Chapter 15: Medium policy, top policy, public opinion erupts.

The back-to-back actions of 061 and Cheng Jian have sent Chi Xiaochi all the way to the top of the week's charts on the live streaming site.

Su Xiulun reached out to Chi Xiaochi and asked if he needed to capitalize on the hype.

Cheng Yuan's family history and strength are here, and with Su Xiulun to protect him, he certainly has more autonomy than other singers under Nebula, otherwise how would it be his turn to say whether or not to hype them?

Chi Xiaochi, as the young and budding Cheng Yuan, is hesitant.

Later he politely stated, "Just don't make too much of a fuss about it. Originally, this live broadcast was just a fan benefit, and if you hype it up too much, the flavor changes."

Su Xiulun breathed a sigh of relief.

If Cheng Yuan is so noble that he insists on not cooperating with the hype, there is nothing he can do about it.

In that case, the company may re-evaluate Cheng Yuan's value and treatment.

The record market is extremely brutal, and those who choose to follow this path but fail to stand up to commercial scrutiny, or refuse to do so, end up becoming commercial pariahs.

...... Good thing Cheng Yuan is clear.

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At Cheng Yuan's request, none of the major forums and social media outlets were overly involved in the linkage, with only a few decent quality music marketing numbers praising his vocals.

There are countless current affairs and gossips on the internet, and this promotion of Cheng Yuan is just the first test of Nebula Entertainment's waters, and the response has been quite fair, but within a day, the heat of Cheng Yuan's live broadcast was overshadowed by other mixed and fragmented information.

Seven days later, Tang Huan's new song was released on all major music platforms, and at the same time, all kinds of marketing articles that had already been formulated sprang up. Tang Huan's Weibo cover was changed to the new album cover, with a special logo for the fifth anniversary.

Compared to this kind of pervasive promotion, the heat Chi Xiaochi generated a few days ago is not enough to boil a pot of water.

Tang Huan's new song's full Internet release is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. sharp.

Chi Xiaochi is not too interested in doing his daily card task in bed as the time is approaching.

061 asked, "Not going to listen?"

Chi Xiaochi gave a shrug, "Sooner or later you'll hear about it, there's no rush."

061 became one of the first listeners of Tang Huan's new song out of curiosity.

After a few minutes passed, 061 realized, "This ......"

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Chi Xiaochi doesn't look up, "Uh-huh."

061: "This is not a song written by Cheng Yuan."

Chi Xiaochi playing the game seriously: "I told you no seven days ago."

"Sounds a lot like the songs you sing on the air."

"It's the song that was sung on the air."

061: "But how did Yang Xiaoyan steal this?"

Chi Xiaochi maneuvered the card heroes to hang the opponent, this kind of game that does not require operation, only tactics can be said to be very friendly to handicapped people like him.

He said, "Mr. Six, I am the victim. Don't ask me how she stole the wrong thing; it's time to ask why she stole it."

A few seconds after the words fell, the screen popped up Victory's prompt, and the ID of "the reflection of the building into the pond" on the scoreboard advanced one place and jumped to the first place.

Chi Xiaochi tossed his phone, "Ha, finally snatched first place back after such a long drought."

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He stretched out in a good mood and said, "As long as she steals it, as long as she sells it, as long as it's used by Tang Huan, then she's just waiting to die."

Tang Huan is in Yundu and in the middle of a red-hot season, so it's inevitable that there will be unseemly rival families watching her every move.

What's more, this time she had no small tail to hold.

Half an hour after the new song was released, a marketing number was the first to object, "Doesn't anyone think Tang Huan's new song is a bit subtle? Suggest you guys search @ Cheng Yuan's recording from seven days ago for a surprise."

Some people go searching when they see it and have reported that they have really found a surprise.

Now Tang Huan's fans are not doing it anymore and are coming down to the arena.

"Are you guys deaf? Where's the likeness?"

"It's just a few sounds that are similar and it's considered plagiarism? Our family won't take the blame!"

"Love me China is still like Harry Lua it! This kind of coincidence can also take out a wave of black, convinced."

Yundu Entertainment was also the first to receive the news.

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When Tang Huan was first notified that he hadn't heard the song, his producer Zhong Yu thought it was a deliberate attempt to frame him, and sent a text message to comfort Tang Huan: "It's okay, it's nothing, there are a lot of people on the internet who don't mind the mess, and the publicity for this fifth anniversary has been done beautifully, so it's inevitable that some people will look at it with a feverish eye."

However, by the time he searched for Chi Xiaochi's recorded video and listened to the specially named plagiarized clip for less than half a minute, Jong-woo's face gradually turned blue.

