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Chapter 26 Turquoise Records' Recruitment
The group found a quiet restaurant nearby and sat down.
While waiting for the food to be served, Li Shen poured tea for the group.
Lin Yi and Yu Nuannuan thanked them repeatedly.
Afterwards, the group chatted about their recent work arrangements.
Deng Nan took a sip of tea, looked at Lin Yi, and asked, "Lin Yi, when do you plan to release this song, 'The Ordinary Road'?"
As she spoke, Deng Nan glanced at Li Shen and said irritably:
"This kid had a new song that was originally scheduled to be released last month, but he was worried that it would be crushed by your 'Ordinary Road' and wouldn't even make a ripple, so he's been holding back until now."
Li Shen gave an awkward smile and nodded somewhat hesitantly.
"I want to avoid mentioning Teacher Lin's new song as much as possible."
Lin Yi nodded in understanding. He pondered for a moment and said, "Maybe in the middle of next month (9). I have a drama airing this month (8), so let's avoid competing for popularity."
"That detective drama? I thought you were just messing around, I didn't expect it to be so popular." Deng Nan said, shaking her head.
Many singers cross over into acting, but very few songwriters cross over into screenwriting and directing and achieve great success.
"Detective X" reached its peak upon its premiere. Although its popularity declined slightly afterward, its popularity value still steadily exceeded 3 every Saturday it aired, making it unique on Tencent Video.
It is just as good as the main summer dramas of other parent-child video platforms.
Li Shen listened silently to the whole thing, quickly calculating in his mind.
Mid-September is still more than a month away.
The new song charts and charts that favor new songs on various platforms usually cover a period of one month or six weeks.
In other words, he can largely avoid the siphon effect that occurred when "The Ordinary Road" was released by releasing songs now.
Thinking of this, he felt a little more at ease.
"Sister Nan, Teacher Lin, I plan to release the song this Thursday."
"Have you decided?" Deng Nan asked.
Ever since Li Shen went back to his hometown some time ago, he has become increasingly impatient and unable to calm down, as if he has to rush to do something.
But when asked, he was unwilling to say more.
"Yes, I've decided." Li Shen nodded, his eyes filled with unwavering determination...
Seeing this, Deng Nan raised her teacup and smiled at Li Shen, "Alright, then we wish you great success with your new song, Xiao Li!"
"Thank you, Sister Nan!" Li Shen quickly picked up his cup.
Lin Yi and Yu Nuannuan also smiled and raised their glasses, offering their blessings together: "Wishing your new song a huge success."
The atmosphere at the dinner table became lively.
Several dishes were served one after another, and everyone ate and chatted.
As the conversation became more animated, Deng Nan put down her chopsticks and turned her gaze back to Lin Yi.
This time we were much more serious than when we discussed the song release date earlier.
"Lin Yi, there's something I've been wanting to talk to you about. Have you considered joining Pine Stone Records?"
Seeing Lin Yi's surprise, she immediately added, "Of course, what I mean by joining is not that you're going to work for Songshi Records."
I don't even know if the annual net profit of Songshi Records is as much as the profit from one of your dramas.
I mean cooperation, a deep kind of cooperation.
She further explained, "Songshi was founded by me, Teacher Zhou, and Teacher Xu."
You know Teacher Zhou from his early days at Xinghuo; we both came from Xinghuo. You must understand the feeling of being constrained by capital and disrespected.
Strictly speaking, Lin Yi was never a member of Xinghuo, but he was Yu Nuannuan's go-to lyricist and composer, and had a lot of exchanges with Xinghuo's musicians, so he was often mistaken for a member of Xinghuo.
Just like being mistaken for a master musician.
Teacher Zhou, whose full name is Zhou Junjie, is a master composer and is about the same age as Lin Yi.
His works are of lower average quality than Lin Yi's, but he has more hit songs and classic songs as well as more ordinary songs than Lin Yi.
This is a true master composer.
But he didn't earn as much money as Lin Yi in his early years.
He joined Xinghuo Music before the cultural and entertainment reforms in Xia State, and from then on became a black slave.
A regular song can cost several thousand yuan to buy out, a premium song tens of thousands, and a hit song hundreds of thousands, with no sales commission.
"That's why we decided to leave and start a company that is truly led by musicians."
Many musicians have already joined us.
"If we join forces, we can sign our own singers, record our own songs, and release them ourselves." Deng Nan leaned forward slightly, appearing somewhat excited.
Deng Nan didn't say it explicitly, but Lin Yi understood.
In the traditional model, musicians only receive royalties from lyrics, composition, and arrangement. The new model also allows them to access recording copyrights and artist management contracts.
In this model, musicians not only escape the exploitation of capital, but even become the ones being exploited by capital, inevitably leading to a significant increase in their income.
"That does sound good." Lin Yi nodded.
He still has some songs that are not suitable for Yu Nuannuan, and if the profit sharing is appropriate, he would not mind collaborating with Songshi Records.
"Let me explain in more detail," Lin Yi said.
Deng Nan, in high spirits, began to describe her vision to Lin Yi.
Some of it was just as Lin Yi had guessed.
In the new model, lyrics, composition, arrangement, production, singer, vocal editing, mixing, mastering...
Musicians who participate in the production of a song will receive a share of the recording copyright revenue according to their contributions.
Singers, lyricists, composers, and producers make up the majority of them.
Some of his guesses differed from Lin Yi's.
That is, Pine Stone Records is not harsh on the percentage of artist management contracts; on the contrary, it is quite lenient.
70/30 split.
Even a new singer can have a 70/30 chance.
The singer receives 70%.
For established and big-name singers, the ratio can be as high as 80/20 or 90/10.
Lin Yi listened quietly.
The three founders of Pine Stone Records are not capitalists at all; they don't exploit their singers.
However... I don't dislike Lin Yi.
"Cooperation is possible, but I have one condition."
As Lin Yi spoke, he casually took Yu Nuannuan's hand.
"If Songshi Records has any songs suitable for Nuannuan, I hope Teacher Deng can consider Nuannuan."
"No problem," Deng Nan readily agreed.
Many musicians joined Songshi Records afterward, but none of them were heavyweights like Lin Yi.
For master musicians, the best option to maximize profits is to start their own business or find a partner.
Take Lin Yi as an example.
Under Songshi Records' new model, Lin Yi's share of the profits from songs will exceed the previous 40% (lyrics and music royalties).
But if he hires his own singers and pays a production team to produce the music, he can earn more.
His collaboration with Glory Records was not only based on his agreement with Glory Records' philosophy, but also a form of resource exchange.
Use songs that are not suitable for Yu Nuannuan to exchange for songs that are suitable for Yu Nuannuan from Songshi Records.
After agreeing on the cooperation agreement, the atmosphere at the dinner table became even more lively.
"Whenever we have time, let's call Xiao Zhou and have a good get-together for the rest of us from Xinghuo to celebrate Xinghuo's bankruptcy," Deng Nan said.
Although she was drinking tea, not wine, she was slightly tipsy.