Huayu 1992, my entertainment era

Chapter 36 Tape recording for Pacific and New Era

Mid-January 1992.

As Zhou Ziheng's tapes sold well across the country.

He became famous throughout the interior.

On the popular ranking list established by CCTV.

All the songs in Zhou Ziheng's entire tape made it into the top 100.

And quickly climbed up the list.

In just one week, the most popular songs "Wandering Song", "New Working Ballad", "The Child Leaving Home", "Outside the Window", "September 9th Wine" and "September 9th Daughter's Red Wine" all made it into the top 20.

"Wandering Song" has even entered the top ten.

For a time, Zhou Ziheng became a famous celebrity across the country.

“Do you listen to ‘Wandering Song’?”

"Do you know 'The Wandering Song'?"

These topics have become the first words many tape song lovers talk about when they meet.

It is obvious to the naked eye that his tape of "Wandering Song" has become a song that people are scrambling to sing.

It is almost always mentioned in music magazines or entertainment magazines in various regions.

Obviously, Zhou Ziheng became famous.

It became a nationwide hit.

As the popularity spread, Zhou Ziheng even stopped his commercial performances due to interviews from various magazines and newspapers, and frequently appeared in major cities.

Participate in exclusive interviews with top local magazines and newspapers.

Among them is "Audio and Video World" from Shanghai.

"Music Lovers" from Lingnan.

"Youth" in Guangzhou.

Zhou Ziheng accepted one magazine interview invitation after another.

I ran from south to north, almost all over China.

And the effect is significant.

With her good looks and the popularity of her songs, she became widely sung.

Zhou Ziheng is becoming known to more people across the country.

He also became one of the two most popular people in mainland China this year.

As for the other one, needless to say, it is naturally Yang Yuying.

By mid-November, the total number of orders for Yang Yuying's "The Wind is Full of Love and the Water is Full of Smiles" across the country also exceeded one million.

Only 300,000 yuan short of Zhou Ziheng.

The popularity of the two made the name of golden boy and jade girl even more famous.

It can even be said to have dominated the second half of 1992.

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On the 18th, Zhou Ziheng, who had returned to Guangzhou, received another call from Pacific's deputy manager Liu Zhiwen, asking him to go to Pacific to discuss something.

This time, Zhou Ziheng didn't rush there.

He had a good sleep and showed up at the Pacific Building at around ten o'clock the next morning.

It’s still the same office.

It’s still Liu Zhiwen.

No, not only Liu Zhiwen, but also Li Qiang of the new era is here.

As soon as he saw Li Qiang, Zhou Ziheng immediately realized that Liu Zhiwen's purpose in asking him to come here might be related to the golden boy and jade girl.

"Ziheng, I asked you to come here today because I wanted to discuss with you the tape recording we talked about last time."

Liu Zhiwen personally welcomed Zhou Ziheng to his seat and said:
“We told you last month that we would release a tape for Golden Boy and Jade Girl.

The preliminary work for this matter has almost been completed, you here..."

As he said this, he looked at Zhou Ziheng.

Hearing this, Zhou Ziheng glanced at Li Qiang.

Li Qiang, like Liu Zhiwen, looked at him with a smile on his face.

"There's no problem on my end." Zhou Ziheng hesitated for a moment and nodded.

However, it is okay to record for Pacific and New Era, but he cannot lose the interests he should fight for. He took the initiative to ask:

"How many songs are there? How much do you pay me for recording one song?"

Very direct, maybe not pleasant to hear.

But this must be communicated in advance.

He had not signed a singer contract with Pacific, and had no business helping them record album tapes. The main reason Zhou Ziheng agreed was to thank Pacific for their help.

Some time ago, Pacific helped him solve several difficult problems.

Zhou Ziheng is very popular all over the country at this time.

As fame grows, troubles naturally come along.

For example, someone wants to force him to help with commercial performances.

There were even more arrogant people who came directly to Zhou Ziheng and asked him to help them record tapes.

And these things are more or less mixed with some dark forces.

Zhou Ziheng alone can't do it.

As for Chen Kai and Chen Xiaoqi, Zhou Ziheng couldn't bother them every time he had something to do.

So, all these things were handled by people from the Pacific side.

The reason why Pacific took action is actually very simple.

Zhou Ziheng can make money.

Even if there was no contract signed with Pacific, Pacific would have made a lot of money from the cooperation alone.

They also hope that Zhou Ziheng can bring them benefits!

Therefore, they took the initiative to help Zhou Ziheng settle these matters.

People should be grateful.

Pacific helped him and was not too harsh on him during the cooperation.

If Zhou Ziheng didn't say anything, he would seem like an ungrateful person.

So when Pacific offered him help recording a tape last month, he agreed.

However, agreement is agreement.

The compensation you deserve should not be reduced.

We can't let him record for free!
"Your current appearance fee is 15,000 yuan, and we won't let you lose. We'll give you 20,000 yuan for each song you record."

Liu Zhiwen and Li Qiang looked at each other and said.

Twenty thousand is actually very low considering Zhou Ziheng's current fame and popularity.

With the popularity brought by Zhou Ziheng's "Wandering Song", his second tape would not be sold out after it was released, and the sales volume would at least start at several hundred thousand.

Compared to this, 20,000 yuan for a song is pitifully little.

However, if you are paid less, you will naturally do less work.

For this tape, Zhou Ziheng didn't need to do anything. He just needed to go into the recording studio and record the song.

He does not need to participate in other arrangements, songwriting, or even subsequent promotions, as they will be handled by Pacific and New Era themselves.

Zhou Ziheng did not bargain, he just looked at the two of them.

“I need to own the singing rights to these songs!”

The tape was produced by Pacific and New Era, so the copyright of the song naturally does not belong to Zhou Ziheng.

However, Zhou Ziheng did not want to lose the right to sing these songs after recording the tapes.

So, he made this condition.

It will be rare in the future that you cannot sing your own songs.

The most typical example is G.E.M.

Because her songs belonged to her old employer, after the two sides separated and fell out, she was directly deprived of the right to continue singing those songs.

Even the name G.E.M. Deng was almost not allowed to be used.

There is a precedent for this.

Zhou Ziheng naturally didn't want to be deprived of the right to sing the songs he sang.

After all, Pacific and New Era still have strength.

Since they asked Zhou Ziheng and Yang Yuying to sing together on this tape, it was naturally impossible for them to come up with some bad songs.

In fact, according to Zhou Ziheng's estimation, they should have also purchased the cover rights of some classic songs from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

It's a cover of a classic song, but it lacks some originality.

But if he had their singing rights, it would still be beneficial to Zhou Ziheng.

At the very least, he can sing during the concert.

"can!"

This request was not too excessive. After the two looked at each other, Li Qiang said directly.

"That's no problem. You should have finished the song accompaniment, right? Which songs are they? Can I see them?" Zhou Ziheng asked.

(End of this chapter)