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Chapter 131 The Door of Opportunity
There is no doubt that the quotations made by MGM International Hotel Group and Han Yi are still in the stage of pulling each other.

MGM didn't really expect that this music festival would be able to earn back a quarter of the renovation cost of the Las Vegas festival venue. As for Han Yi, he didn't think that a music festival with a budget of 2800 million dollars would It can make MGM International Hotel Group tempted, and hand over the equity of 4.4 acres of land purchased for 26 million US dollars.

What's more, although it is the major shareholder and venue operator, the MGM family doesn't count. Behind them, there are Cirque du Soleil and Ucaipa Group.

If you really want to buy a venue with the brand of a music festival, you may have to wait until the third or fourth session. Mad City has truly become the top spot in the live performance scene in Las Vegas, and the business situation of MGM International Hotel Group is also bad. To a certain extent, it will become a matter for serious discussion on the negotiating table.

Now, the most ideal condition in Han Yi's mind is to halve the asking price of 525 million, and settle the deal at a final price of around 260 million US dollars, ensuring that the venue, equipment, stage design and actual stage construction costs are kept within a reasonable range.

Generally speaking, stage production and venue costs should be reduced to about a quarter of the total budget as much as possible.After all, in addition to the artist budget, which is always the bulk, the organizers of the music festival also have to worry about many projects that seem to be small in individual expenses, but add up to very complicated projects.

Licenses for music festivals, income tax for artist performances, security fees, ticketing platform service fees, utility bills and other miscellaneous expenses on the day of the performance... each item is at least a million dollars or more.Smaller costs, such as travel, performance aids, equipment maintenance and depreciation, also range from $20 to $60.

Only US$2000 million artist performance fee + US$500 million stage production cost + US$500 million miscellaneous items can form a complete music festival expenditure structure.

Of course, the specific expenditure ratio will vary slightly depending on each music festival, but this is not something that Han Yi needs to consider at the venue.What the latter has to do for him is to give a reasonable venue rental price and provide some administrative assistance in the application for the performance license...

Then stay out of the fucking way.

There was no need to reach an agreement with MGM on the same day. After inspecting the venue and discussing some general plans for the music festival, Han Yi and his party got in the car and left. The subsequent negotiation of specific fees could be left to the legal teams of both parties.

If there's a price Jordan Bromley can't get, no one else can.

During the following dinner time, hosted by Diplo and Kevin Kusatsu, Han Yi and his team were invited to enjoy a steak feast at SW Steakhouse by the most famous indoor man-made landscape of the Wynn Hotel, Dream Lake.

Two people can't use up the dining vouchers, and five people are still quite enough.

After tasting the high-quality rib eye, Han Yi hugged Diplo goodbye in the lobby, and reconfirmed the time for the next meeting in Los Angeles.Then, a group of people who walked out of the Wynn Hotel did not rush back to Bellagio, but took Ling Lan and Tian Zongyun, who had almost adjusted the time difference, to the Planet Hollywood Hotel.

What?
Look at Lionel Richie.

In the American music industry, Las Vegas has a nickname called the Retired Artists Nursing Home.Almost every famous American singer who has fallen from his peak will find a resident contract in a hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, and perform dozens of performances comfortably every year, attracting nostalgic people from all over the world Tourists, earn some pension money.

Starting from Celine Dion, more and more superstars will sign sky-high contracts with hotel groups even in their primes to make money in casinos.Since the Canadian diva, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Rod Stewart, Britney Spears, Elton John, Katy Perry, and even Bruno Marr Sri Lanka, have opened dozens of shows in casinos, and as many as thousands of resident performances.

Lionel Richie wasn't the biggest of them all, but he was the luckiest one.

On May 5th, there happened to be a performance at the Planet Hollywood Hotel.And it just so happens that the era when Lionel Richie became popular was also the lush years when Ling Lan was studying for medical school.

"Say You Say Me", "Easy", "Hello", and "Endless Love" are the youth of a girl for Han Mama, but for Han Yi, Xu Yiru and Zhao Youzhen, they were never fortunate enough to live in their glory days classic.And what is very surprising is that the scene of Lionel Richie is not all gray-haired old people, but more young faces, basically wanting to come to Las Vegas to pay homage to the legend , retro music lovers who enjoy the wonderful experience of going back in time.

