Chapter 52: Explosion-Proof

Chen Shanqi's state of mind has been explosive lately.

As a quasi-first-line Singer, she had prepared a new album full of sincerity to charge toward the first-line throne, and it could be said she was ambitious.

She specifically chose this period to release her new album because she had made inquiries and found that none of the first-line or super first-line Singers seemed to have plans to release new albums in the near future.

It was a good opportunity!

The New Song Chart and the Rising Chart were places she had to compete for, and she wanted her lead singles to dominate the charts.

But who could have imagined that a talent show would produce such a monster.

After the program aired on Saturday, "Big Fish" air-dropped onto the charts.

Today is Monday, the charts have refreshed, the accumulated data from last week has been cleared, and "Big Fish" has officially started its rampage mode!

This Man-Eating Fish is truly shark-crazy!

It is number one on both the New Song Chart and the Rising Chart, looking down on all the others.

These days, variety shows are indeed very good at blowing up songs; some popular singing variety shows are even more outrageous, with exaggerated traffic-driving capabilities.

But this is an Idol boy group talent show; it truly subverts common sense.

In Idol group talent shows, there have only ever been songs where fans spend a lot of money, but there has never been an explosive original hit.

Yet Luo Mo managed to do it.

The violin piece "Confession Night" was just a glimpse of his talent, but this "Big Fish" is truly chilling.

The most fatal thing is that this song has a very good reputation.

This is what Chen Shanqi envies most.

She is a Niche Singer, and her songs are somewhat critically acclaimed but not commercially successful.

And some songs are just the opposite: commercially successful but not critically acclaimed.

They have high popularity and many listeners, but they are actually very vapid, or rather, very brainwashing.

Reviews for this type of song are mostly polarized, and they are even more disliked in the industry, but "Big Fish" is different.

A double harvest of reputation and popularity—this is what truly reflects hard power!

—We are just this tough!

Chen Shanqi is even imagining, if this were her own song, wouldn't she have climbed straight to the first-line throne?

Pity there are no "ifs"...

"Let's avoid it, play it safe." Chen Shanqi has no other choice now.

Although it is actually very difficult for such phenomenal songs to appear consecutively.

However, she is really a bit scared by Luo Mo.

Stop messing with me, can't I just hide from you?

Anyway, the loss from staggering the time isn't too great, and if the team communicates more with the outside, it can still be accommodated; just consider it for peace of mind.

Xingshi Entertainment, inside the conference room.

Li Fengshan, the head of Xingshi Entertainment, and several senior executives gathered in the conference room, their expressions all somewhat grave.

Li Fengshan raised his hand to point at the big screen, signaling the female secretary beside him to pull up the data.

Wearing an OL suit, wrapped in black silk stockings, and wearing high heels that could increase attack speed, the female secretary obediently pulled up the data and read out all the contents.

Halfway through the reading, Li Fengshan reached out and tapped the table, saying impatiently, "Alright, no need to read anymore."

He was like a male lion in a pride, looking around at everyone, and said, "You all should understand this data curve better than anyone."

"I bought so many Hot Searches, contacted so many marketing accounts, and the grease money for the music critics was also paid according to the quasi-first-line standard, and this is the result you give me?"

Li Fengshan looked at a middle-aged woman and said, "Zhao Fei, you are the Music Director, and the songs Shen Mingliu and the others prepared this time were also bought by you. What did you tell me when you bought them? Huh?"

Zhao Fei also had unspeakable bitterness; she never expected that a song of this level would actually be crushed.

Losing on stage is one thing, but the battle for the charts off-stage, as well as the battle on Weibo, etc., they lost on all major platforms!

Director Ning Dan doesn't know where she conjured this Luo Mo from; he was clearly just there to make up the numbers, yet he became the biggest variable in the show!

She opened her mouth several times wanting to say something, but in the end, she didn't know how to explain it.

Asking herself, from the perspective of quality, "Big Fish" is indeed worthy of this.

Tong Shu's voice is too special, and the final vocalizing between Luo Mo and Tong Shu was also too superb.

The most fatal thing is that, according to the news they have currently obtained from inside the program team, Shen Mingliu and the others lost again in the second public performance.

Lost to Luo Mo again!

This has caused great distress to every department of Xingshi Entertainment.

As the Music Director, it goes without saying that she has to take responsibility.

