pianist from the sea

Chapter 323 300 million euros

The newspaper in front of Fu Tiao was written about him, but not about him.

To be precise, it starts from his personal introduction, but it is not entirely written about him.

"China may become the world's largest market for classical music, where will the Echo Awards go?" 》

This newspaper seems to be a newspaper from within the music industry. At least Fu Tiao has not seen it at street newsstands or newspaper sales offices.

It was when Klaus gave it to him before that he saw this newspaper for the first time.

If it was just a very ordinary and unimportant newspaper, then Klaus probably wouldn't give it to him.

But now that Klaus personally gave him this newspaper, it was enough to prove the importance of this newspaper.

Fu Tiao simply flipped through the newspaper in his hand.

A lot of stuff written before this article is about the recent sales of classical music, and the share of classical music records in the world's total record sales in major regions around the world.

The share of classical music in many of these regions is gradually decreasing, but only China is growing. Therefore, it is recommended that many musicians go to China to open up new markets.

“China is a blue ocean for classical music because of its huge number of people. Even if classical music is only a very small niche hobby in China, the huge population is enough to push this number to the extreme.

To put it simply, even if only 1000% of people like classical music, there are more than [-] million people who like classical music. Even if only [-]% of people who like classical music are willing to pay, then paying There are also millions of people.

And for a concert, the limit that the concert hall can bear is only 2000 to [-] people.

Such a number is enough to fill up both the older generation of pianists and the new generation of pianists. Therefore, going to China to give concerts is becoming the future direction of classical music, and those who have successfully gone to China to give concerts The number of musicians is also gradually increasing, and the market may be saturated at any time.

Even if there are many local musicians in China, such as Lang Liangyue, Wang Jia, and even our most outstanding new generation pianist Dior Fu in Germany, they may occupy a particularly large market atmosphere. But there is still a lot of room for you to display your skills. "

The previous things were all commonplace, so Fu Diao took a brief look at them.

Among the articles were also listed his recent record sales.

Total global sales have reached nearly 60 units.

Among them, the sales volume of his Chopin set is about 30 copies, and the sales volume of his "Fu Diao in the Ruhr" has reached more than [-] copies? ? ?

Fu Diao looked at this data and was a little confused for a moment. He had no idea that his record sales had reached this level.

More than 20 sets, more than 30 sets?
If this is calculated as ten euros per set...will I get millions of euros?
When Fu Tiao thought of this place, even though he was not so eager for record sales, he still shuddered.

How can you actually earn so much?
Can I just lie down without having to work in the future?
If you can have 500 million euros and save it with an annual interest rate of 3%, you can earn 15 euros in interest a year...

It's like doing nothing every month and enjoying a salary of more than 1 euros just lying there?
what?
Have you entered retirement early?
But why didn't Deutsche Grammophon tell me?
He groped his chin, planning to go and ask the gramophone company later. He put his mind at ease for the time being and continued to read the content behind.

When the newspaper talked about Fu Tiao's personal album, it mentioned Fu Tiao's sales in China.

The Chinese region contributed almost a full third of its sales to support Fu Diao.

Nearly one-sixth of the sales come from Japan.

And nearly one-sixth of sales come from South Korea.

That is to say, the sales volume in the three East Asian countries has reached nearly two-thirds.

It seems that Fu Tiao gained a large number of fans because he came out from a relatively low position in the preliminaries of the Chopin International Piano Competition and defeated Japan's most promising Kobayashi Aimi and South Korea's most promising Cho Sung-jin.

In the end, his sales reached two sets of nearly 60 yuan.

“Are my record sales actually so high?”

Fu Tiao looked at the first-class seat in front of him, and his heart began to waver.

He began to wonder, should he buy a 100% discount ticket for a first-class seat?
It seems to be only more than 7000 euros?

Doesn't it seem expensive?

It only needs to sell 700 copies of the record to make back the money.

No, or he just needs to go out and give a concert.

The concerts in Hamburg are relatively cheap, about 5000 euros per concert.

Because this is a government event, being able to participate is already very good and proves their status.

The next two games, in Frankfurt and Munich, cost about 8k-1 euros.

This is the current price of Fu Tiao.

So if you don’t even want the money for a concert, you can actually sell it.

But soon, he shook his head.

Just kidding, I have a lot of trips, especially those going to concerts in public places.

Those concerts all include your own tickets.

For example, his ticket from Berlin to Frankfurt, and then from Frankfurt to Munich was not paid by himself, but by the organizing committee and the agency behind him.

So there is really no need for him to buy such a luxurious ticket.

Unless he really has something to do and goes out to play and wander around in Germany, then he may need it.

Fu Tiao flipped through the data in his hand, shook his head, threw his thoughts aside, and continued to flip through.

