Chapter 269: March Harvest
In the afternoon, Meng Wen asked Tang Huan to send him to the station, and he went home as a bullet train. Before getting into the car, I called Ouyang Die and asked her to pick her up. At night, Meng Wen stayed directly at Ouyang Die's house, and the two didn't see each other for several days, and there was a lot of heat.
In the next two days, Meng Wen began to write his script at home, as well as several songs to be used in the online drama. I haven't even gone out of the house for two days, and every day at noon, Ouyang Die has to order a meal and send it to Meng Wen after work. At night, she temporarily stayed back to Meng Wen and took care of Meng Wen, but she resolutely refused to let Meng Wen touch her again.
During this period, there was good news that Andy Chow agreed to make a cameo appearance in the web series. Tang Huan has already signed a contract with Andy Chow's agent on behalf of Meng Wen.
And on April 15, Meng Wen's efforts for a while finally paid off, and the income in March came over one after another. At more than 10 o'clock in the morning, Meng Wen's mobile phone text message reminded him that his bank card had obtained the first bank transfer, which was the sales share of "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" in March from the publishing house, with a total of 190,000 after tax. From the division, it can be seen that Meng Wen's three novels of "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" in March sold about 100,000 copies.
Meng Wen is quite satisfied with this result, after all, the novel "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" was published last year, and it can still maintain a monthly score of 100,000 copies, which is already good. As for Meng Wen's new book "Peerless Double Pride" this year, because it was only published this month, the remuneration will not be available until this time next month.
Soon after, Pepsi, one of the advertising sponsors of "Scrapwood Brothers", also called for the advertising fee in March. "Scrap Wood Brothers 2" was officially released on March 6, and by the end of March, the peak period had basically ended, reaching 420 million hits, and the advertising share was 4.2 million.
And "Waste Wood Brothers 1" Meng Wen first released it on his own social media for a period of time after the previous crooked dog film and television was removed from the shelves, and then after the establishment of Meng Wen's investment in Tiantiankan, it was also released at the same time as "Waste Firewood Brothers 2". Affected by "Scrap Wood Brothers 2", the last three months also received 30 million clicks, and the advertising share also received 300,000.
The first and second parts of "Waste Wood Brothers" add one piece, Pepsi has to pay Meng Wen 4.5 million, but unfortunately after deducting taxes, Meng Wen can get 4.23 million. It is equivalent to the advertising share of the first part of "Waste Wood Brothers", which directly pays for the tax payment of the income of the second part.
Not long after PepsiCo called for advertising fees, Nikon, the second advertising sponsor of "Scrapwood Brothers", also remitted its advertising revenue for March, which was 4.23 million like Pepsi.
Meng Wen's fourth remittance today is from Crooked Dog Music. A total of 3.3 million, including "Sailor", "Grateful Heart", "Fly Higher" and the latest release of "Little Cabbage".
Among them, the number of downloads of "Mariner" increased by 4.63 million in March to 33 million. "Grateful Heart" added 5.39 million downloads in March to 42 million, and "Fly Higher" added 2.88 million downloads in March to 18 million.
The reason why there is such a big gap between "Fly Higher" and the first two songs in March is mainly because the first two songs are sung by Meng Wen, and the latter song is sung by Wang Ting's brother Wang Bing, which is uploaded by Meng Wen.
In February, the number of downloads of these three songs was basically not much different, with an average of about 1.5 million downloads. In March, under the influence of Meng Wen's release of "Little Cabbage", the other two songs that Meng Wen sang also became popular again. Other songs composed by Meng Wen also received different growth.
Meng Wen's "Little Cabbage" was released on the evening of March 18, and in just 13 days to the end of the month, it reached 23 million downloads, with an average of nearly 2 million downloads per day, which can be described as extremely popular.
These four songs increased the bonus by a total of 36 million hits in March, the crooked dog music website was divided into 3.6 million, and Meng Wen received more than 3.3 million after deducting taxes.
