Chicago 1990

Anschutz has great ambitions. If they can develop loyal fans and mature professional leagues in the world's largest economy, the United States, they will make money.

Therefore, in order to accelerate the expansion of the major leagues, they simply and rudely directly inject capital to support teams from all over the world. Some nominally owned team shares are not as large as they are, but they still give up the management rights. There is no way, no point. Blood cannot attract wealthy people into the game. Everyone generally agrees with Song Ya's opinion that the United States does not have the soil for the development of football.

Considering the apocalypse and the fairly favorable conditions, Song Ya was a little moved, so he didn't say anything to death, and temporarily left Anshuzi's people.

A few days later, Donovan led a team from William Morris to Bedford Hills to help. He and Mariah Carey temporarily got rid of the heavy preparatory work and went to Sony Columbia Records to settle the record revenue.

Like Spielberg preparing for Universal's post-Simberg era, the two now dare not risk Daniel's sudden step down by Sony. It is possible.

And this money should be settled last year. To support Daniel, it has been done up to now.

"Common's new project is at a loss. Both we and you have invested considerable resources for publicity and distribution, but the sales are not good. The number of circulation in underground channels and the influence of the radio station are very large. This is the victim of the increasingly rampant piracy problem. By."

Last year, A+ Records rushed to the albums of Al, Common and William Adams. Among them, the Common new album has good feedback and the publicity is the strongest. So it caused some losses for A+ Records and Sony Columbia Records.

But those are all small money. Song Ya and Fergie’s first album of the same name and singles such as London Bridge are still selling in a long way. The original soundtrack of My Life and BeWhatYouWannaBe singles released later are sold as of the end of February. A total of 7 million copies have been sold. Around this time, Song Ya himself and A+ Records settled the net income of nearly 50 million yuan to eliminate other costs, which made him even after buying the Malibu seaside mansion and holding a vigorous wedding, and after the tax season in April It can still keep hundreds of millions of cash.

"Huh! Congratulations, APLUS, now I'm looking forward to your second album DeadAndGone, and I believe I can achieve great results again."

Daniel was relieved. He became even weaker in front of Song Ya. He proactively reached out and asked a little flatteringly, "According to the agreement between you and LAFACE Records, Donnie Bryston will dance on the soundtrack of my life next year. Put UMustBe in her new album? Also, will Brenda’s solo album be released next year, right? All the songs she sang in my life will be included?"

"Yes, Tang Ni, I had already discussed with Babyface, Brenda's new album...Will I wait until the soundtrack of my life is released, and I will talk about it, in the second half of next year?" Song Ya shook his hand.

"OK, the second half will be fine, no problem, I will be watching."

After Daniel finished speaking, hurried to the next door, where Mariah Carey was also doing the settlement with Donovan and other professionals.

"It's finally something pleasant." Song Ya smiled at Samuel next to him.

"Somewhat?"

Samuel happily packed up the files, "The more successful your record business is, the more the benefits of the distribution agreement we won from Motula back then will be highlighted, otherwise you don't want to get this kind of split."

"The release agreement is good, but the singer contract is not top-notch. Both MJ and Madonna enjoy the highest singer share of 20%. Only the pure singer share can get so much. Both Mimi and I are far from reaching this. digital."

Song Yade looked at Shu's prospects and said: "If everything goes well, I will have to challenge it when I change my contract in 1997."

"Haha, you are indeed almost qualified."

Samuel complimented. The two were chatting in a low voice. On the opposite side of the conference table, a silent book face approached the two and offered to extend his hand, "Hello Mr. APLUS, introduce yourself, Hirai, Deputy General Manager of Sony Electronics Beimi ."

"Hello, I remember that it used to be Mr. Gao Shu's position?"

Song Ya responded politely. This person is about the same age as Gao Shu, but his English pronunciation is more authentic, "Where did he go?"

"Yes, Takasusan was transferred back to the Tokyo headquarters." Hirai smiled and sat on the empty seat next to him.

"Wow, got a promotion?" Song Ya knows that executives of this company are generally transferred abroad even if they are exiled, except for the United States, but they may also be deliberately staying away from the center of power.

