After taking the MUSIC STATION on Friday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto went home to rest.

Because Sony's positioning of Kiyoshi Sakamoto is that he is a talented singer-songwriter, coupled with being so handsome, this also makes Sony choose some programs with better time slots when arranging Kiyoshi Sakamoto's show, otherwise he won't be on it. As a result, Kiyoshi Sakamoto only participated in the MS TV show after his single was released. There are no magazines, no interviews. After all, it's a newcomer. Kiyoshi Sakamoto was also happy to be idle at first.

But to the surprise of Sony and Sakamoto Kiyoshi, MS brought Kiyoshi Sakamoto to the RB people at once.

Such a young, a little tall, a handsome guy with a face, a warm smile, and a youthful singing voice all made people who saw Friday's MS issue fall in love with Kiyoshi Sakamoto. And some viewers with bright eyes also saw the subtitles on TV when Sakamoto Kiyoshi sang, and the song was actually composed by himself, which also made more people like him and more people who wanted to know him.

Young, handsome, can create, tall and thin, sings well, when so many advantages are gathered in one person, how can it not be loved?

Coupled with the music review that Makoto Kamiki wrote on his blog, it also slowly fermented, and many people who pay attention to music are also curious about Makoto Kamiki's music that admires a rookie singer so much, so many people also went to Sony's official website and listened to Kiyoshi Sakamoto's short version of "Close Your Eyes Lightly", and found that it was really good. So, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and the name Kiyoshi Sakamoto slowly spread in the big city of Tokyo.

As a direct result, Sakamoto cleared the fire!

Since Saturday, Sony has been receiving calls from fans from all over the country every day, either saying that they like Kiyoshi Sakamoto, or asking Kiyoshi Sakamoto for various information. The enthusiasm of the fans directly led to the temporary crash of the Sony official website server, because the number of views was too large, but fortunately, Sony's technical staff reacted quickly, otherwise the Sony official website was blown up by Sakamoto Kiyoshi's new fans.

I thought that Kiyoshi Sakamoto would be popular, but I didn't expect it to become popular so quickly.

Seeing Kiyoshi Sakamoto's topical Sony, I immediately launched the next strong push. In the next few days, Sony helped Sakamoto Kiyoshi make appointments with several more influential magazines and newspapers to take pictures and do interviews for him. Strive to let Kiyoshi Sakamoto show his face in RB before this craze passes, so that more people can know him. In addition, in the case of taking precautions, we increased the number of CDs suppressed for "Close Your Eyes" to 200,000 copies at once, and sent additional personnel to distribute these CDs to all CD stores in the Tokyo area in the next few days.

So Sakamoto Kiyoshi was miserable, and he wanted to be lazy for a few days, but he was messed up by Sony and ruined.

In the following week, Kiyoshi Sakamoto appeared on the covers of major newspapers and magazines. His name once reached third place in the online Google search rankings, the fifth place was Sakamoto Kiyoshi with his eyes closed, and the tenth place was MS Sakamoto Kiyoshi Sakamoto, and he accounted for three of the top ten Google search rankings.

On February 13th, it was a week since Kiyoshi Sakamoto's song "Close Your Eyes Close" on the shelves, and a week after Kiyoshi Sakamoto appeared on MUSIC STATION.

The most intuitive data that can see that Kiyoshi Sakamoto is now on fire is the Oricon list that is published every day.

The Oricon list publishes the top 3 sales and the top 100 rankings every day. And on the day that Sakamoto's list song was released, Sakamoto Kiyoshi's name, of course, was not on the Oricon list.

On Thursday, the single hit the shelves, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto's name was not on the Oricon chart released that day.

ON FRIDAY, ON MUSIC STATION, THERE IS STILL NO NAME ON HIM.

On Saturday, the day after MS, the 98th place on the Oricon list was Kiyoshi Sakamoto and his "Eyes Closed".

On Monday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first newspaper interview was published, and his name has risen 30 places to 68 on the Oricon list.

On Tuesday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first magazine cover appeared in major convenience stores, bookstores, and supermarkets. At this time, on the Oricon list, Kiyoshi Sakamoto has reached the top 30.

On Wednesday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's personal homepage on Sony's official website was occupied by fans and forced to close for an hour. On the Oricon list, Kiyoshi Sakamoto reached the top 10.

On Thursday, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's first official fan club appeared, with the number of applicants exceeding 50,000 in 24 hours. On the Oricon chart, it ranked third on the sales chart and third on the 100 singles chart.

Friday, this day, is the week of Sakamoto's list song debut, and it is also the day of the first week of sales.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Kiyoshi Sakamoto, accompanied by Uncle Ishida, came to the Sony Building in Ginza.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who walked into the company, found that along the way, people kept greeting him. Kiyoshi Sakamoto also bowed one by one.

In another half an hour, this week's sales report will come out. At this time, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto walked into the music department, he found that the employees inside looked very excited. Kiyoshi Sakamoto thought about it and understood, this should be after seeing the continuous rise of Kiyoshi Sakamoto's ranking on the Oricon list in the past few days, and the performance of Sony's internal confidence in Kiyoshi Sakamoto's debut.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was sitting in the conference room, was waiting to see how many CDs his single sold in the first week, and how many CDs he could sell when he was tossing so hard.

