Chapter 258: A Bad Movie

Yang Ruoqian has seen hot searches like this countless times in his extensive experience of surfing the Internet.

Yang Ruoqian ignored this inconspicuous and unimportant hot search and entered keywords related to private jet purchases in the search box.

In fact, when Yang Ruoqian decided to buy a private jet, he also carefully considered the type of aircraft.

For example, large business jets, such as those modified from Boeing and Airbus, will definitely have more space, and the maintenance and fuel costs will also be higher.

Moreover, since the plane is large, the interior space is large, so more money can be spent on interior decoration and entertainment items, such as air banquet halls, air cinemas, and even luxury facilities such as air saunas, which provide an excellent in-flight experience.

Business jets like the Gulfstream 650 have far less operating space than business jets converted from large passenger aircraft, and their comfort is not as good either.

What's more, such small aircraft have a faster cruising speed, can land at more airports, and their operating and maintenance costs are much lower than those of large aircraft.

From a long-term perspective, it would definitely be a waste of money to purchase a large business jet, which is more in line with Yang Ruoqian's need to make a loss this quarter.

However, there are also many problems in ordering a large business jet - the most important one for Mr. Yang is time.

Buying an airplane is not like buying a mobile phone. You can just go to a mobile phone store, pay for it and receive the phone. Then you can just park it at home.

If you want to customize a latest model of first-hand aircraft, it is not impossible to spend several years on it, with all the hassles and internal and external formalities.

Several years... Yang Ruoqian can't afford to wait!

He doesn't even want to wait for three months, so why wait for several years?

Far water cannot quench near thirst. If you want to spend the money quickly, you can only make some compromises. At worst, you can wait until the company's poor financial situation stabilizes before considering replacing the aircraft with a large wide-body business jet...

What's more, it is counterintuitive that the purchase price of small business jets is not much cheaper than that of large wide-body business jets.

For example, Airbus' ACJ320 business jet is worth about $100 million, which is only slightly more expensive than the latest models of small business jets such as Gulfstream or Bombardier.

On the contrary, small business jets that are not the latest models are generally available in stock. Even if they are not available, there will be second-hand nearly new ones, which can greatly reduce the time required for both purchase and transfer.

Therefore, after a little consideration, Yang Ruoqian naturally chose the option that could spend the funds in the shortest time without hesitation.

"Hmm...private jet purchasing guide, search."

"How luxurious are the world's ten most luxurious private jets?"

"A two-seater private jet that can be purchased for 500,000 yuan..."

"A private remote-controlled plane is also considered a private plane?!"

"Look carefully, this person is called Xiaoshuai? And that person is called Xiaomei?"

Looking at these titles, Mr. Yang couldn't help but complain: "What the hell is this? Can you give me some reliable strategies?"

"But the background music is still pretty nice..." Yang Ruoqian looked at these irrelevant videos helplessly and silently switched to the song identification app.

Unlike searching for playlists and recommendations on the music player in the past, Mr. Yang now wants to find some nice new songs. Usually, when he hears a good BGM while watching a video, he listens to the song and identifies it.

Then look for the singer of the song and see if there are any other good songs by this singer.

Sometimes, when I’m really out of songs, I’ll take a look at the music recommendations of some music bloggers.

As for the recommendations on the music player, Yang Ruoqian hasn't used it for a long time.

Yang Ruoqian opened the song recognition app, and a few seconds later, the title of this unfamiliar yet nice song appeared in the center of the phone screen.

“Time Cooks Rain… I haven’t heard it before, it should be a new song?”

"The theme song of the movie 'A Little Thing Called First Love'. Oh, it turns out to be the original soundtrack..."

Yang Ruoqian has never been fond of watching art films like this, so he didn't pay much attention to the movie and directly clicked on the song's details page.

The comment section for this song is extremely lively, and the vast majority of comments were posted recently, even within the last few minutes.

"As expected, a bad movie can produce a great song!"

"I suggest that Director Guo, who filmed 'A Little Thing Called Light', should kowtow to the record company. If it weren't for this song, your movie wouldn't deserve such high popularity."

"I gave this movie 1 point, including -1 point for the movie and 2 points for the theme song, a total of 1 point."

“I played it on loop. It really sounds good.”

"I specifically searched for the production company, and it's a company I've never heard of before."

