Whether it was the popularity on the radio or the best-selling single, it was too far away from real life and did not give Cao Xuan any intuitive feeling.
Until one day when Cao Xuan came home at night, he heard "Ten Thousand Reasons" playing on the street speaker at the entrance of the courtyard.
A junior high school student from a neighboring household in the yard held a pirated tape with his photo on it and coquettishly asked him to sign it.
Cao Xuan finally realized that his song was really popular.
After teaching junior high school students about copyright awareness, Cao Xuan took out a genuine CD, signed his name on the package, and gave it to his first fan.
After the junior high school student left happily holding the CD, Cao Xuan thought about it secretly.
Delightful!
However, what makes Cao Xuan even more happy is that "Ten Thousand Reasons" has slowly spread to other provinces from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei from north to south through CCTV.
Lanqi's distribution channels obviously can't reach that far, and the supply of goods is tight, which is still difficult for Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, let alone other provinces.
At a critical moment, Jingcheng Printing Publishing House offered an olive branch. They were willing to spend 1.5 million to take over the national album production and distribution rights of "Ten Thousand Reasons".
The price is not low, and it is only for the production and distribution rights. The song copyright is still in the hands of Lan Qi and Cao Xuan.
But neither Cao Xuan nor Jiang Yue are short-sighted. "Ten Thousand Reasons" has already shown extraordinary potential. In less than half a month, the sales volume in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei exceeded 50,000+.
This can even be awarded the title of "Platinum Record" in Taiwan Province.
Of course, due to the large population base in the Mainland, generalizations cannot be made, and the price of "Ten Thousand Reasons" is much cheaper than the regular album, and its gold content is slightly lower.
But even so, the sales volume of 50,000+ cannot be underestimated. If it expands to the whole country, it can at least be doubled several times.
And because "10,000 Reasons" has become famous and popular, the price of the album can also be increased appropriately. The profit cannot be spent with 1.5 million.
After discussion, Cao Xuan and Jiang Yue made an offer to Jingcheng Publishing House for 3 million.
This price is obviously not acceptable to Jingcheng Publishing House.
Now that "Ten Thousand Reasons" has spread, pirates have entered the market one after another, and the album's best sales bonus has already exceeded half.
Jingcheng Publishing House's plan is to rely on its strong nationwide channel distribution capabilities to get as many bites of meat as possible before the pirates do in the remaining half of the bonus time.
But no one can say how much meat will be captured.
Moreover, producing a large number of albums and using national channels will also cost a lot of money. If you give up 3 million for the copyright, I don’t know if you can recover the money.
If one wants more and the other wants less, then let's negotiate.
Jiang Yue is a good player, Cao Xuan has accumulated experience after several times of training, and Han Qi, the big brother in the courtyard, is usually a bit lazy, but he can still show his skills when he is serious.
The three of them cooperated with each other and talked with the representatives of Beijing Publishing House for an entire afternoon, and finally finalized the contract.
The album distribution rights of "Ten Thousand Reasons" were sold in a package to Beijing Printing Publishing House for a price of 2.1 million.
This money belongs to the sale of copyrights, and Cao Xuan holds 70% of it. After deducting taxes, he can get more than 1.3 million yuan.
Moreover, Lan Qi also received 30% of the dividends from the sales of his younger brother's albums in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. The money was not much, only tens of thousands of dollars.
I have the money to buy a courtyard house!
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Although he is already a "big" rich man with a net worth of one million, Cao Xuan still lives in a rental house in a simple way. The only change is that he bought himself a mobile phone and a mountain bike for transportation.
There was nothing he could do. Although he made money, most of it had not arrived. He only had a deposit of tens of thousands of yuan.
Cao Xuan just wanted to spend money, but he didn't have the conditions.
Riding his newly bought mountain bike, the first thing Cao Xuan did was to go to Prince Gong's Mansion and visit the crew of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" to visit Mrs. Li Mingqi's class.
After returning to Beijing from Xinwu, Cao Xuan once visited the old lady's house. The old lady prepared a table of dishes for him.
Later, when the old lady was fine, she called him and asked him to come home. This time, he heard that the old lady was filming in Prince Gong's Mansion, so he came over to visit.