He forced himself to hold back the palpitations that filled his heart, clicked on the next song, and listened for another minute.

The melody has been fine-tuned, but Zhong Yu's professionalism makes it clear that Tang Huan's version is a stripped down version of the song Cheng Yuan sang at the recording session!

What's more, the handsome young man holding the guitar and singing cleanly has a voice condition that is at least two notches superior to Tang Huan's, a gap that is completely visible to the layman!

What's going on?

Tang Huan's music has been in the works for a long time, so why was it revealed on a live stream seven days ago?

Was it a leaked audio source? Or was it a problem with the person selling the song?

Buying and selling songs has long been an unspoken rule in the music business market.

Tang Huan isn't a great singer, and her voice isn't exactly top-notch, but her good looks do give her exceptional commercial value.

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There is no shortage of commercial singers like Tang Huan, but there are only a handful of good songwriters.

Tang Huan's position was one of the highest and the lowest, where she could not be found among the truly outstanding composers, and she could not be found among the second-rate composers.

Later on, Yundu began to push her "talented musician" persona, claiming that most of her songs were her own compositions, but in reality, she was just buying up songs to build up her image as a talented woman.

For this fifth anniversary EP, the two main songs were composed by famous artists at exorbitant prices, and the other three were carefully selected by the company from the songs they bought, purposely fitting the theme of this transformation.

The most important thing is that the column of composer is filled with "Tang Huan".

The producer threw a big tantrum: "Check, check for me! Who sent these two songs that were picked up for plagiarism! Find out what's going on!"

Once the story was revealed, there were so many people on Cheng Yuan's Twitter account begging for an explanation that it was impossible for Chi Xiaochi not to see it.

Soon after, he sent out a tweet.

In the face of a mountain of skepticism, Chi Xiaochi didn't answer even one question, giving only five concise words.

"...... continues to be in the spotlight."

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Putting down the mouse, Chi Xiaochi starts to turn the pen.

Pen spinning was one of his best skills, which he had learned on purpose to fit the characterization of a movie character. A pen can be turned into twenty or so patterns by him, with a thousand shadows and a hundred shapes, fluent and free.

061 had roughly guessed all of Chi Xiaochi's plans, "You've been setting him up since you were still living at Yang Baihua's house."

Chi Xiaochi corrects, "To be precise, I set him up from the moment we met." He added, "You can recall the first meeting with Yang Baihua and what I said to him when we got in the car."

061 went to look through the record library and couldn't help but be surprised.

At that time, they talked about going to the train station to pick up Yang Baihua's parents.

Yang Baihua was deliberately evasive, and looked unhappy.

Chi Xiaochi, who was driving the car, naturally digressed and said, "Let me play you my new demo. You're my first listener, okay?"

His attitude was so casual that 061 didn't realize what the problem was until he looked back in hindsight.

The pure music Chi Xiaochi put on wasn't even any of the songs from Whisper Between Hearts, Love You, or Autumn Thoughts, but rather the song he sang live on air seven days earlier!

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061 was puzzled, "From the time you entered the mission world to the time you met with Yang Baihua, it was only a few hours. Where did you get these three songs?"

Is ...... Cheng Yuan's previous work?

Chi Xiaochi's attitude is very indifferent: "Copied."

061: "...... huh?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "At that time, I didn't have enough time, so I directly downloaded the pure music version of those three songs and played them to Yang Baihua; later on, I used Cheng Yuan's ability to make simple adjustments to those three songs and sent them to Yang Baihua again."

Yang Baihua heard these songs back and forth in those days, and of course he assumed that these three songs were Cheng Yuan's new demos.

061 wondered, "So why go in such a big circle ......"

"For this."

Chi Xiaochi pauses her writing and points to the computer screen, which shows a statement from Tang Huan Studio of Yundu Entertainment sent out a minute ago.

The matter was urgent, and Cloud's statement naturally came out a bit extra fast.

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Tang Huan Studio first apologized to Tang Huan's fans and then took a stand, saying that the matter was under investigation and that there was a possibility that there was an audio leak.

The excuse of "audio leakage" is really good, and Tang Huan earned the name of victim.

Chi Xiaochi stroked his chin, "Oh, Yundu is still trying to keep Tang Huan's talent persona now."

061 said, "Let's build up public opinion first, then they can take their time with PR. But how can they be sure that it must be an audio leak and not something else?"

Chi Xiaochi laughs, "Of course it's because they contacted Yang Xiaoyan."

