Gamer Superstar - Chapter 116

Chapter 116: 116 – Solo show?
Even though my show only lasted 30 minutes, it was enough for me to realize how cool it was.

Unlike the bar or the wedding, where I had to give 120% to get the audience’s attention, at a show like this, they came specifically to see the artist sing, so it was much easier!

Even if they hadn’t come to see me sing, the effort I had to make to get their attention was much less than in other places, so I could just enjoy the moment on stage and have fun singing.

The audience’s reaction to meeting me was really nice, but I was still looking forward to the day when I would perform in front of my own audience.

“Selena… do you think I could do my own show with my current audience?” I asked curiously.

Selena put her hand to her chin and thought for a moment before answering. “Even though you have a small audience in San Francisco, people really like you, not counting how many followers you have on the internet, it would be possible, but we’d probably have to do it on a smaller scale than this…”

When I heard that, my eyes lit up!

“How do you think we could do this?” I asked.

“Instead of renting a place like this to do your show, we could talk to the owner of a small nightclub or even a bar and charge admission, while the owner of the place keeps the money from the public’s consumption.” She explained. “With your popularity you could get an audience of maybe 200 people, charging a $20 ticket would be a $4,000 turnover, but then we’d have to look at the price of renting the equipment and paying Mark and Frank to play with you as well, in the end how much you’d get might be slightly less than what you get at a wedding.”

When I heard this I was a little disappointed, not because I would get less, because with what I was getting now I wasn’t so worried about money, especially now that my bank account already had $16,000 in it, which was how much I got after paying Mark, Frank and Selena’s share.

What disappointed me was that I’d have to do the show in a bar…

The Lila show we were at now wasn’t a huge ballroom with a capacity of 1,200 people, a place I would hardly be able to fill with my current popularity… Not to mention the cost of setting up the stage and equipment for this show.

Lila charged $40 per ticket, with 2,000 people going through 2 shows, that was $80,000 in one night, but just for equipment, staff and organization, she must have spent at least $20,000, something I would be far from being able to do for the time being.

“Would the show be better in a nightclub than in a bar?” I asked.

But instead of Selena answering me, it was Frank who had just arrived with Mark after organizing their things in front of Lila’s stage while she interacted with the audience and her band on stage.

“Nightclub gigs suck…” He complained. “For rock artists like us, doing nightclub gigs is like trying to get a country singer into a rap show…it just doesn’t fit.”

Mark also chimed in. “The crowd gets a lot drunker in nightclubs than in bars, not to mention the drug use that makes people even crazier. Unless you literally close the club and only let your own people in, it’s not worth it.

Selena agreed. “Yeah, but it would be hard to control whether only his crowd would get in, and even if we could do that, it would greatly reduce the potential revenue…”

Listening to the three of them, I realized that it really wasn’t worth doing the show in a nightclub, at least not as long as I wasn’t famous enough to fill the club with my audience.

“Why don’t we try to team up with a bar to put on an exclusive show for you to try out? Maybe it won’t be as bad as you think.” Selena suggested.

Looking at her and seeing that she was confident, I trusted her. “Okay, let’s try it.”

It sounds like I hate doing gigs in bars, on the contrary, the experience is really nice, I just wanted to test what it would be like to do a gig like tonight with an audience that was really there just to see me.

After that, we decided to go out for a bite to eat and pass the time until the second show.

It would be another 2 hours and 30 minutes of Lila’s show, then there would be another 1 hour break to set up for the next audience, so I had about 3 hours free before I had to go back.

“We could have booked a gig at a bar in that time, right?” I asked, eating a sandwich.

Selena looked at me and sighed. “Yeah, I didn’t think it would seem so slow waiting those three hours to be able to sing again.”

To pass the time, I pulled out my phone to see how my channel was doing since I last checked.

