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Chapter 55: Writing a song for an idol whose career has collapsed?

Chapter 55: Writing a song for an idol whose career has collapsed?
When it comes to Spotify, probably no one in China knows it at all, but on a global scale, the name is very well-known.

Because this is currently the world's largest music platform, equivalent to the combined size of Tencent Music, Soft Music, and Red Cloud Music in China!

It is also affectionately known as "Sound Breaker" by some veteran listeners in China.

As for why the company is targeting the international market, the reason is simple: the popularity of Xia Shen's new album has given them a great deal of confidence.

The entire Chinese rap scene was directly shaken. To be honest, the executives at Visual Effects Culture never imagined that it would become so popular so quickly.

The company did indeed invest a lot of money and resources in its operations from the very beginning, and unprecedentedly raised its budget to 500 million.

With an additional 100 million yuan in production costs, Xia Shen's album cost a staggering 600 million yuan!
However, while 600 million seems like a lot, after deducting the 100 million production cost, frankly speaking, 500 million invested in the marketing and distribution market is not a large number.

Even in terms of operations, they envisioned a slow, gradual rise to popularity.

Unlike now, they have directly dominated the entire Chinese rap scene in the shortest possible time. Now, within the entire rap scene, no one who has listened to this album has anything bad to say about it.

The album has received overwhelmingly positive reviews! Every rapper who has listened to this album has given it extremely high praise!
However, it's currently only limited to the rap scene, which isn't actually very satisfactory for the company.

They wanted to open up new avenues, to take this song to international platforms, and to go overseas.

However, this also has some drawbacks.

That is, foreigners simply don't listen to Chinese songs.

This has nothing to do with quality; it's purely a language issue.

Generally speaking, most of them only listen to English works.

If all else fails, listen to Spanish.

Songs in other languages are all niche overseas; apart from certain native speakers who might support them, no one would specifically listen to them.

This raises a question: if the album goes global and becomes popular, it will likely only be popular among Chinese and overseas Chinese communities.

It's not that they lack confidence in winning over foreign audiences, but rather that there isn't a single Chinese musician who is truly famous internationally right now.

not a single one!

If I had to say, there was only one: the one who was once hailed as the Queen of Disco, the one whose singing was accompanied by electronic music.

Aside from her, who has truly gone international and has a genuine international following, the other musicians are only well-known within the Chinese-speaking world, and their fame is quite limited.

You know, so many big names haven't been able to achieve this, haven't been able to go overseas and carve out their own niche, does Xia Shen have that kind of confidence?

Of course not.

But since the company has made this decision, he won't say anything.

And most importantly, this time nobody said he was Tang!

This is what Xia Shen is most satisfied with and happiest about.

No matter what he did before, there were always a lot of people who criticized him, such as him making Tang songs.

This is his first time making a premium album, and the entire album has received rave reviews in the rap scene. No one has said anything bad about him.

"Let's see how they handle this time."

Not a single bit!

Tang Na used to do things because of their nature; they were all lowbrow and cheesy, and they were just doing things to gain traffic.

Now that he's started producing premium albums, does this mean his music career is about to get on track and he can finally shed the "Tang" label?
Then, taking advantage of this opportunity, he can focus on making some popular and well-known songs.

Because of this change, Xia Shen was very happy, and even when he ate with Zhou Yumeng, his appetite was much better than before.

At the familiar, delicious skewers restaurant, he and Zhou Yumeng drank their wheat juice in one gulp over the bubbling red broth.

"Ha—, that's great!" Xia Shen said with a satisfied expression.

"Then congratulations on finally being able to walk the path you want to walk," Zhou Yumeng said with a smile.

"But I don't know why, logically speaking, the quality of this album is very high, that's true, but why do I always have a bad feeling?" Xia Shen frowned again.

The feeling was strange; it was vague and not obvious, just a sense of unease, as if things might not go the way he wanted.

That feeling of déjà vu.

I felt a sudden, inexplicable panic.

"It's probably psychological," Zhou Yumeng said. "Even if your album were to be judged internationally, it would be top-notch, especially the beat. No one could find any fault with it, so don't overthink it."

"Let's hope so," Xia Shen said. "Eat! Keep drinking!"

After three drinks.

Zhou Yumeng: "Oh right, there's something I forgot to tell you. The company might need you to come back and do some work in a while." "Hmm? What is it?" Xia Shen asked.

He has had a producer contract with July Records for some time now, but July Records has never asked him to do anything or entrusted him with any tasks.

Is it finally coming?
Zhou Yumeng said, "Actually, it's not necessarily true. The company is still discussing it, but I can give you a heads-up that it's probably related to Cai Zhiyin."

"Cai Zhiyin? The one whose house collapsed while he was making fried noodles?" Xia Shen asked immediately.

“Yes.” Zhou Yumeng nodded: “The company might find someone to write a song for him as a way to break the deadlock, because normally, no amount of public relations can help now, the audience won’t buy it, but the company has spent so much money to sign him, if it collapses like this, the loss will be huge.”

"I see." Xia Shen nodded.

He did remember this Cai Zhiyin.

No, I have a strong impression of it.

If we were to name the most popular idol right now, without a doubt, it would be Najiin.

Undoubtedly the top of the top, he has been incredibly popular ever since his debut on a trainee program.

Moreover, his popularity is different from others. Even if idols are handsome and popular, their popularity is limited to a very small circle, such as the field of vision of fangirls.

Cai Zhiyin is different; his popularity extends to all age groups and all demographics.

Even among the male audience, there is a terrifying fan base.

He even has far more male fans than female fans, who are his main fan base.

This is a very strange phenomenon.

The reason he has so many male fans is actually quite easy to understand: these fans are all haters.

But after constantly criticizing them, I've developed a kind of affection for them.

He originally had a solid fanbase and a massive following.

But things went wrong when the stir-fried noodles incident was exposed, and it was confirmed that chicken essence was added.

With such irrefutable evidence laid out before them, there's no way to deny it.

“The company has tried other things, such as using other cases to win public relations, but it didn’t work, nobody bought it,” Zhou Yumeng said. “Now the only option left is to write a really good song for him, and even set our sights on the international market.”

"We'll see when the time comes," Xia Shen said.

If that's the case, then it's quite a big deal.

It's uncertain whether it will even be his turn.

The meal lasted two hours before the two of them finally left, each pretending to be "carefree," but in reality, they were gritting their teeth and leaving.

After they all returned home.

At Zhou Yumeng's place.

Zhou Yumeng looked down at what was in front of her.

I wore this whole outfit for nothing.

On the other side, after Xia Shen returned to her dormitory, she also took out an exquisite jewelry box from her pocket.

I still didn't dare to send it out.
"Next time," Xia Shen sighed, shook her head, and put the box back into the drawer.

Let me watch some videos first.

He took out his phone, opened Douyin and Kuaishou, and started scrolling.

Then, originally, there was nothing wrong with him; he was just reading the same content he usually read.

Suddenly, a video popped up, completely shutting down his mind.

This is a somewhat familiar ID.

Barbie Brown