Chapter 260: Purple Star Falls from the Sky

"Hey, what's going on? Why are you all here?"

Looking at Su Ning, Qiao Xi, Bai Xingjian, Feng Shiqi and others entering the room, Ding Xin stood up from the sofa in surprise.

"You guys haven't been eliminated either?" Liao Bei asked with a puzzled look while smiling.

"Who knows? Anyway, it was the staff of the program who brought us here."

Suning, who was walking in front of the group, was the first to respond. He was also confused about this matter.

After arriving in this room, Vanxia took small steps and ran towards Shantimo.

As soon as the two came together, Vanxia started to talk to Shantimo, obviously she had not yet let go of the fact that she had eliminated Shantimo.

As for Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi, they sat with Ding Xin at her invitation.

Before long, everyone started chatting with each other.

Looking at everyone chatting happily, Park Ji-jae sighed secretly.

This journey of "The Voice of China 2024" is finally coming to an end.

Not long after everyone started chatting, Li Xiao and Hong Yang, the chief directors of "The Voice of China 2024", suddenly came to the room.

The appearance of the two of them really surprised the singers in the room.

After a round of greetings, Li Xiao said with a smile: "I believe everyone can see that we have gathered everyone here because we have something important to announce."

Bai Xingjian's eyes fell on Li Xiao, and he was quite curious about what this middle-aged man would say.

"The first thing I want to make clear is that the next episode will be the final of our "Singing 2024", and the king of singing of "Singing 2024" will also be born in the next episode."

When these words were spoken, the singers present all looked quite surprised.

Su Ning asked with his eyes wide open: "Director Li, the finals will be held next time? Isn't this too soon?"

"It really caught us off guard." Qiao Xi followed up with a complaint.

Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi also nodded.

Although they both had anticipated this before, they were still inevitably a little surprised when Li Xiao actually said it.

"Is this too soon? This season of The Voice 2024 has been going on for more than three months, and it's time to end it."

Liao Bei said with a smile.

Anyway, he has been eliminated, and the next competition system of "The Voice of China 2024" has nothing to do with him. Let the storm come even harder, which will be more exciting!

Ding Xin expressed her thoughts quite objectively: "This season of "The Voice 2024" is the longest season of the "The Voice" series of variety shows. The previous seasons all ended in twelve episodes, but tonight's live broadcast seems to be the fifteenth episode of "The Voice 2024", right? And the next episode is the sixteenth episode. It is indeed time to end it."

Listening to what Ding Xin and the others said, foreign singers like Jessica and Vanxia were unable to get a word in. Mainly because they were not very familiar with the previous seasons of the singing series, so they could only listen to others obediently.

"Sister Xin is right."

Li Xiao nodded to Ding Xin, then smiled and said, "This season's "The Voice of China 2024" has indeed been extended by a month, and now it's time to wrap it up. If we don't wrap it up, I don't know how many netizens will scold us again."

Having said that, Li Xiao smiled helplessly.

Hong Yang added: "The main reason is that we have been scolded by netizens recently. If we try to end it sooner, we will get less scolding."

As soon as these words were spoken, the room was filled with laughter.

Everyone thought of the incident last week when the program crew was attacked by netizens.

"Then I'll get straight to the point."

Li Xiao coughed twice, and after everyone quieted down, he said, "The four groups of singers who passed the breakout competition tonight are Fenghuang Yufei, Jessica, Birds and Fish, and Vanxia..."

Li Xiao's eyes swept over these singers one by one: "You need to prepare at least two songs for the next episode. Of course, the more songs the better."

Hearing this, Bai Xingjian and others couldn't help but frown.

At least two songs?

The more the better?
"Director Li, you haven't figured out the next competition system yet, right?" Suning asked Li Xiao, and he almost rolled his eyes.

Qiao Xi, Bai Xingjian, Feng Shiqi, Ding Xin, Jessica and others also looked at Li Xiao with strange expressions.

Noticing everyone's looks, Li Xiao scratched his head awkwardly and laughed twice:

"I didn't expect you guys could guess this. We haven't finalized the format for the next round yet, but we already have some plans. Don't underestimate us."