The excellent experience of the chorus made the travel experience in Las Vegas more colorful, and it also brought a successful conclusion to the one-week trip of the mother and grandmother to the United States.

On May 5th, after having lunch at Bellagio, Han Yi and his team set off at two or three in the afternoon, and returned to Los Angeles after a four and a half hour drive. Arriving at LAX before 19:07 just allowed Ling Lan and Tian Zongyun about two or three hours to shop in the duty-free area of ​​the Tom-Bradley International Terminal Departure Hall.

"You really don't want to go back with me, Yaoer?"

After checking in their luggage and walking to the ticket gate, Ling Lan still held Han Yi's hand tightly, asking questions with tears in her eyes.

No matter how we get along like friends, we usually make irrelevant jokes with our son, and when it’s time to part again, Lan still can’t restrain himself when he thinks that he hasn’t seen the person she loves the most in this world for several months. The madness of the sadness that welled up in my heart.

Every parent who sends their children thousands of miles away to study may be like this. They are disgusted at home and picky when they go out. But when they stand in front of the signboard of the terminal building, few parents can hold back their displeasure. shed tears.

"I'll be back at the end of the year, Mom."

Han Yi hugged his mother tightly and comforted her softly.

"If the school is not busy, I will accompany you directly to celebrate the New Year."

"Can you stay until the Chinese New Year?" Tian Zongyun wiped the corner of his eyes and asked.For four years, every New Year's Eve, I don't see my grandson at the dinner table.

"It depends on how long the semester starts. It's okay to start late... If it doesn't work, just ask for a week or two of leave."

"No leave, good study."

Ling Lan sniffed, patted Han Yi on the shoulder, and then showed a bright smile to Xu Yiru and Zhao Youzhen who were standing behind him.

"Xiaoru, Youzhen, thank you this week. Auntie has seen and remembered the busy schedule. Next time I come to Rongcheng with Han Yi, Auntie will treat you well."

"Okay, Auntie, I will definitely come!"

"Thank you, auntie, I am looking forward to going to Rongcheng to eat your food."

"Come and eat, come and eat, food and rice are enough."

Seeing two daughter-in-laws-to-be... I didn't change my words this time, and called them daughter-in-law-to-be. It seemed that the sorrow and boredom of parting had been diluted a lot.Mother Han hugged Han Yi again and whispered in his ear.

"Bring me one at the end of the year."

"If they don't come back, don't you either."

?

Han Yi, who instantly changed from mother's sweetheart to daughter-in-law's consignor, was a little dazed, until he waved goodbye to Ling Lan and Tian Zongyun, and drove the two girls back to the I-405N highway back to Bel-Air, he didn't Can fully react.

Just have to bring one...

wrong.

Do you have to be in such a hurry?

Of course, the itinerary to return home to visit relatives at the end of the year is not yet among the things that Han Yi needs to consider carefully.In fact, after many days, he finally returned to No. 864 Stella Della Road, without even a moment's rest, he was about to re-enter the work of HMG.

The preparatory period of more than two months is coming to an end. With the coming of midsummer, Han Music Group's first good performance in the European and American music scene will soon begin.

From the perspective of the overall structure, the most critical and exciting piece of news is the platform strategic cooperation agreement signed by Apple Music and Han Music on May 5.

Starting from July 2016, 7, within the next three years, Apple Music will conduct exclusive cooperation with these artists under Han Music Records:

1. Diplo.

2. Diplo's combination Major Lazer.

3. All works released by Jack U, the combination of Diplo and Skrillex, in Mad Decent.

4. Dillon Francis.

5. Halsey after fulfilling his contract with Astralwerks.

These are currently the three most vocal groups of artists under Han Music. Apple will provide Diplo and his two groups with an advertising budget of 100 million US dollars for each album or EP of the same length, and provide Halsey with 50 US dollars for each album. advertising budget, and provide Dillon Francis with an advertising budget of $30 per album.In addition, the platform settlement tax rate for these artists will be three times the normal tax rate.

In other words, ordinary artists can get $0.0076 for a single play, while these three artists can get $0.0228.

With 100 million streams, you can get 300 million streams from others. This is how the wealthy Apple Music compensates musicians for choosing them as their exclusive streaming platform, and it is also the most effective strategy for them to compete with Spotify for traffic.

