This celebrity is absolutely wicked.

Chapter 388 Making Friends Through Song: Lu Ran's Fan Meeting
After careful consideration, Lu Ran's final decision was to organize a simple singing competition.

As for "The Masked Singer," it doesn't conflict with his competition as a singer.

It's important to know that the singers who appear on "The Masked Singer" are all celebrities, bringing their own fans and online traffic.

The Masked Singer did not invite ordinary people to perform on stage at the beginning.

Although The Masked Singer was poorly produced and criticized by netizens, it's not a problem with the show itself, but rather a problem with the entire ecosystem.

Lu Ran simply wanted to find a stage for his singers to perform.

His competition is more like a talent show, a talent show that only listens to voices.

If this singing competition were actually held, apart from their own people, there certainly wouldn't be any established singers among the applicants.

He doesn't offer any service fees.

This is the greatest respect he can give to the winter bamboo shoot video.

In the live stream, netizens, upon hearing Lu Ran's words, flooded the chat with question marks.

"Director Lu, are you alright? What's with this singing competition?"

"What's the point of singing competitions these days? You think they're all amateurs, but it turns out they're all from major entertainment companies."

"There are no more real amateur talent shows in the entertainment industry now."

Why did I suddenly have this thought?

Looking at the barrage of comments, Lu Ran didn't hold back and directly expressed his thoughts.

Lu Ting never bothered to hide his intentions.

"It's not that our studio's singers are going to release songs, so I thought I'd organize a group to see if any friends want to sing and have a competition. Our competition will be held in the live broadcast room, and we don't need to show our faces, just singing."

"Besides, I'm filming right now, so I have more free time in the evenings, which we can organize."

After Lu Ran finished speaking, the netizens understood.

"You're just bored out of your mind."

But as long as there are songs to listen to, netizens don't mind at all.

Lu Ran said he would release an album, but not a single song from the album has been released yet.

You can do anything as long as you're willing to release songs.

Netizens didn't take Lu Ran's talk about the singing competition seriously at all.

Can a competition held in a live-streamed room be compared to a music variety show?
The equipment alone is on a completely different level.

This is Lu Ran's little trick to promote his new song.

"How do I register? Can I sing?"

"How will we compete then? Will we just sing in the live stream?"

"What if they lip-sync?"

Questions began to appear in the live stream chat.

Lu Ran burst out laughing when he saw the questions raised by netizens.

He started typing directly on his laptop, jotting down some useful questions.

One person's strength is limited, but the strength of the masses is limitless.

He started the live stream to communicate with netizens and see if they had any good suggestions.

When someone asked a question about how to register, someone immediately replied in the live chat.

"Registration is not difficult. Just prepare a dedicated email address to receive registration materials. There are specific format requirements. The contestants need to provide their name, a demo of their performance, and their contact information. Listening to the demo is basically enough to filter them out once."

"I have another suggestion. There are many talented people among the netizens. There are several people who sing quite well on Douyin. Let's divide the contestants into two tracks, one for professionals and one for amateurs. Otherwise, it's unfair to the amateurs."

"I'd also like to make a suggestion. In a competition, there must be commentators, right? The commentators should say less. Actually, everyone just wants to see a pure competition."

As Lu Ran watched the comments from viewers in the live stream, his fingers were practically sparking from typing.

If it weren't for writing scripts that honed his typing speed, Lu Ran really wouldn't be able to keep up with the netizens' pace.

These suggestions are so useful.

He can come up with some ideas, but it takes time; netizens, on the other hand, can come up with them easily.

"Thank you all for your suggestions. Please feel free to share any other suggestions you may have."

Lu Ran's face was beaming with joy.

The netizens were completely unaware that their ideas had been stolen by Lu Ran for free.

After chatting for a while, Lu Ran asked, "What do you all think would be a suitable amount for the prize money?"

Upon hearing this, netizens got excited.

Lu Ran, that shrewd scoundrel, deserves a hefty cut.

"The first prize is one million!"

"Please don't make it a million! If it were a million, even professional singers would come to participate."

"I don't think we need much. Director Lu is just having some fun anyway. How about 200,000 for first place?"

"If it's divided into two tracks, the first place prize in the amateur track is 150,000 yuan, and the first place prize in the professional track is 200,000 yuan, decreasing in that order. The total prize money should not exceed one million yuan."

Lu Ran recorded the netizens' suggestions on his computer again.

With the joint efforts of him and his netizens, the detailed plan for his singing competition has basically been completed.

The rest will require him to polish it.

After more than an hour of live streaming, Lu Ran said gratefully, "Thank you all for your suggestions. I have written them down. I will go back and prepare them, and I will report back to everyone when they are ready."

At this moment, some netizens suddenly realized the problem.

"It seems we've been used by Director Lu!"

"Director Lu is just coming to us for advice because he has an idea."

"Is this how you make a TV show?"

Even the ideas for a TV show are crowdfunded.

Lu Ran wasn't embarrassed at all.

This isn't called crowdfunding; this is called harnessing the power of the people.

However, after chatting for an hour, the hundreds of thousands of netizens in the live stream also got a little carried away with the conversation.

