Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

Japan is a country with a large cultural industry. Its domestic animation and games can be said to be popular all over the world and are at the T0 level.

However, due to the development of gaming technology in recent years, Japan has gradually fallen behind in the gaming field. As for music, especially modern pop music, Europe and the United States are the absolute hegemons.

The reason is very simple. From composing lyrics to singing skills and even the overall music system, Europe and the United States, especially the United States, are the best in the world in this regard.

This is just like most of the top Asian stars who usually only play minor supporting roles in Hollywood. For decades, there have been only a handful of Asian singers or actors who have made a name for themselves in the American entertainment industry.

When Qiao Xinyu learned that Ms. Maori had invited Mr. Joffrey from the United States to interview her, and wanted her to go overseas with Izumi Himawari to enter the European and American markets in the future, her brain suddenly froze.

"Is this true? You want me to go to the European and American markets?!"

She now felt like the little Karami in the domestic fairy tales who had just cultivated from the acquired realm to the innate realm and had not even formed a golden elixir. She thought that her talent was discovered by the elders of the sect and she might be given special training.

very excited!

She was indeed given key training, but she never expected that the sect's grand elder would directly give her, a little Karami at the innate level, to the battlefield of gods and demons!

"Shit! What kind of script did I get?!"

Qiao Xinyu was completely numb. Everyone in the music industry knows how difficult it is for Asian singers to make a name for themselves in Europe and America. Even for singers who have already become famous in their home countries, the success rate is very low. What's more, she is still a student. Her biggest performance experience so far is that the company arranged for her to appear on a few Japanese music variety shows some time ago.

The span is too big.

She was very nervous, but when she saw Izumi Himawari, who looked calm beside her, she calmed down a lot.

Himawari Izumi is already quite famous in Japan. This time she went to China to participate in "Summer Band" and released several classic songs.

After singing the Chinese songs "A Diao", "Qing Ren Zhi Ji", "Bubble", "Our Love", and the Japanese songs "Love Song", "未来へ", "Believe", and "Ref:rain", and with the great promotion efforts of Fuyukawa Tetsu, Izumi Himawari is now showing signs of becoming the strongest voice of the new generation in the Asian music scene and is very famous.

Following behind such a big sister, Qiao Xinyu's nervousness disappeared a lot.

"Izumi-chan is indeed worthy of being a woman who has been with Mr. Fuyukawa for many years. She has seen a lot of things in the world, but she is not nervous at all. I must learn from her!"

Looking at the calm profile of Izumi Himawari, Qiao Xinyu secretly encouraged herself. But she didn't realize that on the other side of the sofa, Izumi Himawari's small hand, which was holding Dongchuan Che's arm, was so nervous that it was grabbing Dongchuan Che's arm flesh.

She is panicking too!

The little rabbit who was always domineering in his nest was now completely trapped.

Although Dongchuan Che had talked to her about future development in Europe and the United States a long time ago, that is still the future.

She never thought that this day would come so soon!

Everything happened too suddenly.

Although Qiao Xinyu next to her thought that she looked calm and composed, like a great general, this was her and Quan Himawari's characteristic. When she was nervous, she would not have any other reaction, but would just have a blank expression. But those who really knew her knew that she was actually screaming like crazy in her heart!

Feeling her reaction, Dongchuan Che's lips curled up into a slightly wicked smile, which made Izumi Himawari grab his arm fiercely, then she snorted and rolled her eyes.

It must be said that the arrogant and contemptuous rolling eyes of a pure female college student like her can be quite lethal.

Looking at her pouting pink lips, Dongchuan Che smiled and wanted to reach out to touch them, but at this moment, the office door was pushed open again, and led by the female secretary, an American man with golden hair, very fashionable clothes and even a nose stud walked in - it was Joffrey, a popular pop composer who has been very popular in the United States in recent years.

To be honest, Dong Chuan Che had never heard of the name Joffrey.

It's not that Joffrey is not good, but he doesn't listen to many English songs, and like most fans, when he hears a good song, he will just pay attention to the singer, and basically won't care who wrote the lyrics and composes the music. Moreover, with his current level, unless it is a senior musician of the national treasure level who comes to visit, he basically doesn't need to go out in person to receive the other party.

But now I'm the one inviting them over to discuss something, so I'll naturally not lose the most basic etiquette.

Dongchuan Che stood up and prepared to say hello, but the interesting thing was, just like Dongchuan Che didn't study the European and American music market much, so he had never heard of Joffrey, Joffrey, who also didn't pay much attention to the Asian music and games, didn't know him, Dongchuan Che.

After entering the room, Joffrey walked directly towards Ms. Maori until the secretary next to him reminded him, and then he realized what was going on.

He did not show any surprise, but was just slightly surprised. He did not even shake hands with Dongchuan Che who had extended his hand. Then he sat down on the sofa and took out a stack of documents from his briefcase.

