Anschutz has big ambitions, and if they can really develop loyal fans and a full-fledged professional league in the world's largest economy, they will make a lot of money.

So in order to accelerate the expansion of the major leagues, they simply and rudely directly injected funds to support teams around the country, and some nominal owners did not have as many team shares as they did, but they still gave up the right to operate, no way, they couldn't attract rich people to enter the game without a little blood, everyone generally had the same opinion as Song Ya, thinking that there was no soil for the development of football in the United States.

Considering the apocalypse and quite favorable conditions, Song Ya was a little moved, so he didn't say anything to death, and temporarily perfunctory Anshutz's people.

A few days later, Donovan and a team of William Morris came to Bedford Hills to help, and he and Mariah Carey took a break from the heavy prep work and went to Sony Columbia Records to settle the record revenue.

Just as Spielberg prepares for Universal's post-Simberg era, the two now dare not risk Daniel being suddenly ousted by Sony.

And this money should have been settled last year, and it has been done to support Daniel until now.

"Common's new album is loss-making, and we and you have invested considerable publicity and distribution resources, but the sales are not good, and the number of circulation and radio influence in underground channels are very large, and we are victims of the increasingly rampant piracy problem."

Last year, A+ Records pounced on the albums of the group Al, Common and William Adams, among which Common's new album Resurrection received good feedback from music critics and was the most promoted, so it caused some losses for A+ Records and Sony Columbia Records.

But those are all small money, Song Ya and Fergie's debut album of the same name and London Bridge and other singles are still selling in a steady stream, dancing out of my life soundtrack and the Be What You want to Be Be single disc released later As of the end of February, a total of about 7 million copies have been sold, Song Ya himself and A+ Records have settled nearly 50 million net income after other costs, which makes him even if he buys a Malibu seaside mansion and holds a vigorous wedding, And after the April tax season, it can still keep hundreds of millions of cash.

"Whew! Congratulations on APLUS, and now I look forward to your second single, Dead And Gone, and I believe you can achieve good results again. ”

Daniel was relieved, he was even weaker in front of Song Ya, took the initiative to reach out his hand, and asked with a little flattery, "According to your agreement with LAFACE Records, Donnie Bladstone's side will put U Must Be from Dancing My Life Soundtrack into her new album next year?" Also, Brenda will also release a solo album next year, right? Will she dance a few of the songs she sang in my life to be included? ”

"Yes, Donnie's side I have already discussed with BABYFACE, Brenda's new ...... Let's wait for the dance of my life soundtrack to buy gas, let's talk about it, in the second half of next year? Song Ya shook hands with him.

"OK, the second half of the year is fine, no problem, I'll keep an eye on it."

After Daniel finished speaking, he hurried to the next door, where Mariah Carey was also accompanied by Donovan and other professionals to settle the bill.

"It's finally a little bit of a good thing." Song Ya smiled at Samuel beside him.

"Sort of?"

Samour happily packed up the papers, "The more successful your record business is, the more the benefits of the distribution deal we got from Motura will be highlighted, otherwise we wouldn't want to get that kind of split." ”

"The distribution agreement is good, but the singer contract is not the top one, MJ and Madonna both enjoy the highest 20% singer share, just a pure singer share can get so much, Mimi and I are far from reaching this number."

Song Yade looked forward to the prospect of "If everything goes well, I will have to challenge it when I change the contract in 97." ”

"Haha, you're really getting qualified."

Samur complimented, the two were chatting quietly, and a face from the notebook who had been silent on the other side of the conference table approached the two and took the initiative to stretch out his hand, "Hello Mr. APLUS, introduce yourself, Hirai, deputy general manager of Sony Electronics North Rice." ”

"Hello, I remember that was Mr. Takaki's position before?"

Song Ya responded politely, this person is about the same age as Gao Shu, but his pronunciation when speaking English is more authentic, "Where did he go?" ”

"Yes, Takashu-san was transferred back to the Tokyo headquarters." Hirai smiled and sat down in the empty seat next to him.

"Wow, promoted?" Song Ya knew that the executives of the book companies were generally transferred abroad, even if they were exiled, except for the United States, but they were also suspected of being deliberately far away from the center of power.

"Well, I guess so."

