Since the beginning of the artistic expression form of songs, there have been countless songwriters.
Don’t think that the songwriters and songs you see every day are all.
Which company doesn't have hundreds or even thousands of backup songs in its lyrics and music library
It is very possible that these people will never be successful in their lifetime, or they may become popular just by chance.
Of course, from a realistic perspective, there are just a few of the most famous songwriters in the Chinese music scene.
After all, it's not like in Europe and the United States, where you can rely on a steady stream of royalties to eat and drink for a lifetime by writing a lyric or song. Writing songs in China means you have to be famous to survive in this industry.
In the past two years, the music scene has been recovering continuously. In addition to Lu Xiaofeng's songs, which played a disruptive role, the songs of many other songwriters are also a major factor.
For example, last year's "I Sing My Song" runner-up Li Bi and second runner-up Jin Guwei are very dazzling rising stars in the past two years.
They have released their own best-selling album, but not a single song was written by Lu Xiaofeng.
Especially the outstanding Li Bi, who released her first album "Pride" last year. As of this year, it has received more than 7 million online downloads and 150,000 copies sold offline.
This is almost the same as the cumulative sales of "Infatuation Arrow" by King Su Mo.
Of course, even if Li Bi's album sales exceed Su Mo's ten times, she still cannot compare to Su Mo in terms of status and influence.
How can a new singer be able to match his status as a king for more than 20 years
But that doesn't mean Li Bi can't do it.
In fact, Li Bi's development in the music industry is very strong.
In August of this year, that is, last month, she released her second album, called "Stubborn".
In less than a year, a second album has been released, which not only represents Li Bi's aggressiveness, but also represents her high popularity.
If it is not popular enough, it will rush to make a second album. The sales will be poor, the reputation will not be good, and people will laugh at it. I don’t know how many years it will take before it can finally reach the top.
Li Bi's popularity is certainly sufficient.
She already has 30 million fans on Weibo, and she has accepted 5 first-line advertisements in one go, causing a youth storm in the entire entertainment industry.
If Han Donger hadn't released "Red Bean" this year, he might not have been able to beat her.
Li Bi's second album "Stubborn" was created by top domestic masters.
Lan Kai, Tang Yuan's royal producer and the number one gold medal producer, directly produced the "Stubborn" album.
Yi Kanghai, Cheng Lu, Wang Zhao and others have joined in. The entire album has 12 songs, all of which are excellent.
Especially for the song "Stubborn" of the same name, Wu Xinyan wrote the lyrics and composed the music himself, and then received a remuneration of 1.5 million yuan in one go.
Although it is 1.5 million for the lyrics and music combined, this is also Wu Xinyan’s highest price.
He dared to shout out such a high price, "Stubborn" is certainly worth the money.
On the recent new song charts, the number one on most lists is this song "Stubborn".
If the returning band hadn't been so domineering, occupying the top spots on the listening list, maybe "Stubborn" would even reach the top three on this list.
Even so, the influence of "Stubborn" is also very high.
This influence is directly reflected in sales.
Singers say a thousand words, but they still have to judge their heroes by how many music albums they sell.
"Pride" had 1.5 million downloads in two weeks, but "Stubborn" was even more fierce, with more than 1.8 million copies sold in two weeks, and 10,000 more offline copies than the previous "Pride"'s 60,000.
It has been almost a month and a half now, and the sales volume of the three major music online platforms has reached 5 million, and offline sales have reached 150,000, almost catching up with Han Donger's "Red Bean".
But we can’t look at it so simply.
The publisher of "Red Beans" is Yiren Studio, a third-rate music company that is not a strong player in terms of distribution and promotion.
The publisher of "Stubborn" is Phoenix Records, a giant in the industry. The distribution and promotion is much better than that of mediocre studios.
Especially Li Bi is also working very hard.
Including the time before the album was released, she traveled to 33 cities in total and participated in more than 20 fan meetings in about 60 days. She lost a lot of weight.
After working so hard, the second album achieved such good results.
In contrast, what about Han Donger...
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This girl is very lazy, or her personality is so indifferent. She only likes to sing good songs and doesn't pay much attention to her grades or anything else.
If "Red Bean" hadn't been so good, her performance would never have exceeded 10 million paid online downloads today.
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The topic changes back.
The success of Li Bi's two consecutive albums also allowed Shen Huan to see the abilities of the world's top songwriters.
They may still be a little far from the geniuses from another world, but as the second-best songs on the album, they are enough to carry this album of the returning band.
If you want to make a good album and strike while the iron is hot, of course you can’t start preparations now.
As early as a month ago, when everyone was discussing leaving a large sum of money for Lei Daxuan's treatment and pension expenses, Shen Huan started actively inviting songs.
Lu Xiaofeng has a very high reputation in the music industry.
If a musician, especially a songwriter, simply makes pop songs, he will definitely not be accepted by the mainstream.
But not Lu Xiaofeng.
Regardless of whether he composed songs such as "Straw Hat Song", "Chinese Kung Fu", or "Start Over" and "A Laugh in the Sea", they were all in line with the mainstream views of society, not to mention that "A Laugh in the Sea" was also China Television used it as the song for this year’s Spring Festival, which is a huge recognition from the media.
