077. Exclusive authorization, refusal to sell songs
Zhang Yufeng asked curiously: "Classmate Wang Xiao, have you signed a contract with a brokerage company?"
Zhang Yufeng called his classmates and wanted to get closer.
It's a pity that Wang Xiao stopped talking.
Zhu Ziqi picked up the phone and replied: "Manager Zhang, hello, I am not a brokerage company, I am simply Wang Xiao's agent, specializing in handling his contracts and trivial matters." Now can we talk about the specifics?"
Zhang Yufeng put away his curiosity: "Okay, what do you call it?"
Zhu Ziqi: "Just call me Xiao Zhu." ”
Zhang Yufeng smiled: "Okay, I'll call you Ms. Zhu." We learned that Wang Xiao's songs were released separately on Wangyiyun, and we applied for independent musicians, but we have not signed a specific contract yet. We want to sign an exclusive contract with Wang Xiao, so that Wang Xiao's music will only be released on our Shenteng music platform in the future. ”
"Moreover, we have a music company under Shenteng Music, and we also want to sign an artist contract with Mr. Wang Xiao. ”
Zhu Ziqi looked at Wang Xiao with an inquiring look in her eyes.
Wang Xiao said in a low voice: "The first one can be discussed, and the second one can not be discussed." ”
If you want the exclusive network copyright of music, you can talk about it, but you don't have to talk about signing a music company.
He doesn't want to be tied down himself!
Zhu Ziqi immediately said: "The exclusive network release contract can be discussed, the artist contract, Wang Xiao has not thought about it for the time being, he is just an anchor now, so let's not talk about it for now." ”
Zhang Yufeng: "Does Wang Xiao always want to be an anchor?"
Zhu Ziqi: "Let's talk about it later, let's be a good anchor first, Wang Xiao just wants to make his own music now, whether he sings as an anchor or sings in other ways, it's the same for him." ”
Zhu Ziqi still remembers that Wang Xiao said that she likes to sing, which is a very pure like, and she supports it very much!
Zhang Yufeng was silent for a second and said: "Mr. Wang Xiao likes to make music, and his music is so good, it should be seen by more people, and we have a bigger platform for Shenteng Music to show his music." ”
Zhu Ziqi: "So, we can talk to you about the exclusive release of the network. ”
Zhang Yufeng: "Hehe, Ms. Zhu is amazing. Okay, let's not talk about anything else, let's talk about the network Du family contract. The conditions we give are the same as the contract of the shark's sister Sifeifei in the net Yiyun, an exclusive contract, we will give you promotion resources, give advertising and fee sharing, and give you a signing fee of 3 million a year, with Wang Xiao's music quality, the annual income will not be less than 8 million. ”
They have counted specific data, and now the total downloads of Wang Xiao's several songs on the net cloud have exceeded 1.5 million, which is only about half a month's data, with an average of more than 100,000 downloads a day, and a total of more than 500,000 downloads a day at the peak.
This kind of data is almost unique among the groups of non-well-known star singers, and it is not comparable to any other Internet celebrity singing anchors and online musicians.
In the future, this data will rise, and the subsequent advertising and fee sharing will be extremely substantial.
Zhu Ziqi began to show the strength of the agent: "Manager Zhang, what do you think, what do you think of the popularity comparison between Wang Xiao and Xi Feifei now?"
Zhang Yufeng: "For the time being, it's half a catty." ”
Zhu Ziqi said affirmatively: "Wrong, Wang Xiao's popularity has surpassed that of Sifeifei, and don't forget, Brother Xiao's songs are original, this is not like most of Xifeifei's songs are covers, and others can also get permission to cover them, so if you don't listen to her, you can listen to others." Every song of our Wang Xiao is original, without our authorization, others cannot be used as commercial covers, only we can download it, this is truly exclusive. ”
"On the whole, Wang Xiao's value is far above Xi Feifei, and in the area of online musicians, I can't think of anyone who can compare with Wang Xiao, Manager Zhang, your offer is very insincere. ”
Wang Xiao, who eats steamed buns, gave Zhu Ziqi a thumbs up - amazing.
Zhu Ziqi winked at Wang Xiao.
Zhang Yufeng's tone weakened a little: "Then Ms. Zhu, what price do you think Wang Xiao is suitable for?"
