40 [Bonus Chapter] 40 - Bonus from AJP

[Noah, this song is amazing with this clip!] she sent excitedly.

[This version, recorded with a good microphone instead of a cell phone, increased the overall quality of the song by at least 30%, not to mention the very well done music video, overall the chances of this song going viral are very high]. She continued.

[I think so too!] I replied.

Looking at my channel's analytics for the last 6 days, I was very pleased.

Monetized views: 304,969 = $228

[Numb - 229,185 views] +101,202 views

[In The End - 161,570 views] + 102,762 views

[12,356 subscribers] + 2,388 subs

The growth of my songs was amazing. The two songs had been getting close to 20,000 views a day for the last few days and, incredibly, it just kept growing!

For a channel from a new and unknown artist with only 2 songs, even the increase in subs was very high.

Not to mention, on Spokify, my songs were finally being heard by other people who liked the songs, and it was finally starting to make money.

Spokify music plays: 20,087 = $80

Adding up the two accounts, I had already earned a little over $300, which wasn't much, but considering how small I still am, it's already a good number.

In the future, when the channel has a lot of videos and I can finally record myself, I can see those views increasing rapidly and exponentially increasing the revenue the channel will earn me.

With my current weight of 110 kg, I had finally fallen into the class 1 obese category, which finally surprised the people around me.

With a total weight loss of 40 kg, even wearing baggy clothes, it was becoming impossible to hide how much I was losing.

What used to look like I'd lost only 4 kg because of the baggy clothes, now looked like I'd lost more than 20 kg even wearing those clothes, which shocked my parents and people who saw me.

Even at school it became an issue because some people thought I was smoking crack to lose weight so fast.

The upside was that now that I was so lean, it was much more obvious how much muscle I had gained.

And fortunately, the system didn't leave my body with the excess skin that fat people get when they lose weight. Every day when I woke up, it was like my skin had become tighter, hugging my body better and defining my muscles better.

I didn't look like a bodybuilder, but you could see the change in my arms and legs.

Only my stomach didn't have a 6 pack because there was still a lot of fat covering it.

But just looking at the extra Charisma point I've gained while slimming down shows that I'm getting better looking, finally above average with my incredible 11 Charisma points.

I'm still a long way from those social media thirst traps who have to have at least 16 charisma points, but I was getting there.

The biggest change I noticed was that even at school some girls looked at me with confusion and curiosity.

My weight loss had obviously caught the attention of some girls as they watched me, and a few were interested, but with my bad reputation at school, I only heard a few comments from girls, but none had the courage to come up to me to talk.

[You know Noah, I think I can use this video you made to apply for funding from the company to pay for this video you made]. Selena sent me something surprising.

I asked in shock.

[Yes, normally the company sets aside a portion of each artist's funds to invest in the quality of music videos and other things to help the artist's career. Since you did everything yourself, we have two options: use that money to invest in something else in the future, or I can give you that money as payment for this service]. Selena explained, causing me to raise an eyebrow.

Curious, I had to ask something first. [What would that be?]

[With the quality of the video you made, I'd say about $4,000.] She replied. [That number is an average of what the company gives and what the company can get back from that promotion. For example, a Rank F artist like you would receive at most a stipend of around $200 to make a music video, while despite the fact that your contract with the company is for a share of the profits of a Rank C artist, the company's investment can't match that of a true Rank C artist, which would be around $20,000. So after calculating your current rank for your contract level, the final figure is that $4,000].

When I read their explanation, I could understand it. Since my name as a rank F artist was completely unknown even though I had a rank C contract, and the time for the company to recoup this investment was much longer than that of a real rank C artist, it made more sense to dilute the investment in order to be able to invest longer without making major mistakes.

I asked, [If I don't take this money, what will it be spent on?]

[We can add it to the money for the next video, or we can use this money to invest in better equipment. That day at your house, I saw that your guitar was very old, and you didn't have an electric guitar, right? This could be a good alternative for this money]. It gave me an idea.

And I thought it was a good idea. Even though I had $2,600 in my bank account that I'd earned from my drawings in the last few days, I could use this company money to buy really good equipment for my home and slowly set up my private studio with really good equipment.

Using the example of the microphone I got from Quacktus, you could see that this equipment was expensive.

The $2,000 microphone I got was just an entry-level studio microphone. Quacktus even said that his current microphone costs almost $5,000, so my measly $2,600 could hardly buy much.

When I got on the Internet and started looking for studio-grade equipment, I saw that I was right.

Just one good quality speaker cost $800, and considering that it was recommended to have at least 4 speakers with different specifications to hear different types of sounds, that alone would be an expense of $3,200, not to mention the controller desk, a top quality electric guitar, a top quality acoustic guitar, and many other pieces of equipment that I could use.

The company could pay me to spend time in studios recording my songs, but what would be better? To learn and do it all myself at home, in my own time, in my own comfort, or to have to leave home every time to go to a studio?

The answer was obvious!

But I had to confirm something first.

"Mom, is the basement going to be used for anything?" I asked my mother, who was ironing clothes in the living room while watching TV.

"I think there's just some old stuff in there, why?" she asked confused.

"I was thinking of setting up a studio there, is that a problem?" I asked. "I don't want to disturb Ethan when he needs to sleep.

After thinking for a moment, my mother smiled and nodded. "No problem, you can do it there, if you want I can clean the basement for you when I have time."

"That would be great!" I smiled as I gave her a hug of thanks.

I could clean it myself, but with how little time I had free every day, adding one more thing to my to-do list would complicate things even more.

[I think we can use this money to buy equipment, the basement of my house is unused, so I can make a studio here]. I replied to Selena.

[Okay, I'll talk to my manager and show her your video, I think after she sees it she'll approve this money without too much worry!] Selena explained.

Seeing that it still needed someone else's approval, I was a little worried, but I put that aside and went back to focusing on the things I could do.

I had so many things to learn, and thinking about making more videos for my channel in the future made me want to learn how to edit videos, another thing I'd put on my list to learn in my spare time.

Fortunately, now that the Lazy Song clip was finished, I had gained 3 more hours in the day that I could use to develop other things and rest.

With the Lazy Song music video scheduled to be released in a few hours, I started my social media promotion campaign to attract the maximum audience for the song's release.

Meanwhile, Selena was at the AJP headquarters talking to her manager to try to get the funding for me.

What I didn't know was that the $4,000 that Selena had told me was double what the company normally gave, and she was going to try to get that amount by showing my results and using the statistics she had on me.

So at that moment, even Selena, who had seemed very confident every time we talked, was a little nervous as she went to talk to her manager about getting this funding.

///NunuNote///

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