Schmidt's company spent tens of millions of marks to buy the copyright from Haiyun last year, and it has been published in Europe.
These copyrights led to the publication of over a dozen albums for them, which collectively generated 24 million sales, averaging over a million sales per album.
Among them, the Sea Waves band's album sold the best, with 4.6 million copies sold in various European countries.
The second best-selling album wasn't by Blue Shark Band, but rather a compilation of albums by Flash Girls and Yan Tian Tuan, which sold nearly 3.3 million copies.
It is evident that these girl groups quickly gained recognition from Westerners.
Next up is Blue Shark's album, which sold 2.3 million copies.
Apart from these three albums, none of the other albums sold more than 1.5 million copies, ranging from tens of thousands to over a million.
These copyrights brought Schmidt a profit of 50 million marks, with a net profit of nearly 30 million marks.
It was precisely because of the high profits that Schmidt insisted that the Sea Rhythm Company send a band to perform in Europe.
Foreigners also understand the importance of striking while the iron is hot to succeed.
Liang Liang didn't take the European tour too seriously, otherwise he wouldn't have sent bands like Han Chuang and Wei Lan Feng.
The band sent this time is at best a second-tier band in China, and the intention is rather perfunctory.
Schmidt looked unhappy when he saw the band sent by Haiyun. If he were one of those girl groups, mainly the Sea Waves.
The splashing waves are the guarantee of box office success.
But the other side didn't send a single one.
This guy complained to Liang Liang over the phone.
International long-distance calls are very expensive, so Liang Liang just chatted along with him.
Since the other party isn't spending his money, he's just wasting some of his time.
"I want the Sea Waves band. If they can't come, two other all-female bands will do."
Liang Liang certainly couldn't send Hailanghua there. If Hailanghua went to Europe to perform, he wouldn't agree to it unless he was paid a million-dollar appearance fee per show.
With appearance fees of three to four hundred thousand marks, who else would you send if not these bands?
What kind of bicycle do you want?
“Mr. Schmidt! The appearance fee for the Sea Wave Girls is not something you can just pay them a little bit of money. They are the backbone of my company now. If you don’t give me a satisfactory price, don’t expect them to set foot on European soil.”
"So how much money are you planning to ask for?"
"No matter how much money they have, they can't go this year. They're currently filming a TV series, and after that, they'll be working on a new album. Do you think they can go?"
"Forget about whether you can come to Europe or not, just tell me what they're going to offer."
"It absolutely cannot be less than one million per show. If we include the other two girl groups, it will be two million per show."
Schmidt didn't object to the price; given the Waves' current influence in Europe, a million marks for an appearance fee isn't really that much.
"Then let's do it this year. Next year, I want the Sea Waves Band to tour Europe."
"I wouldn't object if you took them on a moon tour before your debut."
The plans for the Ocean Waves girl group to tour Europe next year have been finalized.
Schmidt could only use the bands sent by Liang Liang as a show of force.
Actually, although Liang Liang's bands went to Europe with the idea of fooling the foreigners, if you think about it carefully, it wasn't really fooling them.
Although these bands haven't yet reached the top tier in China, they are still quite talented.
After all, their albums have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the country.
Another point is that before going to Europe, Liang Liang selected a few popular European and American songs from a few years later based on his memory. Each band released two of them, so that the scene wouldn't be too embarrassing.
The band gave their first performance in Berlin, Germany. Although Schmidt's record company had made careful arrangements, he didn't have high hopes for these bands. His only prayer was that they could break even.
This marks the second time a Chinese band has performed here, following their performance in Berlin three years ago.
More than 5,000 tickets were sold for the first performance.
This result isn't great, but it's not terrible either; it's somewhere in the lower-middle range.
However, after the second performance was moved to Munich, ticket sales doubled, reaching tens of thousands.
This was mainly thanks to two foreign songs that Liang Liang had temporarily arranged for a band to provide.
These songs, with their death metal and destruction metal themes, catered to the tastes of the locals and thus gained popularity.
With a good reputation comes a market. These bands, touring Europe, seem to have found the key to wealth and are making waves in Europe.
When news of their antics in Europe reached Lianwan, Liang Liang, who was in the middle of a moment of elation, suddenly choked up.
These bands have become popular in Europe? What's going on?
Liang Liang was happy because the TV series "Meteor Garden" had become a hit.
The TV series was submitted for review after filming and editing were completed, and it was released after the review was approved.
The exclusive broadcasting rights, first broadcasting rights, and rights for each round of broadcasts all sold well, and a large number of advertisements were inserted into the TV series based on Liang Liang's suggestion.
Product placement was still in its infancy in 1998, but Haiyun Audio-Visual has truly popularized it.
In addition to the revenue sharing from television advertising slots, Haiyun Audio-Visual also retains the copyright of its audio-visual products.
This TV series, with an investment of 1.8 million yuan, is expected to bring the company tens of millions of yuan in revenue.
If there's also overseas copyright revenue, then it will be even more profitable.
It was during this prosperous moment that Liang Liang received a smug phone call from Schmidt.
"I've decided that I will continue to invite these bands to perform in Europe next year."
"Oh! So you mean you're not going to invite the Ocean Waves band?"
"I think these bands can replace the influence of the Sea Waves."
Foreigners really are unreliable; they changed their minds in just a few days.
"Heh! Schmidt! You wouldn't be thinking of taking advantage of these bands' cheap performance fees, would you?"
Schmidt didn't answer, he just chuckled.
"Next year, the appearance fees for these bands will rise to 1.5 million."
Liang Liang's words instantly froze Schmidt's smile on his face.
"Damn it! This is wrong of you. You should have a conscience. This is not how you do business."
If not this way, then how?
I haven't even mentioned the monetary unit yet.
The euro will be issued next year, and 1.5 million euros are worth much more than 1.5 million marks.
“Schmidt! In business, charging exorbitant prices when goods are scarce is a common tactic of you Westerners. I’m just applying what I’ve learned. What are you dissatisfied with?”
Schmidt thought about it and realized that it made sense; every single product the West sold to developing countries came with exorbitant profits.
"Can you give me a discount?" Schmidt was a businessman after all, and he immediately started haggling.
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