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Chapter 574 "The First Light" Stuffed With Good Songs

The planning of the titled program is nothing more than a small activity that Sakamoto Kiyoshi, Ogawa Masaki and Chiba Masaki took a break from their busy schedule during the preparation of the album. . .

After all, the focus of their next work is the band's first English album!
With the song "We Are Young", the Asian band THE SUN, which has become famous in the European and American music circles, is finally preparing to release its first full-English album after 10 months.

The release date is set for December 12th, Christmas Day.

In order to warm up the album in advance, THE SUN's third English single "Radioactive" will be released worldwide on November 11th!

Of course, this song is also "created" by Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

This song "Radioactive" is the most well-known song in the first studio album "Night Visions" released by the American rock band Imagine Dragons in 2012.

The reason why Sakamoto Kiyoshi chose this song as the title song of the new album and released it in advance as a warm-up single is not only because it is the 87th week of Billboard's divine song, but also because of its sung degrees, and terrifying sales.

In 2015, before Kiyoshige Sakamoto was born, this song "Radioactive" was certified as a diamond sales single by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Singles that sell 50 sales are called gold records, 100 million sales are platinum records, and 1000 million sales are the supreme diamond records!
In the previous life, as of 2017, there were only 16 diamond singles certified by the Recording Industry Association of America in the European and American music scene.

And "Radioactive" is one of them, and the only rock song!
Such a divine comedy, as the title song and pre-heating single of the first English album, it can be seen that Kiyoshi Sakamoto attaches great importance to THE SUN's first full English album.

Not only that, he contributed 7 new songs to the [-] songs in the whole album!
These include "Demons", "Crazy For You", "Turnin'", "Best Day Of My Life", "Life Is Beautiful", etc., many songs that are familiar from previous lives.

It is worth mentioning that in this album, Kiyoshi Sakamoto also collaborated on a song with his good friend and musical confidant, Taylor Swift, the little princess of the American country.

"Somebody That I Used to Know"!
This song, which was sung by Australian singer Gotye and New Zealand singer Kimbra, won the top music charts in 21 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Australia, and Poland, and has sold more than 1220 million copies of music worldwide. "One of the world's best-selling albums"!
Gotye also won the "Best Production of the Year" and "Best Pop Group" awards at the 55th Grammy Awards for this song.

However, in order for his band's album to cause a shocking storm in the European and American music circles, Kiyoshi Sakamoto put this song directly into the album.

In Kiyoshi Sakamoto’s view, under the interpretation of two not-so-famous singers, Gotye and Kimbra, this song can still become famous in one fell swoop, and the singer is replaced by him who is more famous, and Taylor. The influence will definitely be even greater!

In this way, together with the two previously released singles "We Are Young" and "Cruise", the new song written by him occupies more than half of the songs in the entire album!

However, this is his consistent power as the core and captain of the band.

What's more, among the three members of THE SUN, only Kiyoshi Sakamoto has the ability to compose English music and lyrics independently. . .

It is also normal to take over the creation of most songs.

As usual, the creation of the remaining few songs was handed over to Ogawa Masaki and Chiba Masaki.

After reading the new song list of the album submitted by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Morgan Keith, the music director of Sony Records (SME) in New York, was also surprised and shouted "waste!"

In his opinion, who has been in the music industry for many years, more than half of the new songs in this album, one by one, are all high-quality songs that can be listed in the top [-] of the billboard.

Even if some of the songs had just passed the pass line, they were still considered pretty good.

Now, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is planning to cram a bunch of good songs into the same album, which seems a bit wasteful. . .

Morgan Keith also wanted Kiyoshi Sakamoto to extract some good songs for the next album.

However, this suggestion was directly rejected by Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

Leaving aside that this is THE SUN's first English album, it is an important first step towards impacting the European and American music scene, and a blockbuster is the best result.

As far as the reserve of songs is concerned, Kiyoshi Sakamoto still has a lot of good songs stored in his mind. If he doesn't use it now, when will he wait? !
Therefore, under Kiyoshi Sakamoto's insistence, in the end, all the songs in this album were finalized intact.

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On December 12th, there are still two weeks before the release of the new album. . .

Located in the Sony Records (SME) headquarters building in New York, USA, in a luxuriously equipped band practice room, the three of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who had just finished practicing together, sat down on the sofa.

Even though the air conditioner was turned on in the room, sweat was still dripping down from the foreheads of several people.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who wiped his sweaty head with a towel and leaned on the sofa, started the topic.

"The new album is coming out next week, but!"

"The name of our album has not been decided yet..."

As he spoke, he looked at his teammates aside, his eyes full of inquiry.

"Do you have any good names?"

Because THE SUN's European and American music business is signed under Sony Records (SME), it does not belong to Sony Music Group Japan (SMEJ).

Therefore, when THE SUN releases new English music singles and albums, it must be realized through SME channels.

Therefore, THE SUN came to New York, USA at the end of November and started a month-long album preparation period.

Even the recording of the pre-heating single "Radioactive" and the MV shooting were all done in New York.

However, during the recording of the new song, Kiyoshi Sakamoto remembered that the name of the album seems to have not been decided yet. . .

So, taking a break, he brought this up.

"Hmm..." Ogawa really pondered for a moment, then put his hand on Sakamoto Kiyoshi's shoulder seriously, and said, "I think, this task should be left to you, the captain, to decide!"

Pushing away Ogawa Makoto's hand, Sakamoto Kiyoshi said with a speechless face, "You don't know that I am a household with difficulties in naming, so let me come?"

Speaking of which, THE SUN has released three Japanese albums so far, and the title of each album was thought up by the three of them after racking their brains.

The naming ability of the three of them, I have to say, is very bad. . .

"No way, who told you to be the one with the best English among the three of us..."

Chiba Masaki's straightforward words made Kiyoshi Sakamoto open his mouth, speechless.

A few days later, Kiyoshi Sakamoto took a small note with the name of the album and handed it to Makoto and Ogawa.

"The First Light?"

"That's right! This album is the first ray of dawn for our THE SUN band to shine on the whole world!"

(End of this chapter)