"Sales are... ”

"Five hundred thousand!"

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who heard this number, was not surprised or excited at all.

Yes, just calm.

"Oh. ”

After answering as usual, Kiyoshi Sakamoto continued to drink water.

The sense of dialogue between the two is very daily, which makes the assistant who is standing on the side watching the conversation between the two, Sakura Inoue, also look surprised.

"I really don't understand, whether it's too confident, or whether I expected it a long time ago, otherwise how could I be so calm... Inoue Sakura stared at Kiyoshi Sakamoto's face, as if trying to find some excitement and joy in his expression.

However, it didn't.

You know, the sales of 500,000 copies in the first week, in the Japanese music scene in 2008, almost no other singer can do it.

Moreover, this is on the premise that the pre-sale sales have exceeded 1.5 million copies!

People who will buy Kiyoshi Sakamoto's solo album must be his fans.

And the total number of fans is just those people.

Pre-sale,Isn't it just to skip the queue to buy it?。。。

Therefore, people who have already ordered the album during the pre-sale period rarely queue up to buy the album again after the album is officially released.

In this way, the sales after the official release will inevitably be much less than the pre-sale period.

After all, every singer's regular fans and fans are those, and they won't increase all at once, nor will they become less all at once.

However, even if the sales volume is much less than the previous first week sales, it still makes Sakamoto Kiyoshi's new album a strong airborne album weekly chart champion!

Generally speaking, the ratio of the sales figure during the pre-sale period to the final cumulative sales figure is mostly one to two.

In other words, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's pre-sale sales of this album are 1.5 million, and the final cumulative sales are conservatively estimated to reach 3 million!

Judging from the initial sales and pre-sale sales of this album, it is speculated that "Cherry Blossom Season", which has accumulated more than 2 million copies, is likely to hit the record of 3 million copies for the first time in six years!

And the sales of 500,000 in the first week are a good start for this album.

However, under such good news, Kiyoshi Sakamoto didn't react at all, there was no happy expression, and he smiled a little, right?

However, neither.

That's it.

This can be used, Sakamoto Kiyoshi has long been accustomed to his great achievements, so there is no big reaction to explain it, and it is barely reasonable.

However, Uncle Ishida, as an agent, did not have much reaction on his face.

This made Sakura Inoue a little baffled.

You must know that the more famous and popular Kiyoshi Sakamoto is, the more benefits Uncle Ishida, who is the general manager of Kiyoshi Sakamoto and the SUN band, will only get more.

In such a situation of both prosperity and loss, Uncle Ishida did not react much to this sales figure with Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

This had to make Sakura Inoue curious.

This doubt was not answered by Uncle Ishida until Sakamoto returned to the recording of "SMAPxSMAP" again.

I saw Uncle Ishida with a "coming" expression on his face, and said to his niece, "That's because, I've long been used to it... ”

"I would shout with excitement when the first single came out, I would laugh from ear to ear when the second single broke a million, but after the third single, the first album came out, I slowly became numb. ”

"Because, when you find out that every time he and THE SUN release an album or single, they are bound to be a big hit, you won't have too many surprises and excitement. ”

Uncle Ishida moved his gaze to Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was chatting with a few people from SMAP, with a strong sense of pride in his tone, and said, "After all, he is the only Kiyoshi Sakamoto... ”

Inoue Sakura was stunned, and she also lowered her head thoughtfully and muttered.

"Is it unique?"

。。。。。。

Regardless of Sakamoto's early morning past the stage of feeling emotional about his own sales, the outside world is very sensitive to this sales figure.

500,000 in the first week, the champion of the weekly list of space public trust, undoubtedly announced to the world once again that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's unshakable status as the king of popularity in the music world!

Even under the siege and interception of three groups of singers around the world, "Cherry Blossom Season" still stands tall and occupies the top of the major music charts.

This can't help but make the public start to wait and see, what will the world do next to deal with such an "unfavorable" situation?

Universal was quick to respond.

In order to attract the attention of the three groups of singers, Universal resorted to the most advantageous and overwhelming tricks of large companies.

Overwhelming publicity!

As one of the world's four major record companies, Universal's wealth is not much better than Sony's.

Under Universal Music's money-throwing tactics, in the next week, the whole of Tokyo seems to be occupied by Universal's singers...

The subway, shops next to the street, department stores and supermarkets, and places where you can show the MVs or music of three groups of singers have all been bought by Universal;

Radio programs, music programs, variety shows, Universal used its connections in the music industry to push a mihimaru GT and perfume.

And GReeeeN, who has never shown his true face, relies on his inspirational comedy "キセキ", which is in the leading position among the three groups of singers.

It wasn't until the second week when the sales of the public trust list were announced that Universal's strong push tactics had a very significant effect.

