Chapter 24: Seven Songs

5% is not much at first glance, Li Qing took 470,000 yuan, and pressed it on Bao Yunyun's album in a 5% sharing way, cutting out the costs of recording production, advertising and publicity, if the album sales can reach 500,000 copies, then the 470,000 can be regarded as barely recovering the cost.

But if a platinum record is sold, that is, one million copies, then Li Qing's investment of 470,000 yuan can become 940,000!

If it's two million, it's 1,880,000!

By analogy, as long as the sales volume is reached, the profit that Li Qing can reap is far more than 470,000 yuan.

This is also the reason why Ma Xuqi resolutely disagrees, just kidding, who on the road doesn't know his nickname?

The Platinum Godfather!

These four words alone are almost guaranteed!

Which of the artists I brought out didn't have a platinum album sales base?

If you follow the 5% share, it must be a profitable deal, not counting the income of other products such as tapes and vinyl, if you count it, this is an astronomical amount, and Li Qing's album can be transformed into a multimillionaire.

Of course, piracy is rampant nowadays, and many producers can sell the sales of a platinum album and then want to hit higher sales, which is basically impossible.

Even Ma Xuzhen, the godfather of platinum, cannot guarantee that every album he can produce will sell platinum records, but judging from his past qualifications, he is also the producer who is most likely to hold a newcomer to the point where he can get a platinum record.

Therefore, for the figure of 5%, Ma Xuqi firmly disagrees.

He has no factory, no distribution channels, and no publicity channels, and even the basic recording studio and camera equipment have to be completed by leasing, which cannot be completed at all without more than 10 million yuan.

Excluding the share with other factories, distributors and media publicity, plus the share for singers, Ma Xuzhen himself estimates that he will only get a share in the range of 20%-30%, and almost all of the costs in the early stage are borne by himself, so his pressure is naturally the greatest.

Li Qing can get 5% just by writing a few songs, no matter how good these songs are, Ma Xuqi can't accept such a sharing figure.

After grinding in the private room for an hour or two, the food on the table was already cold, and in the end, the two sides negotiated a price that was within their psychological tolerance.

Songs are still bought out for 70,000 songs, but on top of that, add 3% of the sales of records and tapes.

The prerequisite is that Li Qing must supervise the entire album for free until the end of production, and each song must reach the level of quality above "Those Flowers" and "Sudden Self".

After Li Qing nodded in agreement, Ma Xuqi prepared the contract completely that day, and after Li Qing and Han Han carefully read all the terms, and Li Qing signed it himself, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, and then they were all in high spirits.

"Happy working together!"

Li Qing shook hands with Ma Xuqi.

Next to her, Bao Yunyun pulled Han Han and muttered something, for Han Han, Li Qing's personal assistant, Bao Yunyun seemed to have a baby's curiosity.

Jiang Zhongnan witnessed the two friends make a contract, and felt happier than everyone else.

After dinner, Jiang Zhongnan took a few people and rushed towards the KTV in the city.

The next morning, Ma Xuqi drove an off-road car to Li Qing's house in person, and drove Li Qing to a professional recording studio called "Hu Die Recording" on the outskirts of Beijing.

It's a five-story office building, a little old, with mottled walls and green plants like creepers.

The recording studio is on the fourth floor.

Walking through a long hallway, passing several rooms, I pushed open the glass door of one room.

Then Li Qing saw Bao Yunyun standing at the window facing the sky, "ahhhh

The surrounding walls are plastered with posters of singers from this era.

Seeing Li Qing and Ma Xuqi coming, Bao Yunyun walked over with an excited face: "Qingzi is here." ”

"It's here!" Li Qing nodded, his eyes glancing at the others in the room.

These people also seem to be singers, and like Bao Yunyun, although they are all talking, they will occasionally show off their singing skills inexplicably, and then get applause and applause from other singers.

On the contrary, Bao Yunyun is like an outsider, standing alone outside the circle and practicing herself.

Ma Xuzhen instructed the two of them to say a few words, so that the two of them could chat here now, and he went out to contact the person in charge of the recording studio.

"Did you bring all the lyrics and songs?" Bao Yunyun was so excited that she couldn't control herself, and looked at Li Qing nodding, so she asked again: "Did you also bring the song "Zebra Zebra" that you sang in KTV last night?"

Li Qing smiled, last night in the KTV, Jiang Zhongnan and a few people sang a few rock songs of this era on a whim, and even Han Han was infected by the atmosphere and sang a sweet song.

However, when it was Li Qing's turn, Li Qing turned off the KTV on-demand device, let Han Han hold the microphone, and then took the "Zebra" that he had been carrying since the end of the game, and played and sang to himself.

Through the microphone, the crispness and cleanliness of the guitar sound are diffused vividly, when a song "Zebra Zebra" is sung from Li Qing's mouth, there is no other sound in KTV except for Li Qing's singing and guitar sound.

When Li Qing finished singing the last sentence "I want to sell my house and wander the world", Bao Yunyun instantly remembered her career in the north over the years, her nose was slightly sour, and she almost burst into tears.

Then he forced Li Qing to count this song among the seven songs sold by Li Qing.

Of course, Ma Xuzhen has no objection, because this song is indeed above the level.

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 like a treasure and looked through it carefully and carefully.

This is a song worth 470,000 yuan, which is already the price of a first-line songwriter, not counting the 3% sales share!

You must know that Bao Yunyun's signing fee is only 100,000, after all, she is a newcomer who has just debuted, and if she wants to get tens of millions of signing fees, she must at least rise to the status of Leng Ling.

That is, Bao Yunyun is lucky, and Ma Xuqi is not a pure capitalist, so in addition to the signing fee of 100,000 yuan, she can also get a 5% royalty commission, if the album sells well and reaches the level of a platinum record, her income can be millions even if it is at the minimum.

Bao Yunyun looked very carefully, flipped through the lyrics and music scores, in addition to the two songs "Those Flowers" and "Zebra Zebra", which had been predicted for a long time, Bao Yunyun also saw the five songs "The Girl with Wings", "Listening to the Sea", "The Sunshine is Always After the Wind and Rain", "Meet Ninety-Eight" and "Sonorous Rose".

The more she watched, the more surprised she became, except for the two folk ballads of "Those Flowers" and "Zebra Zebra", the other songs were all the most popular pop song styles sold at the moment!

And every song, just to taste in my head, seems to be very classic and beautiful!

Bao Yunyun, who originally thought that Li Qing could only do rock and campus folk songs, was completely excited, but she never expected that Li Qing's sense of smell in the current music scene was so keen.

It seems to be a song created specifically for yourself to open up sales!

Just imagining that these songs covering lyrical, pop, campus folk and other styles are all gathered in his first album, and the first classic is not lost to the appearance of the king and queen of heaven at all, Bao Yunyun seems to see the beautiful dawn of the future facing herself.

She had a gut feeling that she was really going to rise.