Although Kiyoshi Sakamoto is very confident in his song "Close Your Eyes", after all, it is a single of more than one million, and Ken Hirai still relied on this song to win the Golden Record Award. However, others don't know, although Sakamoto Kiyoshi's popularity has exploded these days, but after all, the time is still very short, and it may be so short that it has not yet fed back the popularity to sales.

Half an hour passed quickly.

When Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who was sitting in the conference room, saw the staff member walking in with the sales of this week's single, with a happy expression on his face, he knew that his first single was a success!

"Sakamoto-san, the first week of sales of "Eyes Closed" is... 150,000 !!"

150,000 in the first week, may be placed in RB ten years later, and many men's and women's groups may disdain it, after all, they are all top groups with more than one million. However, in 2004, when the RB record market began to decline, among the solo singers and groups, the ones who could sell 150,000 copies in the first week were the four major singers, B'z, Mr. Children is at the level of big brothers and sisters in the music world, and now Kiyoshi Sakamoto, a small debuting singer, can get 150,000 sales, which may be a miracle.

RB is the second largest singles market in the world, although the record market has fluctuated a little in recent years, but Sony is very satisfied with the sales of Sakamoto Kiyoshi's debut song to get 150,000, and also revealed a "good" news to Sakamoto Kiyoshi, that is, next, to increase production, increase the promotion of Sakamoto Kiyoshi, and strive to see if Sakamoto Kiyoshi's first single can exceed one million copies!

The strong support from Sony is certainly the dream of every newcomer, but it is not good for Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who works more than 16 hours a day and sleeps no more than 6 hours a day during this week. The heart is not tired, and the body is also tired, after all, although the current Sakamoto Kiyoshi is an adult's psychology, his body is still just a fourteen-year-old child.

There is no way, after all, the single sells better, and it is also a good thing for Sakamoto Kiyoshi, the more it sells, the more Sakamoto Kiyoshi will achieve. There is also a surge in popularity and fame.,It's also more beneficial for Sakamoto Kiyoshi's future road.。。 So, I can only bite the bullet and go up.

This time, in order to take advantage of Sakamoto Kiyoshi's popularity to a greater extent, Sony helped Sakamoto Kiyoshi receive a lot of announcements this time.

In this way, I got up at 5 o'clock in the morning, put on makeup and dried my hair, went to shoot pictorials, photos, and advertisements, at noon, interviewed newspapers and magazines, and participated in the recording of radio stations and variety shows in the evening. It became, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's daily itinerary for the next two weeks.

Such a large-intensity propaganda has indeed firmly imprinted the face of Kiyoshi Sakamoto in the past two weeks and into the hearts of the majority of RB people. In the past two weeks, Kiyoshi Sakamoto's "Close Your Eyes" can be heard everywhere, in the shops on the street, on the radio, in supermarkets, subway stations, and on TV, it is also Kiyoshi Sakamoto's handsome face, CM, variety shows, music programs, and even children's programs have appeared on him.

Under such overwhelming exposure, Kiyoshi Sakamoto became the artist seen the most times by the RB people in February 2004.

As a result, the sales of Sakamoto Kiyoshi's "Eyes Closed" in the second week rose instead of falling, reaching 200,000, and the cumulative sales reached 350,000. In the third week, sales rose again, winning 250,000 weekly sales champions, accumulating more than 600,000 yuan! and also won the single championship in February 2004.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto's popularity skyrocketed, and he was given various names by music critics, such as "Genius Boy", "Youngest Double Platinum Record Composer", "Sony Little Prince", etc., while his fans affectionately called him "KIYO-kun" (Sakamoto Kiyo's clear character, romanized pronunciation is KIYO. ）

But in such a good situation, behind it was Kiyoshi Sakamoto's deep physical fatigue and lack of energy caused by lack of sleep.

Finally, during a magazine cover shoot, Kiyoshi Sakamoto fainted.

This made the staff at that time scared half to death, but fortunately, Uncle Ishida, as an agent, had been by his side, and when he saw this situation, he immediately called an ambulance and took Kiyoshi Sakamoto to the hospital, and also warned the people present not to tell about it.

After arriving at the hospital, Uncle Ishida first notified Sony, and then notified Kiyoshi Sakamoto's teacher, Masaharu Fukuyama. And Fukuyama, who received a call from Uncle Ishida, immediately called his senior, Sakamoto Kiyoshi's father Akira Sakamoto, to inform him of this not very good news. The Sakamoto family, who were far away in Nagasaki, immediately bought a plane ticket after knowing that Sakamoto Kiyoshi had fainted, and hurriedly got on a plane to Tokyo.

After Sony received the notice from Uncle Ishida, he immediately remembered to block the news, after all, if the outside world knows the news that Kiyoshi Sakamoto fainted, the biggest impact must belong to Sony, after all, the power of fans should not be underestimated.

As a result, things did not go as Sony thought, and within two hours of Kiyoshi Sakamoto fainting, various articles with titles such as "Sony The Little Prince fainted on the set", "The genius boy fainted due to illness", "KIYO-kun was unwell and fainted during filming". Then, the news of Sakamoto's fainting was received by the television station, the newspaper, and the radio station issued an urgent notice, and the newspaper made a headline with a photo of Sakamoto fainting to the ground.

"The Little Prince of Sony fainted during the filming, life and death are uncertain!"