At the end of last year, when Ye Zhao won the most important prize, Tetsuya Komuro once gave him a "war letter", releasing a signal that he wanted to fight him head-on in the future.

However, after that, the two sides did not fight openly.

The reason for this is because in this new year, both parties are doing things outside of their own duties.

If you want to talk about it, this year's Ye Zhao and Komuro Tetsuya are also in a situation where the old and the new are alternating and have to make a choice and reset the starting line.

Ye Zhao looked forward to getting more freedom and the right to speak, so after the contract expired, the choice he made was to get rid of being, and after getting help from Sony, he set up his own production company and label.

On Tetsuya Komuro's side, after working closely with Ai Hui for nearly five years, some differences gradually arose between the two sides.

This company, which once took off because of the trump card of Tetsuya Komuro, and achieved mutual success with Tetsuya Komuro, is no longer the ideal destination in his mind.

What's more, Tetsuya Komuro, who has almost all the invincible opponents in the world at home, also yearns for a wider world.

Tetsuya Komuro, who is ambitious, in this year, through the introduction of others, caught up with the son of media tycoon Murdoch, and teamed up with the former boss of Pink Girl heartthrob to set up an entertainment company called ROJAM in Xiangjiang.

The slogan is also very loud: to make the largest entertainment company in Asia.

The ideal big girl's European pie, no matter which angle it looks like, is always so perfect and attractive. But in reality, this guy is a sick and poor little sister who can't afford it.

Rojam Entertainment, which was founded with the ambition of conquering Asia and rushing to the world, became the beginning of the second half of Tetsuya Komuro's life.

If you take too big a step, you will inevitably get an egg, and this ambitious dude has a bad relationship with Ai in order to build his ideal entertainment empire, and he turns his face with Sony, who has been hot for a while.

Not only that, this company has been losing money since its establishment, and in the end, it was a blood loss all the way, and all the female disciples that Tetsuya Komuro accepted in Xiangjiang and Wanwan with great fanfare have no splash, and Tetsuya Komuro himself was also dragged down by this company, with more and more debts, and had to rely on selling assets to survive.

After falling into trouble, he relied on his friendship with Hamada Masako to switch to Yoshimoto Kogye, but was eventually swept away by Yoshimoto. During this period, there was a small episode of divorce and payment of sky-high alimony, and he himself did not change his luxurious style, and his wedding with his stepwife Keiko was extremely grand, and finally embarked on the road of fraud because of the financial crisis.

And Rojam, the entertainment empire that carries his ambitions, is just being carved up and eaten by others. The entrepreneurial history of a generation of music bigwigs has become a history of blood and tears.

I have to say that as a musician, Tetsuya Komuro is definitely a talented player.

In addition, he attaches great importance to developing overseas markets, which is different from the tradition of Japanese musicians playing on their own behind closed doors.

And his vision is also very advanced, in this era of physical sales explosion, he has seen the market of network distribution and CRBT business under the dawn of the Internet, and consciously wants to develop this part of the business.

It's just that although he has some business habits, he is not a real businessman after all, even if he has a lot of ideas and has the ambition to promote his beloved electronic music to the whole of Asia, he does not have the ability to realize his ambition, and not only that, but he is also eaten by his own ambition.

But in any case, Tetsuya Komuro is definitely a very respectable artist.

Having said that, Ye Zhao and Tetsuya Komuro are not only faced with making a choice, but also need something to stimulate the current sales.

After independence, Ye Zhao urgently needs to come up with a work that stabilizes his sales status, and Tetsuya Komuro also needs a topic to stimulate the Komuro family, whose sales are declining.

Especially not long ago, Namie Amuro under his umbrella and Sam, a dancer of TRF who is also part of the Komuro family, announced that the murderous "Can You Celebrate?" at the beginning of Fengzi's wedding year became a wedding song given to her by Tetsuya Komuro, which undoubtedly made the Komuro family lose the number one general.

In addition, the new company, which was busy with his ambitions, neglected his own music, and the crazy output of the previous year consumed his own creativity and the freshness of the public, and after the relationship with Ai Hui turned from strong to weak, Ai Hui's investment in the Komuro family also decreased, and for various reasons, the performance of the Komuro family also began to decline.