The advertising budget is another preferential policy that Apple Music gives Han Music.Of this budget, 50% is mandatory to use within the platform. For example, promotional resources such as the homepage banner, official song list, and pop-up push given by the platform will be converted into US dollars and deducted from the advertising budget.The other 50% is the cash that Han Music can negotiate with Apple Music to spend on external contractors.

Radio promotion, artist peripherals, and other creative marketing activities can all be drawn from this budget, and Apple Music will not ask for a commission from these promotion strategies and peripheral sales.

Compared with Apple's extremely domineering app store sector, the nascent Apple Music is a bit outrageously friendly to musicians and music content providers in order to seize market share, and this is also the case for Taylor Swift, Drake, Britney, Frank -A key factor in why Orson, Pharrell Williams and Future chose to release their new album exclusively on the Apple Music platform.

Even if it will affect the total number of online broadcasts, according to the preferential policy of triple settlement, the royalties will actually be more.

The most important thing is that only Han Yi knows that after this agreement with Han Music, Apple Music will not get any valuable exclusive online content. The exclusivity that started after July 7 means that the song "Cold Water" can be released online, and this is also one of the driving forces behind Han Yi's insistence on getting Jordan Bromley to change the date on the agreement to the end of July one.

"Cold Water" is going to hit the top of the Billboard chart and help Diplo, Major Lazer and Madison Bill to a higher level. It must not be exclusive to a certain platform.

After "Cold Water", in the next three years, Diplo and his two groups actually had very limited works. Needless to say, Jack U was actually disbanded in the second half of 2016, and has never released a single since then. For Major Lazer, an EP was released in 2017, and the fourth album was released in 2020, which is no longer as brave as it used to be. Diplo's serious first studio album will not be released until 2020. The word-of-mouth and sales are not satisfactory, and the highest on the Billboard album chart is only 50th.

If Apple Music knew Diplo's future trend and knew that he could only get a little result when he feat others, they would definitely not be able to offer such a generous offer.Unfortunately, it is impossible for human beings to make accurate judgments on future trends, especially for musicians, as to which singles can be popular and which singles are destined to be mediocre.

After all, in 2016, when Lean On was a hit, Diplo looked like an unassailable electronic superstar.

Dillon Francis is also in the same situation. His more commendable work in the next few years is "Say Less" with G-Eazy, but even that song is not a big hit.

Horch, who has established a partnership with Han Music, is the only music star among the three with a truly promising future.The performance of the third album will undoubtedly satisfy Apple Music. Singles such as "Without Me" and "Be Kind", in terms of quality and popularity, will be top-notch existences in the pop music scene in the next few years.

But again, the release cycle of this third album is a bit long. The first single "Without Me" was released in October 2018, and the album itself will not be officially released until January 10.By that time, Apple Music will no longer be the size and scale it is now. For Han Yi and Han Music, such an exclusive agreement can be said to be quite profitable.

Of course, in the eyes of Apple Music, they don't care how often these three musicians release their albums and how many plays they have.These things are all trivial details that do no harm to their performance after the cooperation agreement is reached. What Apple Music needs most at the moment is the press release after the cooperation agreement is reached, the overwhelming entertainment industry news of "Diplo/Dillon Francis/Halsey becoming the exclusive artist of Apple Music".

These news, and the subsequent public attention to the Apple Music platform, is what they want to achieve by spending a lot of money to win over musicians.

As long as it attracts enough subscribers, what does it matter if these exclusive singles catch on?

The profit model of Apple Music is to rely on monthly subscription fees. If the music with triple settlement becomes too popular, it will not be in their interest.

Business cooperation is sometimes so wonderful. It is obviously a cooperation that neither party is likely to win. As long as there are one or two points of agreement, it can also become a successful case that makes both parties quite happy.

In this way, in a peaceful atmosphere, Han Music has become a reliable and high-quality partner of Apple Music. The official traffic of Apple Music has also begun to pour in to the contracted artists of Han Music.

The first beneficiary - Bi Li.

The radio network has spread to the limit of the song "Ocean Eyes". The number of radio stations that added Bi Li's first single to the playlist has reached 23, and the broadcast frequency has reached 241 times within seven days. It has already ranked 68th on the All Access national radio list bit.Like Yoo Jin mentioned before, this too-soothing indie-pop track, like Lana Del Rey's original "Summertime Sadness," would make the driver drowsy, which would make it impossible to be a real station manager Big hits willing to play on a 24-hour loop.