Li Xiao tried to save face for the production team of "The Voice of China 2024".

It was just a lonely escape. Ding Xin sneered and asked, "So in addition to the singers who successfully broke through tonight, do you have any plans for us singers who were eliminated tonight?"

"I think it's probably true, otherwise we wouldn't be gathered here."

Liao Bei also said mercilessly: "Director Li, do you think what Sister Xin and I said is right?"

After listening to what Liao Bei and Ding Xin said, Shantimo and Park Ji-jae, who had originally been in a depressed mood, suddenly rekindled some new hope.

This is what I said...

Do they still have a chance to return to the stage of "The Voice 2024"?

Shantimo and Park Ji-jae looked at Li Xiao with shining eyes.

At this moment, Li Xiao was already sweating profusely because of what Ding Xin and Liao Bei said.

He pursed his lips, then nodded, looked at Ding Xin and other eliminated singers and said:

"We do have some arrangements for you, but we haven't finalized how to arrange them yet."

After a while, facing the teasing looks of Ding Xin and others, Li Xiao was unable to continue.

However, relying on the thick skin he had accumulated over the years as a director, he still said what he had to say:
"So everyone should try to prepare two songs. Once our program team finalizes the final plan, we will notify everyone as soon as possible."

"Okay, got it."

Ding Xin smiled jokingly, as if she saw through Li Xiao.

Sure enough, this matter was exactly as she expected!
"Two songs? Director Li, our previous contract stated that we would sing one song per episode, right? We suddenly have two songs in the next episode. Does that count as overtime pay?"

Liao Bei asked a question from a rather tricky angle.

Hearing this, Bai Xingjian's eyes lit up and he looked straight at Li Xiao.

"This will definitely be calculated as overtime pay, and we won't treat anyone unfairly in this regard."

When this topic was mentioned, Li Xiao nodded solemnly.

But Bai Xingjian's glowing eyes almost made him collapse.

Is this guy short of money recently?

Are you so excited about overtime pay?
……

After chatting about some more minor matters, everyone in the room dispersed.

The recording of pre-production began, and the discussion of the final plan began.

Everyone has a bright future.

They were busy until the early hours of the morning, when Bai Xingjian and Feng Shiqi finally walked out of the Mango Radio Building and got on the nanny car back to the hotel.

"How's the new song of Galaxy Girl?" Bai Xingjian asked Zheng Wei about the situation.

Although he is recording "The Voice of China 2024" tonight, Bai Xingjian is still very much thinking about the song "Nobody".

"The sales of 'Nobody' in our country are pretty good. It has already exceeded 300 million ten minutes ago."

Having said this, Zheng Wei still had a smile on her face, but she soon changed the subject:
"However, the sales of 'Nobody' in Corea are still in a state of being cold, with sales of less than 300,000, which is even lower than the number of views of the MV we uploaded on YouTube."

Bai Xingjian nodded: "This is normal, don't worry too much. How many views has the MV received on YouTube?"

"I just took a look and it has nearly 200 million views, which is a pretty good number," Zheng Wei replied.

"It's really good. We just need to wait patiently. We need to let the song 'Nobody' ferment slowly for a while."

Bai Xingjian grinned. The current situation was actually better than he had expected.

In particular, the sales of "Nobody" in China exceeded 13 million in about 300 hours.

For a Korean song that has not been through too much publicity and promotion to have such high sales in China in the first place, it is a very outstanding result.

Maybe it’s because of our Phoenix’s blessing?
Bai Xingjian thought so in his heart.

"It's just that there have been a lot of criticisms online about our stance and stuff like that."

Zheng Wei sighed, "The situation is more serious than I thought. Warnings and lawyers' letters are basically useless."

Hearing this, Bai Xingjian frowned.

Then Zheng Wei took out a tablet and began to explain some details.

……

The same sky but different scenery in this magical city.

Although it was already early in the morning, for Shanghai, the night at early hours was no different from the daytime at eight or nine in the morning.

Even the addition of night adds a different atmosphere to the people under the night sky.

Xiao Song, who had just finished working overtime, walked out of the brightly lit office building at around 0:15 in the morning.

