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Chapter 1106 Preparations for the Finale
In order to release more content on a daily basis, when Jiang Yuan was preparing to grab music festival tickets, Zhang Qing also arranged for staff to film a vlog of the ticket grabbing process to record it.

"Are there really that many people who want to see this?"

Five minutes before ticket sales officially began, Jiang Yuan looked at the pre-sale page showing that five million viewers had clicked "want to see" and asked curiously.

"It means that so many people have made reservations and are trying to grab tickets," Zhang Qing explained after glancing at the scene.

"That's way too hard to get tickets." Hearing Zhang Qing's reply, Jiang Yuan immediately realized how difficult it was to get tickets.

The combined number of tickets available for both days of the music festival is insufficient to meet the demand from the number of people who want to attend.

Not to mention, this is just one of many ticketing platforms, and only a portion of the tickets are available, making the competition for tickets extremely fierce.

"That's true, and many international viewers are also paying close attention to today's ticket sales."

“The invoicing time is the same on all platforms,” Zhang Qing said, though she was also secretly alarmed.

The music festival hasn't even started yet, so it's hard to say what kind of impact it will have.

However, judging from the ticket reservation situation, it is clear that tickets for only two days are not enough to meet demand.

"If that's the case, it seems like there's a high chance we won't be able to get tickets." Jiang Yuan sighed upon hearing this, having already given up much hope of getting tickets for this music festival.

Right now, I'm basically just preparing for the ticket-grabbing event with the mindset of "participation is the most important thing."

Unlike Jiang Yuan's usual concerts where tickets can be purchased by answering questions, this time the ticket-buying was a pure test of hand speed and internet speed.

After all, so many singers participated in this music festival, so it wouldn't be appropriate for the production team to simply create a series of questions that could be related to all the singers and start a quiz to win tickets.

Some audience members are clearly there specifically to see certain guest performers at the music festival, so expecting them to have a thorough understanding of all the singers is obviously asking too much.

Therefore, the production team has only put a lot of effort into implementing the real-name registration system for ticket viewing, hoping to use this method to stop scalpers from snatching tickets.

This mandatory real-name registration was something Li Xiaoyue was determined to implement. After all, it was obvious at a glance that the tickets for this music festival were in high demand, so naturally she hoped that more audience members could buy tickets to the event.

"It's about to start, you should get ready." Noticing the passage of time, Zhang Qing reminded Jiang Yuan.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yuan looked at the one-minute countdown on the screen and immediately focused on the countdown display, while also placing her hand on the ticket-grabbing button.

"Ten, nine, eight"

The final countdown. Seconds are ticking away.

Jiang Yuan subconsciously sat up straighter, her fingers poised to strike.

With just two seconds left, Jiang Yuan's finger landed quickly and accurately on the ticket-grabbing button, and then she started frantically tapping the screen, trying to snag a music festival ticket.

However, just a few seconds later, Jiang Yuan was taken to the ticket-buying interface, which showed that the tickets were sold out and there was insufficient stock.

This made Jiang Yuan subconsciously exclaim "Ah!" with a blank expression.

I never expected that a ticket rush would end so quickly.

"Are tickets really being released?" Jiang Yuan personally questioned the ticket-grabbing system.

However, considering that Li Xiaoyue and I had overseen all aspects of the music festival, we could only conclude that it was simply too popular.

The moment the tickets went on sale, a huge number of users participated in the ticket-grabbing frenzy.

Under these circumstances, it's common for many people to be unable to get tickets.

The vast majority of fans share the same experience as Jiang Yuan.

After Jiang Yuan finished grabbing tickets, she went online to check the Yuan Universe and found that most of her fans were complaining about not being able to get tickets for this music festival.

But when Jiang Yuan looked at the fans' comments, she suddenly realized that everyone had a pretty good attitude, as if they had already predicted that they probably wouldn't be able to get tickets to this music festival.

In previous performances, when Jiang Yuan specially set up a question-and-answer session, the competition among true fans was extremely fierce.

Not to mention that the ticket sales for this music festival had almost no barriers, allowing even casual fans to join the ticket-buying frenzy.

With so many artists performing at the music festival, getting tickets is incredibly difficult.

So fans didn't find anything strange about the music festival's hot ticket sales.

As for the fans who successfully snagged tickets in such a difficult ticket-buying frenzy, they all showed off their speed online.

Jiang Yuan was quite amazed by these kinds of posts, and even liked and commented on them, saying that she had also failed to get tickets to the music festival.

As soon as the news broke that Jiang Yuan had also failed to secure a music festival ticket, many screenshots began circulating on trending topics.

Originally, the most discussed topic on social media was the fact that the music festival sold out in seconds.

More than a third of the tickets were sold in overseas markets.

This has also greatly boosted the development of the tourism industry.

Throughout the entire year, only the music festival organized by "Sound Source Live" achieved such good ticket sales results.

It also has a strong international influence.

That's human psychology; the rarer something is, the more you want to have it.

The current situation where music festival tickets are hard to come by has also made many people want to go and see the music live.

However, the music festival's strict real-name registration policy means there is no room for ticket transfer.

However, when tickets had just started going on sale, no one took the program's emphasis on mandatory real-name registration seriously.

This is mainly due to the fact that many organizers promote the tickets in this way, but in fact, even more scalped tickets have started circulating in the secondary market.

Many people thought the program's announcement was ineffective, so scalped tickets continued to be sold like hotcakes online.

It immediately started to surge exponentially.

Having just snagged the tickets, Jiang Yuan could see some online discussions about the scalpers' frenzied buying spree.

Jiang Yuan glanced at it and then reminded her fans again on Yuan Universe about the mandatory real-name registration rule, urging them not to buy scalped tickets.

