Chapter 261： Backstage confrontation

Chapter 261 Confrontation backstage

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On the TV, Link was wearing bright silver leather armor, with his short hair dyed silver, and with more than a dozen backup dancers, he sang and danced on the brightly lit stage. The fans in the audience burst into cheers like a mountain and a tsunami. There were many people singing this song along with Link, and the atmosphere was very lively.

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A slender white hand reached over, picked up the remote control on the coffee table, and pressed mute.

On the LCD screen, Link's singing voice and the cheers of the audience disappeared instantly. Through the screen, only Link could be seen opening his mouth, as if he was performing a pantomime, which was a bit funny.

“Scout, how’s the poaching plan going?”

The owner of the white palm put down the remote control and turned to look at the young man in the opposite seat, Scooter Braun, who is also the president of SBProjects Entertainment Agency.

With him in the music world, it would be difficult for Justin Bieber to become No. 1 in the pop music world.

  It came in force and became a blockbuster, making everyone get to know Link and the small record company Link Music.

Link Music was founded in early December 2008, with only two major shareholders, Link and Ms. Iwaka.

This achievement is too dazzling.

Scooter and he are old acquaintances, and now they share the same hatred. He just mentioned "Kill Link" and was recognized by Jay-Z, Kanye and others.

And sold platinum in the United States within a month.

In 2002, relying on family connections, he entered the sports and music circles.

In 2008, through the introduction of Usher, Canadian boy Justin Bieber was signed.

Not long after they reached a consensus, Mr. Kunas Jr., the vice president of Atlantic Records Distribution Company and a member of the board of directors of Atlantic Records, called and said that he wanted to talk to him to discuss how to eat link music together.

For this reason, he found Jay-Z, Kanye, Lil Wayne and others, and prepared to unite them to deal with Link.

In 2007, he left SoSoDef Records and founded SBProjects Entertainment Company, and successively signed Ludacris, Kanye West and others.

In addition, little Kunas is from the same ethnic group as him, and they are also the most united group of people in the world. He has no need to doubt that little Kunas has any bad intentions.

Justin Bieber has also become the most popular singer in the current music industry, and his popularity is close to that of Link Baker and Justin Timberlake in the pop music industry.

With this trump card, he and SBProjects also made a lot of money.

Scooter was very, very excited when he received this call.

Because of his outstanding ability, he was appreciated by Jermaine Dupree, the vice president of DefJam Records, a famous black rapper and gold medal producer, and joined DefJam Records as the Director of Marketing Department.

His single "Unstoppable" topped the "Billboard" singles chart, and eight songs including "Chasingthesun", "Fire" and "Neversaynever" successively entered the top 100 of the singles chart.

With his help, Link would be dead.

It took just over three months to sell more than 1 million copies worldwide.

Last year, Link released two albums that were hits in succession, with total global sales approaching 20 million copies.

Since last year, he has spent a lot of money to promote and market Justin Bieber, allowing him to appear as an Internet celebrity singer at major events such as MTV, the American Music Awards, and the Grammys, greatly increasing his exposure.

 Jay-Z served as the president of DefJam Records from 2002 to 2007, and trained Kanye West, Rihanna, Ne-Yo, etc. In 2007, he quit and founded DefJam and founded Roc Nation Records.

Scout is 29 years old, a white Hungarian. When he was in college, he filmed a documentary about Nasdaq, which was appreciated by the great director Spielberg and made his first pot of gold.

His hard work was not in vain.

Made countless musicians envy and hate him.

In the second half of last year, Justin Bieber was definitely the brightest star in the music industry.

But Link Baker has been too popular in the past two years. His colleagues are enemies. If Link sells one more album, one less album by a singer of the same type will be sold.

After chatting with Kunas, their first move was to dig into Link Music.

Fortunately, Justin's new song "Baby" is selling well.

With his vigorous marketing and promotion, this song has become the most popular song at this stage.

"Myworld1.0" was officially released in November last year.

But in early 2009, after Link released his first album "The Fighter".

 Ludacris is a famous rapper and actor. He later became a hit as a supporting actor in the "Fast and Furious" series of movies.

If there were no Lana Del Rey, Bruno Mars under Link Music, and Selena Gomez under Disney.

At the same time, he also used his connections in the industry to help Justin create his new album "Myworld 1.0".

Link holds 55% of the shares of Link Music, Evaka holds 35%, and the remaining 10% is shared by several management and producers.

The first job was to organize rave parties for celebrities. Many celebrities in the industry, including Eminem, Kanye, Will Smith and others, were his clients.

Before 2009, Link Music did not attract much attention. There were thousands of record companies of this type in the United States.

Although his family is also a billionaire, the Kunas family had tens of billions of assets in its heyday. They had great power in American politics, media industry, real estate industry, etc., and were regarded as one of the first-class wealthy families in the United States.

