My wife is in my arms

Chapter 1575 Discussing the Fourth
"Twenty-five million"

At this time.

Li Xiaohong also quoted her price.

"What!?"

Bochet was stunned; she was genuinely shocked by the price. Li Xiaohong, however, remained calm and composed, saying, "Ms. Bochet, this price is very reasonable. You and Taylor know very well the quality of 'Love Story.' She's also a music creator; do you think a song she approves of would be bad? Zhang You said he was the one who sang it, and if Taylor had sung it, the song would definitely have become a global hit and another of her signature works."

Seeing that Boche remained silent for a long time.

Li Xiaohong didn't urge them, but waited patiently.

Anyway, she had already made up her mind. As long as Taylor didn't want it, she would have her own Feifei record the song and release it on the domestic music platform AiMusic, without worrying about being sued.

Li Xiaohong guessed that Zhang You's only asking price was $1,500 because he was worried about music copyright infringement. Otherwise, based on his understanding of Zhang You, he might not have been satisfied with $20 million.

This person has quite a reputation for biting people.

And it's a sure-fire bite.

"Ten million, that's the highest it can go."

After a long pause, Boche spoke again, "This is already a very high price. Even the songs created by the top music composers here only cost between several hundred thousand and a million US dollars."

“I understand, but Ms. Bocher, those songs haven’t stood the test of the market, while ‘Love Story’ has already been tested by ‘Voices Abroad.’ Zhang You’s performance got over 80 points, and if it were Taylor Swift, it would be a song with 90 points or even higher.”

Li Xiaohong said earnestly, "Also... I think there must be quite a few songs of very poor quality among the master tapes of the three albums she bought for $1.60. Such songs are incomparable to 'Love Story.' Moreover, after Taylor recorded and released it, with her influence and appeal, 'Love Story' sold at least 40 million copies. That song alone will allow her to earn back the money she spent on buying the song's copyright in one go. The rest is just extra revenue."

You wouldn't know unless you were told.

Upon hearing this, Li Xiaohong felt that Zhang You's quoted price of 15 million US dollars was indeed a fair price.

However, reaching 40 million purchases is no easy feat.

Many of Zhang You's own songs haven't reached that level. As for play counts... that's impossible to calculate because it's too abstract. Zhang You's instrumental music has over a billion or two billion play counts, yet he hasn't earned a single penny.

Even though Taylor Swift has hundreds of millions or even billions of songs streamed globally, it doesn't bring her direct revenue. Ultimately, it depends on the number of purchases after release. After all, many songs that are removed from the sales charts and converted to VIP songs will see their stream counts skyrocket, because the way stream counts are calculated is different from the way purchase counts are calculated.

Purchase volume is a count of how many people have spent money to buy this song.

Play count represents how many times VIP listeners have listened to the content.

The calculation is done once today, once tomorrow, and again every 24 hours. Therefore, the purchase volume is the authoritative indicator.

"Li, the revenue from songs isn't calculated this way."

Bochet cautioned, "During this period, recording costs, music platform fees, and taxes also need to be deducted."

"I know, but Ms. Pocher, I have a question for you: is 'Love Story' good or bad?"

Li Xiaohong asked.

I admit that.

Bochet nodded. "Okay, then, why can't the one-time buyout price be $2,500? Well… I know Zhang You and Ms. Taylor are good friends, so I've taken the liberty of deducting $2 million from the $25 million. If you're still not satisfied with this price, then I can only apologize."

When Li Xiaohong thought about having her daughter Feifei sing the song, she was no longer so fixated on whether or not the song could be sold.

Sell ​​if you can.

If they can't sell it, they'll let their own Feifei sing it. After all, it's not like Feifei can't sing English songs. As long as Zhang You doesn't let Jiang Yiren sing, Li Xiaohong doesn't care.

As Feifei's manager, she can still make money if she sings her own songs. It's just that releasing them domestically won't earn her as much money as a full-scale sale.

After all, if she sells it for $23 million, she can pocket over $4 million, which is roughly $30 million. That's the price for selling all the song's copyrights at once. Selling the song's performance rights would only be a few million dollars. But even if it's only $5 million, if she takes 10%, that's $1 million, which is roughly $7 million.

You can earn so much money with just one trip.

That would be Zhang You.

Even my own Feifei couldn't make her earn so much money all at once.

This time, it was all thanks to Feifei that Zhang You sent her. Otherwise... given Zhang You's style of doing things, he would definitely have personally spoken with Boche, or if that didn't work, he might have spoken directly with Taylor. He would never have let her earn so much money for nothing.

"Li, thirteen million. This is my final price. If you're still not satisfied, then we'll have to work together again in the future."

Poche opened the mouth.

Even though she knew that "Love Story" was of high quality and no less than Taylor's masterpieces, she still couldn't accept the price of 23 million.

"Twenty-two million—that's the value of our friendship."

Li Xiaohong appropriately reduced the price by another million.

Judging from Boche's behavior, Li Xiaohong knew that the $15 million price tag was a foregone conclusion, but she did not intend to sell it at Zhang You's desired price.

If we really sell it at this price, who knows what Zhang You will do when we get back.

If things go wrong, this guy might say that she's only "more breathing than a dead person," and that she'll sell for whatever price he asks for—isn't that just being more breathing than a dead person?
"Feel sorry"

"I regretfully say."

"Let's cooperate again in the future"

Li Xiaohong stood up from her chair, smiled, and shook hands with Boche, saying, "Ms. Boche, I forgot to tell you something. Zhang You has a habit: if he fails to reach an agreement with someone when he's very sincere, you might be shocked by his next offer, or he might even refuse to sell altogether. You've seen his profile; in our country, he's a powerful figure, and a very charismatic one at that. So I suggest you call and ask Taylor for her opinion. She wrote 'Love,' and 'Love Story' is adapted from 'Love,' so she's the most qualified to speak on this."

As she spoke, Li Xiaohong chuckled and said, "One more thing, Ms. Boche, didn't Zhang You draw Taylor's 'Waik' again during yesterday's recording? He rearranged the song last night."

Li Xiaohong took out her phone.

She tapped on a short clip she had recorded.

"im not an angel im not a saint, Ive been a cilsed book full of mistakes"

Bochet's expression suddenly changed.

(End of this chapter)