In this case, Tetsuya Komuro also wants to create a topic.

Unless there is some evidence that has been hammered to death, there is no need to believe in the love-hate relationship between celebrities.

Those who show affection may slap each other in private, and those who are dragged out as opponents may still be drinking together in private, laughing at the ugly state of fans tearing up for themselves.

It is true that Ye Zhao and Tetsuya Komuro are opponents, and it is true that they have received his battle book, but it does not mean that the two are enemies. What's more, although both of them started as musicians, they also have some businessman habits in their bones, and they hit it off when it is profitable.

The circle is so big, it's not difficult to have a drink together. Long before independence, when he had this plan, Ye Zhao used Hamada Masaka to meet Tetsuya Komuro in private.

After two drinks, the topic gradually led to the "showdown". Tetsuya Komuro said with some cynicism: "Now it's my side that has the upper hand." ”

Ye Zhao replied with ease: "That's not necessarily. ”

There is a reason for this.

If you want to talk about the "showdown", this year, the two people who are busy with their own life events have not expected a head-to-head showdown, but this does not mean that there has not been a showdown.

Namie Amuro of the Komuro family, and Kid, who was in charge of producing his debut single, were playing hot on the singles chart at this time.

At the beginning of the year, as soon as "Can You Celebrate?" was released, as a rare lyrical song by Namie Amuro, with the popular TV series, the sales exploded, soaring to 2 million copies, and it dominated the annual chart from the beginning of the year.

It wasn't until Kid's debut single came out that the single sold more than one million copies in the first two weeks of its debut, and it reached Kitagawa's goal of one million guaranteed.

As soon as it was released, it had such a good result, thanks to the popularity of Kid, as well as the large number of fans who sorted out their purses and waited for bleeding, and Jennis, who sold discs well, and the combination of the century that has been brewing for so long, and the sales are almost certain.

However, the next trend of the single is no longer just about popularity.

There is a relatively common phenomenon for idols to sell records, they have good results when they first appear, but they often lack stamina, and even if they have a very good performance at the beginning, they may still be surpassed by long-selling records in the middle.

However, this time their debut single did not appear like this at all. On the contrary, it also came up with some rare super stamina, not only won the championship in the highly competitive rankings for three consecutive weeks, and then stayed in the front row of the charts for a long time, and even the lyrics in the song "Glassy Boyhood" have become a buzzword among young people for a while, and there is a great posture to win an award at the annual buzzword awards.

By the time Ye Zhao and Komuro Tetsuya met, the single had already exceeded 1.8 million copies and became the only opponent to hit Namie Amuro's annual chart top.

And according to the release period, Namie Amuro's single sold almost half a year more than them.

The big sale is because the singer himself is charming and popular, and the long-term sale is because the quality of the song itself is hard enough. The public is not stupid and will not close their eyes to sell bad records, and in the same way, if it is a good song, they will not buy it just because the person who sings it is Genesys.

The Kid achieved their perfect debut, and as the "new friend of Jenny-san", Ye Zhao's name was also mentioned by music critics from time to time, and some even compared him to Chuck and Asuka's Asuka Ryo Asuka.

Janis's last group of super idols Hikari Genji, who is in charge of their songs, is Asuka Ryo.

Asuka Ryo contributed many high-quality songs to help Hikari Genji reach the top, and as Asuka Ryo retreated, Hikari Genji also went downhill, and then went into decline with internal divisions.

Jenny-san recruited Takuro Yoshida for Kinki and introduced Ha Zhao into their production team, which shows his ambition. As an 'outlier' in the music industry, Janis often does things that bother the music industry and break the existing rules, and this Kinki debut is no exception. ”

"The partner with Ye Zhao perfectly realized Jenny San's ambition. This is Jenny San's luck, and our luck not to have to endure a worthless debut song, but to get a famous song that can be remembered endlessly. This reminds me of the bond between Hikari Genji and Asuka Ryo, and I wonder if the name Ye Zhao and Kink will be mentioned together from time to time in the future. ”

In this year, although Genesys is strong, it is still a little far from the image of the overlord who said nothing about it later. And the music industry is in a good form, singers and bands take turns to rub their idols on the ground, music magazines are not willing to show mercy, and writing a music review has to demean Genesys first.

