In fact, Billy has been preparing for the second album of Elf Birds, and has even recorded sample samples of most songs. Now it is nothing more than the last few songs and the MTV filming, and the workload is actually not very large. Billy also promises that the album can be completed within a week.

After negotiations with the three members and their agents, they all agreed readily. At most, the workload of a week, and the subsequent promotional cooperation, was nothing. The compensation also agreed to a very "friendly" price. The total of the three was 1.86 million, which was even slightly lower than the market's value. However, this was also helpless, and this was the sadness of the small record company.

The composition, arrangement and production of the second record are mainly completed by Cheng Qinglun, and they are mainly engaged in Chinese elements singing and dancing. In fact, from the perspective of pop music composition, Cheng Qinglun can only be considered second- and third-rate. After all, the differences between East and West popularity, as well as the differences between classical pops, are not so easy to overcome.

But it’s good that it’s the freshness of a North American audience. Therefore, in the first album, Cheng Qinglun’s song actually entered the TOP45th North American music chart for two weeks, and the highest was 37th place.

Moreover, after Cheng Qinglun arrived in the United States, he was also "feared" so in Seed Music, he could do all kinds of chores, was willing to do everything, and did it quite well. In the end, in Billy's eyes, Cheng Qinglun's value was actually behind the scenes of the music, and he did not pay much attention to his compositional talent. However, Seed Music still exchanged a new contract for Cheng Qinglun and greatly improved his treatment and benefits.

As for the investment and promotional expenses of the second album, it has risen to as much as $1.4 million. In fact, such a follow-up series that taps market potential, as long as the songs are practised and the style remains unchanged, it is difficult to pursue any artistic breakthroughs like a treacherous person. Therefore, this time, there is no private investment from Jing Jian, and all investments are borne by Seed Music. Otherwise, Jing Jian’s eating habits will be too ugly. Billy’s goal is also very conservative. As long as it can reach a circulation of 200,000 copies, even if it is qualified, it can earn at least 23 million.

After learning about it, Jing Jian completely left this matter behind. Billy did things quickly. In just three days, the rest of the recording work and MTV were completed. Then there was only publicity and distribution.

However, such an inconspicuous little thing suddenly changed...

...

He received another call from Billy, and Jing Jian answered: "Hey?"

"Bramble, can you come to the company?" There was almost no greeting. Billy was straightforward. Hearing this tone, there seemed to be something wrong.

"What happened?" Jing Jian frowned slightly.

"This... Jennifer wants to leave, too, her agent just contacted me."

Jing Jian almost wanted to curse, just leave, just give money, but why did you Billy be surprised? But suddenly, Jing Jian remembered that he seemed... as if... had said to Billy, "Is Jennifer a non-sale product?"

After thinking about it, Jing Jian made a decision: "Tell Jennifer that she is the core of the company's future plan, which is the focus of our support, so I hope she stays. If you really want to leave, you will give out the full compensation."

Regarding Jennifer's future? And how much compensation is she worth? Jing Jian was not interested in caring at all. But since she was unlucky and was chosen to be Lumina's "branding" and then she must have the awareness of "branding".

"It has been said," Billy replied, "Jennifer's agent suggested to us that there could be another option - end the contract of the newcomer, change the contract, and significantly increase the treatment. However, in this way, the treatment of other members will be uncontrollable and the costs will be greatly increased."

Jing Jian actually knew this. As the boss, he also belonged to the same trench as Billy.

The ten members of the original Elf Bird were actually not even considered newcomers. As long as a record company could sign a contract, they were already Amitabha. Even a boss like Billy had multiple agents and dared not object to him.

Strictly speaking, this is a violation. In Europe and the United States, record companies and brokerage companies must not be in harmony. The reason is very simple. If it is a family, how can the rights and interests of artists be protected?

Of course, with the great increase in the power of North American brokerage companies, the production costs of record companies and film companies increased greatly, and even many unhealthy high salaries appeared, which led to the bankruptcy of record companies and film companies. However, that was already another problem.

Therefore, after the first album was released, in order to prevent some unnecessary trouble, Seed Entertainment gave up the original illegal broker qualification, and the ten members also had their own brokers.

It is understandable that the agent fights for his own artist clients. That is why the three members poached and changed jobs. However, Seed Music could not change the 15-year newcomer contract. He would rather pay a one-time bonus after each record was successful. You should know that this change was a total of ten people, and the sum of money was really a lot. So in the end, he would rather break up friendly and not greatly increase his treatment. It is not necessarily that they were all members of the singing group on the same level. You improved the treatment, but he did not increase it, right?

And Jennifer is actually like this. So in the end, Billy asked, "You'd better come to the company, and I'll let Jennifer and her agent interview you." Billy couldn't understand Jing Jian's idea at all. He thought that he might want to sneak. Anyway, you'd like to be willing to do this, so it's best that the parties can explain it clearly in person, and Billy didn't have the interest to get involved.

Jing Jian didn't know that Billy had a lot of small ideas. He thought that he had nothing to do in the past few days, so he would just have an interview. So he agreed to meet the next day.
Chapter completed!