Because the 1997 fiscal year ended in September, early October was the busiest period for Daenerys Entertainment. Not only the full-year financial report to be released at the end of the mid-month period, but all the business departments of the group are conducting various financial year summary, accompanied by various summary or outlook meetings with a tight schedule.

Simon himself hosted the record department meeting today, and Amy Pascal also attended, as well as executives such as Richard Palmes, CEO of Daenerys Records Group and Barry Weiss, president of Infinity Records, who is focused on cultivating Teen-Pop singers.

As Daenerys Entertainment is gradually on the verge of a bottleneck in its film and television business, Simon has attached great importance to the group's music, games and other businesses in recent years.

However, even though Daenerys Records has top celebrities of various types such as Guns, Backstreet Boys, Xueer, etc., the film and television sound business is thriving because of Daenerys Entertainment's strength in related aspects. In the past two years, it has developed the phenomenal "American Idol" to quickly deliver fresh blood to the record department. However, due to the impact of the Internet, the decline of the traditional record industry has made it unstoppable for everyone.

Compared with industry diehards like Sony Records, even though Daenerys Records is the most enthusiastic company to embrace the Internet, its growth has slowed down significantly in recent years.

Fortunately, compared with Sony and many veteran record giants such as EDA, which have negative performance growth and have begun to fall into losses, Daenerys Records, which can still maintain positive growth, has performed well in the industry.

Daenerys Records' relatively outstanding performance after actively embracing the Internet has also caused many veteran record giants who hate the Internet to gradually compromise. Even Sony Records, while promoting its own digital music player, had to gradually convey copyrighted content to the Broadcast Music Mall, a subsidiary of Tinkobaier.

Because not doing this will only allow pirated resources of the corresponding content to completely occupy the market.

Speaking of which, Simon had not allowed any internal doubts to force Daenerys Records to embrace the Internet, and this was the reason.

Make a template for everyone to follow.

The content of today's meeting has nothing to do with the Internet. The main topics discussed are in addition to the revenue and profit status of the record department just over the past year, and also the changes in the overall strategy of the record department.

A simple word: fast food.

With the advent of the Internet era and the information explosion, it will become increasingly difficult for people to pay attention to certain people and certain things for a long time.

The music industry is officially like this.

Therefore, what Daenerys Record Group needs to do is to speed up the creation and iteration of its singers.

In fact, Daenerys Records has shown this trend in recent years. Typically, the singers created by "American Idol". This year's third edition has just started airing, and many singers at the forefront of the first edition have been forgotten.

Just like the Internet, since the trend is inevitable, take the initiative to adapt.

In addition, the traditional record industry has undergone drastic changes due to the impact of the Internet, and has begun to affect the public's consumption habits. Even if the audience of the Western music industry is like movies, it can be called the whole age group, but in the future, like movies, the core consumer groups will become increasingly concentrated on young people.

These all need to be adjusted.

Next, the last topic of this meeting is expansion.

This is not about regional expansion. Daenerys Records has successfully extended its tentacles to major mainstream music markets in the world such as Europe, Asia and even Latin America. Therefore, this expansion is mainly acquisitions and mergers.

The goal is to be a singer, and more so it is to content.

Under the excellent copyright protection system, the million-level music content accumulated by major old record giants even over hundreds of years is equally precious even after many years.

Daenerys Records is the biggest shortcoming in this regard. Compared with Sony and EDA, old giants with millions of music content, even though they had acquired Universal Records and developed rapidly over the years, their foundation was still shallow. Because Universal Records, if you were careful, can only be ranked last among large-scale record giants.

Universal, which is ranked alongside veteran record giants such as Sony and Warner in the original time and space, is actually the result of the massive expansion and acquisitions of the Seagram era.

This time, I controlled Paramount instead of the former Global Seagram. Because of the changes in the Hollywood landscape, it is still a bit difficult to digest Paramount now. It is difficult to conquer the record industry like I did before. Daenerys Entertainment happened to make up for this.

The preferred target is also the same as the former Sigram: Polygon.

The old London-based record giant Polygon Group is also a large record giant after a long merger and integration. Speaking of which, if it weren't for Simon's big butterfly, Polygon successfully discovered the tentatively famous film team that produced "Four Weddings and One Funeral" and "Notting Hill" in the 1990s, and could have been a hit in the film and television circle.

Unfortunately, everything has changed now.

Simon took the core of the tentatively named film team in advance, and with the advance arrival of the Internet era, it has quickly impacted the record industry, and Polygon has been having a hard time in recent years.

Next, the Asian financial crisis will affect the world, and the global economy will experience a brief trough. The already rapidly declining record industry will inevitably make things worse. It is the best time for Daenerys Entertainment to take action.

The meeting lasted for a whole morning.

After the meeting, everyone left the conference room together. Because the office of the record department is located at Universal Studios in Burbank on weekdays, it is not easy to meet, so we can have a simple dinner together.

Inside a management restaurant in the administrative district.

A buffet-style lunch is convenient for everyone to walk around and communicate. Simon and Daenerys Records Group CEO Richard Palmes talked about some details about the plan to initiate a acquisition of Polygon, and found Barry Weiss.

This teenage pop godfather, who once created top Teen-Pop celebrities such as Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys in the 1990s, also made excellent results after Simon poached Daenerys Records. Not only did he dig out the Backstreet Boys under Simon's guidance, but in recent years, he has also released some other good teen pop singers.

Barry Weiss' next work focus is to promote a group of boys and girls, including Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, whom Simon took from the Mickey Mouse Club that was disbanded from Disney in the past few years.

