Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 61 Record Income, New Album Ready to Launch (Please Read on)

1993 October.

After the Spring Festival, Guangzhou ushered in a new wave of migrant workers.

People who originally went home to celebrate the New Year have returned to their jobs and started a new round of struggle.

The same is true for Zhou Ziheng.

He also returned to Guangzhou from Dongguan and started his work this year.

The first step is to set up a music production studio.

After he returned to Guangzhou, he immediately took charge of this matter. He rented a house on Nonglinxia Road in Yuexiu District and went to the relevant departments to handle the formalities.

In less than a week, a music studio called Xinghen quietly appeared in Guangzhou.

There are not many people in Xinghen Music Studio.

In addition to Zhou Ziheng himself and Wang Ziqi, he hired an arranger and invited Chen Xiaoqi to serve as the company's honorary producer.

However, these few people are enough.

A music studio is actually a group that provides diversified creation and production services such as record production, lyrics writing, music composition, arrangement, and film and television music production.

Zhou Ziheng can write lyrics and compose music by himself, and he can even arrange the music.

The main purpose of hiring an arranger is to avoid putting too much work on him alone.

As for Chen Xiaoqi’s honorary producer.

This is indispensable.

Zhou Ziheng himself is not very familiar with the post-production work of the album.

I asked Li Chunbo to help me with the previous work "Wandering Song".

Therefore, in order to improve the production quality of the album, it is necessary to invite Chen Xiaoqi to serve as the company's honorary producer.

After the studio is established.

The next most important thing is naturally the production of his new album.

That’s been his focus this year.

It’s also a very important album.

The huge sales of "Wandering Song" and the hit "Golden Boy and Jade Girl" in which he participated have successfully made him famous in the mainland. Now is a good time to build on his success.

But before that, Zhou Ziheng went to Pacific Audio and Video.

Not for anything else, just to settle the share of the subsequent tapes of "Wandering Song".

Now that he has set up a studio, he needs to pay for the use of the recording studio.

He also plans to produce the MTV for this tape himself, and all of this requires money.

And the money he had was obviously not enough.

Currently, the total sales data of "Wandering Song" is 1.75 million copies.

He had previously settled the money for 830,000 tickets.

There are still 920,000 tickets left to be settled.

This time he went there just to settle all the accounts at once.

The Pacific Ocean is full of vitality after the New Year.

Last year, Pacific ranked first among all major record companies in Guangdong in terms of tape sales thanks to the hot sales of Zhou Ziheng's "Wandering Song".

Only the New Age can compete with it to some extent.

Many employees have been rewarded for their good performance, some have been promoted and some have received bonuses.

In addition, everyone was full of energy as they had just returned from the Chinese New Year.

There was another person in Liu Zhiwen's office when Zhou Ziheng arrived.

Lin Yilun.

This guy has been highly promoted since joining Pacific, and Pacific is currently producing his first tape for him.

"Ziheng, you're here. I was just about to call you! The day after tomorrow the company's Skylark Awards will be presented. Your song "Wandering Song" has a good chance of winning. You must remember to attend."

Seeing Zhou Ziheng, Liu Zhiwen greeted him with a big laugh.

"I understand. I won't be absent the day after tomorrow."

Zhou Ziheng nodded, but he didn't really take the award seriously.

In the past few years, the Skylark Award was indeed very influential and was one of the famous music awards in mainland China.

However, with the emergence of various music awards in recent years, Pacific itself does not take this award too seriously.

This has greatly reduced the influence of the Skylark Award, which was originally established by Pacific to reward internal employees.

Therefore, awards are basically only given to people in one's own company.

This way of self-entertainment has made singers from outside the country stop participating in this award.

Of course, winning the award is also a good thing for Zhou Ziheng. In addition to the increase in qualifications, there is also a bonus.

The Pacific Society awards money to Skylark Award winners.

The prize money was not too much in previous sessions, but this year it has been increased to 100,000 yuan.

"Brother Zhiwen, I came here to settle the subsequent share of "Wandering Song" with you.

As you know, I'm preparing a new album and I need money for everything.

I urgently need this money to support myself.”

Zhou Ziheng glanced at Lin Yilun, then ignored him and continued to look at Liu Zhiwen.

“Ohhh! Look at me, I almost forgot about it.

Please wait a moment, I will call the accountant and ask them to transfer the money to your account today."

Upon hearing this, Liu Zhiwen slapped his forehead and exclaimed that it was negligence.

Zhou Ziheng nodded and waited for him to call.

A few minutes later, Liu Zhiwen notified the accountant and then asked Zhou Ziheng to go over to reconcile the accounts.

"Brother Zhiwen, I heard that Zhou Ziheng made no less than one million from the tape "Wandering Song". Is that true?"

As soon as Zhou Ziheng left, Lin Yilian, who had been silent since he came in, immediately asked Liu Zhiwen curiously.

"Who told you that? One million? Even robbing money doesn't get that much."

Liu Zhiwen frowned when he heard Lin Yilin's words.

"Lun Zai, your primary goal now is to get ahead, not to care about how much others earn.

Also, Heng Tsai earns more because he personally handles all the production of his own records.”

"No, no, I'm just asking." Feeling that Liu Zhiwen was a little angry, Lin Yilin quickly shook his head.

"Just keep doing your thing! The song for your tape has been created, and once the accompaniment is finished, you can start recording."

After Lin Yilin left, Liu Zhiwen couldn't help but frowned again.

Recently, no one knows who spread the news that Zhou Ziheng made a lot of money.

This caused the entire Pacific Ocean to become restless.

Especially singers, after hearing the news, many singers felt that Zhou Ziheng, an outsider, had no right to earn more than their internal employees.

But they didn't think about the fact that the reason Zhou Ziheng could get so much was because he was in charge of all the production of the tapes.

When "Wandering Song" reached Pacific, it was already a complete tape, and Pacific basically just distributed it.

"Old Yang, check for me which big mouth is gossiping in the company!" Liu Zhiwen picked up the phone and dialed a number.

……

After Liu Zhiwen said hello, Zhou Ziheng quickly worked with Pacific's accountant to calculate the subsequent income of "Wandering Song".

Nine hundred and twenty thousand tapes.

The wholesale price is six yuan, and the total revenue is 552 million.

After deducting the cost of 1.38 million, the profit is 4.14 million.

Zhou Ziheng took 20%, which is 820,000.

Plus the previous 670,000.

He earned a total of about 1.49 million from this tape.

This number is unique among current mainland singers.

This doesn't mean that Zhou Ziheng is the best in the world.

The main reason is that his model cannot be copied.

There are singers in the mainland who are more influential than him, but most of their songs are not written by themselves.

However, the sales of tapes of singers who have creative ability are not high.

Various factors combined together made Zhou Ziheng's income from his first tape far surpass that of other singers.

"It's time to start the new album, but which song should I choose as the lead?"

After leaving Pacific Ocean, Zhou Ziheng began to think about the song selection for his new album.

(End of this chapter)