Saturday, April 8th.

THE SUN's first album, "THE SUN", the first batch of suppressed records of 700,000 copies, plus 100,000 copies of the urgent shipment, a total of 800,000 copies, all sold out!

Sunday, April 9th.

In the case of the record factory working overtime, the second batch of one million pressed records, the first batch of 200,000 freshly baked records, were sold out as soon as they were distributed!

From April 6th to April 9th, which lasted four days, the first album of THE SUN band "THE SUN" sold more than one million!!

Sprinkle flowers!

This also created a record for Kiyoshi Sakamoto's solo and band to sell more than one million copies the fastest.

It took four days!

Although compared to the nineties, the beginning of the twentieth century, the gods who casually broke one million at the beginning of the move, and the gods who broke one million on the first day, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's achievement is only good, but now it is not the nineties, the beginning of the century, but the decline of the record market in 2006!

And such an achievement, at this time, can be called a miracle!

Over the next few days, record studios continued to ship and record stores continued to distribute.

Due to the speed of record suppression, the only place where you can buy the album "THE SUN" in Tokyo every day is the major record stores in Tokyo, and the total number of copies is only 200,000.

Even so, the 200,000 albums per day were bought by fans who had been waiting for a long time as soon as they hit the shelves.

From April 10th to April 13th, every day for four days, there was no more or less one, and 200,000 copies were sold.

As of the evening of April 13th, according to the first-week sales table obtained by Sony, "THE SUN" was released for a whole week, and the sales exceeded 1.8 million!

"THE SUN", which sold 1.8 million in the first week, also just replaced Kiyoshi Sakamoto's good friend, Ayumi Hamasaki, and released "I Am" in 2002, becoming the top ten albums in neon history with first-week sales, just No. 10.

In front of THE SUN, there are four singers led by Hikaru Utada, Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki, and Mai Kuraki, as well as the band Ageless, two old B'z, and Glay, one of the first visual kei bands.

It also became the highest-selling album in the first week in recent years.

The record sales model in Japan is different from that in Europe and the United States.

Neon's records, whether they are singles or albums, are short-term sales, and there is not much difference between initial sales and final sales.

Distance" sold 3.002 million copies in the first week, but the cumulative sales in 2014 were only 4.47 million, which is not much different.

You know, "Distance" is an album released in 2001, and it took 13 years to sell more than one million copies.

And European and American records are long-selling types, even Britney Spears's "Baby One More Time" sold only a hundred thousand in the first week, but the final global sales reached more than 20 million copies, which is a bit scary.

This may be due to the difference in sales models and the different perceptions of consumers, which has led to such a big difference between the neon music scene and the European and American music scenes.

This has also led to the fact that Neon singers and musicians, after the sales in the first week come out, can almost start preparing for the next record, some are not very popular, or not veteran singers, they are more diligent in releasing singles, and win by volume.

Even Kiyoshi Sakamoto and THE SUN, music darlings in the context of the decline of the Japanese record market, have not been able to break this habit and pattern.

Take THE SUN's second single as an example, the sales of the single "PLANET" reached 320,000 in the first week, and within two months, the sales exceeded 1 million.

And now in April 2006, a year has passed, and the sales of the single "PLANET" have arrived, 1.4 million, and that's it.

In other words, after two months in the first stage, in the next ten months, the sales of "PLANET" will only be 400,000 copies...

That is to say, the sales in the first two months accounted for 70% of the total sales!

This is the sales model of neon records, which is a short-term sale.

It is a cultural difference and a difference in perception that cannot be changed.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto has not thought about these problems, and he is now enjoying the leisure time of the holiday.

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"Finally... Finally... It's a holiday!!"

Kiyoshi Sakamoto lay on the sofa at home and yelled!

"It's noisy, just stay quietly on vacation!"

At this time, Sakamoto's mother, who was standing in the kitchen and boiling potatoes and stewed beef, stretched out her head, still holding a spatula in her hand, looked at her ignorant son with an impatient face, and lectured.

"But, I haven't been back for so long, and now that I'm on vacation, I can eat with you every day, aren't you happy?

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto forgot that his mother, when cooking, didn't like the habit of others disturbing him, so he was sad.

"I'm not happy, you're on vacation, I'm going to give you this foodie every day, get something delicious, I'll be even more tired, hum!" Sakamoto's mother had a wave of poisonous tongues, which made Sakamoto Kiyoshi petrified in an instant.

"My mom ... It's impossible to be so venomous!!" Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was thinking like this in his heart, wanted to say a few words, but was directly interrupted by Sakamoto's mother.

"So, if you want to eat potato stewed beef, then stay with me obediently and stop yelling and screaming, you know?!" Sakamoto's mother, who said this, also held a spatula and danced a few times as a threat to show a warning.

