As the first finale of the 56th Red and White Song Festival, the SUN trio will perform their only single released this year at 9:20 p.m.

《PLANET》！

It has to be said that this is only the second single of THE SUN, but the sales are still strong.

Since its release on March 23, a total of 1.2 million CDs have been sold until December 31!!

This also continues the good results of more than one million singles since the debut of THE SUN band, and in the context of the sluggish record market, it can still sell millions of singles, even the national group SMAP, the first sister in the music world, Ayumi Hamasaki, dren, B'z and other old national bands, can't do it.

However, there are still as many as three singles that have sold more than one million this year!

In addition to THE SUN's "PLANET", there is also a song that made the neon music scene in 2005 vibrate.

That is the limited group composed of Tomohisa Yamashita and Kazuya Kamenashi, "Shuji and Akira", the single album "Youth Amigo" released!

The song of the same name in the album "Youth Amigo", as the theme song of NTV's autumn TV series "Wild Boar Makeover", was also loved by the public with the broadcast of the TV series.

And in this single album, there are only three songs and three accompanying versions of songs.

In addition to the song "Youth Amigo", there is also "Colorful" sung by Tomohisa Yamashita, which is an episode of the "Dragon Sakura" TV series starring Kiyoshi Sakamoto, and "Tripping" sung by Kazuya Kameri is an episode of the TV series "Extreme Fresh Master 2".

I don't know if it's because of the popularity of the TV series, which also led to the popularity of the song.

Although "Youth Amigo", which is the title song, has been commented by music critics: There is nothing special about the lyrics or the tune, but the advantage is that the melody is simple and easy to learn and sing, and it is catchy after listening to it a few times.

But it may be because the music style has a very strong retro and nostalgic color, and it has a bit of the charm of Showa ballads, so it greatly expands the purchase group.

In addition to the previous group of young people, the single was purchased by office workers in their 30s and 40s.

Therefore, this single, which was released on November 16, has sold more than one million in just four weeks!

The terrible sales also made Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was filming a movie in the crew, also heard of it.

However, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was not intimidated by the sales of this single, after all, his personal single sales and the sales of the band's singles can completely blow this "Youth Amigo".

Not to mention, the band's single "PLANET", which has sold 1.2 million copies, has already sold 200,000 more than them, and there is also a single belonging to Kiyoshi Sakamoto who made Tomohisa Yamashita and Kazuya Kameri despair.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto's second single, the first English single "I'm Yours", has sold 2 million copies since it was released in February, and by the end of the year, it has sold 2 million copies!

This also made Kiyoshi Sakamoto's single become another single that sold more than two million after two years after SMAP sang "The Only Flower in the World" by SMAP in 2003.

In the 2005 Oricon Singles of the Year chart, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "I'm Yours" topped the chart, followed by THE SUN's "PLANET" in second place, and "Youth Amigo" by Shuji and Akira in third place.

And on the Oricon annual album chart, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first solo album "Fifteen Years Old" ranked first with a terrible sales of 1.5 million!

Interestingly, Orange Range, which was robbed of his most famous song "Flower" by Kiyoshi Sakamoto, released the album "musiQ" this year, which may be missing a divine comedy like "Flower", although it also sold very well, selling 1.4 million copies, but in the end it still ranked second on the album chart of the year...

As a result, people in the entertainment industry were surprised to find that one person's name dominated almost the entire 2005 Oricon list.

No. 1 on the singles chart: Kiyoshi Sakamoto "I'm Yours"!

No. 1 on the album chart: Kiyoshi Sakamoto "Fifteen Years Old"!

Kiyoshi Sakamoto and THE SUN, like last year, were not very prolific, but they used two songs and an album of extremely high quality throughout 2005.

Such a good sales result also makes Kiyoshi Sakamoto a little king of the Japanese music scene in a real sense!

The media and music critics have unanimously recognized his creative talent and appeal!

Also, on the major music charts at the end of the year, Kiyoshi Sakamoto and THE SUN were both at the top of the charts.

The first of the top 10 bands of the new generation in Japan!

The most popular new generation singer in the Japanese music scene!

Wait a minute...

Sakamoto Kiyoshi has reached a height that ordinary people can't reach in their lifetime in less than two years.

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The end of the year is a harvest season for Kiyoshi Sakamoto and THE SUN.

Not to mention the slaughter chart on Oricon, the second red and white debut, what the three of them care about the most is this year's record awards!

At last year's Record Awards, Kiyoshi Sakamoto can be said to be the biggest winner of the last Awards.

Individuals won six awards: Composition Award, Arrangement Award, Poetry Composition Award, Best Newcomer Award, Gold Award, Grand Award, and 6 awards!

