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Chapter 14 Aftermath and Sales

After going to MUSIC STATION on Friday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto returned home to rest.

Because Sony's positioning of Kiyoshi Sakamoto is that he is a talented singer-songwriter, coupled with being so handsome, this also makes Sony choose some programs with better time slots when arranging Kiyoshi Sakamoto to appear on the show, otherwise he will not be on it.As a result, Kiyoshi Sakamoto only participated in the MS TV program after his single was released.No magazines, no interviews.After all, it's a newcomer, and there is also a restriction on the minor's appearance on the show. Although Sony helped Sakamoto get the application, it still has to be before ten o'clock, so he can't show his face on the show.

Sakamoto Kiyoshi was also happy to relax.

But to the surprise of Sony and Kiyoshi Sakamoto, MS brought Kiyoshi Sakamoto to the people of RB all at once.

Such a young, tall guy with a handsome face, a warm smile, and a youthful singing voice made people who watched the MS on Friday fall in love with Kiyoshi Sakamoto.Moreover, some sharp-eyed viewers saw the subtitles on the TV when Sakamoto Qing sang, that song was actually composed by himself, which also made more people like him, and more people who want to know him .

Young, handsome, creative, tall and thin, and good at singing, when so many advantages are gathered in one person, how can it not be loved?
In addition, the music review written by Shenmucheng on his blog gradually fermented. Many people who pay attention to music are also curious about Shenmucheng's praise of a new singer's music, so many people also go to Sony's official website, after listening to the short version of "Close Your Eyes Lightly" by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, I found it really nice.As a result, the name of Sakamoto Kiyoshi was slowly spread in the big city of Tokyo.

The immediate result was that Sakamoto cleared the fire!
Starting on Saturday, Sony has received calls from fans all over the country every day, either saying that they like Kiyoshi Sakamoto, or asking for various information about Kiyoshi Sakamoto.The enthusiasm of the fans directly led to the short-term crash of Sony's official website server, because the number of views was too large. Fortunately, Sony's technical staff responded quickly, otherwise the new fans of Kiyoshi Sakamoto would blow up Sony's official website.

I thought Kiyoshi Sakamoto would become popular, but I didn't expect it to become popular so quickly.

Seeing Kiyoshi Sakamoto's topical Sony, he immediately launched the next step.Sony first helped Kiyoshi Sakamoto make appointments with several influential magazines and newspapers in the next few days to take pictures and interview him.Try to let Kiyoshi Sakamoto show his face in RB before this craze passes, so that more people can know him.And in the case of a rainy day, increase the number of CDs of "Close Your Eyes Lightly", suppressing [-] copies at once, and deploy more people to distribute these CDs to all CD stores in the Tokyo area in the next few days .

So Sakamoto was miserable. He wanted to be lazy for a few days, but he was messed up by Sony.

In the next week, Kiyoshi Sakamoto appeared on the covers of major newspapers and magazines one after another.His name once reached the third place in the YAHOO search ranking on the Internet, the fifth place was Sakamoto Kiyoshi's lightly closed eyes, and the tenth place was MS Sakamoto Kiyoshi. He accounted for three of the top ten YAHOO search rankings.

February NO.13, the week since Kiyoshi Sakamoto's song "Close Your Eyes Lightly" was released, and the week after Kiyoshi Sakamoto appeared in MUSIC STATION.

The most intuitive data that can see Kiyoshi Sakamoto's popularity is the Oricon list released every day.

The Oricon list will announce the top three sales and the top [-] rankings every day.And on the day when Sakamoto Manifest song was released, Sakamoto Kiyoshi's name was of course not on the Oricon list.

On Thursday, the single hit the shelves, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto's name was not on the Oricon list released that day.

On Friday, at the MUSIC STATION, there was still no name.

On Saturday, the second day after MS, No. 90 No. [-] on the Oricon list was Kiyoshi Sakamoto, and his "Close Your Eyes Lightly".

On Monday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first newspaper interview was published, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto's name has risen thirty places on the Oricon list to No. 68.

On Tuesday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first magazine cover appeared in convenience stores, bookstores, and supermarkets.At this time, on the Oricon list, Sakamoto Kiyoshi had already entered the top [-].

On Wednesday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's personal homepage on Sony's official website was occupied by fans and forced to close for an hour. On the Oricon list, Kiyoshi Sakamoto reached the top ten.

On Thursday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first official fan club appeared, and the number of applicants exceeded 24 within 5 hours. On the Oricon list, No.3 in the sales list and No.3 in the [-] singles list.

Friday, this day, is the first week of Sakamoto Manifest song's debut, and it is also the day when the first week's sales are released.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Sakamoto Kiyoshi, accompanied by Uncle Ishida, came to the Sony Building in Ginza.

When Kiyoshi Sakamoto walked into the company, he found that people kept saying hello to him along the way.Kiyoshi Sakamoto bowed one by one.

In half an hour, there will be this week's sales report.At this time, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto walked into the music department, he found that the employees inside looked very excited.Sakamoto Kiyoshi thought for a while, and understood, this should be seen in the past few days, Sakamoto Kiyoshi's ranking on the Oricon list has been rising, and Sony has a lot of confidence in Sakamoto Kiyoshi's debut.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was sitting in the meeting room, was waiting to see how many CDs he could sell in the first week of sales of his single under the circumstances that he was struggling so hard.

