At night.
Caishikou.
Zhang Ye came home very late today. He was swaying around and was obviously a little drunk. After knocking on the door, his mother opened it for him. The lights in the living room were still on.
His mother asked, "Why did you come home so late?"
"It's a celebratory banquet. Since no one is leaving, it wouldn't be nice for me to leave first." Zhang Ye saw his father sitting on the sofa and reading the newspapers. "You two aren't asleep yet?"
His mother smiled and said, "We were waiting for you."
"Where's Chenchen?" Zhang Ye asked.
His father pointed to the bedroom. "She went to bed early."
His mother was in a very good mood as she said with a smile, "Your dad and I just finished watching the news. The media is all talking about The Voice and the reviews are all very positive. I heard that the viewership ratings for the final episode of the grand finals have broken records again? Beautifully done. My son has really made me proud! "
Zhang Ye said proudly, "That's right. Who do you think your son is?"
His father reminded him, "Don't be too proud. There's still a long way to go."
"I know, Dad." Zhang Ye also sat down and picked up a newspaper. He said, "I want to see what they're saying about my show too. I've been busy with socializing, eating, and celebrating all day. I didn't even have a minute to rest."
The reviews of Zhang Ye in the newspapers were very mixed and varied. But when it came to Zhang Ye's works, especially The Voice, the media's reviews were almost unanimous. There was a newspaper that wrote a rather interesting article. It directly said, "What kind of person can produce what kind of work. But this saying doesn't seem to be applicable to Zhang Ye. Perhaps a lot of people will be wondering about one thing for the rest of their lives — why is Zhang Ye, who is clearly surrounded by negative news and negative energy, able to produce such an unexpected and positive work that is so well-received by everyone!?"
His parents went to bed.
After Zhang Ye finished reading the newspapers, he strolled back to his room and switched on his computer without saying a word. The first thing he did was to go to the Celebrity Rankings Index's official website.
— S-list.
— A-list.
— B-list.
The list was displayed line by line.
Finally, Zhang Ye found his name from the B-list celebrity rankings and clicked on the graph of his popularity score change. He purposely selected two to three months ago, when he first started planning for The Voice, and pulled out the graph of his popularity score from that day until today.
From the chart, it could be clearly seen that Zhang Ye's popularity score had started from the left side of the chart and was slowly rising in a steady and steady manner. However, the increase was not obvious and he had been hovering around the bottom of the B-list celebrity rankings. But on the second day of The Voice's broadcast, the chart's curve suddenly shot up. The angle of the chart was almost 30 degrees and he was steadily climbing up the rankings of the 30-40 B-list celebrities in the country!
Thirty-sixth!
Thirty-third!
Thirtieth!
By the fifth episode of The Voice, Zhang Ye's popularity score had already surpassed Fan Wenli, who was also at the bottom of the B-list rankings. Furthermore, it was still pulling him up as time passed!
Twenty-seventh!
Twenty-fifth!
Most of this popularity came from The Voice. For example, Zhang Ye's reputation as the executive director and executive planner, as well as Zhang Ye's stunning performance as the host of The Voice. Of course, a portion of this popularity came from other aspects as well. For example, the online scolding war, that palindrome poem, the two Beijing college entrance exams that Zhang Ye had written, and the incident of Tsinghua University smashing up a car. All of these contributed to his popularity score!
The graph reached the rightmost point, which was today.
At this moment, Zhang Ye's ranking in the national B-list rankings had shot up to 22nd place. In this stage of the statistics, he had actually shot up by more than a dozen places. Based on the popularity score, this was the most popularity score that Zhang Ye had ever gained since his debut!
It had to be known that the popularity score of a B-list celebrity was already a completely different concept from that of a C-list celebrity or D-list celebrity. It was already very difficult to move up a single place, much less a dozen places. Thinking back to when Zhang Ye first stepped into the B-list rankings, he, who was at the bottom of the B-list rankings, had gone through a lot of trouble and achieved a lot of results. But in the end, he only managed to advance by one or two places. It could be said to be the speed of a tortoise, as he was crawling forward at a snail's pace. This was because in the B-list rankings, all of the celebrities were well-known figures in the country and had a very high base of popularity. Not only did their popularity score increase, but the popularity of others did not remain the same. They could also increase, so naturally, their ranking would be slower. This was to be expected. But this time, The Voice had been crushed by Zhang Ye. He had gone from the bottom of the B-list rankings all the way to the middle, even surpassing Chen Guang!
