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Chapter 132: The Fiercely Competitive New Year's Eve Party
"This year's New Year's Eve party guest lineup has basically been announced."

"Analyze the highlights of each company?"

In Feiniao's live broadcast room, the most talked-about topic during this period is naturally the upcoming New Year's Eve party.

Compared to the past, TV stations are now more willing to spend money on New Year’s Eve parties.

With the entry of platforms like Kiwi, Penguin Video, and Tudou Video, the competition for New Year’s Eve parties can only be said to be increasingly fierce.

They are all trying their best to attract traffic and exposure.

Including poaching people from the entire entertainment industry.

As long as you are not extremely obscure, you can almost always make an appearance at some New Year's Eve party.

Those with greater fame will sing solo, or even perform several shows in a row by themselves.

Especially some small TV stations with limited budgets would tend to invite a big-name first-tier star and make the best use of him.

The remaining programs, if pieced together, can also bring the stage together.

For those with smaller status, it’s just a chorus of artists.

Rich and influential TV stations, such as Mango TV, almost don’t have to worry about program problems.

This time, the number of first-line stars alone is estimated to be more than twenty.

After all, its network resources in the entertainment industry are unmatched by other stations.

“The three established local TV stations definitely have the most luxurious guest lineups.”

"Mango is the most prominent representative, but the lineup of this year's Mango New Year's Eve party is also weird. Some of the people I had expected didn't even come."

"But if you want to have fun, mango is definitely the best choice, as most of the people there are familiar faces."

"If you want to watch some shows, Tomato TV is a good choice. The program list has a good distribution of various types of programs, and there is no shortage of performances by singing kings and queens to watch."

Although Feiniao is indeed a latecomer, he cannot be said to have any professional knowledge of music theory.

But it has to be said that his knowledge of all kinds of messy gossip in the entertainment industry and the number of artists he knows definitely exceed that of many traditional music critics.

If you ask him about an artist who will be participating in a certain TV station, he can give a serious evaluation for a long time and even give his own predictions about how the artist will perform on the spot.

"In addition, the guests from Penguin Video and Kiwi are also good."

"But after taking a look at some of the promotional materials for the show, I feel that they are more inclined to invite some actors to participate, and the overall watchability of the show remains to be considered."

"Of course, there are several others worth watching, such as this year's Beijing TV station."

When the barrage heard Fei Niao mention Beijing TV Station, they immediately understood.

"I cried my ass off. It turns out the host still can't let go of Xu Kong."

"I thought Xu Kong would go to Mango, but he ended up going to the New Year's Eve party in Beijing."

"The host truly loves Xu Kong. After all this talk, it must be that Xu Kong will watch the evening party wherever he goes, right?"

When Fat Bird saw that his idea was exposed, he did not refute it, but admitted it generously.

"Indeed, the singer I'm most looking forward to is Xu Kong. After all, he's probably the singer with the fastest rising popularity this year, and he's also the most popular singer."

"Besides that, the guest lineup of Beijing TV Station is not bad either."

"After all, with a big company like Fengge working with us, there is no shortage of first- and second-tier celebrities to invite."

After being labeled as "Xu Chui", Feiniao was somewhat resistant at first, but as Xu Kong won the best pair of the year and successfully defended the title of "Our Song".

He simply didn't bother to pretend anymore.

A fairly loyal supporter.

He has expressed his opinion many times, believing that with the quality of Xu Kong's current works, as well as his singing skills and stage performance, he is absolutely worthy of the title of King of Singers.

Perhaps there is still a gap between him and some of the veteran singers who have been in the industry for many years, but Xu Kong is too young after all, and his future growth potential is unfathomable.

As time gets closer to the New Year, relevant information about the guests and programs of various New Year’s Eve parties have been released.

Almost every time on Weibo, the hot searches are about which TV station has invited the king of singers, or who is going to perform with whom.

Don’t think that local TV stations like these won’t buy hot searches and marketing. If they had money, everyone would probably be Mango.

I wish the popularity here could suppress all my peers.

In fact, every TV station has quite high indicators, especially for large-scale programs like the New Year’s Eve Gala.