Hirai smiled, "Don't you remember me? I worked in the 80's on the predecessor of Sony Columbia Records. ”

"Oh, I remember."

Song Ya looked at his face and remembered that he had indeed seen him in this building before, but at that time, Motura was very strong, and the presence of the executives in this book was a little thin, which was basically equivalent to the decoration during the meeting, the predecessor of Sony Columbia Records, it should have been the joint venture period between Sony and CBS, "Then I also congratulate you on your promotion, Mr. Hirai." ”

"Thank you."

Hirai doesn't seem to be as polite as Takaki, he doesn't bow very often, and he is also very friendly when he laughs, "Can I take up a little bit of your time?" ”

"Of course, please." For the high-level management of the book, Song Ya is very face-saving, in Sony Beimi, Gao Shu's previous power is not small.

"I'd like to ask, why don't you want to accept the copyright of your and Miss Kelly's songs to merge with our ATV library with MJ?" Hirai asked straight to the point.

"Uh......"

Songya and Samuel looked at each other, "I think Daniel has already told you the reason for me." ”

"I'd like to hear confirmation from you." Hirai said.

"Where are you in the negotiations with MJ?" Song Ya asked rhetorically, and at the same time turned her head to look at Linda, her female assistant understood exactly what he meant, and left the conference room to call Daniel next door.

"It's almost done."

Hirai replied bluntly, "But now it's the case, if we merge with MJ's copyright library and exclude you, Miss Kelly, and singers who think the same as you, then we need to pay MJ more cash......"

"But it's good for you, too, isn't it? At that time, you will have a separate copyright library in addition to the merged copyright library. Song Ya asked rhetorically: "Sony doesn't lack this bit of cash, right?" ”

Hirai smiled wryly, "We are fighting an auto trade war with the government of the United States, and our domestic companies are not doing very well now." ”

"But not Sony, right? You just released the new generation of game console PlayStation in China at the end of last year, I heard that the sales are very hot, I have a small amount of EA (Electronic Arts) shares, I think they said in their financial report at the end of last year that they will also start to develop new games based on your platform, and other game companies are also very optimistic that PlayStation will be successful in the United States. ”

Song Ya wanted to take the topic away, but failed, and Hirai replied: "That's right, but Mr. APLUS, this has nothing to do with my doubts at all, you know, generally speaking, having a unified copyright library can reduce a lot of operating costs of Sony Copyright." ”

"HEY, APLUS, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"

Daniel rushed in at this time, stood behind Song Ya affectionately, and pressed his hands on his shoulders, "Mr. Hirai, APLUS is one of the most important singers under our umbrella. ”

"OF COURSE, I LIKE MR. APLUS'......"

Hirai still hasn't given up, he is much more difficult than Takaki, "We were just talking about the copyright library, and I asked APLUS why he didn't want to participate in our copyright merger with ATV. ”

"Uh......"

Daniel was caught off guard, "Get out, Samuel, I'm sorry. He cleared everyone else, including Samuel, out of the room, "It's just the three of us here, so I'll be more direct, APLUS doesn't want its copyright to fall into MJ's hands, otherwise the outside world will laugh at APLUS for singing his own songs and pay MJ, just like what happened to Paul McCartney before." ”

"We all know it's just boring attacks, and now the music rights structure is very complicated, and it's inevitable for singers." Hirai said.

"I'm the manager of APLUS and it's our mutual decision, okay? Mr. Hirai. Daniel didn't bother to talk to him, and replied very bluntly.

Hirai ignored him and looked at Song Ya.

"I just don't want to, you know? I just don't want to. ”

Song Ya knew that he couldn't cope with it today without giving an attitude, "I didn't give him a strong support when MJ was unlucky, and now my relationship with him is ...... It's a bit subtle, anyway I don't want to see my song rights put under his ATV management. Of course, out of this door, I won't admit that I ever thought that way. ”

"The management rights of the tracks after the merger should belong to Sony Music Rights." Hirai revealed, "Does this dispel some of your doubts? Mr. APLUS. Perhaps we could start a separate negotiation. ”

"I've already decided, okay?" Song Ya refused again.

"Okay, sorry to interrupt." Hirai stood up, finally bowed very bookily, and went out to leave.