Although Kiyoshi Sakamoto is very confident in his song "Close Your Eyes Lightly", and even though it will be a single that can exceed one million in the future, Ken Hirai still relied on this song to win the Golden Disk Award.However, others don't know that although Kiyoshi Sakamoto's popularity has exploded these days, the time is still very short after all, and it may be so short that the popularity has not yet been reflected in sales.

Half an hour passed quickly.

When Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was sitting in the meeting room, saw that the staff member came in with the sales volume of this week's single, with a happy expression on his face, he knew that his first single was a success!
"Sakamoto-san, the first week's sales of "Close Your Eyes Lightly" are... 15 copies!!!"

15 in the first week, it may be placed in RB ten years later, and many men's and women's groups may dismiss this, after all, they are all top groups that only exceed one million.However, in 2004, when the RB record market began to decline, among the solo singers and groups, the sales of 15 copies in the first week were all the top four singers, B'z, and Mr. Children. Yes, now Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a small debut singer, can get 15 sales, which may be a miracle.

RB is the second largest single market in the world. Although the record market has fluctuated a bit in recent years, Sony is very satisfied with the 15 sales of Kiyoshi Sakamoto's debut song, and also revealed a "good song" to Kiyoshi Sakamoto. "The news is that the next step is to increase production and increase the promotion of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, and try to see if Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first single can exceed one million copies!"
Strong support from Sony is definitely good news that every newcomer dreams of, but for Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who works more than 16 hours a day and sleeps no more than 6 hours a day during this week, it is very bad.The heart is not tired, and the body is also tired. After all, although Kiyoshi Sakamoto is an adult mentally, his body is only a 14-year-old child.

There is no way, after all, the single sells better, which is also a good thing for Sakamoto Kiyoshi, the more it sells, the more Sakamoto Kiyoshi will get.There is also a surge in popularity and fame, which is also more beneficial to Kiyoshi Sakamoto's future path. .Therefore, I can only bite the bullet and go up.

This time, in order to make use of Kiyoshi Sakamoto's popularity to a greater extent, Sony helped Kiyoshi Sakamoto answer a lot of announcements this time.

In this way, I wake up at five o'clock in the morning, make up and blow my hair, go to shoot pictorials, photos, and commercials; at noon, I do newspaper interviews and magazine interviews; at night, I participate in the recording of radio stations and variety shows.It became Kiyoshi Sakamoto's daily itinerary for the next two weeks.

Such high-intensity publicity has indeed fixed Kiyoshi Sakamoto's face in the past two weeks, and imprinted it into the hearts of the majority of RB people.In the past two weeks, you can hear Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "Close Your Eyes Lightly" everywhere, in shops on the street, on the radio; in supermarkets, subway stations, and on TV, all of which are Kiyoshi Sakamoto's handsome face , CM, variety shows, music shows, and even children's shows have appeared on him.

Under such overwhelming exposure, Kiyoshi Sakamoto became the most frequently seen artist by RB people in February 2004.

The good result of this is that the sales of Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "Close Your Eyes Lightly" in the second week did not fall but rose, reaching 16, and the cumulative sales reached 31.And in the third week, sales rose again, and won the single-week sales champion of 20, with a cumulative breakthrough of 50!Also won the single title in February 2004.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto's popularity has skyrocketed, and he has been given various titles by music critics, such as "genius boy", "youngest platinum record composer", "Sony little prince", etc., and his fans affectionately call him "KIYO-kun" (Sakamoto Kiyoshi's clear character, Roman pronunciation is pronounced KIYO.)
But in such a good situation, behind it was Kiyoshi Sakamoto's deep physical fatigue and lack of sleep caused by lack of energy, in exchange for it.

Finally, during a shoot for a magazine cover, Kiyoshi Sakamoto fainted.

This made the staff at that time scared to death. Fortunately, Uncle Ishida, as a manager, was by his side all the time. Seeing this situation, he immediately called an ambulance, took Kiyoshi Sakamoto to the hospital, and warned the people present , don't talk about it.

After arriving at the hospital, Uncle Ishida notified Sony first, and then Kiyoshi Sakamoto's teacher, Masaharu Fukuyama.And Fukuyama, who received a call from Uncle Ishida, immediately called his senior, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's father Akira Sakamoto, to inform him of the bad news.The Sakamoto family in Nagasaki, after knowing that Kiyoshi Sakamoto had fainted, immediately bought a plane ticket and hurriedly got on the plane to Tokyo.

After receiving the notification from Uncle Ishida, Sony immediately thought of blocking the news. After all, if the news of Kiyoshi Sakamoto's fainting was known to the outside world, the biggest impact would definitely belong to Sony. After all, the power of fans cannot be underestimated.

As a result, things did not go as Sony expected. During the two hours after Kiyoshi Sakamoto fainted, the Internet had already appeared, with titles such as "Sony's little prince fainted on the set", "Genius boy fainted due to illness", "Kiyo-kun" Feeling unwell, fainted during filming" various articles.Then, TV stations, newspapers, and radio all received the news that Kiyoshi Sakamoto had fainted, and the TV station issued an emergency notice; the newspaper published a headline with a photo of Kiyoshi Sakamoto fainted on the ground.

"The Little Prince of Sony fainted during the filming, and his life and death are uncertain!" "

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