In the afternoon, Zhou Yan received a call from Yang Dongsheng.
As soon as the call was connected, Yang Dongsheng smiled and said, "Congratulations, Teacher Zhou, your new book is a great seller."
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "This has just been released, I don't know yet whether it will be a big hit or not."
"It must be a big seller. When I went to the bookstore to buy books in the morning, I met many people who were going to buy this book. I also asked the cashier about it, and the cashier said that this book has not been so popular in several years. . I have read the book and it is indeed very useful.”
Zhou Yan didn't expect that Yang Dongsheng still had time to buy a book and had already finished reading it.
"Never Let Me Go" has 200,000 words. Even if you read at a fast pace, it will take about three hours. If you read at a slower pace, you may not be able to finish it in one day.
"Thank you, Director Yang, for supporting me."
"It's necessary to support me, but you have to sign your name for me later."
"That's easy to say. I'll sign a few copies for you later." Zhou Yan agreed with a smile, and then asked, "Director Yang, are you calling me just to congratulate me on the success of my new book?"
"I have something to ask you. Can the concert at the Imperial Ancestral Temple be held on May 4th?"
They had previously agreed to hold the concert at the end of May, but now it is almost a month ahead of schedule.
"Is this what Taili means?" Zhou Yan asked.
Yang Dongsheng smiled and said, "I don't know if this is what Taili means. Anyway, it was our leader in Taili who told me so and asked me to ask you."
Zhou Yan asked this because he wanted to know whether it was Taili's intention to hold the concert on May 4th, or whether it was the intention of his superiors.
But it doesn’t seem to be a big deal who meant it. Zhou Yan thought about it and said, "There should be no problem in terms of time."
Although it is nearly a month ahead of schedule, they still have two months to prepare, which is completely enough.
"Teacher Zhou, don't hesitate. Can you give me a definite answer? Once confirmed, we will start preparations." Yang Dongsheng was silent for a moment, and suddenly whispered, "The station is more concerned about this matter. Last year, there were foreign music People want to hold a concert in Bauhinia City, but the relevant departments refuse it because of you. If the concert is delayed, we will be under pressure.”
Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Actually, my time is very easy to manage."
He took out his itinerary from the drawer and flipped through it. He didn't have any itinerary for May 4th, so he nodded and said, "No problem, let's set it for May 4th. Let's make the specific preparations." , I will let Zhang Youan connect with you.”
After receiving a positive reply, Yang Dongsheng laughed easily, "Okay, I'll report to the leader in a moment. The time will be May 4th. This year, our May 4th special program has also been finalized."
Zhou Yan curled his lips and said, "It turns out it's just for the May Fourth special program."
"It's a convenient thing. If we want to hold your concert now, let alone the May Fourth program, even the May Day program, we may not have the energy to do it."
"Is it that exaggerated? It's just a concert, how much energy can it spread among you?"
"It's not an exaggeration at all. The stage attaches great importance to this concert. Teacher Zhou, you should also pay attention. We have agreed before that we will be responsible for the matchmaking and live broadcast shooting. You have to do the layout of the scene yourself." .”
"Well, it was agreed upon, but we also said at the time that we would have to hold one show, at least three or four."
To hold a concert in the Ancestral Temple, the on-site decoration cost is not low. If you only hold one concert, the cost will be too high.
If more games can be held, the cost of venue layout will be shared, reducing losses.
That's right, Zhou Yan wants to reduce losses, not make more money.
Because he knew that it was impossible to make money from this concert, not to mention losing money on one concert, even if it was held ten times in a row and all the concerts were full, they would still lose money.
The conditions of the Ancestral Temple are limited, and there are only so many locations that can be set up, so the ticket revenue will be very low.
Zhou Yan roughly estimated that if he wanted to decorate the Ancestral Temple, he would need at least three to four million yuan.
This is still a conservative estimate, because Zhou Yan has never actually measured it on the spot, and he has no expertise in this area, so he can only make a rough guess.
It costs so much money just to set up the scene, and a lot of money has to be spent on other places. The cost is at least several million higher.
As for the ticket revenue, even if it’s 400,000 yuan for one show and only 4 million for ten shows, it’s still a loss.
But this kind of concert is still necessary even if it is a loss.
