Reborn Japan for entertainment

Chapter 188 It's finally a holiday!
April 8th, Saturday.

THE SUN band's first album, "THE SUN" was the first batch of pressed 70 copies, plus 80 urgently rushed copies, adding up to [-] copies, all sold out!
April 9th, Sunday.

With the record factory working overtime, the second batch of millions of pressed records and the first batch of 20 freshly released records were sold out as soon as they were distributed!
From April 6th to April 9th, in four days, THE SUN's first album "THE SUN" sold over one million! ! !

Sprinkle flowers!Sprinkle flowers!
This also created the fastest sales record for Kiyoshi Sakamoto and the band to break one million.

It took four days!

Although compared with the 90s and the beginning of the 90th century, those who broke the million mark at the beginning of the first day, Kiyoshi Sakamoto’s performance is only considered good, but now it’s not the 2006s, the beginning of the century, It was [-] when the record market declined!
And such a result, at this time, can be called a miracle!

In the next few days, record factories continued to ship, and record stores continued to stock up.

Due to the limited speed of record pressing, the only places where the album "THE SUN" can be bought in the Tokyo area every day are the major record stores in Tokyo, and the total number is only 20 copies.

Even so, the 20 albums every day are all bought by fans who have been waiting for a long time as soon as they are released.

From April 10th to April 13th, within four days, there was no more or less one every day, and 20 copies were sold.

As of the evening of April 13th, according to the first-week sales table obtained by Sony, "THE SUN" was released for a whole week, and the sales volume exceeded 180 million!

"THE SUN", which sold 180 million copies in the first week, just replaced Kiyoshi Sakamoto's good friend, Ayumi Hamasaki's sister. "I Am", released in 2002, became the top ten albums in the first week of neon history. Exactly tenth.

In front of THE SUN, there are Utada Hikaru, Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki, and Mai Kuraki, the four major singers, as well as the old band, two old B'z, and Glay, one of the earliest visual kei bands.

It has also become the album with the highest sales in the first week in recent years.

Japan's record sales model is different from that in Europe and the United States.

Neon's records, whether they are singles or albums, are sold in short-term sales, and there is not much difference between the initial sales and the final sales. Take Utada Hikaru's "

Distance", the sales volume in the first week was 300.2 million copies, but the cumulative sales volume in 2014 was only 447 million copies, which is not much different.

You know, "Distance" was an album released in 2001. After 13 years, it sold more than 100 million copies.

European and American records are long-selling. Even Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" sold only 10,000+ copies in the first week, but the final global sales reached more than 2000 million copies, which is a bit scary. .

This may be due to the difference in sales models and the different concepts of consumers, leading to such a big difference between the neon music scene and the European and American music scene.

This has also led to the neon singers and musicians, after the sales in the first week, they can almost start preparing for the next record. Some of them are not very popular, or they are not old singers. Be diligent and win by quantity.

Even Kiyoshi Sakamoto and THE SUN, the darlings of the music scene in the context of the decline of the Japanese record market, have not been able to break this habit and pattern.

Take THE SUN's second single as an example, the sales volume of the single "PLANET" reached 32 in the first week, and within two months, the sales volume exceeded one million.

And now in April 2006, a year has passed, and the sales of the single "PLANET" have reached 140 million, that's all.

In other words, after the first two months, in the next ten months, the sales volume of "PLANET" was only 40 copies. . .

That is to say, the sales in the first two months accounted for 70.00% of the total sales!
This is the sales model of Neon Records, the short-selling type.

This is an unchangeable cultural difference and a different concept.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto didn't think about these problems, he is enjoying the leisure time of the holiday now.

. . . . . .

"Finally...finally...it's vacation!!!"

Kiyoshi Sakamoto lay on the sofa at home and yelled!
"It's so noisy, just stay quietly during the holidays!"

At this time, Sakamoto's mother, who was standing in the kitchen and cooking beef stew with potatoes, stretched out her head, holding a spatula in her hand, looked impatiently at her naive son, and taught her a lesson.

"However, I haven't been back for so long. Now that I'm on vacation, I can eat with you every day. Aren't you happy? Okasan!" Sakamoto, who became very impatient while watching the cooking Qing pretended to be unhappy, and wanted to flirt with her mother.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto forgot that his mother didn't like the habit of being disturbed by others when cooking, so he was sadly reminded.

"I'm not happy, you're on vacation, I'm going to give you this foodie every day, I'll be even more tired if I make delicious food, huh!" Sakamoto's mother's venomous tongue made Kiyoshi Sakamoto petrified in an instant.

"My mother...it's impossible to be so venomous!!!" Kiyoshi Sakamoto was thinking in his heart, and when he wanted to say a few words, he was interrupted by Sakamoto's mother.