After talking about Fu Tiao's data, this newspaper came to the part about the Echo Award.

There are predictions in newspapers that if Fu Tiao's performance this year can be a little better, for example, if Fu Tiao's album last year can achieve sales of 60 million, then Fu Tiao can compete for Echo Classics this year. prize.

This is the most important classical award in Germany.

It can even be said that this is the highest German classical award.

The Echo Classical Award was born out of the Echo Award and is dependent on the Echo Award. However, compared with the status of the Echo Award in the outside world, the Echo Classical Award's status in the world and in Germany is much higher.

You could even say that the Echo Classical Awards are equivalent to the Little Spring Festival Gala of classical music.

Newspapers predict that this year's Echo Prize will be awarded to Fu Tiao and several others.

Among these people, Lang Liangyue is not included. Because of Lang Liangyue's album last year, Lang Liangyue was too popular in Paris and there was really no way for people to recognize it.

Fu Diao is one of the most popular classical music styles in Germany today.

Not only does he play the piano well, he also has a high level of interpretation in music, and his record sales are also very good.

Therefore, many people believe that the person most likely to win the Echo Award this year should be Fu Tiao, not anyone else.

But at the end of the article, the newspaper pointed out a very important message.

There is a big problem with the Echo Awards.

It’s not the Echo Classical Award, it’s just the Echo Award, which is the parent award of the Echo Classical Award.

This award has been caught in a storm of public opinion recently.

Many times they have given some awards to figures who are not very politically correct on the German side.

For example, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, etc.

Compared with foreigners who don't care much, people in Germany react more strongly.

It feels like an award that should have been awarded in China was awarded to a war criminal in Japan.

They say the Echo Prize is increasingly becoming a political tool and an insult to their country's character.

The Echo Awards has gradually fallen into a dilemma.

Especially in February this year, which is the upcoming Echo Awards, in the list of musicians announced by the Echo Awards, the parent body of the Echo Awards once again tried to award the award to a less politically correct group.

Now some people are protesting online.

If the Echo Awards cannot get out of this predicament, then according to calculations, next year’s Echo Awards will be the last.The Echo Classical Prize is derived from the Echo Prize, but is awarded at a different time from the Echo Prize. They are awarded around August and October every year.

According to this calculation, this year's Echo Classical Awards will most likely be the last swan song.

In other words, whoever wins the Echo Classical Award this year may be the last musician to receive such an honor.

Even if there is no way to compare with those talented characters who have won the Echo Classical Award ten times, it is enough to be recorded in the history books.

At the end of the article, the newspaper deeply missed the history of the Echo Classical Prize and hoped that the Echo Classical Prize would become even better.

As for these contents, Fu Diao just glanced at them briefly and stopped paying much attention to them.

Most of the other content in this newspaper has nothing to do with Fu Diao.

The only relevant thing is that Fu Tiao attended the completion ceremony of the Elb Concert Hall in Hamburg on behalf of the German classical music piano direction, and the newspaper questioned the Hamburg officials.

Is there not a single living person left in Germany?Why should a non-German national perform for Germany?
This should be the glory of Germany, not other countries.

Fu Tiao glanced at content like this and threw it aside.

Anyway, he got the money, Hamburg invited him, and the newspaper was criticizing Hamburg officials, so what does it have to do with him?
but……

Fu Tiao was still a little concerned about the income of hundreds of thousands, so he took out his mobile phone, glanced at the empty first-class carriage, and called his agent.

After the phone beeped three times in a very standard rhythm, the agent Zimmerin answered the call on time.

Before Fu Diao could ask, Zimmerin said directly.

"Dior? It just happened. I was just about to find you. Where are you now?"

"On the way from Berlin to Frankfurt..."

Fu Tiao looked at the information sign above his head and said.

"We're almost in Erfurt now, and we'll be in Frankfurt in about an hour or two."

"Okay, when will you return to Berlin?"

"I'll probably have to wait until my performance in Munich is over before I can come back." Fu Diao said honestly, "Don't you have an itinerary there?"

"Oh yes, I was so busy that I forgot..."

Zimmerin rubbed his brows over the phone and said directly.

"That's right, we have a few contracts here that we need you to sign."

"Contract? What contract?" Fu Diao didn't quite understand: "I want to ask about my previous record."

"Yes, it's the contract related to your record."

Zimmerin said bluntly.

"Your records have sold a total of more than 30 copies. At the same time, our company received news from Poland that they also transferred the record sales rights of your Chopin International Piano Competition Champion Concert to us. Therefore, the total number of sales of the two here is... 59 copies. You can just calculate it as 7891 copies.

According to our previous contract, your Ruhr Piano Festival records received a total of more than 350 million, while your Chopin International Piano Competition price was only about 150 million due to time reasons and discounts. A total of nearly 500 million..."

