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Chapter 88 Analysis of Friend and Enemy
Johnny's Office, also known as Johnny's Office, is also called J's House by fans.

Founded in 1975 by Mr. Kitagawa Hiroshi.

RB is a well-known artist management company whose main business is to promote male artists and male idol groups.

At the same time, it is also one of the four major brokerage companies in the RB entertainment industry, a super powerful firm that monopolizes the RB "male sex" market.

Asia's largest boy dream factory, it now owns groups such as SMAP, TOKIO, V6, KinKi Kids, Arashi, Taki and Tsubasa, NEWS, and Guan 8. There are groups like SMAP and TOKIO that are already national groups, and there are groups like KinKi Kids, Arashi, the rising trend combination, and future stars like NEWS and Guan 8 who have just debuted.

Johnny's has been established for just 30 years. It can be said that in these 30 years, Johnny's has already dominated RB's male idol circle. To show off Johnny's status in the male idol circle.

Men's idol is Johnny.

This is a fact that everyone in the circle knows.

And the band THE SUN that Kiyoshi Sakamoto is in is about to face such a behemoth.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is not fighting alone. Behind him is Sony Records, one of the four major record companies in the world.

As a subsidiary company of Sony Corporation, Sony Records is also well known in RB. Although Sony Records is now in the stocking period, such a company is not short of money, has strong contacts, and has strong publicity capabilities. As Sakamoto Kiyoshi's backer, let People are more at ease.

Let’s not say that THE SUN band is owned by Sony. After Rainbow Band, it is the second band that is being promoted. Take Kiyoshi Sakamoto as an example. Kiyoshi Sakamoto is the most popular artist in Sony now. His band is now , a new record is about to be released, how can it be suppressed by Johnny's group? In that case, wouldn't people think that our Sony is not as good as Johnny's?

Therefore, this duel, everyone at Sony attaches great importance to it. As the president, Naoki Kitagawa specially gave the three of Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Yuichi Yamada, who is in charge of the new single, special attention at the company meeting. Cheer up.

In private, he also called Yamada to his office, and issued a death order, demanding that this single showdown, even if he can't win, it will be an honor to lose.

Fortunately, Mr. Beichuan is still very considerate of Sakamoto Kiyoshi and Yamada, this request is not too high.

why?

Because, this duel was not a fair duel in the first place.

A rock band that has just debuted for more than half a year is naturally at a disadvantage compared to a group of male idol groups that have debuted for six years.

Early in the morning, Sakamoto analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of both the enemy and us in his heart.

First: style.

Rock was originally a very popular style in RB, but it is not the mainstream JPOP style.Although THE SUN is an idol rock band, the members are all handsome guys, but in terms of music style, it is still not as popular as Lan's.

Second: the number of people.

THE SUN band only has three members, while Lan has five members. In terms of attracting fans, there are already two people missing.We often say that there is strength in numbers, and this sentence can be clearly seen in idol groups.

Because, if there are more people in the group, there are more choices. If you don’t like this, you can like that. Anyway, in this group, fans can always find a type they like, and they won’t just turn from fan to passerby.

This is also the natural shortcoming of solo singers now.Because no matter how attractive a person is, it is impossible for everyone to like you.If you like it, you like it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, it's that simple.

Third: the number of years since debut.

As I said just now, no matter how many times the band THE SUN counts, they have only debuted for more than half a year, not less than a year. As for Lan, who debuted in 1999, it has been six years now.

Six years is enough time for a group with some resources to become a relatively well-known group, let alone Lan under Johnny's.

Now Arashi is already a well-known and well-known group combination of RB.

Since his debut, he has released thirteen singles, and nine of them have won the first-week sales champion of the Oricon Chart.

It is conceivable that Lan, a male idol group, is so powerful and has an appeal among fans.

With just three disadvantages, THE SUN band's single showdown can already be sentenced to death.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Sony did not think so.

In this battle, some will fight.

After enumerating the disadvantages, now let's talk about the advantages of THE SUN.

First: Popularity.

Compared to Lan, it took six years for them to accumulate a little bit of accumulation to become so popular today.And THE SUN band, like a whirlwind, swept in and became the best example of fame in one fell swoop.

