Chapter 225: The Most Profitable Song
If Wang Xie looks up the background of this song "Happy Birthday to You" in the system, then he will find:
On Earth, "Happy Birthday to You" is one of the three most widely circulated songs and has been translated into many languages and is widely circulated all over the world.
The melody of the song was originally written by the American Mildred
Ms. Hill wrote it in 1893 while teaching kindergarten in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. The melody was used in a song called "Good Morning."
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ALL), by Mildred
Ms. Hill's sister Patty
Hill lyrics for classroom greetings. It's not entirely clear who wrote "Happy."
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However, the lyrics were copyrighted by Summy in 1935. In 1990, Summy was acquired by Warner Records for $15 million, of which "Happy Birthday to You" was valued at $5 million.
Although the copyright status of the song's lyrics is unknown, Warner still claims that it is illegal to perform the song in any public place without permission unless they are paid royalties.
To this day, they can still earn more than $5,000 a day from the song "Happy Birthday to You".
But in the time and space of the Earth Star, it is different, this song has no copyright disputes at all, whether it is the composition or the lyrics, it is clearly written with the name of [Wang Xie].
This means that in the next 100 years, all the income generated by this song will be owned by Wang Xie and his descendants.
What an amazing amount of income that would be.
This is also the reason why Wang Xie's V guest private message exploded instantly.
Because whether it is a business banquet or a film and television production company, whether it is an advertising episode or a public performance, anyone who wants to sing this song commercially needs to obtain Wang Xie's authorization.
Of course, there are more netizens with children at home in so many private messages, and they want Wang Xie to record a regular version so that they can use it when their children celebrate their birthdays.
As for why these people with a keen sense of business have to authorize this song, can't they use the original birthday song of Dixing?
This is because Wang Xie took out the song "Happy Birthday to You" that everyone on the earth can sing, which has a strong practical degree of singing.
On the planet Earth, birthdays celebrated before the unification of the Ming Dynasty did not sing birthday songs, which is consistent with the earth. Literate people may still chant poetry, but ordinary people may eat and drink at most.
After the unification of Emperor Chongzhen, people are more accustomed to learning the etiquette of royal birthday celebrations, so basically on the birthdays of their elders or at more important birthday ceremonies, they are more accustomed to singing the Book of Songs? Lesser? Tenpo.
So why is there less singing now, let's take a look at the lyrics.
[Tian Bao Dinger, also hole of solid. If you are thick, why not get rid of it? Baldoyi, to be incompatible. 】
[Tian Baodinger, Erjian Valley. There is no inappropriateness, and it is subject to heaven. Blessings are falling, but maintenance is insufficient. 】
【……】
[God's hanging, Erdofu. The quality of the people, daily food. The people of Qunli are in Erde. 】
[Like the eternity of the moon, like the rise of the sun.] Such as the longevity of Nanshan, it does not collapse. Such as the pine and cypress of the luxuriant, there is no lack or inheritance. 】
Complex lyrics, bizarre tunes, even if some adults come to sing, they dare not say that they can sing these crooked lyrics right at one time.
Of course, in other areas of the planet, there are also birthday songs that are not particularly official.
For example, the "Birthday Song" in the Cantonese-speaking region.
[I wish you a long and heavenly life,]
[Happy Birthday Celebration!] 】
[Every year there is today,]
[There are years and years! 】
[Congratulations, congratulations! 】
【……】
These songs tend to be very regional, and they are also slightly difficult, which is a little too difficult for the main group of birthday parties, that is, children.
And this song "Happy Birthday to You" is completely different.
The simple melody and lyrics of this song taken out by Wang Xie allow children who have only heard it once to sing it, even if you don't have all five notes, it won't go out of tune.
And the simple and repetitive lyrics and happy tunes make this song full of innocence and childlike taste, which is deeply loved by children.
So the next day, when Wang Xie came to the office on the 29th floor of Starlight Entertainment, took a sip of tea and began to fish online, his V guest gave him a surprise.
The bright red [999+] directly blinded his "dog eyes", and the prompt sound of the private message "Dididi" has been ringing non-stop since he opened the V guest.
Fortunately, the computer he is using now is the one with the highest configuration of the Earth Star, otherwise the computer may crash instantly the moment he opens the V guest.
After hurriedly turning off the prompt sound and rejecting private messages from strangers, Wang Xie had time to understand what was going on.
And when he found out that all the private messages were coming to the song "Happy Birthday to You", he was a little confused.
Just this simple song has such great power?
Although I don't know why this song is so popular, Wang Xie is still shocked.
However, since netizens have asked for it, Wang Xie naturally intends to follow the opinions of netizens, otherwise his V guest may really be washed away by netizens.
Just do it, Wang Xie immediately went to the private recording studio on the 29th floor, and it took less than 10 minutes to record the song "Happy Birthday to You".
You don't need to sing skills, and you don't have a few lyrics, you just need to sing this blessing in a cheerful tone, and it is naturally recorded well and quickly.
And Wang Xie also bought one and got two free, taking advantage of Liu Qin'er's also being in the company, so he simply pulled Liu Qin'er down the recording studio and recorded a female version and a two-person chorus version.
And three different versions of "Happy Birthday to You", from recording to uploading, are only a short half an hour.
And when Wang Xie uploaded the song "Happy Birthday to You", he also did not participate in the competition of the new song list, but uploaded it to the social welfare song section at a price of 0.1 yuan each time, which was regarded as a birthday gift for all adults and children.
However, in terms of commercial copyright and public performance copyright, Wang Xie is naturally not soft, and automatically authorizes the copyright website according to the normal licensing price.
One is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer, after all, Wang Xie is also going to start saving some milk powder money for his future children.
After cleaning up all the ends of the song. Everything that should be uploaded has been uploaded, and everything that should be set has been set, and the rest is naturally lying down to collect money.
It's a pity that there is no X-treasure in this world, otherwise he would have to turn on the prompt sound.
But even if he doesn't, it doesn't matter much, because he can make up for it.
"X treasure arrives at 2 yuan."
"X treasure arrives at 2 yuan."
"X treasure arrives at 2 yuan."
“……”
"Mom, I can also experience the happiness of Dong Chou!"