The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 166 Zhang Chen adds fuel to the fire of "Zhi Feng Fei Love"

This time, Zhang Chen did not choose to go to the American technology company "CGT", but chose to meet William in his own villa.

"Oh, dear BOSS, congratulations on your new song successfully dominating the Billboard chart again."

"Why are you starting to pay attention to things in the music industry?"

"That's because my dear boss, you released a new song. As your employee, of course I have to pay attention to it. The new song is very nice! Especially "I'm Yours", which is definitely my favorite."

It has been a month since Zhang Chen released his new album "Burning".

1500 million copies were sold in North America, 200 million in Europe, 300 million in Southeast Asia, and about 300 million in other regions, for a total of 2300 million.

What made Zhang Chen happiest was that several of his Chinese songs achieved good rankings in the bulletin list.

Although it did not make it into the top 32, it was ranked 51nd, 60st, and th, which is a result that other Chinese songs have difficulty achieving. Zhang Chen may not be a pioneer, but he has successfully opened up a path for Chinese songs in the European and American markets.

The development of the Internet has inevitably affected the sales of physical albums, and a number of websites selling pirated resources have begun to emerge on the Internet.

If Zhang Chen wants to reap the benefits of digital music, he must suppress this trend before online pirated resources truly wreak havoc around the world.

"My music player has been successfully developed. When the time comes, I will ask them to open a branch in North America." Zhang Chen took the coffee handed to him by Xue Yining and continued, "Buy more paper for the company in the next few days. You should have to send a lot of lawyers' letters recently."

"Haha, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time."

"Remember, be quick!"

"Roger that!"

"Now show me the software."

The style of the software was no different from the video and movie playback software Zhang Chen had seen before, and overall it had met Zhang Chen's requirements.

Compared to music player software, perhaps the biggest difference is the comment area and rating function, which are more important for video software.

In order to develop this software, William also registered a number of patents for CGT, including some protocols that Zhang Chen was more familiar with.

These professional knowledge are relatively strong. Zhang Chen looked at the introductions and found that the operating mode of this software is a bit like a certain broadcast, that is, it can download resources from the resource library of nearby people, thereby reducing the burden on the server and indirectly improving the smoothness of online playback.

Zhang Chen looked at the movies currently in the player and found that there were only movies and TV series from Warner, and no film and television resources from other companies.

"Haven't you secured resources from the other companies yet?"

"That's not the case. It's just that we recently reached an agreement with them and haven't had time to transcode and upload it to the server yet."

Zhang Chen heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this. If there was a problem with resources, the attractiveness of this software would be greatly reduced after it went online.

"I have already explained the operation mode to you via fax. The next step is the launch time. Let's set it to be one day after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is closed in the cinema."

In fact, it would be most appropriate to promote this software by exclusively broadcasting a movie or TV series that most people are paying attention to on the software. However, what Zhang Chen lacks most now is time, so this matter can only be considered after his company has finished filming the movie.

"Boss, there is something I want to discuss with you."

"what's up?"

"Apple contacted me some time ago and said they wanted to acquire CGT. I'm not sure about their intentions, so I wanted to ask for your opinion."

After hearing the news from William, Zhang Chen recalled the history of Apple's rise.

If we were to say what is the area that generates the most revenue for Apple, it would undoubtedly be the Apple Store. The music section of the store also brought the company valuable funds in the early stages that were sufficient to support subsequent research and development.

Perhaps Apple has discovered that the digital music copyrights of several major record companies in the world have quietly fallen into the hands of CGT, an emerging technology company, so they currently have no way to bypass CGT to promote their own digital music store.

"Tell me what price they offered?"

Zhang Chen was curious about how much Apple would offer for their future cash cow.

"$2000 million."

William felt that Zhang Chen had a sharp vision. When he first acquired these digital copyrights, the total amount was no more than 300 million. But in a short time, it had increased several times.

This is not the first time that Zhang Chen has demonstrated his long-term vision that far exceeds that of ordinary people. In his eyes, Zhang Chen seems to know the future and knows what things will bring about wealth that others cannot imagine in the future.

"He wants to buy my company? Haha."

Zhang Chen was really amused by Apple's idea. You know, he is still waiting for Apple's stock price to reach bottom. By that moment, their circulating shares on the market will be the fat meat that Zhang Chen has been eyeing for a long time.

I wonder how interesting the faces of Apple’s top executives will be when William appears on their list of shareholders.

It’s a pity that Zhang Chen himself cannot witness this moment.

“What is Apple’s stock price now?”

“23 dollars, the boss wants to do a reverse takeover?”

