Chapter 132 The First Chicago Conference

"The good news is that the magazine is indeed intending to change hands. The bad news is that it is now in the hands of abc, and someone is already eyeing it. It has much stronger financial resources than yours."

After finishing the promotional itinerary in Seattle, the last stop on the west coast, Song Ya returned to Chicago for a short rest, and Hayden also figured out the current status of the magazine.

After abc was swallowed by a metropolitan communication company with only a quarter of its market value in 1986, it has been in a turbulent state of indigestion. For this reason, abc began to merge, split, restart, and sell off its various brands... In short Just tried every means to try to revitalize the assets.

The hapless American Music got the whole package, first of all it was indiscriminately merged into the hi-fi magazine, which mainly focused on audio equipment, and kept only a few pages in the magazine. Before Hi-Fi magazine was about to be sold, abc spun off American Music and then restarted its publication. It was a monthly magazine at the beginning, but after the sales were unfavorable, it became a bimonthly magazine and still lost money. Abc quickly lost confidence and announced that it could be sold. The current open buyer who intends to take over is the well-known investor Littman.

"abc is coming to an end..." Song Ya was amused by the suffocating operation of abc.

"Yes, abc cannot protect itself."

Hayden tossed Song Ya a few past issues of American Music Magazine, "The edition you saw was bimonthly, and the magazine has already compromised with the market at this time, otherwise Columbia Records would not be able to sell the soft article that touted you. Go in, and you can look at the previous version."

Song Ya flipped through it and looked at it. At that time, the monthly edition could be said to have gathered all the elements that did not adapt to the times. The main content of the magazine focused on classical music, opera and musical theater, and there was only a small space on pop music. This undoubtedly limits its audience. And because most of the celebrities in these industries are old, obituaries of so-and-so's death will appear in the magazines from time to time. I don't know if it is tradition or other reasons. His family also likes to put the obituary in a conspicuous place. Location, when readers turn to the first few pages, the first thing that catches their eyes is the news of the death of a certain 80- or 90-year-old performer, which greatly affects the mood.

"What does the editor-in-chief of this magazine think?" Song Ya thought to herself that if she really bought it, the first thing she would do is fire the editor-in-chief.

"The editor-in-chiefs of the magazines founded in the last century are all in their 60s, so they stick to the tradition." Hayden said.

"Then the resale price of this magazine shouldn't be very high?" Song Ya asked.

Hayden smiled and shook his head, "First of all, this name is worth a lot of money, and then its family will publish an annual list every year. The analogy is the Billboard annual list in the classical music industry. It is very authoritative in the industry. The potential buyer Lite Man's financial resources are also strong enough, if you bid, it will definitely not be cheap."

"Anyway, let's ask for a price first..."

Song Ya threw this matter to Hayden, and went to his new home in Hyde Park with Song Asheng.

There is nothing much to do about the house. In a week, Song Asheng asked someone to tidy up the house. At present, except for the recording studio in the attic, there is no major problem with the occupants on the first and second floors. The people from the party service company are working Busy inside and out.

"Alex, I never dared to think of living in a house like this."

Aunt Susie is also there. She has been helping to decorate the room for the past few days. Emily ran down the stairs excitedly, "I have chosen the room, and no one is allowed to steal it!"

More than a year later, at the age of thirteen, she was no longer small, and she gradually looked like a big girl.

"No one will snatch so many rooms from mfxxk!" Aunt Susie scolded,

As soon as she turned her head, her attitude towards Song Ya was much gentler, "Her grades are not good, do you know that?"

"I know."

Emily's grades are probably in the middle and lower reaches of the class, but Song Ya doesn't care. It's good that she doesn't have all kinds of bad habits like those girls in Nancheng Public School. I am very interested, I am already a member of the school choir, and I am quite appreciated by the teacher.

"yo..."

Al walked in from the outside, "It's a nice place, but it doesn't have a swimming pool." He always put it bluntly, "It always feels weird for a hip-hop star to buy a mansion without a swimming pool."

"em..." Song Ya was speechless.

"Go and pick a room, Al." Aunt Susie looked at him much more pleasingly now.

"Uh...I want to be with..."

Al scratched his head, "apls, isn't your apartment leased yet?"

Song Ya knows, Al met a black girl on the way of publicity, she is not flesh and blood, she probably came to play with friends who are chasing stars, her personality and family conditions seem to be okay, "The lease is about a few months away , you can live in it when we move here."

Al and Dilai's income has also increased now. When they go out and go out, they can share as much as Song Ya's share. In the future rememberthename's commercial performance, Song Ya will give them a lot of share. In addition to the single income, he and Dilai can get a few tenths by himself, so he is definitely a little singer.

Now that they are both famous, it's not appropriate to live with him anymore. The main reason is that he and Dilai are not short of women now, and Dilai seems to be planning to buy a house.

"Thanks." Al smiled and bumped fists with Song Ya, "By the way, people from Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta will come tonight."

"I know, this side is almost ready."

After all, May is here, and the tripartite joint publicity is about to start. Song Ya happened to hold a celebration party by moving to a new house, and got acquainted with several groups of people, and held a meeting by the way.

It was still dark, and the lights inside and outside the villa were fully turned on. The people from the party company set up a buffet table and grill on the lawn outside, and set up an inflatable rainbow door at the door, and hung it on the low fence. A circle of colorful light bulbs was put on, and the small reception desk was placed by the rainbow door. An old white man in a white dress was guarding there with a guest list, followed by a car boy.

Delilah came over with the audio equipment, and not long after, soft music sounded inside and outside the villa.

The first ones to come were Michelle and his boyfriend. They lived not far from the University of Chicago. The two came for a walk, and Song Ya hugged them at the door.

"You're really fast." Michelle smiled and handed over a bottle of champagne.

"Thank you." Song Ya took the bottle, "It was your suggestion."

All three of them laughed, "Uh... the guests I'm waiting for are all from the music circle, and they might play crazy." Song Ya was afraid that they would not get used to the atmosphere later.

"It's okay, it was the same when we were young."

Michelle pointed to her boyfriend beside her, "You can't even imagine how crazy he used to be."

His boyfriend smiled shyly.

Not long after the two entered, Old Joe's extended Lincoln arrived. Eric, who was driving, threw the key to the car boy, and trotted to open the door for Old Joe.

Old Joe led the two black men out of the car, "Hey, apls, let me introduce you, this is Derry, do you know him?"

How could Song Ya, the main member of NA, not know him, "Hello." He shook hands with the old gangster, "I have known you for a long time."

"This is Snoop Dogg."

"Hello."

"We all like your remember the name." Derry pointed to Song Ya, "Really?" He asked Snoop Dogg.

"Yeah." His servant seemed very taciturn.

Goodman, Hayden and others also arrived by car one after another, as well as Will Gardner, who was in charge of the legal affairs of A Audio.

Then nas led the big professor and all the members of the mainsorce band that the big professor was in to the scene.

And babyface who came from Atlanta with Fergie.

How can this kind of occasion be so rare? When the musicians and friends of the local music circle in Chicago were almost there, a shuttle bus slowly stopped at the door, "Yeah! That's right, this is it! Girls, come down ! There's wine, there's stars, let's have a good time tonight! Delay!"

Delay gave him the middle finger and performed some operations on the stage, and the rhythm of the music began to turn to the best.

In the study on the second floor, "Let us welcome Derry in Los Angeles, Snoop Dogg and the great professor in New York, nas..."

Excluding the idlers, Song Ya introduced the target characters to each other, "And the babyface from Atlanta..."

"I have prepared a joint publicity plan for May. Let's discuss it and see if there is anything missing."