hollywood billionaire

Chapter 107 First on the leaderboard

"Iced Americano for you, and... Madison's extra large matcha latte, skimmed milk, sugar removed."

Under the scorching sun, Han Yi got into the Bentayga compartment and handed the cardboard tray with three cups of coffee in front of the two girls.

"Thank you."

"Thank you very much, Boss!"

"It should be done."

"what,……"

Seeing Zhao Youzhen inserting the straw into the cup, taking a big gulp impatiently, and then successfully iced himself to the point of headache, pouted, frowned, and quietly rubbed his temple cutely, Han Yi couldn't help but shook his head with a smile.

Whether eating or drinking, this Korean girl is surprisingly fast.Often he is still shaking the syrup in the cup, and Yuzhen's iced Americano is already half gone.

Madison Bill's movements are obviously much slower than Zhao Youzhen's.The Long Island girl sipped her matcha latte and let out a satisfied breath as the ice cubes collided in a Starbucks polyethylene cup.

"You really like matcha."

Han Yi glanced at Madison Bill from the rearview mirror of the car, stepped on the accelerator, and continued driving towards his destination.

On Friday, May 2016, 5, Han Yi, who had just handed in a final paper in the morning, waited for Zhao Youzhen to get on the bus at Gayley Avenue at 6:45 pm, and then went to Santa Monica, which was about to be jammed into canned sardines, to pick up Madison- Bill, turn the car around and head for the Griffith Observatory.

At 2675 Rutherford Road, the four-story villa in Hollywood Hills that Diplo just purchased is nearby.

Today is the recording day of "Cold Water".

"Haven't you heard that sentence?" Madison blinked playfully, "Everything is so matcha better with you."

"what……"

Han Yi smacked his lips, a little speechless.I didn't expect that in the United States, I would live again, and I would still be attacked by homophonic stalks.

"Have you ever been to Little Tokyo Market? The matcha Daifuku there is very good, and the other desserts are also delicious. Next time..."

Hey, wait...

There is Ultraman?

Han Yi frowned, touched his face, and suddenly became enlightened.

Before he finished speaking, his skin was about to be burned through by Zhao Youzhen's fiery eyes.

Han Yi knew what the other party meant without looking at those blinking eyes.

Yoo Jin hasn't been there either.

"Bring some for you guys next time."

Hearing these words, Zhao Youzhen looked away in satisfaction.

That's more or less.

"The light belt is not good, it will not motivate me."

Madison Bill sat in the middle of the back row, put his hands on the backrest of the front seat, leaned forward, and smiled.

"You should say, when my new song hits the Billboard charts, please invite me to the Little Tokyo Market and buy whatever you want."

"Okay, no problem." Han Yi raised his right hand and made an OK gesture, "Is the song "Cold Water"?"

"uh-huh."

"I promise, if this song can win the championship, please go directly to Tokyo to purchase it, not Little Tokyo."

"So confident?"

"Major Lazer, Benny Blanco, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, and...Madison Beer." On the unimpeded I-10 E highway, Han Yi couldn't turn his face to show Madison his confident smile, but still chose to raise his face. The tone of the voice makes the voice full of vitality, "Why do you have no confidence?"

"Except for the last person, I agree with you."

When mentioning the Billboard list, Madison suddenly thought of a good friend with whom she was getting closer and closer.

"By the way... Yi and Yuzhen, congratulations! How does it feel to be the first song on the Billboard singles chart?"

"How do you feel?" Han Yi shrugged, "Top forty...basic requirements. Top twenty? It's worth celebrating. Top ten can be rewarded. Top five, that's an achievement that can be shown off. Now it's No. Only 96, still need to work harder.”

"He pretended."

Zhao Youzhen immediately broke the stage and whispered to Madison Bill.

"On Tuesday, I smirked alone in the office for a long time. I immediately said that I would increase my investment and help "Ocean Eyes" to cast more radio stations and playlists."

It sounded like he was teasing Han Yi, but even if he had already become friends, Zhao Youzhen was very clear about what to say and what not to say in front of Madison Bill, who was a signed artist.In this sentence of hers, no matter in terms of meaning or tone, the focus is on the second half.

As soon as he was on the list, he continued to invest more. For artists, this is a good boss worthy of trust.

Unbeknownst to Madison Bill, the promotion budget was $[-] allocated long ago.

Of course, she doesn't need to know.

As a partner, it has become Zhao Youzhen's subconscious reaction to cooperate with this matter.

"Wow, how much are you going to expand?"

"For the radio station, first try to help Billy promote it nationwide, especially in several metropolitan areas on the east and west coasts. Victoria and the others are already starting to do this. Once it is on the Billboard charts, let alone Heavy Rotation, at least in most places, can get a Medium Rotation playback frequency. After all, even Ryan Seacrest has been broadcast." The plan was in Zhao Youxin's mind, and she replied fluently, "The song list is here. The side will expand to 150, and strive to rise to around 80 next week."

"The promotion of the playlist is really effective." Madison Bill nodded thoughtfully.

