Chapter 132 Goldfinger Must Have the Dignity of Goldfinger
When Li Qian opened the door, he saw Liao Liao following him.
Qi Jie is Li Qian's manager, so since Li Qian lived in the hotel, after she came to Shuntian Mansion, even if it was just for the convenience of meeting and chatting, she should try to live next to Li Qian as much as possible. But Liao Liao's side was arranged by the company, and they have already changed to a super-large apartment, so they always wanted Qi Jie to live with her. They sent Li Qian and Qi Jie back tonight, and she never left, so she just waited. After Qi Jie reported the matter to Li Qian, she hurriedly pulled people over.
Now that Qi Jie was going to report something, she didn't want to stay there alone, so she just came over and listened. Anyway, among the things Qi Jie wanted to report, there must be one thing that had something to do with her.
After they entered Li Qian's room, they sat down casually. Li Qian casually gave them two bottles of drinking water, and then returned to his seat. He didn't rush to ask about the contract, but first asked with a smile: "How is it?" , the first time you carry the flag to negotiate a contract with such a big company, is there a lot of pressure?"
Speaking of which, just a year ago, Qi Jie was Li Qian's teacher, but now, a year later, she has become Li Qian's manager, which is a bit mysterious.
However, both of them are quite comfortable with each other's new identities - to Qi Jie, Li Qian's talent is there, and his age is irrelevant, but to Li Qian, although Qi Jie He used to be his teacher, but in his eyes, a girl like Qi Jie who is in her early twenties is really just a little girl. Once the two parties have an employment relationship, he will not hesitate to order her around. The teacher-student relationship did not dare to speak.
At this time, Qi Jie had already spread out her notebook on her knees. Hearing this, she smiled and raised her hand to lick her hair. She smiled and said, "It's okay, the pressure is not small, but I can still bear it." That's right... Actually, I found out that as a manager, I'm just trying to talk to people, and I'm not afraid of anything else, except patience, I still need to exercise!"
Hearing this, Li Qian put away his smile, nodded, and fell silent.
At this time, Qi Jie picked up the notebook and said, "Today, I ran two companies, Huage Records and Changsheng Records. Well, generally speaking, I guess the results of my work will not satisfy you too much."
Hearing this, Li Qian glanced at Liao Liao with a smile, and said, "That's not necessarily the case!"
Liao Liao pouted, "Why are you looking at me? Are you afraid that I will hear your business secrets?"
Li Qian smiled. For the current relationship between him and Liao Liao, this matter is not confidential at all, so he simply ignored her deliberately finding fault, but Qi Jie said: "Tell me Well, I want to see how much sincerity they can show!"
Qi Jie nodded and said, "I went to Huage Records in the morning. Mr. Li Jinlong, who had been in contact with me by phone, was just in charge of making an introduction. Then, it was a vice president of their company who discussed the contract with me. Well, the vice president's attitude is a bit high, anyway, it makes me feel uncomfortable."
Li Qian smiled and said nothing. On the contrary, Liao Liao curled his lips and said, "Naturally, it has been circulating in the circle for the past few months, and it is estimated that Wu Xing Wu Su and those silly girls don't know about it! They want to cross the river and demolish the bridge, so of course they have to come up with something to let you know." Hold back panic, and then everyone can take a picture and break up!"
Li Qian nodded and signaled Qi Jie to continue.
So Qi Jie said: "I have been arguing with them for a long time according to the basic conditions you gave, but the other party insisted on a bottom line, the price of the production can be negotiated, and the money for selling songs can also be negotiated, but the share contract, no way! "
Li Qian smiled and didn't speak.
Qi Jie continued: "Because there is a huge difference in the bottom line between the two sides, I couldn't talk to them at all. Although it took more than an hour and almost two hours, in the end, I could only bring them The preliminary conditions offered came back—the vice president of Huage said that they need you to come up with three songs, which specified a fast song, a love song, a Chinese style song, three songs, lyrics and arrangement Qu, they can give a total of 1 million. Of course, what they said was very vague, and they also said that this price is not the final price, but just a preliminary quotation. They said that if the price is not satisfactory, they can negotiate again."