The actual situation of most TV stations is that they simply do not have the resources and budget to invite those currently popular first-line singers and artists.

The only way is to take the so-called nostalgic route.

Invite some artists who were once very popular but are now out of fashion.

There isn't much innovation in the show, it's almost just the singers' own representative works.

However, on this day, although the official account of Beijing released some news, the popularity suddenly skyrocketed.

It was a live rehearsal photo. In addition to Xu Kong, who had already become famous, there was also the country's top singing queen Hua Hongjuan on the stage.

The related discussion quickly became the top trending search topic.

Even the number of likes and comments on short video platforms skyrocketed.

"Fuck, Xu Kong is going to cooperate with Teacher Hua Hongjuan, is this true?"

"What a magical combination! This kind of cooperation is totally beyond our expectations!"

"Not only that, it seems that the song they sang was also a new song written by Xu Kong."

"I was still wondering which show to watch for New Year's Eve, but now I have made a decision!"

Hua Hongjuan may not appear in public for a year.

But this does not mean that the other party is not popular.

You should know that even now, Hua Hongjuan's number of more than 90 million Weibo fans still ranks among the top ten stars in the entire domestic entertainment industry.

I opened an account on a short video platform half a year ago. Although I hardly operated it and there were only two or three videos on my homepage, I still managed to gain over 10 million followers.

Such influence is the best in the entire country.

To put it bluntly, even the top stars who are good at data are still no match for them.

There is no way. Although Hua Hongjuan is only in her early forties, she has been popular for nearly twenty years, and her peak period is really too long.

The mere fact that Beijing TV was able to invite them to the New Year's Eve Gala already gave them a huge advantage.

What's more, the leaked news is that Xu Kong and Hua Hongjuan will sing on the same stage. As the artists who have been in the limelight and have been on the most trending searches this year, it is hard not to look forward to the stage of the top queen of the music industry and the new king of singing Xu Kong.

"Beijing TV has become the most popular online because of the news that Xu Kong and Hua Hongjuan sang together on the same stage."

"Manager Li, should we take any measures?"

Li Xun shook his head: "That's not necessary."

Li Xun is less than 40 years old, with carefully groomed bangs. He doesn't look like a director, but more like a professional manager.

Of course, in reality he was not a professional director, and he was previously in charge of Mango TV’s copyright cooperation work.

This is the first time I am responsible for such a large-scale evening party.

"but."

The assistant director wanted to say something but was interrupted by the other party.

"Our goal this year is to maintain our No. 1 ratings position for the New Year's Eve Gala."

"Beijing TV didn't even make it into the top five in ratings last year, and the numbers weren't very impressive."

"Our main focus now should be on the other two companies."

Li Xun himself was under a lot of pressure. Mango TV's New Year's Eve Gala had been ranked first in ratings for three consecutive years.

And last year, under the personal supervision of Wu Youxue, the company was leading by a huge margin.

This time he was directly arranged to replace Wu Youxue's position as the director of the evening party. If he does not continue to maintain the top ratings, he will definitely be dissatisfied with the top management.

Moreover, Li Xun had been the manager of Mango TV's copyright department for nearly five years, and this was almost his only chance to move up the ladder.

It can also be seen that Mango TV’s senior management is obviously very supportive of him.

If all goes well, it will not be a problem for him to successfully replace Wu Youxue in the future.

"Manager Li, Bian Tao suddenly changed his mind and said that he might not be able to make time for New Year's Eve."

The matter regarding the Beijing TV Station's New Year's Eve Gala has not been dealt with yet, and Li Xun's assistant came with new bad news.

"Substitute!"

"I just don't believe it. Are all these celebrities in the entertainment industry really that close to Wu Youxue?"

Li Xun gritted his teeth and spoke.

This is obviously not the first time something like this has happened.

In other words, although the lineup of Mango TV's New Year's Eve Gala is still very luxurious, if you look closely, you will find that some artists who have a good relationship with Mango TV and are more popular and hot are not there.

Including Xu Kong, who just topped the trending search list.

According to Li Xun's original idea, Xu Kong must be invited to their party this year.

After all, his popularity this year is indeed the highest in the domestic entertainment industry.

