Chapter 35 I want 30% of the song revenue!
Li Yating proposed to Ye Weiyang not to sell the full copyright, which was not surprising at all.
After all, Ye Weiyang is not a simple songwriter. He is also the lead singer of a band, and singing is his main business.
So for an original singer, the copyright of the song he wrote must be taken into consideration. Regardless of whether he sings or not, he may want to sing this song in the future.
Whether it is this world or Ye Weiyang's previous life, there are many singers who take the songs back and sing them again after writing songs for others two years.
So it is better to hold the copyright in your own hands.
He sold the authorization to Li Zonggang so that he could sing "Hill" on any occasion and could use "Hill" to conduct commercial profit activities.
Li Yating shrugged. She actually just wanted to test Ye Weiyang. Maybe the newcomer didn't understand these, so she might even sell the full copyright.
But since he disagreed, Li Yating did not intend to persist.
"It's okay to sell only the authorization, the price remains unchanged, and it's still 200,000 yuan. I'm ready for the contract."
Li Yating opened the briefcase she carried with her, took out a contract and handed it to Ye Weiyang, indicating that he could check the terms.
But Ye Weiyang did not take over the contract, but shook his head and said, "Senior sister, I don't plan to do a one-time deal. I am still optimistic about the song "Hill", so I hope I can sign an electronic share agreement."
The rise and development of the Internet has hit the development of the physical record industry to a certain extent, but it has also opened up a new source of income for singers, digital music copyright.
Major music platforms spend a lot of money every year to buy a lot of copyrights of music from major music companies and play on their APPs.
Most music requires VIP payment to be enabled before you can listen to it easily.
And some of them are digital albums, which require extra money to buy albums or singles before you can hear them.
This is a way to protect original music and a way to support many independent musicians to continue to make good works.
Otherwise, if all the music can be listened to for free on the Internet, no one will buy physical albums.
The music that singers and songwriters work hard to make will not make money, and the industry will shrink if they cannot make money.
Not all singers are the queens of the king. They can make money without selling albums, and can make money by playing variety shows and holding concerts.
Most young singers and independent musicians can only make money by relying on the copyright fees paid by major music apps.
The specific way to divide the copyright fees is to look at the number of VIP playbacks, as well as the purchase of digital albums and singles.
The effective number of views of a hundred VIPs may be about a few cents. A digital single costs 3 yuan or 2 yuan, and the singer can get 50 to 70% of it.
The share of the share obtained from major music platforms will be divided by the singers again, because this is considered brokerage income.
And if the song was not written by the singer himself, and the lyricist and music producer signed the agreement with the singer, they would have to share the money.
In the end, the singer may only get less than one-third of the sales volume...
So it’s no wonder that the queens of the King of Songs look down on this money and all rely on making money by performing concerts and participating in various variety shows.
But the queen singer doesn’t like it, but Ye Weiyang looks at it!
He did some calculations secretly.
With the influence of Li Zonggang's old singer, coupled with the quality of the song "Hill".
If it is released in the form of an EP digital album, it can be sold for at least one million copies at a single cost of 3 yuan, right?
China has not developed particularly well in digital music in previous lives. The digital singles of some old singers are sold on the entire platform, and they are often sold in more than one million copies!
In today's world that pays great attention to copyright and has a very standardized and perfect development of digital music, "The Hill" is sold for one million copies, right?
Based on one million copies, the sales volume is at least three million. As the old singer, Li Zonggang signed an agreement of 30% to 70% with major music platforms!
This will make a profit of 2.1 million!
If Ye Weiyang is a 30% royalty according to the common sharing model in the industry, as a lyricist and songwriter, he will be able to get a dividend of more than 600,000 yuan!
This is much more profitable than the price given by Li Yating of 200,000 yuan!
And this is the lowest expectation!
The sales forecast of one million copies is the most conservative result. Ye Weiyang is very confident that "The Hill" can sell millions of digital albums!
In this way, just sharing the money can get one or two million!
So Ye Weiyang must not accept buying out at a bargain, as this is a loss!
Ye Weiyang was already heartbroken and reluctant to give up when he took out the "Hill" and sold it to Li Zonggang. If he lost another profit he should have made, it would not be sold at a low price, but for free!
"Senior Sister Li, I can not buy a penny, but I want 30% of the digital music revenue generated by the song "Hill". This is also a normal requirement in the industry, and it is not a big talk."
"If Teacher Li Zonggang wants to burn "Hill" into the next album, I will also share 5% of the sales of the album into the revenue."
"As for other commercial activities and all the benefits generated by the performance, I will not participate in the sharing of the shares."
Ye Weiyang finished eating the mango halberd on the plate in one bite, wiped his mouth, and looked at Li Yating with a plain look.
He was sure that Li Yating would agree to this condition, because the song "Hill" was very important to Li Zonggang.
Even if Li Zonggang can't receive a penny from the income of this song, he probably will rush to sing this song.
Because this song can help him become popular again!
As long as it becomes popular, it can return to the public's vision and the popularity can gather again. Then the Rainbow Project has some methods to help Li Zonggang, which has become popular, create enough benefits.
Whether it’s a concert while the iron is hot, or taking on a bunch of variety shows, or performing shows, it’s not a problem!
Sure enough, Li Yating looked at Ye Weiyang with a complicated expression, and said with a wry smile: "Student Ye, I really don't know if you should praise you for being too confident or for your ruthless eyes."
"It should be too confident." Ye Weiyang showed a bright smile and said confidently: "I believe that the song "Hill" can definitely make Teacher Li Zonggang famous again and become an evergreen in the music industry again."
"The benefits this song can generate are definitely more than 200,000."
Li Yating shrugged without comment: "You are not afraid that after the release of this song, it will not cause any popularity or arouse a warm response. The digital EP cannot be sold, so maybe you can only receive tens of thousands of yuan in profits."
"I believe in my creative ability, and I also believe in the operational ability of the Rainbow Project. I will never let a good work be covered with dust, right?" Ye Weiyang raised his eyebrows and asked with interest.
"Okay, you've bet right, I think you should praise your ruthless eyes."
Li Yating sighed, took back the contract and said helplessly: "I will re-design a share agreement. The song "Hill" is exclusively authorized to Li Zonggang for singing. The digital copyright income generated will belong to you, and the album sales profit will also be 5% of the profit to you."
"Copyright and attribution will still be yours."
"I really don't understand. You are just a sophomore. According to common sense, you should be a newbie who doesn't know anything."
Li Yating patted her forehead and said speechlessly: "But in these two negotiations with you, I haven't taken advantage of my senior sister. Instead, the initiative has always been in your hands, which has hit me a lot."
"The junior now is really amazing."
Li Yating originally thought that offering 200,000 yuan was almost a sky-high price for ordinary songwriters, and could easily knock Ye Weiyang out of nowhere, thus signing a contract that was very beneficial to the Rainbow Plan.
He is only a sophomore year. For ordinary sophomore students, 200,000 is already a very huge amount, enough to make people confused.
Putting her heart in her heart, if it were Li Yating herself, someone said she would spend 200,000 yuan to buy her song in her sophomore year, she would definitely agree without hesitation, and even feel that she had made a lot of money and would feel uneasy.
But unexpectedly, Ye Weiyang was not moved by 200,000 yuan at all, and also accurately found the most suitable sales method to maximize his profits!
Li Yating really doesn’t know what to say.
She took a few deep breaths, calmed down a little, and a standard smile appeared on her face again.
"So, Ye Weiyang, let's discuss the next topic next."
Chapter completed!