I really don't want to be the top streamer anymore

Chapter 158 "The Wind Rises"

As June approaches, the promotion and publicity for several dramas aired during the summer season has entered a white-hot stage.

All major video platforms, TV stations, and producers have used almost all kinds of tricks and tricks.

Among them, the first to be broadcast, "Mysterious Valley" and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", are the most active.

But at this moment, Xu Kong's Weibo was suddenly updated, and it was not about his new drama "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

"Su Zhi's new album?"

"Fuck, Xu Kong is in charge of the lyrics, music and production of the entire album. Am I really not dreaming?"

"No, the Immortal Sword is about to be aired, why are you still secretly holding back on your ultimate move?"

It’s no wonder that netizens reacted so strongly, mainly because from last year to now, Xu Kong and Su Zhi have collaborated the most times.

In fact, except for writing a new song for Song Youyou and Shang Yuxin during that period, the rest of the songs were almost all written for Su Zhi.

And rumors have begun to spread that Xu Kong only writes songs for Su Zhi, and other singers in the circle are directly rejected even if they offer a very high price.

Now, after about a year, news of Su Zhi's new album has been released again.

Although last year's album received poor reviews, this time it is obviously different.

That long list represents that Xu Kong almost took charge of the production of the entire album.

Such news could hardly fail to shock the Chinese music scene at that time.

In addition, with Su Zhi and Xu Kong appearing together, you can imagine how popular it is on the Internet.

In just less than half an hour, the Weibo post sent out by Su Zhi and her studio and forwarded by Xu Kong directly topped the trending searches.

However, the most confused ones at this moment are probably the kiwi and mango groups.

The two previous dramas, "Mysterious Valley" and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", had a mixed response in terms of publicity and promotion.

In addition to Weibo hot searches, there is also promotion on other platforms, including the promotion of internet trolls and so on.

At such a critical moment, Xu Kong, the director and leading actor of The Legend of Sword and Fairy, suddenly started promoting the new album he produced for Su Zhi?

You picked the wrong time, didn't you?

"Boss Qin, is it possible that this is Feng Ge's plan?"

When Qin Xian heard what the head of the operations and promotion department said, he nodded with a serious expression.

There was almost no news about Su Zhi's new album before.

And if it's just a pre-release song for an album, why not release it whenever?
Why did he choose the time just before his new drama was about to be aired?

This inevitably made Qin Xian think of Xu Kong's favorite promotional method in the past.

It means using the soundtrack of your own drama to help promote it in advance.

He felt that Xu Kong would probably use the same tactics this time.

But the subsequent developments were completely different from what Qin Xian had expected.

Although Xu Kong, the producer of Su Zhi's new album, is also very popular, his new drama "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" has never been mentioned in the subsequent promotion.

It seems like it’s just a pre-release song for a new album.

There isn't even enough time to warm up.

When the news came out, there were less than three days left in May.

But they chose to schedule the first march on June 1st.

Even with the bonus of several hot searches, the promotion time for such an album is definitely not enough.

"This news is so sudden!"

"What's the feeling? Of course it's a surprise."

"Just the fact that Xu Kong and Su Zhi's names are put together is exciting enough, not to mention that Xu Kong is directly responsible for the production of Su Zhi's entire new album this time."

"This is definitely something that we music fans should be very happy about."

In Feiniao's live broadcast room, on the day the news of Su Zhi's new album was released, he couldn't wait to start the broadcast.

With such great popularity, and it being related to his "noble man" Xu Kong, it is impossible for him not to take the initiative to take advantage of it.

Of course, the news that people on both sides had been arguing about online, that Xu Kong spent most of his time filming and did not concentrate on making music, has finally been refuted.

"I apologize to Xu Kong. I did speak a little loudly before."

As Fat Bird was speaking, he actually stood up for great show effect, then bent down and said sorry.

This amused all the netizens in the live broadcast room who came to join in the fun.

"As expected of Leader Xu Chui, he changes his expression so quickly."

"Didn't they say Xu Kong wouldn't be able to release a new album this year? I guess no one would have thought that instead of releasing his own album, he wrote a whole one directly for Su Zhi."

“Although it’s not Xu Kong’s own album, if it’s a collaboration with Su Zhi, I’m really looking forward to it even more!”

