Chapter 292: Duel?

Since he released the single "Singer's Love Song" last year and his first album after his debut, there has been no movement for half a year. The only single released under his own name during this period was a recut single released to coincide with the promotion of the film.

Therefore, after the trailer of the new single came out, his fans, whether they were fans or passers-by, were in a kind of anticipation, wanting to go to the record store to find out as soon as the single was released.

Especially the members who joined the club and received his handwritten letter, they were pushed to the top by this small "pre-war mobilization", and they were ready to move the boxes one by one.

Such a menacing super strong head is clearly ambitious, ready to win the first and second places on the weekly singles chart in one fell swoop. Naturally, other record companies are aware of this.

As a "rival faction", what are you going to do with a super popular singer from a different camp who is going to appear in the next week with two highly anticipated works?

Although it is wiser to avoid his edge, and not rush to this week, so as not to be bored. However, if a general is sent and uses various means to trample these two ambitious works under his feet, surpassing Ye Zhao to win the weekly list championship in one fell swoop, it will also make his own reputation great, and by the way, let Ye Zhao taste failure.

There are large and small record companies on the market, and since there are companies that think "don't go hard", they must plan to use the momentum he has created to create gimmicks and topics for themselves.

And the company that decided to go to Ye Zhao and create this topic was Ai Hui.

If you want to talk about the record company that is the best at packaging singers, Ai Hui said second, and it is estimated that no record company will want to run up and touch the trophy of the first place.

Ai Hui is certainly a great company.

Founded in the late 80's and in the golden age of the 90's, after absorbing Tetsuya Komuro, a gold producer, the company opened up the market with TRF, and became one of the strongest record companies in the country from an obscure small company, producing an array of super popular singers such as Namie Amuro, Tomomi Hanahara, and Globe.

When the Komuro family turned into decline, Katsuto Matsuura discovered characters like Ayumi Hamasaki, and then successfully launched singers such as Koda Yomi, Ai Otsuka, etc., and after the new century, almost perennially dominated the domestic record sales champion, and trampled those record companies with deep heritage under their feet.

If the Stardust Office is the Tianhou Temple of the actor world, Ai Hui is the Tianhou Temple of the record industry.

And the reason why such achievements can be achieved is absolutely inseparable from Ai Hui's superb packaging and publicity techniques. They were the ones who led the way in the music business that was so common in later generations, such as the multi-version covers, the re-release of the album and the revamped album of the album, the combination of fashion and music, and the gimmicks that became commonplace in later generations.

Even CCCD (a technology that prevents record copying, but the sound quality is worse than ordinary CDs, and the response between consumers and artists after the release was very bad, so it was quickly abolished) was also the original advocate of the new CD technology that received a lot of bad reviews.

In addition to leading the trend, this company also spares no effort in creating topics. The famous "Light Step War", that is, after Hikaru Utada decided on the release date, Ai Hui also changed the release date of Ayumi Hamasaki to the same day in order to "compete with her".

Otherwise, according to the sensible approach, generally speaking, with Utada's unruly posture at the time, ordinary record companies would deliberately avoid her release date.

But it is precisely because of Ai Hui's "unconventional path" that this "light-step war" that people will talk about in the future.

Tetsuya Komuro led the producer trend, and since then, more and more singer-songwriters have turned to producers to discover their own proud disciples. When Ye Zhao successfully produced Makoto Kawamoto, music magazines and music critics in the market classified him as one of the singer-songwriters who were influenced by Tetsuya Komuro.

And when he and Manish came up with a collaborative single, and the second group of singers Puffy came out again, these arguments were mixed with a little "Ye Zhao is challenging Tetsuya Komuro".

It stands to reason that with Komuro Tetsuya's current state of sweeping thousands of armies and brushing the list, the word "challenge" is really a bit too much to look up to Ye Zhao, these two people are not on the same level at all now, if Ye Zhao is a monk who has just successfully built the foundation, then Komuro Tetsuya is already the Jindan ancestor.

