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After negotiations, Media Asia Records finally handed over the distribution rights of Noriko Sakai's debut album in Japan to EMI (EMI Records), and at the same time, Noriko Sakai's album was finally recorded, and the promotion work began. Of course, the focus of the promotion is on Japan, the main market.

Since Noriko Sakai is a newcomer and has no popularity, in order to cooperate with the publicity, she first released a single, and the single uses the song "WHITEREFLECTION", which is a fast-paced song, and the strong music and melody can easily hook the listener's emotions.

It is worth mentioning that this song was personally chosen by Wei Xiong, and the results did not disappoint him, and the single sold more than 110,000 copies within a week of its release. That's a pretty good number for a newcomer plus a single, even in Japan.

And as the publicity work continues to advance, the growth rate of album sales is still increasing at a rapid rate. To Weixiong's surprise, even "WHITEREFLECTION" in Hong Kong sold more than 10,000 copies, knowing that this is a Japanese single.

No Japanese has ever achieved anything like this before. But after a little thought, he was relieved, and it is estimated that a large part of the people who bought the album came for his name. Because the promotion emphasizes that this album was tailor-made by him for Noriko Sakai.

Two weeks after the release of "WHITEREFLECTION", the publicity work entered the second phase of the plan, and the second promotional single "Yume のしず / Dream Bit by Drop" was released to the market again. DIFFERENT FROM THE BRISK AND POWERFUL STYLE OF WHITEREFLECTION.

"Dream のしず / Dream Drops" is a typical lyrical song that can make people unconsciously fall into the mood of the song when you close your eyes and listen to it, but its performance is not as 'lyrical' as its style, and it sold 340,000 copies in the first week.

It was through this gradual and uninterrupted form of publicity that Sakai's fame continued to rise in Japan, and it has maintained a fairly high rate. In this way, by July 1, Noriko Sakai's debut album was released simultaneously in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan.

"さよならの夏~コクリコ坂から~/Farewell Summer" is the title song of the album, and it is also the name of the album, and on the first day of its release, it was placed in the most eye-catching position in major shopping malls and video stores, that is, the closest to the counter.

In just a few days, the album's sales exploded, and shopping malls, schools, offices, karaoke parlors, nightclubs, and even buses, as well as people's walkmans, seemed to be invaded by Sakai's singing in an instant.

As one of the words of a commentary published by the Yomiuri Shimbun, Sakai is like a comet that suddenly crosses the night sky from the depths of the universe that no one knows about, and she makes everyone involuntarily and at the same time has to look up at her light.

Ordinary people are crazy to follow and love, and insiders are all amazed, they have never seen a singer who has risen so quickly, except for the incredible, they don't know what to use. But even so, they were a little incredulous.

Because a week after its release, the album topped Japan's most recognizable music chart, the Japan Public Trust Chart, and topped the chart with a whopping 1.45 million horror copies, more than the other top five sales except for her combined, leaving everyone stunned.

And this figure also broke the record for the weekly sales of music albums since the establishment of the "Japan Public Trust Chart" in 1968. A newcomer's first album broke the single-week sales record on the charts in the first week? What a crazy thing that must be.

When Wei Xiong, who was far away in Hong Kong, couldn't believe his eyes when he saw this number, he was shocked enough to hit 340,000 copies of the previous single "Dream のしず / Dream Drops" in a week, but he didn't expect the album's sales to jump directly to a terrifying height of 1.45 million.

You must know that his "Kiss Goodbye" only sold 850,000 copies in Hong Kong, and it was almost impossible to sell after that. This shows how huge the music record market in Japan is, even more than he expected. In fact, there is another very important factor that he did not expect.

In the early days of the rapid rise of the Japanese stock market and the housing market in '86, a large number of Japanese people either entered the stock market or entered the housing market, and basically all of them received very good returns. In this context, records, as a type of spiritual consumption, are naturally welcomed.

And in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the performance of "さよならの夏~コクリコ坂から~/Farewell Summer" is also incredible.

In the first week, more than 53,200 tickets were sold in Hong Kong; Taiwan has more than 200,000 copies, almost breaking the first-week sales record set by "Kiss Goodbye" in Taiwan.

