Chapter 156 Ticket Snatching [VIP]
Chapter Summary: Inviting fans to my personal birthday party
Two days before the new song was released.
Muzhi Studio officially announced the exact date of the song release, which is consistent with what fans had deduced: April Fool's Day.
Some fans still felt it was unreal and worried that the song release was a misunderstanding.
Soon, April 1st arrived.
The day Mu Zhi sang.
At 12 noon, QQ Music will be launched.
Mu Zhi's new song "We" tells the story of her journey and growth from her first stage appearance to becoming an actress, and expresses her gratitude to her fans for their support and companionship along the way...
The lyrics are realistic, warm, and apt, without any deliberate attempt to evoke emotion.
The song has a light and soothing melody, and Mu Zhi's voice is clean and clear, giving her a storytelling quality.
It has a comforting effect on listeners, making them feel at peace and putting their emotions to rest. Of course, the main reason for its appeal is the strong emotional impact it has on its fans.
This is because it's a song Mu Zhi uses to express herself, and also a song for her fans.
This is especially true for longtime fans who have supported and followed Mu Zhi since she participated in "Chasing the Light Girl".
After debuting through a talent show, Mu Zhi didn't even get a stage; she went straight to acting and filming.
Four years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Waaaaah, I never thought I'd actually get to see Mu Zhi release a song!
After listening to their idol's songs on repeat, fans started discussing them.
Especially the fans of the work looked completely bewildered:
Oh, speaking of which, do we need to do anything about chart rankings? How do we do that? Longtime fans should know, right?
Longtime fans: ...They've been inactive for several years, and the only time they've participated in voting related to the actors was a few times.
This is Mu Zhi's first time releasing a song, and her fans are all unfamiliar with it and have no experience with it.
Several longtime fans of talent shows came out to explain:
Zhibao's new song released today is free to listen to; you don't need to spend money to buy it.
So we listen to the song on repeat, write more high-quality comments, and share it with our friends to boost its popularity, get it to number one on the new song chart, and strive to climb onto the overall hot song chart...
On social media, Mu Zhi's celebrity friends also helped promote and support her new song "Us".
#Muzhi releases a song# trended high on Weibo.
Because Mu Zhi's new song is free to listen to, netizens are not accusing her of making money. Many onlookers went to listen out of curiosity, and after listening, they commented with things like "exclusive for fans", "so-so", "okay", "just listen to when you're bored".
Mu Zhi didn't expect this single to amaze everyone and become a hit online; it's already good enough that it didn't trend on social media with the hashtag #awful#.
That evening, Mu Zhi's new song "We" topped the new song chart.
She's been acting for several years, but she doesn't have many music fans among her followers.
Perhaps, as your agent analyzed, "This song release shows that you have considerable online influence, a good public image, and a high level of attention."
Today, #Muzhi# can be considered an actress with national recognition. Netizens on various social media platforms know her name or have seen her works, including web dramas, TV dramas, and movies.
So when I first enter a music platform and see Mu Zhi's name on the homepage's rotating banner, and hear that she has released a new song that I can listen to for free, I'm always curious.
Thinking: Her acting skills are good, so her singing should be pretty good too, right?
Mu Zhi has already developed the influence of a personal brand.
He has starred in many well-received works and has a positive appeal.
This is a very good sign.
Ji Binghe said excitedly, "Zhizhi, I'm starting to look forward to the success of your movie 'Escape from the Game' after its release."
Mu Zhi thought to herself: The focus of this infinite flow movie is on the special effects.
Speaking of which, filming for "Escape from the Game" wrapped up more than half a year ago, and it's currently in post-production. We expect to hear from it again in the second half of the year...
After the release of her new song, Mu Zhi continued her busy schedule while also working hard to organize her birthday party.
The original owner's birthday was June 6th, and the birthday party was held on that day.
There are still two months left.
However, invoices are usually issued about a month in advance.
That is, early May.
Three days after the new song was released.
The news that Mu Zhi was going to hold a birthday party has been leaked. Unlike the last time when it was only mentioned briefly on the forum, this time it has been revealed that the venue is the Three Trees Gymnasium in Beicheng and that the birthday party will be held for 10,000 people.
Make this story believable.
Compared to Mu Zhi's release of a single, netizens are discussing her upcoming birthday party more, with a lot of doubts and criticisms surrounding it.
