The "Lanting Xu" saw its release on major music platforms after the program aired.
It then dominated the Weibo hot search, with "Listening Rain" (Ting Yu) flooding the top ten.
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The most breathtaking aspect of this episode for viewers was the stage performance, with Lin Yanyu's stunning dance moves and Su Yu's perfectly timed rendition.
Especially the final scene of emotional eruption.
Su Yu raising the paper, that dashing and elegant shot, coupled with the unfinished character for "love," was edited and posted by bloggers on various short video platforms, reaching the hot video rankings.
These two are simply too captivating!
Especially a pair that had been sweet for a long time, suddenly portraying such a tragic love story, it made people tear up uncontrollably.
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Online, many music critics also offered their evaluations of the song's lyrics and composition.
From their comments, it was evident that these individuals were stunned by Listening Rain's talent in ancient style songs.
"Just listening to the prelude, I knew this song would contend for the top tier of ancient style. Especially when the erhu started, it gave me goosebumps from head to toe. After carefully examining the lyrics, all I can say is, Listening Rain is awesome!"
"When I heard Listening Rain was releasing an ancient style song, I knew the quality would be top-notch. But after listening to 'Lanting Xu,' I feel it's more than just top-notch; it pierced right through me!"
"So amazing, Listening Rain is simply a genius. The combination of opera-style vocals and rap is incredibly stunning!"
"I think the astonishing lyrics in this song aren't just the 'irrelevant to romance' part, but also the line 'My heart is sewn into embroidered shoes, stitch by stitch filled with resentment. If flowers resent butterflies, who would you resent?' The three uses of 'resent' are used exquisitely, much like the 'window's plantain that incurs sudden rain, the door knocker that incurs verdigris, and I, passing through that Jiangnan town, incurred you,' with its three uses of 'incur' having a similar effect!"
"Truly extravagant. It's known that Listening Rain is still participating in the city competition. Such a high-quality song could easily dominate the city competition, yet he released it directly as a single."
"Exactly, 'Lanting Xu' could even win the championship if performed in the finals. He released it directly as a single, how extravagant!!"
While everyone was shocked,
They also noticed a problem: the city competition was about to begin in a few days.
Although Listening Rain had prepared a square dance song for this episode,
Such an amazing song could be saved for the next episode; it even had the potential to win the championship in the finals.
For his actions, people could only describe it as "extravagant."
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As the online heat surged,
"Lanting Xu" began its assault on the charts with unstoppable momentum.
When people refreshed the charts,
No one felt surprised or disbelieving.
Everyone felt that this was the usual chart-climbing speed for Listening Rain's ancient style songs.
Unstoppable!
Unblockable!
Whether the ancient style scene is chaotic or not, Listening Rain decides!
He is currently the undisputed king of the ancient style charts!
Top fifty!
Top forty!
Top thirty!
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In just thirty minutes, it directly climbed into the top twenty of the ancient style new song charts!
After entering the top twenty, "Lanting Xu" showed no signs of slowing down, instead sweeping through with even greater speed!
In a certain music studio.
The producer and singer were discussing the next promotional plan, preparing to work hard to advance their tenth-ranked song by one or two positions.
This is because the top ten on the chart, compared to outside the top ten, represented a significant difference in exposure.
The top ten were on the first page of the chart, a natural form of massive exposure.
However, the tenth position was still a bit precarious, with the possibility of being pushed out. Therefore, they planned to find influential singers on short video platforms to cover their song to drive traffic.
In this era of traffic, being covered by an influencer meant the greatest exposure.
As long as the song became popular on short video platforms, its ranking would not be bad.
Of course, this was the method used by small companies or independent producers.
"There's still over 300,000 listens away from the previous song. If we have influencers cover it, the heat should be enough to push us to ninth place, there's no ques... Huh??"
The producer was saying this while refreshing the chart.
Before he finished, he suddenly froze.
"Where's my song???"