And the publicity and marketing side suddenly don't know how to proceed; the originally set publicity plans and copy content all need to be modified to avoid working for someone else's benefit, and many people are working overtime.

Do you think only Luo Mo is working overtime on the talent show?

Damn it, because of this kid's overtime, countless people in the industry are working overtime along with him!

As for what Li Fengshan is unhappy about now, it is nothing more than the issue of return on investment.

The company is spending real money, are they doing charity?

Of course, it's to make money!

The talent show Ning Dan is doing is extremely easy to produce hits.

This mature woman is too good at it; she has simply mastered the traffic code.

As long as one can perform well in her show, the final revenue brought in will be beyond imagination!

If people like Shen Mingliu can meet expectations, they can leap from trainees to traffic Idols, and the revenue brought in will not be inferior to the other first-line Singers in the company!

If you were to say the market in this industry isn't big, that would certainly be wrong. If the market weren't big, why would we place so much importance on it?

However, even if the market is big enough, it still depends on how much everyone can fight for.

This Luo Mo, who appeared out of nowhere, suddenly bit off several chunks of fat meat.

In the eyes of Li Fengshan, several of those chunks belonged to him!

Today's talent shows are not the same as they were in the past.

In current talent shows, capital intrusion is too severe.

Major companies are all carving up the cake.

There is competition between companies, and they are indeed all arm-wrestling, but this is among the same class.

Whoever wins or loses depends on their own ability.

No matter how they play, it is all within the rules set by everyone, engaging in competition.

This is the tacit understanding between major companies.

The capitalists want to construct a barrier to separate those little things, preventing them from jumping in.

An Individual Trainee like Luo Mo is naturally a little thing in the eyes of capital, someone who must be kept outside the barrier and not allowed to come in and grab the cake.

This is a game of money; we enter the gambling table with huge funds, exchange money for chips to play at the table, and you, a penniless nobody, come charging in, directly breaking our rules and grabbing a few chips in one go—what kind of behavior is that?

In reality, there are also some large companies eyeing Luo Mo, thinking about signing him.

However, Creating Idols is a closed-off recording, isolated from the outside world.

To find Luo Mo, for them, they would have to go through Ning Dan's connections.

But at least from the current perspective, no one has succeeded.

Her style has always been like this; when she runs a talent show, she does not allow anyone to intervene halfway.

If people from the outside want to interfere at this time, it will also disrupt many of Ning Dan's layouts.

Sometimes, not giving anyone Face actually becomes a kind of Fairness.

Li Fengshan glanced at everyone and said, "I don't want to say any more superfluous words."

"I will only say one thing: he is an 【Individual Trainee】."

"You should all know in your hearts how to operate." He leaned back, his eyelids drooping.

The senior executives of Xingshi Entertainment nodded.

They knew very well that since the boss had spoken, it was highly likely that a tacit understanding had been reached with the other major companies as well.

Everyone will continue to arm-wrestle, and at the same time, they must clear the field externally.

Not just this Luo Mo, even this Tong Shu, who has risen abruptly, might be within the firing range.

The 9 debut spots in Creating Idols are the bottom line for major companies; they are their territory.

And Luo Mo has already rushed to seventh place on the 【Popularity Support Ranking】, and the momentum is getting stronger.

He has crossed the line.

Capital does not want him to become a massive hit and then block everyone's path.

Then, the 【Anti-Explosion】 targeting him is about to begin.

—The wind is about to rise.

After walking out of the conference room, Music Director Zhao Fei of Xingshi Entertainment sighed.

She appreciates Luo Mo's talent, but it has indeed brought her a huge work burden.

It is imaginable how the Xingshi Entertainment team will operate next.

Buy some black PR articles, then grab a few points from the show's content and take them out of context.

Marketing accounts on Weibo will definitely be put to use.

And those gossip paparazzi will also be contacted to release some fake news.

There will also be financial suppression on the Weibo Hot Search, pushing their own Hot Search above his.

In any case, there are plenty of ways.

The most terrifying thing is that it is very likely not just Xingshi Entertainment taking action, but multiple large companies joining forces!

Sometimes, the gossip you consume in the entertainment industry is likely ripened under vicious competition.

There's no helping it; the benefits that a hit variety show can bring are measured in the hundreds of millions!

However...

"From an unknown young man to now leaping into the sights of a bunch of industry companies, how many days has it taken this Luo Mo?" she thought to herself.

(End of chapter)