061 Open-mindedness.

...... was misled by Yang Baihua, who in Yang Xiaoyan's perception stole the original Chi Xiaochi demo.

As long as she can get Yang Baihua to stabilize Cheng Yuan, this dirty water can still be poured onto Cheng Yuan in the end.

Chi Xiaochi says, "...... But who says that a song that comes out of me is necessarily my song?"

He did mention a bit on the sweepstakes tweet that these songs for fans are rewritten songs, so please don't commercialize them.

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Of course, he didn't say that he wrote the song himself or that he didn't write it, and the final interpretation is always on Chi Xiaochi's side.

Chi Xiaochi says, "Would ...... like to hear the middle and top policy?"

061 Lost in laughter.

Chi Xiaochi is kinda cute with all this energy.

He said gently, "Wash your ears."

"Zhong Zui, I'm the one who let Yang Xiaoyan copy Cheng Yuan's song." Chi Xiaochi said, "When things get out of hand, it will become a battle between Nebula and Yundu. With Nebula and Cheng Jian behind me, I won't suffer a big loss."

Chi Xiaochi paused, "...... But if we do this, who exactly copied who will become a bad debt that can't be pulled apart. Of course, there are also benefits, in the age of traffic, not afraid of black spots, afraid of the lack of conversation. If we take the middle course of action, Cheng Yuan and Tang Huan will probably be bound from now on, and when Cheng Yuan is mentioned, she will inevitably be mentioned. As an unknown newcomer to the music industry, it's Cheng Yuan's good fortune to be able to climb up Tang Huan's ladder and appear on the same screen as her, in the opinion of many."

061 shook his head.

This does stir things up.

"And in my strategy, Cheng Yuan would be completely taken out. He wasn't the one who plagiarized, he wasn't the one who was plagiarized, he just happened to change a couple of songs, he happened to have his songs stolen by Yang Xiaoyan, and he happened to be involved in this plagiarism fiasco. His songs, his person, are all clean. ...... Right, and rubbing it in."

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061 couldn't help but laugh out loud, "It's pretty good. Just almost interesting."

Chi Xiaochi asked rhetorically, "What's the difference?"

061 said, "...... Copying other people's songs and dragging unrelated people into the storm is not good after all."

"In my plan, there are no extraneous people." Chi Xiaochi took the end of his pen and tapped his temple, "...... Remember, in Cheng Yuan's story, there was another person who played a small role."

"Hmm?"

Chi Xiaochi Tip 061: "That Tang Huan's hardcore fan, the one who chased after Cheng Yuan and brought public opinion to a climax, do you remember?"

061 A consternation.

"He's made a name for himself with his toxic marketing numbers though, and used to be a musician at least. Would it be hard to find a few songs from his work from a few years ago that are of decent quality, but not too hot?"

Chi Xiaochi put the pen accurately into the table between the barrels, making a clanging sound, "...... his own work was copied by his idol, do you think, he will feel honored, or angry?"

Shortly after these words, Cheng Yuan's cell phone rang.

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Chi Xiaochi one-liners, "Nebula's a bit slow on the PR response this time. I thought they were supposed to contact me half an hour ago."

He picked it up and immediately turned into a six godless soft white rabbit: "Hey, Mr. Su. Well ...... well, I saw the microblogging, and I'm also continuing to pay attention to it. Listen to me, the song I sang during my last live broadcast was a rewrite of a song by a big V on Weibo. I don't know why it clashed with Ms. Tang Huan's new album ......"

Yang Baihua received the call from Yang Xiaoyan at work.

Seeing the words "Yang Xiaoyan" appear on the screen made Yang Baihua vaguely annoyed.

Recently, when he saw his family call, he would always think of Cheng Jian's harsh demands on him, and then think of Cheng Yuan's gentle and harmless smile, and his heart was so sour.

...... Xiao Cheng s cell phone must have been confiscated by his family, and he is under house arrest at home, otherwise he would have tried everything to come to see himself.

He drifted off for a few seconds before pressing the answer button, "Little ......"

Yang Xiaoyan's cries suddenly came from the other side of the phone, startling him, "Brother, brother!"

Yang Baihua's face changed slightly as he stood up from his seat with his cell phone and flew towards the pantry, "What's going on?"

Yang Xiaoyan sobbed uncontrollably and stomped his feet anxiously, "Didn't ...... you say that Brother Xiao Cheng's songs have never been published and you don't intend to publish them? Now people's companies are looking for me, what should I do? What should I do?"

Original Translations: Crafted with Care, No Unauthorized Reposting Allowed.

Published at: 05/30/2024 14:00

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