Chapter 426: Confidence in Songs
After greeting for a while, Meng Wentian took the two of them to Wangjiang Tower.
Shu Yi asked Yuan Hui to drink tea by himself, and he reported the company's situation, Zhou Yan's album sales, Zhou Yan and Yuan Hui's commercial performances and announcements to Meng Wentian, and thanked Meng Wentian for his help from time to time, saying that he saved Zhou Yan and that he made Yuan Hui popular.
Now Tianji Media Company is very grateful to Meng Wentian from the employees to the CEO, and hopes that Meng Wentian can go to the capital and let them thank him. He said that the current sales of Zhou Yan's new album "My Future Is Not a Dream" are not determined by the buyer's desire to buy, but by the production capacity of Tianji Media, they will sell as much as they produce, and now it is completely in short supply, as long as they produce enough, the daily sales will rise sharply.
After saying these exciting news, Shu Yi told Meng Wentian that the company wanted to sign an exclusive cooperation agreement with him.
The so-called exclusivity means that Meng Wentian can only sell the song to Tianji Media Company, and cannot sell it to other companies.
Shu Yi said this last time he called, and Meng Wentian also thought about it for a long time, and felt that it was not impossible to sign this agreement, after all, who sold the song he plagiarized, as long as the other party gave money.
In Meng Wentian's view, this song agreement has both benefits and disadvantages for himself, but the benefits outweigh the benefits. First of all, only trading with Tianji Media can keep his secret to the greatest extent, because this is what both parties want the most, Meng Wentian doesn't want others to know about him, and Tianji Media doesn't want Meng Wentian to contact other companies.
Secondly, Meng Wentian didn't want to plagiarize songs in large quantities, with such a large media company, he felt that it was enough to accommodate the songs he plagiarized, and there was no need to copy all the songs on the earth. For selfishness, as long as he doesn't plagiarize too much and too much, people will only say that he is a genius when they know him, and people will only appreciate him and admire him, and if there are too many people, there will be countless people who will study him and stare at him. Yu Gong, he can't plagiarize too many songs. Plagiarizing excellent songs from the earth can certainly improve and enhance the cultural level of this planet and promote the development of this planet's culture, but if there is too much plagiarism, it will form a crush, and the composers of this planet will be suppressed, which will make them despair, and will make them lose their confidence and patience in creation.
Third, Meng Wentian only signed a copyright agreement with Tianji Media, although it was impossible to form competition, Meng Wentian's songs could not get sky-high prices, but Meng Wentian didn't care about the extra money. Besides, the sharing agreement signed at that time was when Tianji Media was at a low point, when Zhou Yan was buried, and he sold them songs with the halo of saving them, so the sharing ratio in the signed sharing agreement was not low, with a maximum profit sharing of 12.5%, which is the highest level in the industry. If multiple media companies are allowed to compete, the price will certainly increase a lot, but it will also add a lot of trouble, and he will have to spend a lot of time and energy to deal with the requests of various media companies, singers, and singers.
After all, that's not his main business. Besides, too high a share ratio will also make media companies lose a lot of profit margins, and there are a lot of complaints in their hearts, and I don't know how many people scold their mothers in private.
However, Meng Wentian didn't want Tianji Media to take away the copyrights of all his songs so easily, and he had to give them some constraints.
Therefore, after listening to Shu Yi's words and seeing his hopeful gaze, Meng Wentian said, "How much is the signing fee?"
Since you want to monopolize my songs in order to make bigger and more profits, and make me lose money, you will have to pay something.
Shu Yi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw that Meng Wentian had no objections, and said: "Originally, the company gave me a floating authority, between two million yuan and three million yuan, I will call the shots and give you three million yuan." ”
Meng Wentian shook his head and said, "It's too little, you have to give me at least eight million yuan a year." ”
"What? eight million?" Shu Yi was shocked and looked at Meng Wentian in disbelief, "Why is it so high? We will also give you a profit share of 12.5% for each song, by the way, the boss of our company said, the first two albums and the future albums, as long as you give us the songs of Tianji Media, no matter how much the album is distributed, we will give you a 12.5% share." ”
Meng Wentian smiled and asked, "Is it more than eight million yuan?" In Shu Yi's stunned gaze, Meng Wentian said lightly, "Twelve .5 percent was indeed a bit high before, and your Tianji Media Company was forced to agree because it thought that it would not reach the sales figure we set at all, but it was not because of the good quality of the song and willingly gave me this share ratio." You now know that if you let other people know that I wrote those songs, they will definitely give me a 20 percent share and beg me for a new song. So, I don't think the discount you just said for me is a discount. ”
Seeing that Shu Yi wanted to speak and stopped, Meng Wentian continued: "You Tianji Media make money far more than just albums, right? It can be said that since Zhou Yan sang my song and became popular again, his commercial performance price has definitely been rising upward. Now for a medium-sized commercial performance, without a salary of two million yuan, will he go? Perhaps, his current commercial performance price has surpassed Tan Yanyan's. But before you buy my songs, he'll have that price? No way!"
