On the night the Lakers won the NBA championship, all the players were still there, but Taylor had already left.
She had stayed in China for too long and had to go back.
Her company was practically going insane from all the waiting.
If Taylor hadn't been a legendary singer and the company's mainstay,
any other top-tier singer's company would have fallen out with her long ago.
But with Taylor, the company could only reason with her patiently. After all, Taylor's status in the music industry was right there for all to see.
Jiang Siming had initially thought Taylor's company was just a small business and planned to buy it outright.
Only after looking into it did he realize that he had underestimated Taylor—and the strength of her company.
Taylor's agency was called Universal Music Group.
It was the world's largest music company, occupying nearly thirty percent of the global music market.
It had countless artists under its banner. Taylor, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Eminem, Bieber, and other global pop superstars were all signed to the company.
Even many of China's top singers, such as Principal Tan, Godly Singer Zhang, A-mei, Fat Chen, Sun Yanzi, Leung Wing Ki, and others, were Universal Music artists.
Universal Music Group had a market value of as much as thirty billion euros.
Back then, Penguin had spent ten billion euros just to purchase ten percent of Universal's shares.
Now you understood why NetEase Cloud Music couldn't beat Penguin, right? Many songs simply weren't allowed to play on NetEase, while Penguin had them all.
That was precisely because they had bought the copyrights to all the songs by Universal Music's artists.
There was nothing to be done about it. Penguin was simply too rich, so it was only natural that NetEase Cloud Music couldn't compete.
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