Skipping the level to pick (touch) the battle (porcelain) this kind of thing...... But it's a foul.

In such a situation, why would anyone say that?

Although there may be a little bit of hilariousness, or the kind of exaggerated reporting style that the Japanese media is accustomed to, such as pulling out a random person can be crowned with a "national something", but the more important reason is that these groups of singers produced by Ye Zhao one after another are all female singers.

Everyone knows about the group of female disciples under Tetsuya Komuro, and now, Ye Zhao is also producing female singers one after another, which will inevitably make people think about this.

Moreover, since the Warring States Period, the Japanese have been obsessed with the spirit of "going down to the top", and it is more interesting for a grassroots young man to challenge the best OSS-level producer in the music industry than for a junior to be inspired by his predecessors to do the same thing. In the eyes of people who love to watch the excitement, it is more worth bragging about.

As for whether it succeeds or not, it is beyond the scope of consideration of this gang at this stage. Anyway, some of them say if they succeed, and some of them write when they fail.

In this way, when Ye Zhao himself didn't say or do anything, he inexplicably became the so-called "tragic hero" who went to the top of the pyramid against the storm.

Although when he first heard this statement, his whole person was in a state of "......" speechlessness.

Then, just when the outside world had this kind of statement that he was "challenging the room", as if he was planning to sit on the matter, Ai Hui also rushed to release the news of the release of his disc report at the same time.

In terms of the characters who fight against Ye Zhao's new single, Ai Hui's arrangement is also wonderful.

The new single "Friendship" from the group H Jungle ITH T, which was produced by Tetsuya Komuro and formed by the famous comedian Masako Hamada, was scheduled to face him head-to-head.

How powerful is this group? Last year, their debut single sold more than two million copies in a joking. It stands to reason that Ye Zhao, who has never sold two million singles, does not seem to be of the same magnitude as this group.

However, after the first single of the group, which was a big hit, the second single released by this highly topical group sold less than 1.5 million copies, and the speed of decline was like riding the super big slide in Tamira Okinawa.

After all, Masako Hamada is a complete amateur, and even if Tetsuya Komuro's music is magical, the public will not always buy it after the freshness has passed.

However, even if they sit on the super big slide in Okinawa's Timura, compared with the sales level of Ye Zhao's previous singles, it is comparable, and even slightly better.

Moreover, with the name of the duel, for this group that initially relied on the topic to get such outstanding results, it is definitely a good way to make their popularity heat up again, and with the heat, sales will naturally rebound.

In addition, Tetsuya Komuro is also actively involved in the group, so it can be regarded as a duel between the two producers, and fans of Masako Hamada and Tetsuya Komuro may be very supportive to further stimulate sales...... It's really not a wasted opportunity.

So, to defeat them, yes, it does take a lot of hard fighting.

The new single of H JUNGLE ITH T, which was scheduled to be released on the same day as Ye Zhao, is clearly the main force of the head-to-head showdown, in order to intercept his weekly champion.

But what is it enough to just win the championship this week? In addition to this group, Ai Hui also played a second card, the new single "Baby Baby Baby" from the group DOS, which is also produced by Tetsuya Komuro.

Speaking of which...... Don't be familiar with the name of this group? It doesn't matter, there is a member of this group, and people who follow the Japanese entertainment industry have probably heard of this name.

That member's name is ...... Kaba sauce. And he, or she, is famous because of two identities: the first is a choreographer, and Kaba-chan, as a choreographer, has designed dances for many groups. As for the second identity, it is because of him, or she is a ...... The male eldest sister artist.

As early as when he participated in the DOS group, Kaba-chan was shown as a woman, but at this time, he hadn't had sex reassignment surgery, and he was still a pure man, so a very interesting thing happened, that is, when he was on stage, he was strictly forbidden to speak, so as not to scare the audience with such a contrast.