"Is Mu Zhi just throwing a birthday party to fleece her fans?"
"She's now a top-tier actress, I can't understand why she would go back to doing the idol thing of releasing songs and having birthday parties. Doesn't she think it's low-class?"
"A birthday party with 10,000 attendees can generate millions in revenue in one night. Who would complain about having too much money?"
"Weren't Mu Zhi's fans supposed to be so superior, thinking their idol was high-class because she was an actress, focused on filming, and even won a Best Actress award? But now she's releasing songs and holding birthday parties to make money, and they've been slapped in the face, hahaha."
"I saw fans praising their idol for spoiling them, saying that the singles she released were free to listen to. Wake up, it's just a way to trick you into attending her birthday party."
The comment received many replies, with fans angrily criticizing: "Idiot, even if Mu Zhi doesn't release any songs, her birthday parties are still packed with fans scrambling for tickets; a venue with 10,000 seats simply isn't enough."
......
Regarding the idea of their idol holding a birthday party, a small portion of the fans, who are fans of Mu Zhi's career and works and have become fans in the last two years, have been somewhat influenced by online comments and do not quite understand why Mu Zhi is holding a birthday party. They feel that she should focus on acting.
The vast majority of fans were surprised, happy, and excited, supporting all of Mu Zhi's decisions. As long as Mu Zhi was happy, that was all that mattered. The birthday party was a rare opportunity for them to interact with their idol!
They're even starting to prepare for taking leave and saving money now...
Pengcheng Airport.
Mu Zhi and her team finished a brand event in Shenzhen and had just passed through security when they arrived at the VIP lounge to wait for their flight.
As soon as Minmin sat down, she started scrolling through her phone and saw the trending topic #MuzhiBirthdayParty#.
After skimming through the content, I was speechless.
She knew that Mu Zhi hadn't intended to make money from this birthday party; in fact, she was paying for it herself.
For example, stage design, lighting and sound teams, venue rental, costumes and props, etc., organizing a birthday party to the standard of a concert is a considerable expense.
Minmin frowned and said, "Sister Zhizhi, can't we announce in advance that 'all proceeds from the birthday party tickets will be donated to charity'?"
The revenue from the birthday party comes from ticket sales.
Mu Zhi donated all the ticket revenue to charity.
All the expenses for organizing this concert were paid by Mu Zhi personally.
It's like Mu Zhi threw a big birthday party and invited her fans to attend.
Mu Zhi had discussed this issue with her agent, and she shook her head: "We won't announce it in advance."
This will attract more scalpers.
If fans knew that the tickets were for charity, even more people would rush to buy them, and even casual acquaintances who weren't fans would join in.
Unaware of the situation, those willing to buy tickets to the birthday party are mostly die-hard fans, long-time fans, stage fans, or idol fans of Mu Zhi, who can be considered the main audience of the birthday party.
The news that the tickets will be donated to charity will be announced later in the birthday party by Mu Zhi, as a surprise for the fans present.
Next, aside from her scheduled work, Mu Zhi devoted all her time and energy to preparing for the birthday party.
1. Song Selection. This is Mu Zhi's fifth year in this world, and the fifth year of the original owner's debut. She will sing a total of 5 songs, including the new song "We", which means she still needs to select 4 songs.
Ji Binghe discussed with Mu Zhi: "Should we invite some guests?"
Mu Zhi shook her head: "No need."
She wasn't holding a concert tour; it was a personal birthday party. Mu Zhi thought Minmin's statement that "fans only want to see their idols and don't want anyone else to appear and take up their time" made a lot of sense.
2. Costumes. Produce appropriate performance costumes based on the songs.
3. Practice. This is divided into song practice and dance practice. The songs selected by Muzhi need to be adapted by the music director before practicing with the harmonies team. One of the selected songs requires both singing and dancing, which is quite challenging...
A birthday party may seem like just a matter of singing a few songs on stage, but behind the scenes there is a lot of work involved, and Mu Zhi's schedule is packed.
The May Day holiday is over.
Tickets for Mu Zhi's birthday party will go on sale at 11:00 AM on May 6th.
At 10:30, Luke was called into the boss's office.
He Zhiyue, looking a little awkward, assigned the task: "Ahem, help me snag tickets to Teacher Mu's birthday party in half an hour."
