Chapter 110: Karaoke

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"There are countless businessmen in the world, but there is only one Fang Xiao in the world! Money doesn't matter, you don't lack money, music is where your soul belongs......"

"Seeing that you are famous, seeing that you are prosperous, seeing that you are hot, seeing that you are disbanded!! That's not how things work!! ”

"Writing nearly 100 songs in two months, even the gods can't bear it, it's understandable to rest, wait for the queen orchestra to reorganize and then go out of the mountain, don't disband, don't ......"

"MD, Lao Tzu is out of the way, even if you can't grab an ordinary ticket, you have to grit your teeth and buy a VIP ticket to pay tribute to my out-of-print youth ......"

"Call on all fans to resolutely boycott the F&Q concert until they know they are wrong and do not disband!"

"Qiao Yadan, why do you want to be a teacher, Mai Jiexin, why do you want to fly solo...... Woowoo...... How nice it would be to stay together for a long time......"

"There is no feast in the world that will not be dissolved, F&Q is disbanding, I am also graduating, I really want to cry ......"

"The dissolution of F&Q should be related to the unequal distribution of interests between Fang Xiao and the Queen Orchestra...... We interviewed the heads of several large domestic advertising companies by phone, and they all agreed that Fang Xiao is now a first-line top star, and the endorsement fee starts at least 10 million, while the market of the Queen Orchestra will not exceed 5 million, and the commercial performance fee is also a world of difference...... Knowing "Qingren" revealed that F&Q is now a big pot of rice, and all income is distributed equally, and the price difference is huge......"

When Fang Xiao left the hotel, he remained silent as always. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info79 declined any interviews......"

"Mak Jiexin did not appear at the music festival reception today, which has attracted a lot of speculation...... Her twin sister, Mak Qingxin, is a dual executive at Google and Eye&Me. This may be an important reason why she flew solo...... Mak Jiexin is considered to have the purest voice in China, and now many record companies are closely monitoring her dynamics......"

Qiao Yadan accepted an exclusive interview with the reporter of this magazine, telling about the mental process of giving up flashiness and choosing plain...... For details, please pay attention to the ...... of "Hong Kong Entertainment Weekly" published tomorrow.

"F&Q Dream Show" has at least hundreds of millions of advertising revenues, and the sales of peripheral products have also exceeded 40 million, plus the income from concerts, F&Q has achieved one billionaire and five multimillionaires in less than two months since its establishment. It can be called a miracle in the entertainment industry...... They can obviously let the miracle continue, but after a short period of glory, it falls apart, which is suffocating, can they really share hardships and hardships, but cannot share prosperity......

"Permission updated a group photo of F&Q on eye&me, with a postscript: To our dying youth...... Many fans posted selfies and posts......"

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One stone stirred up a thousand waves to allow talk about the dissolution of F&Q after June 18. spread all over the Internet in just a few hours, causing countless emotions, speculations and interpretations, but when the outside world was stormy, Fang Xiao and Zhou Xiuman sang in a KTV, accompanied by a man and a woman, the man was in his thirties. Wearing glasses, the woman is in her early twenties and has a ponytail.

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Don't say that love is bitter, don't say that love is bitter, you should be clear if you have loved

Why your love. My love is so bitter

I also gave true love. has moved the true feelings, but love does not stop, oh, no matter how amorous love is, how ruthless love is, life still has to go

Don't say that love is bitter, don't say that love is bitter, you should be clear if you have loved

……”

This is in mid-May, when Fang Xiao was invited to participate in the Hong Kong station of the queen Lin Qiuxi's national tour, she sang "Don't Say Love Bitter" with her, the lyrics of this bitter love song are very universal, and the requirements for singing skills are not high, anyone can sing it, so after it was circulated, it was quite popular.

It's just that the KTV singing tape is very rough production, not only the soundtrack is a little blurry and harsh, but the MV has no content, only frame by frame of beautiful pictures are switching, like a product of the VCD era in the 90s......

