RB's copyright system is clear, the royalty of a single accounts for about 6% of the CD price, of which the songwriter gets 2%-3%, the singer gets 1%, and the arranger is divided into two situations: one-time buyout and participation in the share, if you participate in the share, you can get about one-twelfth of the 6%.

In addition, every time this song is on-demand on karaoke and radio, a royalty must be charged once, and even if the TV station only uses one of the lyrics, it must pay the corresponding royalty, and because it is an underground single, even the original printing tax, which has nothing to do with the singer, belongs to Ye Zhao.

After the total sum of zero and zero, Ye Zhao's preliminary estimate of net worth has exceeded 15 million yen, and even if the 37% personal income tax of the madness is deducted, there is still about 10 million yen.

What should I do with 10 million yen? If nothing else, at least I should move from this 50,000 yen monthly wooden apartment to an elevator apartment with a better environment, and then take my bank card to Roppongi in Minato Ward and reward myself from the inside out. It's a pity that due to the royalty settlement system, Ye Zhao will have to wait a few more months if he wants to really get this money, so before that, he still has to live in his cheap apartment, eat his discounted lunch, and sell his songs.

Of course, this is not completely without benefits, at least the lobbyists of record companies and agencies can find him in the first place.

On this day, as soon as Ye Zhao returned to the apartment, he was instantly surrounded by scouts who were ambushed downstairs. The scouts bowed to him and said hello as they stuffed the business card in their hands into Ye Zhao's hand.

"Hello, Mr. Ye Zhao, I am the agent of AMUSE Office, do you have time to talk now?"

"Mr. Ye Zhao, please talk to me!" This is a talent scout from EMI Records.

"Mr. Ye Zhao, I'm a ...... from Sony Records"

Ye Zhao took the business card one by one and smiled reservedly, "Thank you, I'll consider it." With that, he parted the crowd and climbed the stairs of the apartment. When the scouts saw this, they dispersed with interest.

BACK IN THE ROOM, YE ZHAO SPREAD OUT THE BUSINESS CARD HE RECEIVED ON THE TABLE, AND THERE WERE NO LESS THAN TWENTY COMPANIES THAT INVITED HIM, AMUSE, EMI, SONY, UNIVERSAL, AI HUI, HORIPRO, AND BRUNING......

Ye Zhao took out Sony's business card and threw it aside, the DEMO he sent to SONY has not been written until now, it is clear that it has been abandoned, and he doesn't need to sign his work. Many years later, when AKB48 became popular, Sony Music's miss on Ye Zhao was mentioned again, and because of these two incidents, Sony became a typical example of the industry's visionless.

When he browsed a business card that said BEING, Inc, Ye Zhao was subconsciously stunned. Although BEING is only a medium-sized company, it has a well-known reputation in both RB and China. Speaking of reasons, in addition to the commercial miracles they created in the early 90s, known as the BEING dynasty, but also because they took the theme songs of classic animations such as Slam Dunk, Little Chinese Master, and Detective Conan.

Ye Zhao in his previous life, when he was a teenager, the first thing he did when he came home from school every day was to turn on the TV, and watch Slam Dunk while doing his homework, and even when he started playing basketball later, he was also influenced by this animation. And BEING, which is in charge of all the OP and ED of Slam Dunk, is not an exaggeration to say that it is the enlightenment of his RB music.

Since he is quite familiar with the history of BEING, Ye Zhao naturally also knows that BEING's signature is rock, although compared with orthodox rock music, most of the songs made by BEING can only be called pop rock (pop rock), but it does not prevent them from having the impression of BEING=ROCK in the hearts of RB people.

How could such a company be interested in a singer who uses folk songs as his main theme?

After thinking about it, Ye Zhao picked up the business card and came downstairs, and dialed the number on the business card from the public phone.

The answer was a gentle female voice, "Hello." ”

"Hello, is it Ms. Kaoru Fujiwara of BEING?" Ye Zhao asked, according to the name printed on the business card.

"Yes. Who are you?"

"I'm Ye Zhao, who just received your business card. Do you have time now? I want to talk to you. ”

"Of course there is time. By the way, has Mr. Ye had dinner?"

"Not yet. ”

"In that case," Fujiwara Kaoru suggested, "why don't we eat and talk at a Chinese restaurant in Ikebukuro, if I'm not mistaken, Mr. Ye is Chinese, right?"

"Yes. Fujiwara Kaoruko's intimacy made Ye Zhao's initial impression of her quite good.

In 1994, BEING was at its peak, and the gold medal composers Tetsuro Oda and Seiichiro Kuribayashi, who owned top musicians such as b'z, wands, zard, deen, and Daikoku Moji, and called "Shuanglang", have not quit yet, at least in the hearts of most people, they feel that the glory of BEING will continue and will continue.