Luke: ? ? ?
Luke thought to himself: Didn't Teacher Mu and Director Ji reserve some tickets?
Tickets were specially reserved for Mu Zhi's friends, such as Zhou Jingzhu, Liu Cai, and teacher Yin Xiuran, who all got a ticket for her; director Xu Kuan also got a ticket; and even the brands they collaborated with asked Director Ji for tickets...
If the boss also wants tickets to attend the birthday party, he can just tell Director Ji.
We can still free up one ticket.
Just as Luke was about to ask, he guessed that the boss probably didn't want anyone to find out that he was going to Teacher Mu Zhi's birthday party, so he planned to secretly grab a ticket and go there.
Sure enough, the boss added, "When you're buying tickets, don't choose seats in the very front row. Choose the middle ones."
“Okay, boss.” Luke nodded.
Front row seats are hard to get, but middle seats should be easier to get? Lanxing Media's internet speed is very fast, so it should be reliable.
He Zhiyue thought so too. He and Luke would try to grab a ticket together. With the company's fast internet speed, getting one wouldn't be a problem.
In order to secure tickets, He Zhiyue checked out ticket-buying strategies shared by fans in the Mu Zhi supertopic. She filled in all the required information in advance, copied her ID card number, and checked the login status of her payment account.
At 10:57, the ticket-grabbing page crashed, displaying a message saying "There is too much traffic ahead."
Fortunately, things returned to normal at 10:59.
He Zhiyue kept in mind the fan guide that said if you clicked in the last 10 seconds of the countdown, your chances of getting a ticket were very high.
He did as instructed, but the page froze as soon as he entered.
I remembered the fan guide's advice to keep refreshing the page, but the page is still blank? Nothing is loading.
He had a bad feeling that he was out of the game early.
Luke fared slightly better than He Zhiyue. When he got to the step of clicking to submit the order, the page displayed "Insufficient tickets remaining," and clicking it repeatedly didn't help.
10,000 tickets sold out in one second.
Are all Mu Zhi's fans like octopuses?
The two shared their ticket-buying experiences, and Luke, feeling somewhat sorry for them, pointed out: "Boss, you can't refresh the ticket-buying page in the last 10 seconds."
You've been scammed.
He Zhiyue: "..." He opened his alternate account homepage, reread the ticket-grabbing strategy posted by a fan from Mu Zhi's super topic, clicked on the comments section, and scrolled down.
"Yes, if you click in during the last 10 seconds, remember to keep refreshing the page (doge emoji)."
"This branch is so thoughtful! Listen to me, thank you!"
"Sisters! Most importantly, don't forget to set your alarms! The sale starts at midnight! Let's go!"
......
He realized that the strategy posted by Mu Zhi's fans was a mix of truth and falsehood, with the same purpose as the "12 o'clock rush" posts in the comments section: to mislead the competition.
He's been fooled!
He Zhiyue was both amused and exasperated.
Luke said there would be a return ticket in 15 minutes. Orders that have been submitted but not paid within the time limit will be cancelled, so you can see if you can snag one.
But after the ticket rush, a large number of posts appeared in the Muzhi super topic, with most fans crying and lamenting that they hadn't managed to get tickets.
Mu Zhi has the most active fans among female artists of her generation. There are at least 20,000 people who want to buy tickets to her birthday party. There are only 10,000 tickets available, and Mu Zhi's team has reserved a few hundred more. In addition to fans, there are also scalpers and proxy buyers who are after the tickets for profit, so many fans are unable to buy them.
They were also hoping to snag a spot within 15 minutes.
He Zhiyue and Lu Ke have basically no hope; it's game over!
He Zhiyue could only helplessly say to Lu Ke, "Assistant Lu, try to get me a ticket for a middle seat, and try not to use scalpers."
Luke: "Okay."
After tickets for Mu Zhi's birthday party sold out, her studio posted on Weibo urging fans who couldn't get tickets to watch online, as the party would be streamed live. They advised against buying tickets from scalpers to avoid inflated prices and being exploited by them.
With more than two weeks to go, Luke plans to wait and see if any fans will resell their tickets due to changes in their plans...
[Author's Note]
Ding! You've received a ticket to Muzhi's birthday party on June 6th. Please leave a message to claim it! (doge)
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