Of course, in addition to visiting the cast, Cao Xuan also really wanted to meet the "all evil" crew of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge".
The visiting team couldn't go empty-handed, so Cao Xuan went to buy a dozen watermelons and two boxes of mineral water to make the old lady look good.
It happened to be a coincidence that when Cao Xuan arrived at the set, he happened to catch up with the old lady who was in trouble. When he saw Cao Xuan coming, he was so happy that he held his hand and refused to let go.
Cao Xuan found a field attendant, hydrated the watermelon and mineral water, and at the same time looked at the other starring actors in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge".
Zhao Wei, who has just finished his freshman year, is invincible in his youth and is at the peak of his appearance.
Ruby Lin is soft and timid, a bit dark in real life, and not as photogenic as she appears on camera.
The most surprising thing is Fan Bingbing, the famous 800-year-old sister who is famous for her beauty. She has not yet grown up, and she really looks like a little maid following Zhao Lin.
The two members of the Little Tiger Team had nothing to say, but Cao Xuan took a special look at Zhou Jie, who had been hacked for more than ten years.
The nostrils are quite big...
Cao Xuan had no idea of dealing with these people. After satisfying his curiosity, he chatted with the old lady.
Speaking of which, Cao Xuan actually had the opportunity to join the cast of "Huanzhugege". The old lady was thinking about him and recommended him to the director to see if he could play a role.
However, several leading roles were already cast at that time, and Cao Xuan could only play the role of the little eunuch who follows Xiao Yanzi.
Cao Xuan didn't dislike the role, but after seeing his photos, the director felt that Cao Xuan was too handsome and would easily steal the limelight from the protagonist, so he rejected the role.
In addition, Cao Xuan was busy releasing a single at the time, so he was not very enthusiastic about the matter, and finally let it go.
The old lady had always felt a little regretful about this, but Cao Xuan didn't think anything of it.
To be honest, he is not very interested in Qiong Yao dramas.
Cao Xuan clearly remembered that when he first came to the capital, he was moving bricks on a construction site. The contractor bought a black and white TV and put it in the work shed, and a group of people watched it every night.
At that time, "Shuiyunjian" was very popular in mainland China, and the workers followed it every day. Cao Xuan also watched it with great joy.
Then the more I watched, the more awkward it became, especially the famous scene where Chen Hong asked several men to take over at the same time, which simply refreshed Cao Xuan's outlook on life.
This is a line that normal people can come up with...
From then on, no matter how popular the Qiong Yao dramas were in the future, Cao Xuan would not watch them for fear of being misled.
Cao Xuan stayed on the set until the afternoon before leaving. During this period, except for a few words with Dai Chunrong, who played the queen, the rest of the actors did not have any communication.
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What he didn't know was that as soon as he walked away, Fan Bingbing and Zhao Wei came over and asked curiously.
"Teacher Li, who was that person just now?"
Although "Huanzhugege" is a Qiong Yao drama, it is Qiong Yao's transformation work and is not taken seriously.
Usually I don’t have much opportunity to contact new faces. It’s rare for someone to come to visit the class, and everyone is a little curious.
Although these "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" starring actors have gained notoriety in later generations, they have just entered the film and television industry and have not yet been completely immersed in the fame and wealth of the entertainment industry. The old lady's impression of them is not bad, and she smiled after hearing this.
"His name is Cao Xuan. He is a junior close to me. If you are free today, come and see me."
"Cao Xuan, he's the one who almost played the role of Little Stool, right?"
Zhao Wei was somewhat impressed by this name. After all, it was rare for an actor to be passed because of his good looks, so it was hard not to be impressive.
Fan Bingbing also felt that the name Cao Xuan was familiar, but he just couldn't remember where he had heard it.
It wasn't until the next morning when the actors were going to film in the car that "Ten Thousand Reasons" played on the car radio made Fan Bingbing finally remember who Cao Xuan was.
Soon, "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" spread throughout the world, and the little stool actor who was abandoned at the beginning turned into a popular singer.
He Qiong, Qiong Yao's daughter-in-law and the producer of "Huan Zhuge Ge", regrets it endlessly. If she had kept Cao Xuan, there would have been another hot spot in the promotion of the new drama in the future...
