Chapter 146 - You Drop, I Rise
"First place on the New Song Chart!"
Seeing the rankings, Tao Lin shouted and then laughed happily. Xiao Qin, beside her, also had a face full of excitent.
Too fast.
It had only been released for a week, and it already topped the New Song Chart. When the Best-Seller Chart refreshed on Monday, it would definitely get on it; it was just a matter of seeing how high the ranking could surge.
'Initial Dream' only reached the top five at its highest on the Singles Best-Seller Chart, staying there for five or six weeks before starting to drop, and even now it hadn't fallen out of the top fifty.
With 'Courage' surging to the top of the New Song Chart this early, plus Starry Sky sparing no effort in promotion, was it possible for it to surge to first place on the Best-Seller Chart?
Tao Lin found she was quite daring to think so. For the Best-Seller Chart, unless it was the kind of monster single that was extrely rare to see even once, inexplicably and unreasonably popular, the rest of the ti it was dominated by veteran singers.
Zhang Fanzhi's popularity right now wasn't bad, but compared to those people, there was still a not-insignificant gap.
But the current data was too good. If it could maintain this kind of heat all along, maybe there really was so chance.
Watching Zhang Fanzhi's popularity grow more and more prosperous, Tao Lin felt refreshed in her heart.
More crucially, every ti she returned to the company and saw Zhao Heting looking sowhat like he was avoiding her, her heart felt even more comfortable.
In the past, when Zhao Heting was a petty person intoxicated by success, he hadn't spared Tao Lin from his cold ridicule and hot mockery.
Now, Tao Lin knew the other party didn't like seeing her, so whenever she returned to the company, she would deliberately stroll two laps right in front of Zhao Heting.
She could just imagine Zhao Heting's flustered, exasperated, yet utterly helpless appearance.
Tao Lin noticed Zhang Fanzhi staring at her phone without speaking for a long ti, and asked, "Xiyun, surely you're not unhappy about topping the New Song Chart?"
Zhang Fanzhi froze slightly. Tracelessly long-pressing to delete her chat history, she finally said, "No, I was just thinking if my popularity is considered stable right now."
"Your popularity is currently in a state of explosive growth, why are you always thinking about stability!" Tao Lin rolled her eyes at her.
Zhang Fanzhi gave an "Mm" and didn't continue asking.
Tao Lin knew she had this temper and didn't mind it, proposing, "We're happy tonight, how about we drink a little wine to celebrate?"
The mont these words ca out, Xiao Qin's face stiffened beside them.
These two grandmas were quite a handful after drinking. The matter from last ti was still fresh in her mory; for an entire night, she was bustling about back and forth, expending quite a lot of effort.
And now they want to do it again?
Zhang Fanzhi furrowed her brows slightly, resolutely shaking her head and saying, "Not drinking, the taste isn't good."
She rarely drank alcohol. The last ti she drank, she made a fool of herself. The key was that she didn't have much of an impression after waking up; how could she dare to drink now?
Tao Lin wasn't soone who could drink either. Last ti she got drunk without even drinking much, and caused a ruckus even more severely than her.
Just looking at Xiao Qin's current appearance, one would know exactly how much the two of them could act up after drinking last ti.
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"To actually beco the chart-topper this easily, Zhang Xiyun is truly blowing up now!" Zhao Heting was staring blankly, lost in thought.
These past two days he had been sowhat obsessed, constantly whispering in the manager's ear from ti to ti, bringing up the matter of Chen Ran, but the manager just looked like he didn't take it to heart.
He originally couldn't figure it out, but now seeing Zhang Xiyun's eye-catching na on the Huaxia Music New Song Chart, he finally figured it out.
"What do we do now?" Lin Hanyun asked with a frown.
Zhao Heting snapped back to reality, remaining silent.
He didn't have any ideas either!
On the surface, it was Lin Hanyun fighting with Zhang Fanzhi for promotional resources; everyone knew the company was using Lin Hanyun to suppress Zhang Fanzhi a bit.
Now Lin Hanyun had flopped on two consecutive songs, while Zhang Fanzhi had two songs explosively popular. There was one song in the middle with slightly diocre data, but it still crushed Lin Hanyun.
