Chapter 34: The First Week
100,000 copies, for the outside world, that is, to sigh at the neatness of this number, but for BEING, for Nagato Daiyuki, it is a big shock: as a decision-maker, of course he knows that the first batch of shipments of this single is 100,000 copies, that is to say, in just the first week, Ye Zhao's new single has been sold out! Not only that, record stores all over the country have sent faxes asking for refills, and BEING can only entrust the printing factory to work overtime, and each batch of output will be sent to record stores all over the country overnight.
Nagato Daiyuki's miscalculation of Ye Zhao's strength, although it directly cut him off from competing for the first week of the championship, but also indirectly triggered a starvation marketing, people who couldn't buy singles began to follow the practice of the "Summer Color" period, and the song "Rainbow" on the radio on a large scale, as a C/W song "Because of You", also because of its delicate lyrics and easy-to-sing melody, has gained considerable popularity in karaoke.
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Since April of this year, YUKI has been hosting RB Radio's radio program "ALL NIGHT NIPPON", and although it may not be a big deal to host a radio show compared to a TV crew, radio has an advantage that TV can't match, that is, the interaction with listeners is very frequent, and it can give people a sense of participation.
Ten minutes before the start of the live broadcast, the staff confirmed for the last time that the headphones and microphones were normal, and YUKI sat in the live broadcast room, quietly waiting for the show to officially start.
Finally, across the soundproof glass, the staff counts down with gestures: three, two, one, go!
YUKI turned on the device and said energetically: "Good evening, I'm YUKI, welcome to tonight's "ALL NIGHT NIPPON", the guests of this issue are quite promising, let's welcome Princess Princess's guitarist Miss Kanako Yayama!"
"Hello everyone, I'm Kanako Yayama, the guitarist of Princess Princess, and I'm excited to be on this show. Kanako Nakayama's gentle voice came out through the microphone. Princess Princess is an all-girl band founded in 1986 and the most successful all-girl band in the history of RB pop music. And unlike those fancy girl bands that rely on producers to write songs and can't even play musical instruments well, this is a serious rock band, all the lyrics and songs are written by the members themselves, and the instruments are all slippery.
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“…… At that time, we were not popular at all, and even when we rehearsed the musical instruments backstage before the show started, we would be disgusted by our seniors and dare not pop out at all. Kanako Nakayama talked about some of the rules of the entertainment industry in the 80s.
"OH~ SO STRICT!" YUKI WAS SURPRISED, "THEN AGAIN, OUR GUITARIST TAKUYA-KUN'S ONLY PASTIME IN THE BREAK ROOM IS PLAYING THE GUITAR, AND OCCASIONALLY WHEN THE OTHER MEMBERS DISLIKE IT, HE'LL GET ANGRY AND SAY SOMETHING LIKE 'YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S ART!' ”
"Haha. ”
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"Let's take a look at the next submission, a friend from Mie Prefecture with a pen name Tanaka on the other side, 'HELLO YUKI, I BROKE UP WITH MY BOYFRIEND NOT LONG AGO, AND I AM IN PAIN, AND I CAN'T FORGET HIM, WHAT SHOULD I DO?'"
"What should I do? I'm the worst at answering emotional questions, Sister Zhongshan, what do you think?"
"Well, if you really can't forget it, you can chase it back, and it's not a shame to bow your head first. Kanako Nakayama said.
"That's right, yes, if you really like it, it's no problem to chase it back. But before that, it's best to think clearly, what to do after the recovery? After all, after the broken mirror is reunited, the problems faced in the past are still not less at all. ”
"I also said that I was not good at answering emotional questions, and I was obviously talking about the Tao. Kanako Nakayama teased.
"Zhongshan seniors, don't say if you see through it. YUKI jokingly unveiled the topic, "Let's start today's song ordering session, the song to be broadcast today is Ye Zhao's new single "Rainbow". ”
"Ye Zhao," Kanako Nakayama sighed, "That song "Summer Color" has sold more than 700,000 copies, and this "Rainbow" also won the third place on the weekly list in one go, but he is really mysterious, and he has not officially appeared until now." ”
When YUKI heard this, she subconsciously remembered everything that happened with him on the street that night, as well as the pair of high heels that had broken one of their heels, but they were still carefully stored in the box by her.
Kanako Nakayama is still saying, "Looking at the cover of the new single, it's a handsome guy, I don't know what the personality is~"
“…… He's a gentle person. YUKI smiled, "Let's listen to Ye Zhao's "Rainbow". After that, she turned off the microphone and listened quietly to the sound of the guitar in her headphones.
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Aoyama Gakuin University's folk song club has a long history, and Kuwata Yoshiyu, who studied at Aoyama Gakuin University, met like-minded friends in the folk song club, and finally formed the Nantian Stars, a palace-level band.