William was a little excited. If Apple expressed its acquisition intention, and the company he controlled could reversely acquire Apple, that feeling would make him excited just thinking about it.

"It's not that exaggerated. I just want to buy at the bottom. When their estimate drops below 20, you can slowly buy their stocks. Don't be in a hurry. Make sure the stock price doesn't fluctuate too much. Stop buying before the placard requirement is met, and then continue to wait for my news."

"Boss is optimistic about Apple?"

Listening to Zhang Chen's series of requests, William felt that Zhang Chen was very concerned about owning Apple shares. "I guess so. Just do as I say."

Zhang Chen did not explain. Generally, the circulating shares would account for about 25% of a company. It depends on how many shares William can get at a low price before Apple explodes.

"They want digital music copyrights, and we told them to exchange it with stock, and the company could exchange it with stock, but we just won't sell it."

"They will definitely not agree to such unreasonable demands."

"It's okay. They will be the ones who are anxious then."

As long as their music mall is not online, their stocks will not recover, which will also help William's operations.

As long as Morning Glory Music's subsidiary successfully promotes the app in North America and starts to make a profit, Apple should be able to calculate how much profit their own feature can bring them.

As for whether to use stocks to save the company, or to cooperate with Morning Glory Music, or to choose the music gift package of failed singers prepared by Zhang Chen for them, it depends on the decision of Apple’s senior management.

On March 3, Zhang Chen hurried back to China from the United States and contacted the princess as soon as possible.

The reason was that a morning entertainment headline read, "Zhang Baizhi intervenes in Feng Fei's romance, and travels to Thailand with Xie Tingfeng."

It was not because Zhang Chen was anxious to comfort the princess, but because he thought of how to use this much-talked-about news to successfully launch his music player on the market.

He also thought about releasing another single to help the player, but without explosive news, it would be difficult to gain a favorable position in public opinion.

This piece of news will undoubtedly keep the public's attention for several days.
"Sister Fei, do you want me to help you?"

Yes, Zhang Chen felt that he was helping the princess. Tearing the scumbag apart with his bare hands was certainly helping.

"What can you do?"

"What else can I do? I can only write a song for you. You've been asking me to write songs for you. When I saw that news, I got some inspiration. Do you want to listen to it?"

"Really?"

The princess looked at Zhang Chen with some suspicion, always feeling that Zhang Chen was harboring some bad intentions again.

Once at an awards ceremony, after stuffing a dollar into her hand, she turned around and criticized her boyfriend harshly.

Oh, maybe I should call him ex-boyfriend now.

"Really, more real than real gold."

As a singer, swearing is too low-level. Writing a song specifically to swear at people is the elegant way to swear.

Afterwards, at Zhang Chen's urging, the two made an appointment to meet at the Chenguang Recording Studio.

"Zhang Chen, is there a new song?"

As the "gatekeeper" of the Morning Light Recording Studio, Zhang Yadong would always squat here whether he had something to do or not, waiting for some singers to come.

For him, as long as he can make music and find a pretty girl, his life will be complete.

"It's not my new song, but a song I wrote for Sister Fei. We made the basic arrangement before she came. Here are the music score and lyrics."

"You are such a mean person."

Zhang Yadong looked at the lyrics of this song. Not every word was talking about the ex, but every line was singing about the ex.

"What's the harm? Just let the princess sing this song. If it's released in the next few days, will it become popular?"

"Fire! Absolutely fire!"

"That's okay."

“But record production isn’t that fast.”

"You don't have to worry about that. The mountain man has a clever plan."

"Then I'll just wait and watch some people's good show?"

"When Sister Fei comes, you have to help me stop her. I'm afraid she won't be able to resist and hit me."

"Hey, you're still afraid."

While the two chatted and laughed, under the guidance of Zhang Chen, they made a basic version of the song accompaniment in half an hour. Seeing that the princess had not arrived yet, they spent another hour refining it.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the princess to come and record the song.

The protagonist of this incident did not make Zhang Chen and the others wait too long. Shortly after they checked the song accompaniment, the princess appeared in front of Zhang Chen and the others in a gorgeous dress.

"You're in such a hurry to ask me to come here. Is the song already finished?"

"You don't even look at who wrote the song, or who did the editing. It's easy for the two of us to make a song together."

After Zhang Chen finished speaking, he looked at the princess with delicate makeup and said, "I didn't expect that Sister Fei was not affected by this incident at all. It seems that I wrote the right song."

"What song is that? Show it to me."

　Today's second 3000-word chapter, I'm going to sleep first, the last chapter will be posted after I wake up
　　
　
(End of this chapter)