Chapter 268 The temper of the old musician

"The third and fourth place finishers in tonight's first round of competition have been announced, and then the first and second place finishers..."

Liu Silei glanced at the card and continued to announce: "This also means that the remaining singers whose results have not been announced will lose the opportunity to participate in the second round of competition if they fail to break into the top two.

“Tonight’s competition system is quite cruel, but isn’t that the charm of a competitive music variety show?

"Next, the results of the two singers will be announced, and the audience vote for one of them is very interesting.

"In fact, many viewers in front of the screen usually just watch the program silently and rarely participate in interaction and voting.

"However, tonight the singer made many viewers who had never voted before pick up their mobile phones and vote for him.

"And this singer also won the first place in the first round of tonight's competition thanks to the aroused and passionate audience.

"Who is this singer?

"Let us congratulate..."

When Liu Silei said this, she raised her eyes and looked around, her last voice was long, and finally she called out two names: "Congratulations to Fang Xing, Huang Anhua, and congratulations to "Really Love You" for winning the first round of competition.

“This song not only received enthusiastic votes from audiences across the country, but also broke many records with votes from audiences in the Cantonese-speaking region.

"However, Fang Xing cannot let down his guard yet, because there is still a second round of competition. Whether he can maintain his advantage depends on his performance in the second round of competition."

The results are announced.

The model singers and guest singers in the guest seats all had different expressions.

Zhang Huiying had such an expression on her face.

In fact, before the results were announced, she was not sure who had more votes, Tan Zhiguan or Fang Xing.

Because the song "Really Love You" is indeed very good, but Cantonese songs actually have a slight disadvantage in terms of audience base.

Therefore, the most critical aspect of whether "Really Love You" can win is whether it can impress the Cantonese-speaking audience.

After listening to "True Love", Zhang Huiying felt that her heart was touched.

When she heard the result, she knew that the song had sung into the hearts of Cantonese-speaking audiences.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic also had a glorious era, but most of that generation of fans had already gotten married and started careers.

Even if this group of viewers who have married and started a business usually watch TV, they rarely post comments, comment or vote. Most of them just watch silently.

However, the reason for this is that it is difficult for the songs in current music variety shows to impress them.

The appearance of "Really Love You" and Huang Anhua awakened their youthful memories.

These viewers, who have a certain amount of life experience, don't care if they don't vote. Once they start voting, the power is very terrifying.

Therefore, it is not surprising that "Really Love You" ranked first in the first round.

…

After the results of the first round of competition were announced, the live broadcast barrage began to flood the screen:

【Okay, I actually got first place.】

[The combination of Huang Anhua and Fang Xing, I would like to call it Wang Zha.]

[I only give Weibo ten minutes to make "Really Love You" appear on the hot search list immediately, otherwise I will uninstall it directly.]

["Really Love You" should have won the first place, and if nothing else, it would have received another 100,000 votes to add to the fun.]

【Trent is inhumane!】

[Inhumanity +1]

After the live broadcast of the first round of competition, Feifan Entertainment and Penguin Video simultaneously released a pure enjoyment version of the first round of eight songs.

As the audience expected, "Really Love You" quickly became a hot search on Weibo.

Although it is currently at the bottom of the hot search list, the growth rate of the hot search index is very scary.

Many viewers who watched the live broadcast felt that listening to "Really Love You" was not enough.

After all, some lyrics need to be understood carefully to understand their meaning.

Therefore, countless viewers flocked to major online platforms, clicked on the exclusive version of "Really Love You" video, and played the song repeatedly.

The more the audience listens to this song, the better it feels.

Many viewers also started to learn this song and said that it was easier to sing than "The Hard Sutra".

Subsequently, major online platforms began to launch a relay of cover singing.

[If I can’t learn “The Difficult Sutra to Sing,” will I still be unable to learn “Really Love You?”]

…

Some people are happy and some are sad.

At the headquarters of Mailin Records, the top executives of the two major record companies and Pengcheng Capital gathered together. They originally wanted to control the direction of tonight's final and recommend Tan Zhiguan to win the championship.