“It’s common for small studios to produce hit songs, but they are most likely to run out of inspiration and reach their peak as soon as they debut.”

“…”

Looking at the comments, Yang Ruoqian could roughly guess that "Time Cooking Rain" was the divine song from the bad movie that was just mentioned on the hot search.

Unexpectedly, I missed it just now, but now I see it again by chance.

It seems that this song has a connection with me...

Yang Ruoqian first put the song into the playlist, and then clicked on the lyrics page of the song as usual, intending to write down the name of the singer and the name of the music company, so that when he had time and remembered it in the future, he could visit their homepage to see if there were any new songs released.

Looking down, at the top of the lyrics interface, in the song production list, Yang Ruoqian suddenly saw a very short name.

Huang Wei.

hiss……

Mr. Yang rolled his eyes tactically.

Why does this name look a little familiar ?

Isn’t this the name of the general manager of Spark Records?

Could it be that this song, which is so popular, has inexplicably become a product of Kuiguang Group? No, calm down. Huang Wei is not a very unpopular name. There are many people with this name all over the country. It may not be the one from our company.

Moreover, Huang Wei is the top executive in Spark Records, the director. How could he be listed in the list of producers when he holds such a high position? Can't he just let his subordinates do it? Yang Ruoqian scrolled through the lyrics and came to the detailed introduction page of the production team, and then saw a few big words that caught his eye.

"Spark Records holds the copyright to this work..."

Spark Records...

Copyright...

It's really you! Yang Ruoqian was so angry that he deleted this song from his playlist and uninstalled the music player as well.

He actually did such a big thing behind the scenes without saying a word. He regarded Spark Records as the best child in the group and poured so much effort into Spark Records.

"Rebellious son, rebellious son!"

The only good student with the best grades in the class was actually led astray by that bunch of disobedient poor students! How could Yang Ruoqian not be angry?

Originally, the group had only two projects that could lose money, one was the legal department, and the other was Spark Records. Now, one of the two major protectors has gone bankrupt.

At least in the short term, Spark Records can no longer be expected to make a loss.

This song was searched into the hot search list, and a large number of videos began to use this song as background music... This shows that it is very popular and the profit is definitely not small.

Although the movie "A Little Thing Called First Love" has a very bad reputation, it is also very well-known... There is no need for promotion at all, and countless moviegoers know this song! With this combination of measures, Spark Records not only saved a lot of money in the most expensive part of the song's distribution, but also made the song famous!

It's so clever. This smart move that kills two birds with one stone is not something that most people can think of.

Yang Ruoqian was quite gnashing his teeth. He originally thought that he had a connection with this song, but he didn't expect that this connection was so great that he couldn't afford it.

"Huang Wei, I really misjudged him!"

"I originally thought that an old employee who had been working at the bottom for more than ten years was a rare big shot... I didn't expect that he was so scheming!"

"I thought I had caught a big one, but I ended up catching a huge lump..."

When establishing Spark Records, Yang Ruoqian had clearly taken every possible measure, disgusting everyone from the inside out, frantically stirring up conflicts among employees and destroying their unity and creative enthusiasm...

Why, even in such adverse circumstances, can they force themselves to create a good work? It is not impossible to create a good work, but can they create it before I acquire it?

Can you please stop backstabbing me! After a while of collapse, Yang Ruoqian took two deep breaths and comforted himself: "It's okay. Anyway, I have "Wandering Blue Star" and private jet orders this quarter. The income from a song from Spark Records alone is just a drop in the bucket."

"What a music production company like this needs most is inspiration... Just because this song is a hit doesn't mean future songs will be as popular."

"It's just a flash of brilliance!"

It is normal for students with good grades in the class to perform poorly occasionally. We should not be completely disappointed with them just because of this one performance problem.

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Besides, Spark Records has been the pillar of the group for so long, and we cannot sentence it to death just because of a small mistake.

In Kuiguang Group, the projects that were completely sentenced to death by Yang Ruoqian include but are not limited to the live broadcast sector, e-sports sector, e-sports peripherals, and Shang Qianyu's personal IP, etc.

But Spark Records, a highly anticipated project, is definitely not among them.

After this round of turmoil is over, Spark Records will definitely return to its original position and become the pillar of the Kuiguang Group again.

…

At the same time, right below Yang Ruoqian, in the conference room of Spark Records.

