Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

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"That's how record revenue works. The bulk of it will go to the record company."

Chen Huiying noticed that they were all upset because of the difference in record income, so she took the initiative to comfort them:

“For you, the bulk of your income is not from record sales.

Records are just a way for you to gain fame. If you want to make money, you still have to rely on endorsements and commercial activities. "

"But it's too little!" Calvin Chen muttered.

Not only him, but the others were in a bad mood.

I originally thought that with sales of a million copies, Fahrenheit would definitely make a fortune.

result……

In fact, for artists from Taiwan, this income is actually quite high.

Take Wu Zhuo’s 47 for example, which, converted into NT dollars, is more than million.

In Taiwan, where one hundred thousand Taiwan dollars per episode is considered high for acting in a TV series, two million is actually a lot.

The reason why everyone feels unbalanced is mainly that the total income is in the tens of millions, but they end up getting only a tiny fraction of it, which makes them feel uncomfortable.

But what if it's uncomfortable? That's reality.

Chen Huiying comforted them for a while before letting Jiro Wang, Calvin Chen and Wu Zun leave, leaving Wu Chao behind.

“This is about the income from this album, so don’t worry too much about the small amount of money.

Once your solo album is released, your income from records will explode.”

After the others left, Chen Huiying was no longer so serious and handed Wu Zhuo a plan. "Regarding the group's plan, we have discussed it with Huayan and feel that we can't just plan for the Korean market, we also need to consider the Japanese market.

The Japanese market has always been larger than the Korean market. If we can open up the market, the benefits to us will definitely be greater than that of Korea.”

Wu Zhuo took the plan, glanced at it, and asked, "Do you mean to make Japanese versions of the songs for the next album?"

"Yes." Chen Huiying nodded, "Don't you know Japanese? Can you write the lyrics for the Japanese version yourself?
If that's not possible, Huayan will ask a Japanese lyricist to write the lyrics."

"No, I can do it!" Wu Zhuo shook his head.

The several group songs he took out all had Japanese versions, so he could just copy them over.

"Then hurry up and hand in the lyrics for the song. Huayan may need to review it."

……

Coming out of Chen Huiying's office, Wu Zhuo was thinking as he walked.

I had taken it for granted before and didn't consider the Japanese market.

Compared to South Korea, the Japanese market is truly huge.

To this day, there are countless records with annual sales of millions.

If we can achieve something in Japan, it will indeed be much better than South Korea.

Japanese songs were also very easy for him. For his personal songs, he could copy some classic Japanese songs that he had heard in his previous life.

Group songs are even simpler. In the past, many Korean group songs had Japanese versions, so you can just copy them directly.

"What are you..."

Wu Zhuo was thinking when he suddenly found that Calvin Chen and the other two were standing in the corridor not far away, as if they were waiting for him.

"Fire Table, we feel it is necessary to discuss the matter of record revenue."

Calvin Chen spoke first.

“It’s ok that the sales volume was reduced from one million to seven hundred thousand, but the cost was actually deducted by 1300 million RMB.

That’s NT$60 to NT$70 million.

We don’t think we spent that much on this record.”

"So..." Wu Zhuo looked at Wu Zun and Wang Dongcheng who were silent, "Do you want me to join forces with you to find Hua Yan?"

"No, we are not qualified to negotiate terms with Hua Yan at this stage."

Wu Zun shook his head and said, "We mean the issue of the agent's commission.

Komi takes a portion, and the agency takes another portion. It’s almost like they treat us like onions, peeling us layer by layer.

This is totally irrational.”

Hearing this, Wu Zhuo nodded. This was indeed not very reasonable.

Wu Zhuo used to think that Kemi and Tianxi were two different companies. But after joining the company, he found that this idea was somewhat taken for granted.

In fact, Tianxi is actually an agency department of Komi.

Tianxi and Kemi really spend a lot of money, transferring money from one hand to the other, directly taking money from the artists twice.

“We want to talk to them together. The group’s records and revenue can only be collected once, either by Komi or Tianxi, and then they can divide it among themselves.

You can't do this over and over again.

We must unite to put pressure on the agency and Komi."

Hearing this, Wu Zhuo frowned slightly.

It's not easy to put pressure on the agency and Komi.

One wrong move could easily affect the resource investment in Fahrenheit.

But looking at Wu Zun, Calvin Chen and Jiro Wang, they seemed to have made a decision.

"Okay, I'll cooperate with you whatever you want to do!" Wu Chao nodded.

In fact, for him, this is totally unnecessary.

Because in the future, his record income and singer income will only account for a small part, and his bulk of income will come from royalties.

But they are a group, and he must stand in the same camp as the group members.

"What are your rules?"

Wu Zhuo looked at several people.

“The three of us are brought in by Tianxi, Wu Zun’s is Fulong, and they have different agents.

Everyone should find their own agent!
It would be best to explain to them that this was a concerted action by the four of us.

As for the requirements.

It's very simple, the agency's commission on the group can be directly eliminated.

They already participated in the sharing of Komi's commission, and to do it again is too much."

Calvin Chen said, looking at the others, "Komi's commission can be raised to 40%, but the agency's group commission must be removed. This is our bottom line."

Several people nodded.

In the afternoon, Wu Chao and others took separate actions, contacted their respective agents, and raised their demands.

Wu Chao’s current personal agent is Huang Zekai, but his actual supervisor is actually Chen Huiying.

Therefore, Wu Zhuo made his request directly to Chen Huiying.

"If you do this, it will make everyone look bad.

The agency's commission is actually reasonable and is clearly stated in the contract."

After hearing what Wu Zhuo said, Chen Huiying looked like she had a headache.

“I know this may sound a bit threatening to the company, but the fact is that Fahrenheit was jointly established by Comic, Tianxi and Fulong.

When Komi took away the portion, you actually also got a share of the money.

According to normal procedures, that part is actually considered as the broker's commission.

But you drew it again later.”

"I will report this issue to Mr. Ge."

Chen Huiying rubbed her head and motioned Wu Zhuo to go out first.

When I returned to the dance studio, Chen Yiru and others were already there.

Seeing him coming back, several people immediately looked at him, "How are you doing here, what do you say?"

"Report it to your superiors!" Wu Zhuo spread his hands and said helplessly.

“It’s the same here.”

Jiro Wang frowned.

"Give the company two days first. If the company decides to take the cold approach, we'll have to do something about it!"

Wu Zun looked calm.

Hearing this, Wu Zhuo couldn't help but feel a headache.

This won’t become a big deal, right?
(End of this chapter)