He looked at the chart.
Their tenth-ranked song was now occupied by "Lanting Xu."
Their song was gone!!
The producer and singer were stunned.
They refreshed the chart in disbelief.
"Holy crap!"
"Holy crap!"
The two simultaneously exclaimed.
"Lanting Xu" at tenth place was gone. As they were staring in disbelief, it had already climbed to ninth place.
"Is this data manipulation??"
The producer and singer were both incredulous.
They clicked on "Lanting Xu."
"Ah, this..."
The two were stunned again.
After a moment, they both recovered.
"It's him."
"Then it's fine."
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In the ancient style internal group chat.
It had already descended into chaos.
"Listening Rain is on fire!!"
"I blinked my eyes and he overtook me!"
"Cruel! So cruel! Our ace for the ancient style charts this time, no less than for the city competition, was still easily surpassed by him!"
"Have you ever seen a charging bull? When he's climbing the charts, that's the image that flashed in my mind..."
"Which idiot confidently said Listening Rain wouldn't release ancient style music this month? I believed your lies!"
"We previously said the ancient style charts without Listening Rain were full of hope, but now it seems to be full of despair!"
However, they were only complaining about Listening Rain's brutal climbing speed, because the first place was already occupied by "Zhen Shang Yan" from Royal Dynasty Entertainment. Even if Listening Rain didn't release a song, they wouldn't be able to get first place.
An hour later.
"Lanting Xu" completely surpassed "Zhen Shang Yan" from Prosperous Entertainment.
It ascended to the number one throne on the ancient style new song chart, and its data growth rate still showed no signs of slowing.
Before long, it had created a gap of several hundred thousand.
At the same time.
Within Prosperous Entertainment.
The five ace producers who jointly produced "Zhen Shang Yan" simultaneously let out a refined and gentle sigh: "Damn it!!"
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As "Lanting Xu" reached the top.
Gong Juren, as if on cue, posted on Weibo to congratulate: "Congratulations to Brother Yu for taking first place again! With the record of downloading 'Lanting Xu' on your phone, you can receive a 40% off voucher at Senior Brother Gong's Hot Pot!"
Zhang Wei followed suit: "Congratulations to Brother Yu for unifying the ancient style charts again! With the 'Lanting Xu' download record, you can get 50% off at Brother Wei's Breakfast Shop!"
Jiang Xiao'e, not to be outdone: "Congratulations to Teacher Listening Rain for sweeping the ancient style charts! With the 'Lanting Xu' download record, you can get 60% off at Rainy Season BBQ!!"
Slipper Brothers: "Brother Yu is awesome! With the 'Lanting Xu' download record, you can get 70% off at Brothers Sichuan Cuisine!!"
Subsequently, other members of the singer group also posted congratulatory Weibo messages.
That's right, Zhao De and Zhou Tao, seeing that everyone had their own shops, combined their efforts and opened a Sichuan restaurant.
The main branch was located next to Su Yu's villa.
It had already opened several branches.
This had become a tradition.
Whenever Su Yu's song achieved first place, all three shops would have promotions.
Gong Juren's hot pot restaurant was already a chain, present in every city.
Zhang Wei and Jiang Xiao'e, having opened recently, only had branches in Shuangqing City.
But the branches of these two in Shuangqing City already numbered twenty to thirty.
The Slipper Brothers had the fewest shops, but they were gradually expanding their scale.
In the Listening Rain Singer Group chat.
Newly joined siblings Shen Qingfeng and Shen Qingling.
Curiously asked in the group: "So seniors also have other side businesses besides being singers."
Brother Yu's Little Princess: "Family business, nothing else."
Xiao E is not a tomboy: "Just a small hobby, nothing else."
Zhang Wei's Wei: "Mainly because I like eating breakfast, nothing else."
Slipper Wolong: "Nothing else, nothing to do with Brother Yu."
Shen Qingfeng: "..."