But Ye Zhao knew that Tetsuya Komuro would take his electronic dance music to the music scene in the near future, Oda Tetsuro and Seiichiro Kuribayashi also left one after another because of the disagreement with Nagato Daiyuki's concept, and then the era of singers came, Ayumi Hamasaki and Hikaru Utada were killed, and the music styles in the pop music scene became more and more diverse, and the conformist BEING was completely killed under the impact of wave after wave of the tide of the times, from the former overlord of the music scene to a second-rate company, the newcomer couldn't make a splash, the old man either died and retired or his popularity plummeted, and the only ones who could show their hands were big brother b'z and Mai Kuraki。

Knowing the historical process, BEING is also put in the first place in the choice, although there is a bit of affection, but the real reason is because BEING is a pure record production company, for its singers, they are only responsible for the production and distribution of records, and will not interfere in their brokerage contracts, which not only ensures the freedom of singers, but also reduces the secondary exploitation of the brokerage company, which can be said to be the best place to go.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the Chinese restaurant Wynn was full of customers, and it was a shame that Kaoru Fujiwara was able to book a seat at this time.

Compared with Yokohama's Chinatown, where most of the old immigrants gather, most of the Chinese in Ikebukuro have come to the east in recent years, and they have settled here and multiplied, opening Chinese restaurants, grocery stores, and even Chinese bookstores, and developing the northwest entrance of Ikebukuro into a new Chinese street. However, although Ye Zhao lives in Ikebukuro, he has never set foot in a Chinese restaurant here, and in his opinion, it is better to do it himself than to eat improved Chinese food.

Fujiwara Kaoru is about thirty years old, wearing a blue satin shirt, a long black and white vertical striped skirt, short ear-length hair, a tear mole under her right eye, and always looking into Ye Zhao's eyes when she speaks. "I have seen Mr. Ye's talent from the single "Summer Color" before, but I didn't expect you to be so handsome. ”

"Miss Fujiwara has won the award. ”

"I don't know if Mr. Ye knows anything about our BEING, although our scale is not as big as that of big companies like Universal and Sony, but we have RB's top production talents, and our achievements in the music industry in recent years are also quite good, if you can join us, I believe we will be able to create a win-win situation." ”

"Of course, I know about the brilliance that BEING has created on the ORICON list, but from what I know, your company's signature is rock and roll, right?

"You can't say that," says Kaoru Fujiwara, "that music has universalities, and it can't be roughly divided by labels like rock, folk, and jazz. Take your song "Summer Color" as an example, if you rearrange it, even if it changes from folk to metal, it will not be a problem. It's the melody that really makes the difference between a song and the song, and we see your potential in composition. ”

"But Ms. Fujiwara also saw that my single was mainly a folk song, and the C/W song was rock, and not only that, but I would try more genres in the future, and even if I did join BEING, I would not be able to follow the trend of your company and become a rock singer. Wouldn't that be contrary to your philosophy?"

Ye Zhao's words made Fujiwara Kaoru smile slightly, "What's wrong with this? The company has also launched the song group B.B.QUEENS and the girl idol MI-KE, and its singers such as Miss Daikoku Moji have also been experimenting with various styles such as blues and folk songs in her albums. Besides, a large part of the reason why BEING has become the best company in all RB to make rock is that it just opened up the situation by rock when it was exploring the market, and if it was an idol who earned us a reputation at the beginning, maybe BEING's strength now is making idols. ”

Fujiwara Kaoruko's words were straightforward enough, so that Ye Zhao couldn't help but slander her "sincerity" in his heart. Speaking of the company BEING, although the founder Nagato Daiyuki loves rock, and the backbone of the company, such as Tetsuro Oda Akashi, is also the best at making rock, but in fact, after the establishment of this company, for a long time, it has taken the route of "as long as it can be imitated", although the main rock production, but also never refuse to follow the trend. It wasn't until the mid-80s that the band TUBE was successfully produced, and after the hard rock of the two big brothers b'z became popular, Tetsuro Oda's creation matured, and he absorbed arrangers who were good at rock such as Masao Akashi, and gradually formed his current style.

When the era of singers came, Hikaru Utada set off R& amp; At the time of the B trend, BEING took advantage of the situation to launch singing R& amp; Mai Kuraki, who is known in China as the beloved and beloved singer of the three major singers of Heisei, was openly ridiculed by the host on RB's TV show as Hikaru Utada. Later, BEING also launched Uehara AZUMI, who looks like Ayumi Hamasaki, when female guitar singer-songwriters were popular in the music scene, BEING, who was poor in donkey skills, packaged a so-called female guitar singer-songwriter Shiori Shinyama, but unfortunately although this is known as a female singer-songwriter, she can't write a decent song.

After all, Nagato Daiyuki is just a businessman. Don't say that Ye Zhao just sings some songs that have nothing to do with rock and roll, even if he makes an album that records cat meows throughout the whole process, as long as he can make money, he doesn't care.