In this case, the streaming volume of Apple Music has become a much-needed growth point for Han Music. "Daily New Music", "Today's Hottest", and "A-List Pop", these three homepage playlists with high hits, all put this song "Ocean Eyes", although it is not particularly in the front position , but it can still improve the streaming performance of the song to a great extent.

Therefore, on May 2016, 5, after the announcement of the new list, "Ocean Eyes" ranked 20th on national radio, with 68 weekly playbacks on Spotify and 77.5 weekly playbacks on Apple Music, ranking among the Billboard No. 41 on the Hot 100 singles chart, right between Beyoncé's "Sandcastles" and Drake's "Faithful."

On April 4, Beyoncé's sixth solo album "Lemonade" launched a shocking zero-publicity release.This year's Super Bowl halftime performance was ridiculed by netizens for her figure, which aroused heated public discussions and aroused her popularity. The overly obvious political symbolism in the performance also sparked a big discussion on the Internet.

In response, Beyoncé's album was brimming with feminism and civil rights awareness.Not only released the album, but also simultaneously released a 65-minute film of the same name on HBO, which is known as a revolutionary work of black feminism.

In 2016, when political correctness intensified, Queen B Beyoncé, as one of the few musicians recognized by both black and white races, this dramatic, avant-garde and correct surprise release method directly made her the first in history. The sixth studio album is an artist who can enter the top of the Billboard chart, and has been evaluated by almost all media with close to full marks.

A week later, Drake's fourth studio album "Views" was officially released.Although the topicality is not as high as that of Queen B, and the media's evaluation is also a standard popular rap, but it is popular if it cannot stand others, and the popularity is unreasonable.

With Apple Music monopolized and the number of users on the platform less than half that of Spotify, Drake abruptly won 2.45 million plays in the first week, and the number of Apple Music subscribers exceeded 2000 million in one fell swoop.With 104 million album sales, it became the album with the highest sales volume in a single week after Adele's "25" sold 119 million copies.

Undoubtedly, all 20 singles from the album reached the singles chart, which is the highest single-week charting record by a single artist.

Therefore, during the two weeks when these two gods fought, Billy Eilish was able to start climbing from the bottom of the list and finally ranked 71st, which can already be called a proud victory for Han Music.

The song's rankings have risen, and so has the popularity of social media. Billie Eilish's Instagram account, which originally had only 3427 fans, now has more than 6.4 followers.

"Someone...really, sends me videos of their kittens every day, every day."

Bi Li, who came to Room 1000 of Xinghui Building for a meeting, stared at her mobile phone screen with silly joy. During the recent period, her main entertainment activity was to open Instagram and Twitter, and watch her follower count go up. Fans kept bombarding her private messages, and also read the question marks and exclamation marks sent to her by friends they knew before.

"My God!! That person on Billboard is you????"

"This song is so good I literally recommend it to everyone I know!!! congrats gurl! You made it!!!!"

"I KNEW YOU WILL BE A STAR!!!"

For a little girl who technically has six more months to go before she turns 15, it's all too exciting.

Of course, the excitement on the road to fame and fortune goes far beyond the sudden flattery of old acquaintances. Standing out on the authoritative rankings recognized by the entire industry means that there are more doors of opportunity open to Bi Li.

For example?
Jimmy Kilmer Live!

One of the most watched late night talk shows in the entire Commonwealth.

At 35:176 every night, [-] million loyal viewers watch the one-hour talk show in front of the TV.

When she first heard the news, Bi Li didn't even know how to react.

"Jimmy Kilmer... me?"

Sitting in Yuzhen's office, after thinking hard for a while, Bili asked again.

"I...Jimmy Kilmer?"

"Honey, do you realize that you just asked the question again in reverse order?"

Touching Bi Li's face lovingly, Yu Zhen said softly.

"I... of course, of course I know."

Billy nodded blankly.

"But...why me?"

"This is one of the cooperation rights that Victoria fought for from Apple Music." Zhao Youzhen patiently explained, "Apple Music: Up Next is a regular release plan of the platform, which aims to find, display and help improve the close cooperation relationship with the platform. Up-and-coming stars. Every month, Apple Music’s editorial team selects an artist to promote in order to increase the artist’s global popularity…and you are the second artist since the program launched in April this year – Billie Eilish .”

