096 "The Heart Is Too Soft" is finally on fire
After class on Friday the 27th, Ye Fan came to the studio to see how Jay Chou's songs were being written.
Huang Bo saw Ye Fan's arrival and said quickly: "Xiao Fan, you're here just in time. Help Jielun read the song he wrote. The music sounds pretty good to me."
Jay Chou also looked at Ye Fan expectantly and handed over some song demos he had written.
Seeing that Huang Bo and Jay Chou have begun to call themselves brothers, Ye Fan feels weird looking at the two people with different painting styles.
After taking the DEMO, Ye Fan counted the number. Good guy, there are more than 50 songs. It seems that the rumors about the previous life are not false.
"Then let me listen first." After saying that, Ye Fan put the tape into the radio and played it.
At this time, Ye Fan's studio has been relatively well established. Although the staff is small and the experience is insufficient, it is sufficient for daily maintenance. There are also partners such as recording studios and tape production factories, but they are not large.
After all, there are only three singers now, including Ye Fan. The establishment of distribution channels requires a lot of investment. The relationship between Ye Fan and Jingwen is still in the honeymoon period. There is no need to consider the channels for the time being. As for the money, Ye Fan will have another use next year.
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After listening to the DEMO, Ye Fan could tell that except for one song "End of the World", Jay Chou's other famous songs have not appeared yet. The songs he wrote now are all songs he wrote for others in his early days, which are not very famous.
Ye Fan looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "There is one song that I think would be fine as the title song, and there are a few other good songs as well. It should be no problem to put together an album."
Hearing Ye Fan's words, both of them were a little happy, but Ye Fan added: "Don't be too happy too early. I just said that I can release an album. The quality of this album is still very average. Don't have too high expectations."
, the first time is like testing the waters, you have to keep writing."
After listening to this, Jay Chou calmed down, nodded towards Ye Fan and said, "Don't worry, Brother Fan, I will be satisfied if I can release an album, and I will continue writing later."
Ye Fan nodded after hearing this, and was not embarrassed about the title "Brother Fan". Although Jay Chou was one year older than him, Jay Chou also recognized Ye Fan as a person after getting along with him during this period of time.
In addition, Ye Fan is not only the boss, but also a big singer. According to the time of his debut, there is no problem for Jay Chou to call Ye Fan this way.
Ye Fan asked Huang Bo again: "How is the progress of your album? Is the album title ready? When is it going to be released?"
Huang Bo said with a smile: "The post-production has been completed. The album is called "Wandering" and is ready to be released on January 1st."
Ye Fan heard that Huang Bo was planning to release the album at this time, so he advised him to postpone it a little longer, but Huang Bo couldn't wait any longer and wanted to release the album as soon as possible.
Ye Fan couldn't tell the specific reason. Seeing that Huang Bo couldn't be persuaded, he could only feel sorry for him in his heart.
Because at that time, Xiao Qi's album is expected to be a hit, and no one except Ye Fan will be able to reap the benefits of singing, but Ye Fan has no plans to release an album yet.
After all, the sales volume of the album "Heart Is Too Soft" alone is 26 million copies. If pirated copies are included, the sales volume will more than double. Later, no one, including Jay Chou, could break this record.
This cannot be said that Jay Chou is inferior to Xiao Qi, but when Jay Chou rose, the glory of physical records had passed, and the Internet era had emerged. Without the Internet, Jay Chou's influence would not be great. It can only be said to be personal fate.
Law.
At this time, Jay Chou asked Ye Fan again if he could help him write lyrics, because except for the lyrics and music of "End of the World", he had already finished it all, and the other demos were just compositions and no lyrics yet.
Ye Fan thought about it and decided to help. After all, not many people in Yanjing knew the lyrics of Hokkien songs. He did remember some of them. If he went home and thought about it, he should be able to remember them.