The key is that Xu Kong’s popularity among the public is also quite good now. If he could sing a new song written by the other party at the party, it would be even better.

The idea was indeed perfect, but he completely overlooked the terrifying network of contacts that Wu Youxue had cultivated in the entertainment industry over the past decade.

As for Xu Kong, not to mention Xu Kong himself, even his agent couldn’t be contacted.

In the end, I only received a rejection email.

Moreover, some of the artists who were originally planned to be invited almost all declined the invitation to the New Year's Eve party with various reasons.

This sounds really ridiculous.

After all, with Mango TV’s popularity, every year at the New Year’s Eve Gala, not to mention the celebrities rushing to be on the show, there’s no one who would refuse.

Especially last year's New Year's Eve party, Wu Youxue almost invited all the top singers and actors in the circle.

If you are less popular or well-known, you are not qualified at all.

But when they got to him, they all seemed to be avoiding him in fear.

Even if he was offered an interview at some less influential TV stations with lower appearance fees, he still declined.

"Our goal this year is to be in the top three in ratings!"

"Based on the data from previous years, if it breaks 1.5, we should be able to achieve it."

“It’s currently ranked first on the hot search list on all major platforms, which is the first step to success.”

At Beijing TV Station, Liu Qiliang was encouraging the evening party staff.

"Okay, that's it for now. We'll go through the process today, and the afternoon will be reserved for teachers Xu Kong and Hua Hongjuan."

As soon as Liu Qiliang finished speaking, he received the news that Xu Kong had arrived.

He quickened his pace and walked towards the backstage lounge.

"Teacher Xu Kong."

"how's it going?!!"

As soon as he saw Xu Kong in person, Liu Qiliang couldn't wait to ask.

"It shouldn't be a big problem."

Xu Kong was relatively calm.

After two days of practice with Hua Hongjuan, the results are currently quite good.

"Whoo~"

After hearing Xu Kong's words, Liu Qiliang was obviously relieved.

The only news he received in the past two days was that Hua Hongjuan was quite satisfied with the new song written by Xu Kong.

This is great news for him.

At least there is no need to worry that Xu Kong and Hua Hongjuan’s collaboration on stage will be ruined.

After all, Hua Hongjuan was not very satisfied with several songs that they had asked others to write.

This is the biggest hurdle we have overcome.

However, the song seems to be quite difficult, and the effect of the subsequent collaboration on stage between the two is still unknown.

Mainly Xu Kong's side.

There is almost no need to worry about Hua Hongjuan's singing skills.

After two days of running-in, it seems that there won't be any major problems at the moment.

"Teacher Hua"

When Hua Hongjuan came in, several people immediately greeted her politely.

Although he had known Hua Hongjuan before, it was only after Xu Kong practiced singing with her for two days that he truly understood how terrifying she was.

This song is quite challenging for Xu Kong.

Strictly speaking, if he really wanted to sing, it wouldn't be particularly difficult.

But what is really difficult is singing with Hua Hongjuan.

The other party's high note and the momentum when singing really put a lot of pressure on Xu Kong.

After all, Hua Hongjuan is already in her forties, so it is inevitable that she looks a lot older than when she was young, but her mental state and all aspects are definitely at their peak.

"Don't be so polite, take a seat."

Hua Hongjuan said with a smile.

"Don't be nervous, Xiao Xu. After these few days of running-in, the stage is already pretty good."

“There’s no need to put too much pressure on yourself.”

Hua Hongjuan spoke up to comfort her.

Originally, when she heard about working with Xu Kong, although she did not resist, she was not prepared to agree directly.

The main reason was that he felt Xu Kong was too young, and the duet stage performance between the two of them would hardly meet her long-standing requirements.

To put it bluntly, he is afraid of being held back by Xu Kong.

But after listening to the new song written by Xu Kong, Hua Hongjuan found that the song was indeed suitable for her, and she agreed after some hesitation.

And he is already prepared to take care of Xu Kong, the junior.

But when the two really started practicing, they were shocked by Xu Kong's singing skills.

It is no exaggeration to say that at Xu Kong's age, it was the first time that Hua Hongjuan met a singer with such high singing skills.

Even she herself back then was far from achieving that.

(End of this chapter)