In the afternoon, Meng Wen received two remittances from Tang Huan's merged Tianxing Entertainment Group, one is the remuneration for Meng Wen to write songs, and the other is the copyright fee for Tiantiankan, a subsidiary of Tianxing Entertainment Group, to purchase the first and second parts of "Waste Wood Brothers". Although Tiantiankan also has part of Meng Wen's equity, this does not prevent Tiantiankan from paying the copyright fee to Meng Wen's work, because this work belongs to Meng Wen personally.
Among them, Meng Wen's remuneration for writing songs is 2.2 million.
The songs written by Meng Wen for Tang Huan's company include "Not Full of Lovers" and "My Heart Is Too Messy" sung by the three sisters of Yuan Xiaoqing, and "Man Ocean" sung by Liu Hao. All three of these songs were released on Crooked Dog Music in mid-to-late last month. At present, it occupies the third, fourth and sixth positions in the crooked dog song chart. The number of downloads reached 15 million, 14 million, and 10 million respectively.
The three songs written by Meng Wen for Tang Huan's company received a total of 39 million downloads on Crooked Dog in March, that is, 3.9 million in revenue. Originally, when he wrote "Not Full of Lovers", Tang Huan also said that all the online income of the song would be owned by Meng Wen. But later, Meng Wen wrote two songs for Tang Huan's company in a row, and these songs were directly released as singles.
Tang Huan not only paid Yuan Xiaoqing and other manpower, but also made great efforts in the later publicity. Later, Meng Wen also felt that he was a bit overbearing in doing so, and at a meal, he discussed it with Tang Huan and Zhao Xinming, and changed the benefit share again.
Meng Wen wrote songs for artists under Tang Huan's company and Zhao Xinming's company. If it is used as an album song, then all the online revenue of this song belongs to Meng Wen, and the album income belongs to them. And if it is only released as a single on Crooked Dog Music, then Crooked Dog will receive forty or sixty percent of the revenue, Meng Wen will be sixty percent, and they will be forty percent, if they still want to record the song into the album in the future, then according to the status of the song in the album and society, the album sales revenue will be divided into two shares or paid to Meng Wen for licensing.
Therefore, the 3.9 million income generated by the three songs in Crooked Dog Music this time was finally attributed to more than 2.3 million in Meng Wen's name, and less than 2.2 million remained after tax deduction.
As for the copyright fee paid by Tang Huan Group's Tiantiankan Company to Meng Wen's "Waste Wood Brothers", a total of 1.1 million, of which "Waste Wood Brothers 1" has passed the peak period, and Tiantiankan symbolically gave 100,000 as an exclusive buyout. And "Scrap Wood Brothers 2" was first released and exclusively authorized by Tiantiankan, and obtained a copyright fee of 1 million.
Subsequently, Meng Wen received the seventh remittance, which came from Universal Music, to which Zhao Xinming belonged. Meng Wen's "Sweet Honey" for Liu Qian and Zhang Rong's "Song of the Pig" received 20 million and 13 million downloads on the Internet respectively in March. With a total income of 3.3 million, Meng Wen received more than 1.9 million yuan, and more than 1.8 million yuan remained after tax deduction.
Meng Wen summed up the income in the afternoon, and the income from songs was mainly focused on the six new songs released last month, with a total of 7.3 million.
Meng Wen's "Little Cabbage" has received 22 million downloads, taking the lead. Liu Qian's "Sweet Honey" has 20 million downloads, followed closely behind. Yuan Xiaoqing's three sisters' "Not Full of Lovers" and "My Heart is Too Messy" received 15 million and 14 million downloads respectively. There is a significant gap with Meng Wen's 22 million and Liu Qian's 20 million, but the three sisters' two songs together have 39 million downloads, which can be regarded as a good autumn.