But even after filling in the lyrics, Ye Fan would still ask Jay Chou to sing the Mandarin version. After all, this would have a wider audience.
Jay Chou didn't know this, but when he saw that Ye Fan was willing to help him write lyrics, his somewhat paralyzed expression finally changed, and he kept thanking Ye Fan.
When Huang Bo saw that Ye Fan was willing to help Jay Chou write lyrics, he wanted to slap him in the mouth. He blamed himself for being thin-skinned and embarrassed to speak. If he had known that Ye Fan was so talkative, he would have had the shamelessness to ask Ye Fan for a song when he was writing songs.
But the deal is done, and Huang Bo can't say anything. He can only see if there is a chance in the future.
Seeing that the matter was almost settled, Ye Fan took the DEMO home and registered the copyright. Naturally, there were studio employees to help Jay Chou with it.
Since it would take a week for the body to recover, Ye Fan asked Zeng Li to recuperate in the dormitory this week. He returned to the courtyard and began to recall the lyrics of songs such as "Three Dark Three Days" and "Speak My Heart Out Loud" to strive for
I spent two days on the weekend filling in these lyrics.
After all, it was too long ago. These songs were composed by Jay Chou and sung by Wu Zongxian. If they were not composed by Jay Chou, Ye Fan would not pay attention to these songs. He simply read the lyrics, especially because Wu Zongxian sang them in Hokkien.
, it still takes a lot of effort to remember.
After two days of busy work, I finally finished filling in the lyrics for the other 9 songs. Ye Fan gave the lyrics to his uncle and asked him to take them to the studio and hand them over to Jay Chou on Monday. Ye Fan began to think about "Eighteen Years Old Sky" again.
》The problem with the soundtrack.
Li Geng called Ye Fan on Sunday and told him that the soundtrack was missing during post-production and asked him to quickly think about the soundtrack and then stop by to add some dubbing.
Considering the risk of plagiarism in "Red Stone", Ye Fan still planned to use his own songs. The two albums that have been released have many suitable songs that can be used.
When the TV series becomes popular, it can also stimulate album sales, which is the best of both worlds.
So on Monday the 30th, Ye Fan came to the dubbing studio with his classmates who needed dubbing.
Ye Fan also told Li Geng the idea of the soundtrack. Anyway, the copyright belongs to him, so Li Geng can score the music as he likes and he will see the final result.
Li Geng thought about Ye Fan's songs and found that there were indeed many suitable songs and a lot of music that could be used. He readily agreed and planned to go back to see the finished film and think about which songs to use for the soundtrack.
Ye Fanjian finally relaxed and planned to go out with Zeng Li for two days during the New Year's Day holiday.
Because it was after New Year's Day, the rehearsal for the Spring Festival Gala was about to begin, and he would be busy again. Zeng Li was going home for the New Year, and the two of them wouldn't see each other for a while.
As for Xu Zhongmin's attempt to invite him to a book signing, Ye Fan refused. The book signing was not as important as Zeng Li's.
Zeng Li heard Ye Fan's idea and agreed without hesitation. Do you still need to consider whether you can travel with your sweetheart during the holidays? Especially at this time, the two of them are inseparable.
So Ye Fan and Zeng Li discussed it, and as soon as school ended on the 31st, they went back to the dormitory, picked up their luggage, and headed straight to the airport.
The two of them chose Hubei Province as their travel destination this time. This was also suggested by Ye Fan. After all, Zeng Li had been coming to Yanjing since he was a child. He had never visited the scenic spots in his home province, so Zeng Li could still go home.
One trip to meet my great-mother would accomplish many things.
When Zeng Li heard Ye Fan's suggestion, she felt it was very thoughtful and happily agreed.
The two arrived at Wushi and found a hotel to stay. Ye Fan looked at Zeng Li after taking a bath and couldn't help but step forward and hug her...