In order to securely win the first round, Chen Lipeng even released one-third of his ticket holdings.

Originally, in his imagination, even if Tan Zhiguan and Qi Xiuna's duet "Tenderness on the Fingertips" could not win the first round, the difference in votes would not be too big.

Therefore, Chen Lipeng thought that by releasing one-third of the votes in the ticket warehouse, stability should be the first, and there would be no suspense.

However, when the results were announced, they exceeded everyone's expectations.

Chen Lipeng suspected that there was something wrong with the ticket warehouse and frowned at the secretary beside him.

The secretary had followed Chen Lipeng for many years and immediately knew what the boss meant.

She quickly went out to make a phone call to confirm the situation.

Not long after waiting, the secretary came back and whispered in Chen Lipeng's ear: "Boss, there is no problem at the ticket warehouse. One-third of the tickets have indeed been released."

Xu Liren on the side put forward a guess: "Is it possible that the votes in the ticket bin were filtered out during the vote counting?"

The secretary replied with an affirmative expression: "No, the tickets in the ticket warehouse are all bought with real money. Although they are recharged through channels and have high discounts, every ticket costs money.

"It is impossible for the program producers to filter out these tickets, otherwise the company can initiate complaints and refunds after the program is over.

"Neither the program producers nor Penguin Video can filter these tickets.

"Besides, I checked with my friends at Feifan Entertainment and there is no problem with the number of votes.

"According to information from friends, the votes for "Really Love You" in the Cantonese region were very high. It seems that some viewers thought they were watching Huang Anhua's concert and voted according to the ticket price."

The head producer of Mailin Records was relatively calm and said in a deep voice: "Actually, when I heard "Really Love You", I felt that the first round was not very stable.

“However, even after releasing one-third of the votes, we still didn’t win. I didn’t expect that the gap would be so big.

"Although I didn't secure first place in the first round, it's not a big problem. The second round is the key.

"Winning second in the first round, then coming from behind to win the championship in the second round, this script is actually not bad."

Chen Lipeng looked very serious and asked in a deep voice: "Are you sure about the second round?"

Tonight's final is, on the surface, just a music variety show final.

However, behind the scenes is the struggle between the forces in the music industry.

Therefore, if Pengcheng Capital wants to continue to expand its influence in the music scene, it must suppress Songshi Records.

Otherwise, in another two years of development, Songshi Records is likely to become the new top three, which will break the Chen family's control over the music scene.

Xu Shangyan tapped his fingers lightly on the table a few times and replied: "We are very sure about the songs in the second round. In fact, the songs in the first round have some restrictions in the selection because they have to fit the theme.

"The second round is different. There are no theme restrictions and there is a lot of room for play.

"There is absolutely no problem with the quality of this song that our two companies collaborated on. As long as there are no problems with the live performance, it should be stable in the second round."

This is not the first day Chen Lipeng has met Xu Shangyan.

In his impression, Xu Shangyan is the kind of person who speaks very cautiously. If he is not sure, he will never use a positive tone.

Since Xu Shangyan is confident in the second round of songs, the quality of the second round of songs must be very high.

In fact.

When Mailin Records and Puxiang Records collaborated to prepare songs, Chen Lipeng had no involvement.

He is the chairman of Pengcheng Capital. His job is to control the operation of capital and will not interfere in the music production of record companies.

Therefore, he has not heard what song Tan Zhiguan will sing in the second round tonight.

However, since Xu Shangyan had confidence, he chose to believe it.

Moreover, the ticket warehouse prepared by Pengcheng Capital only has two-thirds of the votes left.

As long as these tickets are released at the last minute, they can definitely change the final outcome.

However, just to be on the safe side.

Chen Lipeng decided to ask for the data: "Xu Liren, don't you know the senior management of Penguin Video? Call and ask to see how big the difference is in the number of votes in the first round of competition."

On the stage, Liu Silei only announced the rankings of the first round of competition, but did not announce the specific number of votes.

Therefore, Chen Lipeng wanted to know the exact data so that he could have a clear idea.
To be continued...