"Although selling songs seems to bring in money quickly," Xiao Zhi said helplessly to Li Chencan at this moment, "I also thought when I was young that with a billion people in the empire, even if only half of them bought one of my songs, I could earn tens of millions! Even after splitting the money with the lyricist, composer, and various other parties, I would still make a lot. But later, I realized it's not that simple! Although many people have the habit of listening to music, in such a vast country like China, tens of thousands of songs enter the market every day. Once diluted, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer! When a superstar releases a song, with each download costing one yuan, they can easily get millions, or even tens of millions of downloads! In the empire, the Hong Kong singer Zhang Xuyou's 'Rainy Night' set a record with 240 million downloads nationwide and a billion downloads worldwide. Including the profits from the album, one song made him earn hundreds of millions! But that was his most glorious moment. For his other songs, the highest worldwide download was less than 200 million."
Chinese singers, although they can earn a lot of money, with each new song bringing in huge income, can only release about ten songs a year at most. After all, if they don't ensure quality, no one will buy their songs in the future.
However, the superstars in this world are indeed exceptionally talented!
In his previous life, Li Chencan had read some wish-fulfillment novels where an entertainment star gained everyone's respect, but the entertainment industry was so crude that even a Jin Yong novel could make the whole world shed tears. But in the Chinese Empire where Li Chencan is now, entertainment stars indeed receive everyone's respect, especially since the empire needs to fight a cultural war with America, making the social status of entertainment stars even higher. However, in this world, the film and novel industries are also unprecedentedly advanced. It's absolutely impossible for a Jin Yong novel to make the whole world kneel. This world has superstars like Zhang Xuyou, Liu Anhua, and Zhang Hengrong, many stunning filmmakers, and countless powerful writers.
Xiao Zhi continued, "But what about the newcomers cultivated by some companies? They upload a song, and after one or two years, the downloads don't even reach a thousand, completely living off the land! Your song has some popularity on the video website, so a ten-thousand download volume should be guaranteed. If it can make it to the top thirty on Amy Music's chart and stay there for about three days, getting fifty thousand downloads in a month is no problem."
"Fifty thousand..." Li Chencan was a bit disappointed by this number, "But the two songs I have, the combined views on the video website are in the millions!"
Xiao Zhi sneered, "The view counts on those video websites are highly inflated! Many are artificially boosted to attract sponsors, usually with a five-to-one ratio, and in extreme cases, even a hundred-to-one ratio!"
Li Chencan's heart sank, meaning that the actual view count of his two songs was only a few hundred thousand, or even less!
But the problem is, these two songs were indeed popular throughout China in his previous life, influencing several generations and even making his classmates cry.
Upon careful consideration, the issue must be with promotion and quality—
On the video website, people click spontaneously, and with the empire updating countless videos every day, it's easy to imagine his videos being buried. Also, due to the recording equipment, the audio quality is unclear, limiting the impact of these two songs.
But now, with a music company packaging him and promoting his songs on their platform, and even getting him on the charts...
Li Chencan believed these two songs would definitely cause a stir.
"I understand," Li Chencan nodded.
At this moment, Xiao Zhi said, "Actually, if you join our company, we can give you better packaging and better treatment... We can even use some means to get you to participate in this year's 'China's Good Music' competition."
"China's Good Music?" Li Chencan became interested.
China's Good Music is one of the empire's talent shows, different from other talent shows. China's Good Music focuses mainly on the contestants' original abilities.
Although they can also perform others' songs, those who perform others' songs can participate in other talent shows. In China's Good Music, performing others' songs results in a significant deduction of points.
China's Good Music is a platform dedicated to nurturing original musicians. Many famous original musicians have emerged from here, including many independent musicians who haven't joined music production companies or agencies. This show has the highest ratings among all singing talent shows in China, and the final showdown each year causes a viewing frenzy.
However, to win China's Good Music, one needs to prepare many original songs and compete with others, which is time-pressing and may not allow one to produce original songs when needed...
Therefore, only the truly exceptional can join China's Good Music.
China's Good Music has been held for eight sessions, and its ratings have been increasing. This year's China's Good Music will officially start in July.
Li Chencan, of course, also wants to join this show. If he can make it to the top five, his fame will skyrocket!
Transitioning from the music industry to the film industry would also easily help Li Chencan achieve his dream of remaking films and mastering the world of cinema.
But he also knows that this show needs to attract people with real talent and fame... not like the nationwide auditions of Happy Boys in his previous life.
He is not famous now, so he can't join.
But now, hearing Xiao Zhi's words, Li Chencan naturally became interested.
"Right, China's Good Music," Xiao Zhi said, "If you can achieve a good ranking on the Qianxun Music Newcomer New Song Chart and the songs are indeed very inspiring, they will choose to absorb you."
Li Chencan: "What kind of good ranking is needed?"
Xiao Zhi gave him a strange look and then shook his head, "Chencan, we need to be realistic. The show starts in July, and it's already in the final stage of selecting participants... 'Deskmate' and 'Brother Who Sleeps Above Me' will only be released on the 24th. Do you have the confidence to push these two songs to the top of the Qianxun Music Chart in just a week?"