On the 1st, it was the day when Huang Bo released the album. Although Jingwen agreed to help promote it, most of the expenses were paid by Ye Fan's studio. Fortunately, there were not many albums recorded, only 5,000 copies, which were sold in the Yanjing area.
, it is also convenient to count sales at the first time.
For an unknown singer, the quality of the songs is not very good. You can imagine how miserable the sales will be. Even with the name of Ye Fan Studio, "Wandering" only sold a few dozen copies on the first day.
Huang Bo, who knew the result, was disappointed.
In terms of word-of-mouth, except for "Wandering" and "Lonely Kingdom" which have slightly better reviews, I won't mention the other songs.
After Zhang Xing saw this situation, he increased some publicity. The sales of the second and third items were slightly better, but only 469 were sold in three days.
These three days were also three days of suffering for Huang Bo. When Jay Chou saw Huang Bo's appearance, he couldn't explain how he felt. He could only keep comforting Huang Bo. He might have seen his future appearance in him.
However, looking at the current sales progress, 5,000 copies of the "Wandering" album will be sold slowly and can still be purchased.
But for this album, forget about making money, it just depends on whether you lose more or less.
This made Huang Bo feel grateful to Ye Fan and at the same time, he remembered what Ye Fan had said to him before.
In addition, Xiao Qi's "Heart Is Too Soft" is finally becoming popular in China, just as Ye Fan guessed.
"Heart Is Too Soft" was released for a week and only sold more than 10,000 copies, but Xiaochong and Xiaoqi were worried to death.
With no other choice, Xiaochong decided to find some mainland audio and video distributors.
Because the current policies in the Mainland are not as relaxed as they were in the past, the only way for Wanwan's music albums to enter the Mainland is through Mainland audio and video distributors.
Xiaochong searched all the audio and video distributors in Yangcheng, Magic City, and Yanjing in Wanwan, and also tried Jingwen, but was boycotted by the distributors in these places.
Fortunately, the photocopying company in Jinling fell in love with "Heart Is Too Soft" and brought the album back to the mainland. Moreover, it happened to coincide with the New Year's Day holiday, and there would be many tourists in Jinling Confucius Temple.
So Jinling Photocopying Company first released "Heart Is Too Soft" to Confucius Temple to test the effect.
Not surprisingly, at night, when the people from the photocopying company saw "Heart Is So Soft" being played in various stores in Confucius Temple, the staff member felt that "Heart Is Too Soft" would definitely become a hit.
In this way, "Heart Is Too Soft" soon became the temple song of Jinling Confucius Temple and became popular in Jinling.
By January 3, this song had already become popular in the streets and alleys of Jinling City, and began to spread across the country, but the Wanwan music circle was still unaware of this.
Of course, Ye Fan didn't know these things. During these three days of vacation, Ye Fan rarely relaxed for a while. He didn't care about work and the outside world. He and Zeng Li stayed at home with his mother-in-law for three days.
There was no way, the two of them originally wanted to go out to have fun, but unfortunately, Zeng Li's "relatives" came the next day.
Ye Fan counted the days, and it was indeed around the same time. Seeing Zeng Li in pain and it was not convenient to travel, Ye Fan gave up the plan.
Although she couldn't travel with Ye Fan, Zeng Li felt very satisfied and happy with her mother and Ye Fan at home.
Especially when Zeng Li had a stomachache, she felt so sweet when she saw Ye busy busy in front of him.
When Zeng's mother found out that Ye Fan and Zeng Li had become boyfriend and girlfriend, she smiled from ear to ear. Fortunately, Zeng's mother was sensible and knew that it was not convenient to reveal Ye Fan's identity, so she did not make it known to the outside world, even to the neighbors and leaders.
Ju's questions were brushed aside.
In this way, Ye Fan and Zeng Li stayed at home for three days before returning to Yanjing. Fortunately, Zeng Li came back to see Zeng's mother. Even if they could not travel, the trip was quite satisfactory.
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Chapter completed!