Chapter 18: The Puzzle
Zhang Songnian took a deep breath, strengthened himself, gently opened the door, and tiptoed into the room.
After opening the door, Zhang Songnian saw Li Xingruo lying on the sofa in the hall, a little stunned.
It's only been a few days, why did she come back again?
Li Xingruo looked at Zhang Songnian speechlessly, and complained: "Why don't you open the door without a sound, like a thief." ”
“……”
Zhang Songnian didn't dare to say that he thought his family had been robbed, so he could only vaguely change the topic and ask, "Why are you back again?" ”
"It can't be that something happened again, right?" Zhang Songnian asked with some uncertainty.
Li Xingruo didn't answer, glanced at Zhang Songnian and said, "I'm hungry, go cook." ”
Well, you can't ask about that.
Zhang Songnian immediately understood, thinking that Li Xingruo was in trouble again.
Sure enough, being a star is really tiring.
Zhang Songnian spread his hands helplessly, and then went directly into the kitchen.
Li Xingruo's mobile phone vibrated and looked at the caller who picked up the phone casually.
After connecting the phone, Zhang Lan's anxious voice came from the mobile phone microphone: "Xingruo, where are you running again, even if you don't plan to renew the contract with the company, you can't hide, you still have several announcements and commercial performances, if you don't go, you will be fined a lot of money." ”
After Li Xingruo listened, he said in a salty tone: "Let's push it away, Sister Lan, I want to be quiet alone for a while, as for the money, if you are fined, you will be fined." ”
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Zhang Lan to continue, Li Xingruo hung up the phone directly, and directly turned on the airplane mode of the mobile phone.
After doing all this, Li Xingruo directly threw his phone aside and looked out the window silently.
Since clarifying his attitude with Zeng Yongkang a few days ago, Li Xingruo can clearly feel the company's change in his attitude.
In the past few days, Li Xingruo has faced a steady stream of commercial performances and announcements.
Xinghuo seems to want to use this method to make Li Xingruo give in, either renew the contract or work for a year.
Li Xingruo naturally couldn't agree to sign this long-term contract, which was similar to a contract for selling his body.
In the past few days, Li Xingruo has been running between various cities, it can be said that he is physically and mentally exhausted, and the time he has to catch up on the car can only be used to catch up on sleep.
If Li Xing is not a submissive person, if he doesn't say whether his body can stand it next time, his spirit will definitely not be able to bear it.
So if Li Xingruo comes back, she has to rest for a while first.
In fact, the problem of Xinghuo is not unsolvable in Li Xingruo's opinion.
Xinghuo dares to squeeze artists like this because most of the artists in the company are excavated by Xinghuo himself in the people, and basically have no background.
But I have a background, and it's big.
Li Zhengrong is a big director in the industry, even a company like Xingcan at the same level as Jin Yu has to sell him a face, let alone a small company like Xinghuo.
But at the beginning, he swore to his father that he would not use his reputation to fake his power.
If you really do this, Xinghuo's matter can be solved, but how do you face your parents.
If Li Xing is a face-saving person and really does this, then he will probably not be able to raise his head in front of his parents for half of his life.
Li Xingruo shook his head and once again rejected the idea.
At present, it seems that the only thing that can get yourself out of this predicament is to take your popularity to the next level.
If he can impact the position of a first-line singer, even if Xinghuo is unwilling, the company will not be able to act rashly.
The company's values and operating system determine that it is difficult for Xinghuo to produce superstars.
Xinghuo has been established for so many years, and there has never been a first-line singer, and the biggest name is only a second-tier star.
But any artist with some potential will try his best to get rid of the fire pit of Xinghuo after becoming famous.
Xinghuo doesn't care too much about it most of the time, because when he signed the contract, it was destined that no matter what, it would always be the artist who would suffer in the end.
Either continue to sign a contract with the company, or be severely exploited by the company for a year and a half when you leave the company.
But the current situation is that it is a bit reluctant to say that he is a quasi-second-tier singer.
It has been more than a year since his debut, and although both albums have platinum sales, the third album has consumed the expectations of many fans, and his popularity has dropped a lot.
Even second-tier singers are still 108,000 miles away from first-tier singers, let alone their current self.
Unless you can have an album that is comparable to the triple platinum level.
What is the concept of a triple platinum-level album, that is, the song can achieve more than 500 million views within a month on the new song chart.
This is somewhat difficult for the current Li Xingruo.
The definition of platinum records was in the eighties and nineties when the era of records was emerging.
It was the era when I could listen to songs or CDs and cassettes.
Sales of 25,000 are considered gold records, 50,000 are platinum records, 100,000 are double platinum, 150,000 are triple platinum, and so on.
But since the rise of the Internet, the way of listening to songs has changed from CDs to MP3s, mobile phones, computers, etc. The definition of platinum records has also been adjusted.
In the Internet era, the new song list has more than 30 million song views in a month, even if it is a gold record.
80 million views can be called a platinum record.
A double platinum record requires more than 200 million views to be considered a double platinum record.
The standard of three platinums is a little higher, requiring 500 million views.
Although now everyone has more channels to listen to songs, and it is faster.
However, compared to the definition of record honor, the standard is not the same, and the difficulty can only be said to increase.
Three platinum record songs, if Li Xing has not seen them, but few, really very few.
Generally speaking, singers at the level of kings and queens have the opportunity to impact this honor, and it depends on the public acceptance of that album.
Li Xingruo frowned, if he wants to release a new album at present, the company's resources are definitely unlikely to be able to count on it.
Of course, it is unlikely that a company like Xinghuo will be able to come up with a triple platinum-level golden song.
That means that you need to find songs by yourself, but you are alone in the entertainment industry, where can you find those excellent songwriters to write and compose for yourself.
My father knows a lot, but if I really ask my father for help, it is better to directly use his name to have a showdown with Xinghuo Entertainment.
Zhang Songnian walked in front of Li Xingruo, glanced at Li Xingruo curiously, and then turned his hand into a palm and shook it in front of Li Xingruo a few times.
Then Li Xingruo let out a "yah" and was startled.
Subconsciously leaned behind the sofa, and after coming back to his senses, Li Xingruo glared at Zhang Songnian.
"What are you doing?!"