Gamer Superstar

Chapter  170 - Which song?

As with my wedding gigs, the owners of this party liked my performance so much that they asked me to sing for an extra hour.

I have to say that when I sang Boyfriend I got a slightly different reaction from different groups of people.

Victoria and her friends her age obviously loved the lyrics, with the standard reaction I usually get from girls who are interested in me.

Victoria's aunt and uncle had already had a few drinks and didn't care much and just danced on the dance floor to whatever I was singing.

Even Victoria's mother loved the lyrics and danced with the others.

The problem was Victoria's father, who looked at me as if he could kill me with his eyes.

I just pretended not to see him and kept singing my songs.

By the end of the party, Jason had made some great recordings, Mark and Frank had helped me a lot to keep the mood up and put on the best show I could, while Selena got $1,000 for another hour of show, bringing my gross for the night to $5,000.

After deducting $700 from Mark and Frank, there was $4,300 left, minus Selena's 20%, there was $3,440 left for me, which I took, plus $350 for Jason, the same amount I paid Mark and Frank, and in the end there was $3,090 left for me.

Getting 3k in one night was great value, especially since it was enough to boost my bank account from $15k to $18k.

Not to mention that the three of them were very happy to get more than they normally get.

Considering that I used to pay Jason $150 a night and Mark and Frank $200, I had more than doubled the amount I was paying Jason and increased the amount I was paying Mark and Frank by 75%.

"Since you've been with me from the beginning, I'm not going to treat anyone badly. Since I've been promoted to D-rank and now I'm getting paid more for the shows, you who are helping me to improve the quality of the show will also get paid more for your appearances in the shows. I said as I explained why I was increasing the amount I was paying them.

Considering that we were doing 3 shows a week together, that would give them an average pay of $4,200 a month each, which obviously wasn't an extremely high amount to live a luxurious life, but it was a great way to supplement their monthly income or even open up an opportunity for them to not have to worry about looking for normal jobs to support themselves.

And considering that the more I grew and got more money, the more I would pay them, I was giving them the prospect of future growth based on the growth of my career, as if they were shares in a growing company.

Does that sound arrogant? It certainly is, but it's the truth, they even noticed that I had a repertoire of great original songs that I was releasing very easily, and my meteoric rise only showed that staying with me was the best choice.

If I became a C-Rank artist, their monthly salary would potentially increase to five figures a month, which would finally take them to a whole new level.

While it was just me and Selena in her car on the way back to my place, she commented on my decision to raise her salary.

"That was a good move, with Mark and Frank's talent they could possibly try to become indie artists and hope to grow enough to make a lot of money, just like they did the day I met you, but playing as a backing band for you is not only safer and more stable, but you've given them a clear growth path that they're unlikely to refuse to try and venture out on their own." Selena commented as she nodded.

"Yes... I'm already making a lot of money, and possibly the money I'm going to make will get bigger and bigger in the future, so it's better to just not be greedy and share the pot of gold with those who are struggling on my side, than to lose them and have to look for a difficult person to work with..." I explained my point of view and got a nod of agreement from Selena.

Even Selena was beginning to be positive about me.

Considering that AJP gets 20% of what I make, today's show earned them $860, if I did 3 shows like this on the weekends, that would mean that more than $10k a month would go to AJP as commission, which may sound like a lot, but if you do the math, it means that with AJP's help, I would already be getting $40k - $50k a month from the shows alone, not counting how much I would get from MeTube and Spokify.

My advantage with MeTube and Spokify was that unlike other artists who only released a few songs a year, I was releasing at least two songs a month, which greatly increased my income, not to mention how much I was getting from vlogs.

When I got home and saw the blue NSX parked in the garage, a smile appeared on my face.

I even wanted to drive the NSX and do the show, but since I didn't know what the party would be like and if I would have to drink, I preferred to just go with Selena and Jason in her car and take the time to record the intro to the vlog like we always did.

The next day, I looked at the posts that the birthday crowd had made tagging me, and I reposted some of those posts on my Instabram and Twipper profiles, generating some engagement on my profile, but my focus was on something else.

Even if I had a solo show today, it would just be a normal gig in a bar like I always do.

My mind was on how to make tomorrow's concert experience special.

Since it would be a benefit concert, I had a few ideas that I could put into action to help the children even more.

The first idea I had was the video I was going to make.

I wanted to get Jason to record this event, not so I could make more money, but so I could have another opportunity to raise money for the kids.

I would have all the monetization from the video go directly into the orphanage's account, which would bring in a few thousand dollars more in donations for the upkeep of the place.

But I still felt it wasn't enough...

I still felt that I had to do something more.

So as a musician, wouldn't it be ideal if I just made a song? Not only could I make a song to cheer up kids, but I could use the monetization of Spokify and MeTube to make more money for them.

I would still get the fame that this song would bring me, but the money from the song would go to help the children, which would be like killing two birds with one stone.

And considering how much my music was making on Spokify, if I added up the income from the vlog on Metube, the music on MeTube, and the music on Spokify, it would become a constant source of income and donations for the orphanage.

In the first few months, this could be a 5-figure donation, and over the months it could even be a 6-figure donation, considering that my old songs are still earning me a lot of money today.

Now the main decision was... what song would I choose to sing at this event?

First, I had to choose a song that the children would understand and like.

Second, the song had to have a good message for the children, something that would give them hope for the future and warm their hearts.

Third, and most importantly, the song had to be good.

There was no point in me making a song that the children would understand and that had a good message, but the lyrics would be bad and boring, no one would listen to it, it wouldn't make any money, and the children wouldn't want to listen to it again.

On that point alone, I had already discarded several song ideas I'd had. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

While I was thinking about what song to choose, Ethan came into the bedroom to get some toys to play with, and looking at those toys, an idea came to me very strongly.

Mainly because one of the toys he picked up was a cowboy doll and the other was an astronaut.

It wasn't possible that I didn't understand that this could be a sign for one of the most classic songs of my childhood, right?

Not only were the lyrics simple and easy for children to understand, they had the message that children needed to hear in times of need like the one they were going through, but most importantly, the song was very beautiful and went down very well in my former world.

Of course, a large part of the song's success was due to the fact that it was one of the most classic songs from one of the most successful children's cartoons in my former world.

But that wasn't a complete problem for me.

If I was an unknown artist, it might have been more difficult to get the song to go viral, but with my current rank and how many followers I have on social media, it wasn't impossible for this song to reach a large audience.

And with how good this song was, I was confident that it would get a few million views!