Chapter 643 - Hirai

Anschutz has great ambitions. If they can really develop loyal fans and a mature professional league in the United States, the world's largest economy, they will make a lot of money.

Therefore, in order to accelerate the expansion of the major leagues, they directly injected funds to support teams from all over the world. Some nominal owners do not own as many team shares as they do, but they still gave up the management rights. There is no way out. Blood cannot attract rich people into the game. Everyone generally has the same opinion as Song Ya, who believes that the United States has no soil for the development of football.

Considering the apocalypse and the fairly favorable conditions, Song Ya was a little moved, so she didn't say anything, and temporarily left Anschutz's people perfunctorily.

A few days later, Donovan led a team from William Morris to Bedford Hills to help. He and Mariah Carey temporarily got rid of the heavy preparations and went to Sony Columbia Records to settle the record revenue.

Just as Spielberg is preparing for Universal's post-Simberg era, the two now dare not take the risk of Daniel being suddenly ousted by Sony, which is possible.

Moreover, the money should have been settled last year, and it has been done to support Daniel until now.

"Common's new album is loss-making. We and you have invested considerable publicity and distribution resources, but the sales are not good. However, the number of circulation in underground channels and the influence of radio stations are large, which is the victim of the increasingly rampant piracy problem. By."

Last year, A+ Records pounced on the albums of Al, Common, and William Adams. Among them, Common’s new album received very good reviews and was the most vigorously announced. Therefore, A+ Records and Sony Columbia Records suffered some losses after the plunging.

But those are small money. Song Ya and Fergie’s first album of the same name and singles such as London Bridge are still selling steadily. The soundtrack of Dancing My Life and the BeWhatYouWannaBe single that will be released later will sell a total of 7 million copies by the end of February. Around this time, Song Ya himself and A+ Records settled nearly 50 million in net income excluding other costs, which made him even if he bought a mansion by the sea in Malibu and held a grand wedding, and survived the tax season in April. Still able to keep hundreds of millions of cash.

"Phew! Congratulations to APLUS, I'm looking forward to your second solo debut single DeadAndGone, I believe you can achieve great results again."

Daniel was relieved, he was even weaker in front of Song Ya, he took the initiative to reach out his hand, and asked slightly flatteringly, "According to the agreement between you and LAFACE Records, next year Donnie Braston will dance the song from the soundtrack of my life." UMustBe on her new album? Also, is Brenda's solo album coming out next year, right? A few of the songs she sang in my life will be included?"

"Yes, Tang Ni, I have discussed with BABYFACE a long time ago, Brenda's new album... Let's talk about it after dancing to the soundtrack of my life, the second half of next year?" Song Ya shook hands with him.

"OK, the second half is good, no problem, I'll keep an eye on it."

After Daniel finished speaking, he hurried to the next door, where Mariah Carey also made the settlement accompanied by Donovan and other professionals.

"It's finally something happy." Song Ya smiled at Samuel beside him.

"Somewhat?"

Samuel happily packed the documents, "The more successful your record business is, the more the benefits of the publishing agreement we fought for from Motura back then will be highlighted. Otherwise, don't expect to get this kind of split."

"The distribution agreement is good,

But singers are not top-notch yet. Both MJ and Madonna enjoy the highest 20% singer share, and they can get so much purely from singer shares. Neither Mimi nor I can reach this figure. "

Song Yade's long-awaited Zhan Wang said: "If everything goes well, I will have to challenge it when I renew my contract in 1997."

"Haha, you are indeed almost qualified."

Samuel complimented them, and the two were chatting in a low voice. On the opposite side of the conference table, a book face who had been silent all the time approached them and offered his hand, "Hello, Mr. APLUS, let me introduce myself, Hirai, the deputy general manager of Sony Electronics Beimi .”

"Hello, I remember that used to be Mr. Gao Shu's position?"

Song Ya responded politely. This person was about the same age as Gao Shu, but his English pronunciation was more authentic, "Where did he go?"

"Yes, Takagi-san was transferred back to the Tokyo headquarters." Hirai smiled and sat down on the empty seat next to him.

"Wow, got promoted?" Song Ya knew that the executives of the company were generally exiled if they were transferred abroad, with the exception of the United States, but they were also suspected of being deliberately kept away from the center of power.