If you add a gold medal for the band, then Kiyoshi Sakamoto has won a historic and record-breaking seven awards!

Such a strong performance has made people look forward to this year's record awards.

Everyone wants to know how many awards Kiyoshi Sakamoto can win at the Record Awards this time...

And Sakamoto Kiyoshi is busier than Ogawa Shin and Chiba Masaki.

After performing at the NHK Concert Hall and as the band THE SUN, he will go to the New National Theater as a guest performer to perform two of his songs at the Record Awards.

Yes, this year, when the Record Awards invited Kiyoshi Sakamoto as a guest performer, they proposed to give him time to perform two songs.

It is a great honor to be able to sing two songs at the most authoritative music awards ceremony in Japan, so when Kiyoshi Sakamoto learned the news, he was stunned.

It was happy that I didn't know how to behave.

However, after the awards ceremony, Kiyoshi Sakamoto will definitely regret that he shouldn't have been so happy...

In exchange for these two songs, it was his first failure, which was an alternative compensation.

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At 9:20 p.m., THE SUN, as the finale, took to the red and white stage to perform their only single released this year, "PLANET".

In just a few minutes, THE SUN still tried his best to show the LIVE strength that matched his name as "the top ten bands of the new generation", and fully made the audience watching the red and white at the scene and in front of the TV all excited at once.

After the performance, the three of them quickly exited amid the applause of the audience.

Then, Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Makoto Ogawa and Chiba Masaki were temporarily separated.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto first got into the nanny car and asked Uncle Ishida to send him to the New National Theater first, because he still had to perform two songs at the Record Awards...

And the other two, on NHK's side, are waiting for Uncle Ishida to come back and send them over to participate in the record awards.

Sitting in the nanny car, Kiyoshi Sakamoto sat in the back seat, looking at the constantly changing street scene outside, and sighed.

"We didn't seem to be so laid-back last year. ”

Yes, after last year's rush, the three SUN and Uncle Ishida are already prepared for the year-end rush, and they will not be as busy as last year, and they are almost late.

"Well, we're more experienced this year than we were last year. Uncle Ishida also replied while driving.

"However, we were almost late for the rehearsal... Kiyoshi Sakamoto remembered the events of the afternoon, and in the afterglow of the sunset, the three of them were on the road, and the scene of the Japanese drama running, suddenly laughed.

"Hahahaha!!"

"Hahaha, I, a middle-aged man with a big belly, saw your back running so passionately, I wanted to get out of the car and run with you, but it was still the pot-bellied poop that reminded me that I couldn't run, hahaha!!"

Uncle Ishida's self-blackening also made Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was sitting in the back seat, almost laugh.

"Aha, cough... ”

On the way from the NHK Concert Hall to the New National Theater, there was a lot of laughter in the nanny car...

The two places are not very far apart in Shibuya Ward, so soon, Kiyoshi Sakamoto arrived at the New National Theater, the scene of the 47th Record Awards.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, led by the staff, arrived backstage and prepared to perform on stage.

The two songs he prepared for this record award are not "I'm Yours" and "Letter ~ To Fifteen-Year-Old You~", but "Letter ~ To Fifteen-Year-Old You~" and a song from the album.

《SLO DON》！

When he knew that he could sing two songs at the Record Awards, Sony helped Kiyoshi Sakamoto organize an official fan club event.

List the songs that Kiyoshi Sakamoto released in his personal name this year, let fans vote, and the two songs with the highest vote rate, Kiyoshi Sakamoto will sing these two songs at the Record Awards!

For Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first official fan event, his fans are simply crazy, and in just one hour, the cumulative number of voters has exceeded 500,000!!

In the end, according to the two songs voted for by fans, the two songs with the highest number of votes were surprisingly not Sakamoto Kiyoshi's 2 million single "I'm Yours".

Maybe it was because of an English song at that time...

Of the two songs, the one with the most votes was the unshakable "Letter ~ To Fifteen-Year-Old You~", and the second most voted song was "SLO DON".

So, in order to repay the enthusiasm of his fans, Kiyoshi Sakamoto decided to sing these two songs at the Record Awards.

From 10:10 to 10:18 that night, these eight minutes were the eight minutes that belonged to Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

First "SLO DON", and then "Letter ~ To Fifteen-Year-Old You~".

Especially when the prelude to "Letter ~ To Fifteen-Year-Old You ~" sounded, the entire record awards, whether they were artists or ordinary audiences, cheered excitedly, as if they had been looking forward to this song for a long time.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto sat in front of the piano and sang.

All the audience in the audience followed along and sang.

The singer and the audience, at this moment, seem to be one.