"By the way, Mr. Xia, are you still interested in investing in Rolling Stone Records now?" Zhang Aijia asked expectantly.

"Rolling Stones?" Xia Tian was stunned, and then asked in confusion, "What's wrong with it? Is the business in trouble? Or is the boss's investment failure?"

"It's like this. Rolling Stone Records has not developed smoothly in recent years. The company's internal management has been chaotic, which has caused a large loss of talent. In addition, international record giants have flocked to Taiwan, which has intensified competition in the record industry and the economic crisis that broke out last year have made Rolling Stone Records have been in poor condition recently." Zhang Aijia explained.

After hearing her explanation, Xia Tian nodded.

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Hong Kong and Taiwan have always been the two mainstays of the Chinese music scene.

The reason for this is that Hong Kong and Taiwan have been influenced by mainstream music circles such as Europe, America and Japan for a long time, and have followed the music trends of Europe, America and Japan.

For example, in the 1960s, the band style emerged in Hong Kong because of the trend inspired by the Beatles' visit to Hong Kong. Xu Guanjie, a Hong Kong singer, followed the trend at the time and established the Lotus Band. He practiced singing with his friends every day at the entrance of the corridor, and also had long Beatles-like hair. As a result, his father cut them all while he was sleeping at night.

In the 1980s, Taiwan launched the boy idol group Little Tigers. This was also learning from Fusan Janis firm, imitating the popular group Youth Team at that time.

As for the songs brought from the European, American and Japanese music scenes, there are countless more songs. Hong Kong's generation singer Xu Guanjie has many songs adapted from Elvis' songs.

Fuso singer Mika Nakajima is even called "one person supports half of the Chinese music scene". Of course, this is an exaggeration. There are many creative talents in the Chinese music scene, and there are also many people who are comparable to Miyuki Nakajima.

Because of learning from advanced experiences from Europe, America and Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan have built relatively complete music industries since the 1960s and 1970s. They have done a very good job in song creation, talent mining, idol packaging, publicity and marketing, and have therefore launched many people with great influence.

For example, Deng Lijun enjoying billions of applause, Feng Feifei, Queen of Hat Song, Prince Liu Wenzheng, Prince Gao Lingfeng, Prince of Frog, Master Xu Guanjie, Queen of Song Xu Xiaofeng, and Mei Yanfang, Queen of Changes...

Among them, Rolling Stone Records can definitely be called the best in the Chinese music scene, and there are countless singers it has made. Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, Zhou Huajian, Zhang Xinzhe, Ren Xianqi, Lin Yilian, Su Huilun, Mo Wenwei, Liu Ruoying...

At its peak, even Cheng Long, Zhang Guorong, Yang Ziqiong, Lin Qingxia and others have collaborated with Rolling Stone Records to release their own songs or albums.

However, in recent years, Rolling Stone Records has not been operating well.

First, it is due to intensified competition.

With the economic development of Greater China such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, and Star Ma Tai, the sales of Chinese songs are getting higher and higher. For example, the kings of the music scene such as Zhang Xueyou, Zhang Guorong, Tan Yulin, Mei Yanfang, Liu Dehua, and Li Ming, the queen's records can often be sold for hundreds of thousands or even millions of copies.

This sales volume is considered a very good result even in the United States. Therefore, more and more record giants want to enter the Chinese music scene and take the opportunity to get a share of the pie. For example, Warner Records acquired another Taiwan record giant, UFO Records, last year.

The influx of giants has put a lot of pressure on Rolling Stone Records because the giants have more funds and stronger strength. They can provide more resources in terms of publicity and marketing, idol packaging, and record production, which is incomparable to Rolling Stone Records.

The most important point is that the large checks issued by the giants also made the singers of the Rolling Stones feel excited. The people's hearts are dispersed and the team is difficult to lead.

In order to compete with the giants, Rolling Stone Records can only merge its sub-labels, studios, etc. to integrate resources, hoping to hold the "fist" and hit people.

However, when integrating resources, it will inevitably harm the interests of vested interests. For example, singers have their own studios, so they can produce their favorite records.

However, after the studio is merged, the singer must go through the company to release the record, and the company's positioning is different from the singer's positioning.

The purpose of the company is to make money, while the purpose of the singer is to transform, or to like, or to art... Many times, the demands of the two are completely different.

For example, singer Fan Xiaoxuan was an early image of "little witch". She became famous by singing "Healthy Song" and "I Love Bathing" and other young songs. But in fact, Fan Xiaoxuan didn't like that style. She was actually a rock girl in her bones. Therefore, Fan Xiaoxuan later broke up with a record company, set up her own studio, and started to only make her favorite rock albums.

Luo Dayou set up his own studio back then, and because he was dissatisfied with Rolling Stone Records and believed that the two took different paths, he left the company.

Therefore, the merger of Rolling Stone Records has caused a lot of dissatisfaction. The merger also led to company management chaos and decision-making errors, which not only failed to strengthen through mergers, but instead became shaky.

In addition, the economic crisis has also been greatly affected.

Taiwan records have always had good sales in Southeast Asia, such as Zhou Huajian, Zhao Qi, Wu Bai, Zhang Xinzhe, Chen Shuhua, etc., and are also popular singers in Southeast Asia, with sales of more than ten or even hundreds of thousands of records. Every year, Taiwan holds more than a hundred concerts in Xingmatai and other places, which is one of the largest sources of revenue for record companies.

However, due to the economic crisis, many consumers can naturally save on entertainment consumption when their incomes fall, unemployment and bankruptcy. Therefore, record sales, concert ticket sales and even commercial performances have been greatly reduced, which has also hit record companies' revenues.

Therefore, there are pursuers outside and internal troubles inside. In addition, the overall environment has become worse, which has made the operating conditions of Rolling Stone Records not very good in the past two years, and it can even be said to be in turmoil.

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Just a few years ago, when the summer acquired Rolling Stone Records, it proudly rejected the olive branch he extended.

Because the Rolling Stones at that time were strong and powerful, they dominated the Taiwan record industry with UFO Records. Every year, at least eight of the top ten best-selling albums on the Taiwan music list were monopolized by the two of them.

Therefore, the Rolling Stone executives naturally had no interest in selling the company and sold the chicken that could lay golden eggs.

Unexpectedly, the feng shui changed. Ten years from Hedong to Hexi, and ten years from Hexi, today's Rolling Stone Records hoped that summer would not change its original intention and continue to acquire it.
Chapter completed!