Chapter 50: Lori

Ask for clicks, ask for favorites, ask for recommendations

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It is said that music has no borders, Gu Chen finally understood the meaning of this sentence, although his first album is Cantonese songs, but good and excellent songs obviously will not have much impact on sales because of the familiarity of the language, on the eve of his flight to Japan to promote, his album sales in Japan in the first month have exceeded 800,000 copies, although this figure is largely due to Japan's huge consumer groups and consumers' strong spending power, but it is also enough to reflect Gu Chen's popularity in Japan.

According to Hong Kong's Polygram Company, there is still a lot of room for improvement in this figure, so Gu Chen's promotional trip to Japan this time was born.

As early as a few days ago, Hong Kong Polygram announced to the Japanese media that Gu Chen would go to Japan to promote the album, and spared no effort to cooperate with Japanese TV stations, newspapers, magazines and other media to increase the frequency of Gu Chen and the album's songs in the media, which is 'hype' in a modern word. As a result, many people who originally didn't know Gu Chen, or Gu Chen, but had never heard Gu Chen's songs, walked into the video store to buy Gu Chen's album, which led to a new wave of sales of the album.

When Gu Chen arrived in Japan, he received the expected warm welcome, although the company made all the preparations, and the airport security escorted, but the madness of the Japanese fans was more than what he had encountered before, and there was even chaos at the scene for a while, because a girl was squeezed to the ground by the people around her, and many feet stepped on him in an instant, and the screams and cries made the already crowded crowd panic immediately. And the scene where the girl fell to the ground happened to be seen by Gu Chen, not far from him, and he didn't have time to think about it, he quickly ordered the bodyguards around him to open the way in the direction of the girl, and it took a lot of effort for the boss to finally squeeze away the people around the girl.

Gu Chen squatted down and helped the girl up, and asked with concern, "You have nothing to do, are you?" He spoke in Japanese, and his tone was full of worry and concern, and he was not putting on a show, but from the heart. Although he subjectively didn't have a good impression of Japan and the people of this country due to some things in his previous life, when a fan of his own was squeezed to the ground, human nature suddenly overcame subjective consciousness. In addition, if something really happens to this girl, it will have a very negative impact on his trip to Japan.

"I'm fine, thank you." The girl didn't seem to have anything to do except for her clothes getting dirty, and as soon as she stood up, she bowed to Gu Chen almost ninety degrees, and then took out the notebook that she threw tightly on her chest even if she fell, and said excitedly: "Gu Jun, I really like you, I have every poster of yours, this is my diary, can you help me sign it." ”

Gu Chen looked at this little girl who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old, and the more she looked at it, the more familiar she felt. However, he didn't show the doubts in his heart, and smiled and took out the signature pen he carried with him, and then took the diary and opened the first blank page, just about to sign it, he saw that the lower right corner of the blank page was written 'Fujiwara Norika' four Japanese, he hurriedly looked at the girl in front of him, isn't it the Japanese beauty Fujiwara Norika.

"Is your name Norika Fujiwara?"

"Well, my name is Norika Fujiwara."

Thinking that Fujiwara Norika, who will become a Japanese national super idol in the future, is actually his female fan, Gu Chen was a little excited, and couldn't help but reach out and gently rub it on the head of little Fujiwara Norika, and said with a smile: "Very beautiful girl, and the name is also very good." ”

Then he signed his signature in both Chinese and Japanese on the blank page of the diary, and wrote under the signature: "I wish the beautiful Fujiwara Norika academic progress and eternal happiness." When he returned the diary to Kika Fujiwara, he did not forget to instruct: "There are so many people here, you have to be careful, don't be squeezed down again, see you again." ”

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After the small episode of Fujiwara Norika, there were no other accidents, Gu Chen rushed out of the airport under the protection of many bodyguards and airport security guards, and left quickly in the vehicle that had been waiting outside the airport. However, what he didn't know was that the scene where he just lifted Fujiwara Norika was filmed by the reporters around him with cameras or video cameras, and even a TV station filmed his signature and blessings in the diary.