"Uh, it should be counted."

Hirai smiled and said, "Don't you remember me? I worked in the predecessor of Sony Columbia Records in the 1980s."

"Oh, I remember."

Song Ya looked at his face and remembered that he had actually seen him in this building before, but at that time Motula was very strong, and the sense of presence of local executives was a bit thin, basically equal to the furnishings of the meeting, Sony Columbia Records The predecessor, that should be the joint venture period between Sony and CBS, "Then I congratulate you on your promotion, Mr. Hirai."

"Thank you."

Hirai doesn’t seem to be as polite as Takagi, bows less often, and is very friendly when he laughs, "Can I take up your time a little?"

"Of course you can, please say it." To the senior management of the capital, Song Ya gave a lot of face. In Sony Beimi, Gao Shu had no small power before.

"I want to ask, why are you unwilling to accept the copyright of your songs and Miss Kelly's participation in the merger of our ATV copyright library with MJ?" Hirai asked straightforwardly.

"Uh……"

Song Ya and Samuel looked at each other, "I think Daniel has told you the reason for me."

"I want to hear your personal confirmation." Hirai said.

"Which step are you in the negotiation with MJ?" Song Ya asked back, and at the same time turned to look at Linda. Her female assistant accurately understood what he meant and left the meeting room to call Daniel next door.

"Nearly finished."

Hirai replied straightforwardly: "But this is the situation now. If we merge with MJ's copyright library to exclude you, Miss Kelly, and singers who have the same idea as yours, then we need to pay MJ more. cash……"

"But this is also good for you, isn't it? You will have an independent copyright library in addition to the merged copyright library at that time." Song Ya asked back: "Sony doesn't lack this cash, right?"

Hirai smiled bitterly, "We are fighting an auto trade war with the U.S. government, and domestic companies are not doing very well now."

"But it does not include Sony, right? You just launched a new generation of game consoles locally at the end of last year. I heard that the sales are very hot. I have a small amount of EA (Electronic Arts) company stock in my hand. The financial report said that it will start to develop new games based on your platform, and other game companies are the same. They are very optimistic that they will also succeed in the United States."

Song Ya tried to pull the topic away, but failed. Hirai replied, "That's right, but Mr. APLUS, this has nothing to do with my doubts. You know, generally speaking, having a unified copyright library can reduce Sony The copyright company has a lot of operating costs."

"Hey, APLUS, what are you talking about?"

Daniel rushed in at this time and stood behind Song Ya affectionately, putting his hands on his shoulders, "Mr. Hirai, APLUS is one of our most important singers."

"Of course, I like Mr. APLUS's song..."

Hirai still did not give up. He was much more difficult than Takasuki. "We were just talking about the copyright library. I asked APLUS why it was unwilling to participate in the copyright merger between us and ATV."

"Uh……"

Daniel was a little caught off guard, "You go out, Samuel, sorry." He cleared everyone else, including Samuel, out of the conference room, and J paid, just like Paul McCartney's experience before."

"We all know that those are just boring attacks. Now the structure of music copyright is very complicated, which is inevitable for singers." Hirai said.

"I am the manager of APLUS. This is our common decision, okay? Mr. Hirai." Daniel was too lazy to bend around with him, and replied straightforwardly.

Hirai ignored him and looked at Song Ya.

"I just don't want to, do you know? I just don't want to."

Song Ya knows that I can’t deal with it today if I don’t give an attitude, "I didn’t give him strong support when I was unlucky for MJ. Now my relationship with him... is a bit subtle. I don’t want to see my songs anyway. The copyright is placed under his ATV management. Of course, out of this door, I will not admit that I had this idea."

"The management rights of the combined tracks should belong to Sony Music Copyright." Hirai revealed, "Can this dispel some of your doubts? Mr. APLUS. Maybe we can start a separate negotiation."

"I have decided, okay?" Song Ya refused again.

"Well, I'm sorry, I'm bothering you." Hirai stood up, finally bowed humbly, and left.