"Yes, 69.1 plays on Spotify, plus Apple Music has surpassed one million... For a newcomer's first single, it's quite amazing." Zhao Youzhen agreed, "And, this is still in the Our cooperation agreement with Apple Music has not been officially signed. When the acquisition of Mad Decent is officially completed, the promotion cooperation between Han Music and Apple Music will start immediately. At that time, that platform will tilt more Flow to us."

"Bili's first song, profit is the secondary goal."

Han Yi glanced at Zhao Youzhen and added something.

"Push the debut single to a high level as much as we can, and then use this ranking as a springboard to accumulate resources and momentum for her second, third single, and first album."

Just like what Han Yi said, for Billie Eilish, which is also the first single released by Han Music, profit is indeed an unimportant secondary goal, and it can even be said that it is not at the forefront of priority.You know, 100 million streaming media broadcasts, converted into royalties, is only about 2500 US dollars.Han Yi spent $12000 on channel promotion fees for iHeartRadio's Los Angeles and New York stations alone.

Adding 150 playlists, what is the loss ratio?
The difference between promotion costs and royalty income, in fact, in most cases, is the most critical factor that hinders newcomers from climbing up.As long as you are willing to spend money to expand channels and do promotion, no matter how ugly the song is, you can climb to the middle of the rankings.

However, this is where it gets the most subtle.

Who can get the real promotion of the record company?

The answer sounds a little ridiculous: Those who are already famous and don't need these promotions will get really strong promotions.

Because, if you are Adele or Taylor Swift, even if this single is given away for free, there will be record companies willing to spend millions or even tens of millions of dollars on global promotion, because they know that for these superstars Investment can always be recovered in various ways from various channels.

But what about newcomers?Who would dare to place such a heavy bet on a rookie like Bi Li?

Don't forget the one-nine rule in the music industry. Even if you only give the artist an advance payment and don't care about anything else, 90% of the artists will make the record company lose their money.

In May 2016, 5-year-old Billie Eilish was closer to the 15 percent of the spectrum than the 90 percent in the vast majority of people's eyes.

In this hopeless situation, how many people would be willing to pay Billy and Phineas an advance payment of [-] U.S. dollars to continue making songs, and then invest another [-] U.S. dollars for promotion?
This is what Han Yi has been repeatedly reminding himself in his heart - the biggest advantage of his rebirth, besides money, is knowing where to spend it.

If others spend money, one out of ten investments may succeed.

He spends money, ten investments, and can directly revitalize twenty projects.

The characteristics of the traversers crushing their counterparts in the world are fully displayed here.

This is why "Ocean Eyes" from the previous life had to wait until Bi Li's second album became a global hit before it finally reached No. 100 on the Billboard Hot 84 singles chart.And in this world, it ranked 96th on the list in the second week of its release.

Because there is a person who has seen the dark frenzy that she will set off in the future.

Backed by her own endless financial resources, how long will it take for Bili to become popular all over the world this time?How high can she reach in the end?

What about Dua Lipa?
What about Horch?

What about the depressed Madison Beal?
Can I play the role of God?

Just such a thought made Han Yi toss and turn last night, so excited that he couldn't sleep.

"Achieving a height..."

Madison Bill savored Han Yi's words carefully.

"What exactly do you mean?"

"Top 40." Han Yi stretched out four fingers to show Madison Bill, "This is the minimum standard I imagined."

"What about..."Cold Water"?"

Madison pointed to his chest and asked softly.

"Young lady, you were not paying attention just now."

Han Yi shook his index finger and smiled.

"When I say chart top, I mean it."

"So, I can already start to look at the air tickets to Tokyo." Madison Bill slid his finger on the dark phone screen and joked.

"Can she see the ticket, Yujin?"

"Okay." Youzhen nodded with a smile, "Just record your interlude perfectly, and leave the rest to us."

"Yes."

Tim Yue turned right into the ramp, turned around on the disc, and slowly merged into the gap of I-110 N. Han Yi leaned on the back of the seat and glanced back.

"Your part, are you ready?"

"Ready!"

Madison subconsciously straightened her back and replied loudly.

...are you really ready?

She had thought so.

At home, every line of lyrics, every transition, and the breath of every measure are memorized backwards.

But after arriving at 2675 Rutherford Road and seeing a room full of professionals in the recording studio on the first floor, especially those two familiar faces...

Madison Beal felt that her vocal technique, her episodic memory, and her sanity were crumbling.

She stood by the door in a daze, watching Han Yi stride towards Diplo, who was whispering with Ed Sheeran, in the southwest corner of the room.

"Thomas."

Han Yi raised his arms and smiled brightly.

"Hey Yi, long time no see!"

Diplo pulled Han Yi and gave him a warm hug.

"A beautiful home."

"Ah, yes, the down payment just made two months ago." Diplo grinned, touched his forehead, and said, "At that time, I didn't know that I could get three... a large sum of money."

Subconsciously glanced at Ed Sheeran beside him, Diplo was thankful that he stopped the car at a critical moment.

"Let me introduce you, Yi, this is Ed Sheeran, my best friend, songwriting partner, and greatest living musician on the planet...Ed, this is Yi Han , the most visionary boss in the world."

