http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/music/16jackson.html Michael Jackson’s Estate Signs Sweeping Contract !!!!!惊叹号不够用 翻个大意 印象之前是说MJ跟钱尼合约是到今年还明年 Nine months after Michael Jackson’s death, his estate has signed one of the biggest recording contracts in history, giving Sony, Mr. Jackson’s longtime label, the rights to sell his back catalog and draw on a large vault of unheard recordings. MJ遗产公司 在MJ死後九个月 跟MJ长期的唱片公司钱尼签下音乐史上最惊人的合约 $ONY能发行MJ所有没发行过新歌的权利 Michael Jackson during a concert in Vienna in 1997. Mr. Jackson, who died in June at 50, was the top-selling artist in the United States last year. MJ是去年全美销量最好的歌手 The deal, for about 10 recordings through 2017, will guarantee the Jackson estate up to $250 million in advances and other payments and offer an especially high royalty rate for sales both inside and outside the United States, according to people with knowledge of the contract who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak about it publicly. 这合约将签到2017年!! 包括十张专辑!!!! 保障了MJ遗产公司两亿五千万的预付款!!!!!!! 而在美国和国际版税还会另外有高额收入 (遗产执行人抽成赚死) It also allows Sony and the estate to collaborate on a wide range of lucrative licensing arrangements, like the use of Jackson music for films, television and stage shows and lines of memorabilia that will be limited only by the imagination of the estate and the demand of a hungry worldwide market. 同时同意$ONY能够和各项产业合作 像是把MJ的歌用在电影 电视 舞台剧 纪念品 因为全世界现在都疯狂想要MJ相关的东西 “We think that recordings will always be an important part of the estate,” John Branca, an entertainment lawyer who is one of the estate’s executors, said in an interview on Monday. “New generations of kids are discovering Michael.” John Brance在本周一的访问说 那些新专辑是遗产中很重要的一部分 新一代的小孩 将会重新发现MJ “A lot of the people that went to see ‘This Is It’ were families,” he added, referring to the Jackson concert film released in October. “ ‘This Is It’ was one of the few films allowed into China. So we think there are growing and untapped markets for Michael’s music.” 去看TII很多是家庭 也是少数杀入大陆市场的电影 我想MJ的音乐市场价值水涨船高 The first recording covered by the new contract is the “This Is It” soundtrack, released last year, and Sony plans a new album of unreleased recordings for November. 第一张合约包含的专辑是TII的原声带 去年发行的 钱尼打算在今年十一月发行新专辑!!! Sony’s contract is a bet on the continued appeal of Mr. Jackson, whose sales spiked after his death in June at the age of 50. With overall record sales on a decade-long plunge, mega-deals like this one have become rare, and Mr. Branca said the deal “exceeds all previous industry benchmarks.” Five years ago Bruce Springsteen signed a deal with Sony worth a reported $110 million, and in 2008 Live Nation and Jay-Z struck a $150 million deal for recordings, concert tours and other rights. 钱尼的赌注是看好 MJ过世後疯狂的CD销量 像这样的好交易可是很少见的= = Branca说 这次的交易是打破音乐史纪录 五年前Bruce Springsteen跟钱尼签了一亿一千万 08年Live Nation和Jay-Z签了一亿五千万的唱片合约和巡回演唱权 Demand for Jackson music has leveled off after the initial rush — in the weeks after his death Sony scrambled to replenish retailers’ stock of any and all Jackson titles — but remains high. Last year Mr. Jackson was the biggest-selling artist in the United States by a wide margin, with 8.3 million combined album sales and 12.4 million downloads of single tracks, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Mr. Branca said that since his death Mr. Jackson has sold more than 31 million albums, about two-thirds of them outside the United States. 这段 MJ唱片去年卖翻 美国卖了八百三十万张 一千两百四十万次下载 Nielson统计在去年就卖了三千一百万张 2/3是在美国境外卖的 But as record sales have tapered off over the last decade, licensing has emerged as the biggest growth area for revenue from recorded music. And given the success of the Beatles and the Elvis Presley estate in reissuing and repackaging old albums as well as finding new uses for their music — like “ Love,” the Beatles’ hit theatrical show by Cirque du Soleil — it is not hard to imagine the direction that the Jackson estate might take in using old recordings in new ways. 有鉴於像猫王和披头四重发专辑都卖很好 披头四还在太阳马戏团有秀 MJ遗产公司也考虑拿旧唱片做新用途 “It’s not just a record deal,” said Rob Stringer, chairman of the Columbia/Epic Label Group, a Sony division. “We’re not just basing this on how many CDs we sell or how many downloads. There are also audio rights for theater, movies, computer games. I don’t know how an audio soundtrack will be used in 2017, but you’ve got to bet on Michael Jackson in any new platform.” 钱尼底下Epic分布的老板说 这不只只是个唱片合约 我们不只是关心唱片卖多少 下载量有多少 我们还有权利把音乐用在电影 电动游乐器材 我不知道2017年音乐会被怎麽使用 但你可以猜想MJ到时绝对有新的平台 看完新闻不知该喜还该悲 喜的是果然是King 干甚麽都破纪录 Branca真的很会生财 不要把MJ招牌给砸了倒是 悲的是又被MJ讨厌的钱尼分好大一杯羹阿~~~~~ 今年有新专辑!!! 也不知该喜还该悲 七年出十张会不会太夸张阿~~~精选满天?? -- In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. In a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. ~~~~By Michael Jackson --

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