As of now, the rankings around Zhang Ye's position were as follows:
B-list Celebrities:
21st place: Hu Fang
22nd place: Zhang Ye
23rd place: Chen Guang
And Fan Wenli was in 29th place.
Zhang Ye still did not know who Hu Fang was, but everyone knew who Old Chen and Fan Wenli were!
Before The Voice was produced, the couple, Chen Guang and Fan Wenli, had always been more popular than Zhang Ye. Fan Wenli was slightly more popular than Zhang Ye, while Chen Guang was much more popular than him. This was because no matter who it was, both of them had extremely high statuses in the music industry. They were the kind of big shots who had almost reached the top of the music industry. At that time, Zhang Ye was only doing broadcasting, working as a host for a local satellite or online television station, writing poems, giving lectures, writing novels, and solving mathematical conjectures. All of these were relatively niche and varied, so he definitely could not compare to Old Chen and Fan Wenli!
However, The Voice had changed the situation!
It wasn't that Chen Guang and Fan Wenli's popularity did not increase. As the coaches of The Voice, the couple's popularity also increased tremendously and their rankings kept rising. It could only be said that Zhang Ye's explosive rise in popularity was too monstrous. It had far exceeded the couple's growth in popularity.
Looking at the reasons, there were only these two factors.
First: Zhang Ye had stolen too much of the limelight. He was the executive planner, executive director, and even the host of The Voice. The audience knew that The Voice was planned and directed by Zhang Ye, so naturally, a large portion of the audience's attention and popularity was focused on Zhang Ye. He had taken on a large portion of the popularity that belonged to the four coaches, so it was slightly different from the original version of The Voice from his previous world. Zhang Ye had turned the tables and become the host.
But Zhang Ye was different. This was where Zhang Ye's advantage could be seen. He walked on multiple legs and was involved in everything in the entertainment industry, be it writing novels, poetry, producing programs, setting test questions, or giving lectures. There wasn't anything he didn't do, so naturally, Zhang Ye's future potential was much wider than anyone else's. Not to mention being saturated, Zhang Ye was probably still in the beginning stages of his career in various fields. Even for his main profession, hosting, he had never appeared on a provincial satellite channel before. At most, he had appeared on a local satellite channel or a radio station. But this was Zhang Ye's first time appearing on Central TV as a host, so the effects were very obvious. It had gone from a quantitative change to a qualitative change!
It was a qualitative change from a quantitative one to a qualitative one! Thinking back to some of the experts' evaluations of him, Zhang Ye smiled. In the past, many industry insiders did not think highly of him. Even some of his friends and relatives felt that his path in the entertainment industry was too strange, too niche, and too difficult. Even Chen Guang, who was a big name in the music industry who could hold a concert overseas, couldn't even make it to the B-list rankings in the country. So how could a host who did not focus on proper work, instead writing books, poems, and giving lectures, where could he go? Zhang Ye was also a little doubtful about his own path. In the end, it was Wu Zeqing who affirmed and encouraged him. She gave Zhang Ye a wake-up call and pointed him in the right direction. Zhang Ye would never forget what Old Wu said at that time. The theory of walking on multiple legs was proposed by Old Wu!
This was also the reason why many singers would choose to act in movies when they couldn't make it in the music industry. This was also the reason why many movie stars who reached the pinnacle of the film industry, as long as they had the ability to do so, would want to release an album or write a novel!
As it turned out, Old Wu was right!
As it turned out, Zhang Ye did not take the wrong path!
Back when his popularity wasn't high, it might not have been obvious. But now that his popularity had reached the level of the domestic B-list rankings, Zhang Ye's advantage of walking on multiple legs was slowly being revealed. Chen Guang couldn't make it anymore, Fan Wenli was slowing down, and other celebrities who were stuck at a bottleneck like this had shocked the industry insiders and media experts who did not think highly of him!
This was what it meant to be well-prepared!
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