At the same time, she also announced that she would be doing more tours in the future, indicating that there would be many opportunities to meet, and she wasn't in a hurry. Although it was just a reminder, Jiang Yuan's promise, coupled with the confirmed tour schedule for the second half of the year, did offer some comfort to many fans.

Overall, the production team had anticipated the overwhelming demand for music festival tickets well before they went on sale.

In addition, the episode of "Live Music" happened to be airing the one featuring the "Tour" performance.

The parade had already caused quite a stir during the recording of the show.

This broadcast was something many viewers had been waiting for for quite some time.

This time, "Live Audio" was very conscientious, directly editing the entire performance into one episode, which can be said to have given the audience a real treat.

Several performances from this episode quickly rose to the top of global trending searches.

Similarly, it also served as excellent publicity for the sale of music festival tickets.

Many audience members were amazed by the "Tour" performance and naturally wanted to go to the music festival to see and enjoy the live performances of Jiang Yuan and others.

The episode featuring the "Tour" was the third-to-last episode of "Live Music".

After this episode airs, only the last two episodes remain: one is a special episode recorded by Jiang Yuan and others, and the other is the final grand performance.

In other words, the show "Live Sound" will officially end in two weeks.

The show was coming to an end during the same week as the music festival. According to information Jiang Yuan had gathered, Li Xiaoyue had prepared some special segments for the show's finale at the music festival.

This would also be a perfect way to give the show a beautiful finale celebration, just like the previous beach performance.

With the music festival tickets already sold out worldwide, Jiang Yuan stopped paying attention to related news and instead took out her phone to send a few messages.

The production team seemed quite efficient to Jiang Yuan, and they quickly finalized the collaborations between Jiang Yuan and Lu Qingge, among others.

Jiang Yuan originally planned to sing songs that she had sung with Lu Qingge and others before.

This choice has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can save a lot of rehearsal time, and even the arrangement may not need to be changed.

However, what Jiang Yuan didn't expect was that this collaboration wasn't for a new song she had prepared.

People like Lu Qingge also brought their own original songs and wanted to perform with Jiang Yuan on the music festival stage.

This would be a rare experience for Jiang Yuan, so naturally she wouldn't have any thoughts of refusing.

After all, he and Ye Xuanqi had already prepared a new OST song for the TV series.

Lu Qingge and the others brought their new songs to Jiang Yuan, wanting to collaborate. It would be too much to refuse them.

However, after accepting all these new collaboration offers, Jiang Yuan's workload suddenly increased significantly before the music festival began.

Several new songs need to be reviewed from beginning to end, and since they are also duet songs, there are even more aspects that need to be coordinated.

So for several days in a row, Jiang Yuan was either filming on set or, after finishing a day's filming, pondering alone how to perform the collaborative songs.

Because of her close working relationship with Ye Xuanqi during filming, she practiced the duet songs from time to time, and her condition gradually improved. This is also the song that Jiang Yuan has prepared the most thoroughly so far.

Work related to music is basically all tied to music festivals.

Jiang Yuan had already prepared some new songs and quickly practiced them to near completion. However, the new songs sent by Lu Qingge and others were relatively unfamiliar to her.

Often after work, Jiang Yuan would diligently learn to sing from the guidance of Lu Qingge and others.

After practicing for several days, Jiang Yuan finally mastered all the songs.

During this time, Lu Qingge and Shang Yan'er would often make video calls to Jiang Yuan, ostensibly to check on Jiang Yuan's practice results.

What exactly those thoughts were remains unknown.

Besides Lu Qingge and others, the person Jiang Yuan contacted most frequently during filming was Brian from the Wild Waves band.

With the collaboration already finalized and rehearsals completed, Brian contacted Jiang Yuan purely to discuss the film collaboration.

After a conversation at the dinner table, the two sides had tentatively agreed to collaborate on the film.

Jiang Yuan did not expect that in such a short period of time, Brian had already made a lot of preparations for the filming of the movie.

For example, the vehicles that would definitely be used, and the filming locations, gave Jiang Yuan the illusion that as long as the script was ready, filming could begin at any time.

To some extent, after seeing how much Brian had prepared for the filming, Jiang Yuan's interest in completing the script for this movie did indeed increase considerably.

Unfortunately, due to the busy filming and music festival preparations, Jiang Yuan was unable to devote much energy to completing the script.

Brian was understanding and said that they would discuss the script together after Jiang Yuan finished her recent busy period.

After a few days of this routine, the crew finally got a rare break.

To be precise, there is only half a day of rest.

So Jiang Yuan and Ye Xuanqi didn't plan to use this half-day to complete other work. Instead, they chose to stay together and watch TV, preparing to spend a leisurely afternoon.

"The rules for this episode must be quite different from the previous ones, right?"

After turning on the TV, Ye Xuanqi subconsciously found the program "Live Sound" and asked Jiang Yuan a question.

“Yes, everyone acted independently in this episode, and there was basically no interaction between them,” Jiang Yuan nodded in agreement.

This is why Jiang Yuan felt comfortable watching this episode of "Live Audio" with Ye Xuanqi.

Otherwise, in other episodes where Ye Xuanqi didn't participate in the recording, either Lu Qingge or Shang Yan'er would appear in the same frame.

Sometimes the editing of "Live Audio" leans towards romantic pairings, so in Jiang Yuan's opinion, the other episodes are not suitable for her and Ye Xuanqi to watch together.

Sure enough, Ye Xuanqi only started watching seriously after Jiang Yuan confirmed that this episode was a solo special.

In the main program, each singer occupies a segment.

As expected, Jiang Yuan's segment was placed at the very end of the main program, in hopes of attracting more viewers.

Jiang Yuan was also curious about what the final edited version would look like, so she watched it carefully with Ye Xuanqi.