Reborn Japan for entertainment

Chapter 112
Kiyoshi Sakamoto didn't tell Kenji Kitagawa that he didn't know about the existence of the Akihabara Project.

After all, Kitagawa Kenji had already preconceived that he must know the plan. Under such circumstances, saying that he didn't know would only make Kitagawa Kenji think that he would not help him, that's all.

Therefore, Sakamoto Kiyoshi directly responded to Kitagawa Kenji's request.

The reason why Sakamoto Kiyoshi is so confident is that he knows that as long as it is something inside Sony, he wants to know, it is easy.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto is not very popular in Sony, and all the ladies and sisters are his fans.

In Sony's wild list, "Who is your favorite Sony singer?", Kiyoshi Sakamoto won No.1.

His sources of information are the ladies and sisters in various positions throughout Sony Music.

And in the music department, since the debut of Kiyoshi Sakamoto and THE SUN, all the singles have been produced by the music director Yuichi Yamada, and he has a very good relationship with himself.

Besides, for such a big plan of Akihabara, the preparatory work in the early stage must be very heavy, and there will definitely be many staff involved in it. Therefore, Kiyoshi Sakamoto wants to know what the current Akihabara plan is like. In terms of the situation, just ask the relevant staff or Sony employees, plus some speculations of your own, and you can roughly know the progress of the Akihabara plan.

After knowing it, even if Sakamoto Kiyoshi went directly to Kitagawa Naoki, talked about this matter, said that he was a little interested, and then inadvertently said a few nice words for Kitagawa Kenji, it would not be a problem at all.

Coincidentally, Kitagawa Kenji's request just gave Sakamoto Kiyoshi a chance, that is, a chance to intervene in AKB affairs!
Kiyoshi Sakamoto believes that Yasushi Akimoto's position as chief producer must be unshakable.

Because of Yasushi Akimoto's ability to write lyrics, in today's neon music scene, no one can match him, at least in terms of the number of lyrics written.

Therefore, Kiyoshi Sakamoto never thought from the very beginning that it was simply unrealistic to encourage Sony to kick Fatty Qiu away, or to replace Fatty Qiu himself.

What he saw was the position of AKB's music producer.

As a female idol group led by Akimoto Yasushi, assisted by his friends Kubota Yasushi, Shiba Kotaro and others, it is impossible for Sakamoto Kiyoshi to become the top few leaders in Sony's plan for such a female idol group as a record company.

Sakamoto Kiyoshi is also not interested in becoming an operator, all he wants is to learn something from AKB, who will dominate the neon music scene in the future, and get some benefits.

In other words, Fatty Qiu, you guys eat meat, I'll have some soup.

And the bowl of soup that Kiyoshi Sakamoto wants to drink contains the experience of making girl groups, as well as the knowledge of running girl groups and making singles and albums.

He also thought, if AKB wants to leave Sony by then, should he persuade Sony not to give up on them.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto did not continue to fantasize about things that were too long ago.

For now, let’s try it first and see if I can become a music producer of AKB.

After all, although Kiyoshi Sakamoto is known as a genius composer, age is a flaw. . .

"I really want to grow up quickly!!!"

. . . . . . .

After resting for a few days, it was time for Kiyoshi Sakamoto to ask for leave from Dongda University, so Kiyoshi Sakamoto had no choice but to go back to Dongda University and start his university journey.

However, there are few compulsory courses in Dongda University, and as a freshman, the homework is not very heavy. Therefore, for Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a top student among the top students, after finishing his studies, he can spend some time in his free time. There is still plenty of time.

Therefore, Kiyoshi Sakamoto returned to Sony after class from time to time to refresh his sense of presence and inquire about the Akihabara project by the way.

One day at the end of May.

The weather was not good, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto was soaked by the sudden heavy rain on his way to the Sony Building after class.

"Really, I knew it earlier and came here with an umbrella. The weather forecast is really accurate, but unfortunately I didn't believe it..." Kiyoshi Sakamoto walked into the Sony building with a backpack on his back and his whole body wet.

Today he came to Sony, not for anything else, just to see how much the sales of singles by THE SUN and Lan are in a one-month release.

Neon’s records have been on the decline since [-]. There are only one or two million singles every year. It is because of the scarcity of million singles. When the single appeared, people thought that the neon music scene had not declined.

However, the success of Kiyoshi Sakamoto and THE SUN is more about good songs plus strong publicity, and finally a little luck, which led to such brilliance.

Later generations are almost impossible to replicate.

And the neon music world is watching, whether this super popular band THE SUN can sell a million copies of their second single after half a year?
No one can give an answer to this.

Some people think that under Lan's obstruction, THE SUN will definitely not be able to achieve astonishing results like its debut single, and may even have a sharp drop in sales.

They also cited reasons.

One: song quality.

Compared with the debut song "Flower", this time "PLANET" is undoubtedly inferior in quality.

Two: Exposure.

This is the second single released by THE SUN after half a year.Although it appeared for the first time at the Red and White Song Club, more people knew about this band.