"OK. It will be much easier if your president is here too. I have to catch a flight later, so you can take a look at this contract offer first. If you can accept it, we can talk about the rest. Oh, by the way, Ms. Kayoko, can you get me a cup of coffee?"

Seeing the other party's behavior of stealing the show, Dong Chuan Che, who sat back on the sofa, raised his eyebrows slightly.

Today's cooperation seems a bit difficult.

The Japanese music scene, or the entire Asian music scene, is indeed not as good as the European and American music scene. In addition, artists do have strong personalities, so Joffrey is a little arrogant when facing Asian music companies, which is understandable.

Some very talented game producers in the Holy Light Society are also very arrogant, but that kind of arrogance is usually reflected in their confidence when talking about the content of their works, such as "If this place is done this way, it will definitely attract users." Joffrey's attitude is more inclined to look down on others.

Dong Chuan Che was not the only one who felt this feeling.

Ms. Maori, Qiao Xinyu and Izumi Himawari next to them all felt it, especially the secretary Kayoko, who was feeling uneasy at this moment, not knowing whether she should go and pour the coffee.

Although she was not Dong Chuan Che's secretary, as a senior secretary of the Holy Light Society, she naturally knew how tough Dong Chuan Che's temper was. Fortunately, Dong Chuan Che did not embarrass this young secretary.

"Go and get this gentleman a cappuccino."

Under everyone's nervous gaze, Dongchuan Che gave an order to Secretary Kayoko, and then took the contract from Ms. Maori. When he picked up the contract, Qiao Xinyu swallowed nervously unconsciously, holding the hem of her sweater tightly with both hands on her thighs.

Before meeting Joffrey, she was very nervous about entering the European and American markets. But now she is even more nervous. After all, she is not a fool. She can naturally feel that Dongchuan Che is a little unhappy, and this matter is related to her debut! However.

"There's nothing even the president can do about this kind of thing."

Looking at Dong Chuanche's profile, Qiao Xinyu felt a little pessimistic.

Although her family is not very rich, her parents are engaged in music education and she has been learning music since elementary school. She knows very well that many American pop music masters are indeed superior to Asian musicians, and a big reason for this is.

The United States accounts for about 20% to 25% of the global music market, making it the world's largest music market, without a doubt.

The second place is Japan, with a market share of about 10%. Following it are Germany and the United Kingdom, whose market share has been hovering between 5% and 10% for many years. The Chinese music market only accounts for about 5% of the global music market. As for South Korea, Korean music has a great influence, but the local market occupies an even smaller global share, hovering around 2% for many years.

The combined music market share of China, Japan and South Korea is not enough to compete with the United States, let alone the United Kingdom and Germany.

Of course, some people would say that this is due to language barriers, which result in foreigners not being able to understand the lyrics, or that fans from different countries have different preferences and so on.

Fans can say this, but those who want to make money in this industry cannot say it because it is meaningless.

Whatever the reason, the market size is small and the money earned is small.

No matter what the reason is, if you want to get more cake in the field of music, you must find a way to enter the European and American markets. However, in the pop music sector, the works produced by most Asian lyricists and composers are difficult to conquer users in the European and American markets, so you still have to find European and American musicians to write lyrics and compose music.

"Mr. President writes great Japanese and Chinese songs, but he still hasn't had a song that became a big hit in Europe and America."

Qiao Xinyu was a little nervous. Although Dongchuan Che was now well-known and well-known in the music circles of China and Japan, she also liked Dongchuan Che's songs. But there was still the same problem. The gap between the Asian music scene and the European and American music scene was not small, and Dongchuan Che had never written a work that sold well in the European and American music scene.

In her opinion, even if Joffrey was very arrogant and aggrieved at this time, Dongchuan Che would probably have to accept it. After all, Joffrey was not only a popular composer in Europe and the United States, but also an academic from Berkeley with a wide network of contacts. If he was offended, things would be very troublesome.

Qiao Xinyu was thinking nervously, and at this moment, in her shocked eyes, Joffrey had just taken the coffee, glanced at the contract, and then threw the contract back on the coffee table with a "pop".

Everyone was startled, including Joffrey opposite.

Looking at Joffrey who was frightened opposite him, Dongchuan Che, who was leaning on the sofa with his legs crossed, was too lazy to say anything more. He just turned his head and glanced at Ms. Maori who was a little restless.

"Mauri-san, send this gentleman away."

"Ah?"

Send this gentleman away?

Upon hearing this, Ms. Maori was stunned.

Not only was she stunned, the female secretary and Qiao Xinyu beside her were also stunned. As for Joffrey opposite, who had never looked Dong Chuan Che in the eye or said a word since he entered the door, he held the coffee cup in the air with his hand fixed, looking at Dong Chuan Che with an incredible expression.

"President Dongchuan, what did you just say?"

"Kayoko, ask the driver team to send a car to take him to the plane."

