"You say this single...... Can it be sold? When Zhou Xiao and the band members were preparing to perform on stage, the main camera of the MV quietly asked the director next to him.

"It's weird to sell it, you don't know, this kid is only 18, and the hair on his mouth hasn't grown yet, so he wants to pull out a single by himself, this song, no publicity, no news, it's over when you shoot a live MV in this kind of small theater, the lyrics and songs are all written by him and he is trying to earn royalties, I listen to the master tape, and the singing voice can only be regarded as average, although the song is really good, but if there is no publicity at all, if he can really be popular, I will simply resign the director and become a singer!" This director turned out to be a chatterbox, and after being opened by the camera next to him, he complained.

"I don't think so, if the song is really haode, maybe the wine is not afraid of the deep alley."

"Not afraid of deep alleys? What is your view of the era? In these years, publicity is king, don't look at being so many big-name singers who don't come forward without publicity, that's mainly because people themselves are big stars, if they don't publicize their songs, the media will come up to help publicize them, this kid, can you? ”

"Then director, why are you still here to shoot the MV? And they brought me all in. ”

"You think I want to? Isn't it because this is a person Sakai Izumi who spoke? I can ignore him, can I ignore Sakai spring water? That's what people call really big names! Don't look at the usual don't talk or show up, if you really want to offend people, you can crush us to death with a little finger. ”

"This kid doesn't know where the luck came from, so he asked Sakai Spring to ask for it himself." Camera Road.

"You don't know this, let me tell you, the entertainment industry is much more evil than you think, this sister and brother are screaming in front of them, and they don't know what to call each other, you see that kid with red lips and white teeth, maybe he was raised by the spring water of the well." The director said with some speculation.

"No, I think Miss Quanshui is very pure."

"Innocence? How can there be anything pure in these years? Was the kitten club innocent back then? A high school student, what is the result? Smoking and drinking, falling in love with the staff of Fujidai, what did they not do? In this entertainment industry, no matter what you want to be, the truth will always be darker than you think! ”

The MV shooting ended quickly on this day, why...... Although Zhou Xiao sang very high on stage, the performance off the stage was not like this at all, and most of the audience watched the two songs that were obviously quite exciting. In this state, the director of the MV despised Zhou Xiao even more, and after hurriedly finishing the shooting, he just said hello to Zhou Xiao, and returned to the company with the entire film crew, leaving Zhou Xiao alone to help the band sort things out and leave the theater.

And the fact that singing on stage for the first time did not resonate with the audience at all, Zhou Xiao couldn't be happy here, so when he was packing up, he looked a little stuffy.

"Concerned about the show you just had?" The band's bassist asked.

"Well...... Sort of, the audience seems to be completely uninterested. ”

"Actually, this is also very normal."

"Huh?"

"It's very simple, the songs also have an audience, like our rock, the main target is young people, and the songs are all listened to by older people. And the audience just now, although they are not middle-aged and elderly in terms of age, most of them are also working adults, even if they are young people, do you want to like this kind of audience of small theater comics, how many people will like passionate rock music? These people may like this song when it becomes popular, but if this song is just an ordinary song, then I don't think they will appreciate the excellence of it at all.

The quality of your song is very good, believe me, as long as there is a small opportunity, it may be popular. The bass hand patted Zhou Xiao zuihou and said.

The MV was recorded, the song was recorded, and the CD was suppressed on the day the single was recorded, and the number of the first batch of suppression was ...... 3000 ......

Yes, you haven't heard of it, it's really only 3,000 copies, and with such a small budget, will the first batch of CDs be suppressed by 100,000? Don't dream, that's purely your wishful thinking, just these 3,000 CDs, if they can't be sold, the CD line and the distribution company won't give money, that is to say, how many of these 3,000 CDs can be sold, Zhou Xiao can only receive how much money, and it doesn't mean that he can receive 3,000 copies of the money after 3,000 copies are shipped.

The 3,000 CDs will be distributed in the ...... in the range of 5 to 20 CDs per CD store There are 453 CD stores in the Tokyo area, note that this is talking about the Tokyo area, not the city of Tokyo, and the entire Tokyo area includes Tokyo, Saitama Prefecture, and Chiba. The prefecture and Kanagawa Prefecture are home to 27% of Japan's population.

One of the things that Zhou Xiao did for this single was to make a CD cover for the single.

It's just that a CD that even cuts corners in the MV shooting, does it need to spend a lot of money on the CD cover? Zhou Xiao didn't even look for the art director of being, he skillfully found a computer, opened the photoshop, and photoshopped a vector picture that was more similar to the style of the song Little Love and took it as a CD cover.

For half a month, Zhou Xiao has been running singles, in fact, many of these things don't need him to interfere at all, but I don't know if it was intentional or what, the agent who was supposed to be arranged for him was delayed, and Zhou Xiao, who had no choice, had to run blindly at the age of 18 and ran a lot more before finally completing the final preparations.

Then finally came June 5, 2000, two days in advance, Zhou Xiao finally got his first chapter single.

Seeing his side face being printed on the CD cover, Zhou Xiao sighed a little, for this CD, he really ran out of his stomach, and finally his hard work paid off by him.

After opening the CD case, what Zhou Xiao saw was...... A bare CD. There are no lyric books, no beautifully printed albums, no DVDs that come with the disk, no raw photos, handshake circles and total election votes, such a simple CD packaging, even in 2000, even in the singer's CD is almost extinct!

But Zhou Xiao didn't have the slightest dislike, he carefully received the ten CDs that he gave him in advance, maybe others didn't care at all, but for him, these ten CDs were the most precious treasures he had crossed!

"Send one to Sister Quanshui, and then one to Uncle Inoue, others won't give it away, and I'm still reluctant." Zhou Xiao thought while holding the CD.

"Do you want to give Yuko Ogura one? Kindness...... Forget it, I haven't found a chance to meet her after moving in for so long, and I will definitely be misunderstood if I rush over to give someone a CD. Besides, a single from a singer whose name she has never heard at all, presumably she won't care very much. ”

Zhou Xiao's CD was sent to the CD line along with various other CDs released at the same time on this day, and there were about two dozen singers releasing singles at the same time this week, among which the two most famous people, one is Ayumi Hamasaki, and the other is Mai Kuraki of Zhou Xiao's company, in fact, generally speaking, singers from the same company will try to avoid issuing orders in the same week, but judging from the current gap between Zhou Xiao and Mai Kuraki, will anyone care about this? I'm afraid that from Mai Kuraki to her agent, she didn't know about it at all from the beginning.

Ayumi Hamasaki and Mai Kuraki's CDs are definitely the bulk of the delivery, and Zhou Xiao's CDs are naturally in the corner, like adding heads, and they are sent to various CD stores. And when the staff of the CD store treated the CDs of such complete strangers, their reaction was the same as that of the delivery of the CD, and they just threw the CD aside quite casually. Some staff will be more responsible to throw this new CD in the new area, but more waiters will only pout and throw them to the most corner of the record store after picking up this plausible CD, no way, in their experience, this kind of CD is definitely a pure loss of money, every year there will be a lot of such CDs, most of them can't even sell one, and even put it in the CD line for several years, zuihou has become an antique thing that has been bought by a second-hand store!

This was the "grand occasion" when Zhou Xiao's first CD was released, and at this time, except for Zhou Xiao, no one could have imagined how much sales this CD would sell.

PS, cherish the misery of the protagonist now...... I didn't want to see the abuser in the back......