Entertainment: Starting with a Song of Rice Fragrance

73 If it weren't for Zheng Ning saving face for us...

"Ring ring~"

A sudden phone call startled Zheng Ning, who was eating lunch, so much so that she almost dropped her bowl on the table.

"Hey Ningzi, haha, you have some free time now, right? Quickly check your phone! Your new songs 'Tornado' and 'Seven Mile Fragrance' are a huge hit!"

Zhu Kai's excited voice came through the phone.

"What? My song got a super boost? What happened?"

He quickly returned to his bedroom and opened the Feixing Music website on his computer screen.

The homepage displayed the January new song chart, and he quickly scrolled down to find it.

Surprisingly, "Seven Mile Fragrance" was found at number 478, while "Tornado" was ranked at number 504!

"Holy crap, what happened? How did it suddenly jump over 300 places?"

Zheng Ning was also dumbfounded.

When I checked yesterday, "Seven Mile Fragrance" had been downloaded 178700 times and ranked 758th.

Meanwhile, "Tornado" was downloaded 168459 times, ranking 821st.

How come it suddenly rose so many times?

Could it be that Jiang Zhiping's side has already started to exert its influence?

Wow, that's awesome! You just say you'll do it and then you do it. You really didn't call me "brother" wrongly!

And the situation is getting better and better!

I spoke with Zhao Lu last night, and she said she would fully support the two new songs, but it would be difficult to take them to the next level.

After all, 29,500 singers released new songs in January. Being able to maintain the current position, which is already in the top 2.5%, is a very, very good result!

Moreover, this time the list no longer includes newcomers, but rather established singers with their own fan base. Their companies will not hesitate to invest in them, so it would be unrealistic to expect them to sweep the competition like the newcomer list.

But Brother Jiang's side was surprisingly strong, a truly unexpected and unexpected rise!

Now that's the case, it's not impossible for me to break into the top 100, haha!

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The day before Zheng Ning was surprised by the sudden rise in the rankings of his two new songs.

Hengcheng, Flying Entertainment Headquarters Building.

Every office, usually bustling and noisy, was deathly quiet, as if no one had come to work.

A tense atmosphere hung over everyone's workstations. The tens of thousands of employees at Feiyang Entertainment subconsciously held their breath, trying to keep their voices and movements as quiet as possible.

It all started with that luxurious RR sedan parked outside the main entrance of the company building.

That's Chairman Wang's car.

In recent years, the company's financial statements have been acceptable, and it has maintained healthy revenue.

However, in competition with the other two giants, it often falls behind and occupies the last place.

Chairman Wang has lost his temper on this issue many times, demanding that the company's senior management make effective changes as soon as possible.

However, apart from the miraculous emergence of Zheng Ning as a newcomer on the newcomer champion chart, who won the top two spots with her songs, there were no other exceptions.

On other fronts, Feiyang Entertainment has lagged behind rather than made progress.

So today, Chairman Wang, who was already 65 years old and no longer involved in the company's daily management, came to the company to give the senior leaders a good stern talking-to.

"Is everyone here? Those who didn't come don't need to come in the future."

At 9:00 a.m. sharp, in the giant conference room on the 10th floor.

Chairman Wang and a group of senior management personnel took their seats. Apart from a few empty seats, the room was packed with more than 50 senior executives.

Chairman Wang's secretary, with a keen eye, closed the conference room door.

"Hey, they still dare to be late even when the chairman himself is here. I say Old Zhao and the others must have a death wish."

"Exactly, I just called Xiao Li, and he said he's stuck in traffic and won't be there for a while. Should I tell him that I didn't go home last night and slept on the floor at the company to avoid being late today?"

Sensing the frost on Chairman Wang's face, everyone was either gloating or feeling sorry for the fate that those latecomers were about to suffer.

"Print out the list."

Chairman Wang nodded, and the list of new songs for January of this year appeared on the huge screen in front of the conference room.

He turned his head away without saying a word, simply crossing his arms and silently scrutinizing the list.

The other senior staff members also looked at the list with great tension, becoming more and more terrified and breaking out in a cold sweat as they looked at it.

Ten minutes passed, and Chairman Wang remained silent, the atmosphere in the conference room growing increasingly tense.

Even with the heating on full blast, many people feel as if they've fallen into an ice cave.

Finally, he turned around and gave the crowd a dignified look.

"After looking at it for so long, has anyone figured anything out?"

Chairman Wang didn't slam his fist on the table, nor did he blow his beard or glare at him. Instead, he spoke calmly.

But the executives were like quails facing a tiger, each of them burying their heads deeply, not daring to look him in the eye, let alone utter a sound.

"Well, they always act all high and mighty outside, saying they're executives of one of the three giants, and think they're something special."

Chairman Wang stood up and put his hands behind his back.

"But look at this list."

He pointed to the curtain behind him, his brow furrowed, and spoke authoritatively.

"I won't mention which company the first, second, and third songs belong to. Let's just talk about the top 10. You can count on your fingers how many songs are from our company."

"Nobody's going to say anything, is that it? Xiao Chen, stand up and say something."

He simply pointed his chin at the general manager of the company group sitting to his right.

"One, one song..."

A middle-aged man dressed in an extremely high-end custom-made suit stood up tremblingly, his forehead covered in cold sweat, and stammered his reply.

"One song, right? Very good. Come on, you... Xiao Liu, you count for everyone again, how many of our company's songs are in the top 50."

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to another executive vice president of the company who was sitting in the third seat on the left.

A very thin, gray-haired executive wearing gold-rimmed glasses stood up with weak legs, not daring to look Chairman Wang in the eye.

"Three, three poems..."

"Bang!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than everyone heard a loud bang coming from the direction of Chairman Wang!

"Great! You're all doing very well!"

"Flying Entertainment, the third-largest entertainment giant in Western Continent! They only have one song in the top 10, and only three songs in the top 50!"

"If it weren't for that newcomer named Zheng Ning who saved us some face last month, we wouldn't even be able to hold our heads up in front of Guangmang and Xinghai!"

"Speak up, everyone! Why are you all burying your heads in the sand like ostriches? Are you all mute?!"