But it was not Britney and others who were talking about it.

When I first acquired these little guys, it was more because of memories of my previous life.

With the changes in wealth, status, identity and mentality, etc., many celebrities in their memory are becoming less and less important to Simon.

Therefore, the topic of discussion between Simon and Barry Weiss is about fast food: "Barry, we couldn't discuss it in detail at the meeting just now. It's a very critical issue. What do you think is the most difficult thing to make fast food?"

Barry Weiss thought a little bit and said, "Getting attention, I mean, in the shortest time, attracting the most public attention."

"Yes," Simon nodded with a smile, "What do you think?"

Barry Weiss honestly said: "Simon, within the cost allowed, I honestly don't have an answer, but with the media resources that Daenerys Entertainment has, I have to say that we are now the easiest company to pack and promote singers well."

"But this problem has not been fundamentally solved."

"Yes," Barry Weiss nodded and smiled, "Simon, you must have an answer, right?"

"I made a singing group in Ukraine, you should understand?"

"Well, the Saints Group, they performed some performances in Atlantic City in the first half of the year. We helped with some planning and the response was pretty good, but because they don't have English songs for the time being, they have limited influence. Haha, Simon, if you want, I can help them make an English album."

Simon smiled and said, "No need, their style is too formal. I mean, think about the Saints Group, are you inspired?"

Barry Weiss thought about it, a little uncertain, and a little enlightened: "Simon, are you talking about the group model?"

“To be precise, it’s a neat group pattern,” Simon said, continuing to add: “Imagine what effect can a row of girls with beautiful faces, slender waists and slender thighs on the stage stand together?”

Barry Weiss suddenly realized it when he thought about it, but he couldn't help but say, "Simon, if this is the case, it will be even more difficult for a single singer to be remembered. Is this too fast food?"

"Try it first," Simon said: "I happened to have an idea some time ago, called the hot girl group. Find five girls with similar image and temperament. The most important thing is that they are consistent in height, so that they look more uniform, but there is no difference. Each girl has their own style code, such as fashionable hot girl, sports hot girl, crazy hot girl, etc. You choose someone first. At that time, I will give you a single, which is a test."

To calculate carefully, the 'a while ago' in Simon's words was already several months ago.

When I went to the UK in the first half of the year, I found that the hot girl group was dropped by a butterfly like the Harry Potter series, so I remembered it a little in my heart and then threw it behind my head.

Mainly, I don't feel it.

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Although the hot girl group became popular all over the world in the 1990s and also triggered a global trend of followers of the girl group, based on Simon's later aesthetics, it is hard to describe those girls.

In comparison, Simon feels that the Korean girl group model is more mature.

The reason why it matures is that in addition to the systematic trainee system in South Korea, it is also, yes, neat and uniform. Even if it is pushed one after another, it is easy to attract more public attention in the shortest time for all kinds of pleasing to the eye. Later, the girl group model of both Europe, the United States, Japan and Taiwan gradually declined, and only South Korea has been prosperous and has been exporting to the outside world. Although there are many reasons, the uniformity that can attract audience attention in the shortest time is definitely one of the keys.

In addition, since he has no idea about the colorful style of the hot girl group, Simon simply corrected it to a girl group model that is more in line with his aesthetics.

As for whether it can be successful?

Simon gave the following team's ideas in many aspects, which have been confirmed by the success rate. Compared with originals, it is definitely much higher. Even if it is not successful, it doesn't matter. Daenerys Entertainment's current strength has enough room for trial and error.

Barry Weiss felt that this was basically appropriate after hearing his boss say he would take out a single in person.

Over the years, my boss has given out a lot of singles, and there are definitely a lot of them. Each song is enough to support the main theme of a record.

Making up his mind, Barry Weiss said: "Simon, if I choose a combination, it will take me about three months. Together with training and MV production, I will count all of them. I can try the waters next year. It's a very good time."

Simon didn't want Barry Weiss to rush to work, nodded and said, "No problem."

After the matter was decided, Barry Weiss immediately changed his smile: "Simon, can you take out the single you mentioned first? Haha, the two singles you gave to Brie and Tina recently are great. I am looking forward to every musical work of your boss."

Simon also laughed and said, "I'll take the time to pass it to you."

Barry Weiss nodded again and said, "By the way, boss, Britney and Christina, do you have any special explanation?"

Today is Thursday, October 9th.

Simon returned from Mexico on Monday, and then took out two famous works, namely Britney and Christina, for Barry Weiss to operate. Barry Weiss is not stupid, and with a little inquiry, he roughly understood something and paid more attention to the two girls.

Simon shrugged: "No, just let them follow the rules."

Barry Weiss won't say much.

However, of course, it is impossible to really follow the rules. What does the boss say is the same thing? If some words are really done, they will have no emotional intelligence.

After chatting like this, after lunch, the music department members returned to Burbank together.

After sorting out the morning's meeting content, he arranged the hot girl group matters vigorously. He was so busy that he was about to get off work that Barry Weiss took the time to rush to a practice room in the music department.

In recent years, boys and girls who used to be Mickey Mouse Club have been trained here. They are about to make their official debut, and boys and girls have worked harder in training recently.

Barry Weiss stood at the door of the practice room and looked at Christina and Britney who were practicing dancing for a while. Christina was nothing. Britney seemed a little sick, which made Barry Weiss a little confused and even nervous. He attracted the dance teacher with a good figure and asked, "Lisa, what's going on with Brit?"
Chapter completed!