Although overtime work is painful, the overtime benefits provided by the company are really good, so Xiao Song has no complaints and is even a little happy.

Today, she has really worked hard again for a day!
The future is promising!
Besides working hard, Xiao Song is also a music lover.

At this time, she was wearing a full-ear headset on her head, and various music of different styles were playing in the headset.

She will listen to any song.

Pop songs, rock songs, rap songs, electronic music, and even some adapted versions of DJ music can make her enjoy listening to them.

The main feature is immunity to all poisons.

Xiao Song, who recharges herself with music, comes to a traffic light. Seeing the nearly 90-second waiting time, she habitually takes out her mobile phone, opens Xinghuo Music, and looks at today's new song recommendations.

"Today's new song is number one in sales, 'Nobody' by Galaxy Girls?"

"Galaxy Girls? I haven't heard much about them. Could they be another girl group specializing in marketing?"

"Forget it. We can't judge people by stereotypes. Let's just listen."

Xiao Song directly clicked on the recommendation page, and the phone screen immediately switched to the "Nobody" page.

The first thing you see is the poster of Galaxy Girls and the MV of "Nobody".

Scrolling down on this page is the purchase area for singles.

【2 yuan】

The price is unified across the country, no cheating for anyone.

Xiao Song glanced at the poster, his eyes lit up, and his favorability towards Galaxy Girl increased a few points.

"The girls in this group are all pretty."

“I just don’t know if it’s just for show.”

Xiao Song muttered to himself and had some expectations for the song "Nobody".

But she didn't click on the MV. After all, she was still on the street and it was very inconvenient to watch it.

So Xiao Song scrolled straight down to the purchase area and paid for the item casually.

Just two dollars.

Tonight's overtime pay was enough for her to buy two hundred songs like this.

Xiao Song does not feel any psychological pressure about purchasing the single.

This is her way of pleasing herself, just like a man buying cigarettes.

The nearly 90-second wait time at the red light passed quickly while I was looking at my phone.

Feeling that people around him were moving, Xiao Song also completed the purchase of "Nobody".

As she took a step forward, she pressed the play button.

The moment the music started, she put her phone back in her pocket and walked forward.

Everything is just right.

The song "Nobody" played in Xiao Song's headphones, and her thoughts began to drift along with the melody of the song.

“This song has a retro feel.”

"Hanwen? The Galaxy Girls are the girl group from Corea?"

"But when I saw the poster just now, they looked like the most beautiful girls in our country."

"That probably means our domestic girl groups are beginning to enter the music market in Coria. That's awesome!"

"It sounds good!"

Before Xiao Song finished listening to the song "Nobody", he felt deeply attracted to it.

Xiao Song became even happier when he thought about the accompanying MV for this song.

In her eyes, a good song + officially released MV = perfect musical work.

Although they were still on the street, Xiao Song's heart was already beginning to beat fast.

“This song “Nobody” is so beautiful and exciting!”

After listening to "Nobody" once, Xiao Song felt that all his fatigue from overtime work was swept away.

If a mobile phone can be charged for five minutes and can provide two hours of talk time.

As for Xiao Song, she probably just listens to music for five minutes and works overtime for two hours.

Xiao Song, who was unable to contain her emotions any longer, took out her cell phone from her trouser pocket. She did not watch the MV of "Nobody", but opened the comment section of the song to see what other people thought of the song.

"There are already more than 3 comments? It seems that everyone is discussing it very much!"

Xiao Song was walking on the street while looking at his mobile phone, a smile appearing from time to time.

[The melody of this song is so catchy! After just one listen, it's already lingering in my mind, it's like I'm addicted! ]

This is the most popular comment, with about 4.8 likes.

Xiao Song nodded in agreement and raised his hand to give a thumbs up to the comment.

[Bai Xingjian is really amazing! Not only did he write the song, he also shot the MV, he even played the role in the MV, and his acting skills are also very high. This year, the domestic entertainment industry has really received a purple star from the sky! ]

This comment ranked second in popularity.

After seeing the contents clearly, Xiao Song opened his mouth slightly.

Is this song “Nobody” written in Bai Xing’s abbreviation?

Was it he who shot the MV?

He also starred in the MV?

(End of this chapter)