Link has also become a stumbling block on Justin Bieber’s success.

Scooter helped Luda get an advertising endorsement for Pontiac through his strong connections, and also facilitated the cooperation between Kanye West and Adidas. With these two deals, he earned tens of millions of dollars.

But Link’s music has shocked the music world far more than that.

Since October last year, they have launched three different types of singers: Lana Del Rey, Bruno Mars, and Wiz Khalifa.

In fact, when Link Music launched these three people, everyone didn’t pay much attention to these three people.

the reason is simple.

Lana Del Rey, a musician who failed in her debut.

The sales volume of her first album was less than 1,000 copies. She has released many songs online, and her attempts to become an Internet celebrity have not been successful, which shows that there is no market for her songs in the music industry.

The probability of a successful album by a singer like this is low.

Bruno Mars is also a loser.

First abandoned by Motown Records, and then traded by Atlantic Records, he had to have a figure but not a figure, and looks but not looks. He was neither black nor white. Apart from having a distinctive voice and some creative ability, he had no other qualities.

There are many musicians like him under the five major record labels. Whether such a person can become popular depends entirely on fate.

There is also Wiz Khalifa, who was originally a signed singer under Warner Records. The sales of his first album were average, and his second album was canceled by Warner. At first glance, he is not a capable singer.

but

 Last November, Lana Del Rey released her first album "Young and Beautiful". The lead singles "Young and Beautiful" and "VideoGames" successively reached the top ten of the singles chart, and sold more than one million copies worldwide, with platinum sales.

In December, Bruno Mars released his first album "It\'sBetterIfYouDon\'tUnderstand", with the lead singles "Nothin\'onYou", "Lighters" and "I\'mtheone", which successively reached the top ten of the singles chart. "Nothin' on You" topped the singles chart in late December.

Eight weeks after its release, the album sold 787,000 copies in the United States and became platinum worldwide.

There is also Wiz Khalifa. Although his new album has not been released yet, he became the top figure in the rap industry last year with "seeyouagain" and "I\'mtheone".

His new single "Black and Yellow" also broke into the top ten of the singles chart this week.

It is foreseeable that the sales of his new album will not be bad.

Just like this, three losers, after signing up for Link Music, they all became famous.

This situation has also amazed countless musicians.

Even "Rolling Stone" magazine commented at the beginning of the year that Link Music is very good at shaping singers, saying that Link Music is the music industry's golden touch, with the ability to turn decay into magic, and it is also the most anticipated label in the music industry in the next ten years. .

Link Music’s reputation in the industry has skyrocketed.

As a result, many unappreciated musicians want to try their luck at Link Music.

If this situation continues, Link Music will become more and more powerful and become a towering tree in the music industry, and Link will make more and more U.S. dollars from this company.

This is the result that Scooter, Jay-Z, and Kunas don’t want to see.

After Kunas Jr.’s plan to invest in Link Music failed, he contacted Scooter to start a poaching plan.

The first step is to poach three signed singers under Link Music, Lana Del Rey, Bruno Mars, and Wiz Khalifa. Scooter arranged for his agent to find three singers to have secret talks, and was willing to sign them with big contracts. He promised that after they signed with the new record company, he would arrange a number of gold medal producers to create new albums for them. He also promised to They pay liquidated damages.

Their conditions are very sincere, and the three contract quotes are also very high, but Lana Del Rey has no intention of negotiating at all, and they don't seem to care much about money.

This made Scooter very helpless, and he swung the **** at producers such as Graeme and David Kahn.

In more than a month, seven or eight songwriters, production assistants, sound engineers, etc. were poached, but not a single core member was poached.

Because they all come from major record companies, they know what the production departments of major record companies are like. There are too many talents, serious workplace struggles, extremely fierce internal competition, fighting for resources, and high work pressure.

And now link music is on the rise. If you stay here, you can not only make a lot of money, but also become famous. Only a fool would change jobs at this time.

“Very unsatisfactory!”

Scooter sighed softly and talked about the progress of the poaching work.

Little Kunas took a puff from a slender cigarette, squinted his eyes and saw Link exiting on the TV, and asked in a low voice:

“How is the competition for the charts going? Are you sure you can beat Link in the music market? Can you beat his record sales?”

“We have this confidence, but Link is not an ordinary singer, and it will be difficult to deal with him.”

Scooter shrugged his shoulders and talked about the arrangements for the rankings in March and April.

At present, they have prepared three cards.

The first card is Justin Bieber, whose second album will be released in early March.

Justin's first album has sold more than 700,000 copies in North America.

The lead single "baby" from the second album has become a hit in North America. The second album is expected to sell more than one million, and there is also a chance of selling two million or even three million.

Justin and Link are both pop singers.

If his album enters the pop music market first and drains fans' wallets, Link's album sales will inevitably be affected.

The second card is Usher's sixth album "Raymond Vs. Raymond".

