In recent months, Warner Records' Taiwan branch has been repeatedly reduced in size, and a large number of senior employees have left, causing the singers to panic and many people to doubt the determination of the international label to develop in the local area. On October 28, Warner singer Huang Xiaohu suddenly said at the press conference of the new album that he hoped that general manager Zhou Chunru would continue to do it in the company, but he did not expect that soon after, the news that she (Zhou Chunru) would leave at the end of the month was reported; some Taiwan media quoted insiders (anonymous whistleblowers) as saying that Warner Music was considering withdrawing from the Taiwan market.
Warner Music has signed a number of big-name singers in Taiwan, but in recent years most of them have chosen to leave. The Taiwan media pointed out in the article that Lin Junjie will not renew his contract after the appointment expires, and his agency JFJ Productions has repeatedly interfered in the internal policies of the record company, including designating mv directors, how much budget to arrange, etc., while Warner is only allowed to cooperate with publicity, and has no right to intervene in any way, just like puppets and rubber stamps, and the relationship between the two sides is not harmonious. The following picture is a screenshot of the Taiwan media report:
As of now, the big-name singers who can ensure that they will not leave in the short term are Only Xiao Jingteng, who renewed his contract in March this year. However, when Xiao Jingteng sang "Forbidden Love Clause" with South Korean cnblue lead singer Zheng Ronghe in June, he originally planned to pay attention to each other's instagram accounts, but Zheng Ronghe did not respond, and Xiao Jingteng's agent Summer was dissatisfied with Warner Records, who was responsible for the cooperation case, saying that if it was not properly handled, it would terminate the contract.
As for this statement, Summer herself firmly denied it, saying that she had no opinion on Warner, and that the brokerage team was busy breathing every day and felt hard, and did not have the leisure to do such a thing. But Summer also said that although the whistleblower's content about Xiao Jingteng is not true, he is obviously familiar with Warner's internal affairs and should be an insider, "It is certain that this friend has a cool vacancy, and when the departments are in full swing for Warner singers, he actually has time to come out and expose the news." ”
Earlier, Warner Records issued a statement saying that the company's senior management to leave the job is normal behavior, has arranged a successor, all operations are not affected, the future will focus on the use of data to help artists and songs to promote, will also actively use data to explore more voices in the Chinese music scene.