating in the Spring Festival Gala in 1983, I would be recognized wherever I went to the mainland.
From a certain perspective, what Zhang Mingmin said is the fact that the mainland in the 1980s and 1990s was indeed very famous and profitable, but the premise is that you must have vision, mind, and relationships.
At this time, many civil servants or factory workers in the government can earn several times their salary as long as they go into business, but few are willing to throw away their iron jobs and work alone.
What I want to become famous depends more on relationships. For example, Mao Amin, the number one sister in the music industry, had a singer who sang better and more qualified than her. As a result, an old lady appreciated Mao Amin and squeezed another singer's way, allowing Mao Amin to participate in international competitions and perform, and became famous in one fell swoop after winning the award.
The female singer who sang better than Mao Amin became a housewife who had difficulty in school twenty years later.
The most important reason why Zhang Mingmin is famous is that he encountered a good song, otherwise he would never be famous in his life with his appearance and singing skills.
Xiongfei Records is nominally affiliated with Guangzhou Records, and the company's address is also close to it. The house of the former Guangzhou Records Factory is rented.
Now the company has no equipment, and "Water Town in Dream" is still recorded in the recording studio of Guangzhou Records.
The person who drove to the airport to pick up Kang Jianfei was Liang Yong, the former driver of Ye Zipei. Now this person has also gone to Xiongfei Records to work, and his salary has doubled.
The car drove past a bustling street, and the song "Water Town in Dream" came from the side of the street. Liang Yong turned on the on-board radio station, and the same "Water Town in Dream" was played inside.
There is a kind of song that doesn't even require too much publicity to make people remember it, so that this song is played all over the streets.
For example, Lin Huixian's "Thousands of Songs", Daolang's "The First Snow in 2002", etc., "Water Town in Dreams" is also such a song.
In another time and space, when "Water Town in Dream" was first released in the 1990s, it took a long time for TV, radio, streets, alleys, karaoke, and even schools and factories. You can hear this song wherever you go.
Now there are platforms for the Spring Festival Gala to promote and sales through the channels of China Record Corporation. "Water Town in Dreams" can definitely be said to have blossomed across the country overnight.
When the Chinese Record Company published "My Chinese Heart" for Zhang Mingmin, it was called China Record Company at that time, and did not carry out corporate reforms.
Although local record shops and record shops at various provinces and municipal levels are nominally Chinese record shops, their management is very chaotic.
So "My Chinese Heart" was very chaotic when it was released. The sales volume on paper exceeded 1 million copies. Including the number concealed by local record agencies, the sales volume of that record was at least 2 million copies, and it may even be sold for more than 3 million copies.
Now, after the reform of the company system of record companies, the distribution and publicity have been much smoother, and the phenomenon of concealing the reimbursement of reimbursement has been curbed. "Water Town in Dream" sold 140,000 copies on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
You heard it right. 50,000 sales in Hong Kong are platinum records. Many singers have been unavailable for their entire lives. "Water Town in Dream" sold 140,000 in the first day in mainland China.
Due to the delay in publicity, many people did not know that "Water Town in Dream" had released tapes on the first day. The sales of single-day records on the second day of the first lunar month soared to 160,000 copies, and the sales of single-day records in the third day of the first lunar month fell back to 110,000 copies.
In just three days, most of the first 400,000 pieces of inventory in "Dream Water Town" were sold. Supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country were in a hurry, and factories are now in a hurry to irrigate.
Nowadays, the price of genuine tapes in mainland China is so scary. A radio is only more than 100 yuan, and a movie ticket costs 5 cents, but a box of genuine tapes costs 5 yuan.
You heard it right. At this time, workers generally earn only a few dozen yuan a month, and it costs 5 yuan to buy a box of tape.Maybe you will find the price outrageous, but it is actually a matter of value.
Twenty years later, I didn’t like a tape, so I just threw it aside after listening to it for a few days.
But nowadays, like furniture and electrical appliances, are items worth keeping for a long time. Basically, you can listen to them for several years by buying a box.
In addition to the distribution of the China Record Corporation, Guangzhou Record Corporation, and supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country, Xiongfei Record Corporation had more than 500,000 yuan in just three days, and Kang Jianfei promised to give Li Lingyu a 1% profit share.
It is profit sharing, not royalty sharing of record sales, which means that Xiongfei Records Company earns 500,000 yuan, so Li Lingyu can personally get 5,000 yuan.
