Zheng Xudong and his entourage came to the 25th floor of a high-end residential building on 21st Street in Bensenher, Brooklyn, New York City, and the entire floor of nearly 700 square meters is Kahlan Studio.

This time, when Zheng Xudong and Scott entered Karan's studio, they didn't ignore him like last time, but stepped forward to shake hands with Zheng Xudong and say a few words, and said something that was so amazing that there was no nutrition, and then they took them to a recording studio with an area of more than 60 square meters.

Scott was introduced by Zheng Xudong to Alexei Becker, Columbia's New York marketing director, and Chris Jackson, their associate music director. Both sides greeted each other and got straight to the point.

First of all, marketing director Alexei Becker introduced Zheng Xudong's current record sales, which was summed up in one sentence that "the market is very good", and his "BABY" single has exceeded 1 million copies in only 18 hours, and he is currently the fastest singer with more than 1 million records, which has exceeded 8.7 million copies and will soon exceed 10 million copies. "FADE" and "FADED" were synthesized and sold on a single disc, and although the results were not as good as "BABY", they also sold more than one million copies in 22 hours, and now 7.4 million copies have been sold, which is the sales of physical records, not including the number of online downloads. So Columbia took his new song very seriously and wanted to talk to him alone.

When Zheng Xudong was wondering what was going on with him at Records Records, sales director Alexei Becker expressed Columbia Records' proposal to buy out the rights to Zheng Xudong's songs.

Andrea and Scott both told him about the record rights, and he said at the time that he would not sell the rights to his songs, and he would take the copyrights of these songs in his own hands, and he would grasp them 100% in his hands. There is a lesson from the past, Michael Jackson, who died last year, half of the copyright of his songs was in the hands of Sony, and in the last few years of his life, the cost of living increased, and he sold real estate and antiques to subsidize the family, and later when he wanted to release additional records, Sony did not agree, and the two sides had a very stiff quarrel because of the music copyright. So at that time, he told Andrea and Scott that he would not sell the rights to his songs. This time, I heard Columbia Records mention this matter again, Zheng Xugong rejected Columbia Records' request in very euphemistic words, saying that he does not make a living from singing, singing is just a hobby for a young man, "I still hope that the copyright will remain in my own hands!" This is the final answer to them. Thinking of what his father had said about trying not to offend people, and thinking that his tone seemed a little stiff just now, he added, "Of course, if I don't want to keep the copyright of these songs in the future, I will definitely sell them to you Columbia Records at the same price." ”

As soon as Columbia Records' sales director Alexei Becker saw that the matter had not been negotiated, he "retreated" on the grounds that he was not a professional in recording, and before leaving, he also said very politely, "I hope to cooperate with the greatest extent in the future!"

At this time, Chris Jackson, the deputy director of music of Columbia Records, came over, and there was no nonsense, and directly said that the songs to be recorded today are "FREAKS", "JUST THE WAY YOU ARE", "FADED", "City", "North Shock, North Shock", "Children Walk a Thousand Miles", these five songs, and the other two songs "SELFIE" They have already found a female rapper who is not very famous to sing, this is not important, and this matter was decided after discussing with President Andrea, as for "ALONE" they have found Esslyn Solheim to finish recording.

But Zheng Xudong knows that Eislin Solheim has finished singing the song "FADED", does he still want to sing it again?

Scott told Zheng Xugong before Chris Jackson, the deputy director of music at Columbia Records, that you once sang this song "FADED" yourself at the fan meeting held at the PLAYHOUSE in Los Angeles a few days ago, and the response was surprisingly good, so the record company wants to record a version of your song for sale, even if it is not only released, it can also be used as a small gift package for your fans in the record.

When Zheng Xudong heard it, since everyone said so, let's record it.

"By the way, have they obtained the consent of the president of my domestic company, Liu Yifei, to record those Chinese songs?" Zheng Xudong asked Scott next to him.

Sgut nodded, "I've already called to confirm that President Liu Yifei of your country has authorized Columbia to release your songs." No problem, don't worry!"

Zheng Xudong nodded and began to "enter the studio" (professional term, referring to entering the professional recording studio) recording.

After "entering the studio", he realized how ridiculous the music he made in his home study, this time all the music was produced in advance by Columbia Records, and only the track of his singing voice could be added.