Just talk about Hong Kong, before that, the best-selling pure Japanese album in Hong Kong, the total sales volume definitely did not exceed 10,000 copies, which is less than one-fifth of the first week sales of "さよならの夏~コクリコ坂から~/Farewell Summer", such a huge gap,

It is enough to prove that fans don't buy albums just for Wei Xiong's name, but they really like the songs themselves, and the Japanese songs that seem to pop up out of thin air in various public places are the best proof of this, which has never been seen in the history of Hong Kong.

Therefore, it has attracted special attention, and major media have reported on it, but the focus of their report is not Sakai Noriko, but Wei Xiong.

In the eyes of almost everyone, the madness of "さよならの夏~コクリコ坂から~/Farewell Summer" in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan is not so much the success of Sakai's method, but rather that Wei Xiong once again showed the world his magical power of turning stones into gold.

Since his debut, Wei Xiong has created dozens of songs, none of which are not classics, and the people who sing these songs, even if they don't have any fame before this, can become a superstar who is popular all over Asia overnight.

Even if he is not a businessman, Wei Xiong is no longer an ordinary popular singer in the eyes of many people, and perhaps it is more appropriate to be called a pop music master. At least when the title first appeared in an entertainment tabloid, it didn't draw any criticism.

Many singers want to ask Wei Xiong to invite songs, but few really put them into action, and none of them succeeded. Because Wei Xiong himself is the owner of the record company, there is no reason to write songs for singers from other companies, and no one will deliberately embarrass him for this.

In this case, joining Media Asia Records has become another feasible way, but today's Media Asia Records has long since been established, and there are strict standards for singers to join, but no one can join if they want to. And even if you do join as you wish.

The company will not guarantee that you will be able to sing the songs written by Wei Xiong, and whether you have this opportunity can only depend on your personal creation. However, despite this,

Not long after the Sakai Noriko album was launched, there were still many unambitious singers who proposed to join, and finally Media Asia signed a few from it, some of which had expired contracts, and some of them needed Media Asia to pay liquidated damages. At the same time, Media Asia has also recruited a lot of musical talents from record companies, including PolyGram, mainly in production and composition, to make up for Media Asia's shortcomings in this regard.

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On the second day of the release of the latest list of the public trust list, almost all major mainstream media in Japan appeared reports about Noriko Sakai, mainly introducing Noriko Sakai's family background and career experience, after all, her appearance and rise were too sudden for anyone.

Among them, the Asahi Shimbun report is the most detailed, which first details Sakai's family background, including the background of her father Sakai Sannejo's Yamaguchi-gumi, and the experience of being discovered by talent scouts when she participated in the Bishoujo Image Contest last year, and then was admitted to the Higher Arts Department of Tokyo Horikoshi Gakuin. Next, he introduced Sakai Noriko to take advantage of the vacation to work and study in Beppu Hot Springs.

Then I happened to meet Wei Xiong, who had just finished the promotion of the new album and went to Beppu Hot Spring for a vacation, and then he was lucky to be favored by Wei Xiong, and signed it into Media Asia Records, and tailored the process of creating "さよならの夏~コクリコ坂から~/Farewell Summer".

In the second half of the report, Weixiong's deeds are also introduced, including his family background and achievements in music and movies after his debut.

Although before this, Wei Xiong was a big hit in Japan because of "Kiss Goodbye" and was known as the Hong Kong star most familiar to the Japanese, but it is precisely because he is a Hong Kong native that most Japanese pay more attention to his songs than to himself, and even fewer people really know him.

This time, with the super popularity of Sakai Noriko, as the producer of Sakai Noriko's album and the creator of all the songs, Wei Xiong was also known to the Japanese for the first time, and even his identity as a hero and the author of "Slam Dunk" was exposed by the media soon after.

You must know that Japan's manga culture is very popular, and "Slam Dunk" was quickly accepted and liked by the majority of comic fans with its funny and witty style after its launch, especially among school students, and the sales of its single book are growing at a terrifying rate every day.

By the time the third issue of the monograph was released, the daily sales of the monograph were basically the same as the most popular manga in Japan, "Dragon Ball", and the two manga were almost alternating for the first place. And the Hero Club also quickly opened up the situation with the hot sales of "Slam Dunk".

Singers, composers, lyricists, screenwriters, cartoonists, and businessmen, so many characters are concentrated in one person, and almost all of them have achieved the extreme in various industries, which has to make people marvel and wonder, can a person really be so good?