But as long as you make a lot of money, who cares about the comments?

In this matter, it is not wrong to say that Ye Zhao and Komuro Tetsuya "duel" once. If it weren't for Jennis's announcement that he would not participate in the selection event, maybe the two parties would have to fight it out at the Record Awards in the future.

Of course, even with this binge-selling spree, there is still a gap of more than 100,000 copies between Kid and Namie Amuro, especially after Namie Amuro announced her marriage and decided to temporarily suspend the event, which led to the sales of singles.

That's why Tetsuya Komuro has the saying that his side "has the upper hand".

Of course, since they are sitting together for the official duel, they will not spend any more time for this little thing. After the warm-up, Ye Zhao quickly brought up his proposal: "Komuro-san, how about we have a head-to-head showdown?"

"Head-to-head?"

"Yes. We announced the release of the album on the same day, myself and your globe. ”

Tetsuya Komuro is so shrewd, a little clear, and smiled: "Are you going to use me as a topic?"

That said, there was no displeasure at all.

"I'm also talking about myself. Ye Zhao replied.

Even if he was clicked through the thoughts, he still looked calm and calm.

There is the excitement of the topic, and it is obvious that the sales of records on both sides will be driven, so no matter which side wins, it will be a win-win outcome in the end.

Tetsuya Komuro is also very clear about this. And for him, who was looking forward to a topic to stimulate sales, he was suddenly approached by Ye Zhao to find a fight, which was simply in the middle of the coffin.

Besides, even if it is a duel that is discussed in private, the core essence of this matter is the "duel" itself, which can be regarded as the realization of the battle book of the head-to-head duel.

As for the fact that it was he who gave the war letter, it was Ye Zhao who came to the door?

They wanted to have a fight that was not fake, but it was not red-eyed. Whenever you want to fight, you just want to get some benefits. At the beginning, I took Masako Hamada to take the initiative to release the film on the same day, but I didn't see that the public's freshness of this limited group had been completely lost, and I wanted to take the opportunity to make a topic and finally get a handful.

From this point of view, Ye Zhao's proposal is also using the idea he has used.

And now, both of them are in urgent need of topicality, and it is the time to reap the benefits, so they naturally hit it off, and they have secretly prepared a big move long before they officially became independent.

And now, it's time to zoom in.

At the end of October, Tetsuya Komuro's Globe was the first to announce that a new single would be released on November 25, followed by Ye Akiya, who announced that he would release his first single after independence on the same day.

As the two discs were released one after the other, for a while, the streets and alleys, TV magazines, were once again occupied by the topic of this showdown.

Not only that, but the two people who have already discussed it have also regarded publicity as a part of the fighting method, and each showed their abilities, through the record store, TV station, propaganda display board, radio bureau and other publicity channels that they can get, wantonly build momentum for their new single, and invisibly, also advertise for the other party who released the film on the same day.

Throughout November, the biggest topic in the music scene is the annual showdown between Ye Zhao and Tetsuya Komuro, and the TV station even made a special program, moving out the indirect duel between the two families last time, and analyzing the duel between the two sides this time, and even making a hexagonal battle force map especially for the second middle school.

After the bricks invited by the show analyzed it, the final result of standing in line was five or five.

Not only that, but it is also time to take the opportunity to hold a lottery to let the public stand on both sides, and then draw lucky people from the winning side to give away the grand prize.

Towards the end of the year, there is a lack of a big topic in the music world, and everyone just feels that something is missing, and at this time the two sales monsters are going to face off, and everyone likes to hear it, intentionally or unintentionally, and also help help this topic.

Under the all-round publicity, before the release of the records of the two parties, the whole of Japan and even overseas already knew that on November 25, Ye Zhao was going to release a single on the same day as Globe.

And under the watchful eye of all people, November 25 finally arrived.