Columbia Records asked professional performers to re-perform and arrange all his songs, which was much better than when he was idle and had nothing to do. Jackson was extremely strict with his work, as long as there was a note that was not sung correctly, he immediately asked for a repeat, Zheng Xudong talked to him during the break, saying that a small flaw of the star can be repaired with software, but the vice director of music of Columbia Records resolutely disagrees with this approach, thinking that it is an opportunistic approach, and swearing: "The records produced by our Columbia Records must be high-quality, without a trace of flaws, and without a trace of irresponsibility from fans!"

When Zheng Xudong heard it, "Yes!" People raise this issue to the height of corporate survival, a highly responsible attitude towards fans, and if they are a little sloppy, it is as if their Columbia record company is going bankrupt by themselves, what else is there to say, besides, people are recording records for themselves, sing carefully.

The five songs were recorded for four and a half hours until half past twelve at noon, and if it weren't for the fact that there was a signing party at the Plaza in New York at two o'clock, and "FREAKS" would have been re-recorded! It seems that this deputy director of music is experienced, and he will first record the kind of songs that require a high quality voice, such as "A Thousand Miles Traveling" , This is a typical national singing song, the singer's voice is very demanding, it took half an hour to record this song, Zheng Xudong was anxious later, so he didn't hang and did it with the deputy director, and said over and over again that there was no flaw, or Sgut "and thin mud" in the middle to control the scene. AFTER RECORDING THIS SONG "CHILDREN TRAVELING THOUSANDS OF MILES", THE NEXT THING TO RECORD IS "JUST THE WAY YOU ARE" AND "CHENGDU", ONE OF THESE TWO SONGS IS A SMALL FRESH LOVE SONG, AND THE OTHER IS A FOLK SONG, WHICH IS NOT AS STRICT AS THE NATIONAL SINGING METHOD OF "CHILDREN TRAVELING THOUSANDS OF MILES", BUT IT WAS ALSO RECORDED FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR, AND THE PENULTIMATE SONG IS "NORTH SHOCK, NORTH SHOCK" At this time, Zheng Xudong's voice has been tossed hoarse enough, and the deputy music director of the last song "FREAKS" said directly to Zheng Xudong, "You have infinite hatred for me, let's roar! ”

When Zheng Xudong heard him say this, he thought, "That's not ready-made, I can buy a catty for your hatred, give a catty, and give you another catty!"

Sure enough, the last electronic single "FREAKS" was the fastest recorded of his songs, and he only sang it three times.

When the songs were all recorded, the deputy director of music at Columbia Records, who was also a good person, came out and apologized to Zheng Xudong with a smile, saying that he was a little unkind to his work, and asked Zheng Xudong to forgive him.

What else is there to say about this, the ancients are cloudy, reach out and don't hit smiling people, people take their work seriously and record records for you, and they will be looked down upon by others at this time if they have a straight face. Zheng Xudong hurriedly told others that your serious attitude towards work is very worthy of learning from yourself, and he also appreciated his professionalism. The two sides shook hands and dispersed happily, and agreed to send the record to Zheng Xudong first after making the record.

It was already half past twelve when the two sides left Karan's studio, and hurriedly found a fast food restaurant specializing in hot dogs, Zheng Xudong ate three extra hot dogs as quickly as possible, and the biggest man in it, the bodyguard nicknamed "Little Bird" who weighed two hundred and forty pounds ate two extra hot dogs. The other bodyguards either ate two undosed hot dogs, or three people ate two topped hot dogs. In short, Zheng Xudong's meal volume refreshed the three views of these six bodyguards for the first time. They watched Zheng Xudong finish eating during the ritual of paying attention.

After eating, a group of eight people and two cars hurriedly headed towards Times Square in New York, and on the way, Zheng Xudong received a call from Andrea, asking him why he hadn't arrived yet, and he heard that she was really anxious on the phone.

Zheng Xudong had to explain that he was delayed when he recorded the song, and now he is rushing there!

Zheng Xudong sat in the car and suddenly asked Scott next to him, "Let's hold a signing meeting in Times Square, so many people won't have an accident, how do you convince the New York Police Department to agree to our signing meeting, we definitely need to dispatch a large number of police to maintain order." ”

Scott looked at Zheng Xudong with the eyes of a monster and said in surprise, "You don't know?"

"What do you know?" Scott's words made Zheng Xudong confused.

"You don't know what President Andrea's house does?"

"Hmmm... Let me think about it, Andrea seems to have told me once that her uncle was in politics, but what her uncle did, because he didn't care much about this kind of thing at the time, he didn't ask in detail, and as for what her parents did, he never said. You know?"

"Well, I know!"