The most confused people at this time are the netizens who just received the news, as well as the two broadcasting platforms and producers of "Mysterious Valley".

Instead, he is the person in charge of both QQ Music and Penguin Music.

Although the news has been released, their platform itself doesn’t know anything about Su Zhi’s new album!

Generally speaking, for a singer like Su Zhi, let alone a new album, even if she releases a single, the first to know about it will definitely be her music platform.

Because in addition to their help with promotion, the songs will also be uploaded in advance and then released on time.

Now, neither side has received any news, and they subconsciously think that Su Zhi has chosen to cooperate with a hostile platform.

The two sides are the biggest competitors, so it is definitely impossible for them to communicate with each other in a friendly manner.

But when I looked at it, Su Zhi's new album was so popular on major social platforms, so why didn't they even make a promotional interface on the homepage?

"Is the news accurate?"

At the headquarters of Cloud Music, as the only person in charge of music copyright in the entire company, Ran Yunxiang, the vice president, can be said to have one of the greatest powers in the entire company.

Although Ran Yunxiang is only in her thirties, she has reached this position entirely through her outstanding abilities.

At the beginning, we negotiated the copyrights of more than 40 singers, including seven kings and queens of singing, from Jiying Media at one time. Even today, it is still a very dazzling record.

"There shouldn't be anything wrong."

Hearing Ran Yunxiang's question, the subordinate nodded seriously.

Most of Su Zhi's songs are copyrighted by their cloud music.

The last album was even a so-called exclusive.

But this time, for some reason, Ran Yunxiang didn't even get any relevant information, and there was no chance for her to take the initiative to negotiate with Su Zhi.

It was revealed that Su Zhi's new album is preparing to release a pre-release song.

If you really think about it, it's true that she didn't do her job well enough.

After all, Xu Kong, the youngest king of singers, took charge of all the lyrics and album production, and this is the latest album of Su Zhi, the youngest queen of singers.

Putting aside the quality of the album and whether it will be a hit, the lineup alone is enough for them to spend a lot of money negotiating copyright issues.

At first, she did think that Su Zhi chose to cooperate with Penguin Music this time.

But it seems that the rival platforms, like them, have no news at all.

She should have thought of this earlier. If they had really already negotiated a cooperation, it would be impossible that Penguin Music would not even give her a homepage promotion after the news was released.

After all, June is also the time when singers release songs in large numbers.

But the combination of Su Zhi and Xu Kong would not appear so shabby.

"So where do they plan to release the new song?"

"Cool music?"

After just thinking about it for a moment, Ran Yunxiang shook her head.

Because Cool Music, an old music platform, no longer has as many users as the other two major music platforms, it also seems quite indifferent in the competition for singers' copyrights.

Unless Su Zhi is really desperate, it is impossible for her to really cooperate with Cool Music.

The only explanation is that Su Zhi does not plan to release the audio source of the promotional song for the new album directly.

It's just a warm-up for the entire album that follows.

However, Ran Yunxiang did not wonder for too long, and in the blink of an eye it was already June 1st.

The first song of Su Zhi's new album was also released on time. "Did Su Zhi upload it herself?"

Ran Yunxiang was stunned for a moment.

The main thing is that for someone of Su Zhi’s status, the copyright must have been negotiated before the song was released.

Their platform will be responsible for the subsequent song releases.

The songs that I uploaded were all guessed correctly by some independent musicians.

However, when she saw Su Zhi's song appear on Penguin Music, she immediately understood.

“Finally it came out!”

At this moment, the number of people in Feiniao's live broadcast room has exceeded 80,000, and the number is still increasing rapidly, and it is about to break the 100,000 mark.

Starting from the originally scheduled time of twelve noon, Feiniao quickly refreshed Su Zhi's singer page.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the new song marked “new” on it.

At this point in the entire album, only one song was lit up, and the rest were all gray and all looked like “???”.

The practice of releasing advance songs of an album in advance is quite common in the music scene today, and Feiniao didn't think there was any big problem with it.

At the same time, he also began to look at the name of Su Zhi's album.

"Suxu?"

When he saw the title of the album, Fat Bird was also stunned.

He didn't expect that this album would be named directly after the surnames of Su Zhi and Xu Kong.

Isn't this the official way to support the couple?
Sure enough, when they saw the album title, the couple members in the live broadcast room had already started to party.