Fu Tiao was stunned, glanced at the newspaper in his hand, and said in complete disbelief: "Ah? Are there really so many?"

"Of course!" Zimmerin gasped: "Not so much."

"Ah?" Fu Diao scratched his head, a little puzzled: "Is there any problem?"

"We have a little problem here now, and it's not a money problem. In fact, you can pay you money whenever you want it, but the problem is taxes, and the Echo Award..."

Zimmerin on the other side of the phone was obviously a little helpless: "We didn't expect that the sales volume could be so large. We always thought that your fans would be around hundreds of thousands, and one-tenth of them would buy it, which is The sales volume is tens of thousands, so I didn’t think much about it, but who would have thought that your records would actually sell in such a high amount, which also brings about a big problem, which is tax, Fu, you have to pay tax. "

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Fu Tiao had always heard that taxes in Germany and even many countries with high welfare were very high, but he never thought that such a tax could actually fall on him.

He couldn't help but swallow, and asked Zimmerin on the other side of the phone:
"Um, how much do you pay?"

"45%..."

"Yes, can you not hand it over?"

Zimmerin slowly said: "Your personal income is too high, and you are not a German. You have not found a partner or had children. Even the student tax exemption cannot be reduced because you are a doctor. That is, Said... It is difficult to find loopholes in all the places where you can be tax-free. We can ask our professional lawyers to help you reduce the tax as much as possible, which can be reduced to about 40%. If it is less, the tax bureau will Came here to check the accounts.”

"..."

After Fu Diao heard this, he ran out of ideas and could only speak honestly.

"Okay, I get it, so how much can I get in the end?"

"Three million euros, right? That's almost that much, but there is good news. You have a minimum tax-free limit of 300 euros, so you can actually earn an extra 1 euros. Are you happy?"

"...?"

Hearing that Fu Diao didn't reply, Zimmerin could only sigh: "Okay, just pretend I didn't say anything, but it is precisely because of so many sales and nearly 200 million tax that we got an opportunity. , an opportunity to get your hands on the last Echo Prize.”

"What do you mean?" Fu Diao was confused.

"It's...electronics sales."

Zimmerlin quickly explained on the other side of the phone.

"Nowadays, electronic records have begun to become popular online. Many old records have ushered in a second spring, and new records are no exception. But correspondingly, because there are no physical CDs, the price will drop a lot, which is less than ten euros. For the price, you can buy an entire album.

And we learned from people on the Echo Awards Organizing Committee that in addition to the artistry of a work, there is also a very important factor in the Echo Awards, which is sales, and electronic sales are also counted. Among them, it is equivalent to physical sales.

In other words, our current sales volume is more than 30 units. If we put it on the electronic mall, the overall sales volume may exceed [-] units, and the sales volume of classical records can reach [-] units..."

Zimmerin was silent for a moment, seemingly flipping through the information, and then spoke with great certainty.

"I took a look and found that this is basically equivalent to locking in the victory. The sales of the works judged by the Echo Awards every year are basically around 50. Occasionally, there are a few specialties with sales of less than 50, and there are also [-] It’s like [-] yuan, so our chances are very high.”

After that, he seemed to change the position of the phone and continued to Fu Diao.

"If you agree, then we will directly contact some music software to see if our electronic records can be put on the shelves. If you don't agree, forget it, but I want to remind you that the price of our electronic records is only about ten euros Less than, maybe 7 to 8 euros, then your share may be very low..."

"Very low? How low is it?"

"Normally, because it is a cooperation share, we need to give the music software company about 30-50% of the share, and because the record recording site has been cancelled, the company and you also share 25-35, so you can get almost one record. [-]%-[-]%, that’s basically it, it depends on the music software company’s specific share.

The electronic version may affect the sales of the physical version, but the current sales of the physical version are decreasing every month, so... I personally think that now is the opportunity to put the electronic version on the shelves, but the specific details of the situation are up to you, you decide. "

Hearing the voice of his agent Zimmerin on the other side of the phone, Fu Diao thought about it and nodded.

"Okay, then I'll listen to you. I'll put the electronic version on the shelves. Once you've negotiated a contract, I'll just send it to you."

"Okay, I'll go talk to the music software company right now. I'll contact you later if I have any news."

After saying that, Zimmerin seemed relieved and said with a smile: "Then I wish you a successful performance, millionaire."

"Well, thank you, see you later."

Fu Tiao responded to Zimmerin, put down the phone, and couldn't help but look towards the window.

The number of rails next to the window is gradually increasing.

There are all kinds of trains parked on the densely packed railway tracks.

From the new ICE trains to the old-fashioned trains, they move forward slowly under the dispatch of the radio.

Seeing such complicated railway tracks, Fu Diao knew something...

He is now in Frankfurt.

European financial center.

(End of this chapter)