Therefore, mainstream composers, or those very aloof lyricists, whether they are convinced by Lu Xiaofeng or not, they definitely recognize Lu Xiaofeng's identity and will not look down upon Lu Xiaofeng just because he is only 17 years old.
Besides, Shen Huan has her own good friends in the music industry.
Two of the three heavenly kings, Tang Yuan and Su Mo, are both Shen Huan's good friends.
If nothing else, with the two of them taking action, many top songwriters would have to buy into it.
And the top famous lyricist Wang Zhao is also a good friend of Shen Huan. If you add the number one gold medal producer Lan Kai, I am afraid that few people have deeper connections than Shen Huan.
But this does not mean that Shen Huan can freely invite top songwriters to write songs for him.
On the one hand, there are works by top songwriters, which have always been in short supply.
Just think about how popular Lu Xiaofeng's songs are.
Although other people's songs are not as super classic as Lu Xiaofeng's, you, Lu Xiaofeng, have only released a dozen songs in more than a year. How can it be enough for hundreds of singers
Therefore, the works of top authors and sub-top authors are also snapped up as soon as they come out.
Even now that the top songwriters have raised the minimum price to 500,000, and the highest they dare to charge is 1 million, they are still very popular.
Which famous songwriter doesn't owe more than ten or twenty songs
Now that the price has increased, their songs are more valuable and harder to get out.
That is to say, dozens of well-known singers can get it, but ordinary singers will definitely not be able to get it if they don't have a record company to help them ask for songs.
Shen Huan understands these truths.
Fortunately, he didn't ask for much. If he only asked for 4 songs, he could squeeze it out no matter what.
He got the first two songs smoothly at the end of August.
Wang Zhao and Shang Ya's "Returning on a Snowy Night" and Bao Song and Shang Ya's "Don't Know How to Talk" were both obtained in just twenty days thanks to Wang Zhao's favor, and the quality is very high .
Although it is a love song, this kind of love is not the kind of love that is life-or-death, but with a touch of life understanding.
Shui Qingshan and the others all liked it after watching it, so each song was worth up to 1.5 million, and no one thought it was expensive.
The third song came from Yi Kanghai and Cheng Lu. This was what they got before the finals. Thanks to Lan Kai and Tang Yuan's face, the song in their hands was cut off by Shen Huan.
Now there is only one last song left, which has not yet been released.
As a fan of Teacher Lu Xiaofeng, Fu Bufan is actually absolutely determined to write songs for the returning band.
But the songs he wrote for Mr. Zhao Changshou were criticized as not suitable for him at all. The mood and situation of the returning band are not suitable for Fu Bufan's folk style, so Shen Huan has been hesitating.
In the past few days, Su Mo called Shen Huan and said that he heard that Wu Xinyan had a very powerful song in his hand. It was not like his previous love songs at all. It was called "Come and Go in vain" and it was very suitable for the returning band. .
Su Mo also sent a demo to Shen Huan.
Shen Huan felt that it was right as soon as he heard it, a bit like an old man singing softly.
Shui Qingshan and others also thought it was good.
But the problem is that Wu Xinyan's song has not yet been decided to whom, but I heard that Zhu Shengyu also likes this song.
If he doesn't hurry up, Zhu Shengyu and Wu Xinyan have cooperated several times, and Wu Xinyan may have to give him both favors and status.
Su Mo just helped Shen Huan delay time, but it was up to Shen Huan to do the details.
Shen Huan knew something about Wu Xinyan.
Although this person writes love songs, he is very withdrawn and doesn't like to interact with outsiders.
People who engage in art have more or less eccentricities, so people like Teacher Chu Liuxiang who are unwilling to reveal their identity will not be too surprised.
Now that she knew Wu Xinyan's character, Shen Huan thought of a way.
He immediately wrote a handwritten letter to Wu Xinyan and asked Su Mo to find someone to send it to him.
"I heard that Mr. Yushan had a good song. I got it with a skillful hand, and I am very eager for it. My friend only lacks a song to complete the album. I have heard that Jun Yada has made me return in vain."
The day after the letter arrived, Su Mo called.
"Amazing! Xiao Huan!" Su Mo's excitement was revealed on the phone, "Zhu Shengyu's talk was very promising, but as soon as your letter came over, Wu Xinyan called me this morning and told me about this song. Sold to you!"
After Shen Huan hung up the phone, she smiled.
Throughout the ages, countless literati have stuck to this routine!
Wu Xinyan's personality is similar to Wang Zhao's, they are both very aloof people.
I sing love songs, but in my heart I don’t think I am a common person.
Otherwise, he would not have nicknamed himself "Yushan".
There is always no harm in contacting such a person according to his temperament.
Shen Huan suddenly thought of Chu Xiangshuai's way of doing things, so she simply sent him such a letter to give it a try.
In this day and age, there are basically no people writing letters.
But Wu Xinyan, who is 40 years old this year, must have written letters when he was young, so he should have some feelings about this method of communication.
Unexpectedly, such a test was successful all of a sudden.
It seems that he is indeed an elegant person!
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