When Fang Xiao and Zhou Xiuman were singing, the man with glasses had an embarrassed expression and sat like pins and needles, while the ponytail girl looked at Fang Xiao without blinking, eager to move.

At the end of the song, Zhou Xiuman handed the microphone to the ponytail girl very interestingly, and said with a smile: "Miss Zhong come to try?" Although this is not a stage, there are not many opportunities to sing with Fangda singers in KTV. ”

The ponytail girl smiled happily, ignoring the glasses man's glaring and shaking his head, took the microphone, stood up and walked to the song ordering table, Fang Xiao pressed the touch screen, returned to the song ordering menu, and asked, "What song to sing?" ”

The ponytail girl stretched out her slender jade fingers and pressed the box of "This Week's Hot Songs", and after entering, she pressed the song that ranked fifth - "You Are a Song in My Heart", which is the song sung by Wei Yuchun, the new diva of Target Records in late May, when she made a guest appearance in "F&Q Dream Show", which was released less than a week ago.

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You are a song in my heart, a flower in my heart

You are a song of my life, and my thoughts merge into a river

Your song in my heart, don't just be a passerby

Leave a song in my life, no matter how it ends

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The MV of this song is a video directly ripped from "F&Q Dream Show", which is obviously pirated, but Fang Xiao turned a blind eye to it, and sang back and forth with the ponytail girl, and was very devoted.

"Chief Peng, don't sit still, come, drink some beer." Zhou Xiuman picked up two cans of beer, handed one to the man with glasses, and said: "The environment here is good, the audio equipment is first-class, and it uses the song ordering system developed by your music writers' association, and the music library is full of genuine songs, and the sound quality is first-class." ”

The man with glasses smiled embarrassedly, he put the beer back on the coffee table, and defended: "These songs are not included in our music library, they should be added by this KTV privately, and the Music Writers Association will never know the law and break the law and do this kind of copyright infringement." ”

"Of course, it must have been done by a temporary worker." Zhou Xiuman teased, she crossed her legs very chicly, pulled open the pull ring, took a sip of beer, and then said, "Section Chief Peng." You came to Hong Kong from Beijing and invited us to join the Music Writers Association. We are very touched by the sincerity, but what I don't understand is, what are the benefits of joining your Music Writers Association? ”

"This is the only music copyright collective management organization in China, and it is a non-profit organization dedicated to safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of composers, lyricists and other music copyright holders......

"Non-profit, I know." Zhou Xiuman cut off his clichΓ©. With a teasing smile, he said: "Section Chief Peng, you have been shouting for the collection of KTV audio copyright fees and video copyright fees nationwide since 2006 - of course, video copyright is the power of the AVCA - it has been eight years, how much money have you collected?" I've heard that before 2010, you collected 120 million, but very little money was distributed to songwriters, and after 2010. No one has received the royalties anymore, where does the money go? Are they all non-profit? ”

Section Chief Peng touched his chin, reached out and picked up another can of beer, and said: "This matter is very complicated, our Music and Authors Association does not have the power to directly collect fees, and it operates through a designated commercial company. Intermediate Procedures...... There are more programs in that one, so the royalties are slower to arrive. ”

"Some surveys show that in the city, for every 15,000 permanent residents, you can feed a large KTV. The net profit margin of the KTV industry is around 40% in Hong Kong. To open a KTV store with 50 sets of boxes, it will cost about 12 million yuan, and you can earn 4.8 million yuan per year. Zhou Xiuman said slowly: "There are 17 megacities with a permanent population of more than 5 million in the country, with a total population of about 180 million, that is, it can feed 12,000 KTV ......."

She took a sip of beer, and then continued: "Section Chief Peng is an expert, it should be very clear that the actual number is far more than 12,000, I am afraid that the three places of Beijing, Songjiang and Hong Kong combined, there are not 10,000, there are 8,000 KTVs, CCTV reported last year that the domestic KTV industry is a super large market with annual profits of up to three or four hundred billion." ”

Section Chief Peng smiled and didn't make a sound, Fang Xiao and the ponytail girl finished singing, and began to order other songs, without any intention of chatting.

