Tang Xiaotian returned to his residence at 5 pm.
He had just arrived home when Qin Yun came over.
"I helped you open Weibo today, guess what I received?"
Weibo, as long as its someone who keeps up with the world, will apply for a Weibo account to play around. Tang Xiaotian used to have one too, but that was a personal account and not many people knew it was him. Qin Yun helped him apply for an artist-specific type, which will be verified later.
Tang Xiaotian saw Qin Yun so excited and asked: "What did you get?"
"Cant you just guess?"
Tang Xiaotian was speechless: "How could I have guessed? Im not your tapeworm."
"Ugh, thats disgusting. Let me tell you, I just helped you open your Weibo account and you already have over 10,000 followers, and its still growing. Plus, Ive received private messages from several music websites wanting to discuss recording official songs for "Im Not Going to Work Today" and "Red Day", and selling them the copyright."
As soon as he heard about selling copyrights, Tang Xiaotian immediately became interested, he was really short of money now.
"What price did they give?"
"There are several options, first, they pay us a certain percentage of income based on clicks and downloads, second, you sell them the entire online playback rights, they give you a one-time payment, or third, you put your songs on their website, set a fee, users listen for free, we split 90% to 10%."
In this time and space, copyright awareness is still very strong. Regular music websites want to play some singers songs, they must obtain the copyright.
Generally speaking, many singers choose the first option, or rather, many websites hope that singers will choose the first option, because this is the safest choice for them - the singer makes money and they also make money.
The second is that only some very famous singer websites will directly buy the copyright from them, in this way, all the risks are borne by the website, but because the singers are famous, there is also some guarantee.
The third is not very popular, only paid can be heard, its hard to avoid keeping many fans out, so its possible to waste a song, but in this case, if that song has many listeners, its the most profitable for the singer.
But this situation is rare.
Qin Yun finished explaining the situation and asked him: "Which one do you want to choose?"
Tang Xiaotian thought for a moment, considering his own situation later on. The first and third options would definitely be the most profitable, because after he became famous, his songs would have a wider audience, and the number of downloads would increase accordingly, bringing in a lot of money.
But this is a process that takes time, and he needs money to improve his life now, so after careful consideration, he said: "Laozi chooses the second one tomorrow, Hongri chooses the first one."
Tang Xiaotian needs money to improve his life, so "Lao Zi Ming Tian Bu Shang Ban" chooses the second option, and suddenly gets a sum of money. As for "Hong Ri", its a classic song, through clicks and downloads, he believes that the money he will receive in the future will absolutely exceed his imagination, so he chooses the first option.
"Alright, Ill respond to those people, Lao Zi wont go to work tomorrow, what price do you want?"
"Five hundred thousand."
Qin Yun clicked her tongue, is a song worth that price? Tang Xiaotian surprisingly opened his mouth wide, but soon she thought again. With Tang Xiaotians talent, its certain hell become famous later on. This song is indeed worth the price. And they will inevitably have to cooperate with various major websites in the future. Its better to use this one song to test the attitude of other websites.
Choosing a good website will be absolutely helpful for their future development and cooperation.
After thinking about it, she directly replied to the website staff who sent private messages about what Tang Xiaotian said. However, possibly because Tang Xiaotian was too arrogant, many website staff either didnt respond or just sent a "hehe" or an expression of surprise and then there was no further response.
The rest of them replied that they need to consider it.
Is Tang Xiao Tian worth spending so much money on just because of one song?
If they all choose the first one, they will naturally have no problem, but if they choose the second one, it is equivalent to their website taking risks, so they must think carefully.
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The entire Chinese music scene is now fiercely competitive, with two major websites standing out: Cool Music and Tsing.
Two websites with strong strength are competing for market share, facing Tang Xiaotian, a music newcomer who rose rapidly on Weibo, both want to get his music playback rights and the opportunity to continue cooperating in the future.
The person in charge of Tsing Network reported Qin Yuns words to his superior, Hong Feng. When Hong Feng heard that Tang Xiao Tian was asking for 500,000 yuan, he couldnt help but take a cold breath.
"This kids got big ambitions, a young punk whos just started growing hair and he dares to ask for this price."
"What does the old man mean?"
"This person is not practical enough, probably all bark and no bite. If we dont cooperate, its fine. Five hundred thousand, we can do something more useful."
Hong Feng finished speaking and directly passed Tang Xiaotian, while on the other side, Kouyin Wang, the person in charge of contacting Qin Yun, reported the situation to his supervisor Xu Fei.
Xu Fei listened to the price and, unlike Hong Feng, did not react violently. He supported his chin and thought for a moment before saying: "This price is acceptable, you sort it out, Ill submit the application to the editor-in-chief."
The music editor-in-chief of Cool Music is Li Wei, and whether a song can finally cooperate with them must be approved by him. After Xu Fei submitted Tang Xiaotians situation, Li Wei slightly frowned and then had someone call Xu Fei to the office.
Xu Fei had just entered the office when he threw the file at Xu Fei: "Youre also a very mature person, how can you still make such mistakes? A newcomer, one song and you want 500,000?"
Li Wei obviously disagreed, Xu Feis expression tightened slightly, but he didnt have a big reaction, apparently he had expected that Li Wei might refuse.
"Boss, with Tang Xiao Tians current popularity, this song naturally wont be worth that much. However, Tang Xiao Tian has a good talent for music and in just a few days, hes already made two songs popular. Who knows, maybe hell be the next music king. Since he has potential, why dont we take a gamble? If we can cooperate with him this time, it will be very beneficial to Cool Music Network in the future."
Li Weis eyebrows slightly furrowed: "But what if he cant become the next music king? Then this money will be lost, so we cant take this risk."
Saying so, Li Wei waved his hand, clearly not wanting to continue talking with Xu Fei.
Xu Feis expression turned stern, and he decided to take a risk.