Zhu Ziqi immediately said: "According to the data obtained from my investigation, the exclusive contract of Xifeifei's three million a year is already a contract two years ago, and the cooperation between Xifeifei and Wangyiyun will expire next year, and it will definitely be more than this price." Now that the copyright of online music has been taken care of by the state, the value of original music is even higher when infringement and piracy are gradually extinct. I think that if you want to sign an exclusive contract with Wang Xiao, 20 million a year is not high. ”
After the online piracy began to be cracked down, the pirated music source was almost impossible to find, and the value of genuine music copyright has increased significantly, and now the price of music copyright is rising every year, which is also one of the reasons why those musicians are getting lazier and lazier, because the copyright in the past can make them lie down and live more moisturized, plus running variety shows, it is no worse than the previous income from working hard to make albums.
The same is true for many old record companies, lying down and eating the old book, not daring to easily discover new people, afraid of losing money.
Zhang Yufeng on the phone was obviously silent for a moment, obviously surprised by this price, and then said: "Ms. Zhu, 20 million is impossible, I will talk to you in person, which shows our sincerity and attention." ”
Zhu Ziqi: "We also have sincerity, but I don't see your sincerity for the time being." ”
Zhang Yufeng: "Hehe, what Ms. Zhu said made me ashamed. In this way, let's take a step back, how about 50,000 yuan? Exclusive contract, sign for three years, and pay 10 million after signing the contract!"
Zhu Ziqi looked at Wang Xiao.
Wang Xiao raised a finger and said that he would only sign for one year!
Zhu Ziqi nodded to show understanding: "Manager Zhang, fifteen million a year, and one sign a year." ”
Zhang Yufeng: "Impossible, fifteen million a year is too expensive, and the exclusive contract of a well-known singer is tens of millions, and a year is too short, at least three years." ”
Zhu Ziqi: "Well-known singers are all old books, and there are very few new songs released, but our Wang Xiao is an original new song, and every song is very popular, which can bring a lot of new traffic and paying users, which is a huge advantage." ”
The two began to fight, you came and went, for more than half an hour, Wang Xiao finished eating and wandered in the shallow water of Weibo and the fan group for a while, and the two fought for the result.
Zhang Yufeng's tone finally softened: "It's okay a year, eight million." ”
Zhu Ziqi insisted: "Nine million is our lowest price, if it is lower, there is really no need to talk about it." ”
Zhang Yufeng said helplessly: "Ms. Zhu, you are very powerful, okay, I agreed." I will ask someone to send you the details of the contract, and you can put forward your comments after reading them, and then discuss them, and if you have no comments, you will sign them and send them to us!"
Zhu Ziqi also breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, thank you Manager Zhang, happy cooperation." ”
Zhang Yufeng: "I hope the cooperation will go well, you are catching up with a good time, now the Internet copyright is very strict, and it is not easy to find a pirated copy." A few years ago, we bought the five-year exclusive copyright of several kings, which is twenty or thirty million. If this cooperation is pleasant, we may have more opportunities to cooperate in the future. ”
Zhu Ziqi: "I also hope that we can have a happy cooperation. Manager Zhang, you said that it was a few years ago, at that time, piracy was not extinct, everyone was still used to piracy, online copyright is not very valuable, there is no income, but now it is very different, it is difficult to find pirated music on the Internet. When your two-year contract expires, you still want to continue to ask for the exclusive copyright of those king singers, I think it's impossible to have hundreds of millions, right?"
Zhang Yufeng was silent, he knew that what Zhu Ziqi said was almost the truth, and changed the topic at the moment.
The two hypocritically politely exchanged a few words, and then hung up the phone.
Zhu Ziqi put down the phone, threw himself on Wang Xiao's back with some excitement, and said: "It's negotiated, they will send you a contract later! Nine million ...... a year."
Wang Xiao heard the whole process just now, and gave Zhu Ziqi a thumbs up: "Amazing, big agent! Take a closer look at the contract when the time comes, don't involve us in the competition between them and Wang Yiyun, the two of them affected a large number of people in the first two years, and finally came forward to mediate and make Shenteng Music suffer." ”
Zhu Ziqi also remembered the music copyright dispute in the first two years, at the beginning of the copyright era, Shenteng Music hoarded a large number of exclusive copyrights.
