The person in charge of Rolling Stone Records asked tentatively: "Mr. Xu, how much royalties can you pay in a year?"
Xu Yiyang smiled and said: "Just for fun, I can still afford several million Hong Kong dollars a year, but there are many companies, so my idea is, each company will get 1 million Hong Kong dollars a year, and I will sign a one-time contract of 20 million Hong Kong dollars." years, or simply sign for thirty years.”
Everyone was surprised.
One million Hong Kong dollars is not a lot of money for a record company.
However, the other party wants to sign for thirty years in one breath, which is 30 million Hong Kong dollars.
In their opinion, what is the difference between this money and money picked up for free
Play music on your phone? Nowadays, the two carriers that can really play music are tapes and CDs. Although MP3s already exist, they are very expensive. An MP3 can only contain songs from one album.
The most annoying thing is that MP3 downloads of music are all pirated, and the record companies are not paid at all.
Even if the mobile phone has MP3 function in the future, it is impossible for everyone to obtain any income from it. Instead of doing this, it is better to sell the copyright on the mobile phone to Xu Yiyang.
Now, they simply cannot imagine that there will be something called a ringtone in the future; they cannot even imagine that in the future, everyone will listen to music at will through smartphones, directly on mobile phones, and through the Internet. These futures are too far away for them. Too far away to see any clues.
So, Yang Shoucheng picked up the wine glass and said to Xu Yiyang with a smile: "Mr. Xu really has ideas and creativity. In this case, I will be the first to support Mr. Xu!"
Although he said this, what he actually thought in his heart was very simple: "This idiot is giving me pocket money! And it lasts for thirty years. He's so damn mentally retarded..."
Everyone else thought the same thing.
Therefore, everyone agreed to this cooperation without any hesitation.
In this way, in the future, the copyright of Hong Kong and Taiwan songs on mobile phones in the mainland will be almost monopolized by themselves.
In the future, China Mobile, China Unicom, and Telecom can make their own ring tones if they want to, but don't even think about using these popular songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan. If they do, they must accept that they are responsible for their ring tones business and share their profits with them.
In the future, QQ Music, NetEase Cloud Music, Kugou, and Kumao will have to get the copyright from themselves. If they don’t give it to them, no one will be angry.
And this price is only five to six million Hong Kong dollars a year.
It’s less than a million dollars, which is a steal.
Xu Yiyang was so excited that he immediately made an appointment with everyone to use Mr. Li's company as a signing place tomorrow afternoon. Everyone signed the contract together, and by the way also signed Xie Tingfeng's five-year endorsement contract.
At the same time, Xu Yiyang also asked everyone to help contact other small and medium-sized record companies. For medium-sized record companies, he will give 400,000-500,000 yuan a year, and for small ones, he will give 200,000-300,000 yuan.
In fact, there are not many companies left. Most of the small and medium-sized companies are owned by these companies, and only a few are left.
Naturally, everyone was willing to introduce a few friends from the music industry, so they all agreed.
Xu Yiyang asked the person in charge of Rolling Stone: "There is an artist named Wu Zongxian in Taiwan. I heard that he has a record company?"
"Yes." The other party nodded and said, "But his company is too small and has no achievements. Zong Xian only focuses a small amount of energy on it."
Xu Yiyang smiled slightly and said: "Please help me tell Wu Zongxian that I am interested in acquiring his record company. If he wants to make a move or raise funds, he can come to me in Hong Kong with the information, but he must try his best to do it as soon as possible. "
What Xu Yiyang wants is to directly buy Jay Chou's company, and then give him a sum of money to buy 10 or 20 of his albums at once before Jay Chou becomes popular.
After settling these copyright issues, Xu Yiyang suddenly remembered that he could not just let Xie Tingfeng endorse SuperX. After all, SuperX was aimed at young men and women. He had to arrange a female partner for him, a man and a woman to speak for him together.
Thinking of this, he suddenly thought of Xie Tingfeng's future wife, Cecilia Cheung, so he asked Yang Shoucheng: "Does Boss Yang know which company Cecilia Cheung works for? I want to sign her as an endorsement for five years, together with Tingfeng."
Yang Shoucheng thought for a while and said, "The movie seems to be at China Star. Where is the agent's appointment? I can ask Hua Qiang for you."
Xu Yiyang nodded and said with a smile: "Thank you to Boss Yang for your hard work."
Li Zekai originally wanted to arrange for everyone to have a party in the evening, but Xu Yiyang declined because he had to go to class tomorrow.
He can't go back too late, because he still has to wait for the U.S. stock market to open before investing all the $276 million he got from Li Zekai today, including a full position in Nvidia.
Back at the Holiday Inn, the U.S. stock market has just opened.
NVIDIA's opening stock price was US$32. Yesterday's 2,263 shares made a profit of about US$320,000. In Xu Yiyang's view, it was just a small profit.
Xu Yiyang used US$276 million to obtain financing with double the leverage from the brokerage firm, and received US$552 million in his account.
Then, he took all the cash and placed a full position in Nvidia.
NVIDIA is now a very large company with a market capitalization of over 10 billion U.S. dollars. In addition, the stock market is now at a very hot stage. NVIDIA's daily transaction amount is more than 1 billion U.S. dollars. Xu Yiyang came in with 552 million U.S. dollars, which did not start with Eat like crazy right away, but start eating gradually from $32,
Internet technology stocks are now in full swing, and Nasdaq is currently enjoying a pre-collapse carnival. The amount of capital is already astronomical, so he continues to buy NVIDIA stocks and does not attract much attention in the market. , after all, there are still a lot of Internet companies with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, and everyone’s energy is focused on very large technology companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, and Cisco.