Furthermore, the loss is only superficial, and a lot of money can be recovered from subsequent copyright income and CD income.
If Zhou Yan is willing, he can also find two sponsors, and the sponsors will give the money directly, so that he can make money.
However, Zhou Yan has many places to make money, so there is no need to advertise at this concert.
Yang Dongsheng smiled and said, "Okay, then we will arrange three games, starting on the 2nd and ending on the 4th, which happens to span a weekend."
Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "No problem, let's start from No. 2."
Nowadays, there are very few statutory holidays, including only one day on Labor Day, and there is no long holiday later, so there were not many people visiting Yanjing at that time, and the concert in the Imperial Ancestral Temple would not have a great impact.
The 3rd and 4th are Saturdays and Sundays, so tickets will be easier to sell.
Although there are very few tickets and whether it is a weekend or not does not affect ticket sales, we still need to consider making it more convenient for the audience.
After the time was determined, Yang Dongsheng chatted with Zhou Yan for a few more words and then hung up the phone.
Zhou Yan hung up the phone and called Zhang Youan again.
After receiving a call from Zhou Yan, Zhang Youan said with a smile, "You called to see me off?"
"Send it to you?"
"Didn't you know that I was going to the United States today, so you called me to see me off?" Zhang Youan asked strangely.
"I didn't know you were leaving today."
"...then why are you calling me?"
"I'm calling you to tell you that the concert at the Imperial Ancestral Temple has been scheduled, starting from May 2nd to May 4th, with three performances in three consecutive days."
"Why set it at this time? Didn't you say it would be at the end of May?"
"Yang Dongsheng called to say."
Zhang Youan did not ask the reason, "This time is not bad, we have two months to prepare. I have made an appointment with a professional team in the United States before, and I just happened to bring them over this time to have a look and finalize the stage setting plan as soon as possible. ”
"I'll leave this to you."
"Did Yang Dongsheng say when they are going to announce the news?" Zhang Youan asked.
"He didn't say that."
"If you haven't said it yet, just don't say it. We don't have to worry. We can just wait for them to announce it first."
"Okay."
There's really no need to rush.
In China, when it comes to propaganda, who can beat CCTV?
As long as CCTV takes the time to broadcast news related to the Ancestral Temple Concert, the publicity will be in place, and there is no need for them to do anything else.
When it comes to publicity, they only need to follow CCTV's footsteps, which saves money, effort and is efficient. "By the way, has Jeff Brown called you?" Zhang Youan asked again.
"Well, beat it."
After the Lantern Festival, the day after Zhou Yan arrived in Yanjing, he received a call from Jeff Brown.
The purpose of Jeff Brown's call was simply to ask if there were any songs in "Time Travelers" that would be suitable for the Backstreet Boys.
Zhou Yan did not answer Jeff Brown directly, but just told Jeff Brown that if there was a song suitable for the Backstreet Boys, he would give it to them.
These words seemed to be a promise, but also seemed to be perfunctory. After hearing this, Jeff Brown had no confidence at all.
But when Zhou Yan said this, he couldn't say anything, so he didn't say anything more.
"Two days ago, he told me that he wanted to invite Wang Lihong to participate in the Backstreet Boys show. He wanted to know about the background of Phantom Sound from me, but I didn't say anything to him."
"They are still not well-informed in the United States."
"Jive's business scope is still a bit narrow. It can't be compared with Sony and Warner. What news channels can they have? But about Wang Lihong, have you promised them?"
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Zhou Yan said with a smile, "I have already asked Xu Xiangjie to agree to this matter. The Backstreet Boys are developing very well now. Letting Wang Lihong participate in their performances will be beneficial to his development in the United States."
"Are you ready to let Wang Lihong develop in Europe and the United States?"
"It doesn't have to be where you want to develop. If you sing English songs, you will be popular in Europe and the United States, and if you sing Chinese songs, you will be popular in Asia. There will be no delay."
"That's true."
Zhang Youan didn't ask much about Wang Lihong. After all, Wang Lihong was from Huanyin, not from Tang Chen.
"That's it, nothing else."
"Well, I won't tell you anymore. I have to catch a plane soon."
"It's time to report that you're safe."
"Forget it if you report it's safe, Harry and I made an appointment to have dinner together."
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Here in the United States, on the morning of the 5th, Jeff Brown received a call from Phantom Voice.