For the first time, Huang Wei called all the employees involved in music production in the company and did not let them continue working.

Today is the third day of the release of the movie "A Little Thing Called Light", and it is also the third day of the release of "Time Cooks Rain".

Judging from the feedback from the market in the past three days, this song, which everyone in the company has put a lot of effort into, has been a huge success! It is so successful that even the bad movie "A Little Thing Called First Love" has not affected the reputation of the song.

In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency, Huang Wei took on tremendous pressure and even used the name of the Kuiguang Group headquarters to finally sign the contract, which seemed like a gamble.

Spark Records cannot continue to ask the group to increase investment when there is no hope of making a profit.

And now, thanks to the unremitting efforts of everyone in the company, they have finally achieved their first profit since the acquisition.

Even though this profit is insignificant compared to the market value of the entire group, it is a breakthrough from nothing to something!

At least in the future, when they eat at the group, they no longer have to sit at the children's table, and they no longer have to look ashamed when they see President Yang.

At least they are no longer a burden to the group.

Facing the excited employees in the conference room, Huang Wei was overwhelmed with emotion, and even his voice trembled a little: "Everyone, I believe everyone has seen this good news!"

“Our new song, “Time Cooks Rain”, has achieved the results we expected!”

"This song and the singer became famous too. According to the contract, every time she sings this song in a commercial performance, we can get a certain percentage of the commission."

The remuneration for commercial performances varies depending on the scale, but it is definitely in the hundreds of thousands.

The copyright fees of the songs, the income from commercial performances...

This income is enough for them to survive until the release of the next song.

The Spark Records employees in the audience were already extremely excited with their faces flushed.

Among them are old employees who have worked in the company for ten years, new employees who have just reported in, those who left the company and were recruited back, and even old leaders who were dismissed by Yang Ruoqian.

After nearly a decade of failure, struggle, despair and numbness, Spark Records has finally regained its vitality today.

What makes them so excited is not just the profit.

While Mr. Yang and the group gave full trust to Spark Records, they also invisibly put tremendous pressure on them.

Now they have finally proved that they are worthy of Yang Ruoqian's trust and that they have come out of the haze of the past.

It is difficult for those who have not gone through this journey to understand their sadness.

"Congratulations, Mr. Huang!"

"I've said it before, our song is sure to be a big hit and make a lot of money."

"I feel proud now! In the past, my legs would tremble when I saw the group leader. Does anyone understand this feeling?"

"Ha, usually after get off work I would hide in the bathroom for five minutes to avoid running into them. It's so embarrassing."

"I didn't even dare to speak loudly during company dinners."

"Today I'm going to take the initiative to collide with them!"

"How about having dinner tonight to celebrate?"

"sure……"

“…”

Huang Wei watched the discussion among the employees below the stage gradually deviate from the topic. He coughed lightly and brought the topic back on track: "Okay, I officially decide that everyone in the company will have a day off, plus a cash reward of 1,000 yuan per person!"

"We're going to keep the rest of the money for the production and release of new songs, so please understand!"

"Don't forget that President Yang has assigned us a task. Whether we can get the production of the Dragon and Phoenix Legend song depends on our future performance."

Many employees laughed and said, "Old Huang, you are really... Who hasn't been through this for so many years? Now you have a salary increase and bonus, which was unthinkable in the past."

"that is."

"Don't worry, we have almost finished the production over there. We guarantee to give President Yang and the group a surprise."

"Humph, didn't Mr. Yang say before that he was willing to wait 10 years to create a good work? Not only will we not let him wait 10 years, we won't even let him wait 10 months."

“We must come up with new works this quarter to let the group know that we are not a flash in the pan, and to let President Yang see that we also have long-term profitability!”

"By the way, doesn't the Shelter Company have a new movie coming out? Should we make the theme song for them this time?"

"I heard that their movie has hit a new high in popularity online. That's amazing."

"It's mainly because they are very productive. It's only been a short time since Titanic 2 was released, and now there's another one. It's been less than a month, right?"

“We have to target them.”

"In the future, we should cooperate more with the shelter company and use their popularity to save a lot of publicity and promotion costs."

"Let's talk about this the day after tomorrow when we get to work. Come on, let's celebrate..."

(The information about the planes is what I found on the Internet, it may not be authentic, just take it as the truth)

(End of this chapter)