5% doesn’t seem like much at first glance. Li Qing took 470,000 and used 5% of the share to put pressure on Bao Yunyun’s album. After taking into account the costs of recording production, advertising and promotion, if the album sales can reach
500,000 pieces, so the 470,000 can barely make up for the loss.
But if a platinum record is sold, that is, one million copies, then Li Qing's investment of 470,000 will become 940,000!
If it is two million, it is 1.88 million!
By analogy, as long as the sales volume reaches the level, the profit that Li Qing can reap will be far more than 470,000.
This is also the reason why Ma Xuyi firmly disagrees. Just kidding, who on the road doesn't know his nickname?
Platinum Godfather!
These four words alone are almost a guarantee of sales!
Which of the artists I brought out did not have a platinum album sales record?
If the share is 5%, it will definitely be a profitable business. This does not include the income from tapes, vinyl and other products. If included, this would be an astronomical figure. Maybe Li
Qing can become a multi-millionaire with just one album.
Of course, pirates are rampant nowadays, and many gold-medal producers can only sell one platinum album. It is basically impossible to achieve higher sales in the future.
Even the platinum godfather Ma Xuyi cannot guarantee that every album he produces will sell platinum records, but judging from his past qualifications, he is currently the most likely to promote a newcomer to the level of a platinum record.
The producer of a platinum album.
Therefore, Ma Xuzhen firmly disagrees with the 5% figure.
He has no factory, no distribution channels, and no publicity channels. Even the basic recording studio and camera equipment have to be rented, which cannot be completed unless the cost exceeds tens of millions.
Excluding the share with other factories, publishers and media promotions, plus the share given to singers, Ma Xuyi himself estimates that he only gets a share in the range of 20% to 30%, and almost all the initial costs are borne by
When it comes to himself, he is naturally under the greatest pressure.
Li Qing can get 5% just for writing a few songs. No matter how great these songs are, Ma Xuyi cannot accept such a share figure.
After lingering in the private room for a full hour or two, the food on the table had already gone cold. In the end, the two parties finally agreed on a price that was within their psychological tolerance.
The songs are still bought out at a price of 70,000, but on this basis, 3% of the sales of records, tapes, etc. must be added. The records include vinyl records, CDs, DVDs, etc. released later.
Of course, another prerequisite is that Li Qing will supervise the entire album for free until the end of production, and each song must reach the quality level of "Those Flowers" and "Sudden Self".
After Li Qing nodded in agreement, Ma Xuyi prepared the contract completely that day. After Li Qing and Han Han carefully read all the terms and Li Qing signed it, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, and then all
It's refreshing.
“A pleasure to work with!”
Li Qing shook hands with Ma Xuyi.
Next to her, Bao Yunyun pulled Han Han and muttered something. Bao Yunyun seemed to be as curious as a baby about Han Han, Li Qing's personal assistant.
Jiang Zhongnan witnessed the two friends signing the contract with his own eyes and felt happier than anyone else.
After dinner, Jiang Zhongnan took a few people and ran towards the KTV in the city.
The next morning, Ma Xuyi drove an off-road vehicle to Li Qing's house in person, and took Li Qing to a studio called "Hu Die" on the outskirts of the capital.
This is a five-story office building. It is quite old. The walls are mottled and green and covered with ivy-like plants.
The studio is on the fourth floor.
After walking down the long corridor and passing several rooms, I opened the glass door of one room.
Then Li Qing saw Bao Yunyun standing at the window facing the sky and shouting "ah ah ah" in the air. There were a few men and women standing around talking to each other. There were also drums, pianos, basses, and guitars nearby.
Wait for musical instruments.
Posters of singers from this era are posted on the surrounding walls.
Seeing the arrival of Li Qing and Ma Xuzhen, Bao Yunyun walked over excitedly: "Qingzi is here."
"Here we come!" Li Qing nodded and looked at the other people in the room.
These people seemed to be singers too. Like Bao Yunyun, although they were all talking, they would occasionally show off their singing skills inexplicably, and then receive cheers and applause from other singers.
On the contrary, Bao Yunyun is like an outsider, standing alone outside the circle and practicing on her own.
Ma Xuyi gave the two of them a few words and asked them to chat here while he went out to contact the person in charge of the recording studio.
"Have you brought all the lyrics and music?" Bao Yunyun was so excited that she couldn't help herself. Seeing Li Qing nodding, she asked again: "Did you also bring the song "Zebra Zebra" that you sang in the KTV last night?"
Li Qing smiled. Last night in the KTV, Jiang Zhongnan and others sang several rock songs from this era on a whim. Even Han Han was infected by the atmosphere and sang a sweet song.
But when it was Li Qing's turn, Li Qing turned off the KTV jukebox and asked Han Han to hold the microphone. Then he took the "zebra" guitar he had been carrying since the game and started playing and singing.
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Through the microphone, the crispness and cleanness of the guitar sound were diffused vividly, and a song "Zebra Zebra" slowly sang from Li Qing's mouth. Apart from Li Qing's singing voice and guitar sound, there was no other sound in the KTV.
When Li Qing finished singing the last line, "I want to sell my house and travel around the world," Bao Yunyun instantly thought of her years of drifting in Beijing, her nose was slightly sour, and she almost shed tears.
Then Bao Yunyun, with tears in her eyes, forced Li Qing to include this song among the seven songs Li Qing sold. There were only two reasons. The first was that the song was called "Zebra Zebra" and she gave it as a gift.
The privately customized guitar for Li Qing is also called Zebra. The second thing is that this song is really nice and moving. If she hadn’t thought that a song of this quality would definitely not be produced in a short time, her first
I had a feeling that Li Qing might have done it specifically for himself.
Of course Ma Xuyi has no objection, because this song is indeed above the standard.
After coming back to his senses, Li Qing took out a few pieces of A4 paper from his backpack and handed them to Bao Yunyun.
Bao Yunyun took it as if it were a treasure, and looked through it carefully.
This is lyrics and music worth 470,000 yuan, which is already the price of a first-line songwriter. Not counting that, there is also the 3% sales share!
You know, Bao Yunyun's signing bonus is only 100,000 yuan. After all, she is a newcomer who has just debuted. If she wants to get tens of millions or hundreds of millions in signing bonus, she must at least rise to Leng Ling's status.
That is to say, Bao Yunyun is lucky, and Ma Xuyi is not a pure capitalist, so in addition to the 100,000 signing bonus, she can also get 8% of the royalties. If this album sells well, it will reach the level of a platinum record.
, her income can be several million even at the lowest level.
Bao Yunyun looked at it very carefully and flipped through the lyrics and music scores. In addition to the two songs "Those Flowers" and "Zebra Zebra" that she had already expected, Bao Yunyun also saw "Girl with Waving Wings" and "Listen".
These five songs are "Sea", "Sunshine is always after the storm", "Meet at 98" and "Sounding Rose".
The more she watched, the more surprised she became. Except for the two ballads "Those Flowers" and "Zebra Zebra", the other songs were all in the most popular pop song style at the moment!
And every song seems to be very classic and beautiful just by recalling it in my mind!
Bao Yunyun, who originally thought that Li Qing could only do rock and school ballads, was completely excited. She never expected that Li Qing had such a keen sense of the current music scene.
This seems to be a song specially created to boost sales!
Just imagining that these songs covering lyrical, pop, campus ballad and other styles were all gathered in her first album, and the first classic was not inferior to the kings and queens at all, Bao Yunyun seemed to have seen the future.
That beautiful dawn of facing yourself.
She had an intuition that she was really going to rise.