Friday afternoon is the club's fixed meeting time, and at five minutes and four o'clock, Yuya Kudo appeared in the activity room of the folk song club. There were already many members in the huge activity room, and when they saw Kudo Yuya, several members who were close to him pointed to a certain place in the activity room and made exaggerated expressions of frowning.
Yuya Kudo looked in the direction they were pointing, and there was a pile of wooden boxes in the corner, where Yuki Ueda was sitting alone with an acoustic guitar. Seeing her, Kudo Yuya showed a smile and stepped forward, "Ueda!"
Yuki Ueda took off one of his headphones and waved his hand, "Kudo-kun." ”
"Are you listening to a song?"
"Yes, Ye Zhaosang's "Rainbow". Ueda Yuki picked up the single box that he had in hand and showed it to him.
Yuya Kudo sat down next to Yuki Ueda, "I didn't expect him to join BEING, obviously the folk song is so good." Maybe he will slowly transform into rock and roll in the future, right?" Kudo Yu did not mention in front of anyone that he transferred "Summer Color" to Kuwata Yoshiyu's agent in the record store, after "Summer Color" became popular, he thought that Ye Zhao would be taken advantage of the situation to be taken under the command of Kuwata Yoshiyu's record company, but it turned out that BEING was the first to announce the signing of Ye Zhao.
"If Ye Zhaosang transforms into rock and roll, won't Kudo-kun stop listening to it?" Ueda Yuki asked rhetorically.
Kudo Yuya shook his head, "How so." Music is the same, as long as he can keep making good music, I will always support it. ”
"Well said. Ueda gently slapped the guitar's resonance box twice in place of applause, "By the way, I have a proposal, do you want Kudo-kun to consider it?"
"What proposal?"
"Set up a fan club of Ye Zhaosang. Yuki Ueda looked at Yuya Kudo.
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Later, when Ye Zhao traced his acting career, he called Aoyama Gakuin University his "blessed land", not only because he became popular because he was recommended by Kuwata Yoshiyu, who was born in Tsingshan Gakuin University, but also because his later official fan club was originally established by two students of Aoyama Gakuin University, and the fact that these two college students came together because of his songs and finally got married has also become a good story in the fandom.
The printing factory worked overtime to produce "Rainbow", and with sufficient supply, "Rainbow" entered an outbreak in the second week. Even in the case of a significant decline in record sales in later generations, this single has sold more than 900,000 copies, not to mention that 1994, which is still the golden age of record sales, even if he does not have the top popularity of Masaharu Fukuyama in the later generations, but with the blessing of the Pocari Water Special advertising song and the topic of "popular underground singer debut single" he carried, he is still very optimistic about the prospects of this single, at least, it will not lose to the number sold by Masaharu Fukuyama in his previous life.
In the second week, there were no strong opponents, so the highlight of the battle on the list became the overtime of the championship battle between the three forces of SMAP, T-BOLAN, and Ye Zhao. On September 14, after the ORICON singles daily chart came out, Ye Zhao's "Rainbow" won the daily chart with a score of 102,000 copies and won the first place on the daily chart.
Under normal circumstances, the trend of record sales will gradually decline with the passage of time, although it is not yet the era of the first move of life and death in later generations, and more than 70% of all sales can be sold in the first week, but it is very rare for this kind of single to lose the sales of the whole week of the first week on the first day of the second week of release, and this increase can occur, either the sales of this single in the first week are too miserable, or, this single is going to be popular!
Sure enough, from this day on, Ye Zhao once again showed the world his magical counterattack ability, the new single sold more than 100,000 copies for three consecutive days, not only firmly occupying the first place on the daily list, but also booking this week's weekly champion in advance - more than 300,000 sales, even if one can't be sold in the next few days, the champion is also a certainty.
The new week passed quickly, on Tuesday morning, Ye Zhao came to the headquarters of BEING, and there was no doubt that he won the weekly list, and the only thing Ye Zhao was curious about was how many tickets he sold this week. In the office, the young and beautiful female staff eagerly served him a cup of coffee, and Ye Zhao took over this week's singles sales chart from the staff, and his eyes fell directly to the top of the list.
"Rainbow" sold a total of 560,000 copies this Monday, winning the weekly chart by an overwhelming margin.
The hot sale of "Rainbow" dispelled the media's doubts about Ye Zhao's unkindness, and the music magazine "CDDATA", which once praised "Summer Color" in the report, once again wrote a report around Ye Zhao.
In the report, the author of "CDDATA" wrote bluntly: "The most important significance of the hit of "Rainbow" is not what record it has won or what position it occupies on the annual list, but that he has announced one thing to the world: Ye Zhao is not a lucky shit (referring to an artist with only one work), he can continue to produce high-quality music, and this is also the biggest reliance on his ability to occupy a place in the highly competitive music scene in the future." ”
IN A GOOD SITUATION, YE ZHAO FINALLY RECEIVED AN INVITATION FROM "MUSIC STATION".