It’s not that Kang Jianfei, the capitalist, is too unfair, but that Xiongfei Records Company has a very abnormal form. It is nominally a subsidiary of China Records Corporation. Almost all of the profits are directly transferred by the previous two companies, and various ways are needed to connect the relationship. I really don’t dare to give singers too much money.
Moreover, even if the profit sharing is 1% it is a big number that can make people jealous of the general salary in the mainland.
Nowadays, it is an era when tens of thousands of households can be reported. Li Lingyu became half a tens of millions of households in three days. I don’t know how eye-catching the news was when it was spread.
Since I have to visit each other these days, Ye Zipei is not in the company.
When Kang Jianfei brought two singers to Xiongfei Records Company, there were only two liaison officers working here, answering calls from time to time, recording and counting information from all over the country.
Kang Jianfei wanted to get a contract for Zhang Mingmin to sign, and then counted 1,000 yuan to Li Lingyu, saying: It will take another month or two to share the record. You should take this amount of money as pocket money first and buy something to go home to visit your parents.
Now I am using the third set of RMB, with a maximum denomination of only 10 yuan, and if you throw it out, it will be a thick stack.
Li Lingyu took the envelope excitedly and pulled out a stack of dark money. She had never seen so much money since she was a child. She swallowed her saliva and said: This... it's too much. Why do I always feel uneasy, as if it was stolen money?
This was the first time Kang Jianfei saw a singer who thought he had too much money. He smiled and said: Just take it, but don’t talk about it everywhere. If someone asks, you only get a few hundred yuan.
I know, I won't talk nonsense.Li Lingyu was quite stunned and nodded seriously.
The faster the money comes these days, the more likely it is to attract jealousy, and maybe it will be reported one day.
Li Lingyu's father is an old worker in the factory and her annual salary is only over 1,000 yuan. You can imagine how much the 1,000 yuan she has.
Kang Jianfei thought the girl was cute and smiled and said: OK, wait until Sister Pei arranges a job for you, and you will go back to Shanghai to celebrate the New Year with your family tomorrow.
Li Lingyu originally had a bad impression of Kang Jianfei, but now she has completely changed her mind and even had an inexplicable admiration. She carefully put away the money, looked up and smiled sweetly at Kang Jianfei and said: Thank you, Mr. Kang.
Why did Zhang Mingmin go along with Kang Jianfei?
The answer is very simple. Kang Jianfei is about to sign Zhang Mingmin to Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records. The former specializes in Mandarin songs, while the latter uses Cantonese songs for Zhang Mingmin.
The year Kang Jianfeifei went to Hong Kong, Zhang Mingmin, who worked in an electronics factory, participated in a singing competition, but was attracted by Hong Kong Eternal Records.
Deng Bingheng, the boss of Yongheng Records, is also a whimsical person. At that time, Hong Kong was already the world of Cantonese songs. He saw that Taiwan’s campus folk songs were very popular and believed that singing Mandarin songs in Hong Kong should be more promising.
So, Deng Bingheng gave Zhang Mingmin a Mandarin folk song "The Road in the Countryside", which was self-evident, and his mother didn't even recognize him.
Later, when the Sino-British negotiations happened, Deng Bingheng felt that this was an opportunity to take advantage, so he asked Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling to create a patriotic song for Zhang Mingmin.
Needless to say, who Huang Zhan is, everyone knows him. Wang Fuling is also a top composer in Hong Kong and Chen Xunqi's mentor. Chen Xunqi's music knowledge was learned from Wang Fuling.
The two wrote a song "My Chinese Heart", which was released in 1982 and was still extremely frustrating.
It was not until Huang Yihe overheard the song that she invited Zhang Mingmin to participate in the 1983 Spring Festival Gala. "My Chinese Heart" was well-known and sung by hundreds of millions of people overnight.
As the singer of "My Chinese Heart", Zhang Mingmin is not very famous in Hong Kong. Even the lyricist Huang Zhan himself does not know that "My Chinese Heart" has become popular in the mainland.
Although "My Chinese Heart" sold over one million records in mainland China, Zhang Mingmin didn't get much money, and the songwriters Huang Zhan and Wang Fuling did not receive any royalties.
