Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 9 Depressed Li Chunbo
After finishing the accompaniment, Zhou Ziheng went to Guangzhou Electric City again. He had to buy a tape master.

The so-called master tape is actually the original tape on which the singer recorded the song.

Because this type of tape is used to copy sub-tapes, certain quality requirements are required.

Of course, the singer can also choose to buy a blank tape that ordinary people listen to directly on the market, which is not impossible.

However, compared to the poor quality of ordinary master tapes, the quality of the sub-tapes will become even worse after being copied and engraved.

Poor quality means that there is noise in the tape, and all sub-bands may even be stuck.

Therefore, even though Zhou Ziheng himself did not have much money, he still chose to buy a blank master tape worth more than 300 yuan for recording.

When Zhou Ziheng brought the mother tape back to the Friendship Hotel, Li Chunbo had already returned.

However, Zhou Ziheng obviously noticed that he was in a very low mood. He was standing alone in the corridor, staring blankly at the train station in the distance.

"Brother Chunbo, what happened? Is there any change in the publishing matter?"

Zhou Ziheng walked up to him and stood side by side with him.

"Ziheng is back!" Li Chunbo smiled bitterly, "I always thought this tape was the best. If it is published, many people will like it.

But today I realized that there seem to be more people who don’t like it than those who like it.”

Hearing this, Zhou Ziheng said nothing, but just listened to him quietly.

"Today in the planning department, Brother Guangping and his team organized a listening session. Most of the people in the planning department came to listen to my tape together.

result……"

As he spoke, Li Chunbo became visibly depressed, "As a result, out of more than a dozen people, only Brother Ping and Brother Xiaoqi thought that this tape had the potential to be published.

None of the others agreed.

You know what they said about this tape?

They said that this tape can only be described in one word: rustic! There is no song in China more rustic than this one.”

"Brother Chunbo, you don't need to care about what these people think."

Zhou Ziheng hesitated for a moment and said:

“Although China Records is a record company, there are actually few people in it who truly understand music.

Most of them are just bureaucrats who are here to gain seniority.

You have to believe that since Brother Xiaoqi and Brother Guangping agree with your tape, it means that there is indeed something on your tape that attracts them.

Brother Xiaoqi and his friends are not outsiders who know nothing.

In terms of market research and musical literacy, they are no worse than musicians from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

With their support, why should you worry too much?

Even if China Records doesn't agree to publish your tape today, I think that with the efforts of Xiao Qi and his team, your tape will be successfully published in no time."

About the tape record "Xiao Fang".

In his previous life, Zhou Ziheng happened to see information about this.

The information inside is actually similar to the current situation. After Li Chunbo sent the tape to Li Guangping to listen to, Li Guangping immediately felt that this tape had great potential.

So he went straight to Li Chunbo's residence to negotiate with him.

Later, when he returned with the tape, he proposed to publish it, but was opposed by the entire newly established planning department.

Only Chen Xiaoqi stood with him.

Because this tape was opposed by most people in the planning department, its release was delayed again and again.

Finally, in 1993, Chen Xiaoqi proposed at a meeting that if the tape failed, he would bear the consequences alone.

With Chen Xiaoqi's strong support, this tape was finally released.

And the facts also prove that Chen Xiaoqi has an outstanding vision.

As soon as this tape was released, it was immediately loved by the audience in Guangzhou. Later, it was favored by audio and video dealers in various regions at the 1993 Summer Audio and Video Ordering Festival, and sold two million copies nationwide in the following two months.

Two million copies, what does this mean?
In the 1980s and 1990s, the tape market in the mainland was actually very large, with tapes by Hong Kong and Taiwan singers selling for millions of dollars.

But that was for singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan. It has never been the case that the sales of mainland singers' tapes reached such high levels.

It was not until October this year that Yang Yuying broke the embarrassing situation that no mainland singer had sales exceeding one million with "The Wind is Full of Love and the Water is Full of Smiles".

Li Chunbo is the first mainland singer to have his tape sales exceed two million copies.

Why is 1993 called the year of Li Chunbo?
The reason is that he is the undisputed king in the mainland this year.

His tape sales not only surpassed many mainland singers, but also surpassed those of singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In 1993, when Hong Kong and Taiwan culture was all the rage in mainland China and any Hong Kong and Taiwan singer's tape could sell hundreds of thousands of copies in mainland China, and he was able to stand out against the Four Heavenly Kings, Wang Jie, Chyi Chin, Wakin Chau and others, one can imagine how successful Li Chunbo was that year.

How glorious was Li Chunbo!

At that time, most of the commercial performance fees of mainland singers were basically within tens of thousands.

Yang Yuying and Mao Ning are popular!

They were very popular in 1993, but their commercial performance fee was only yuan per show.

As for Li Chunbo, his commercial performance fee was also tens of thousands at the beginning.

But there were too many commercial performances looking for him.

One day, he was so busy that he directly offered a price of 200,000 yuan in order to decline a commercial performance.

As a result, even he did not expect that the other party agreed without any hesitation.

Two hundred thousand, what a terrifying number it is at this moment.

In the early 1990s, when a family with an annual income of 10,000 yuan was considered wealthy, 200,000 yuan was almost an astronomical figure, a number that was out of reach for ordinary people.

It was precisely because of this information from previous lives that Zhou Ziheng was extremely certain that Li Chunbo’s tape would be published and even become extremely popular.

"Heh..." Li Chunbo laughed bitterly, as if he was no longer confident, "I hope so too!"

"Yes, didn't Brother Xiao Qi promise you that he would find a way to get your tape published?

You should believe he can do it!"

Zhou Ziheng comforted.

"Yeah!" Li Chunbo nodded. Although he still looked worried, it was much less. He looked at Zhou Ziheng, "What about you? Do you really want to finish recording the tape before going to the Pacific Ocean?"

"Yes! I have already selected the songs for the tape!" Zhou Ziheng said, and suddenly laughed: "When the time comes to record, I will need your help. There is a song in it that I would like you to sing with me.

In addition, regarding the post-production of the tape, I am not very good at using the equipment. You have experience in producing "Xiao Fang" and must have experience in this area. I will ask you to help with the post-production when the time comes."

"That's no problem!" Li Chunbo agreed without hesitation, "It's just that I'm only a novice myself, so don't blame me for being unprofessional when the time comes!"

"How could that be!" Zhou Ziheng responded with a smile.

To be honest, Zhou Ziheng really doesn't know how to do post-production.

To be more precise, he won't do that in the later period of this era.

The music equipment in the 1990s was completely different from that of later generations.

In later generations, there were various electronic devices, and even in the later stages, various devices could be used for synthesis.

But in this era, there are no such good equipment for him to use.

Mastering and post-production mixing all require the use of antique equipment from this era.

Neither the original body nor Zhou Ziheng himself quite understood these things.

Therefore, asking Li Chunbo, who is familiar with the equipment and has already produced "Xiao Fang" himself, to help is undoubtedly the best choice.

Otherwise, if he were to do it himself, he might be completely in the dark and not even be able to find the equipment switch, let alone start the production.

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