Xu Yiyang took his time and bought 210 million U.S. dollars of NVIDIA stocks. The average price was 31.2 U.S. dollars, and he bought 66,667 lots.
He plans to invest all of the remaining US$300 million tomorrow.
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On March 2, Xu Yiyang received a call from a Taiwanese accent early in the morning. The other person introduced himself: "Hello, is this Mr. Xu?"
Xu Yiyang recognized his voice, and Wu Zong appeared.
However, he still pretended to be surprised and asked: "Who are you?"
"Hello Mr. Xu, I am a host in Taiwan. My name is Wu Zongxian and I am the boss of Alfa Music Company. I heard Mr. Huang say that you want to acquire a record company?"
"Yes." Xu Yiyang smiled and said, "Are you interested in taking action?"
Wu Zongxian said: "To tell you the truth, I prefer financing."
Xu Yiyang asked: "What's the valuation?"
Wu Zongxian said: "Five million US dollars."
Xu Yiyang said: "Let's do this. You can prepare all the information about your company in the past two days, especially your intangible assets, that is, the status of signed musicians, albums and songs, and then come to Hong Kong for us to meet and chat."
"OK!" Wu Zongxian said immediately: "Then I will prepare today and try to go there tomorrow."
"good."
Wu Zongxian's record company actually has nothing real now, and the total investment should not exceed US$300,000 or US$400,000, so US$5 million is clearly a scam.
So Xu Yiyang planned to let him come over first, then offer him a three million dollar contract, and tie him in to run it for one or two years. I believe he would not refuse.
At noon, Xu Yiyang came to Li Zekai's company, where he signed cooperation agreements with several record company CEOs in the name of Zhonghai Jiayang Technology Co., Ltd.
The cooperation started on July 1 this year. I will pay the first year's copyright fees to their accounts before June 30. The payment will be settled in RMB at that time, and I will pay them the equivalent of Hong Kong dollars in RMB.
The reason why it was postponed to July 1st is that it is useless to ask for copyright now. After I return, I will first find my own technical talent Liu Mingchao and ask him to recruit a few more talents who are good at communication technology to develop the front and backend system of the ring tones.
Since we want to cooperate with Tong Fangquan and take the initiative in the cooperation, we naturally cannot rely on Tong Fangquan to develop the ring tones system. It is best to develop it secretly on our own and directly give the finished product to Tong Fangquan so that he can use it directly.
In this way, I don't have to worry about being kicked out by them, let alone that they will leave me alone.
Subsequently, Xu Yiyang signed a cooperation agreement with Emperor in the name of Super X (Hong Kong) Clothing Co., Ltd. In the agreement, Xie Tingfeng will become the global spokesperson of the SuperX brand. The contract period is five years. The endorsement fee for these five years is A symbolic dollar per year.
Xie Tingfeng was also very knowledgeable. He brought a lot of his signed posters, photos, tapes, CDs, photos and postcards. On each of them, he wrote blessings for Shanshan and his own name.
Xu Yiyang thanked him and collected these things. After returning to Zhonghai, he sent these things to his sister. She must be extremely happy.
As for Cecilia Cheung, Yang Shoucheng also helped him find her agent. When the other party heard that Yang Shoucheng came forward and Li Zekai endorsed it, even the now popular Xie Tingfeng only charged one dollar, so he also quoted Cecilia Cheung a dollar.
Not to make money, but to build a connection. After all, people like Li Zekai rarely have contact with the entertainment industry except to find girlfriends. To the entertainment industry, he is simply a god-like existence. , countless people will look forward to having a relationship.
This is just like a first-line female star may charge 200,000 or 300,000 Hong Kong dollars to dine with a boss, but if she dines with Li Zekai, she will never charge a penny.
When the contract was signed, Cecilia Cheung also came.
No one wants to miss the opportunity to meet and enhance contact with big shots. If one were to select the five most famous wealthy young masters in Hong Kong, Li Zekai would definitely be one of them.
Moreover, Cecilia Cheung also heard that there is a young man from the mainland who is about the same age as her, but very powerful and worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Hong Kong celebrities are now moving to the mainland, so Cecilia Cheung also hopes to get acquainted with this man. Young mainland tycoons are paving the way for their future.
The moment he met Xu Yiyang, Zhang Bozhi really felt that this person was too young, and he seemed to be younger than Xie Tingfeng.
It was also the first time for Xu Yiyang to see Zhang Bozhi, and the young and beautiful Zhang Bozhi, who was only twenty years old, really felt that she was beautiful and moving, and she was worthy of being the famous head of the Jade Girl.
The two shook hands, and Cecilia Cheung said with some admiration: "Mr. Xu looks so young. It's really admirable that he can accomplish so much at such a young age."
Xu Yiyang smiled slightly, already completely immune to such compliments, and then said with a smile: "Ms. Zhang is also young and promising. I have seen your performance in "The King of Comedy", which was very good."
Cecilia Cheung said in surprise: "Mr. Xu, have you seen that movie? It was my first movie, and to be honest, my acting skills are still very raw."
Xu Yiyang said: "It's already very good."
Even in Xu Yiyang's eyes, Cecilia Cheung's first movie was the pinnacle of her twenty-year film career. None of her performance in subsequent works could surpass "The King of Comedy".
Immediately, Xu Yiyang said: "Thank you very much, Miss Zhang, for your help with this endorsement matter."
Zhang Bozhi hurriedly smiled and said: "If anything, when we go to the mainland in the future, we will have to count on Mr. Xu to support us!"
(End of chapter)