Guan Fei moved quickly and handed the comparison chart to Zhou Yiyang in just one minute.
"So many songs have had prediction errors," Zhou Yiyang sneered. "That can't be said to be targeting us specifically. It can only be said that the prediction blogger made a mistake. It seems that the coefficients have been secretly adjusted."
Luo Chen and Ling Hu didn’t understand so much. Although the final result was not the championship, it was still much better than what they had thought at the beginning.
For them, this achievement was still worth celebrating, so they simply called Yue Shao and the other three and asked them to go out for a midnight snack together.
"Come out!" Luo Chen said to Lin Xuan'er on the phone. "We came in second place! Singers from Japan and Korea have never achieved such a good result before. Of course we have to celebrate."
Lin Xuan'er herself was quite calm, but she noticed that her three teammates, especially Tang Yue, did not look happy.
"Okay, aren't you disappointed?"
"Not bad," Luo Chen said truthfully. "At first, I couldn't imagine we could take first place. Honestly, if it weren't for that blogger's prediction, no one would have guessed we'd be first!"
"That's right." Lin Xuan'er smiled. "Then I'll go call them. We'll meet downstairs."
Zhou Yiyang had received an invitation, of course, and he'd initially considered declining it. But then he realized that from their perspective, second place was a very good result, and it even broke the record. Not going would be a bit of a letdown.
"Wait for me then, I have something to deal with."
Zhou Yiyang knew that he could not find any evidence to prove that this was a conspiracy.
How can we take seriously the data predicted by an unofficial blogger!
Besides, the second place result is already very good, so why do you have to be the first place to be satisfied?
These are the comments from netizens that Zhou Yiyang saw on Weibo, which were used to fight back against Luo Chen and Ling Hu fans who questioned the authenticity of the list.
It is indeed rational, objective and neutral.
What Zhou Yiyang is thinking about now is that he must get a number one single under this new standard.
Even if the people at Billboard are unwilling, they have to admit this achievement.
He has already started planning how to make "Havana" win the Billboard No. 1.
This week's singles chart also saw the impact of the new coefficient, though not significantly. While its competitors also saw average radio play, "Havana" relied on its impressive streaming performance to reach number 22. This is missing four days of data; if the full data was used, it would have easily made the top 15.
Su Yin patted Tang Yue's shoulder and consoled her, "Second place is pretty good. Brother Chen and Brother Hu are both very happy. Why are you so sad?"
Tang Yue shook her head and said indignantly, "I've checked specifically. This blogger has been making predictions for a year and has made fewer than five errors. This large-scale error is absolutely abnormal. I'm 100% sure he's secretly tinkering with the coefficients!"
"Just to prevent 'Stay' from winning the championship?" Wang Xingrui asked with a frown.
"No," Su Yin shook her head and said calmly, "If two white people had sung this song, they would have won. The fundamental reason is our race and nationality."
This answer caused the four people in the room to remain silent for a long time. Finally, Lin Xuan'er spoke:
"But they still took second place, which shows they knew that if they put the song at the bottom, it would expose their unfairness. If the song had won first place without any controversy, they definitely wouldn't have dared to do that."
"I'm not saying they're right," Lin Xuan'er continued, "but we can't change the rules. Since that's the case, all we can do is do our best under these unfair rules. As long as a Chinese song wins, American arrogance will slowly disappear."
"Wow," the three of them started to applaud at the same time, "Teammate, your chicken soup skills are getting better and better!"
Tang Yue regained her energy and her fighting spirit. She wanted to fly to New York's Times Square immediately to promote "Havana".
"So what should we do?"
"Whatever we can think of, Brother Yang can definitely think of as well." Wang Xingrui said confidently, "Brother Yang must be giving us some advice right now."
"Brother Yang might have already made a move." Su Yin was also happy: "Then let's not be angry here in vain, let's go have a midnight snack first!"
"Let's go!" The four of them skipped downstairs.
Weibo was abuzz with activity. After all, for most netizens, coefficients and algorithms were completely oblivious. They simply saw marketing accounts claiming that the song "Stay" had broken records, becoming the highest-charting Asian artist on Billboard.
This is enough to make netizens happy, and they don’t care about the championship or anything like that.
The foreign Internet is very lively at the moment. Many netizens in the United States still expressed their incomprehension about the second place ranking of "stay".
They were completely unwilling to believe that a closed, old-fashioned and terrifying country like China could actually beat them in music.
Their understanding of Chinese singers is still stuck on the joke a few years ago when they were ignored by the organizers of the Grammy Awards and had to return to China to issue press releases to brag about themselves.
But now, the Chinese singer has actually influenced their young people and won the second place on the most authoritative list.
"This is the most shameful day in the history of American music."
"TikTok is a cancer and should be banned immediately! It's the cause of so much rubbish music!"
"How can music of the caliber of 'Stay' become popular? America is finished!"
"I suggest banning all Chinese artists. Their motives are not pure! Get Chinese music out of this sacred land!"
"Why is it second? Why? Did you also take money from the Chinese for your list?!"
Of course, among these netizens, there are also angry loli fans.
They couldn't believe that their beloved Luo Chen and Brother Ling Hu were only second!
"'Stay' has topped the Spotify and Moonlight daily charts! We young people are listening to it, why can't it top the charts! Only old people listen to the radio!"
"Can't Billboard get some younger editors? Radio is such an old-fashioned place! Luo and Ling are the best!"
Among this group of netizens, there are also netizens from Japan and Korea who are taking advantage of the situation.
They are extremely envious.
When it comes to developing in the United States, there are countless people from these two countries going there to develop every year, but in the end none of them can make it.
Who would have thought that "stay" would achieve such good results? It's so enviable.
And they all know that "Havana" has stronger staying power, and perhaps the performance of this song will break the record.
Liu Fenfang observed the online comments and was momentarily confused. How could people from different countries have such different perspectives on the same thing?
She shook her head and began to prepare for the shooting of the MV of "Havana" according to Zhou Yiyang's requirements.
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