"Besides, it is the producer. If you are willing to continue to produce the next album for Wuxingwusu, then Huage Records can give you 500,000 yuan for the producer-I don't know much about the market, but the other party said that this price, in the For producers and producers, it is already a first-line price in the industry. Of course, they still have the same attitude. As long as you are willing to accept it, the price can be negotiated! In short, after talking, they probably have the same idea, as long as you don’t want to share , everything is easy to talk about, if you want to share, then don't talk about it!"
Li Qian smiled calmly. Before he had time to say anything, Liao Liao sneered and said straightforwardly: "As expected, Hua Ge is getting more and more familiar with crossing rivers and demolishing bridges. Wuxingwu from half a year ago Su is nothing, if you lend them courage, they would not dare to negotiate terms with Li Qian like this!"
Li Qian spread his hands and asked, "That's all?"
Qi Jie hesitated for a moment, and said: "I went to Huage, and the Li Jinlong who came out to pick me up was very friendly and told me again and again that he desperately hoped to continue working with you, but just before he took me in, he still wanted to Secretly revealed to me, it is said that the new album for Wu Xing Wu Su has been completed internally by Hua Ge, including song selection, demo, arrangement, and even the accompaniment and dance of the final version, but it is still hidden from the public. In the outside world, those songs are being produced separately and in the name of other newcomers. So, as long as we can’t agree, they can immediately start the production of the new album. Therefore, he suggested that I better do it in advance Mentally prepared, anyway... He revealed so much meaning inside and outside the words, I wondered, he seems to be showing favor to you?"
Li Qian scratched his chin for a moment, then nodded.
In fact, as early as the first contact, he could feel that Li Jinlong seemed to be very polite to him all the time, but this time when he came to Shuntian Mansion to pick him up, he meant what he said, and he wanted to go with him. the meaning of.
Is this good? Burn the stove ahead of time?
Of course, this circle is a circle full of various interests and disputes. For anyone and anything, it is always true to think more carefully and think more about it. Li Jinlong doesn't have to think too simple about him— — To put it bluntly, even if he really wants to get closer to Li Qian who is still working alone, it can only be because he sees more benefits in Li Qian.
Li Qian thought for a moment, then waved his hand, and said, "Don't worry about Li Jinlong, no matter what he means, it will always be revealed slowly, and we can talk about it when the time comes. His musical accomplishments may not be counted. No matter how tall you are, but you are well-rounded and good at dancing. It's not a bad thing to have such a friend. As for the conditions given by Hua Ge..."
Speaking of this, Li Qian smiled, reached out and touched his head, "Nonsense, this is it!"
Hearing the word nonsense, Liao Liao chuckled, and immediately praised it, "As expected of being from a family of Chinese literature, as expected of such a good lyrics, this word is used accurately!"
After a pause, she turned her head to Qi Jie and said, "You don't understand, I will settle the score with you, and you will know how nonsense Hua Ge is! The album that Li Qian helped them make has sold three to four million Let's not talk about commercial performances, endorsements, etc., how much Hua Ge can earn, but simply talk about selling the album itself. It is absolutely no problem for this album to sell more than five million within one year. Within two years, its sales It should be between six million and eight million."
"Let's calculate it based on 6 million copies. Their albums are priced at a high price of 12 yuan a box. According to industry rules, they are released at half price. Get back 36 million with profits! Here, because Li Qian gets the share, they hardly have much pre-production cost, such as recording, accompaniment, cover, post-processing, add up to three 500,000 is the sky-high, and in the later stage of publicity, they will only spend a million or so at the New Year's Eve party, which is also the top, so, well, let's add it up and give them two million!"