Because, before THE SUN's debut, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was the core of the band, set off a "Sakamoto Storm" in the RB entertainment industry. , from Sakamoto Kiyoshi, continued to the whole band.

In this way, when THE SUN debuted, it also attracted a lot of attention, and it also made this band become popular all of a sudden.

All this is a situation caused by a 14-year-old boy named Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

Therefore, at present, in terms of popularity, THE SUN, which has such a super popular existence as Kiyoshi Sakamoto, has not lost to Arashi at all.

Second: the sense of mystery.

After the band THE SUN debuted in July last year, only in the early month, the exposure rate was relatively high. In the next few months, instead of chasing after the victory, they disappeared.

And the most recent news is that he performed at the Red and White Song Festival and won the gold award at the Record Awards, and that was already three months ago.

The three members of the band have not appeared on too many TV shows or radio shows, and their exposure rate is extremely low.

However, the more this is the case, the more curious the public is about this idol rock band that exploded the entire RB music world as soon as it debuted.

Curious about what the talented and handsome "KIYO-kun" Kiyoshi Sakamoto is doing, curious about what Ogawa, who has a cold expression but has a vicious tongue on variety shows, is really doing, and curious about how he usually wears glasses, but when he performs, he looks like a What is Masaki Chiba doing like a berserker? . .

Such a situation is rare in any country's entertainment industry.

In the entertainment circle, if there is no exposure, there will be no attention, and there will be no popularity and fame at all.

Playing with mystery is fine, but generally only singers or big names who have been famous for a long time are qualified to do it.

But now THE SUN band has broken this convention.

After debuting for half a year, he only released a single, without any titled programs, and without a high exposure rate, but there are still many people paying attention.

The official fan club of THE SUN band has already exceeded 15. You know, official fan clubs all have to pay membership fees.

This also shows how popular THE SUN band, this new generation band is.

As the saying goes, although they are not in the Jianghu, their legends are everywhere in the Jianghu.

Third: the company.

From the point of view of the two clubs, the strength gap is not very big.

After all, one is one of the four major record companies, and the other is one of the four major brokerage companies in the entertainment industry. The strength of the two companies is very strong, but the focus is different.

Sony Records has more resources in music; Johnny's is more prominent in diversification of work.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto has more support than Arashi, who ranks lower in Johnny's.

Lan is not the combination with the highest priority in resources among Johnny's, who pays attention to seniority. On top of them, there are also the national sky group SMAP, the veteran combination V6 and KinKi Kids.

As for Kiyoshi Sakamoto and the band THE SUN, it is because in recent years, Sony has been the most promising band and the most important solo singer.

The combination of the two shows that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's THE SUN band is one of the most favored singers under Sony.

Naturally, THE SUN will definitely have Sony's full support during the release of the second single.

However, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto was analyzing, he did not consider that Johnny was so eager to suppress THE SUN this time, or to put it more directly, to suppress Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

After the release of the single, Kiyoshi Sakamoto knew that he had made Johnny so taboo.

Of course, Kiyoshi Sakamoto still doesn't know that what he will face next is not just Lan. . .

After the "pre-war meeting", the three of Kiyoshi Sakamoto went home early to rest.

After all, it will be the time of war, and it will be very busy, and there may not even be much time to sleep.

The next day, at eight o'clock in the morning, the single hit the shelves.

THE SUN vs. Arashi, start!

On February 23, THE SUN's single "PLANET" (planet) was released; Arashi's single "Sakura Saki" was released.

It seems to be to allow the two groups to have a good fight. In the music industry at this time, there are no established singers or groups releasing new songs.

Or to put it this way, in order not to become cannon fodder in this duel of national attention, no top-line singer or group dared to release new songs, and the only ones who released new songs were some new companies and new singers who wanted to gain popularity.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto never thought that the confrontation between THE SUN and Lan would come so soon.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto received a message on the day the new single was released, that is: on the music station on Friday, THE SUN band and Arashi will be guest performers!
Sakamoto Kiyoshi had thought that there would be a confrontation with the future Tiantuanlan, but he never thought that day would come so soon.

Just two nights later!

"It seems that this time, it can only be like this." Sakamoto Kiyoshi murmured to himself while holding the announcement schedule in his hand.

"Don't be cowardly, just do it!!!"

(End of this chapter)