Chapter 419

Henry left. After dropping a lot of bombs, he left without any hesitation. He didn't even say something like "contact me after you think about it, you have my business card", just He returned to his usual lazy appearance, and disappeared into the noisy crowd of New York like a street tramp.

But the shock within the band Glory To Death has been unable to dissipate for a long time.

"What do you think?" Neil took the lead and looked at his teammates. The five of them found a step in the corner of Guangdichang and sat down, looking at each other. The band is a whole, and every decision must be approved by everyone.

"I still want to finish the road tour." Hugo avoided Henry's focus just now and shifted the topic here. In fact, this journey is not just as simple as touring, but also their insistence on the process of gradual adaptation of the band's style. Hugo does not want to give up halfway.

"Well, me too." Fujin also nodded, agreeing with Hugo's idea.

Alfonso was silent for a while, and raised his right hand, "I support." Pedro, the most lively person, had no words at this time. His reaction seemed to be half a beat slow, and then he said loudly, "This Isn't it of course?"

"We don't need to discuss this. This is the reason why our band was founded, it's also the reason why our band came here, and it's also the reason why the music brokers fancy us. If anyone objects, we won't be able to go here." Er began to speak. This is the biggest difference between Glory to Death and a Brand New Day, and many other rock bands.

"But we can record the record first, and wait until the recording is complete before continuing to complete this journey." Alfonso suggested, "We will not give up persistence, but at least we can work around. Even if we don't record a record, there is no need to sign a contract first. The problem, after all, opportunities are not always here."

Alfonso's words made sense, and Fujin raised his head and looked at Hugo, "Is our band's strength enough now?"

When it comes to this topic, even Neal looks at Hugo. Hugo is currently the soul of the band. It is Hugo's creation and his instillation of music to support the entire band. Everyone will supervise each other in the evaluation of the band, but we still need to ask when we really make a judgment. Hugo's opinion.

Hugo knows that the band members will start to discuss this issue formally, which in fact shows that Henry's trump card just now really touched everyone, and it is inevitable that they will be moved. Strictly speaking, it has only been four months since the establishment of Glory to Death. In fact, it is still lacking in all aspects; but objectively speaking, from the first appearance of Henry in Memphis to today's New York, it has passed nearly again. In one month, the strength of the band has indeed reached a new level again. At present, the performance style of the band has matured and gradually stabilized. Now it has enough strength to stand on a large stage.

As for the future situation, it is said that the band will continue to work hard and make continuous progress. This is also the reason why Hugo hopes to complete the road tour, from San Francisco to New York, and now back to Los Angeles, which is beneficial to the long-term development of the band.

"Yes, we are a very beautiful band. Of course, if Pepe can work harder, it would be even better." Hugo said with a relaxed smile. This sentence made the other four people invisible. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his face.

"So, how about EMI Records? This is not an independent record company." Neal thought of the signing conditions that Henry had just mentioned. He was a little excited and worried at the same time.

EMI, one of the five largest record companies in the world, is definitely the industry leader.

There are currently five top record companies in the world, namely Universal Music, Warner Records, Bertelsmann Records (bmg), EMI Records and Sony Records. These five record companies have their own strengths and advantages and disadvantages. They are all established record companies that have been established for more than half a century. The five companies have jointly accounted for more than 50% of the global record market. A giant in the recording industry.

In the United States, Universal Music is the largest record company in the 20th century, leading many competitors in market share, and its advantages are very obvious; but in the European market, EMI is the leader.

Founded in 1897, EMI Records is one of the world's oldest record companies. In the course of nearly a century of development, the company has experienced ups and downs. It has relied on the Beatles to dominate the global record market. After the dissolution of the Beatles in the 1970s, they faced the dilemma of bankruptcy. It wasn't until the late 1980s that the recovery rose again. After entering the 1990s, relying on rich background and correct investment policies, relying on Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, and the Queen The strong performance of the band and other singers has returned to the top position and is currently competing with Universal Music in the global market.