And Wang Yiyun started with piracy, never thought about copyright at all, never thought about spending money to buy copyrights, and it was best to make money for free, but then after the official began to vigorously crack down on piracy, piracy could not be done, and Wang Yiyun turned around and began to buy copyrights, and found that the copyrights of most well-known songs had been bought exclusively by Shenteng.
At this time, Wang Yiyun found that they didn't have much content to provide, and more than seventy percent of the copyrights of famous music were all in Shenteng, and once they bought it, they had exclusive copyrights that started in five or six years. Once they provide content, it is infringement, and in the end, they have no choice but to start splashing and rolling, creating public opinion, and letting the above mediate, saying that Shenteng is a monopoly, asking Shenteng to share the copyright for free, wanting to empty the gloves of the white wolf, and distributing the copyright by crying, without thinking about the interests of the original author at all, and only caring about himself.
Shen Teng was naturally unwilling, and the two fought for almost a year or two, and finally Shen Teng gave in, suffering a little loss on the surface, and gave up some copyrights to Wang Yiyun, and secretly Shen Teng and Wang Yi Yun did not know what resource transactions there were behind Wang Yiyun.
People who pay attention to the cause and effect of this matter clearly know that Wang Yiyun is not a very face-saving website, which is also one of the reasons why Wang Xiao is willing to negotiate with Shen Teng before he has come into contact with Wang Yiyun, he does not have a good impression of Wang Yiyun, he is afraid of being pitted, and there are not a few original musicians who have been pitted by Wang Yiyun.
Although Shenteng is overbearing about copyright, people bought it for the copyright owner with real money, so it is natural to speak confidently. Wang Yiyun started as a pirate, and began to pit many works under the banner of sharing, but when the copyright was tightened, it was still shameless, splashing and rolling, which was also speechless.
Zhu Ziqi said solemnly: "I will read the contract carefully, and if there is a problem, I will discuss it with them to solve it." ”
Wang Xiao nodded: "Okay, that's right." Have you screened the applications on these Q's?"
Zhu Ziqi took the mouse: "I roughly screened some of them, commercial performances, record companies, and music websites, what do you think exactly?"
Wang Xiao thought for a while: "Don't worry about it for the time being, if you take on commercial performances, you will only accept local ones in Rongcheng for the time being, I don't want to go to other places." The record company or something, all of them will be rejected first, and the music website can also refuse it now, and we have already negotiated with Shenteng Music......"
Zhu Ziqi nodded: "What about the people who invite songs? Many people who have indicated that they have come to invite songs have offered about 50,000 to 100,000 yuan to buy out the copyrights of your current songs, and the copyright of new songs also starts at 10,000 yuan." ”
Wang Xiao shook his head directly: "All those who invite songs, all refuse, I have no interest in selling songs, we are not short of money, we will not sell any works, you go to my Weibo to make a statement, we don't sell songs, no one sells!"
Zhu Ziqi still nodded in support: "Okay, I'll send it now!"
Saying that, Zhu Ziqi helped Wang Xiao make a brief statement on Weibo: "In view of the fact that many people have added me to invite songs, I declare that I will not sell any works, including published and unpublished, and any individuals or companies that invite songs do not need to look for me." I don't have any plans to release a record for the time being, and in the evening in the live broadcast room of the gods, the release of new songs is too popular, see you or leave!"
Weibo soon received tens of thousands of likes and thousands of comments.
"The most domineering musician, don't sell any works, Brother Xiao. ”
"Brother Xiao, if you have the opportunity, can you make an album of your already released works and put them on the market? I really want to buy an album collection, every song is a classic. ”
"I've been waiting for a new song in the black screen live broadcast room, anyway, Brother Xiao's black screen live broadcast room is too hot today, and the black screen is two million hot, can you believe it?"
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The couple didn't go out for a day, and they ordered takeout at noon, so they handled many trivial matters brought about by the surge in popularity in the small rental house.
Until about 8 o'clock in the afternoon, Q's third pop-up window came today, and it still went straight to Wang Xiao's live broadcast room.
Because, Wang Xiao's live broadcast time is almost up.
At this moment, Wang Xiao entered his live broadcast room, and saw that the popularity of the black screen was as high as three million, and all the anchors of the Shenbing platform were pressed all day long.