Henry left. After throwing down a bunch of bombs in a row, he left without hesitation. He didn't even say handsomely, "I'll contact me after thinking about it. You have my business card." He just returned to his usual lazy appearance, just like a street tramp and disappeared into the noisy sea of ​​people in New York.

But the shock inside the band Glory to Death could not 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 the square and sat down, looking at each other. The band is a whole, and everyone must pass any decision together.

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

"Yeah, so do I." Fujin nodded, agreeing with Hugo's idea.

Alfonso was silent for a while, raised his right hand, "I support." The most lively Pedro had no words at this time. He seemed to be slowing down for a while, and then he said loudly, "Isn't this of course?"

"We don't need to discuss this. This is the reason why our band was established, the reason why our band came here, and the reason why music agents like us. If someone objected, we wouldn't be here." Neil said. This is the biggest difference between glory and a new day and many other rock bands.

"But we can record the record first and then continue to complete this journey after the recording is finished." Alfonso suggested, "We will not give up on persisting, but at least we can make things easier. Even if we don't record the record, there is no problem signing the contract first. After all, the opportunity is not here forever."

Alfonso's words make sense, Fujin looked up at Hugo, "Is our band's strength enough now?"

When talking about this topic, even Neil looked at Hugo. Hugo is currently the soul of the band. It is Hugo's creation and his spirit of indoctrination in music that support the entire band. Everyone will supervise each other's evaluation of the band, but when making a real judgment, you still have to ask Hugo's opinions.

Hugo knew that the band members would start to discuss this issue formally, which actually means that Henry's trump card just now really touched everyone, and he was inevitably moved. Strictly speaking, Honor has only been four months since its establishment until its death, but in fact it is still lacking in all aspects; but objectively speaking, nearly a month has passed since Henry's first appearance to New York today, and the band's strength has indeed reached a higher level again. At present, the band's performance style has become mature and gradually stabilized, and now it has enough strength to stand on a large stage.

As for the future, it is said that if you learn until you are old, the band will naturally have to work hard and make progress. This is also the reason why Hugo hopes to complete the road tour, from San Francisco to New York, and now go back to Los Angeles, which is good or bad for the long-term development of the band.

"Yes, we are a very outstanding band. Of course, it would be even better if Pepe could work harder." Hugo said with a relaxed smile. This sentence made the other four people feel relieved invisibly, and smiles appeared on their faces.

"So, how about EDA Records? This is not an independent record company." Neil thought of the signing conditions Henry mentioned just now, and was a little moved and worried.

EDA Records, one of the world's five major record companies, is definitely the leader in the industry.

Currently, there are five top record companies in the world, namely Universal Music, Warner Records, Bertelsman Records (bmg), EMI Records and Sony Records. These five record companies have their own strengths and advantages and disadvantages. They are all old record companies that have been established for more than half a century. The five companies have joined forces to occupy more than 50% of the global record market, and they can be called giants in the record industry.

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

Founded in 1897, EDA Records is one of the oldest record companies in the world. In the past century, the company has experienced ups and downs, with the popularity of relying on the Beatles to dominate the global record market share, and the dilemma of bankruptcy after the disbandment of the Beatles in the 1970s. It was not until the late 1980s that it recovered again. After entering the 1990s, relying on its rich heritage and correct investment policies, relying on the strong performance of singers such as Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Queen, etc., it has returned to the top position and is currently competing with Universal Music in the global market.

Since Edai Records’ base camp is in the UK, Edai Records has strong support for the local music forces in the UK. Among them, because they missed the rock trend in the 1950s, Edai Records paid a heavy price for their conservatism. Therefore, after entering the 1960s, Edai Records had unprecedented support for rock bands, thus creating the Beatles myth. Since then, Edai Records has unprecedented support for British rock and roll and has continued. In the past thirty years, Edai Records has provided many classic rock bands to the world and pushed British rock to the world stage.

It can be said that EDA Records has supreme influence in the British music industry. Almost every musician takes pride in entering EDA Records, including those maverick rock bands, because EDA Records has a variety of independent labels to ensure that they can fit the styles of different bands.

However, relatively speaking, Eddie Records has to lean back on the influence of North America. Eddie Records in the US market in the Beatles era. However, after the Beatles disbanded, Eddie Records began to retreat step by step. Since the 1990s, Bertelsman Records, Madonna, Blinking Eyes Band, Smith Band Warner Records, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan and Sony Records have all begun to come from behind and gradually surpass Eddie Records, making Eddie Records the last of the five major record companies in the US market.

In fact, the difference can be seen very simply. British singers under EDA Records have an absolute advantage, and it is difficult to see American singers, which has greatly restricted EDA Records' American market strategy.

From the perspective of Hugo's 2014, Eddie Records benefited from the prosperity of British rock in the late 1990s, thanks to the prosperity of British rock and snatching the American music market, regained its supreme glory, and was on par with Universal Music. However, after entering the 21st century, British rock gradually fell silent and there was no decent leader again, so Eddie Records has always been helpless in the US market at the end of major companies.

However, the foundation of EDA Records is the object of envy of other companies. Even though Sony Records later merged Bertelsmann and turned the five major record companies into four majors, EDA Records still did not fall behind. Moreover, even though the space was squeezed by the other three competitors was very strong, EDA Records' market share has never fluctuated much, and it has steadily occupied a place among the four major record companies.

Unfortunately, after struggling for several years, EDA Records, which was trapped in the mud before halfway through the first decade of the 21st century, was gradually eroded by competitors. In 2011, it was finally unable to continue to persevere. Universal Music purchased the record department, while Sony Bertelsmann acquired the copyright department, and EDA Records, which was once popular, went completely to an end.

The record department and copyright department mentioned here are basically the vertical structure system of each record company. The record department is the most well-known department, responsible for the production, publishing and distribution of music, etc.; the copyright department mainly uses contracted music creators to manage copyrights, purchase and sale of music works, authorized music copyrights, etc.

After entering the 21st century, the commercialization of the music market has reached an extreme. The record industry generally believes that "records are dead", and the value of the record department has fallen to the bottom. In other words, it is difficult for the record department to find fresh blood to revitalize the music market; but the value of the copyright department has gradually been amplified, especially digital music copyright has received more and more attention from people as the Internet era.

Of course, these are things that will be future development. At the time of 1993, EDA Records is still a top giant that can compete with Universal Music.

Henry Bloom actually believes that Honor can sign a contract with EDA Records until death, which actually has both advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantages are obvious. The constraints of large record companies can easily restrict singers. Compared with the freedom and randomness of independent records, the toughness of large record companies is difficult for newcomers to fight against; the advantages are also very obvious. The improvement of supporting facilities such as publicity resources and production resources can give newcomers a great advantage in starting points.

However, the biggest advantage of EDA Records is their tolerance for the diversity of rock music. It is worth mentioning that the Radio Commander signed the contract with EDA Records. Although the Radio Commander did not receive much response in the UK and EDA Records did not pay enough attention to it; however, after the International Department decided to let the Radio Commander come to the United States to conquer the world, the company still gave strong support.

From here you can see the tip of the iceberg of the advantages and disadvantages of Eididay Records.
Chapter completed!