The planning of the title program,It's just a small activity for Sakamoto Kiyoshi to be busy with Ogawa Shin and Chiba Masaki during the preparation of the album.。。。

After all, their next focus will be on the band's first English-language album!

With the song "e Are Young", the Asian band THE SUN, which has made a name for itself in the European and American music scene, is finally ready to release their first all-English album after 10 months.

The release date is set for December 25, Christmas Day.

In order to warm up the album in advance, THE SUN's third English single "Radioactive" was released worldwide on November 25th!

Of course, this song is also from Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "creation".

"Radioactive" is the most well-known song from the American rock band Imagine Dragons' debut studio album "Night Visions", released in 2012.

The reason why Kiyoshi Sakamoto made this song the title song of the new album and released it ahead of schedule as a warm-up single is not only because it is the divine comedy that has been on the Billboard chart for 87 weeks, but also because of its popularity and terrifying sales.

In 2015, before Kiyoshi Sakamoto's rebirth, the song "Radioactive" was certified by the Recording Industry Association of America as a diamond-selling single.

A single that sells 500,000 sales, it is called a gold record, 1 million sales are platinum records, and 10 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 scenes.

And "Radioactive" is one of them, and the only rock song!

Such a divine comedy, as the title song and warm-up single of the first English album, it can be seen that Sakamoto Kiyoshi attaches great importance to THE SUN's first all-English album.

Not only that, but of the fifteen songs on the entire album, he alone contributed 7 new songs!

These include "Demons", "Crazy For You", "Turnin'", "Best Day Of My Life", "Life Is Beautiful", etc., many well-known songs from previous lives.

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

《Somebody That I Used to Kno》！

This song, sung by Australian singer Gotye and New Zealand singer Kimbra, won the top music chart in 21 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Australia, and Poland, and is "one of the world's highest-selling records" with more than 12.2 million copies of music sold worldwide!

Gotye also won the "Production of the Year" and "Best Pop Group" awards at the 55th Grammy Awards for this song.

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

In Kiyoshi Sakamoto's view, under the interpretation of Gotye and Kimbra, two not too famous singers, this song can still become famous in one fell swoop, and replace the singer with the more famous him, as well as Taylor, with the strong combination, the influence will definitely be even greater!

As a result, with the two previously released singles "e Are Young" and "Cruise", the new songs written by him himself occupy more than half of the songs on the entire album!

However, this is the power that he has always had as the core of the band and the captain.

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

It's normal to write most of the songs.

And the creation of the remaining songs, according to convention, was handed over to Ogawa Shin and Chiba Masaki.

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

In his opinion, more than half of the new songs on this album, one by one, are excellent songs that can be on the top 20 of the billboard.

Even if a few of the songs have just passed the passing line, they are still good.

Now, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is ready to stuff a bunch of good songs into the same album, which seems to be a bit of a waste...

Morgan Keys also wanted Kiyoshi Sakamoto to pull out a few good songs for the next album.

However, this suggestion was directly rejected by Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

Not to mention that this is THE SUN's first English album, it is an important first step to impact the European and American music scene, and a blockbuster talent is the best result.

As far as the reserve of songs is concerned, Kiyoshi Sakamoto still has many good songs stored in his mind, not at this time, but when?!

So, at the insistence of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, in the end, all the songs of this album were set as they were.

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On December 11th, there are two weeks before the release of the new album...

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

Even though the air conditioner was turned on indoors, sweat continued to flow down from the foreheads of several people.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who wiped his sweat with a towel and leaned the whole person on the sofa, started the topic.

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

"The name of our album hasn't been decided yet... ”

As he spoke, he looked at his teammates on the side, 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 Japan's Sony Music Group (SMEJ).

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

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

Even the recording of the warm-up single "Radioactive" and the shooting of the MV were completed in New York.

However, during the recording of a new song, Kiyoshi Sakamoto remembered that the name of the album didn't seem to have been decided. . . .

So, taking advantage of the break, he brought this up.

"Hmmm... Ogawa Zhen pondered for a moment before he pressed his hand on Sakamoto Kiyoshi's shoulder with a serious face and said, "I think this task is still left to you, as the captain, to decide!"

Pushing away Ogawa's hand, Sakamoto Kiyoshi said speechlessly, "You don't know, I'm a difficult name, and you still let me come?"

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

The ability of the three to name it, I have to say, is very rotten...

"No way, who made you the best English among the three of us... ”

Chiba Masaki's straightforward words made Sakamoto Kiyoshi open his mouth and have nothing to say.

A few days later, Kiyosei Sakamoto took a small note with the name of the album on it and handed it to the two of them.

“The First Light？”

"That's right, this album is the first ray of light for our band THE SUN, shining on the whole world!"