On April 8, the weekly list of the public trust list was opened again.

Among the three groups of singers under Universal, the mihimaru GT is clearly at a disadvantage.

80,000 sheets!

This is the cumulative sales of the mihimaru GT album after a week and a half of release.

Such an achievement, it can be said that it has been reduced to the role of shouting and cheering in this global blockade of Sakamoto Kiyoshi plan.

Perfume's results are even better.

It was put on the shelves for 10 days and sold 150,000 copies!

Although compared to Sakamoto Kiyoshi's first week of 500,000, there is still a lot of difference.

However, compared to Sakamoto Kiyoshi's 220,000 in the next week, there is only a gap of 70,000 sheets...

This is at least more valuable than the mihimaru GT, which has become cannon fodder, and the electronic music group perfume composed of three beauties.

Moreover, the humorous personalities and cute conversations of the three of Perfume on variety shows also impressed the public with them.

This also boosted the sales of Perfume's debut album.

Among the three groups of singers, the exposure is the least, and the publicity is relatively the smallest, but that group of singers has unexpectedly achieved very good results.

Maybe it's the sales of singles, which are easier than the sales of albums.

After all, in terms of buying habits, albums (including EPs) are aimed at core fans, and in the case of singles, passers-by and junior fans will also buy them.

Moreover, I have to say that the quality of the song "キセキ" is very good.

Under the powerful publicity offensive of the world, GReeeeN's single "キセキ" was sold for 8 days on the shelves, and it sold a staggering 200,000 copies!!

Such a number also made this "キセキ" airborne the weekly top of the public trust chart music chart, and also became the first single of GReeeeN to reach the top of the weekly chart.

Although comparing singles to albums is a bit of a bully for Sakamoto Kiyoshi, however, Universal doesn't care so much, especially in Kitano's Kenji's view, no matter what, the real 200,000 sales are the closest to Sakamoto Kiyoshi's album sales in the past two weeks.

He consciously ignored the fact that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's pre-sale sales of more than 1.5 million copies...

Just compare it with the sales after it was put on the shelves.

This is also the processing that his brain did in order to beat Sakamoto Kiyoshi once.

You must know that on the other side, Sakamoto Kiyoshi, the album sales of the next week inevitably fell, only 220,000 copies.

There is only a gap of 20,000, which seems to make Kenji Kitano see an opportunity to defeat Kiyoshi Sakamoto in one fell swoop.

If he can surpass Kiyoshi Sakamoto in sales, in his opinion, it will be a victory for Universal.

Therefore, he believes that the faceless combination of GReeeeN is too much to earn face for himself.

Therefore, Kenji Kitano once again concentrated all the resources in the world and strongly promoted GReeeeN and perfume.

The world sharpened his knife and launched an attack on Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was standing at the peak.

They are ready to pull down Kiyoshi Sakamoto, the sales overlord, on the sales list in the next week!

However, in the national variety show "SMAPxSMAP" broadcast on the evening of April 7, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's appearance directly extinguished the sharpness of the world.

For the first time, Kiyoshi Sakamoto participated in all aspects of this issue of SMAPxSMAP in his personal capacity.

This shows that Kiyoshi Sakamoto's status has reached the level of a big figure in the music world.

You must know that the singers who can be on the "SMAPxSMAP" Bistro section alone are some top singers with high status and great achievements.

Hikaru Utada, Ayumi Hamazaki, Namie Amuro, Mai Kuraki, Koda Rami and other singers were all on "SMAPxSMAP" when they were the most popular.

Even many first-line singers can only appear in the song performance, which is already a great honor.

This time, Kiyoshi Sakamoto not only participated in the Bistro session, but also sang his album's title song "さくらのうた" with SMAP in the final song performance session.

In particular, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is holding a guitar, sitting there playing and singing, and the picture of the five SMAP people sitting around him makes many fans of "SMAPxSMAP" shout "See you for a long time!"

As a result, Kiyoshi Sakamoto has also become the first male singer in the music world to participate in all aspects of "SMAPxSMAP"!

After the show was broadcast, the effect of "SMAPxSMAP" also made Sakamoto Kiyoshi's album sales rise instead of falling in just a few days.

April 15th.

Critical third week.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto's solo album sales rose against the trend and sold 300,000 copies!

The album sales of Universal Perfume are 170,000 copies.

Although it has risen slightly, it is also the end of the strong crossbow.

GReeeeN, which had high hopes, rose sharply under the full explosion of publicity effects, and sold 290,000 in a single week!!

is only 10,000 different from Kiyoshi Sakamoto's album sales!

Kenji Kitano, who saw these figures, stood in the president's office of Universal Music and looked into the distance through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and there seemed to be a raging fire in his eyes.

"Next week, next week, next !!week, next week, next week,