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Monetized views of songs: 4,842,000 = $4,115 (+$1,216)

Monetized Views Vlogs: 697,000 = $4,530 (+$1,482)

[Numb – 923,839 views] +188,237 views

[In The End – 926,026 views] +175,868 views

[The Lazy Song – 2,346,366 views] +231,133 views

[Boyfriend – 790,723 views] +134,057 views

[Boyfriend Live – 1,385,854 views] +291,746 views

[Backstage at my shows – Vlog #1 – 368,108 views] +60,431 views

[I made a song to sing at a wedding! – Vlog #2 – 252,166 views] +92,012 views

[All Of Me – 524,346 views] +412,673 views

[One of my best shows! Vlog #3 – 76,432 views] +76,432 views

[140,347 subscribers] +42,171 subs

[Spokify Music Plays: 2,620,000] +820,000 views

Spokify Monetized Views: 1,358,000 = $8,716 (+$3,280)

[Instabram: 75k followers] +25k followers

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Looking at the growth of my accounts and views, a big smile appeared on my face.

Just this week I had earned an extra $5,978 by adding the songs and vlogs from MeTube to the views from Spokify.

If it wasn’t for this week’s partnership with Lila, I would have made more money from my social media accounts than I did from live shows!

But this partnership with Lila earned me $10,560 today, on top of the $960 I got from yesterday’s shows and the payment for winning the musical battle, plus the wedding I did on Friday, which added about $2,000 to this account.

Adding it all up, just from the concerts and the duet I did with Lila this week, I earned about $13,500, plus the almost $6,000 I earned from social media, I earned $19,500 this week!!!!. So close to $20,000…

As soon as I saw that number, the image of the blue NSX flashed through my mind for a few seconds, only to quickly disappear and bring me back to reality.

The focus was first on paying off my family’s debts, then I thought about the car…

But at the rate I was making money, I think I could buy that car next month!

Turning my attention to Mark, Frank and Selena, I went back to eating my sandwich while we talked about how the show was going and what we could do to improve for the second time.

They gave me some tips on how to interact with the audience to try to get them more excited, while I gave them some tips on how to interact so we could have some nice interactions for the audience.

All of this was recorded by Jason.

With the amount of content we were able to produce this week, I had to decide between making one vlog twice as long or splitting it into 2 videos.

Both options had advantages, as the two short videos could increase retention to have a better chance of making the algorithm go viral, or I could make the long video, increase my view time of the video to try and make the algorithm go viral.

Two interesting options that I’ll think about as I edit this.

After an hour, we went back to the show and stood in the audience to see how Lila’s show was going.

Looking at my status panel, I saw that my Mana had recovered 6 points since yesterday… leaving me only 33 seconds to use the Observe skill on Lila.

This was a very low mana recovery rate… only 1 point of mana every 4 hours… maybe I should try to recover this mana in a more active way like meditation or something to speed it up?

I was unsure if I wanted to test it out and risk using it on her and running out of mana and not being able to do the next show…

I guess I could try using the skill for 10 seconds… even if it doesn’t work, I should still be okay… I thought as I waited for Lila’s song to end, as I wanted to use the skill to improve my stage presence.

This was a big disadvantage I had against Fedrick yesterday and something I knew I had to work on.

As soon as Lila’s song ended and she started interacting with the audience, I set my phone to wake up in 15 seconds and used 5 seconds to focus on her.

I focused on everything she said, how she acted, what she looked at, where her eyes went, the expressions she made.

In those 10 seconds, I observed everything she did while analyzing why she did those things.

When I felt my cell phone vibrate in my hand, my attention was broken and I managed to cancel the skill, making me spend 11 seconds on the skill and lowering my current mana to 21 points… which made me feel weak… but not weak enough to be really affected by it, it was like I was just very sleepy right now.

However, when I looked at the message in front of me, a smile appeared on my face.

[Stage Presence Lv 11 -> 12].

A new level of the Stage Presence skill in only 11 seconds!!!

Something that would have required me to spend several hours interacting with the audience at concerts, I was able to accomplish just by analyzing Lila for a few seconds while she was on stage!

Of course, I think I was only able to do this with so little observation time because of the difference in our skill levels.

While I was at Lv 11 of the skill, Lila was probably at least 20 points into it because of her years of experience, so it was like my Skill Teach, but in reverse.

Instead of teaching the person faster based on the difference in our levels, with Observe I was learning things from people based on the difference in our levels!

As I analyzed the new knowledge I had gained from the skill in my mind, a satisfied smile appeared on my face.