It's a fact that the Chinese entertainment industry no longer has any music variety shows that truly focus on vocal talent. Talent shows were incredibly popular back then, and many initially relied genuinely on the singers' abilities, but they all changed over time.

The current talent shows, no matter how you compare them, all seem to be made up of celebrity offspring or people from companies.

Singers who sang well found they didn't advance, and the audience didn't approve of the winners.

If Lu Ran could really organize a competition that only judges who sings well, even if it's held in a live broadcast room, everyone would still have something to watch.

The competition is broadcast live, and everyone can watch whenever they want; no membership is required.

For this reason alone, everyone should give it their support.

"Director Lu, you need to hurry up! I'm a shareholder in this competition now, and I need to see the results within a week!"

"Yeah, hurry up and get it done, stop dawdling. I'm ready to sign up for the bathroom karaoke king/queen."

"I have to say, I'm really looking forward to seeing how this competition turns out!"

People's attitudes are completely different now than they were at the beginning.

After all, everyone feels involved now.

Lu Ran chatted with netizens for a while before ending the live stream.

He created a new document and organized the notes he had just taken.

"Although it's a singing competition held in a live-streaming room and seems like a makeshift operation, that doesn't matter. It may be small, but it has all the essential parts. If there's singing, there must be commentary. So, who should we ask for the judging panel?"

As the organizer, Lu Ran would definitely have to say a few comments, but he had already decided that he would not participate in the voting process.

After all, singers from his studio also need to participate in the competition, so he needs to avoid any appearance of impropriety.

"Find a professional singer to give feedback."

Lu Ran didn't rush to contact people; instead, he first wrote a plan for the entire competition based on suggestions from netizens.

After fiddling with it for an hour, a brief proposal was finally completed.

"What's your name?"

Naming things isn't Lu Ran's forte; he forgot to ask the netizens about it earlier.

But it doesn't matter, he can go find Mrs. Shen.

Lu Ran sent the proposal to Shen Fupo.

"Please bestow a name upon us, Mr. Shen!"

In the proposal, the prize money for first place in the professional track is 200,000, second place is 150,000, and third place is 100,000.

The first place in the amateur track is worth 150,000, the second place 100,000, and the third place 50,000.

The top ten in each of the two tracks will each receive a prize of 10,000 yuan.

These total the prize money of 950,000 yuan, which is 50,000 yuan short of one million yuan.

Lu Ran divided the final 50,000 yuan into five portions and set aside them as a special bonus.

Lu Ran could come up with the million, but given Shen Fupo's personality, he would definitely want to be involved and have her contribute some money.

Shen, the wealthy woman, quickly finished reading the proposal.

“Although this is a competition, the more important thing is that you organize it so that everyone can listen to songs and make friends through music. Let’s call it Lu Ran’s Fan Club.”

"Okay, let's go with that name!"

Lu Ran didn't have any ideas about naming things.

Mrs. Shen is right, we can make friends through singing.

Competition is competition, but friendship comes first and competition second.

Without the involvement of capital, those messy things wouldn't even make it to this show.

The highest prize is only 200,000, which isn't enough for investors to make a profit from.

Online, in entertainment news, this news about Lu Ran was also posted by marketing accounts.

However, this news did not generate much discussion.

Many people think that Lu Ran is just playing around.

It's just some tricks to release songs for the new album; it's not as good as Lu Ran's Lingnan cultural tour last time.

At the very least, the Lingnan cultural tour was a large-scale undertaking.

Holding a singing competition, especially in a live-streaming room, is not much different from the small-scale activities of other streamers.

Ultimately, to become truly famous, one needs to appear on variety shows for greater exposure.

The next morning, in the meeting room of the Douyin operations department.

Manager Sun Kai is having a meeting with his employees.

The operations department is responsible for developing activities for Douyin (TikTok), with the main goal of increasing user activity on the platform.

The operations department deserves a lot of credit for making ShakeShou (抖手) reach its current level.

Sun Kai asked, "Everyone is welcome to share any good ideas they have."

At this moment, an employee said, "President Sun, Lu Ran said on Douyin last night that he wanted to hold a singing competition, which would be held in the live broadcast room."

The employee recounted everything Lu Ran had said.

Upon hearing that it was Lu Ran, Sun Kai listened attentively for a while.

Lu Ran did a great job in several of Douyin's events, and the Lingnan Culture Tour brought a wave of new users to Douyin.

"Lu Ran hasn't decided which platform to stream this singing competition on yet, right?" Sun Kai asked.

"not yet."

Sun Kai pondered for a while, but didn't rush to make a decision.

After the meeting ended, his subordinates submitted the relevant documents, which Sun Kai analyzed.

There wasn't much online attention given to Lu Ran's match.

"No one has ever done this kind of competition before, but Lu Ran said that he has a new song to release, which will at least bring some popularity. Plus, with the singers from Burning Studio performing, it should be pretty good."

After considering it for a while, Sun Kai finally decided to buy the live broadcast rights for Lu Ran's singing competition and provide technical support.

A regular live stream would definitely fall short; it needs to be optimized specifically for Lu Ran's live stream needs.

Sun Kai is going to take a gamble this time.

He thought Lu Ran's singing competition was bound to be a hit!
(End of this chapter)