However, for more than half a year, although Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who is the core of the band, has been dangling in front of people's eyes, Ogawa is also very active in variety shows.

However, in general, the exposure of all members of the band is really too little, and there is still not enough news about them.

Three: Janis' blocking.

As one of the four major brokerage firms of Neon, Johnny made a move this time.

And his goal is Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

According to some gossip, Johnny was very dissatisfied with Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a talented singer, because he was handsome and talented, and he snatched away all the female fans of Johnny's idol group.

Therefore, this time, Johnny will not hesitate to let the two factions reconcile temporarily, and jointly deal with the "foreign enemy" Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

With these three points alone, those industry insiders who are pessimistic about THE SUN are already clamoring that THE SUN will definitely FLOP.

However, just when they were screaming loudest, Kiyoshi Sakamoto appeared on the NHK news.

That was on April 13th, NHK's evening news, which broadcast a segment of this year's entrance ceremony for freshmen at Dongdae University.

And Sakamoto Kiyoshi, as the representative of the new students, was truthfully broadcast by NHK for the clips of speaking and taking the oath on stage.

As NHK, the national television station, Neon has a considerable number of viewers, and events that can appear on the evening news are all events that arouse heated discussions in society.

The entrance ceremony for new students of Dongda University is quite special.

Because it is a channel to promote the elite theory of Dongda University, so it will be broadcast every year.

And this year's entrance ceremony for new students at Tokyo University has achieved one person, that is Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

The entire neon people, more or less from news newspapers and magazines, know that there is such a boy who, at the age of 15, has become the youngest university student in Dongdong in history.

The public knew that he was a genius academic master, and he was also a singer.

However, they didn't know until they saw the news clips broadcast by NHK that this young man was still so powerful that he was admitted to the top university in Japan, the University of Tokyo, as the chief.

Also as a freshman representative, at the freshman entrance ceremony, take the oath.

This made the whole Nihong realize that such a talented boy who studies well, looks handsome, and sings well.

Out of curiosity about him, people began to search for the name "Sakamoto Kiyoshi" on the Internet.

But I found out, hey, this genius boy is still the lead singer of a rock band, and he just released his second single. So, out of concern for Kiyoshi Sakamoto, THE SUN's single started in mid-April, and the sales volume explosion.

In Neon, the initial CD sales accounted for 80.00% of the total sales.

The general CD sales model is that the early stage is very strong, but the stamina is weak. Generally, there are few CDs like Masaharu Fukuyama's "Sakurazaka".

Take THE SUN's direct opponent this time, Lan, for example, their single's initial sales (that is, the sales in the first week) are basically not far from the total sales.

Historically, their "Sakura Saki" only sold 11 copies at the beginning, and the total sales will reach 17. One can imagine their stamina. . .

It's tears to say.

However, the confrontation with THE SUN this time is also an opportunity for Lan.

In order to suppress THE SUN, Johnny did not hesitate to let Lan appear on the shows of his brothers, to promote the single, and in various resources, he has favored them a lot, plus the hot topic of confrontation with THE SUN Sex, that's why Lan's single is not as horrible as it was in history.

But that's all there is to it.

The shortcoming of lack of stamina has been fully exposed in April.

On the other side, THE SUN's sales also began to decline in mid-April, but after Seiichi Sakamoto appeared in the NHK news, the sales curve that was originally declining began to rebound all of a sudden, soaring all the way.

"As of today, your single has been released for two months, and your sales... once again exceeded one million!!! And Lan only sold 50, you are fully twice as much as them." Yamada holding the data sheet Director, after saying these words, he thought that the three people present would be excitedly shouting or something.

As a result, Sakamoto Kiyoshi, Ogawa Masaki, and Chiba Masaki were all as quiet as chickens. . .

"What? Your single has passed one million, and you still won Lan, aren't you happy?" Yamada, an anti-Jennis, didn't know why the third son of THE SUN was so calm.

"Happy, yeah!" Kiyoshi Sakamoto was very proud of Yamada's words, and lazily raised his hand "Yeah". His perfunctory attitude left Yamada speechless.

"Qianye-kun, isn't it like you? Usually, if there is something very surprising, you are the first person to get up, what's going on now..."

"Well, that, because we already knew that this time, the duel will definitely win. So, I'm not too excited..." The most excited people in THE SUN also seemed to lack interest.

"Huh? How do you know?" Yamada was stunned.

"It's a guess, Nuo, you see, from the second week onwards, we have been the champions of the weekly rankings, and Lan's sales have dropped rapidly after going through the strong early stage, you don't need to think about it, we will definitely win Lah. Actually, as early as a month ago, the winner was already decided." Kiyoshi Sakamoto explained to Yamada.

"As for the million singles, is it difficult for us?" When he said this, Sakamoto Kiyoshi asked Ogawa and Chiba with a suspenseful expression.

And the two sons also replied tacitly at the same time, "It's not difficult at all (at all)!"

Seeing such a pretentious third son, Yamada instantly felt that Sony would be besieged by others with this pretentious trio. . .

　In other words, the more I write, the more I feel that my ability to write stories is lacking, too weak. . .

　　
　
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