"Uh, it should count."

Hirai laughed: "You don't remember me? I worked at the predecessor of Sony Columbia Records in the 80s."

"Oh, I remember."

Song Ya looked at his face, and remembered that he had indeed seen him in this building before, but at that time Motura was very strong, and the presence of the book executives was a bit thin, basically equal to the decoration at the meeting, Sony Columbia Records Previously, it should have been the joint venture period between Sony and CBS, "Then I also congratulate you on your promotion, Mr. Hirai."

"Thanks."

Hirai doesn't seem to be as polite as Takaki, he doesn't bow very often, and he is very friendly when he smiles, "Can I take up a little bit of your time?"

"Of course, please tell me." To the top management of the capital, Song Ya is very face-saving. In Sony Beimi, Gao Shu had a lot of power before.

"I would like to ask, why are you unwilling to accept your and Ms. Kelly's song copyright to participate in our merger with MJ's ATV copyright library?" Hirai asked straight to the point.

"Well……"

Song Ya and Samuel looked at each other, "I think Daniel has already told you the reason for me."

"I want to hear your own confirmation." Hirai said.

"How far has your negotiation with MJ progressed?" Song Ya asked back, turning her head to look at Linda at the same time, her female assistant understood exactly what he meant, and left the conference room to call Daniel next door.

"Almost done."

Hirai replied straightforwardly: "But the current situation is like this, if we merge with MJ's copyright library and exclude you and Miss Kelly, as well as the copyright of singers who share your ideas, then we need to pay MJ more. cash……"

"But it's also good for you, isn't it? You will have an independent copyright library in addition to the merged copyright library." Song Ya asked back: "Sony doesn't lack this cash, right?"

Hirai smiled wryly, "We are fighting an auto trade war with the US government, and domestic companies are not doing very well right now."

"But it doesn't include Sony, right? You just released a new generation of game consoles in China at the end of last year. I heard that the sales are very hot. I have a small amount of EA (Electronic Arts) stocks. I see their sales at the end of last year. The financial report said that it will also start to develop new games based on your platform, and other game companies are the same, and they are very optimistic that they will be successful in the United States."

Song Ya wanted to change the topic, but failed, and Hirai replied: "That's right, but Mr. APLUS, this has nothing to do with my doubts. You know, generally speaking, having a unified copyright library can reduce Sony's Copyright companies have a lot of operating costs."

"Hey, APLUS, what are you talking about?"

Daniel rushed in at this time, stood behind Song Ya affectionately, and put his hands on his shoulders, "Mr. Hirai, APLUS is one of the most important singers under our banner."

"Of course, I like Mr. APLUS's song very much..."

Hirai still did not give up, he was much more difficult than Gao Shu, "We were just talking about the copyright library, I asked why APLUS is not willing to participate in the copyright merger between us and ATV."

"Well……"

Daniel was caught off guard, "Go out, Samuel, I'm sorry." He cleared everyone including Samuel out of the conference room, "There are only three of us here, so let me be straightforward, APLUS doesn't want to My own copyright falls into the hands of MJ, otherwise the outside world will laugh at APLUS and pay MJ for singing his own songs, just like what happened to Paul McCartney in the past."

"We all know that those are just silly attacks, and now the music copyright structure is very complicated, which is an unavoidable situation for singers." Hirai said.

"I'm the manager of APLUS, this is our mutual decision, okay Mr. Hirai." Daniel didn't bother to go around with him, and replied very straightforwardly.

Hirai ignored him and looked at Song Ya.

"I just don't want to, you know? I just don't want to."

Song Ya knew that he couldn't cope today without giving an attitude, "I didn't give him a strong support statement when MJ was unlucky, and now my relationship with him... is a bit delicate, anyway, I don't want to see my songs The copyright was put under his ATV management. Of course, out of this door, I won't admit that I ever thought that."

"After the merger, the track management rights should belong to Sony Music Copyright Company." Hirai revealed, "Can this dispel some of your doubts? Mr. APLUS. Maybe we can start a separate negotiation."

"I've already decided, okay?" Song Ya refused again.

"Okay, I'm sorry to bother you." Hirai stood up, finally bowed politely, and left.