What made Zhang Mingmin even more desperate was that since he participated in the Spring Festival Gala, Eternal Records, which has been taking good care of him, directly refrigerated it, because Eternal Records needs the Taiwanese record market and dare not release records for Zhang Mingmin, a left-wing singer.
So Zhang Mingmin has been doing a very miserable life in the past two years. He is very popular in the mainland but cannot make money. He can't make records when he returns to Hong Kong, so he can only sing on the stage. Sometimes he also needs to work and earn money to support himself.
Now that Kang Jianfei sent out an invitation letter, Zhang Mingmin seemed to have caught a life-saving straw. Without thinking, he agreed to join Xiongfei Records and Fengxing Records.
There are only a few people taking planes in the mainland, and there are not many at the beginning of the first lunar month. Kang Jianfei, Zhang Mingmin and Li Lingyu were simply chartered flights.
After walking to the airport hall, he gradually became a little popular. Kang Jianfei was recognized in three instants.
Zhang Mingmin!
Li Lingyu!
Michael!
Most of the people in the hall surrounded him because "The Royal Sister" was popular in the mainland. In the film, Kang Jianfei, the second male lead, is well-known, but only knows that Kang Jianfei's role is Michael.
The mainland has not yet formed a star-chasing trend, but when encountering famous big stars in the country, the people will still rush up excitedly.This has nothing to do with chasing stars or not, but Chinese people’s own talents are experiencing onlookers.
Now Kang Jianfei, Li Lingyu and Zhang Mingmin are watched, and few people need to sign. They all surround them and pointed at them. Only those who are more brave will take the initiative to chat.
Fortunately, there were not many people in the airport hall, and only twenty were watching them. Kang Jianfei quickly led the two of them out of the siege.
Lingyu, how does it feel to be a big star?Kang Jianfei asked after getting in the car with a smile.
That's it, it doesn't feel much.Li Lingyuyan said insincerely that there are still various news reports about herself in her bag, which she specially collects and cuts them and pastes them on her notebook.
Zhang Mingmin sighed: It is too easy to become famous in the mainland. After participating in the Spring Festival Gala in 1983, I would be recognized wherever I went to the mainland.
From a certain perspective, what Zhang Mingmin said is the fact that the mainland in the 1980s and 1990s was indeed very famous and profitable, but the premise is that you must have vision, mind, and relationships.
At this time, many civil servants or factory workers in the government can earn several times their salary as long as they go into business, but few are willing to throw away their iron jobs and work alone.
What I want to become famous depends more on relationships. For example, Mao Amin, the number one sister in the music industry, had a singer who sang better and more qualified than her. As a result, an old lady appreciated Mao Amin and squeezed another singer's way, allowing Mao Amin to participate in international competitions and perform, and became famous in one fell swoop after winning the award.
The female singer who sang better than Mao Amin became a housewife who had difficulty in school twenty years later.
The most important reason why Zhang Mingmin is famous is that he encountered a good song, otherwise he would never be famous in his life with his appearance and singing skills.
Xiongfei Records is nominally affiliated with Guangzhou Records, and the company's address is also close to it. The house of the former Guangzhou Records Factory is rented.
Now the company has no equipment, and "Water Town in Dream" is still recorded in the recording studio of Guangzhou Records.
The person who drove to the airport to pick up Kang Jianfei was Liang Yong, the former driver of Ye Zipei. Now this person has also gone to Xiongfei Records to work, and his salary has doubled.
The car drove past a bustling street, and the song "Water Town in Dream" came from the side of the street. Liang Yong turned on the on-board radio station, and the same "Water Town in Dream" was played inside.
There is a kind of song that doesn't even require too much publicity to make people remember it, so that this song is played all over the streets.
For example, Lin Huixian's "Thousands of Songs", Daolang's "The First Snow in 2002", etc., "Water Town in Dreams" is also such a song.
In another time and space, when "Water Town in Dream" was first released in the 1990s, it took a long time for TV, radio, streets, alleys, karaoke, and even schools and factories. You can hear this song wherever you go.
Now there are platforms for the Spring Festival Gala to promote and sales through the channels of China Record Corporation. "Water Town in Dreams" can definitely be said to have blossomed across the country overnight.
When the Chinese Record Company published "My Chinese Heart" for Zhang Mingmin, it was called China Record Company at that time, and did not carry out corporate reforms.
Although local record shops and record shops at various provinces and municipal levels are nominally Chinese record shops, their management is very chaotic.
