Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 28 Negotiation (Seeking follow-up reading)

In an office on the third floor of Komi Company, Wu Chao met Lu Shiyu, the current vice president of HIM Records.

A tall, thin man wearing glasses.

A very ordinary person, the kind you wouldn't even find on the street.

But such an ordinary man was once an important producer of Formosa Records, which was at its peak in the 90s. He had launched singers who were popular in the s, such as Meng Tingwei and Valen Hsu.

After Shanghua was sold to PolyGram, which is now Universal Music.

He and Lu Yanqing founded a new physical record company, Universe International Music Co., Ltd., in 1999.

A year later, in October 2001, the company was renamed as the current HIM International Music Co., Ltd.

Huayan now has many well-known singers from Taiwan.

Among them, the most famous are several groups and bands, including Power Train, F.I.R and SHE.

The most famous among them is undoubtedly SHE.

Since its establishment in 2001, this girl group has been the most popular girl group in the Chinese music scene.

The only girl group that can rival them is probably the Twins from Hong Kong's Yinghuang Records.

"Mr. Wu is really young and promising! He has written so many good songs at such a young age. He is really talented!"

As soon as they met, Lu Shiyu came up to him warmly and held Wu Zhuo's hand tightly.

"I always thought that Director Lu was a lady!"

Wu Zhuo showed a maturity that was different from his appearance and joked with him.

"Haha, that's not surprising. My name is indeed a bit feminine."

A hint of surprise flashed in Lu Shiyu's eyes, "You act much more mature than your actual age.

Other artists from your company wouldn’t dare to talk to me like this.”

"I think there is no difference between respecting you and disrespecting you!

At your level, you must have seen many people fawning on you."

When you reach Lu Shiyu's position, it doesn't mean that he will look at you differently just because you are respectful, fawning or flattering him.

If you don't have the ability and the conditions that he values, he won't even look at you.

So is Wu Chao.

If Lu Shiyu hadn't taken a liking to the songs he was playing, he probably wouldn't even have been able to meet him, let alone have a passionate conversation with him.

Therefore, Wu Zhuo never thought of currying favor with him.

He just needs to be himself.

"You are right, in this world, only incompetent people would choose to flatter others.

I admire your character.”

Lu Shiyu looked appreciative and asked Wu Zhuo to sit down.

"Tea or coffee? There are a lot of good things in Mr. Feng's office."

"Cafe!"

Lu Shiyu was obviously not an impatient person, and he did not immediately ask Wu Zhuo whether he wanted to sell the songs.

Instead, he pulled Wu Zhuo aside and started chatting about all sorts of things.

From favorite singers, favorite actors, to Wu Zhuo’s family background.

Wu Chao knew that he was looking for his weaknesses through this information.

But Wu Zhuo did not hide it.

He definitely has weaknesses.

He likes money, sports cars, cool motorcycles, and beautiful women.

These are common problems among men.

But what if Lu Shiyu knew all this?

If he was really an ordinary young man in his twenties, after Lu Shiyu knew all this, he would definitely kill him with one blow and come up with a condition that Wu Chao could not refuse at this stage.

But Wu Zhuo is not an ordinary young man.

Having lived two lives, he knows very well what he wants.

He focuses more on the future instead of being blinded by the tiny profits in front of him.

"Brother Wu, name your price! What price do you want for the songs you registered with the Music Copyright Association to be given to Huayan?"

After chatting for about half an hour, Lu Shiyu probably felt that he had almost grasped Wu Zhuo's needs and weaknesses, so he went straight to the point and stated his purpose. "Mr. Lu, you should have known in advance that many companies have approached me, and I rejected them all."

Wu Chao said.

“That’s because their conditions are not attractive enough.

I believe that most things in this world can be sold. The reason they are not sold is simply because the price offered by the other party is not high enough.

Our company has specifically reviewed and understood your songs, a total of thirty-five songs.

I won’t comment on which song is good and which is average.

Our company purchased these songs directly from you at a price of NT$300,000 per song.

If you create more songs in the future, we will still purchase them from you at this price.

In addition, as long as you agree, we can even release an album for you directly, and most of these songs will be sung by you. "

Lu Shiyu felt that the conditions he offered were definitely tempting enough.

One song costs NT$300,000, and 35 songs cost NT$10.5 million, which is definitely a huge amount of money.

In addition, the company will use these songs to promote Wu Chao himself, and he may make more money in the future.

"It's tempting, but I'm sorry, I won't let go of the copyright to these songs."

Wu Zhuo shook his head and refused directly.

Buyout is what he can't accept the most.

Lu Shiyu's brows were visibly furrowed, "Brother Wu, you probably don't understand the current market price of songs in Taiwan!

Even if the songwriter is a well-known one, one song only makes around 300,000.

The price I give you is already the highest price in the industry."

In fact, this price is indeed very high.

If the number of songs was not large and the quality was not outstanding enough, Huayan would not have offered this price.

Wu Zhuo continued to shake his head and refused. He said directly, "I do have a suggestion. Mr. Lu may consider it."

"You want to hear it?"

Lu Shiyu already knew from Wu Zhuo's attitude that he would definitely be disappointed today, but he still wanted to hear what Wu Zhuo wanted to do.

"Huayan helps me produce the album, so it doesn't matter if the share is smaller, but the copyright of the songs belongs to me."

Wu Chao tried to use Jay Chou's contract with Alpha to cooperate with Huayan.

However, as soon as the words came out, Wu Zhuo could immediately tell from Lu Shiyu's expression that there was no hope.

The other party was unmoved and just smiled and said, "You want to learn from Jay Chou?"

"Of course, no one doesn't want to be Jay Chou," Wu Chao said without hiding it.

Lu Shiyu smiled and shook his head, without any disdain or ridicule, and stood up.

"Even if the deal doesn't go through, the Fahrenheit Group you're in will definitely sign with our company in the end.

I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation. ”

After a pause, he continued, “After your group signs with our company, we should start producing your first album soon.

By then, I still hope that you can come up with two songs to help the group gain fame.

Don't worry, the price is still NT$300,000!"

“That’s fine, I’m not really stingy, but I also hope that this conversation will not affect Huayan’s promotion of our group.

Most importantly, Mr. Lu, please don’t be stingy and hide me on purpose.”

Wu Zhuo smiled and joked.

Even though it's a joke, it could actually happen.

If because of the failure of the negotiations here, Lu Shiyu reduced the promotion of Fahrenheit, especially one of the members of the group, then he would lose a lot of money.

"Don't worry about that. Even though you don't sell songs to us, you will still be the focus of our attention in this group."

Lu Shiyu seemed very magnanimous and did not have a bad impression of Wu Chao at all because he could not buy the song.

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PS: The paragraph in the previous chapter that mentioned that the company would take a share of the song sales revenue has been modified and deleted.

Because the protagonist signed an artist contract with Tianxi, not a creative commission contract, it would be unreasonable for the protagonist to be charged a commission for selling songs, so it has been modified.

All you need to know is that the profits from the songs the protagonist sings belong to him.

(End of this chapter)