The opening of China Entertainment Group gave Jay Chou a head-on confrontation

Chapter 748: Mr. Zhou is here, and the Chinese music scene will be peaceful
As expected, all the record companies that wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to ask Baidu for compensation were turned away.

Just use the same rhetoric that was used in the initial response to Zhou Yi to get away with it.

However, after he got the idea, Li Yanhong felt that he had grasped the new code to wealth and took advantage of the situation to propose the concept of exclusive authorization. His meaning was very clear: he wanted to learn from the cooperation between Zhouyi and Apple.

The money they give is definitely not as generous as Apple. After all, everyone can see the current environment of the domestic music scene.

Several major record companies suddenly backed off.

"The money is still too little."

Qian Jiang shook his head and held up four fingers as he told the secret he had heard: "1000 million for three years of exclusive licensing. If the record company executives don't want to be bullied in the boardroom, they won't agree to this condition."

It only comes down to more than 3 million a year, which is an insulting offer for a record company.

This is just the price given to giant record companies such as Sony and Universal. If it is some small and medium-sized record companies in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is not impossible to pay more than one million or even hundreds of thousands of yuan a year in licensing fees.

Any record company with a bit of ambition would never agree to this exclusive licensing condition.

"If they don't grant this authorization, the songs in their music library will also be stolen by other software, and in the end they won't get a penny."

Zhou Yi sighed.

This is truly the wheel of time.

Twenty years later, in the domestic Internet music market, even niche music that was completely unacceptable to the mainstream market in the record era can have its own circle and its own market.

Although there is still a lot of piracy, the situation is much better than at the beginning of the century.

You have to eat your food one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. There is no other way.

"Baidu also contacted us and wanted to cooperate."

"exclusive?"

"Yes, it's exclusive to Chinese. But it's not an authorization, it's a collaboration. We invite you to cooperate with them to establish Baidu Music."

The English version is exclusively given to Apple, and Baidu cannot snatch it from Apple, so naturally it can only focus on the Chinese version. Moreover, in China, Zhou Yi’s English songs are not as popular as Chinese songs.

In this case, instead of discussing authorization, it would be better to directly cooperate with Zhou Yi to establish a new company specifically responsible for Internet music.

We are all from Peking University, so we become friends after fighting.

When it comes to interests, swallowing one's pride is a basic operation for those who can reach this position.

Zhouyi: "..."

Shentama cooperated to establish Baidu Music.

Judging from the impatient nature of Baidu's decision-makers, they are probably aiming to destroy Ziweixing's business.

"Forget it, I might as well cooperate with Tencent."

If I remember correctly, Tencent's QQ Space service should be launched next year, and QQ Music will be launched soon after. At that time, who didn't post a few songs on their QQ Space?

Although QQ Music was a sideline during this period, Pony Ma was very patient and felt that there was great potential for it, so he continued to invest money quietly to acquire copyrights and seek authorization.

When the time came, it became the largest legitimate music software in the country, and even reached a cooperation with Warner Music and reversely acquired part of their shares.

As he was speaking, Zhou Yi was interrupted by a phone call -

Speak of the devil, here comes Brother Xiao Ma calling.

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"It's like this, Ayi. I think you should know the profit model of Apple Music Store better than me. We can't learn their model for the time being, but we can rectify the domestic Internet music market in another way..."

On the 14th, the day when Sun Yanzi's new album was released, Xiao Ma Ge flew to the capital with his team and met with Zhou Yi in Guiyi's conference room.

When we meet, we speak our minds.

He also wants to do Internet music.

There is no other way. Due to domestic policy reasons, he is now desperately looking for new growth directions.

Tencent went public in 2004 and should have been in high spirits, but unfortunately due to the impact of policy adjustments, the wireless business on which it relied for survival encountered a crisis - Tencent's mobile and telecommunications value-added business revenues have continued to decline since its listing.

Now that we are approaching the end of the year, the number of registered users of paid mobile and value-added telecommunications services has plummeted by nearly 30% compared to the previous quarter, leaving only more than million users.

Brother Xiao Ma is so numb.

In particular, the breakup crisis with China Mobile is the most important reason that directly led to Tencent's decline.

The advantage that was originally written into Tencent's prospectus was the close strategic relationship with Chinese telecom operators and terminal equipment manufacturers, but now there is a huge crack. In the face of huge interests, China Mobile began to show its arrogance.

The "161 Mobile Chat" project, which accounts for about 55% of Tencent's total business revenue, was asked to renegotiate the profit-sharing terms, as Mobile is no longer satisfied with the - profit-sharing ratio.

This item alone will cause Tencent to suffer an additional loss of nearly 50 million RMB per year during the next renewed contract period.

Tencent and China Mobile have collaborated on more than one project.

Under such circumstances, Tencent, which had allowed itself to be controlled by China Mobile when signing the contract, had no choice but to accept the situation and start looking for new strategies. Coincidentally, at this time, the war of words between Zhou Yi and Baidu MP3 attracted Pony Ma, who was already in a state of panic.

People in the industry are often well-informed.