When Shu Yi heard this, he couldn't help but bow his head in shame: Not to mention Zhou Yan, the price of his girlfriend Yuan Hui's commercial performance is as high as more than two million, and some merchants even offer a price of three million yuan, and this price is still rising.
Seeing that Meng Wentian looked at himself quietly after speaking, Shu Yi raised his head and said, "Then I'll report to the company." ”
Meng Wentian smiled: "Your company must be worried about the quality of my later songs, and don't dare to give me too much money, and don't even dare to sign this contract for too long, right?"
Shu Yi sighed and said, "Isn't it? If your future songs are still so good, no, even if the quality of your future songs is only half of what it is now, and the album sales are only half of what it is now, we are willing to sign an exclusive contract with you for 8 million, or even 10 million." Can...... But if your future song fails, our company will have to lose millions of dollars every year. They didn't know what to do for a while, so ......"
Meng Wentian smiled: "This is very easy to solve." There are several conditions that we can set in the contract. For example, we stipulate in the contract that if you release an album using my songs, if any album of the same genre in the same period sells 80% of our albums, my signing fee for this agreement will be halved. As long as our albums are lower than the sales of albums of the same genre in the same period, even if it is the first one, I don't want this signing fee, not a penny. ”
Shu Yi looked at Meng Wentian dumbfoundedly and asked, "Are you so confident? others can't even reach 80% of us, is it impossible?...... What if the master's own singing skills are not good?"
Meng Wentian said: "So, we have to stipulate in the agreement that I have the right to review the singers for every song I sell you." Only the artists I approve of, the albums where they sing my songs, are within this agreement. Singers who don't have my consent, your company arranges them to sing as much as they want, but I can't guarantee the sales of the album. ”
Shu Yi sighed and didn't say anything.
Meng Wentian then said: "In order to avoid the risk of losing millions of yuan in the media......"
Shu Yi hurriedly said: "No, no, if you add what you just said, our company will not have any risk." ”
Just kidding, every album is guaranteed to be the No. 1 seller in the country, so what risk will the company take? That's definitely a lot of money.
Meng Wentian shook his head and said: "I gave you a guarantee in the last agreement, and I gave you peace of mind, the following one is of course a little benefit for myself, and I can't let you take advantage of the benefits, right?"
Shu Yi looked at Meng Wentian again in surprise, and hurriedly said, "I didn't mean that, didn't you say just now that it was to avoid our company from taking risks?
Meng Wentian said: "What I like most about doing things is to think about how the cooperation between us can be a win-win situation. In order for your company not to risk a big loss of millions of dollars, I think it is best to sign our agreement once a year. In case my song is going downhill, you can be afraid to stop signing me after a year. It's like speculating on stocks, knowing that the stock price is going to fall, you'd better sell. ”
Shu Yi looked at Meng Wentian puzzled and asked, "This is good for our company, why are you ...... , Meng Wentian, I'm really confused by you, you're teasing me, aren't you?"
Meng Wentian smiled: "You are a big man, how can I want to tease you." I'm not done yet. Wait until the new contract year, either party has the right to refuse to continue the contract, but has the right of first refusal to sign the agreement. However, the party who voluntarily requested to sign the agreement must bear 25% of the signing fee. ”
Shu Yi asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Meng Wentian said: "Don't understand? For example, we signed an agreement this year, and the price was set at 8 million yuan. By this time next year, the agreement will be automatically suspended. And if we want to cooperate, we have to sign a new agreement, right?...... But if you re-sign the agreement next year, you will encounter a problem, who is willing to sign and who is not. No one wants to sign it, the situation is easy to do, we break up in two shots, and everyone never talks about the purchase and sale of song copyrights, that is, if you can be friends, you will be friends, and if you can't be friends, you will become passers-by. ”
Shu Yi snorted and asked, "What if you are willing to sign?"
Meng Wentian said: "If you are willing to sign, my side will continue to sign at 8 million yuan a year, and if you have any new requirements, we will discuss it." ”