The 80,000 yuan prize money was split among six people, with each person receiving 13,333 yuan.
The remaining two yuan was spent by Han Chui on cigarettes.
Zhang Liyuan's prize money was also paid out, and she used it to repay Liang Liang the 2,000 yuan she had saved for her brother's medical treatment.
Zhang Zhenyu's hospitalization cost less than two thousand yuan in total.
She gave the remaining 28,000 yuan to her mother to take home so that her brother could find a wife.
Next, she will accompany Liu Wen to Guangzhou to sign a contract with Pacific.
After dealing with these matters on December 5th, Liang Liang, along with the Blue Shark Band, bid farewell to Zhou Anming, Luo Lin, and others.
Liang Liang gave Luo Lin the song "The Lonely Shepherd".
It was originally someone else's music, so there's nothing wrong with returning it to him.
They were going to Guangzhou first, where they would meet up with the people from Jinmeng Company and film the music videos for the songs "Returning Home" and "Hometown" in Guangzhou.
Liu Wen paid for the plane ticket from Haikou to Guangzhou.
He didn't lose out at all by spending this money. The Blue Shark Band's trip to Yangcheng was not only to film the music video for Jinmeng Company's new album, but also to finalize the album's publication with Pacific Company and the album's publication after signing the contract with Zhang Yan.
Because Zhang Liyuan consistently used the name Zhang Yan during the Tengda Junior High School Cup competition, Liu Wen decided that her future name would be Zhang Yan.
If Liang Liang puts a little effort into these two albums, what's a few plane tickets?
Pacific and Jinmeng's first collaborative album, a duo album featuring Shi Zhang and Chen Jiewen, only contains three songs by Liang Liang. Since its release, it has sold over 700,000 copies. At the current rate, it's not a problem for it to eventually sell over a million copies.
If Blue Shark's albums consisted entirely of their own songs, their sales would be phenomenal.
There's also Zhang Yan's album, which is guaranteed to sell hundreds of thousands of copies.
Therefore, spending a few plane tickets on Liu Wenhua is no big deal at all.
After arriving in Guangzhou, the Blue Shark band rested for half a day before starting work on the 6th.
Han Chui is now Zhang Yan's agent and has signed a contract with Pacific Company on Zhang Yan's behalf.
Liang Liang carefully reviewed Zhang Yan's agency contract and concluded that it was a fairly fair contract overall.
After Zhang Yan signed the contract, Liu Wen personally discussed the album with the Blue Shark Band. Before the album was released, Liu Wen wanted to release the two singles, "Dreaming Back to the Tang Dynasty" and "No Place to Hide," to earn some money in advance and warm up for the Blue Shark Band's album to be released after the Chinese New Year.
Liang Liang did not object to Liu Wen's suggestion.
As for the album, Liang Liang promised to write all the songs before the new year, and then start recording after the new year, aiming to release it in April or May.
They can put their own albums aside for now, but now that Zhang Yan has signed with Pacific Records, she absolutely has to have her own work.
Of the five songs she sang during the competition, all but "Crazy for Love" were copyrighted by other people.
"Legend" and "Sky" were sold to Chen Jiewen.
"A Wet Heart" was sold to Ge Anping.
"Loving You Ten Points, Tears Seven Points" is a song dedicated to the Sea Waves Band.
Only one song, "Crazy for Love," has no title.
Strictly speaking, it's okay for Liang Liang to sing these copyrighted formats, since she retains the performance rights, but it's not allowed for others to sing them.
Of course, if no one is going to investigate, then so be it.
In times when copyright awareness was less stringent, this practice was understandable. However, as copyright becomes more standardized, this practice will eventually reach a dead end.
Zhang Yan must have her own songs.
Liang Liang locked herself in an office at Pacific Audio-Visual Company, with just a cup of tea, a stack of papers, and a pen.
In his previous life, as the lead singer of a band, he had listened to countless Chinese and foreign songs.
Because of his poor foreign language skills, he could only listen to foreign songs and then forget them. However, he had a lot of good Chinese songs memorized. Now, all he had to do was to dig them out, filter them, and find songs suitable for Zhang Yan to sing.
Zhang Yan's personality and vocal qualities are not suitable for singing songs with strong rhythms and fast tempos.
She is better suited to singing lyrical, slow songs.
The first song Liang Liang chose was "Monologue".
This song was released in 1996 and sung by Green Island singer Hsu Yun-ju. It still looks perfectly fine now.
For the second song, Liang Liang came up with a song called "A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind".
Upon closer inspection, it seems this song was already released, just a month ago.
Damn it! I'm too late, I missed it.
"A Cloud Made of Rain in the Wind" came late, but "Sunshine Always Comes After the Storm" certainly won't be late. This song, which later became the anthem of the women's volleyball team, was only released in the year Hong Kong returned to China.
The second song is settled.
Liang Liang suddenly remembered a song called "The Person Who Loves Me and the Person I Love," which was to be released in a few months.
It counts as one.
It took me a long time to come up with three songs, which shows that choosing a song is not an easy task.
Liang Liang spent another hour selecting three songs by a singer named Zhou Hui: "The Promise," "I Don't Want You to Know," and "Wind Chimes."
Liang Liang remembers that this singer's album sold a million copies in 1996.
Liang Liang's head was throbbing with worry, so she decided to stop thinking about it and walked out of the house.
He was startled when he stepped out of the room; Liu Wen and several other people were guarding the door.
"Mr. Liu! What are you doing? Catching mice?"
"To protect you! You can't be disturbed when you're creating."
Haha! The CEO of a company personally assigned someone to oversee the place. What kind of spirit is that?
Isn't this just a blatant lie?
"Isn't it serious? Isn't this making a mountain out of a molehill?"
"How many songs have been produced?" This is the question Liu Wen is concerned about.
"How many songs? Mr. Liu! Do you think composing music is as simple as going to a small shop to buy cigarettes? You can just buy as many packs as you want."
Of course, Liang Liang wouldn't tell them that he had selected six songs. Composing six songs in just over two hours—even if you bragged about it to the heavens, no one would believe you.
"Mr. Liu! I will try my best to write songs for Zhang Yan these next few days, but I can't guarantee how many I can write. At most, I can write four or five songs, which will be enough for Zhang Yan to participate in an event or a party."
As for making an album, there's no rush. If a singer hasn't accumulated a certain level of fame, making an album is just a waste of time.
Who would buy it?
Alternatively, one can increase their popularity by releasing singles and participating in events. Once their popularity reaches a certain level, releasing an album will naturally attract buyers.
“That works too! With four or five songs, Zhang Yan can really shine at any event she participates in.”
"I've now finished writing a song called 'The Person Who Loves Me and the Person I Love,' which Zhang Yan can practice now, and then I'll release it."
This song should be released next March, so it's better to release it quickly to secure a spot.
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