As for Zhang Rong's "Song of the Pig" and Liu Hao's "Man Ocean", they received 13 million and 10 million hits respectively, ranking last. Zhang Rong's "Song of the Pig" also took the lead in releasing the light, otherwise it is estimated that the number of downloads will not be higher than Liu Hao's "Ocean of Men".
Meng Wen's online drama income, including 8.46 million advertising income and 1.1 million copyright income, totaling 9.56 million. Mainly the contribution of "Scrapwood Brothers 2". As for the 100,000 novel remuneration from the publishing house, it can only be said that it is better than nothing.
Songs, online dramas, and novels together received nearly 16.96 million in March.
Just when Meng Wen regretted that his income could not exceed 17 million, an eighth remittance that Meng Wen almost forgot came as scheduled. The remittance came from the Tianjin Conservatory of Music.
Meng Wen co-produced "Spicy Next Door" with Jin Conservatory of Music, in addition to providing the script in the early stage, Meng Wen went to the conservatory several times during the period, but basically didn't pay any attention to "Spicy Next Door", and to be honest, he didn't take "Spicy Next Door" too seriously. So some subconsciously ignore it.
This "Spicy Next Door" was officially released on the 11th of last month, "Spicy Next Door" did not package and release the whole drama like "Waste Wood Brothers", but adopted the model of weekly dramas, one episode a week, and a total of 3 episodes were released in March, with more than 9 million hits. There are two ads built into it, which have received a total of 180,000.
Among them, the Conservatory of Music received 90,000 yuan, Meng Wen received the remaining 90,000 yuan, and there were more than 80,000 yuan left after tax deduction. This is really a drizzle for Meng Wen now, and the only effect may be to make up for the regret that Meng Wen's income has not exceeded 17 million. The original income of 16.96 million plus the current 80,000. It just crossed 17 million.
In the evening, Meng Wen discussed with Ouyang Die, took out 6 million into the studio account, and handed it to Ouyang Die to officially change the studio into a company, Meng Wen had been thinking about upgrading the studio to a company, but because of the threshold of 6 million registered capital for the establishment of a film and television company, there has been no chance. Now that he has money, Meng Wen doesn't plan to drag it anymore.
Meng Wen had already set up a Yonglong Investment Co., Ltd. that did not require much registered capital, which was completely controlled by individuals, and was completely a leather bag company in the early days, with only company licenses and engraved seals locked in Meng Wen's safe, and there was no office location. At present, the assets of the investment company are mainly 10% of Tang Huan's Tianxing Entertainment Group.
This time, Meng Wen plans to change the studio into a joint-stock company, Yonglong Media Co., Ltd., Meng Wen is no longer the main investor, but indirectly controlled by Yonglong Investment Co., Ltd., and Ouyang Die holds shares in his personal name. This time, Meng Wen still gave Ouyang Die 10% of the shares as he had imagined at the beginning, instead of the 5% negotiated between the two at the Conservatory of Music that time.
The reason why Ouyang Die refused Meng Wen to give 10% of the shares last time was just that he felt useless and was afraid that others would misunderstand the relationship between the two, and now Ouyang Die has had this relationship with Meng Wen, so he doesn't care about other people's misunderstandings, just excused himself and gladly accepted the shares given by Meng Wen.
As for the 30 million that Meng Wen owes Tang Huan, Meng Wen has already given a down payment of 5 million, and this time Meng Wen will take out another 8 million to Tang Huan, which is still 17 million, and Meng Wen believes that he should be able to pay off Tang Huan's debt in two months.
The 17 million is deducted from the registered capital and the repayment of debts, and there is still 3 million left, and the 3 million can't be held in Meng Wen's hands for long. The filming of this new online drama is a joint investment by Meng Wen and Tang Huan, and according to the tentative investment of 5 million discussed by the two, Meng Wen has to come up with 2.5 million.
In other words, Meng Wen finally left 500,000 yuan in his hands, as pocket money and the daily operation of the newly established company in the next month, including the salaries of employees. The days are tight.