"Six million tapes, the production cost will never exceed five million. Huage has its own recording factory, and it will be cheaper if you calculate it. So, do the math, the cost of selling six million tapes is only seven hundred 10,000, and then give Li Qian about... er, 10.8 million. As far as I know, the girls of Wu Xing Wu Su can only get 8% of the record sales, which is 6 million No, do the math yourself, how much they can earn from this album alone!"
Qi Jie lowered her head and counted silently for a moment, then raised her head and said, "More than twelve million?"
Liao Liao nodded and said, "That's the problem. Before Li Qian made a move, how much money did you earn from the album before Wu Xing Wu Su? One million can make them laugh! Well, when it becomes popular, you will resolutely refuse to share it? If you only talk about selling songs, Li Qian’s songs can be sold to anyone, and you can’t sell them for the price they gave you?”
Having said that, she turned her head and asked Li Qian, "How much did you pay He Runqing for the song "Half Pot of Shave"?"
Before Li Qian could answer, Qi Jie blurted out, "400,000!"
Liao Liao spread his hands, "So, one million for three songs? They also specified the style? They are so embarrassed to open their mouths! This is clearly what they want to talk to you about!"
Li Qian took a deep breath, and subconsciously reached out to touch the cigarette, but found nothing in his pocket, and then he remembered that he hadn't touched that thing for more than a month.
Then, he smiled, stretched out his hand to grab his chin, and whirled slowly.
In fact, it’s not just about money. In line with the principle that one more friend is better than one more enemy, Li Qian didn’t even think about their new album when Wu Xing Wu Su was already very popular. How much can he earn? Therefore, before Qi Jie went to Huage Records to negotiate, the bottom line he gave was to ask for 5% of the price. If it is really difficult to negotiate, 3% is fine!
With such a low share, it is already relatively easy for many big-name producers and songwriters in the industry to obtain, and to be honest, even if Wu Xing Wu Su’s next album continues to sell five or six million copies, 3% The share is only one or two million, and what he means is that if the share is taken, the production fee can be exempted.
Therefore, even if the other party agreed to share the share, even if the album continued to sell well, what Li Qian could get, even with the lyrics and music fee given by the other party, was probably three million.
It can be said that unlike the last album when Wu Xing Wu Su became popular, Li Qian, the producer, and Huage Records were able to share the benefits equally. This time, Li Qian basically gave up most of the benefits. Even if it's just a conservative estimate, Li Qian can make Huage Records earn at least 20 million in net profit from this album.
The asking price is so low, for Li Qian, he half thinks that he has a lot of works anyway, even if it's just to maintain the relationship with those five girls, or... just for someone, it's worth it. Yes, the other half is considering that Hua Ge is one of the three super companies in the industry after all, sacrificing a little profit and maintaining a long-term friendship can be regarded as a certain degree of network investment.
But... the hearts of the people are not enough to swallow the elephant!
They were so stunned that they were not even willing to give the last bit of face money to keep the bottom line, so they had to swallow it all by themselves!
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Liao Liao and Qi Jie were there blah blah. After a while, they realized that Li Qian was frowning and thinking hard. He couldn't help frowning, stretched out his hand in front of Li Qian, and said, "Hey, you won't even This kind of condition has to be carefully considered, right? Is there any need to think about it? Just refuse! Who are you, you are Li Qian! Do you know your reputation in the circle? Do you know why our company's old Chen... er, is Mr. Chen , why did he set you up for the first time we met?"
After a pause, she said in a high voice: "Because now the whole circle thinks that you, Li Qian, are the golden finger who can turn stones into gold! As long as you make a move, you will definitely be popular! Just this, a contract that doesn't even give you a share, if you dare to sign It’s over, it’s estimated that the circle will explode!”
Li Qian smiled when he heard this, and said, "Why are you in a hurry? When did I say I would agree?"
After a pause, he turned his head to look at Qi Jie, and asked, "Where is Changsheng Records? How did the talk go?"
