As this incredibly touching song, "nameless person," concluded, CCTV-1's viewership ratings had stabilized at an impressive 14.18.
At this point, the overall Spring Festival Gala viewership had reached 31.09, which, while not surpassing last year's 32.49, was not a concern for Zhang Guoshi and the Spring Festival Gala's main creative team.
After all, the Spring Festival Gala had just begun, less than an hour ago! This year's explosive performances were still to come.
After exiting the stage, Xie Jie and Liu Ruyan went directly to Su Yu's dressing room to remove their makeup; they planned to leave Yan Jing immediately afterward.
They also took the opportunity to wish Su Yu, their great benefactor and true mentor, an early New Year and bid him farewell.
"The emotional expression on stage just now was richer than in previous rehearsals; it was a very successful performance! I thought you two might be nervous, but you exceeded expectations, very good."
Upon seeing the two, Su Yu smiled and offered his critique as "Wu Anjun."
"It's all because Teacher Su Yu's songs are good!" Liu Ruyan replied with a radiant smile.
She was truly happy; this was her first time on the Spring Festival Gala, and for someone who yearned for great fame, it was undoubtedly another very solid step forward.
And after tonight, her national recognition would also receive a huge boost!
This would greatly assist her in her upcoming film, "beautiful fate," which was scheduled for release after the New Year.
And all of this, in fact, was given to her by this young and handsome man before her.
So, even though she now had the qualifications to go solo and the ability to establish her own studio, she still chose to remain at Tianxing Entertainment, staying close to Su Yu.
Tianxing Entertainment gave her a very high share; by the end of last year, it had already increased to an 80/20 split, which was typically only available to A-list celebrities.
Compared to what Su Yu and Tianxing Entertainment gave her, the 20% she gave up was truly insignificant.
Therefore, as long as Tianxing Entertainment and Su Yu didn't force her out, she would absolutely not strike out on her own.
"Brother, you don't need to prepare a new album for me this year. Later, there will be several singles and a chorus theme song from 'legend of the condor heroes' going online, and the number of songs I've released this year is already quite a lot. Most importantly, I want to go back and take care of my wife; if possible, I don't plan to take on too many activities before the baby's full moon."
Xie Jie looked at Su Yu and stated his decision.
Such a decision was undoubtedly unwise for Xie Jie, who was currently in his rising period.
Especially after appearing on the Spring Festival Gala and gaining even greater popularity and exposure!
However, everyone present, upon hearing his decision, expressed their support.
"Then next year! Next year, I'll be the producer for your new album! And good things come to those who wait, so there's no need to worry about popularity; with good works, popularity and such are merely fleeting."
Su Yu smiled, nodded, and gave his promise.
If an album were to be released next year, Su Yu would indeed need to serve as the producer himself.
Because Li Dayue was retiring in September of this year.
This time, Su Yu had no good reason to keep this veteran who was determined to retire.
Moreover, Li Dayue's energy was indeed starting to wane; from Liu Ruyan's album onwards, including Chen Yixun, Ye Mei, Su Yu, Han Jiangxue, and Andy Lau, Li Dayue had hardly rested for a single day during this period.
Following them, albums for Zhang Xiaohan, Xie Jie, Cool Fire Combination, Liu Ruyan, Bi Huo, Xue Qing, and SSR Girl Group were all in line!
Li Dayue might not even be able to finish them all before his retirement!
So, after Li Dayue's retirement this year, Su Yu planned to take over the role of Music Director at Tianxing Entertainment.
It was simply that if he didn't take it, no one else in the company would dare to.
However, for Su Yu, he wouldn't handle all of these future albums by himself.
After all, Tianxing Entertainment's Music Department was strong and well-staffed at this time, and Su Yu planned to select some suitable songs from the Music Department to include in these artists' new albums.
He himself would just pick some classic main songs to add in.
And Su Yu would control the number of these main songs to around 3-4.
If everything relied on him alone, how would Tianxing Entertainment's Music Department develop and grow?
Just as Su Yu wouldn't provide too many scripts to the Film and Television Department.
If you feed people too much, they become lazy and lose their drive, which is not good.
Although his resource library could be said to be endless, even if he used it until his dying day, it would not be exhausted.
"That's great! I look forward to the day you take charge of the Music Department, little brother." Xie Jie replied with a smile.
"If Li Dayue heard that, he'd probably come over here and kill you! Alright, go remove your makeup. Cool Fire Combination is about to go on stage, so you can watch them before you leave."
After cracking a joke, Su Yu looked at the television screen in the lounge.
Currently on stage was a crosstalk performance, featuring familiar faces from Blue Star China.
It was just that the crosstalk routine itself was a bit too old-fashioned.
Su Yu felt that Zhang Guoshi might as well have been more daring this time and invited that "old couple" from De Mou She.
Even if the people in the traditional crosstalk circle had a lot of influence, it wouldn't affect you, Zhang Guoshi, right?
If you don't dare to do it, the future Spring Festival Gala directors will be even less daring.
Later, if they absolutely refused to come to the Spring Festival Gala, wouldn't that be a shame?
And this crosstalk performance also caused the steadily rising viewership ratings to show a clear downward trend.
Especially for CCTV-1, it dropped directly back below 14!
It made Zhang Guoshi want to vomit blood.
He had actually wanted to cut this crosstalk performance initially, but the higher-ups didn't agree!
This was one of the few performances he disliked.
However, fortunately, the next program was Su Yu's work, and it was a performance Zhang Guoshi had high hopes for!
At 9:20 PM, as the host announced the next act, Yang Yi and Zeng Lingling of Tianxing Entertainment's Cool Fire Combination took the stage.
today, their attire was also very ethnic, with even the edges and corners of their clothes showing distinct ethnic fusion characteristics.
It was evident that Zhang Guoshi had put thought into the costume design.
"mountains and rivers"
Lyrics, Music, Arrangement: Su Yu
Performed by: Cool Fire Combination
And when the song information appeared, the bullet comments once again erupted.
"Hooray! Finally, another work by Su Shen!"
"Last time's 'free flying' changed my opinion of Cool Fire Combination. I wonder if they can continue the legend this time."
"Anything from Su Shen, is there ever a bad one? Listen with confidence!"
"Blind guess: Cool Fire Combination will ignite the whole stage this time! I'll bet a pack of spicy strips on it."
"..."
As netizens happily discussed, a dulcimer prelude had already begun on the stage.
Following that was a section from Zeng Lingling, a Mongolian long-tune chant that gave people goosebumps!
Holy cow, is it that amazing? Taking the lead right from the start?!
Are they really not afraid that the rest of the song won't be able to live up to this Mongolian long-tune?