So "My Chinese Heart" was very chaotic when it was released. The sales volume on paper exceeded 1 million copies. Including the number concealed by local record agencies, the sales volume of that record was at least 2 million copies, and it may even be sold for more than 3 million copies.
Now, after the reform of the company system of record companies, the distribution and publicity have been much smoother, and the phenomenon of concealing the reimbursement of reimbursement has been curbed. "Water Town in Dream" sold 140,000 copies on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
You heard it right. 50,000 sales in Hong Kong are platinum records. Many singers have been unavailable for their entire lives. "Water Town in Dream" sold 140,000 in the first day in mainland China.
Due to the delay in publicity, many people did not know that "Water Town in Dream" had released tapes on the first day. The sales of single-day records on the second day of the first lunar month soared to 160,000 copies, and the sales of single-day records in the third day of the first lunar month fell back to 110,000 copies.
In just three days, most of the first 400,000 pieces of inventory in "Dream Water Town" were sold. Supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country were in a hurry, and factories are now in a hurry to irrigate.
Nowadays, the price of genuine tapes in mainland China is so scary. A radio is only more than 100 yuan, and a movie ticket costs 5 cents, but a box of genuine tapes costs 5 yuan.
You heard it right. At this time, workers generally earn only a few dozen yuan a month, and it costs 5 yuan to buy a box of tape.Maybe you will find the price outrageous, but it is actually a matter of value.
Twenty years later, I didn’t like a tape, so I just threw it aside after listening to it for a few days.
But nowadays, like furniture and electrical appliances, are items worth keeping for a long time. Basically, you can listen to them for several years by buying a box.
In addition to the distribution of the China Record Corporation, Guangzhou Record Corporation, and supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores across the country, Xiongfei Record Corporation had more than 500,000 yuan in just three days, and Kang Jianfei promised to give Li Lingyu a 1% profit share.
It is profit sharing, not royalty sharing of record sales, which means that Xiongfei Records Company earns 500,000 yuan, so Li Lingyu can personally get 5,000 yuan.
It’s not that Kang Jianfei, the capitalist, is too unfair, but that Xiongfei Records Company has a very abnormal form. It is nominally a subsidiary of China Records Corporation. Almost all of the profits are directly transferred by the previous two companies, and various ways are needed to connect the relationship. I really don’t dare to give singers too much money.
Moreover, even if the profit sharing is 1% it is a big number that can make people jealous of the general salary in the mainland.
Nowadays, it is an era when tens of thousands of households can be reported. Li Lingyu became half a tens of millions of households in three days. I don’t know how eye-catching the news was when it was spread.
Since I have to visit each other these days, Ye Zipei is not in the company.
When Kang Jianfei brought two singers to Xiongfei Records Company, there were only two liaison officers working here, answering calls from time to time, recording and counting information from all over the country.
Kang Jianfei wanted to get a contract for Zhang Mingmin to sign, and then counted 1,000 yuan to Li Lingyu, saying: It will take another month or two to share the record. You should take this amount of money as pocket money first and buy something to go home to visit your parents.
Now I am using the third set of RMB, with a maximum denomination of only 10 yuan, and if you throw it out, it will be a thick stack.
Li Lingyu took the envelope excitedly and pulled out a stack of dark money. She had never seen so much money since she was a child. She swallowed her saliva and said: This... it's too much. Why do I always feel uneasy, as if it was stolen money?
This was the first time Kang Jianfei saw a singer who thought he had too much money. He smiled and said: Just take it, but don’t talk about it everywhere. If someone asks, you only get a few hundred yuan.
I know, I won't talk nonsense.Li Lingyu was quite stunned and nodded seriously.
The faster the money comes these days, the more likely it is to attract jealousy, and maybe it will be reported one day.
Li Lingyu's father is an old worker in the factory and her annual salary is only over 1,000 yuan. You can imagine how much the 1,000 yuan she has.
Kang Jianfei thought the girl was cute and smiled and said: OK, wait until Sister Pei arranges a job for you, and you will go back to Shanghai to celebrate the New Year with your family tomorrow.
Li Lingyu originally had a bad impression of Kang Jianfei, but now she has completely changed her mind and even had an inexplicable admiration. She carefully put away the money, looked up and smiled sweetly at Kang Jianfei and said: Thank you, Mr. Kang.