"Fuck, this time I really hit the real thing!"

"I'm just saying, is this equivalent to an official announcement?"

"There's something wrong with these two people. The title of this album is really wrong!"

Although he was a little excited, Fei Niao still interpreted it very seriously:
“There’s actually nothing wrong with this album title.”

"After all, we said during the previous promotion that all the songs in the entire album were written by Xu Kong, and he also took charge of all the production."

"Strictly speaking, this album is not just Su Zhi's album, so there's nothing wrong with adding Xu Kong to the credit."

There is really nothing wrong with Fei Niao's opinion.

After all, it is impossible for an ordinary album producer to create all the songs in a singer's album.

Situations like Xu Kong's have happened before.

However, the songwriter at that time collaborated with many different singers, and the album itself was also under his name.

Having said all this, at the urging of the audience in the live broadcast room, Fei Niao finally turned his attention to the only first release song in this album.

“The Wind Rises”

"Singer: Su Zhi"

"Lyrics, composition, arrangement: Xu Kong"

After repeating the song title, Fat Bird clicked play.

Immediately afterwards, a piano sound with a hint of sadness but full of atmosphere sounded.

"The style is somewhat different from the song Xu Kong wrote for Su Zhi before."

Fat Bird said the right nonsense.

Because the styles of songs written by Xu Kong in this year cover a very wide range.

The one dedicated to Su Zhi alone has a big change in style.

“Stop and go along the way”

"Follow the traces of youth drifting"

“The moment before leaving the station”

“Somewhat hesitant”

When Su Zhi's singing voice came, the fat bird was slightly stunned.

Because Su Zhi's voice was much deeper than before.

But the other party did not deliberately suppress the tone of his voice when singing, and the overall feeling was surprisingly natural.

"When I first came into contact with this world, I was fascinated by it"

"Looking at the horizon seems to be before your eyes"

"I'm willing to go through fire and water to get it over again."

Su Zhi's pitch is gradually rising, and the mood and atmosphere of the song are also following Su Zhi's singing.

This is another song with a very harmonious combination of lyrics, melody and arrangement.

What impressed Feiniao the most was the atmosphere created by the entire song, from the lyrics to the melody.

It's easy to get immersed in it almost as soon as Su Zhi opens her mouth.

For a moment, it was actually difficult for Fei Niao to give too many comments.

Because although the lyrics are not obscure or difficult to understand, they are not the kind that are narrative.

More importantly, it still serves the atmosphere and mood of the entire song.

Just as Fat Bird was thinking about this, the song finally reached the most crucial chorus part.

“I once had a hard time extricating myself from the size of the world.”

"Also indulged in sleep talking"

"No truth or falsehood, no struggle, no fear of jokes"

The moment the melody and lyrics of the chorus came out, Fei Niao felt goosebumps all over his body.

Su Zhi also has a strong high-pitched part, but compared with the previous song "Sha Po Lang", it is much less technical and more like an emotional catharsis.

At this time, barrages of comments began to flood the screen.

"Fuck, that's so good!"

“This new song really hits my mark!”

"Great, great! This is the quality that Su Zhi's album should have."

As the song neared its end, the sound of the arrangement suddenly became weaker.

And Su Zhi's own vocals become more prominent.

"The evening breeze blows the white hair on your temples"

"Healing the scars left by memories"

"In your eyes, light and darkness are mixed, and a smile brings flowers to life"

Throughout this entire section, the arrangement consists almost exclusively of weak piano sounds.

But it is this kind of treatment that brings the atmosphere of the entire song to its highest point.

The fat bird's expression and body began to distort at this moment.

However, audiences who are slightly familiar with each other know that this is not an expression of disapproval. If it were really unpleasant, Fat Bird would simply remain expressionless most of the time.

Fat Bird only does this on rare occasions when he hears an amazing new song and is really excited about it.

"The old man is exerting himself."

"Don't scare me, anchor."

"Poet's Grip!"

Although there were some comments that made fun of memes, most people felt their scalps tingling when they heard this.

"Wherever the heart moves, it will go with the wind"

"In the name of love, are you still willing~"

As the last line of the lyrics ended, the number of people in Feiniao's live broadcast room had successfully reached a terrifying 160,000.

(End of this chapter)