Chapter 39 Music Revenue
As Mu Yushi said, music can indeed bring profits.
In this world, the benefits that a song can bring are mainly divided into two parts: one is downloading and listening, and the other is commercial copyright use.
Of course, songs can also be made from tapes, vinyl, CDs and other entities.
However, when this networking is made, the sales of physical albums or physical singles are not very good, and almost only fans who like it will buy them and collect them.
Most of it comes from downloading songs and streaming.
Commercial copyright use means that regular commercial performances or commercial use must be paid to the copyright owner of the song.
For example, if a singer wants to cover "The Wind Rises", or if a certain advertisement wants to use this song, or if a certain movie intends to use it as an interlude, etc., it will be paid.
The National Copyright Administration has very strict management in this regard and does not allow anyone to damage the market environment.
Every year, lawsuits in this regard are very severe.
Li Jinyan just couldn't afford the authorization of the song, so he copied a few songs to be used as the theme song.
Now he hopes that this song "The Wind Rises" can bring some income so that he can have money to pay the remaining expenses.
When Fu Xin was asked to sing this song, the two signed a contract.
As the songwriter and copyright owner, Li Jinyan can get 70% of the song's income, and Fu Xin gets the remaining 30%.
In this parallel world, lyricists and songwriters can basically get a big profit, but singers can only get a small part and attach great importance to creation.
Once singers become famous, there are many ways to make money.
For example, at concerts and commercial performances, the income will definitely be countless times the song's income.
This sharing is also to protect the lives of creators.
There will be no songwriters who clearly wrote many popular songs but live in poverty.
Music copyright is divided into very detailed parts.
For example, if a movie chooses "The Wind Rises" as an interlude, not only does the main film appear, but also in the trailer, you will have to pay two fees.
If the film is made into a DVD or Blu-ray disc for sale, another copyright fee will be paid.
Many large crews or film and television companies have special departments responsible for this matter.
Many popular songs do not require promotion from film and television works, and they are famous enough in themselves.
However, film and television works need these popular songs to set off the plot.
So this is a seller's market!
Of course, there are also some music companies that sell unfamous songs in packages.
Usually, this kind of packaged sales also have poor sales.
The songs you want to use are very expensive, but you don’t want to use cheap songs.
The copyright fee cycle is very long, and Li Jinyan cannot let "The Wind Rises" appear first in other people's movies.
Therefore, this part of the profit can only be discussed later.
Now what he wants is the audience to pay to download and on-demand revenue, which is faster to settle the income.
Before the editor arrived, Li Jinyan and Mu Yushi got together and began to think about uploading various documents and certifications needed, etc.
The music software on the market is currently considered to be a three-legged state, namely the foreign streaming platform Timbre, as well as the domestic Feiyin and Baina.
Timbre focuses on sound quality and free. All the songs above do not need to be paid for. They only have membership options to listen to better and higher sound quality works.
Feiyin and Baina are both comprehensive music apps that are backed by two Internet giants. They have both download options and streaming attributes, and can also be praised by musicians.
"Which software should I choose to upload and settle in?" Mu Yushi didn't know anything about these things.
Li Jinyan waved his hand and said, "Only children make choices, adults need them all. Every software is included, and no exclusive one is signed."
Antitrust investigations are not vegetarians.
These music apps are no longer accused of monopolizing. They are all secretly enhancing their own treatment and promotional advantages to attract the majority of musicians to settle in.
Music companies and listeners don't want any exclusive releases.
You can't listen to music in three software, just take turns to change it.
That's really troublesome!
Li Jinyan registered the company directory according to various requirements. He was not the singer of the song, but the copyright owner of the song, so he needed to provide relevant proof.
Fortunately, Mu Yushi has already stored these electronic files of the certificates and documents on his mobile phone, so he can upload them directly now.
Soon, Li Jinyan released the audio file of "The Wind Rises" in the Creator Center, and attached detailed information such as lyrics, lyrics, musical arrangement singers and other related information.
The most important thing is that he put the introduction of the movie "Youth" in the song introduction.
If the song really becomes popular, the film will ultimately benefit.
If the video becomes popular, the audience can search for the song based on the name of the video.
It can also be considered mutual support.
"This is the uploading success."
"Let's wait and see the response of this song."
Mu Yushi took out her cell phone, searched the song "Feng" on Feiyin, and immediately directed it to the song "Li Jinyan and Fu Xin" collaborated on.
But the comment area and listening volume are 0.
A newcomer posted a work without any publicity, so of course no one listened to it.
The entire library of music works is as vast as the ocean.
Even though he was so familiar with this song that he could not be more familiar with it, Li Jinyan was still obsessed with it.
"This song is really good, and it's inexplicably touching."
Mu Yushi praised.
Li Jinyan nodded, "Maybe it is because it sings our youth, everyone misses the past."
After thinking about it, he shared the song with the group of four people in the dormitory, so that the singer can know first.
At this time, Fu Xin was doing the final chorus rehearsal.
"The Wind Rises" will not be performed completely according to the recorded version, but will have a series of adjustments, which is more suitable for a group of people to sing.
Fu Xin just finished practicing, and now he was holding a thermos in his hand and preparing to drink water. He saw this news.
He couldn't help but blurt out: "I'll go, will it be officially uploaded today?"
“What’s uploading?”
Han Tao, a member of the choir standing next to him and also a crew member, came up to ask curiously.
"The song we are rehearsing has been uploaded to Feiyin." Fu Xin said, opening the link and jumping directly to the song page.
"Hurry up and listen!"
"Amplify the sound."
"Director Li is so efficient!"
"Let me listen, too."
"I'll collect it."
“Yes, put it on my playlist and you have to loop the single.”
"Send it to the Moments circle to promote it, at least it is a song I'm about to perform."
"The sound quality is really good. Fu Xin, your voice sounds very good. It's about to become popular!"
"The same old saying, don't forget each other if you are rich and noble!"
Chapter completed!