During the phone call, Xu Xiangjie told Jeff Brown that he had agreed to let Wang Lihong participate in the Backstreet Boys' performance on the night of the 16th.
Jeff Brown was very happy to receive this news, "Mr. Xu, I believe you will not regret the decision you made today. Leehomwang and Nick will definitely be able to bring a wonderful performance to the audience."
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"Mr. Brown, thank you for giving Leehom such a good opportunity this time. We will send someone to contact your company for the specific cooperation process. The conditions will be as you proposed before, and there is no need to modify them."
"No problem, there are still ten days until the performance, so please do it as soon as possible."
"They will go to your company tomorrow."
"Okay." Jeff Brown smiled, and then said, "I heard that Leehomwang also studied classical music. Are he and Y..."
Xu Xiangjie smiled and said, "No, Y went to school in China, and Leehom went to school in the United States, and there was no intersection before. Moreover, Leehom did not study classical music, he only learned violin when he was a child."
There is no intersection at all... Jeff Brown was slightly disappointed. He still wanted to rely on Wang Lihong to get closer to Zhou Yan.
But before Jeff Brown could speak, Xu Xiangjie added, "Of course, although they have not crossed paths before, Y admires Leehom very much. It was Y who saw Leehom's performance in Taiwan before and decided to sign him."
"Sign him?" Jeff Brown asked in surprise, "What does this mean?"
Xu Xiangjie was also surprised and said, "Mr. Brown, don't you know that Y is one of the bosses of our Phantom Sound?"
Y is one of the bosses of Phantom Sound... Jeff Brown was a little confused. He didn't know this news at all.
Isn’t Huanyin a company from Taiwan?
And he never thought that Y could open a record company.
But after being stunned, Jeff Brown laughed again. Since Y is the boss of Phantom Sound, wouldn't things be simpler?
He was also glad that he had made this decision before, which was an unexpected surprise.
"Mr. Xu, I really didn't know that Y was your boss. I simply admired Leehom and invited him to participate in Nick's performance."
"Yeah, I understand."
Xu Xiangjie actually knew that Jeff Brown didn't know the relationship between Phantom and Y, and his surprise just now was just an act.
And the reason why he revealed this news to Jeff Brown was because of Zhou Yan's instruction.
There is nothing to hide this kind of thing, and they had no intention of hiding it. It’s just that Jeff Brown’s source of information is not good and they didn’t find out.
In this case, they took the initiative to talk about it, so that future cooperation would be simpler and there would be no misunderstandings.
Now that he knows that Y is the boss of Phantom Sound, Jeff Brown will definitely be more interested in this cooperation and will definitely continue to seek cooperation in the future.
If he didn't know that Y was the boss of Phantom Sound, Jeff Brown would have hung up the phone by now, but now he decided to talk to Xu Xiangjie again.
"Mr. Xu, has Y been very busy recently? I called him two days ago, but we didn't even have a few words."
Xu Xiangjie smiled and said, "Well, he is really busy recently. His new book was just released in mainland China yesterday."
"Is it "Shutter Island"?"
Jeff Brown was not surprised at all when he heard about the new book, because the news that Zhou Yan's new book "Shutter Island" will be released has been widely spread some time ago.
So when Xu Xiangjie said that Zhou Yan's new book was on sale in China, he subconsciously thought it was "Shutter Island".
Xu Xiangjie said, "It's not "Shutter Island", it's another novel."
"Another one? A novel? A new work?"
"Well, the new work is very popular in China recently because it is related to cloning."
Jeff Brown has also seen the news about the cloned sheep Dolly, so he knows what Xu Xiangjie means.
"Y's output is really high." Jeff Brown sighed.
How energetic does one have to be to remain so productive?
In such a short period of time, Y has released a movie and two novels, and the key one is that there are many original songs in the movie.
"Because he is Y." Xu Xiangjie said with a smile, "I believe that when you see "Space Traveler", you will sigh again. This movie is full of musical treasures."
Jeff Brown originally wanted to know how many songs there were in "Time Traveler", but now Xu Xiangjie's words made him even more itchy.
But soon his expectations will be fulfilled, because the pirated CD of "Space Traveler" they found someone to get is already on the way and will arrive in the next two days. (End of chapter)