Chapter 79 Tiny Antenna Music
To be realistic, the reason why Yoo Hee-yeol is so straightforward is that Antenna Music can hardly be called a company at present, it is just a mini studio at most.
The only artist in the company is Yoo Hee-yeol's one-man band TOY. Simply put, Yoo Hee-yeol is the core member of this one-man band, and guest singers are invited every time an album is released. Last year, this company was not called Antenna Music, but TOY Music.
And then... nothing happened. Among the artists, only Yoo Hee-yeol was still active.
The rest are a few musicians. There were a few singers in the past, but after they became popular, they joined bigger companies, such as TOY's guest singer Kim Yeon-woo. He will participate when TOY needs him for activities, but his personal career is already in other companies.
If we really want to count, there is another singer, also from a solo folk group. His stage name is Lucid Fall, and his real name is Cho Yun-seok. But he really plays music and loves it. He is a singer and a musician, but definitely not an artist. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in life engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
The rest can be counted on one hand. Zheng Jae-hyung, who debuted with the group Basis in 1995 and graduated from the Composition Department of Hanyang University in South Korea, is now mainly engaged in film music production.
Zheng Dongren, a musician with a certain fame in South Korea, has served as music director for many movies. He is in the same team as Zheng Zaixing and is now the representative of the company, which means the president.
And then... nothing.
Many of TOY's guest singers have their own management companies. Although they often get together to make music, they are not nominally members of Antenna Music.
So now Antenna Music has no other artists except Yoo Hee-yeol. Of course, the company has musicians like Yoo Hee-yeol, Jung Jae-hyung, and Jung Dong-in, and Yoo Hee-yeol and others have extensive connections, so they are indeed very famous in the music production circle.
However, Zheng Xiuheng was not aware of this. He had been to Antenna Music several times and had seen many musicians and several singers. At this moment, he thought that these people were all from Antenna Music. Although their popularity was not as high as that of idol groups, they were truly senior singers.
But the reality is quite different from what he thought, so Yoo Hee-yeol said so domineeringly about dividing the shares. To put it bluntly, in addition to producing soundtracks for film and television dramas, and some emotional programs, the company now only earns income from writing songs for others, TOY releasing albums, and Yoo Hee-yeol running errands.
Of course, as a musician, because of the copyright, no one is too poor, but the company is really not that good. If Zheng Xiuheng is willing to join, Liu Xilie thinks that shares and so on are nothing.
"Thank you, Uncle Liu, but I'm here to ask you out as an investor. I want to invest in Antenna Music... the investment amount will not be less than 1 billion won." Zheng Xiuheng put away his moved expression and replied very seriously. As the saying goes, even brothers have to settle accounts clearly. Although he is very grateful to Liu Xilie, he definitely does not want to play around, so he must let Liu Xilie know that he is not joking.
"Based on our relationship, there's no need to talk about money... Wait, how much did you say?" Liu Xilie suddenly widened his eyes, exclaimed in surprise, and stood up suddenly, attracting the attention of the two ladies sitting next to him.
Zheng Xiuheng shook his head and decided again that he would never meet with Liu Xilie in the future. Although he didn't care much about face, it didn't mean that he could lose face in any way.
"One billion!"
Zheng Xiuheng replied dryly, picked up the coffee and took a sip, looking at Liu Xilie's extremely wonderful expression, he breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that ten billion is indeed an exciting number.
In fact, after Zheng Xiuheng received the 2.5 billion from Han Zhenyu, he was in a similar mood as Liu Xiye. You know, it takes several years for an ordinary family to save 100 million, and that's on the premise of having a good job, which is more than 20 million in RMB.
Zheng Xiuheng felt complicated when he received the money. Logically, the money had been given, and it was a number that Zheng Xiuheng had never expected. According to Zheng Xiuheng's guess, 2 billion was the most Han Zhenyu could mobilize. But even if he could mobilize so much, would he really transfer the money to a man he had only met once and who had hurt him?
Zheng Xiuheng's initial estimate was about 1 billion. He also thought about 2 billion, but it was a bit too much of a fantasy. However, 2.5 billion was completely beyond his expectations. Originally, this should have been the greatest sincerity, but because of the excessive sincerity, Zheng Xiuheng felt that there was some conspiracy, so he did not ask Han Zhenyu to help investigate.
Liu Xilie became a little flustered at this moment, and hurriedly sat down again. He looked around carefully, then stuck his head out and whispered, "Xiuheng, you didn't do anything illegal, did you? You know, half a year ago you were a stingy guy who only treated people to noodles with soybean paste, and now you have 1 billion? Or are you kidding me?"
Zheng Xiuheng finally understood that there is a kind of people who are born to deserve a beating, but at this moment he can only endure it...
"Didn't I say that I'm doing business now and making a small amount of money? To be honest, I now have a credit company. Although the income is okay, the development is too limited, so I want to find something else to do. I'm very interested in the entertainment industry, and I just happen to know you, so I thought of investing. This is just my one-sided idea. I asked you out today to talk about this matter. Now please be serious!"
Yoo Hee-yeol acted more like a thief than Jung Soo-heng, and he kept looking around from time to time, causing Jung Soo-heng to clench his fists again.
“Do you really want to invest in an entertainment company?”
After a while, Yoo Hee-yeol finally came back to his senses from the shock, and realized that Zheng Xiuheng was not joking, so he sat up straight and said sincerely: "Xiuheng, if you still want to invest in the antenna for music, I have no reason to refuse. Whether it is because of you or money, for a company like ours, it is absolutely indispensable. But if you just want to make money, I think it is better to invest in other small and medium-sized entertainment companies than investing in the antenna. You know, our company doesn’t even have trainees now!"
Zheng Xiuheng looked at Liu Xiye with some surprise, and replied uncertainly: "Are you saying that Antenna Music has no trainees?"
Liu Xiye nodded awkwardly.
"No way, how did the company develop?" Zheng Xiuheng asked in astonishment. He didn't ask about the antenna when they met before. Although they met in the production studio every time, Zheng Xiuheng felt that this should only be a part of the company. There must be practice rooms and so on. It's just that maybe because of the limited funds, the rented location was a little separate.
But now that he heard this, it seemed like something was wrong. Seeing that Yoo Hee-yeol was just laughing dryly, Zheng Xiuheng vaguely understood something.
“So how many artists does Antenna Music have now?” Zheng Xiuheng asked with great curiosity, wondering if Antenna Music directly poached singers whose contracts expired?
"Ahem, among the artists who are active...I'm the only one!"
After saying that, Liu Xilie felt a little embarrassed. He turned his head to look at the snow scene outside the glass, picked up the coffee and started drinking.
Zheng Xiuheng also followed Liu Xilie's example and widened his eyes. Although he knew that Antenna Music was not developing well and was small in scale, he really didn't know it was so small...