"It took you 4 years to collect 120 million copyright fees from such a profiteering industry, which is incredible when you think about it, after all, songs are the foundation of KTV's survival." Zhou Xiuman changed the topic and said: "No wonder since last year, many songwriters have publicly stated that they want to quit the Music Writers Association. ”

"This ...... We are only a non-governmental rights protection organization, not a government department, we have no law enforcement power, and we do not have many means to use when defending our rights, so we can only persuade with bitter words, and many government departments pursue local protectionism and are unwilling to cooperate with our work, so a lot of nonsense has become a confused account. ”

"You are the only music copyright collective management agency in China, and the monopoly agency pretends to be aggrieved, who will believe it?" Zhou Xiuman scoffed, she sat upright, pointed to the song platform, and said: "Section Chief Peng, the annual fee of the Music and Authors Association is not low, but after collecting money, he doesn't do anything, not only is the copyright fee a mess, but he also started an infringement business by himself, why do you say we want to join?" ”

In the dim light, Section Chief Peng was silent, and after a while, he put down the beer can that had not been opened, and said, "Since this is the case, then I will not disturb Lawyer Zhou and Mr. Fang." Zhong Ying, stop singing, let's go. ”

"Section Chief Peng, don't worry, why bother to sweep away the little girl's interest." Zhou Xiuman waved his hand, signaled to continue singing, and then leaned over to Section Chief Peng and said, "Section Chief Peng, don't misunderstand, today I asked Fang Xiao and I to ask you to come to K-song, not to sweep your face, but to talk about a business with you." ”

"Oh?"

"Section Chief Peng, you are a famous family, your father is a famous composer, and he also served as the general manager of a Chinese record company, and he is a small section chief in the membership department of the Music and Authors Association, don't you think it's very condescending?"

Chief Peng didn't speak, picked up the beer, pulled it open and took a sip.

Zhou Xiuman took out his mobile phone, opened the Dragonfly Music APP, played a song casually, and then knocked on the screen and said: "Section Chief Peng, what do you think of the effect of this APP if it is used in KTV?" ”

"You mean online streaming music?" Section Chief Peng glanced at it, shook his head and said: "KTV's song ordering system is not so simple, it has high requirements for stability and fluency, and the function of your software is too simple, and it is not suitable for KTV." ”

"I'm talking about the concept of streaming. Not specific software. Zhou Xiuman put his mobile phone on the coffee table and said, "Fang Xiao once told me. The music industry is very conservative, I didn't have a concept before, but now I have. ”

"Don't say anything else.,It's just the KTV song ordering system.,It hasn't changed for more than ten years.,I came to K-song when I was in college.,It's like that.,Now I'm coming to K-song.。 It's still like that, it's hard to use, by letters, by singer, by heat, by language, by men and women, by combination, all kinds of buttons to choose songs, you can't find it when you choose it, it's annoying! Can't you just enter the KTV and swipe your phone? And then just sing your favorite song of hearts? Ten years ago, we held a brick machine, and ten years later, we will have a smart machine! ”

Section Chief Peng looked at the mobile phone on the coffee table and thought thoughtfully.

"Now the network is everywhere, the stability and speed are much better than they were a decade ago, and there's not much difference between streaming music and playing music with local files." Zhou Xiuman lifted his chin. motioned to him to look at the TV screen and said: "This old-fashioned karaoke interface, now we use our mobile phones to take pictures, and we can do all kinds of beautification after shooting, and then send it to friends." Why isn't there a sound? It's not difficult to fix the sound, there are a lot of software on the Internet...... And yes. Look at Miss Zhong, she was fully engaged and sang a good song with Fang Xiao, but she couldn't record it and send it to her friends, do you regret it? ”

"These are just the potential needs of users, for us, the most important thing is to use streaming music to make a KTV music library, you can fully control the copyright and charging methods, I know that the current KTV copyright fee is calculated according to the box, 12 yuan a year for a box, this is very unreasonable, and it is not scientific, with streaming media, we can charge according to the amount of lukeke." Zhou Xiuman changed the topic and asked: "Section Chief Peng, I just checked, on the May hot song list of this KTV, 34 of the top 50 are F&Q songs, do you know what this means?" ”

"Does that mean F&Q is so red?"