In Diplo's exaggerated introduction, Han Yi and Ed Sheeran clasped their hands and smiled at each other.

"He's always like this." Ed Sheeran pointed to Diplo, "Let me reintroduce myself, Ed Sheeran, a musician."

"Thomas does love to exaggerate, but he was right this time. Greatest music maker alive on this planet."

Han Yi patted Ed's arm and smiled.

"On the way here, the radio was full of 'Thinking Out Loud'."

Han Yi's words are actually a bit exaggerated. The most popular American commercial music radio station is actually Desiigner's "Panda"... That's right, it's the UTA client who performed at the welcome party.

In this week's list, in addition to "Panda", which has successfully reached the top, "Me, Myself&I", which ranks tenth, is also the single of UTA customers G-Eazy and Bebe Rexha.Therefore, from another point of view, although HMG's artists can only hover at the bottom of the chart, Han Yi's banner has already had hot stars who have already reached the top of the singles chart.

As for Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud", it is the third promotional single of the previous album "×", and it has been almost two years since its official release, and it has long been dropped from the radio station's Heavy Rotation list.However, because many hits are so popular with radio audiences, when they are played, they will greatly increase the retention rate of listeners. Therefore, even if they are not on the Heavy Rotation list, the radio station will play these music repeatedly.

And "Thinking Out Loud" is just one of these classic hit lists.Whether it is afternoon or early morning, as long as this music is played on the KIIS-FM channel, it will always arouse the audience's chorus.Even if they're sitting in their respective cars stuck on the highway, even if they may have honked their horns at each other for a second before gnashing their teeth.

This is the power of Ed Sheeran, a red-haired, unremarkable, short and strong British guy who doesn't look like a pop star at all. Since 2011, he has been born in the European and American music scene with his extraordinary musical talent. A bloody path was blazed.

If Phineas is a genius, Ed Sheeran is even two notches above him.The former has a fixed style, and the scope of production that can be radiated is limited to his younger sister Bi Li, while Ed Sheeran is not only a world-renowned singer-songwriter, but also the behind-the-scenes creative mastermind that countless singers flock to.

Taylor Swift's "End Game", Horch's "Eastside", BTS's "Make It Right", Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself", Anne-Marie's "2002", including this upcoming song The recording of "Cold Water" has Ed Sheeran actively participating in the songwriting.

Han Yi doesn't need to sign Ed Sheeran. Of course, he was reborn too late and there is no way to sign him.But Han Yi must establish a close cooperative relationship with the other party in order to make the classics of his artists come true one after another.

No matter how time and space change, some things cannot be changed——Han Yi is not a musician, even if he puts Ableton's engineering documents in front of him and copies them, he can't explain why.What tone to use, what FX, how to adjust Melodyne, which plug-ins and what parameters... Maybe Han Yi is a well-deserved expert in music management, but after all, the interlacing is like a mountain.In the field of music production, he is a complete layman.

He knows all the professional vocabulary that he should know, and he will immediately reveal his secrets when he gets started.

Han Yi couldn't be more envious of those seniors who could automatically think of scores and even tracks after rebirth.What he can do is to reproduce the original production team as much as possible, and glue them together with the power of money, so that these music that still shines through time and space become a dazzling collection in his copyright library.

"Haha, thanks, dude." Ed Sheeran laughed twice, cleared his throat, and politely responded with a slightly Mockney-tinged British accent, "Lean On is the one you can watch on any radio station in the world. , something that can be heard at any time. Yi, you bought yourself an unimaginable treasure."

Having said that, Ed Sheeran put his arms around Diplo and patted Diplo on the chest.

"How long will you stay in Los Angeles?" Han Yi asked.

"I should stay here for a month or two. I just finished the tour, and I will work on the next album with Benny."

"Benny? Benny Blanco?"

"Yes, he is the main producer of my new album." Ed Sheeran pointed to the recording room beyond the thick soundproof door, "Benny is adjusting the equipment inside, and I can see him later when I come out. "

"That's great." Han Yi looked at Diplo, "When we have time, the four of us should get together to see if we can collide with each other... Hey, do you have a company? I'm addicted to acquisitions now. "

"Oh, I wish I had." The obvious joke doesn't have to be taken seriously, Ed Sheeran just smiled and shook his head, "Maybe in the future, who knows?"

"That's right, it's time for you to be your own boss, Ed."

"Great proposal...not just a party, but also to start a company. Look at me, Ed, I am a role model." Diplo put his hands on the backs of the two, as the host of today's recording, he needs to make reasonable arrangements Everyone's talking time so that his partner, the big boss of Mad Decent, can say hello to everyone he needs to see.

"Then let's get ready and start recording directly. By the way, Yi, before that, I have to introduce you to two absolutely great people."

Diplo exerted a little force with his right hand, signaling Han Yi to look in the direction of his gaze.

On the couch in the northeast corner, sat two men chatting.

One is very young and the other is not so young.

"Mr. Justin Bieber, and his manager, Scooter Braun."

"Both are business experts who are keen on development and mergers and acquisitions. There should be a lot of common topics between you."

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