When Baidu contacted Qianqian Jingting's team with the intention of acquiring it, he immediately thought of Apple - after Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the company had completely taken off with the newly launched Apple Music Store.

Although the current domestic Internet environment does not allow the Apple Music Store to take off, it is undoubtedly a good story carrier. "We can cooperate, Ayi."

Pushing up his glasses, Pony Ma once again extended an invitation for cooperation: "You have connections and copyrights, and I have a large number of users. We can work together to develop the Internet music market..."

He believed from the bottom of his heart that Zhou Yi was indeed contributing to the Chinese music scene, so his speech was also moving in this direction. The PPT was very beautifully made, and it was obvious that he came prepared.

After all, getting Zhouyi on board is equivalent to getting Warner (China) on board.

The brand new QQ Music has two actual controlling shareholders, Guiyi and Tencent, with Tencent holding 60% of the investment and Guiyi holding 40%.

In this way, for the sake of Zhou Yi's shareholders, the copyright library of Warner (China) under him only needs to negotiate the licensing fees before it can flow into QQ Music, without worrying about the risk of being backstabbed after the contract expires.

In this way, Zhou Yi himself can also get the licensing fee, which is equivalent to making money from Tencent from one hand to the other, and it can be regarded as a gesture of sincerity from Pony Ma when he comes to seek cooperation.

After the pleasant cooperation in the email business, Xiao Ma still likes investors like Zhou Yi. Unless it involves his bottom line, such as this matter, Zhou Yi will not interfere at all, which can be called an angel.

Of course, pleasant cooperation is pleasant cooperation, but the contract negotiated by Pony Ma's team this time was unexpectedly detailed - it is obvious that they have learned a lesson after being bullied by China Mobile.

No matter how nice the words sound, they are ultimately not as good as the terms written into the contract.

Zhou Yi wanted to laugh.

When I think about how I mobilized the best legal team I could hire since graduation to negotiate the ringback tone terms with China Mobile, I'm afraid the people on China Mobile must be scratching their heads now.

When the ringback tone contract was signed, China Mobile only charged 5%. You should know that now China Mobile charges directly 15%.

What does 5% mean? It means that Warner Music and SP (service provider) will share the remaining 95%. Moreover, due to Zhouyi's strong position, the proportion between them and SP is not 55 points, but 73 points.

Warner accounts for 7.

Taking the "General's Order" he just issued as an example, 1600 million yuan was cut in one day, and China Mobile could only get 5% of it, or yuan.

The remaining 1520 million, the SP service provider took 30%, which is more than million;

Warner can take away 70% of it, which is just over million.

This is the income of the three parties in one day.

What is the concept.

To give the simplest example, the most popular, most profitable song in the history of domestic ringtones is called "Two Butterflies". It was released at the end of 2004 and generated more than 2005 million yuan in market revenue in 2.5, but in the end the singer Pang Long only got more than 1800 million yuan.

This is the annual income that Pang Long received under the shady business of mobile ringtones.

The contract that Peking University's luxurious team of lawyers had prepared for him in the past could not be overturned even if China Mobile came to cheat, because Zhou Yi had completely blocked all possible loopholes, including whether package services were counted.

The contract was signed in 03, and the four-year contract extended to 4, directly covering the peak period of ringtones.

The great contributors who signed the contract with Zhouyi have now become "sinners" who have committed countless crimes.

China Mobile was unable to renegotiate the contract like it had done with Tencent, and could only accept that Zhouyi was the only player in the ringtone market that could not be tainted.

Fortunately, there is only one Zhouyi.

With the booming ringtone market, China Mobile can also make huge profits from other people to make up for its hurt feelings, such as "Mouse Loves Rice", which is currently leading the ringtone market.

"Tencent is looking for you to discuss cooperation again? Do they really think of you as a lifeline?"

"What are you talking about? Isn't that what you should do?"

After reaching a preliminary agreement, Zhou Yi, who saw off Xiao Ma Ge and others, put one hand in his pocket and smiled comfortably: "Who made the Apple Music Store so powerful? The capital market likes this kind of story that can be replicated."

"Let's not talk about the capital story for now. There's something going on over at your cinema chain."

"Ok?"

Zhou Yi slowly typed a question mark: "Is there anyone who wants to snatch it from me?"

"That's not the case. It's Wanda, a partner of Warner Cinemas. Did you know that?"

"...?"

Cheng Hao was also a little surprised when talking about this matter, and it could even be said that he was a little unbelievable: "Someone from Wanda contacted me through Warner Pictures and said that they wanted to meet with you. To be precise, it was someone from the Wanda sequence who wanted to meet with you."

"Someone from Wanda? Discussing cooperation with the cinema chain?"

"Do not."

Cheng Hao shook his head: "It's for a girl. He said he wants her to star in your new album MV. You can ask for any price."

"..."

Zhou Yi raised his eyebrows.

Why did he feel as if these words were describing a person?

"It's very strange. The other party's attitude is not like a sponsor holding a canary. It's just a humble attitude that he will accept any price you offer."

"That girl...?"

"Call Jingtian."

Damn, this is the most mysterious and unrecognizable tycoon in the entertainment industry with the most ambiguous background!

(End of this chapter)