Compared with Tetsuya Komuro's pro-army, the status of the group DOS in the Komuro family is not high, and similarly, it is not particularly good in terms of commercial performance, but even so, this is not particularly good, and it is only compared to TRF and Namie Amuro, it is no problem to sell hundreds of thousands of copies, and ordinary singers really can't compare to them.

DOS's release time was set two days after the release of Ye Zhao and H Jungle Ith T's single, and the group joined the battle again, although there was no chance to compete for the weekly championship, but in the next few days, it was logical to compete for the daily championship with Ye Zhao, who had been on sale for two days, and add a little blockage to him.

Moreover, now Puffy's new single on the list is still a popular candidate on the weekly chart, and DOS's departure is not so much a head-to-head showdown with Ye Zhao, but rather a spearhead aimed at Puffy, who is a disciple of Ye Zhao.

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As Ai Hui also released the disc newspaper and hyped it up in the record store, the weekly list, which was originally thought to belong only to the "cannibalism" between Ye Zhao and Puffy, turned into a situation where Tetsuya Komuro brought his apprentices and partners to intercept Hu Yezhao and his apprentices.

The media quickly seized the news and talked about it in the music intelligence program, and all kinds of analyses poured in one after another.

It's just that although H Jungle Ith T is strong, it is in a state of decline, Ye Zhao is weak at first glance, but his momentum has been rising, and there is still no expectation that the film will be released for half a year. Therefore, it is still a mystery which side the weekly champion will fall on in the end.

Compared with the weekly list champion, what is more interesting is that in the analysis of music critics back and forth, this weekly list showdown has been more and more suspended, and it has deviated all the way in the direction of "going down to the top" and "juniors facing seniors".

Fortunately, Ye Zhao's fans are very modest, or Xiao Muro's ability is so strong that people don't dare to say big things, so they didn't say anything like punching Xiao Muro.

The fans of Xiao Mu are also very personable, or they don't regard Ye Zhao as Xiao Muro's opponent at all, so they don't say anything like Ye Zhao is incapacitated, and on the whole, it is quite harmonious.

It's just that the modesty on the face is modest, and the harmony is harmony, and in private, fans are still gearing up one by one, ready to move boxes to defend the singers they support.

The return single after half a year, the ambitious work, suddenly bumped into the Komuro family that is in full swing, and this feeling is really sour.

"How's it going?" Privately, Masaharu Fukuyama teased him on the phone, "colliding with the most powerful Komuro family right now." ”

"Pretty good. Ye Zhao's face did not change, "There is a feeling of finally standing side by side with the top musicians in the music world." ”

"It's a shame that you can say such a big thing," Masaharu Fukuyama laughed.

"Of course, this incident doesn't just mean that I'm also qualified to be Komuro-san's opponent. Ye Zhao said, "Although it is an 'opponent' imposed by the media. ”

“…… Or that kind of tragic opponent. Masaharu Fukuyama added.

Ye Zhao also repeated with a smile, "That's right, it's the kind of poor opponent who draws his sword tragically even though he knows that he will fail." ”

"Originally, I was a little worried about you, but looking at you like this, it seems that worrying is unnecessary. ”

"It's not bad in terms of anti-pressure, although the mentality is not very good, but it is not bad. Ye Zhao said, "However, I still want to thank Fukuyama-san for calling from Kochi." ”

This year, Masaharu Fukuyama announced that he would temporarily retire from the music scene and no longer engage in public music activities, and during this period of music window, he did not want to give himself a vacation to play, but to learn photography with the famous photographer Masaharu Ueda, during which he also traveled all over the world to take the photos he wanted to take.

At this time last year, when he was working on a collaboration single with him, he once jokingly said that he wanted to take a break to study photography, and at that time, the staff took this as a joke.

No, less than a year has passed, and this joke has come true.

Being able to reach the peak of his career, without any nostalgia for fame and fortune, without fear of losing fame and fortune, and listening to his heart to do what he wants to do, Masaharu Fukuyama's freedom and freedom really made Ye Zhaoda feel admired from the bottom of his heart. 2k reading web