"Section Chief Peng is really joking, but they are really popular." Zhou Xiuman raised the beer can and said with a smile: "The average consumption time of KTV customers is about 3 hours, and if you sing a song in 4 minutes, you can only sing 45 songs at most, which means that our Google company can only open KTV with the existing 91 songs in hand." ”

"Not everyone likes to sing F&Q."

"So we want to do business with Section Chief Peng." Only then did Zhou Xiuman say her purpose: "Section Chief Peng has a family background, and has worked in the Music Writers Association for many years, has an excellent relationship with many musicians, and has a wide network of contacts, I don't know if I am interested in jumping ship to our Google company?" ”

Section Chief Peng was stunned.

"F&Q's lyrics and music copyrights - whether online or offline - have not been authorized to any institution or enterprise, and their songs are very popular, KTV urgently needs their copyright, this is a trump card, we use this trump card as a weapon, while defending rights, while promoting, while enriching the music library, three-pronged." Zhou Xiumanyou said: "There is a market of hundreds of billions of KTV in the country, and we only eat one percent, which is a big deal of billions. ”

"You mean you want to skip the Music Writers Association and sign a licensing agreement directly with the songwriter?"

"That's right! Section Chief Peng, you know, the domestic environment is not good, many songwriters can't collect copyright fees, life is not very satisfactory, if our system is promoted, musicians will take the initiative to join us after tasting the sweetness, after the scale is bigger, not only make money and reputation, but also change the domestic music pattern, which is much more exciting than you sitting in the office and reading the newspaper. ”

At this time, Fang Xiao raped Zhong Ying, and after singing "Sister Lin Falling from the Sky", he put down the microphone, sat down and said: "Section Chief Peng, your current salary is 6800 a month, if you are willing to come to Google, I will give you 100,000 a month, and the rewards and dividends will be calculated separately." ”

Section Chief Peng was stunned again, he only came to Hong Kong yesterday, and he saw Fang Xiao for the first time today, but he didn't expect him to even know his salary......

Come prepared......

Fang Xiao turned back to Zhong Ying who was standing on the side and said, "If Miss Zhong is willing to come, I am also very welcome." ”

"Is it also a monthly salary of 100,000?"

"If you can help me negotiate the license of Skylark Records, 100,000 is no problem."

"Really?"

"Absolutely."

Compared with the excited Zhong Ying, Section Chief Peng was very calm, he took two sips of beer, and said: "The idea of using streaming media to do KTV is very good, but the changes are too great, and it is very difficult to persuade companies to give up the equipment that can still be used and spend money to use a new system that has not been tested by the market!" ”

"On the one hand, my songs are not licensed to KTVs that do not use our system, and on the other hand, we will open a number of self-operated stores or franchise stores." Fang Xiao smiled and said, "The wolf is coming, and the sheep have to run if they don't want to." ”

Section Chief Peng shook his head lightly and said: "These KTVs are all old fritters, which are intertwined in the local area, and the cost of rights protection is very high. ”

"You can't eat a fat man in one bite, take your time, didn't Section Chief Peng just say, the KTV song ordering system is not such a simple thing, it is very troublesome to develop, what we have is time." Zhou Xiuman smiled confidently and said, "I'll talk about other places later, let's take down this KTV first." ”

Before leaving, Zhou Xiuman handed a lawyer's letter to the lobby manager......

"Infringement? Pay 100,000? Crazy, huh?! Where's the bullshit lawyer, don't pay him, we pay royalties every year. ”

Three days later, a local message that "Ode to Joy KTV infringed F&Q's copyright and was ordered to suspend business for rectification" was drowned in the boiling anti-Yingtian "F&Q disbandment" discussion......

"Original Newcomer King" + Queen Orchestra + Streaming Music Radio + KTV, while F&Q is about to disband, a music empire is looming...... For mobile phone users, please go to m.. Read.

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