Since the base camp of EMI Records is in the UK, EMI Records has a strong support for the local music forces in Britain. Among them, because they missed the'trend' of the rock and roll trend in the 1950s, EMI Records paid a heavy price for its own conservativeness. So after entering the 1960s, EMI Records had unprecedented support for rock bands, thus creating a breakthrough. The myth of the chieftain. Since then, EMI's support for British rock has been unprecedented and has continued. In the past thirty years, EMI has delivered many classic rock bands to the world and pushed British rock on the world stage.

It can be said that EMI has the supreme influence in the British music industry. Almost every musician is proud of entering EMI, including those maverick rock bands, because EMI has a variety of independent labels. Make sure to fit the styles of different bands.

However, relatively speaking, the influence of EMI in the North American continent must be leaned back. EMI in the Beatles era was also a storm in the US market, but after the disbanding of the Beatles, EMI began to retreat steadily and entered the 90s. Since the ages, Bertelsman Records with Guns and Roses and Nirvana, Warner Records with Madonna, Fast Turning Eyes, and Smith Band, and Sony Records with Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan have all begun to come from behind. , And gradually surpassed EMI, making EMI the last of the top five record companies in the US market.

In fact, the difference can be easily seen. British singers under EMI Records have an absolute advantage, and it is difficult to see American singers. This also greatly restricts the American market strategy of EMI Records.

From the perspective of the 214 years that Hugo knows, EMI Records benefited from the prosperity of British rock in the late 1990s to dominate the American music market, restored its supreme glory, and kept pace with Universal Music; however, it entered the 21st. Centuries later, British rock gradually fell silent, and no decent leader appeared again, so EMI has always been helplessly positioned at the end of major companies in the US market.

However, the heritage of EMI Records is the envy of other companies. Even if Sony Records merged Bertelsmann and turned the five major record companies into the Big Four, EMI Records still did not fall behind, and even if it was squeezed by three other competitors. The space is very powerful, but the market share of EMI Records has not changed much, and it has firmly occupied a place among the four major record companies.

However, it is a pity that EMI Records, which fell into the quagmire before half of the first decade of the 21st century, has been struggling for several years. The British market has also been gradually eroded by competitors. In 211, there was no such thing. Being able to stick to it, Universal Music bought the record department "Gate", while Sony Bertelsmann bought the copyright department "Gate", and the smash hit EMI Records also came to an end.

The "door" of the record department and the "door" of the copyright department mentioned here are basically the vertical structure of each record company. The "door" of the record department is the most well-known department "door", responsible for music production Publishing and distribution, etc.; the "gate" of the copyright department mainly deals with signing music creators, managing the copyrights of music works, buying and selling, authorizing music copyrights, and so on.

After entering the 21st century, the commercialization of the music market has gone to extremes. The record industry generally believes that "records are dead", and the value of the record department's door has fallen to the bottom. The music market is rejuvenated; however, the value of the "gate" of the copyright department has been gradually enlarged. In particular, digital music copyright has received more and more attention with the Internet era.

Of course, these are matters of future development. At the time of 1993, EMI was still a top giant capable of competing with Universal Music.

Henry Bloom actually thought that he could sign a contract with EMI Records~www.mtlnovel.com~ This is actually pros and cons. Disadvantages are obvious. The constraints of large record companies can easily make singers uncontrollable. Compared with the freedom and freedom of independent records, the toughness of large record companies is difficult for newcomers to fight; as for the advantages, the advantages are also very obvious, publicity resources, The improvement of production resources and other supporting facilities can give newcomers a great advantage in starting points.

However, EMI's biggest advantage lies in their tolerance for the diversity of rock music. It is worth mentioning that the radio commander signed EMI. Although the radio commander did not get much response in the UK, and EMI did not pay enough attention; but after the International Department decided to let the radio commander come to the United States to fight the world, the company still gave strong support.

From here, you can get a glimpse of the advantages and disadvantages of EMI Records.

"If it's EMI, then you can consider it. Originally this is a record company that has great tolerance for rock and roll, and Henry has promised, will he be on our side?" It was Alfonso who was talking about Obviously, the understanding of this aspect is not inferior to Hugo, but after he finished speaking, he still cast an inquiring opinion to Hugo.