Qi Jie was stunned for a moment when she heard the words, but she came back to her senses immediately, and replied: "That Mr. Chen initially quoted 500,000 yuan for a song, but asked you to be in charge of the production to ensure the quality. Later, I put When you mentioned your conditions, he was a little hesitant. Although we took the initiative to lower the price to 200,001 songs, each album requires an 8% share, which may be a bit painful to him, so he proposed It’s not possible to adopt a staged share like you did when you produced the album for Wuxingwusu. But of course I don’t agree, so we haven’t reached an agreement for the time being, but we have already agreed to continue the discussion tomorrow. I guess we can reach 5% Take it down left and right! Exactly what you expected!"
After a pause, as if she wanted to express something, she turned her head and glanced at Liao Liao, and said, "As Liao Liao said, you are a famous golden finger in the circle, and you have the ability to turn stones into gold, which is unique. So, they need us more!"
Li Qian smiled knowingly when he heard the words, and suddenly asked: "In your hearts, am I the kind of person who would rather suffer a little bit of anger than make compromises?"
Liao Liao and Qi Jie were taken aback when they heard the words, but soon Liao Liao spread his hands, "Although I know your personality is definitely not like this, but I don't know why, you always act like a good student in front of others Look! Look, no matter where you go, no matter who you are to, you are always polite, not at all... you don't have the feeling that I am awesome!"
Li Qian laughed when he heard the words.
After laughing, he shook his head, looked up at Liao Liao suddenly, and said, "Okay then, I'll show you what I look like when I'm awesome."
After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Qi Jie, the smile on his face disappeared, but he said calmly: "First, immediately terminate any contact with Hua Ge Records, and directly announce the breakdown of the negotiation! Even, you can I was pissed off telling them about it!"
Qi Jie cheered up immediately upon hearing this, and nodded solemnly.
As for Liao Liao, at this time, it was a sudden light in front of his eyes - after knowing him for so long, he always felt that he should be such a proud person, but he has always concealed it too well, until this moment , I finally saw him suddenly showing sharp fangs!
However, men, especially men like Li Qian, are they okay without fangs?
Men must have majesty!
At this time, Li Qian continued to calmly say: "Second, you go to see Mr. Chen tomorrow and tell him that I will treat the four works that I promised him with 100% sincerity, and I can also do it for them personally. Produce these four works, as for the conditions, just follow what he said, 500,000 pieces! However, I have one request, that is, the release time of Liao Liao's new album must be set at the time of Wu Xing Wu Su's new album Within a week of release!"
As soon as these words came out, although Qi Jie's eyes suddenly widened and his mouth opened slightly, Liao Liao also had a frightened expression.
She looked at Li Qian, and asked timidly, "You let me... fight them to the death?"
Qi Jie reacted when she heard the words, and quickly said: "Although Liao Liao is popular enough, Wuxingwusu seems to be more popular than her! Such a hard blow, even if it can hit them, will Liao Liao here..."
But at this time, Li Qian turned his head to look at Liao Liao with calm and sharp eyes.
He asked lightly: "Don't you dare?"
Facing his eyes, Liao Liao was stunned for a moment when their eyes collided.
At that moment, Li Qian's eyes were as fierce as a lion's.
Suddenly, Liao Liao's heart beat violently uncontrollably.
After a moment of absence, she straightened her chest instantly, "You are not afraid, I am afraid of a fart!"
After finishing speaking, she hurried to catch Li Qian's eyes immediately.
But to her disappointment, it seems that after saying that sentence, Li Qian's sharp-edged power has been released and withdrawn, and in the blink of an eye, he has returned to that kind of calm with a touch of smile humble appearance.
At this time, Li Qian smiled when he heard the words, ignored Qi Jie's daze, just nodded calmly, and said in a very firm tone: "Then it's settled!"
Since it is a golden finger, of course it must have the dignity of a golden finger!
Since you don't even give me the most basic bit of face, you have to feel that it doesn't matter if you get rid of me at this time, then let's just meet head-on!
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