Under everyone's dull gaze, with Joffrey's Adam's apple moving slightly and trying to raise his hand to say something, Dongchuan Che ignored him and just stood up and straightened the collar of his casual suit.

After giving a few instructions to the secretary, he drank the coffee in one gulp. Without even looking at Joffrey, he said to Ms. Maori, "Find someone to come and clean up this place. It's a bit dirty. Then come to the practice room to find me, and bring some more potential seedlings. Your name is Xiao Joffrey, right? Go get ready and come to the practice room as well."

After saying that, Dongchuan Che, who completely ignored the other party during the whole process, took Izumi Himawari and left the office. It was not until Dongchuan Che's footsteps disappeared at the corner of the corridor that everyone in the manager's office reacted.

"Ms. Maori! What kind of Mao is your president?"

From beginning to end, Dongchuan Che didn't say a word to him.

This was complete contempt. Joffrey was furious, but before he could finish his words, the secretary Kayoko had already walked up to him and bowed slightly, but there was no smile on her face. "Mr. Joffrey, please come this way. Kayoko has prepared a special for you."

"Shit! Who wants to ride in your car? Ms. Maori! Is this how you treat your guests?! I guarantee that if you don't let that guy come back to apologize to me today, from today on, you will never be able to find any musician from Berklee to write songs for you!"

Joffrey was furious and started yelling.

Ms. Maori, who had just welcomed him in with a smile on her face, now had a gloomy face. However, this Japanese old lady in her sixties still bowed slightly, but her tone was completely different. It became cold and grim. "No one can yell at Mr. Fuyukawa in Akihabara. Please be careful with your words and actions, Mr. Joffrey."

"you"

"Kayoko, show the guest out."

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Joffrey left angrily. Of course, as a self-proclaimed proud European and American musician, he naturally did not take the special car arranged by the Holy Light Society.

"That's good. It saves me some gas money."

In Sistar's large practice room, Fuyukawa Tetsu sat at a small round table in the rest corner, eating the yakitori skewers bought by his female secretary Kayoko, while talking casually. Hearing what he said, Ms. Maori, who had regained her "kind" look, immediately moved to Bengbu.

However, after hesitating for a long time, she still said carefully, "President, this Joffrey is from Berkeley College and has a wide network of contacts. If we offend him this time, things will be a bit troublesome in the future."

"It's just offending a fool, don't worry about it."

Dongchuan Che passed the meatball skewer to Izumi Himawari's mouth and asked the little girl to bite off one, and then bit off one himself, and waved his hand disdainfully. To be honest, he hadn't been angry for a long time since the Holy Light Society got on the right track and held a high position. But the contract given by Joffrey was completely humiliating.

There were a lot of details written in that contract, but Dongchuan Che was completely numb after reading it.

Not to mention the silly little lyricist and composer who sold the entire copyright of "Guangdong Love Story" to Guangdong Rain God for 100 yuan, the income of the talented lyricists and composers mainly comes from royalties sharing.

Royalty sharing is actually copyright income.

To put it simply, once a song is written, no matter if it is put into the membership library on an APP, or sold as a digital album or physical CD album, or a concert is held, etc., the income generated by these links needs to be given to the lyricist and composer in part according to the contract.

Of course, the proportion of royalties that songwriters can get depends on factors such as the degree of commercialization of the song, the fame of the singer, and the status gap between the singer and the songwriter. The proportion in the contract varies greatly, and there are usually various floating clauses in the contract.

But generally speaking, a great lyricist or composer can only get 30% of the profits from a hit song. After the entire contract is negotiated, the floating clause will make the total share between 15% and 30%.

But the final terms of Joffrey's contract were a floating rate of 60% to 80%!

That is to say, if the song he wrote becomes popular when sung by Qiao Xinyu, then 80% of the income from the song will belong to Joffrey. Even if it is not popular, he still has to give 60%!

Honestly speaking, if the upper limit is 80%, Dong Chuan Che will not be that angry, and can understand it a little. After all, Qiao Xinyu is a little-known Kara-mi with no reputation at the moment, and it will be good for her in the future if she can become famous with the help of his songs.

Back then, Toru Fuyukawa had also made such a bet agreement with Asai, but the problem was that the terms he wanted to trigger the maximum 80% profit share were extremely strict, which was that the rogue game "The Binding of Isaac" sold million copies.

At that time, there was only one RPG game in history that sold over 5 million copies! Joffrey's contract had a very loose definition of song sales, which was the kind that would trigger the highest share of the profits if the song was ranked in the top 50 of the QQ Music new song chart.

And his lower limit was also very low at that time, but Joffrey's lower limit was directly set at 60%.

This is too exaggerated.

He just treated Dongchuan Che like a pig.

To be honest, he almost laughed out of anger after reading the contract.

But he naturally didn't bother to talk nonsense with a minor character like Joffrey, as for [being banned by the Berkeley academic school].

“It’s time for the European and American music scene to hear my name.”