"As part of our promotion, we'll be able to choose between The Jimmy Kilmer Live Show and The James Corden Late Show..."

"Ah, James Corden!" Billy lamented, holding her head, "I want to see him so much! Why didn't we choose the late night show?"

“因为11:30，比12:30的观众平均要多80万。”赵宥真笑了笑，“你是要见詹姆斯-柯登，还是想让80万……”

"Corden can wait."

This kind of love cultivated by watching Carpool Karaoke on Youtube was not very strong in the first place. Billy instantly abandoned the James she "super wanted to see" and turned to the 80 Jimmy Kilmer viewers who could become her Instagram followers at any time.

"Good girl."

Every time in front of Bi Li, Zhao Youzhen can always find the feeling of being an older sister.

"As a reward... there is another piece of good news to tell you."

"What good news?"

"You're going on tour."

"Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato, are you?" Billy's eyes widened instantly, "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure." Zhao Youzhen nodded with a smile, lit up the phone screen, and placed it in front of Bili.

"The draft that was just sent to us for review will go live on May 5, take a look."

Bi Li couldn't wait to take the phone, and clicked on the press release sent by the tour organizer Live Nation's PR team.

【Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas invite you to experience FUTURE NOW: THE TOUR】

[NEW YORK, May 2016, 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Multi-platinum selling music artists Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas invite you to experience FUTURE NOW: THE TOUR.This round of North American tour produced by Live Nation will kick off on June 24, 2016. At that time, two influential artists will join forces to create one of the most anticipated music events of the year.

Live Nation is excited to announce today that artists Billie Eilish and Madison Beal will be joining the tour as opening acts.Beginning at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, this exciting ensemble will deliver 44 unforgettable nights of music to fans around the world.

Demi Lovato said: "We are very happy to have Billie Eilish and Madison Bill joining us on the tour. Their unique voices and undeniable talents will add more layers and diversity to the tour. Know our fans will love it."

Nick Jonas echoed those sentiments: "We're honored to share the stage with such amazing artists. We believe in their music and look forward to seeing the energy they bring each night."

"FUTURE NOW: THE TOUR" will tour more than 40 cities in the United States and Canada, including New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Las Vegas, Vancouver and more. The full list of dates for FUTURE NOW: THE TOUR is below.

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At present, the pre-sale tickets for many sessions have been sold out, and only a small number of on-site tickets remain. 】

"Ah! I love you, Yujin!"

Before she could finish reading the entire manuscript, Bi Li screamed and threw herself into Yu Zhen's arms.

"I don't care what anyone says, you are the best manager in the world!"

"Has anyone said otherwise?" Zhao Youzhen shook his head and laughed, "If someone says something bad about me, please tell me."

"What bad word?"

At this moment, the glass door was pushed open a few inches, and a head with a warm smile like the California sunshine poked in.

"What did I miss?"

"MA—DI—SON!"

The good news today is that Bi Li from Lianzhuang is obviously in a state of extreme excitement. She shot into Madison Bill's arms like a small cannonball, causing him to stagger and had to lean on the glass curtain wall to barely stand.

"We're going on tour together! We're going on tour together!"

"Ah, yes, yes, just one month later!" The two little girls hugged each other and bounced.

"Florida, can you believe it? The first stop is Orlando!"

"The first stop is Atlanta."

"Oh, is it?"

"Yes, the third stop is Orlando."

"That's okay...we can go to Disney World together!"

"Oh my god it's gonna be so fun!"

"YEAH I KNOW!"

After screaming and cuddling for a while, Madison let go of Billie.No matter from which point of view, Madison Bill, who is two and a half years older than Billie Eilish, should be the one who is more mature and calms down faster among them.

After all she has been...

Thinking of this, Madison straightened out the little floral dress that she had carefully selected for a long time, trying to look mature and cute, business and feminine, but in the end it seemed almost interesting in every way, cleared her throat, pretended Tsukuru brushed his hair inadvertently, and turned his gaze to Zhao Youzhen, who was sitting on the office chair, holding his chin, looking at the two of them with a smile.

"Youzhen, do you know where Yi went?"

"He won't forget that we have an album preparatory meeting coming up?"

(End of this chapter)