Previously, Zhang Fanzhi and Lin Hanyun's popularity were still on the sa level, but now Lin Hanyun was a bit lacking to look at. When it ca down to it, she still hadn't grasped the opportunity.
Lin Hanyun said hesitantly, "Brother Ting, how about we go find so dirt and trip Zhang Xiyun up?"
"Are you crazy?" Zhao Heting glanced at his own artist, not knowing why she would say such brainless words.
"Right now the company is vigorously promoting Zhang Xiyun. If you dare touch her, is it because you think your career isn't dying fast enough?"
Lin Hanyun said carelessly, "Just do it cleanly, that's all. She stepped on so many people on her way up to the top of the New Song Chart, and there was also a high-traffic singer up there. Just push the bla onto his fans."
"The key is that it can't be done cleanly! From the ti the internet beca popular until now, how many people who thought themselves clever have been caught red-handed? Could they be any less smart than you? You'd better drop this idea. If people find out you want to trip her up, let alone Starry Sky, it will be hard for you to survive in this industry in the future," Zhao Heting said sternly.
Tripping each other up between artists was sothing that happened often, but within the sa company, this was a massive taboo.
You could dislike her, you could make cynical remarks, but you couldn't strike directly.
If Zhang Fanzhi had dirt on her, Zhao Heting wouldn't mind fanning the flas a bit.
But in the few years since her debut, aside from going on variety shows to promote when releasing a new song, she spent the rest of her ti practicing singing and taking on comrcials.
She was so pure she didn't seem like soone from this circle, and there was stubbornly absolutely no dirt on her.
He couldn't stand Tao Lin's arrogant appearance in front of him, but he was even more unwilling to do stupid things, so he could only hold it in temporarily for now.
The wheel of fortune always turns!
……
Zhaonan TV Station.
Chen Ran asked Director Wu Tao to continue applying for a bit more budget, wanting to see if they could get a little more promotional budget.
But Director Wu was ruthlessly rejected.
The reason they were approved for so much budget last ti was because they had attracted comrcials, so they were told to make the program a bit more refined.
Wanting more now was a bit excessive; the station's money didn't just blow in on the wind, after all.
"The station is really stingy," Director Wu Tao sighed. He had talked until his mouth was dry, yet the Director remained unmoved, completely showing no intention of helping to apply.
He said they would have to wait until the title sponsorship rights were sold, and then it could be considered.
Chen Ran had only asked Director Wu Tao to try applying, but he hadn't actually held much hope.
Not getting it approved now wasn't a surprise. However, upon hearing about the title sponsorship matter, he asked in confusion:
"What's going on? It's been so long, and the title sponsorship still hasn't been negotiated down?"
Director Wu Tao said helplessly, "The station suppressed it, saying we need to wait a bit longer. They're probably unsatisfied with the price."
"This is dragging on for too long!" Chen Ran hadn't expected the station's working efficiency to be this slow.
Could it be there was so other deeper aning hidden inside?
In this ti slot, their viewership ratings were already at their peak, and the audience were all newly carved-out viewers. With the station still holding it back, weren't they afraid their viewership ratings would suddenly collapse?
Chen Ran and Director Wu Tao discussed it but didn't reach a conclusion. Anyway, the higher-ups were suppressing it and hadn't given a reason.
Because the recording was imminent, Chen Ran threw this matter to the back of his mind and concentrated on preparing the script to record a new episode of the program.
Friday.
The viewership ratings ca out.
Because of the discussions on Weibo, coupled with the guidance of the new episode's topic, the viewership ratings unexpectedly didn't drop, but instead rose a little.
Looking at 'Magic Cute Babies' on the other hand, it didn't hold steady, dropping to 0.881%.
Because 'Magic Cute Babies' reduced its promotional efforts, this drop in viewership rating could be considered a normal fluctuation.
But with this back-and-forth, the issue erged.
The 'Zhou Zhou Show', it reached the top!
First place in the sa ti slot.
According to a certain scientific saying: our side's viewership ratings rose slightly, the other side's viewership ratings dropped slightly, added together, didn't that equal a massive surge for our side?
Taking this first place, although it was beyond many people's expectations and even caused so people's jaws to drop, it was exceptionally reasonable!
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