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As the general manager of a large company, Zhou Yongsheng actually has a clear understanding of this.
With Xia Fan¡¯s current popularity and rising efficiency, it will only be a matter of time before he gets the A visa. The reason why he did it early was for the sake of longer-term cooperation in the future.
"When Xia Fan's eight-year contract is over, if he doesn't leave, he will probably get an S-signature and set up a personal studio under Times Entertainment.
As a very capable original singer who firmly holds the copyright of his own songs, Zhou Yongsheng is actually unwilling to have a head-on conflict with Xia Fan and cause the other party to leave.
"Times Entertainment's music business has never been successful before. The signing of the contract with Xia Fan was because of Wang Xiaoming's recommendation, and there was no requirement for song copyright. As a result, it is now trapped in a cocoon."
In fact, in the entertainment industry, many entertainment companies that specialize in cultivating popular idols will do a lot of things with the copyright of songs. Even songs with lyrics and music written by the artists themselves, as long as they were created during the company's tenure , all copyrights are permanently owned by the Company.
These companies rely on this to make a living and will research various terms to the extreme.
However, Times Entertainment, which mainly focuses on film and television, did not think so far back at that time. More importantly, they did not expect Xia Fan to be able to write so many golden songs. Therefore, in terms of song copyright, as long as it is original by the singer, they did not What a fuss.
"Okay, the company respects your idea."
Zhou Yongsheng took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and agreed with Xia Fan's opinion.
"Mr. Zhou, then I will reject the negotiator from Penguin Music." Stefanie Lai immediately interjected.
"Okay, you go." Zhou Yongsheng waved his hand.
Stefanie Li left first. When she reached the door, she suddenly turned back and gave Xia Fan a meaningful look.
This young man is becoming more and more incomprehensible
Frankly speaking, she does not agree with Xia Fan accepting this contract, but she will not say this, let alone provide any advice to Xia Fan.
As the company¡¯s ace agent, Stefanie Lai has a very good grasp of scale.
From the company¡¯s perspective, if Xia Fan does not accept this contract, the company¡¯s economic interests will be damaged; if Xia Fan accepts this contract, it may be detrimental to his development in the next few years.
Of course, there is another point. This three-year contract worth 150 million Huaxia coins is a huge sum of money for Xia Fan. As an agent, Stefanie Lai is really embarrassed to ask him to refuse.
Therefore, Xia Fan can only decide whether to accept or reject this contract.
She originally thought that Xia Fan would happily accept the contract and then sign her name with a cheerful face.
As a result, Stefanie Lai found out that she had made a mistake and was slapped in the face.
This scene also reminded her of a few months ago, when she held three movie scripts for Xia Fan to dance, but the guy chose "33 Days of Love", which had the lowest pay and the lowest investment cost.
As expected, he is a young man who doesn¡¯t play by common sense.
After Stefanie Li left, only Zhou Yongsheng and Xia Fan were left in the huge general manager's office.
To be honest, these two people are not familiar with each other.
Being alone in a room seems a bit awkward.
"Mr. Zhou"
Xia Fan felt that he had to speak first: "Actually, a few days ago, Penguin Music gave me an exclusive interview and deliberately dug a hole for me to target the organizing committee of the China Golden Melody Awards."
"Oh, I don't know about this." Zhou Yongsheng looked surprised.
As a big boss who has been in the entertainment industry for many years, he quickly guessed the reason.
"This contract should be a continuation of that interview. Of course, it is a confrontation between the two platforms." Xia Fan shrugged and smiled calmly, "I don't need to get involved."
Then he added in his heart: This price is not enough to make him a chess piece in the charge.
In Xia Fan¡¯s original time and space, many famous singers suffered losses in terms of song copyrights, with Jay Chou being the only exception.
Tencent Music "almost" bought out Jay Chou's exclusive song copyright at a price of 570 million over three years.
Since then, all of Jay Chou¡¯s songs on Tencent¡¯s music platforms require VIP membership to be listened to, but the listening volume is still at a low level, far ahead of the second singer.
And his song copyright fees are far higher than any other Chinese singer.
But as mentioned before, Tencent only "almost" bought out Jay Chou's song.??Copyright, not an "absolute" buyout.
Although several top-ranked music platforms have removed Jay Chou's songs from their shelves, Migu Music, which has an official background, can still listen to Jay Chou's songs for free.
This should be regarded as the only gap in online music monopolized by the Tencent empire that cannot be penetrated.
"Migu music can be compared with Chinese music in this time and space. They are also of official background, but the latter has more listeners and a higher market share, and its awards are more valuable."
This is the judgment Xia Fan made in his heart.
As he said, the price offered by Penguin Music is not enough to remove his works from the Huaxia Music platform. Of course, it also includes other large and small music playing software.
Although this money is really very rich, it is enough to achieve many kinds of financial freedom.
After hearing Xia Fan¡¯s explanation, Zhou Yongsheng quickly figured out the cause and effect, and said generously: ¡°Xiao Xia, I can understand your choice.¡±
"Thank you, Mr. Zhou, for your understanding. After all, it is a considerable economic loss for the company." Xia Fan replied frankly.
Zhou Yongsheng said seriously: "We must consider the long-term development of artists, not just the immediate interests."
After the two talked for a while, Xia Fan left first.
If the leader is easy to talk to, things will become much simpler.
"This young man is very scheming!"
After Xia Fan left, Zhou Yongsheng looked at the place where he disappeared and said to himself.
He stood up and put the A-signed contract he originally prepared for Xia Fan into the paper shredder, turning it into paper scraps.
Then, Zhou Yongsheng took out his mobile phone again and silently sent a WeChat message.
"Mr. Ma, the plan failed. Xia Fan is unwilling to sell the exclusive copyright of the song to Penguin. He prefers the current distribution model."
The "Mr. Ma" in his text is Ma Xiaodong, the president of Penguin Music, known as "Brother Ma"!
Not long ago, this guy just privately acquired some shares of Times Entertainment.
At this time, in another office.
"If you refuse directly, you should lose his face, right?"
After Xia Fan returned to his office, he thought of Zhou Yongsheng's pretending to be calm, and felt that something was a little abnormal.
After all, before this, he had been so enthusiastically touting the Penguin Music contract, and was excitedly preparing to upgrade his work contract, but he ended up giving the other party cold water in the face.