This originally ordinary thing was reported and exaggerated by the media, and Gu Chen's image in the eyes of the Japanese masses immediately became much taller.

Japan has a population of more than 120 million people, and its cultural quality is generally high, and it has a large consumer base. In addition, the Japanese economy is now in a period of false prosperity before the economic crisis, and consumers' desire and spending power are generally high. It is for such a market that Hong Kong Polygram has done a lot of work for Gu Chen's trip to Japan, especially in terms of publicity.

So much so that Gu Chen even saw his oversized poster hanging on the outer wall of a building on the side of the road on the way to the hotel. In this era of lack of communication channels, this kind of large-scale outdoor poster publicity is already a relatively advanced means, but the poster itself makes him want to complain.

Compared with the atmospheric or aesthetic posters in his memory, the posters he has shot in the past few months, including this giant poster, are far inferior in terms of quality, artistic conception, and expression of the characters, but this era is at this level, and he has never studied photography, so it is useless to complain.

On the first night, this three-day trip to Japan, which will be tonight, he will record a program on Fuji TV, which will still be in the nature of celebrity interviews. The next day, a fan meeting and album signing were held at a large shopping mall in Ginza, Tokyo. On the third day, we went to Osaka, Japan's second largest city, to hold a fan meeting and album signing. On the morning of the fourth day, we flew directly from Osaka to Seoul, South Korea.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Gu Chen took a car back to the hotel from Fuji TV, and as soon as he walked into the room, the hotel front desk called and said that Nobuyuka Matsuda, the head of Toshiba Corporation, had come to visit.

"Toshiba Corporation?" Gu Chen immediately guessed the intention of this Honda Shinnosuke's visit, on the one hand, he asked the hotel front desk to invite people to the room, and on the other hand, he opened the message to Xiaolan and asked her to come to his room.

Soon, a middle-aged man with a short stature and a typical Japanese appearance came to Gu Chen's room under the leadership of the waiter, and when the two shook hands, the middle-aged man preemptively said: "Contemptible Shinnosuke Matsuda, is the head of the Publicity and Public Affairs Division of Toshiba Corporation, I am visiting so late, please forgive Gu Jun if you disturb me." ”

"Mr. Matsuda is polite, please take a seat."

"Gu Jun, please."

After Xiaolan made a cup of tea for Gu Chen and Shinnosuke Matsuda, she did it by Gu Chen's side, as Gu Chen's assistant agent, she was needed to be present at this time.

"I beg your pardon for taking the liberty of not knowing what Mr. Matsuda is doing when he comes to me tonight?" Although he already had a guess in his heart, Gu Chen naturally would not say his guess.

"Then I'll say it bluntly, now Gu Jun has a wide reputation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, including Japan, after our company's research and decision, we want to hire Gu Jun as Toshiba's image ambassador, responsible for shaping and promoting Toshiba's international image.

Gu Chen immediately smiled when he heard this, and sure enough, it was the same as he guessed, but he didn't want to sign an endorsement contract now, saying that since he became famous, a total of more than a dozen brands have asked him to be a spokesperson, including food, medicine, watches, electrical appliances, clothing, etc., he made Xiaolan refuse, the reason is very simple - the time has not come, and when his second album is released, his popularity and influence will be greatly improved, and the price of endorsement will naturally rise, and that is when he begins to consider receiving endorsements.

"I'm interested in being Toshiba's ambassador, but I'm really sorry Mr. Matsuda, but I'm not going to take on any endorsement work for the time being because I'm busy with my second album at this stage, so why don't we talk about it after my second album is released?"

How could Shinnosuke Matsuda not guess Gu Chen's thoughts, but people didn't answer, and they didn't even ask about his bid, what could he do, the mall was like this.