"So, if you want to eat potato stewed beef, then just stay with me obediently and stop yelling, understand?!" Sakamoto's mother said this, holding a spatula, dancing threateningly A few times to express a warning.

Seeing this, Kiyoshi Sakamoto closed his "zipper" with his hand, indicating that he would not speak anymore, but at the same time, he raised his hand.

"Eh? What?!" Sakamoto's mother asked curiously when she saw his raised hand, like a child in class who raised his hand to speak.

"Arnold, Okasan, it seems a bit blurry..." Kiyoshi Sakamoto said cautiously.

"Eh?" Sakamoto's mother was a little confused, but after she took a deep breath, she smelled a smell of paste and woke up suddenly.

"Eh?!! My beef stew with potatoes!!!"

While shouting, he turned and ran to the boiler to check his beef stew.

Looking at his mother who was busy in the kitchen, Kiyoshi Sakamoto suddenly felt very happy and muttered to himself.

"It feels so good to be home!"

. . . . . .

Tokyo, Johnny & Associates.

meeting room.

Present here are Mr. Kitagawa, the founder of Johnny's and the current chairman of the company.

Yasuko Fujishima, vice chairman of the company and chairman of Johnny's Entertainment.

The vice chairman of the company and the chairman of J Storm, the eldest daughter of Yasuko Fujishima, Keiko Fujishima.

Director representative, Kosugi Riu.

Directors, Shirami Sekai, Yazaki Masami, Izu Kikue, Kondo Masahiko, Higashiyama Noriyuki, Iijima Mitomo and others.

But at this time, the atmosphere in the meeting was a little dignified.

The reason has a lot to do with Kiyoshi Sakamoto, or to put it more directly, because of Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

In this high-level board meeting, the meeting items discussed are whether to increase the resource investment in KAT-TUN, or to avoid the edge for the time being.

As for who is sharp, needless to say, you all know it.

THE SUN!

At the same time that THE SUN was among the top ten first-week sales in the history of neon music with 180 million first-week sales, KAT-TUN's debut single "real face" also released its second-week sales.

3 sheets.

In other words, after experiencing the madness of the first week, the enthusiasm of KAT-TUN fans has also faded.

This is not surprising, after all, Neon's records are all burst-short sales, with sales in the first week accounting for 80.00% of the final sales, and there are also nineties.

However, KAT-TUN's "real face" fell off a cliff from 75.4 copies in the first week to 3 copies in the second week. This is nothing, but compared to THE SUN's debut album The brilliant performance of "THE SUN", the sales volume of 3 copies, is not worth mentioning. . .

You said why compare KAT-TUN’s single with THE SUN’s album, why not compare it with KAT-TUN’s album? It's for core fans.

However, KAT-TUN's album "Best of KAT-TUN" only had 55.7 copies in the first week, and in the second week, sales also fell off a cliff, only a mere 2 copies. . .

How can you compare it with THE SUN's "THE SUN"?
In the eyes of everyone outside, this duel had already ended before it even started.

Sony VS Johnny, Sony wins again!

THE SUN VS KAT-TUN, THE SUN wins!

However, KAT-TUN's immediate boss, the chairman of Johnny's Entertainment, the grandmother Yasuko Fujishima, did not admit defeat, and wanted to compete with THE SUN, so he decided to hold this Johnny's high-level meeting.

Her purpose was originally to increase Johnny's support for KAT-TUN, but after seeing the comparison chart of THE SUN's album sales and KAT-TUN's album single sales on the projector, she was also silent.

In fact, the people here are all old fritters who have been in the entertainment industry for many years. Even from a simple chart, they can probably know who wins and who loses. However, the gap is so obvious now that there is no way to compare Under such circumstances, the best way is to temporarily avoid the edge.

However, none of the people present dared to speak out and say such words.

Because Yasuko Fujishima, who is sitting in the top seat, has not expressed her opinion yet, and KAT-TUN is her group.

If she didn't express her opinion, no one would dare to persuade her to give up, except for one person.

Mr. Kitagawa.

Sure enough, Mr. Kitagawa Johnny spoke up.

"Sister, forget it, we lost this time."

In his light tone, he couldn't hear his sadness and joy, nor was he angry because his group lost to Sony's band. After all, the old man ate more salt than the three of Kiyoshi Sakamoto combined. , It was longer than the road traveled by the three of Sakamoto Kiyoshi, so this trivial matter was not worthy of his surprise or anger, it just made him feel very curious.

However, his older sister is not a stubborn mother-in-law who will give up casually. . .

"But, we..." Yasuko Fujishima wanted to say something, but the hand raised by Mr. Kitagawa suppressed what he wanted to say.

I saw the old man sitting in the upper seat and uttering a light and light sentence, which made everyone present suddenly feel moved.

"It's not a bad thing."

(End of this chapter)