Seeing this, Kiyoshi Sakamoto closed his "zipper" with his hand and signaled that he couldn't speak, but at the same time, he raised his hand.

"Eh, what?!" Sakamoto's mother asked a little curiously when she saw him raise her hand, like a child in class who raised her hand to speak.

"Arnold, Okasan, it seems a little confused... Kiyoshi Sakamoto said cautiously.

"Huh?" Sakamoto's mother was a little confused, but after she took a deep breath, she smelled a hint of mush, and suddenly woke up.

"Eh?!! my potato stewed beef !!"

As he shouted, he turned and ran to the boiler to check his potato stew.

Looking at his mother who was busy in the kitchen, Kiyoshi Sakamoto suddenly felt that he was in a happy mood and muttered to himself.

"It's so good to be home!"

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Tokyo, Genesys & Associates.

Conference room.

Among you are the founder of Genesys, the current chairman of the company, and Mr. Kitagawa.

Vice Chairman of the Company and Chairman of Genesys Entertainment, Yasuko Fujishima.

Vice Chairman of the company and Chairman of J Storm, the eldest daughter of Yasuko Fujishima, Keiko Fujishima.

Representative of the Board of Directors, Riyu Kosugi.

Directors, Takeshi Shiranami, Masashi Yazaki, Kikue Izu, Masahiko Kondo, Noriyuki Higashiyama, Michimo Iijima, etc.

And at this time, the air in the meeting was a little dignified.

The reason has a lot to do with Sakamoto Kiyoshi, or to put it bluntly, it's because of Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

At this meeting of the board of directors, the agenda was whether to increase the investment of KAT-TUN resources or to avoid the edge for the time being.

As for whose edge it is, needless to say, you all know it.

THE SUN！

At the same time that THE SUN was on the verge of breaking through with 1.8 million first-week sales, ranking among the top 10 first-week sales in neon music history, KAT-TUN's debut single "real face" also sold in the second week.

30,000 sheets.

In other words, after the first week of madness, the enthusiasm of KAT-TUN fans has also faded.

This is not surprising, after all, neon records are short-selling types, with first-week sales accounting for 80% of final sales, and there are also 90 percent.

However, KAT-TUN's "real face" fell from 754,000 copies in the first week to 30,000 copies in the second week, which is nothing, but, compared to the brilliant results of THE SUN's debut album "THE SUN", the sales of these 30,000 copies are not worth mentioning...

Why do you say that you compare KAT-TUN's single with THE SUN's album, why not compare KAT-TUN's album, that is more intuitive, after all, passers-by and junior fans will also buy singles, and the album is aimed at core fans.

However, KAT-TUN's album "Best of KAT-TUN" only had 557,000 copies in the first week, and in the second week, sales also fell off a cliff, with only 20,000 copies...

How do you compare it to THE SUN's "THE SUN"?

In the eyes of everyone in the outside world, this showdown has ended before it has even begun.

Sony VS Jennis, Sony wins again!

THE SUN VS KAT-TUN, THE SUN WINS!

However, KAT-TUN's top boss, the chairman of Genesys Entertainment and Grandma Yasuko Fujishima, did not admit defeat and wanted to fight with THE SUN, so he took the initiative to convene this high-level meeting of Genesys.

HER PURPOSE WAS ORIGINALLY TO INCREASE JANISS' SUPPORT FOR KAT-TUN, BUT AFTER SEEING THE COMPARISON CHART OF THE SUN'S ALBUM SALES AND KAT-TUN'S ALBUM SINGLE SALES ON THE PROJECTOR, SHE WAS ALSO SILENT.

In fact, the people here are all old fritters who have been in the entertainment industry for many years, even from a simple chart, you can probably know who wins and who loses, but now the gap is so obvious, in the case that there is no comparison at all, the best way is to avoid the edge for the time being.

However, none of the people present dared to speak out and say such things.

Because, Yasuko Fujishima, who is sitting on the upper seat, has not yet expressed her position, and KAT-TUN is her group.

If she didn't say anything, no one dared to persuade her to give up, except for one person.

Old man Kitagawa.

Sure enough, Mr. Johnny Kitagawa spoke up.

"Sister, forget it, this time we lost. ”

In the faint tone, I couldn't hear his joy and sorrow, and I didn't feel angry because his group lost to Sony's band, after all, the old man ate more salt than the three of Sakamoto Kiyoshi combined, and the bridge he walked was longer than the road that Sakamoto Kiyoshi and the three of them walked, so this little thing is not worthy of his surprise or anger, but it just makes him feel very curious.

However, his sister is not a strong mother-in-law who will give up casually...

"Yet, we ... Fujishima Yasuko wanted to say something, but he was still raised by the old man Kitagawa and held back what he wanted to say.

I saw the old man sitting on the upper seat and saying a fluttering sentence, which made everyone present suddenly move in their hearts.

"That's not a good thing. ”