The Enhanced Life of Rampage

Chapter 13 The Rankings of the Entertainment Circle

"Oh... I'm full!"

A serving of taro pork ribs, almost 20 boiled prawns, and a box of rice all went into Zhong Ling's stomach, and Chen Xi wondered how the girl managed to stuff so many things down.

"Nice!" Chen Xi, who didn't know how to express his point of view, could only say these two words.

"What do you know?" Zhong Ling said angrily: "I have to be careful when I have dinner with a group of old men at noon. They can destroy my job with a word. Do you think I can eat it? You can't go out to eat casually. It’s hard to be surrounded by people.”

Chen Xi didn't expect that she would suddenly start complaining. It seemed that she was under a lot of pressure at ordinary times. He couldn't bear to provoke her any more, so he asked suspiciously, "You just said about the assistant, what do you mean by that?"

Zhong Ling jumped from the sofa to the bed, crossed her legs and looked at Chen Xi and said, "Not everyone can have an assistant! For example, for a small guy like me, the work arrangement process is roughly that the company receives the business and then assigns it to An agent, one agent is in charge of many artists, if the work is assigned to me, then I can come and attend on time according to the requirements of the employer! This is the general business process."

"As for the assistant you mentioned, including the one-on-one agent service, you have to be a second-tier coffee at least to be worthy of it! The agency won't waste too much resources on small roles!"

"Is there such a thing?" Chen Xi was also eye-opening.

No way, after reading too much entertainment news, I always feel that celebrities have noble professions wearing gold and silver, and it is not normal to go in and out without ten or eight bodyguards to protect them.

"Then you don't need to sign a brokerage company!" Chen Xi said without hesitation, "I take over jobs and make money by myself, and I can do whatever I want and rest when I don't want to. Wouldn't it be much more comfortable?"

"What are you thinking about?" Zhong Ling said to him in an unladylike way, "Without any market resources, do you believe that you won't be able to receive a commercial performance in a year?"

Chen Xi also realized that he had taken it for granted, "That's right, it's like being hidden by snow."

Instead of discussing this temporarily inconclusive topic, Chen Xi turned to ask about the so-called "coffee position" and Zhong Ling's appointment with him.

"Don't worry, I'll explain it to you one by one." Zhong Ling said speechlessly: "Why are you asking so quickly? How many people are looking forward to what will happen when I am alone in a room! You are better off, you want to run away as soon as you finish asking!"

Chen Xi scratched his hair, "I don't mean that..."

"Come on, the more you explain, the less it seems like a thing!" Zhong Ling interrupted him impatiently, and after sorting out his thoughts, he said: "It's only in the past few years that the term coffee has really formed a standard. It turns out that there are no such terms. of."

"There are different opinions about the origin of this thing, but there is no conclusion. The industry in the entertainment industry really started to use the term coffee position from Weibo 4 years ago."

"Weibo?" Chen Xi is quite aware of this. It is a very powerful app, and it is said that it has hundreds of millions of daily active users.

"Well, since 4 years ago, Weibo has started to form a star list mechanism. If you don't understand it, you can understand it as the ladder list of competitive games."

That's an interesting statement!

"The game ladder list clearly demarcates levels such as gold, platinum, diamond, king, etc., and each level has its own sorting. The celebrity rankings on Weibo are also like this, from unpopular pheasant stars to The third-tier, second-tier, first-tier, and super-tier-one with coffee positions include all domestic artists."

Chen Xi basically understood, but a new doubt was born again, "What is the principle? Is it through user voting? Doesn't it mean that whoever has more fans wins?"

"It's not that simple." After thinking for a while, Zhong Ling broke her fingers and said: "Works, contributions, influence, and whether there are major news and actions in the near future, these points are the main part of the ranking basis, and the last is Although the user's vote will still have a certain impact on the ranking, it is not big, mainly because of the first four points, which is also a way to protect those non-traffic stars and ensure the fairness of the ranking."

"As for the integration and evaluation of the first four categories, Weibo's intelligent backend performs statistics and analysis, and human intervention is not possible."

"There will be a voting session on the 24th of each month, which lasts for three days, and the last two days of each month are the time for Weibo statistics and rankings, and the rankings will be announced on the first day of the next month."

"There are 10 first-tier stars, 40 first-tier stars, 100 second-tier stars, and 300 third-tier stars. The owners of these 450 positions are basically the top-ranked stars in China. There is no ranking below the third line. Basically, the commercial quotations in the entertainment industry and the seniority rankings on some occasions are still based on the Weibo star list. After four years of operation, the overall fairness and user recognition of the list are still very high .”

After explaining to Chen Xi the issue of celebrity status in one breath, Zhong Ling took a sip of water unhurriedly and laughed at himself: "Those like me who have debuted for several years and are still struggling among the third-tier stars are basically the ones who have survived to the top." , the company will naturally not invest more attention and resources on us."

"It's like this!" After Chen Xi nodded, he suddenly felt sympathetic to her.

The entertainment industry is also a commercial market with clearly marked prices and no human feelings at all!

"Then who are you looking for?" Chen Xi asked in bewilderment after suddenly thinking of the reason why he came here.

"Write a song!" Zhong Ling had a look of reluctance in his eyes and replied seriously: "I asked someone about you this afternoon, and the song you sang was written by you yourself! And it's your first time to write a song for someone. Bar?"

"Eh..." Chen Xi felt a little embarrassed, "I just wrote lyrics for someone."

"And to be honest, I can't even read a musical score. If you really wanted me to write a song for you, I wouldn't be able to!"

Zhong Ling nodded indifferently. It was a desperation choice, and she had nothing to lose even if she didn't succeed.

"I can compose music. You think about it, and this is how you cooperate with the website. I will give you the accompaniment and lyrics requirements, and you will help me write the lyrics. The price will be clearly marked with real money. How about it?"

"It's not that I can't." Chen Xi still hesitated, "The point is that I don't know why you came to me!"

This is Chen Xi's biggest doubt.

Zhong Ling was stunned for a moment before nodding in relief, "I didn't make it clear that this is my fault. Now, well-known composers and lyricists in the circle basically have regular collaborators. For example, even if I take 100 million to 1000 million If you ask Lin Xi to buy a song, he won't agree!"

"It has nothing to do with money. He has been a famous lyricist for many years. Compared with money, he cares more about who can express his works perfectly."

"So, it is extremely difficult for a lower-ranked singer to get a better song from a songwriter in the industry!"

"And every year there are always a few well-sung works created by people outside the circle or less famous. We call these people game-breakers."

Speaking of this, Zhong Ling looked into Chen Xi's eyes and said seriously: "I think you will be next!"

sweat!This woman thinks highly of me!
I'm so awesome, why didn't I know?
Chen Xi didn't even know how to answer her!

Although he could feel Zhong Ling's desperate determination and courage, Chen Xi really wanted to say: determination alone has a hammer!
I'm not that material, big sister!
I just want to earn some money to strengthen myself!
Don't look at me like that, I'm pretty scared to be honest!
Chen Xi really wanted to reject her, but after seeing Zhong Ling's stubborn and expectant eyes, he couldn't say anything. After thinking about it for a while, the words he said changed.

"Then why don't I try to write a song or two first and you can try it?"

(End of this chapter)