 Usher is a top singer in the rap and blues circles.

In 2004, Usher released his fourth album "Confessions", which sold 1.1 million copies in the United States in its first week, breaking the single-week sales record for an R&B male singer's album. It topped the Billboard album chart for 9 consecutive weeks with the single "Yeah!" ” topped the Billboard singles chart for 12 consecutive weeks.

His status in the music world is no lower than Kanye’s.

The new album contains 23 songs, jointly created by 12 gold medal producers.

This album is expected to sell 10 million copies and become a diamond record.

It will be released at the same time as Link’s third album, which will definitely affect Link’s album sales.

The third card is Drake's new album "ThankMeLater", which is expected to be released in mid-April.

In December last year, Drake released his first mini-rap album "SoFarGone", which ranked sixth on the Billboard album chart in the third week. He also won the Juno Award for Newcomer of the Year and Rap Recording of the Year.

His new album producer lineup is equally strong, including Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Alicia Keys, Jay Jenkins, Nicki Minaj and other top names in the rap industry.

In the listening session of the album, thirty industry insiders gave it a favorable rating of 8.8 points, and it is expected that sales in the United States will not be less than 1.2 million copies.

As for Link’s third album, due to confidentiality reasons, they have not yet found out the name of this album.

Judging from the song "All of Me" that was circulated last year, it may be a love-themed album. This type of album is too mainstream. It occurs every year and every famous singer has it. Although there is a market for this kind of album, It’s hard to make a big sale.

Using three ace albums to pursue Link's love album, Scooter is absolutely confident that he can beat Link on the sales list.

What’s worrying is that Link is not an ordinary singer.

This guy is a master of hype.

Just because Kanye said something bad about him in the media, he caught him and made a lot of breaking news, which almost caused a major social incident.

This kind of publicity method also impressed him, a marketing expert.

Link is also a very capable guy, known as the ‘Music Genius’.

First engaged in pop music, and then crossed over to rap. With two bad songs, all the singers in the rap industry were unable to hold their heads up.

To say that you can win 100% against such a person is to deceive yourself and others.

So when answering Mr. Kunas Jr.'s question, Scout did not say anything to death, expressing that he was confident of defeating Link, but there would be surprises.

“Do your job and leave the rest to me.”

Little Kunas leaned on the sofa, holding a cigarette between his fingers, and said in a calm voice.

“I understand, Mr. Kunas.”

Scout nodded seriously.

“Call me Red, we’re friends, Scout!”

Little Kunas said with the corners of his thin lips raised.

“Okay, Red!”

Scout nodded and smiled.

Little Kunas crossed his legs and looked at the award ceremony that was going on on the TV and said, "Guess how many awards Link can win at this year's Grammy Awards?"

Scooter also looked at the TV. Children's albums were being awarded on the stage now, and thought for a moment.

"Of the four comprehensive awards, Link won two out of four. The remaining Best Pop Male Singer will most likely be him. "Givemereason" and "Seeyou Again" are very influential, and Link may still win. The probability of winning Best Rock Song, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Collaboration is also relatively high, I guess 5 to 6.”

“I guess two.”

Little Kunas raised the corners of his mouth, with an inexplicable smile on his face.

"two?!"

Scout looked at him in surprise, then turned to look at the TV.

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At the Staples Center, after Link’s performance, he returned to the locker room of the arena to change clothes and reply to a few messages on his mobile phone.

After winning the Best Production of the Year Award, my phone received dozens of congratulatory text messages from Emma Roberts, Kristen Stewart, Paul Walker, Joaquin Phoenix, etc.

Even Elon Musk sent a message, congratulating him on winning the Grammy Award for Best Record, saying it was amazing, and saying he wanted to ask him to be the spokesperson for Tesla cars.

Link also responded enthusiastically to Elon Musk. If he wants to get more Tesla and even SpaceX shares, he needs to start from Musk.

 And Musk is young and smart. This kind of person can be made as a long-term business partner.

In addition, Musk has extensive communication in the business circle. For example, the two founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are also his friends and are angel investors in Tesla.

Through Musk, you can make more friends with business leaders and secure more investment opportunities.

The benefits are many.

咚咚! Boom!

“Please come in!”

Link said as he put on the belt.

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The door opened, and a golden skirt floated in. She was wearing high heels, stockings, and her legs were round and slender.

Link raised his head in surprise and saw the fiery Beyoncé walking in and locking the door behind her back.

“You come to me for a drink again? Are you afraid of being seen?”

Link said helplessly.

Beyoncé didn’t say anything, she stretched out her hand, and the hem of her skirt fell to the ground like a golden parachute.

“What do you mean, welfare?”

Link looked at the other person's figure and chuckled.

“What do you think?”

Beyoncé walked up to him with her long curly hair hanging down, biting her red lips, and pressed against him closely.

(End of this chapter)